September 06
1901
President William McKinley was shot by anarchist Leon Czolgosz at the Pan American Exposition in Buffalo, N.Y. McKinley died on September 14th.
1941
Nazi Germany required all Jews over the age of six to wear a yellow Star of David on their clothes.
1995
Baseball player Cal Ripken, Jr., broke Lou Gehrig’s iron man record by playing in his 2,131st straight game.
1997
More than 2 billion people watched Princess Diana’s funeral on TV.
1998
Japanese movie director Akira Kurosawa died in Tokyo at age 88.
2007
Italian operatic tenor Luciano Pavarotti died at age 71.
Birthdays
Alfred Tennyson
1809–1892, English poet.
Alexander Fleming
bacteriologist (1881)
Helen Jacobs
tennis player (1908)
Lucille Ball
American actress (1911)
Richard Hofstadter
historian (1916)
Robert Mitchum
actor (1917)
Andy Warhol
artist, film maker (1928)