From the books of history - 06 September special

What Happened

"1522: The Victoria returned to Spain, becoming the first ship to successfully circumnavigate the globe as the sole survivor of Ferdinand Magellan's expedition. 1901: U.S. President William McKinley was shot by an anarchist named Leon Czolgosz at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York. He died a week later, and Vice President Theodore Roosevelt succeeded him. 1991: The Soviet Union officially recognized the independence of the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. On the same day, the Soviet city of Leningrad officially reverted to its historical name, Saint Petersburg. 1965: The Indo-Pakistani War escalated as open warfare officially began when Indian forces crossed the international border, a date now commemorated in Pakistan as Defence Day. 1968: Swaziland gained its independence from the United Kingdom. 2018: Section 377 effectively struck down. The Supreme Court decriminalized consensual same-sex relations between adults, marking a landmark moment for LGBTQ+ rights in India."