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U.S. President William McKinley assassinated: 6 September 1901 - This Day in History
Republican William McKinley, the 25th president of the United States (1897–1901), was shot this day in 1901 by Leon Czolgosz, an anarchist, at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York, and died eight days later.
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1991: The Soviet Union recognized the independence of the Baltic states—Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania.
1944: Germany fired the first long-range V-2 missile at an Allied target during World War II.
1914: French and British forces launched an offensive against advancing Germans in the First Battle of the Marne during World War I.
1792: French Revolutionary leader Georges Danton was elected deputy for Paris to the National Convention.
John Dalton: Biography of the Day
English scientist John Dalton, born this day (or September 5) in 1766, was a pioneer in the development of modern atomic theory and was considered by some contemporaries as the “father” of both meteorology and chemistry.
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