Today in History: September 6, President McKinley fatally shot
The present day is Saturday Sept the th day of There are days left in the year In current times in history On Sept President William McKinley was shot and mortally wounded by anarchist Leon Czolgosz CHAWL -gawsh at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo New York McKinley died eight days later and was succeeded by his vice president Theodore Roosevelt Also on this date In Howard Unruh a resident of Camden New Jersey shot and killed of his neighbors Unruh who was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia was incarcerated for years until his death in Related Articles Attorneys general warn OpenAI and other tech companies to improve chatbot safety Justice Department talks about banning transgender gun owners spark fury across political spectrum In contemporary times in History September Ford survives assassination attempt by Manson follower Joe Biden undergoes surgery to remove skin cancer on forehead At present in History September the Peekskill Riots In the Summer Olympics resumed in Munich West Germany a day after the deadly hostage problem that left eleven Israelis five Arab abductors and a West German police officer dead In -year-old tennis star Martina Navratilova of Czechoslovakia in New York for the U S Open requested political asylum in the United States In Baltimore Oriole Cal Ripken Jr played in his st consecutive tournament urgent Lou Gehrig s year-old MLB record Ripken s streak would ultimately reach a still-record games In a society funeral was held for Princess Diana at Westminster Abbey in London six days after her death in a car crash in Paris In President George W Bush acknowledged for the first time that the CIA was running secret prisons overseas and explained tough interrogation techniques had forced terrorist leaders to reveal plots to attack the United States and its allies In the Supreme Court of India decriminalized consensual sex between adults legalizing homosexuality in the country In Liz Truss began her tenure as U K prime minister she would resign just days later Currently s Birthdays Comedian JoAnne Worley is Cartoonist Sergio Aragon s is Country singer-songwriter David Allan Coe is Rock singer-musician Roger Waters Pink Floyd is Comedian-actor Jane Curtin is Actor-comedian Jeff Foxworthy is Former New Jersey Gov Chris Christie is Television journalist Elizabeth Vargas is Country singer-songwriter Mark Chesnutt is Actor Rosie Perez is R B singer Macy Gray is Actor Idris Elba is Actor Justina Machado is Actor Anika Noni Rose is Actor Naomie Harris is Rapper Foxy Brown is Actor singer Deborah Happiness Winans is Actor-comedian Lauren Lapkus is Actor Asher Angel is
