{"id":28314,"date":"2016-09-06T08:55:17","date_gmt":"2016-09-06T13:55:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=28314"},"modified":"2016-09-20T08:45:44","modified_gmt":"2016-09-20T13:45:44","slug":"28314","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=28314","title":{"rendered":"Today In History"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n
\n\n\n\n\n
Today in History: Tuesday, September\u00a0 06, 2016<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\n
AP Highlight in History:<\/span>
\nOn Sept. 6, 1901, President William B. McKinley was shot and mortally wounded by anarchist Leon Czolgosz at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, N.Y. (McKinley died eight days later; Czolgosz was executed the following month.)
\n<\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n
<\/td>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
AP Photo<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
On this date in:<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1916<\/td>\nThe first self-service grocery store, Piggly Wiggly, was opened in Memphis, Tenn., by Clarence Saunders.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1941<\/td>\nJews over the age of 6 in German-occupied areas were ordered to wear yellow Stars of David.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1970<\/td>\nPalestinian guerrillas seized control of three jetliners, which were later blown up on the ground in Jordan after the passengers and crews were evacuated.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1975<\/td>\nCzechoslovakian tennis player Martina Navratilova, in New York for the U.S. Open, requested political asylum.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1996<\/td>\nEddie Murray of the Baltimore Orioles hit his 500th career home run during a game against the Detroit Tigers.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1997<\/td>\nBritain bade farewell to Princess Diana with a funeral service at Westminster Abbey.
\n<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
AP Photo\/Jerome Delay<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2001<\/td>\nBarry Bonds of the San Francisco Giants became the fifth player in baseball history to hit 60 home runs in a season. (He finished the year with a record 73 homers.)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2004<\/td>\nFormer President Bill Clinton underwent successful heart bypass surgery.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2005<\/td>\nThe California Legislature became the first legislative body in the nation to approve same-sex marriages. (Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger later vetoed the bill.)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2006<\/td>\nPresident George W. Bush acknowledged previously secret CIA prisons around the world and said 14 high-value terrorism suspects had been transferred from the system to Guantanamo Bay for trials.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2007<\/td>\nOpera singer Luciano Pavarotti died at age 71.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Today’s Birthdays:<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\n\n\n\n\n
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie turns 54 years old today.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
AP Photo\/J. Scott Applewhite<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Name<\/td>\nProfession<\/td>\nAge<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
JoAnne Worley<\/td>\nComedian (“Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In”)<\/td>\n81<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Roger Waters<\/td>\nRock singer, musician (Pink Floyd)<\/td>\n73<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Swoosie Kurtz<\/td>\nActress (“Pushing Daisies,” “Sisters”)<\/td>\n72<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Jane Curtin<\/td>\nActress (“Saturday Night Live,” “Third Rock From the Sun”)<\/td>\n69<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Carly Fiorina<\/td>\nFormer CEO of Hewlett-Packard<\/td>\n62<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Jeff Foxworthy<\/td>\nActor-comedian<\/td>\n58<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Elizabeth Vargas<\/td>\nBroadcast journalist<\/td>\n54<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Macy Gray<\/td>\nR&B singer<\/td>\n49<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Foxy Brown<\/td>\nRapper<\/td>\n38<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\n\n\n\n\n
Actress Rosie Perez turns 52 years old today.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\n\n\n\n\n
<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
AP Photo\/Evan Agostini<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today in History: Tuesday, September\u00a0 06, 2016 AP Highlight in History: On Sept. 6, 1901, President William B. McKinley was shot and mortally wounded by… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":141,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6132],"tags":[106,103,6131],"class_list":["post-28314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today","tag-fort-hays-state-university","tag-tiger-media-network","tag-today-in-history"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/141"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28314"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28316,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28314\/revisions\/28316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}