Today in History: Sept. 6

This is one of the last photos taken of U.S. President William McKinley on the day he was shot, September 6, 1901.  It shows him, left, with John G. Milburn, right, President of the Pan American Exposition, leaving Niagara Falls, N.Y., to return to Buffalo and the reception at which he was shot. (AP Photo)
In 1901, President William McKinley was shot and mortally wounded by anarchist Leon Czolgosz at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York. (McKinley died eight days later; Czolgosz was executed on Oct. 29.) This is one of the last photos taken of U.S. President William McKinley on the day he was shot, September 6, 1901. It shows him, left, with John G. Milburn, right, President of the Pan American Exposition, leaving Niagara Falls, N.Y., to return to Buffalo and the reception at which he was shot. (AP Photo)

In 1909, American explorer Robert Peary sent a telegram from Indian Harbor, Labrador, announcing that he had reached the North Pole five months earlier.   (Getty Images/Photos.com)

Howard Unruh, 68, sits impassively through a hearing in Camden, N.J., while seeking a transfer to the geriatric unit of Trenton Psychiatric Hospital from the hospital's intense treatment unit, July 26, 1989. Unruh, who gunned down 13 people in 1949, has been detained at psychiatric units for the criminally insane. (AP Photo/Pat Rogers)
In 1949, Howard Unruh, a resident of Camden, N.J., shot and killed 13 of his neighbors. (Found to have paranoid schizophrenia, Unruh was confined for the rest of his life; he died in a Trenton nursing home in 2009 at age 88.) Howard Unruh, 68, sits impassively through a hearing in Camden, N.J., while seeking a transfer to the geriatric unit of Trenton Psychiatric Hospital from the hospital’s intense treatment unit, July 26, 1989. (AP Photo/Pat Rogers)
Baltimore Orioles Cal Ripken swings, misses and tumbles to the ground as his son Ryan pitches to him during Orioles Family Day at Camden yards in Baltimore Sunday, Sept. 3, 1995.(AP Photo/Roberto Borea)
In 1995, Baltimore Orioles shortstop Cal Ripken broke Lou Gehrig’s record by playing his two-thousand-131st consecutive game. Baltimore Orioles Cal Ripken swings, misses and tumbles to the ground as his son Ryan pitches to him during Orioles Family Day at Camden yards in Baltimore Sunday, Sept. 3, 1995. (AP Photo/Roberto Borea)
The gun carriage bearing the coffin of the Princess Diana, draped in the Royal Standard, leaves London's Kensington Palace on route for the funeral service at London's, Westminster Abbey, Saturday September 6 1997, in this image made from television. Princess Diana was killed in a car crash in Paris on Aug. 31, along with her boyfriend Dodi Fayed. Following the funeral Princess Diana will be buried at Althorp, 60 miles northwest of London at the Spencer stately home. (AP Photo)
In 1997, a public funeral was held for Princess Diana at Westminster Abbey in London, six days after her death in a car crash in Paris. Here, the gun carriage bearing the coffin of the Princess Diana, draped in the Royal Standard, leaves London’s Kensington Palace on route for the funeral service at London’s, Westminster Abbey, Saturday September 6 1997, in this image made from television. Princess Diana was killed in a car crash in Paris on Aug. 31, along with her boyfriend Dodi Fayed. Following the funeral Princess Diana will be buried at Althorp, 60 miles northwest of London at the Spencer stately home. (AP Photo)
President Bush delivers a speech on terrorism in the East Room of the White House in Washington Wednesday, Sept. 6, 2006. Bush acknowledged the existence of previously secret CIA prisons around the world and said 14 high-value terrorism suspects, including the mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks, have been transferred from the system to Guantanamo Bay for trials. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
In 2006, President George W. Bush acknowledged for the first time that the CIA was running secret prisons overseas and said tough interrogation had forced terrorist leaders to reveal plots to attack the United States and its allies. Here, President Bush delivers a speech on terrorism in the East Room of the White House in Washington Wednesday, Sept. 6, 2006. Bush acknowledged the existence of previously secret CIA prisons around the world and said 14 high-value terrorism suspects, including the mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks, have been transferred from the system to Guantanamo Bay for trials. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
In 2017, a California parole panel recommended parole for Leslie Van Houten, who at 19 was the youngest of Charles Manson’s murderous followers in 1969. (California Gov. Jerry Brown later blocked her release.) FILE – In this April 14, 2016, file photo, former Charles Manson follower Leslie Van Houten confers with her attorney, during a break from her hearing before the California Board of Parole Hearings at the California Institution for Women in Chino, Calif.  (AP Photo/Nick Ut, File)
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This is one of the last photos taken of U.S. President William McKinley on the day he was shot, September 6, 1901.  It shows him, left, with John G. Milburn, right, President of the Pan American Exposition, leaving Niagara Falls, N.Y., to return to Buffalo and the reception at which he was shot. (AP Photo)
Howard Unruh, 68, sits impassively through a hearing in Camden, N.J., while seeking a transfer to the geriatric unit of Trenton Psychiatric Hospital from the hospital's intense treatment unit, July 26, 1989. Unruh, who gunned down 13 people in 1949, has been detained at psychiatric units for the criminally insane. (AP Photo/Pat Rogers)
Baltimore Orioles Cal Ripken swings, misses and tumbles to the ground as his son Ryan pitches to him during Orioles Family Day at Camden yards in Baltimore Sunday, Sept. 3, 1995.(AP Photo/Roberto Borea)
The gun carriage bearing the coffin of the Princess Diana, draped in the Royal Standard, leaves London's Kensington Palace on route for the funeral service at London's, Westminster Abbey, Saturday September 6 1997, in this image made from television. Princess Diana was killed in a car crash in Paris on Aug. 31, along with her boyfriend Dodi Fayed. Following the funeral Princess Diana will be buried at Althorp, 60 miles northwest of London at the Spencer stately home. (AP Photo)
President Bush delivers a speech on terrorism in the East Room of the White House in Washington Wednesday, Sept. 6, 2006. Bush acknowledged the existence of previously secret CIA prisons around the world and said 14 high-value terrorism suspects, including the mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks, have been transferred from the system to Guantanamo Bay for trials. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Today is Friday, Sept. 6, the 249th day of 2019. There are 116 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlight in History:

On Sept. 6, 2006, President George W. Bush acknowledged for the first time that the CIA was running secret prisons overseas and said tough interrogation had forced terrorist leaders to reveal plots to attack the United States and its allies.

On this date:

In 1901, President William McKinley was shot and mortally wounded by anarchist Leon Czolgosz (CHAWL’-gawsh) at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York. (McKinley died eight days later; Czolgosz was executed on Oct. 29.)

In 1909, American explorer Robert Peary sent a telegram from Indian Harbor, Labrador, announcing that he had reached the North Pole five months earlier.

In 1943, 79 people were killed when a New York-bound Pennsylvania Railroad train derailed and crashed in Philadelphia.

In 1949, Howard Unruh, a resident of Camden, N.J., shot and killed 13 of his neighbors. (Found to have paranoid schizophrenia, Unruh was confined for the rest of his life; he died in a Trenton nursing home in 2009 at age 88.)

In 1972, the Summer Olympics resumed in Munich, West Germany, a day after the deadly hostage crisis that claimed the lives of eleven Israelis and five Arab abductors.

In 1985, all 31 people aboard a Midwest Express Airlines DC-9 were killed when the Atlanta-bound jetliner crashed just after takeoff from Milwaukee’s Mitchell Field.

In 1995, Baltimore Orioles shortstop Cal Ripken broke Lou Gehrig’s record by playing his two-thousand-131st consecutive game.

In 1997, a public funeral was held for Princess Diana at Westminster Abbey in London, six days after her death in a car crash in Paris. In Calcutta, India, weeping masses gathered to pay homage to Mother Teresa, who had died the day before at age 87.

In 2002, meeting outside Washington, D.C. for only the second time since 1800, Congress convened in New York to pay homage to the victims and heroes of September 11.

In 2003, Justine Henin-Hardenne (EH’-nihn ahr-DEHN’) won the all-Belgian women’s singles final at the U.S. Open, beating countrywoman Kim Clijsters (KLY’-sturz), 7-5, 6-1.

In 2004, in Iraq, seven members of the First Marine Division from Camp Pendleton, California, and three U.S.-trained Iraqi soldiers were killed by a car bomb near Fallujah.

In 2017, Hurricane Irma, the most powerful hurricane ever recorded in the Atlantic, pounded Puerto Rico with heavy rain and powerful winds; authorities said more than 900,000 people were without power. (Hurricane Maria, which would destroy the island’s power grid, arrived two weeks later.) A California parole panel recommended parole for Leslie Van Houten, who at 19 was the youngest of Charles Manson’s murderous followers in 1969. (California Gov. Jerry Brown later blocked her release.)

Ten years ago: The White House announced the resignation of President Barack Obama’s environmental adviser Van Jones, who’d become embroiled in a controversy over past inflammatory statements; Jones cited what he called a “vicious smear campaign” against him.

Five years ago: President Barack Obama, in an interview taped for NBC’s “Meet the Press,” said the surge of immigrant children entering the U.S. illegally had changed the politics surrounding the issue of immigration and led him to put off a pledge to use executive action that could have shielded millions of people from deportation.

One year ago: One after another, President Donald Trump’s top lieutenants stepped forward to deny being the author of a New York Times opinion piece that purportedly came from a member of an administration “resistance” movement. The agent for actor Burt Reynolds confirmed that Reynolds, known for his roles in “Deliverance,” ”The Cannonball Run” and “Smokey and the Bandit,” had died at the age of 82. Nike aired a controversial ad featuring Colin Kaepernick during the NFL season opener. Twitter permanently banned right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and his Infowars show for abusive behavior. A Dallas police officer fatally shot her neighbor, saying afterward that she had mistaken his apartment for her own. (Testimony in Amber Guyger’s murder trial is scheduled to begin later this month.) India’s Supreme Court struck down a law that made gay sex punishable by up to 10 years in prison.

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