September 6 Birthday
On September 6, 1901, President McKinley was shot at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York. Leon Czolgosz, a Polish-American anarchist, fired two shots from a concealed .32 revolver. McKinley initially seemed to recover, then died on September 14 of gangrene. Czolgosz was tried, convicted, and executed by electric chair within forty-five days. McKinley's assassination brought Theodore Roosevelt — then forty-two — to the presidency. Roosevelt was hiking in the Adirondacks when he was summoned. He had to travel by buckboard through the night to reach the nearest train station. In 1970, Jimi Hendrix performed his final concert at the Love and Peace Festival on the Isle of Fehmarn in Germany. He was paid $50,000. He played "Purple Haze" and "Voodoo Child" and walked off. He died twelve days later. He was twenty-seven. People born on September 6 fall under the zodiac sign of Virgo. The birthstone is Sapphire and the birth flower is Aster. Historical events on September 6 include 1901: President McKinley shot by anarchist Leon Czolgosz in Buffalo, 1620: Mayflower departs from Plymouth, England for the New World, 1970: Jimi Hendrix performs his final concert. Famous people born on September 6 include Marquis de Lafayette (1757), Jane Addams (1860), Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. (1888).