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William McKinley

William McKinley (1843–1901) was the 25th President of the United States, serving from March 4, 1897, until his death. McKinley led the nation to victory in the Spanish–American War, raised protective tariffs to promote American industry, and maintained the nation on the gold standard in a rejection of inflationary proposals. McKinley's administration ended with his assassination in September 1901, but his presidency began a period of over a third of a century dominated by the Republican Party. McKinley served in the Civil War and rose from private to brevet major. After the war, he settled in Canton, Ohio, where he practiced law and married Ida Saxton. In 1876, he was elected to Congress, where he became the Republican Party's expert on the protective tariff, which he promised would bring prosperity. His highly controversial 1890 McKinley Tariff, together with a Democratic redistricting effort aimed at gerrymandering him out of office led to his defeat in the Democratic landslide of 1890. (more...)

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  • In Egypt, Libya, and Yemen, U.S. diplomatic missions are attacked, causing the deaths of 14 people in Libya, including U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens (pictured).
  • An independent panel investigating the 1989 Hillsborough disaster finds that police and emergency services failed in their duties and manipulated evidence to blame the victims, prompting an apology from British Prime Minister David Cameron.
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    Isadora Duncan

  • 786Harun al-Rashid became the Abbasid caliph upon the death of his brother al-Hadi.
  • 1752 – In adopting the Gregorian calendar under the terms of the Calendar (New Style) Act 1750, the British Empire skipped eleven days (September 2 was followed directly by September 14).
  • 1927 – In a freak automobile accident, dancer Isadora Duncan (pictured) was strangled to death in Nice, France, by her scarf after it got caught on the wheel of a car in which she was a passenger.
  • 1982President-elect of Lebanon Bachir Gemayel was assassinated when a bomb exploded in the Beirut headquarters of the Phalange.
  • 2003Kumba Ialá, the President of Guinea-Bissau, was deposed in a bloodless coup.
  • 2007Late-2000s financial crisis: The Northern Rock bank received a liquidity support facility from the Bank of England, sparking a bank run—the United Kingdom's first in 150 years.

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    Old Fort of Zanzibar

    The Old Fort of Zanzibar is a fortification and the oldest building in Stone Town, the capital of Zanzibar, Tanzania. It was built in the late 17th century by the Omanis to defend the island from the Portuguese, and later used as a prison and as barracks. In the early 20th century it was also used as a depot during the construction of the railway that connected Stone Town to the village of Bububu.

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