SEPTEMBER 14
1901:At the age of 42, Theodore Roosevelt
becomes the youngest president of the United States after the death of
President William McKinley, who was shot by assassin Leon Czolgosz on
Sept. 6.
1814: Francis Scott Key composes "The Defence of Fort McHenry," later known as the national anthem "The Star-Spangled Banner,"
after witnessing an enduring American flag still flying high after the
British attack on Baltimore's Fort McHenry a day earlier, during the War
of 1812.
1975: Mother Elizabeth Ann Seton is canonized by Pope Paul VI.
Seton, who founded the Sisters of Charity of St. Joseph's in 1809,
becomes the first Catholic saint born in the United States.
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