Today is Wednesday, Sept. 14, the 258th day of 2016. There are 108 days left in the year.
On this date:
In 1901, President William McKinley died in Buffalo, New York, of gunshot wounds inflicted by an assassin; Vice President Theodore Roosevelt succeeded him.
In 1941, Vermont passed a resolution enabling its servicemen to receive wartime bonuses by declaring the U.S. to be in a state of armed conflict, giving rise to headlines that Vermont had “declared war on Germany.”
In 1954, the Soviet Union detonated a 40-kiloton atomic test weapon.
In 1975, Pope Paul VI declared Mother Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton the first U.S.-born saint.
In 1982, Princess Grace of Monaco, formerly actress Grace Kelly, died at age 52 of injuries from a car crash the day before.
In 1991, the government of South Africa, the African National Congress and the Inkatha Freedom Party signed a national peace pact.
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