Today’s highlights

On Sept. 6, 1901, President William McKinley was shot and mortally wounded by anarchist Leon Czolgosz at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York. (McKinley died eight days later and was succeeded by his vice president, Theodore Roosevelt.)

On this date

1972: The Summer Olympics resumed in Munich, West Germany, a day after the deadly hostage crisis that left eleven 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.

1995: Baltimore Oriole Cal Ripken Jr. played in his 2,131st consecutive game, breaking Lou Gehrig’s 56 year-old MLB record; Ripken’s streak would ultimately reach a still-record 2,632 games.

1997: A public funeral was held for Princess Diana at Westminster Abbey in London, six days after her death in a car crash in Paris.

2018: The Supreme Court of India decriminalized consensual sex between adults, legalizing homosexuality in the country.

Today’s birthdays

Comedian JoAnne Worley is 87. Cartoonist Sergio Aragonés is 87. Country singer-songwriter David Allan Coe is 85. Rock singer-musician Roger Waters is 81. Comedian-actor Jane Curtin is 77. Actor-comedian Jeff Foxworthy is 66. Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is 62. Television journalist Elizabeth Vargas is 62. Country singer-songwriter Mark Chesnutt is 61. Actor Rosie Perez is 60. R&B singer Macy Gray is 57.