September 6, 1901 while shaking hands with the public in the Temple of
Music at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York. He died on
September 14 from gangrene caused by the bullet wounds. Re-elected
president in 1900, McKinley enjoyed meeting the public, and was
reluctant to take security precautions. The Secretary to the President,
George B. Cortelyou, feared an assassination attempt at the Temple of
Music, but McKinley kept the visit in the schedule. The assassin was
Leon Czolgosz, who had lost his job during the economic Panic of 1893.
He regarded McKinley as a symbol of oppression, and felt it was his duty
as an anarchist to kill him. Unable to get near McKinley earlier in the
visit, Czolgosz shot McKinley twice as the President reached to shake
his hand in the reception line (1905 illustration shown). McKinley
initially appeared to be recovering, but took a turn for the worse on
September 13 and died early the next morning; Vice President Theodore
Roosevelt succeeded him. Czolgosz was executed for the murder and
Congress passed legislation giving the responsibility of protecting the
president to the Secret Service.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_William_McKinley>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1781:
American Revolutionary War: General Benedict Arnold led British
forces to victory in the Battle of Groton Heights.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Groton_Heights>
1930:
Argentine President Hipólito Yrigoyen was deposed in a
military coup by José Félix Uriburu.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hip%C3%B3lito_Yrigoyen>
1944:
World War II: Soviet forces captured the city of Tartu on their
way to re-establishing their rule in Estonia.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tartu_Offensive>
1966:
South African Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd, the "architect
of apartheid", was stabbed to death by Dimitri Tsafendas.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hendrik_Verwoerd>
1970:
Members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine
hijacked four jet aircraft en route from Europe to New York City,
landing two of them at Dawson's Field in Zerqa, Jordan, and one plane in
Beirut.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dawson%27s_Field_hijackings>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
munificent:
Very liberal in giving or bestowing; lavish; as a munificent benefactor.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/munificent>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
The word patriotism has been employed … to express a love of
the public good; a preference for the interests of the many to those of
the few; a desire for the emancipation of the human race from the thrall
of despotism, religious and civil; in short … to express the interest
felt in the human race in general, than that felt for any country, or
inhabitants of a country, in particular. And patriot, in like manner, is
employed to signify a lover of human liberty and human improvement,
rather than a mere lover of the country in which he lives, or the tribe
to which he belongs. … Patriotism, in the exclusive meaning, is surely
not made for America. Mischievous every where, it were here both
mischievous and absurd. … It is for Americans, more especially to
nourish a nobler sentiment; one more consistent with their origin, and
more conducive to their future improvement. It is for them more
especially to know why they love their country, not because it is their
country, but because it is the palladium of human liberty — the
favoured scene of human improvement.
--Frances Wright
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Frances_Wright>
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