Ripken victorious with fans. — Walter Iooss Jr./Sports Illustrated/Getty Images

SEPTEMBER 6, 1995

Baltimore Orioles shortstop Cal Ripken Jr. breaks Lou Gehrig's record for most consecutive baseball games played & #8212 a streak that Ripken, nicknamed the Iron Man, began on May 30, 1982. Ripken's 2,131st game is attended by President Bill Clinton, Vice President Al Gore and New York Yankees legend Joe DiMaggio.

1901: Polish anarchist Leon Czolgosz shoots and mortally wounds President William McKinley at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, N.Y. McKinley will die eight days later, while Czolgosz will be executed in the electric chair on Oct. 29.

2002: More than 300 U.S. senators and representatives meet at Federal Hall in New York, four blocks from Ground Zero, for a special joint session of Congress to acknowledge the victims and heroes of Sept. 11, 2001. It is only the second time since 1800 that Congress has convened outside of Washington.