On this day in 1901, President William McKinley was shot and mortally wounded (he died eight days later) by Leon Czolgosz, an American anarchist, was executed the following October.
Leon Czolgosz
The funeral for Britain’s Princess Diana was on this day in 1997.
Piggly Wiggly is a supermarket chain in the Southern and Midwestern regions of the U.S. The first outlet opened in 1916 in Memphis, Tennessee, and is notable for having been the first true self-servicegrocery store, and the originator of various familiar supermarket features such as checkout stands, individual item price marking and shopping carts. The current company headquarters is in Keene, New Hampshire. Currently, more than 600 independently owned Piggly Wiggly stores operate in 17 states, primarily in smaller cities and towns.
Bass player, composer, vocalist Roger Waters was co-founder, and front man of the English rock band Pink Floyd, the group known for songs like "Shine On You Crazy Diamond."
The world’s worst nuclear disaster to date occurred at Chernobyl, in Kiev on this day in 1986. Thirty-one people died in the incident and thousands more were exposed to radioactive material.
John Wilkes Booth was killed by the U.S. Federal Cavalry on this day in 1865.
On April 14, 1865, actor John Wilkes Booth (above) assassinated President Abraham Lincoln while he was watching the play ‘Our American Cousin’ at Ford Theater in Washington, D.C.
The British established an American colony at Cape Henry, Virginia on this day in 1607. It was the first permanent English establishment in the Western Hemisphere.
On this day in 1937, German planes attacked Guernica, Spain, during the Spanish Civil War for the Spanish nationalist government. This raid is considered one of the first to be attacks on a civilian population by a modern air force.
Spanish Civil War: the Spanish town of Guernica, after the bombing by German and Italian aircraft.
The state of Vermont enacted same-sex unions on this day in 2000.
Lucille Ball was an actress, comedian, model, film-studio executive, and producer. She was best known as the star of the self-produced sitcoms I Love Lucy (1951-1967) on CBS, The Lucy–Desi Comedy Hour (1957-1960) on CBS, The Lucy Show (1962-1968) CBS, Here’s Lucy (1968-1974) CBS, and Life with Lucyfor only one season in 1986 on ABC.
William Shakespeare(April 23, 1564 – April 23, 1616)
James Earl Ray(March 10, 1928 – April 23, 1998)
Ray was the alleged assassin of Martin Luther King Jr. April 4, 1968, in Memphis, Tennessee. He was convicted on his forty-first birthday after entering a guilty plea to forgo a jury trial. Had he been found guilty by jury trial, he would have been eligible for the death penalty.
Cesar Chavez was an American labor leader and civil rights activist who, with Dolores Huerta, co-founded the National Farm Workers. Chavez died of unspecified natural causes in San Luis, Arizona, in the home of a former farm worker and longtime friend.
Hank Aaron of the Milwaukee Braves hit his first major-league home run on this day in 1954. He later became the home run king.
Henry Louis Aaron became 84 years old in February.
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