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Cold War: Soviet Air Defence Forces pilot Viktor Belenko lands a Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-25 jet fighter at Hakodate in Japan and requests political asylum in the United States; his request is granted.

On September 6, in the year 1976, Cold War: Soviet Air Defence Forces pilot Viktor Belenko lands a Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-25 jet fighter at Hakodate in Japan and requests political asylum in the United States; his request is granted. This event is recorded as a Historical Events event in the history of September 6, one of 443 recorded events on this date across all of history.

The Cold War was a period of international geopolitical rivalry between the United States (US) and the Soviet Union (USSR) and their respective allies, the capitalist Western Bloc and communist Eastern Bloc. It began in the aftermath of the Second World War and ended with the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. The term cold war is used because there was no direct fighting between the two superpowers, though each supported opposing sides in regional conflicts known as proxy wars. In addition to the struggle for ideological and economic influence and an arms race in both conventional and nuclear weapons, the Cold War was expressed through technological rivalries such as the Space Race, espionage, propaganda campaigns, embargoes, and sports diplomacy.

Key Facts

  • This event took place on September 6, 1976 (AD era).
  • It is categorised as a Historical Events event in recorded history.
  • Referenced in 6 Wikipedia articles.
  • Wikipedia source last updated on 26 August 2026.

On This Date in History 443

Type Year Date Event
Notable Deaths 2025 Sep 6 Rick Davies, English musician (born 1944)
Notable Deaths 2024 Sep 6 Ayşenur Ezgi Eygi, Turkish-American activist (born 1998)
Notable Deaths 2024 Sep 6 Rebecca Horn, German visual artist (born 1944)
Notable Deaths 2024 Sep 6 Will Jennings, American songwriter (born 1944)
Notable Deaths 2024 Sep 6 Cathy Merrick, Canadian First Nations leader (born 1961/1962)
Notable Deaths 2024 Sep 6 Ron Yeats, Scottish footballer (born 1937)
Historical Events 2022 Sep 6 Boris Johnson resigns as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, and is replaced by Liz Truss. Their meetings with Queen…
Historical Events 2022 Sep 6 Russo-Ukrainian war: Ukraine begins its Kharkiv counteroffensive, surprising Russian forces and retaking over 3,000…
Selected Events 2022 Sep 6 Liz Truss (pictured) succeeded Boris Johnson as prime minister following the July 2022 United Kingdom government crisis.
Notable Deaths 2021 Sep 6 Jean-Paul Belmondo, French actor (born 1933)
Notable Deaths 2021 Sep 6 Michael K. Williams, American actor (born 1966)
Notable Deaths 2020 Sep 6 Lou Brock, American baseball player (born 1939)
Notable Deaths 2019 Sep 6 Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwean politician, 2nd President of Zimbabwe (born 1924)
Historical Events 2018 Sep 6 Supreme Court of India decriminalised all consensual sex among adults in private, making homosexuality legal on the…
Historical Events 2018 Sep 6 Brazilian presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro survives a stabbing at a campaign rally in Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais.
Notable Deaths 2018 Sep 6 Richard DeVos, American billionaire businessman (born 1926)
Notable Deaths 2018 Sep 6 Liz Fraser, English actress (born 1930)
Notable Deaths 2018 Sep 6 Burt Reynolds, American actor, director and producer (born 1936)
Selected Events 2018 Sep 6 The Supreme Court of India invalidated part of Section 377 of the Penal Code, thus legalising homosexuality in India.
Notable Deaths 2017 Sep 6 Peter Luck, Australian journalist and television host (born 1944)
Notable Deaths 2017 Sep 6 Kate Millett, American feminist author and activist (born 1934)
Selected Events 2017 Sep 6 Hurricane Irma reached peak intensity near the Caribbean islands of Barbuda, Saint Martin, and Virgin Gorda.
Notable Deaths 2015 Sep 6 Ralph Milne, Scottish footballer (born 1961)
Notable Deaths 2015 Sep 6 Martin Milner, American actor (born 1931)
Notable Deaths 2014 Sep 6 Odd Bondevik, Norwegian bishop and theologian (born 1941)
Notable Deaths 2014 Sep 6 Seth Martin, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (born 1933)
Notable Deaths 2014 Sep 6 Kira Zvorykina, Belarusian chess player and educator (born 1919)
Historical Events 2013 Sep 6 Forty-one elephants are poisoned with cyanide in salt pans, by poachers in Hwange National Park.
Historical Events 2013 Sep 6 The first Minotaur V rocket is launched from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport on Wallops Island, carrying NASA's…
Notable Deaths 2013 Sep 6 Ann C. Crispin, American author (born 1950)
Notable Deaths 2013 Sep 6 Khin Maung Kyi, Burmese economist and scholar (born 1926)
Notable Deaths 2013 Sep 6 Santiago Rosario, Puerto Rican-American baseball player and coach (born 1939)
Historical Events 2012 Sep 6 Sixty-one people die after a fishing boat capsizes off the İzmir Province coast of Turkey, near the Greek Aegean…
Notable Deaths 2012 Sep 6 Elisabeth Böhm, German architect (born 1921)
Notable Deaths 2012 Sep 6 Lawrie Dring, Scottish scout leader, founded World Federation of Independent Scouts (born 1931)
Notable Deaths 2012 Sep 6 Oscar Rossi, Argentine footballer and manager (born 1930)
Notable Deaths 2011 Sep 6 Michael S. Hart, American author, founded Project Gutenberg (born 1947)
Notable Deaths 2010 Sep 6 Boris Chetkov, Russian painter (born 1926)
Notable Deaths 2010 Sep 6 Clive Donner, English director and editor (born 1926)
Historical Events 2009 Sep 6 The ro-ro ferry SuperFerry 9 sinks off the Zamboanga Peninsula in the Philippines with 971 persons aboard; all but ten…
Notable Deaths 2009 Sep 6 Catherine Gaskin, Irish-Australian author (born 1929)
Notable Deaths 2008 Sep 6 Anita Page, American actress (born 1910)
Historical Events 2007 Sep 6 Israel executes the air strike Operation Orchard to destroy a nuclear reactor in Syria.
Notable Deaths 2007 Sep 6 Madeleine L'Engle, American author and poet (born 1918)
Notable Deaths 2007 Sep 6 Luciano Pavarotti, Italian tenor (born 1935)
Notable Births 2006 Sep 6 Prince Hisahito of Akishino, Japanese prince
Notable Births 2005 Sep 6 Elzhana Taniyeva, Kazakh rhythmic gymnast
Notable Deaths 2005 Sep 6 Hasan Abidi, Pakistani journalist and poet (born 1929)
Notable Deaths 2005 Sep 6 Eugenia Charles, Dominican lawyer and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Dominica (born 1919)
Historical Events 2003 Sep 6 Mahmoud Abbas resigns from his position of Palestinian Prime Minister.

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