6th September

The sixth of September seems like a special day. Looking at the Wikipedia page for today, however, it seems that only minor historical events occurred today. The biggest I would say is Cal Ripken breaking Lou Gehrig's consecutive major league baseball game record, but as that sport fades into history along with so much of what was once great about America I daresay it will cease to matter much in the long run. As for important birthdays there is fiction: Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham..., where the lovers' fathers share the date as a birthday. The movie touched us to such a degree that Zara's middle name, Anjali, is from the girl of this story. I always hear the date in my head in one of the voices of the characters from the movie. On the other end of life Madeleine L'Engle, who's Wrinkle in Time series I am currently reading to the kids, died on this day in 2007.