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September 6 (UPI) – On this date of history:

In 1522, one of the five ships of Ferdinand Magellan – Le Vittoria – arrived in Sanlucar de Barrameda in Spain, finishing the first district of the world.

In 1620, 149 pilgrims went to England aboard the Mayflower, for the new world.

In 1901, American president William McKinley was shot dead by an anarchist at the Pan American exhibition in Buffalo, Ny McKinley died eight days later.

In 1909, a word was given that the Admiral of the US Navy Robert Peary had reached the North Pole five months earlier, on April 6, 1909.

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In 1914, the first battle of the Marne of the First World War took place outside Paris, in France. The Allied forces of France and Great Britain have defeated Germany, leading to the death of some 150,000 people.

In 1916, the first supermarket in the United States, Piggly Wiggly, opened its doors in Memphis.

In 1966, South African Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd, architect of the apartheid policies of his nation, was stabbed to death by a disturbed messenger during a parliamentary meeting in CAP.

In 1995, the Baltimore Orioles Cal Ripken Jr. Baltimore Orio Caltimore, played its 2,131st consecutive match, broke the record set in 1939 by Lou Gehrig des Yankees in New York. Ripken voluntarily ended his sequence at 2,362 games in 1998.

In 1997, Great Britain made her emotional farewell to Princess Diana – killed in a car accident a week earlier – in the London Westminster abbey funeral which was broadcast worldwide.

In 2004, former American president Bill Clinton underwent a 4 -hour quadruple cardiac bypass at the New York Presbyterian hospital.

In 2007, Luciano Pavarotti, one of the main tenors of the Opera, died of cancer at his home in Modena, Italy. He was 71 years old.

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In 2010, officials said they feared that up to 270 people died in two river boats on weekends in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

In 2017, the Hurricane Irma hit earth in the east islands east of the Caribbean, tearing the roofs of houses and buildings. The storm then crossed the Florida and in the southeast of the United States and caused 52 deaths.

In 2022, Liz Truss addressed to the British for the first time as Prime Minister, replacing Boris Johnson as head of government.

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