Tuesday, September 14, 2010

TODAY IN HISTORY

SEPTEMBER 14
1982
:Princess Grace of Monaco, formerly American film star Grace Kelly, dies of injuries sustained in a car accident near Monte Carlo on the previous day. She was 52.

1638: John Harvard, an English clergyman living in Charlestown, Mass., dies at 30, leaving his library of 400 books and half of his estate to a local college founded two years earlier. The school will be renamed Harvard College on March 13, 1639.

1901: Theodore Roosevelt assumes the presidency following the death of William McKinley, who was shot by assassin Leon Czolgosz on Sept. 6. At 42, Roosevelt is the youngest man ever to become U.S. president.

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