On this day in 1901, U.S. President William McKinley was shot and mortally wounded by Leon Czolgosz, an American anarchist . McKinley succumbed to his wounds on September 14, 1901. Vice President Theodore Roosevelt was sworn into office on the same day, succeeding McKinley, who had been reelected in 1900. Gzolgosz was executed on October 29, 1901.
Leon Frank Czolgosz (May 5, 1873 – October 29, 1901)
The site of William McKinley’s tragic assassination in Buffalo, New York is only marked by a plaque on a large boulder.
President William McKinley was shot and mortally wounded on this day in 1901 (he died eight days later) by Leon Czolgosz (below). The American anarchist was executed the following October.
Diana, Princess of Wales (Diana Frances Spencer) (July 1, 1961 – August 31, 1997)
The concept of a self-service grocery store was developed by Clarence Saunders and his Piggly Wiggly stores. His first store (above) opened on this day in 1916.
Clarence Saunders (August 9, 1881 – September 23, 1953)
George Roger Waters is 74 years old today.
Roger Waters was the Bass player, composer, vocalist, and front man of the English rock band Pink Floyd, the group known for songs like "Shine On You Crazy Diamond." He was the chairman of the Cambridge Youth Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament at age fifteen. Waters helped compose the soundtrack to the 1970 documentary The Body.
Waters left Pink Floyd in 1985 and began a legal dispute with the remaining members over their use of the band’s name and material. They settled out of court in 1987, and nearly eighteen years passed before he performed with them again. As a member of Pink Floyd, Waters was inducted into the U.S. Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1996 and the UK Music Hall of Fame in 2005
1980 Zimmerman’s 12-Mile Store was located at 223rd and SE Stark Street.
The 12 mile store opened in 1938 by Carl Zimmerman as a small gas station and grocery store (top photo). The store soon expanded to 30,000 square feet with a butcher department, pharmacy and a post office. The building was demolished in 2005 and replaced with Weston Kia (below).
The corner of 223rd and S.E. Stark St. as it looks today.
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