On this day: September 6

POSTED: 10:21 PM MDT Sep 05, 2012    UPDATED: 12:00 AM MDT Sep 06, 2012 

A president is shot, Cal Ripken Jr. breaks an unbreakable record, and the world mourns the passing of a princess, all on this day.

OTD September 6 - Magellan
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1522: The Victoria, the only surviving ship of Ferdinand Magellan's expedition, returns to Sanlúcar de Barrameda in Spain, becoming the first ship to circumnavigate the world.

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