| September 6 |
| 394 |
|
Theodosius becomes sole ruler of Italy after defeating
Eugenius at the Battle of the River Frigidus. |
| 1422 |
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Sultan Murat II ends a vain siege of Constantinople. |
| 1522 |
|
One of the five ships that set out in Ferdinand
Magellan's trip around the world makes it back to Spain. Only 15 of the original
265 men that set out survived. Magellan was killed by natives in the Philippines. |
| 1688 |
|
Imperial troops defeat the Turks and take Belgrade,
Serbia. |
| 1793 |
|
French General Jean Houchard and his 40,000 men
begin a three-day battle against an Anglo-Hanoveraian army at Hondschoote, southwest
Belgium, in the wars of the French Revolution. |
| 1847 |
|
Henry David Thoreau leaves Walden Pond and moves
back into town, to Concord, Massachusetts. |
| 1861 |
|
Union General Ulysses S. Grant's forces capture
Paducah, Kentucky from Confederate forces. |
| 1870 |
|
The last British troops to serve in Austria are
withdrawn. |
| 1901 |
|
President William McKinley is shot while attending
a reception at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York, by 28-year-old
anarchist Leon Czolgosz. McKinley dies eight days later, the third American president
assassinated. |
| 1907 |
|
The luxury liner Lusitania leaves London
for New York on her maiden voyage. |
| 1918 |
|
The German Army begins a general retreat across
the Aisne, with British troops in pursuit. |
| 1936 |
|
Aviator Beryl Markham flies the first east-to-west
solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean. |
| 1937 |
|
The Soviet Union accuses Italy of torpedoing two
Russian ships in the Mediterranean. |
| 1941 |
|
Germany announces that all Jews living in the country
will have to begin wearing a Star of David. |
| 1943 |
|
The United States asks the Chinese Nationals to
join with the Communists to present a common front to the Japanese. |
| 1953 |
|
The last American and Korean prisoners are exchanged
in Operation Big Switch, the last official act of the Korean War. |
| 1965 |
|
Indian troops invade Lahore; Pakistan paratroopers
raid Punjab. |
| 1976 |
|
A Soviet pilot lands his MIG-25 in Tokyo and asks
for political asylum in the United States. |
| 1988 |
|
Lee Roy Young becomes the first African-American
Texas Ranger in the force's 165-year history. |
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