Saturday, September 6, 2014

September 6

In 1522, the only surviving ship of Ferdinand Magellan's voyage, the Victoria, returns to Spain and becomes the first vessel to circumnavigate the Earth.

In 1901, President William McKinley is shot and fatally wounded by Leon Czolgosz at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, NY.

In 1968, Swaziland becomes independent from Britain.

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