World Record On This Day🌄 September6

1781 – American Revolutionary War: General Benedict Arnold led British forces to victory in the Battle of Groton Heights.

1901 – U.S. President William McKinley (pictured) was fatally wounded by anarchist Leon Czolgosz at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York.

1952 – A prototype aircraft crashed at the Farnborough Airshow in Hampshire, England, killing the pilot and test observer on board, and 29 spectators.

1976 – Soviet pilot Viktor Belenko landed his MiG-25 in Hakodate, Japan, and declared his intention to defect.

2007 – The Israeli Air Force carried out an airstrike on a suspected nuclear reactor in the Deir ez-Zor region of Syria.

Source: Duta

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