Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/September 6
- 1620 - The Pilgrims sailed from Plymouth, England, on the Mayflower to settle in North America.
- 1901 - U.S. President William McKinley is fatally wounded by anarchist Leon Czolgosz at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York.
- 1972 - Israeli Olympic athletes and coaches are killed by Black September in the Munich Massacre after a failed rescue attempt by West German police.
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