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Article: Today in History - Sept. 6
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- September 6, 2007
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Today is Thursday, Sept. 6, the 249th day of 2007. There are 116 days left in the year.
Today's Highlight in History:
On Sept. 6, 1901, President William McKinley was shot and mortally wounded by anarchist Leon Czolgosz at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, N.Y. McKinley died eight days later; he was succeeded by Vice President Theodore Roosevelt. (Czolgosz was executed less than two months later.)
On this date:
In 1757, 250 years ago, the Marquis de Lafayette, the French hero of the American Revolution, was born in Auvergne, France.
In 1837, the Oberlin Collegiate Institute of Ohio went co-educational.
In 1909, American explorer Robert Peary sent word that he had reached ...