At this time is Saturday, Sept. 6, the 249th day of 2025. There are 116 days left within the 12 months.
At this time in historical past:
On Sept. 6, 1901, President William McKinley was shot and mortally 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.)
Additionally on this date:
In 1949, Howard Unruh, a resident of Camden, New Jersey, shot and killed 13 of his neighbors. (Unruh, who was identified with paranoid schizophrenia, was incarcerated for 60 years till his loss of life in 2009.)
In 1972, the Summer season Olympics resumed in Munich, West Germany, a day after the lethal hostage disaster that left eleven Israelis, 5 Arab abductors and a West German police officer useless.
In 1975, 18-year-old tennis star Martina Navratilova of Czechoslovakia, in New York for the U.S. Open, requested political asylum in the US.
In 1995, Baltimore Oriole Cal Ripken Jr. performed in his 2,131st consecutive sport, breaking Lou Gehrig’s 56 year-old MLB report; Ripken’s streak would finally attain a still-record 2,632 video games.
In 1997, a public funeral was held for Princess Diana at Westminster Abbey in London, six days after her loss of life in a automotive crash in Paris.
In 2006, President George W. Bush acknowledged for the primary time that the CIA was operating secret prisons abroad and stated “robust” interrogation strategies had pressured terrorist leaders to disclose plots to assault the US and its allies.
In 2018, the Supreme Court docket of India decriminalized consensual intercourse between adults, legalizing homosexuality within the nation.
In 2022, Liz Truss started her tenure as U.Ok. prime minister; she would resign simply 49 days later.
At this time’s Birthdays:
- Comic JoAnne Worley is 88.
- Cartoonist Sergio Aragonés is 88.
- Nation singer-songwriter David Allan Coe is 86.
- Rock singer-musician Roger Waters (Pink Floyd) is 82.
- Comic-actor Jane Curtin is 78.
- Actor-comedian Jeff Foxworthy is 67.
- Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is 63.
- Tv journalist Elizabeth Vargas is 63.
- Nation singer-songwriter Mark Chesnutt is 62.
- Actor Rosie Perez is 61.
- R&B singer Macy Grey is 58.
- Actor Idris Elba is 53.
- Actor Justina Machado is 53.
- Actor Anika Noni Rose is 53.
- Actor Naomie Harris is 49.
- Rapper Cunning Brown is 47.
- Actor/singer Deborah Pleasure Winans is 42.
- Actor-comedian Lauren Lapkus is 40.
- Actor Asher Angel is 23.