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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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