September 6: Defence Day in Pakistan (1965); Labor Day in the United States (2021)
Louisa Swain Louisa Swain 1634 – A Swedish–German army was overwhelmingly defeated at the Battle of Nördlingen, one of the most important battles of the Thirty Years' War, effectively destroying Swedish power in Southern Germany. 1870 – Louisa Swain (pictured) became the first woman in the United States to vote in a general election. 1963 – The Kennedy administration sent Victor H. Krulak and Joseph Mendenhall on a mission to assess the progress of the Vietnam War. 1976 – Soviet pilot Viktor Belenko landed his MiG-25 in Hakodate, Japan, declaring his intention to defect to the West. 2018 – The Supreme Court of India invalidated part of Section 377 of the Penal Code, thus legalising homosexuality in India. Isabella Leonarda (b. 1620)Frederick Abel (d. 1902)Wendi Richter (b. 1961) More anniversaries: September 5 September 6 September 7