AP Highlight in History: On Sept. 6, 1901, President William B. McKinley was shot and mortally wounded by anarchist Leon Czolgosz at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, N.Y.
American explorer Robert Peary sent word that he had reached the North Pole five months earlier.
1941
Jews over the age of 6 in German-occupied areas were ordered to wear yellow Stars of David.
1970
Palestinian guerrillas seized control of three jetliners, which were later blown up on the ground in Jordan after the passengers and crews were evacuated.
1975
Czechoslovakian tennis player Martina Navratilova, in New York for the U.S. Open, requested political asylum.
1992
A man who had received a transplanted baboon liver 10 weeks earlier died at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.
1996
Eddie Murray of the Baltimore Orioles hit his 500th career home run during a game against the Detroit Tigers.
1997
Britain bade farewell to Princess Diana with a funeral service at Westminster Abbey. Read the original AP story
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1998
Japanese director Akira Kurosawa died at age 88.
2001
Barry Bonds of the San Francisco Giants became the fifth player in baseball history to hit 60 home runs in a season. (He finished the year with a record 73 homers.)
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 Sept. 11, 2001.
2003
Mahmoud Abbas resigned as Palestinian prime minister.
2004
Former President Bill Clinton underwent successful heart bypass surgery.
2005
The California Legislature became the first legislative body in the nation to approve same-sex marriages. (Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger later vetoed the bill.)
2006
President George W. Bush acknowledged previously secret CIA prisons around the world and said 14 high-value terrorism suspects had been transferred from the system to Guantanamo Bay for trials.
