September 6: On this day! What happened in History?

President William McKinley is shot at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New YorkThe gunman: Leon Czolgosz (CHAWL'-gahsh), an anarchist who is executed the following month. Vice President Teddy Roosevelt succeeds McKinley when he dies more than a week after the shooting. 1997: Britain and the world bid farewell to Princess Diana with a funeral service in London's Westminster Abbey. In Calcutta, India, people gathered to pay homage to Mother Teresa, a day after her death 1916: Clarence Saunders opens the first self-service grocery store, the Piggly Wiggly, in Memphis, Tennessee 1998: Akira Kurosawa one of Japan's greatest filmmakers dies in Tokyo at age 88. His work has influenced movies far and wide, from Hollywood westerns to "Star Wars." 1943: Roger Waters, co-founder and former frontman for the rock group Pink Floyd is born in Surrey, England