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September 6

1492. Christopher Columbus leaves the Canary Islands, west-bound to find a route to India.

1522 The Victoria, the only surviving ship of Ferdinand Magellan's expedition, returns to Spain, becoming the first ship to circumnavigate the globe.

1628. Puritans settle in Salem, which will later become part of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.

1847. Henry David Thoreau leaves Walden Pond, moving in with Ralph Waldo Emerson and his family in Concord, Massachusetts. (can you imagine what the dinnertime conversation was like there?)

1901. An anarchist, Leon Czolgosz, shoots and mortally wounds President McKinley. With his name, he nearly guarantees that nobody can ever correctly answer the trivia question "name the four Presidential assassins -- and SPELL their names".

1949. Howard Unruh, a former US Army sharpshooter, shoots and kills 13 people in his hometown of Camden, New Jersey, becoming the first single-episode mass murderer in US history.

1972. The "Munich Massacre". Nine Isreali athletes at the Olympic Games in Munich and a German policeman are killed during a failed rescue attempt after being taken hostage by Palestinians. In response, the Isreali Mossad spends many years covertly assassinating leaders of Black September, the Palestinian group that took responsibility for taking the hostages.