Today is Friday, September 6, the 250th day of the yr 2024. There are 116 days left within the yr.
Today in history:
On September 6, 1997, a public funeral for Princess Diana was held at Westminster Abbey in London, six days after her death in a automobile accident in Paris.
Also on this date:
In 1901, President William McKinley was shot and fatally wounded by anarchist Leon Czolgosz (CHAWL'-gawsh) on the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York. (McKinley died eight days later and was succeeded by his vice chairman, Theodore Roosevelt.)
In 1972, the Summer Olympics resumed in Munich, West Germany, at some point after the deadly hostage-taking that left 11 Israelis, five Arab kidnappers and a West German policeman dead.
In 1975, 18-year-old tennis star Martina Navratilova from Czechoslovakia, who was in New York for the US Open, applied for political asylum within the United States.
In 1995, Cal Ripken Jr. of the Baltimore Orioles played his 2,131st consecutive game, breaking Lou Gehrig's 56-year-old MLB record. Ripken's winning streak eventually reached a record-breaking 2,632 games.
In 2006, President George W. Bush admitted for the primary time that the CIA operated secret prisons abroad and stated that terrorist leaders had been forced through “harsh” interrogation techniques to disclose plans to attack the United States and its allies.
In 2018, India's Supreme Court decriminalized consensual sex between adults and legalized homosexuality within the country.
In 2022, Liz Truss took office as British Prime Minister; just 49 days later, she resigned.
Today's birthdays:
- Comedian JoAnne Worley is 87.
- The cartoonist Sergio Aragonés is 87.
- Country singer-songwriter David Allan Coe is 85.
- The rock singer and musician Roger Waters (Pink Floyd) is 81.
- Comedian and actress Jane Curtin is 77.
- Actor and comedian Jeff Foxworthy is 66.
- Former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie is 62.
- Television journalist Elizabeth Vargas is 62.
- Country singer-songwriter Mark Chesnutt is 61.
- Actress Rosie Perez is 60.
- R&B singer Macy Gray is 57.
- Actor Idris Elba is 52.
- Actress Justina Machado is 52.
- Actress Anika Noni Rose is 52.
- Actress Naomie Harris is 48.
- Rapper Foxy Brown is 46.
- Actress/singer Deborah Joy Winans is 41.
- Actress and comedian Lauren Lapkus is 39.
- Actor Asher Angel is 22.
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