September 6: Paryushana begins (Digambar Jains, 2016); Father's Day in Australia, Fiji, Papua New Guinea and New Zealand (2015); Independence Day in Swaziland (1968)
Replica of the Victoria
- 1522 – The Victoria (replica pictured) returned to Sanlúcar de Barrameda, Spain, with Basque explorer Juan Sebastián Elcano and 17 other survivors of Ferdinand Magellan's 265-man expedition, becoming the first ship to circumnavigate the globe.
- 1781 – American Revolutionary War: General Benedict Arnold led British forces to victory in the Battle of Groton Heights.
- 1946 – United States Secretary of State James F. Byrnes announced that the US would follow a policy of economic reconstruction in postwar Germany.
- 1966 – South African Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd, the "architect of apartheid", was stabbed to death by Dimitri Tsafendas.
- 2000 – The Millennium Summit, a meeting of world leaders to discuss the role of the United Nations at the turn of the 21st century, opened in New York City.
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