On this day — September 6

Their meetings with Queen Elizabeth II at Balmoral Castle were the Queen's final official duties before her death two days later.

Ukraine begins its Kharkiv counteroffensive, surprising Russian forces and retaking over 3,000 square kilometers of land, recapturing the entire Kharkiv Oblast west of the Oskil River, within the next week.

making homosexuality legal on the Indian lands.

by poachers in Hwange National Park.

carrying NASA's LADEE spacecraft.

near the Greek Aegean islands.

all but ten are rescued.

Well over a million people line the streets and 21⁄2 billion watch around the world on television.

of the Baltimore Orioles plays in his 2,131st consecutive game, breaking a record that had stood for 56 years.

Alaska came across a male corpse in abandoned bus, later identified as Christopher McCandless.

Latvia, and Lithuania.

The change is effective October 1.