Timeline Tuesday 6 September 1966

Events on Tuesday 6 September 1966 3

• 1879 – 1966 Margaret Sanger (1879-1966) Died 6 September 1966, aged 86 Margaret Sanger was an American birth control activist who founded the organization that became Planned Parenthood. She died in Tucson, Arizona, on 6 September 1966.
• 1901 – 1966 Hendrik Verwoerd (1901-1966) Died 6 September 1966, aged 64 Hendrik Verwoerd served as Prime Minister of South Africa and was a principal architect of the apartheid system. He was assassinated in the House of Assembly in Cape Town on 6 September 1966.
• 1966 Assassination of Hendrik Verwoerd South Africa's prime minister and architect of apartheid stabbed in parliament Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd was stabbed to death by parliamentary messenger Dimitri Tsafendas in the House of Assembly in Cape Town on 6 September 1966. Verwoerd had been a chief architect of South Africa's apartheid system; he was succeeded by John Vorster.