To all Avid Students of History This Day In History September 06 1901: #U.S President #William McKinley #assassinated. #Republican William McKinley, the 25th president of the United States (1897–1901), was shot this day in 1901 by #Leon Czolgosz, an #anarchist, at the #Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York, and died eight days later. More events on this day 2000: #Tuvalu, a group of nine coral islands in the west-central Pacific with a population of about 10,000, became the 189th member of the #United Nations. 1991: The #Soviet Union recognized the #independence of the #Baltic states—Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. 1944: #Germany fired the first long-range V-2 missile at an Allied target during #World War II. 1914: #French and #British forces launched an offensive against advancing #Germans in the #First Battle of the #Marne during World War I. 1860: #American social reformer and pacifist #Jane Addams, cowinner (with Nicholas Murray Butler) of the #Nobel Prize for Peace in 1931, was born. 1792: #French Revolutionary leader #Georges Danton was elected deputy for Paris to the #National Convention.
Posted on: Fri, 06 Sep 2013 02:19:01 +0000
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