Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/September 6
September 6: Independence Day in Swaziland (1968); Labour Day in Canada; Labor Day U.S. (2004)
- 1522 - Juan Sebastián Elcano and 17 survivors of Ferdinand Magellan's 265-man expedition returned to Spain, having been the first men to circumnavigate the globe.
- 1901 - U.S. President William McKinley was fatally wounded by anarchist Leon Czolgosz at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York.
- 1948 - Juliana became Queen of the Netherlands.
- 1941 - Holocaust: In areas controlled by Nazi Germany, all Jews over the age of 6 were required to wear the Star of David.
- 1991 - The USSR recognized the independence of the Baltic states.
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