On This Day - September 6, A Shot of History

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1757 – Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette, French general, is born.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilbert_du_Motier,_Marquis_de_Lafayette
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gilbert_du_Motier_Marquis_de_Lafayette_-_high_res.jpg
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilbert_du_Motier_de_La_Fayette#/media/File:Marquis_de_Lafayette_3.jpg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlj5Wr8pMKE

1901 – President McKinley is shot and fatally wounded in Buffalo, New York by an anarchist named Leon Czolgosz.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_William_McKinley
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IO5AzG36MQI
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_McKinley#/media/File:McKinleyAssassination.jpg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJfYdIa-RMs

1991 – The Soviet Union recognizes the independence of the Baltic states: Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baltic_states
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVv4aRAnS5U
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KzGxIjFhTE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18LV28Rkldc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGW3zh7LfHc

2007 – Luciano Pavarotti, Italian tenor and actor, dies at 71 years old.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luciano_Pavarotti
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojeLyPo_Wz4

Produced by Anne-Sophie Goninet