1522: The Victoria, commanded by Juan Sebastian de Elcano, arrived in Spain, completing the first circumnavigation of the globe on an expedition launched in 1519 by Ferdinand Magellan; Elcano and 21 others were the only survivors of the expedition, which set out with five ships and 270 men (Magellan was killed in the Philippines a year earlier.)

1781: British Brigadier Gen. Benedict Arnold, a onetime American officer, ordered British forces to burn New London, Conn.

1901: President William McKinley was shot and mortally wounded by anarchist Leon Czolgosz at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, Ne.Y. (McKinley died eight days later and was succeeded by his vice president, Theodore Roosevelt.)

1914: The first Battle of the Marne began as French and British troops attacked advancing German forces, stopping the advance and avoiding the capture of Paris.

1949: Howard Unruh, a resident of Camden, N.J., shot and killed 13 of his neighbors. (Unruh, who was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, was incarcerated for 60 years until his death in 2009.)

1972: The Summer Olympics resumed in Munich, West Germany, a day after the hostage crisis that left 11 Israelis, five Arab abductors and a West German police officer dead.

1975: 18-year-old tennis star Martina Navratilova of Czechoslovakia, in New York for the U.S. Open, requested political asylum in the United States.

1997: A public funeral was held for Princess Diana at Westminster Abbey in London, six days after her death in a car crash in Paris.