On this day, 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.)
1909 American explorer Robert Peary sent a telegram from Indian Harbor, Labrador, announcing that he had reached the North Pole five months earlier.
1943 79 people were killed when a New York-bound Pennsylvania Railroad train derailed and crashed in Philadelphia.
1972 The Summer Olympics resumed in Munich, West Germany, a day after the deadly hostage crisis that left 11 Israelis, five Arab abductors and a West German police officer dead.
1975 18-year-old tennis star Martina Navratilova of Czechoslovakia, in New York for the U.S. Open, requested political asylum in the United States.
1991 The Soviet Union recognized the independence of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia.
2001 In a dramatic shift, the Bush administration abandoned the Clinton-era effort to break up Microsoft.
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.
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.
2017 Hurricane Irma, the most powerful hurricane ever recorded in the Atlantic to that point, pounded Puerto Rico with heavy rain and powerful winds; authorities said more than 900,000 people were without power.
2022 Liz Truss began her tenure as U.K. prime minister. She would resign just 49 days later.
Today’s birthdays: Comedian JoAnne Worley, 87. Country singer David Allan Coe, 84. Rock singer-musician Roger Waters (Pink Floyd), 80. Actor Swoosie Kurtz, 79. Comedian-actor Jane Curtin, 76. Actor-comedian Jeff Foxworthy, 65. Actor-comedian Michael Winslow, 65. Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, 61. Television journalist Elizabeth Vargas, 61. Actor Betsy Russell, 60. Actor Rosie Perez, 59. R&B singer Macy Gray, 56. Country songwriter Lee Thomas Miller (Songs: “The Impossible” “You’re Gonna Miss This”), 55. Singer CeCe Peniston, 54. Actor Daniele Gaither, 53. Actor Dylan Bruno, 51. Actor Idris Elba, 51. Actor Justina Machado, 51. Actor Anika Noni Rose, 51. Rock singer Nina Persson (The Cardigans), 49. Actor Justin Whalin, 49. Actor Naomie Harris, 47. Actor Natalia Cigliuti, 45. Actor Howard Charles, 40. Actor/singer Deborah Joy Winans, 40. Actor Lauren Lapkus, 38.