Today in History: September 6, President McKinley fatally shot

Today is Saturday, Sept. 6, the 249th day of 2025. There are 116 days left in the year.

Today in history:

On Sept. 6, 1901, 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.)

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

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

In 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.

In 1995, Baltimore Oriole Cal Ripken Jr. played in his 2,131st consecutive game, breaking Lou Gehrig’s 56 year-old MLB record; Ripken’s streak would ultimately reach a still-record 2,632 games.

In 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.

In 2006, President George W. Bush acknowledged for the first time that the CIA was running secret prisons overseas and said “tough” interrogation techniques had forced terrorist leaders to reveal plots to attack the United States and its allies.

In 2018, the Supreme Court of India decriminalized consensual sex between adults, legalizing homosexuality in the country.

In 2022, Liz Truss began her tenure as U.K. prime minister; she would resign just 49 days later.

Today’s Birthdays:

Comedian JoAnne Worley is 88.
Cartoonist Sergio Aragonés is 88.
Country singer-songwriter David Allan Coe is 86.
Rock singer-musician Roger Waters (Pink Floyd) is 82.
Comedian-actor Jane Curtin is 78.
Actor-comedian Jeff Foxworthy is 67.
Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is 63.
Television journalist Elizabeth Vargas is 63.
Country singer-songwriter Mark Chesnutt is 62.
Actor Rosie Perez is 61.
R&B singer Macy Gray is 58.
Actor Idris Elba is 53.
Actor Justina Machado is 53.
Actor Anika Noni Rose is 53.
Actor Naomie Harris is 49.
Rapper Foxy Brown is 47.
Actor/singer Deborah Joy Winans is 42.
Actor-comedian Lauren Lapkus is 40.
Actor Asher Angel is 23.