This Day in History, Sept. 6

1522 - The Victoria, one of the surviving ships of Magellan's expedition, returns to Sanlucar de Barrameda in Spain, becoming the first ship to circumnavigate the world.

1620 - The Pilgrims sail from Plymouth, England on the Mayflower to settle in North America.

1870 - Louisa Ann Swain of Laramie, WY becomes the first woman in the US to cast a vote legally after 1807.

1901 - Anarchist Leon Czolgosz murders President McKinley at the Pan-Am Exposition in Buffalo, NY.

1970 - 2 passenger jets bound from Europe to NY are simultaneously hijacked by Palestinian terrorist members of PFLP and taken to Dawson's Field in Jordan.

1983 - Soviet Union admits to shooting down Korean Air Flight KAL-007, stating that pilots did not know it was a civilian aircraft when it violated Soviet airspace.

1985 - Midwest Express Airlines Flight 105, a Douglas DC-9, crashes just after takeoff from Milwaukee, WI, killing 31.

1991 - The name St. Petersburg is restored to Russia's second largest city, which had been renamed Leningrad in 1924.

1995 - Cal Ripken Jr. breaks Lou Gehrig's consecutive games played record.