anarchist. Born in Niles, Ohio, on 29/1/1843, McKinley became a teacher and then a brevet major when the Civil War broke out. After the War he studied law and opened a law office in Canton, Ohio. In 1876 McKinley was elected as a Republican to the US House of Representatives and in 1891 became Governor of Ohio. Six years later he became President and earned a reputation as one of the most peace-loving leaders in US history. On the afternoon of 6/9/1901 he was shot at point blank range by anarchist Leon Czolgosz, who was sentenced to death and executed at Auburn Prison, New York, on 29/10/1901. Vice President Theodore Roosevelt was then sworn in as 26th president, the youngest at 42.
6/9/1901, Anarchist Leon Czolgosz shot US President Mc Kinley at a public reception in Buffalo; he died on the 14/9/1901.
13/3/1901, Benjamin Harrison, American Republican and 23rd President from 1889 to 1893, died in Indianapolis, Indiana.
4/3/1901, US President McKinley was inaugurated.
6/11/1900, In the US, McKinley won the election for the Republicans.
19/6/1900, In the US, the Republicans nominated Roosevelt as US Vice President.
9/9/1897, The Hawaiian Senate approved the US annexation of Hawaii on 16/6/1897. Sugar plantation owners on Hawaii had demanded annexation; however Japan had some 25,000 nationals on Hawaii, and protested at the move.
16/6/1897, The USA annexed the Hawaiian Islands, see 9/9/1897.
5/12/1896, Carl Cori, US biochemist, was born in Prague.
14/11/1896. Mannie Eisenhower, wife of America’s 34th President, was born in Boone, Iowa, as Mannie Doud.
4/7/1894, The republic of Hawaii was declared with 50-year old Judge Sanford Dole as President.
17/1/1893. Rutherford Hayes, US Republican and 19th President from 1877 to 1881, died in Fremont, Ohio.
14/10/1890. Birth of US President Dwight Eisenhower. He was the 34th President, who led the US during World War Two, and was known as ‘Ike’. He was born in Denison, Texas (died 1969).
6/12/1889, Jefferson Davies, US President of the Confederate states, died aged 81.
4/3/1889, Grover Cleveland, 22nd US President (1885-1889) was succeeded by Benjamin Harrison (1889 – 1893).
18/11/1886, Chester Alun Arthur, American Republican and 21st President from 1881 to 1885, died in New York City.
11/10/1884, Eleanor Roosevelt, wife and cousin of Franklin D Roosevelt, was born in New York City.
8/5/1884, Harry S Truman, American Democrat and 33rd President, was born in Lamar, Missouri. He ordered the atom bomb to be dropped on Japan in 1945.
30/1/1882, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, American Democrat and 32nd President, was born near Hyde Park, New York.
19/9/1881, James Abram Garfield, US Republican and 20th President since 4/3/1881, who had been shot on 2/7/1891, died at Elberon, New Jersey. The remainder of his term was completed by Chester Arthur.
2/7/1881, James Garfield, American Republican and 22nd President, was shot by Charles Guiteau in Washington DC. He died on 19/9/1881 in Elberton, New Jersey.
4/3/1881, James Abram Garfield, Republican, became the 20th US President.
20/1/1881, King David Kalalahua of Hawaii died, age d54, and was succeeded by his 52-year sister, Queen Lydia Liliuokalani. White settlers who now owned 80% of the land in Hawaii, formed a Hawaiian League to oppose the accession of Queen Liliuokalani, and sought annexation to the USA.
11/1877, General Carleton ordered Apache Indians in Arizona off their Chiricahua Reservation at Warm Springs and on to San Carlos. Here, summer temperatures reached 40 C, and there was no game or other food. Any Indian found leaving San Carlos would be shot.
31/7/1875, Andrew Johnson, American Democrat and 17th president from 1865 to 1869, died in Carter County, Tennessee.
10/8/1874, Herbert Hoover, Republican politician and 31st US President, 1929-33, was born in West Branch, Iowa, the son of a blacksmith.
8/3/1874, Millard Fillimore, American Whig and 13th President from 1850 to 1853, died in Buffalo, New York State.
5/11/1872. Ulysses S Grant was elected President of the USA for a second term.
4/7/1872, Calvin Coolidge, American Republican 