On this date

In 1901, President William McKinley’s assassin, Leon Czolgosz, was electrocuted. In 1923, the Republic of Turkey was proclaimed.

In 1956, during the Suez Canal crisis, Israel invaded Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula.

In 1964, thieves made off with the Star of India and other gems from the American Museum of Natural History in New York. (The Star and most of the other gems were recovered; three men were convicted of stealing them.) In 1987, jazz great and Milwaukee native Woody Herman died in Los Angeles at age 74. In 1998, Sen. John Glenn, at age 77, roared back into space aboard the shuttle Discovery, retracing the trail he’d blazed for America’s astronauts 36 years earlier. In 2012, Superstorm Sandy slammed ashore in New Jersey and slowly marched inland, devastating coastal communities and causing widespread power outages; the storm and its aftermath were blamed for at least 182 deaths in the U.S. Ten years ago: A 6.4-magnitude earthquake in southwestern Pakistan killed at least 215 people. Five years ago: Medicare chief Marilyn Tavenner, whose agency oversaw the “Obamacare” enrollment website, apologized to Congress for the severe technical problems that marred the online rollout of President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul. One year ago: All but 10 members of the Houston Texans took a knee during the national anthem, reacting to a remark from team owner Bob McNair to other NFL owners that “we can’t have the inmates running the prison.”