Australian History
Saturday, September 6, 1997. : The first Saturday edition of the Australian Financial Review is produced.
The Australian Financial Review is a broadsheet newspaper published six days a week by Fairfax Media, one of the largest media companies in Australia and New Zealand. The publication aims to provide an independent source of business, investment, financial and political news.
The Australian Financial Review was launched on 16 August 1951 as a weekly newspaper. From October 1961 it was produced bi-weekly, and in 1963 it became a daily newspaper from Monday to Friday. In February 1995, a magazine supplement, the Australian Financial Review Magazine, was introduced. Forty-six years after the newspaper’s launch, on 6 September 1997, the first Saturday edition of the newspaper was produced.
World History
Sunday, September 6, 1620. : English emigrants on the pilgrim ship, the Mayflower, depart from Plymouth, England, on their way to the New World in America.
The ‘Mayflower’ was the first ship containing emigrants to arrive on American shores. It departed Plymouth, England, on 6 September 1620, with 102 men, women and children passengers. This group is known as the Pilgrims. The Pilgrims departed England because of their desire for religious freedom. All religion in England was strictly dictated by the government, and all were required to conform to such dictates and restrictions. Individual beliefs and forms of worship were actively discouraged, by jailing, torture or, at worst, execution.
The Pilgrims wished to return to the simplicity of the church as seen in the example of the early churches in the New Testament; they did not want the rituals and restrictions of the Church of England. It was this freedom the Pilgrims sought when they left the shores of their homeland for the last time in 1620.
World History
Saturday, September 6, 1941. : Nazi Germany dictates that all Jews over the age of 6 must wear the Star of David in public.
The World War II holocaust was the mass genocide of European Jews and others by the Nazis during World War II. Prior to the execution of hundreds of thousands of Jews, policies paved the way for the Nazis to quickly identify the people they sought to decimate.
On 6 September 1941, the German SS announced the policy of compulsory display of the Jewish symbol, the Star of David, to take effect on September 19, in all German-occupied areas. The policy stated that Jews who were over six years old were forbidden to show themselves in public without the Jewish Star. This consisted of a six-pointed star, outlined with black superscription, and with the word “Jude” (German for Jew) inscribed. It was required to be sewn on securely, and clearly visible on the left breast of clothing. At the same time, the policy was also announced prohibiting Jews from leaving their residential areas without police permission.
World History
Wednesday, September 6, 1972. : Nine Israeli athletes being held hostage are killed in a bungled rescue attempt during the Munich Olympic Games.
The 1972 Olympic Games were held in Munich, Germany. On September 5, with six days of the Olympics left to run, 8 Palestinian terrorists stormed the apartment building that housed the Israeli athletes in the Olympic Village. Two Israeli athletes were killed and nine more were taken as hostages. The terrorists demanded the release of over 200 Palestinians serving time in Israeli jails. Negotiations continued over the next 24 hours, but unsuccessfully. The next day, 6 September 1972, the terrorists took the hostages to the Furstenfeldbruck military airbase, where they intended to procure a flight back to the Middle East.
At the airport, police snipers opened fire, killing three of the Palestinians. In the ensuing gun battle, the terrorists blew up a helicopter with the hostages inside and then opened fire on the wreckage with automatic weapons. All nine of the hostages were killed, together with one policeman and two more terrorists. The remaining terrorists were captured, but eight weeks later were released when two Palestinians hijacked a plane in Beirut and demanded their release. The West German government immediately agreed to their demands, and they were flown to Libya. After this, Mossad, the Israeli Secret Service, formed a special unit to hunt down and kill all those responsible for the deaths of the Israeli athletes.