Tuesday, September 06, 2011

TODAY IN HISTORY

Pan-American Exhibition, Buffalo, New York, 19...Image via Wikipedia
Pan-American Exposition



1975:While playing in the U.S. Open in Forest Hills, N.Y., 18-year-old Czech-born tennis star Martina Navratilova requests political asylum in the United States.

1901: As he greets attendees of the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, N.Y., President William McKinley is mortally wounded by a gunshot from Polish anarchist Leon Czolgosz. McKinley will die eight days later and be succeeded by Theodore Roosevelt, while Czolgosz will be convicted of the assassination and executed in the electric chair on Oct. 29.

1966: Prime Minister Henrik Verwoerd of South Africa is fatally stabbed by parliamentary messenger Dimitri Tsafendas during a meeting at the House of Assembly in Cape Town. Verwoerd is commonly known as the architect of apartheid, the policies of brutal laws segregating whites and blacks in South Africa.
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