What day of the week was September 6, 1939?

The day of the week September 6th, 1939 fell on was a Wednesday.

Arthur Rackham the English illustrator (b. 1867) died on this day in 1939.

World War II: At the Battle of Barking Creek the Britain suffers its first fighter pilot casualty of the Second World War as a result of friendly fire. World War II: South Africa declares war on Nazi Germany.