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[Jimmy Dean]
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President William McKinley was shot and fatally wounded on September 6, 1901, while shaking hands with the public in the Temple of Music at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York, U.S. McKinley died on September 14 from gangrene caused by the bullet wounds. President McKinley enjoyed meeting the public, and was reluctant to take security precautions. George B. Cortelyou, the secretary to the president, feared an assassination attempt, but McKinley kept the visit in the schedule. The assassin, Leon Czolgosz, regarded McKinley as a symbol of oppression, and felt it was his duty as an anarchist to kill him. Unable to get near McKinley earlier in the visit, Czolgosz shot him twice (pictured) as McKinley reached to shake his hand in the reception line. McKinley initially appeared to be recovering, but took a turn for the worse on September 13 and died the next morning; Theodore Roosevelt, the vice president, succeeded him. Czolgosz was executed for murder in late October. (Full article...)
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On this day: September 6
September 6: Defence Day in Pakistan (1965)
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- 1566 – Suleiman the Magnificent, the longest-reigning sultan of the Ottoman Empire, died at the age of 71.
- 1634 – Thirty Years' War: In the Battle of Nördlingen, the Catholic Imperial army defeated Swedish and German Protestant forces.
- 1916 – The first self-service grocery store, Piggly Wiggly, was founded in Memphis, Tennessee, U.S.
- 1976 – Soviet pilot Viktor Belenko landed his MiG-25 in Hakodate, Japan, declaring his intention to defect to the West.
- 2022 – Liz Truss (pictured) succeeded Boris Johnson as prime minister following the July 2022 United Kingdom government crisis.
- Pope John XIII (d. 972)
- Chris Christie (b. 1962)
- Dolores O'Riordan (b. 1971)
- Wendi Richter (b. 1961)
Knowledge about Earth
Facts and Figures
- Age of Earth: ~ 4.568 billion years
- World Population: 7.3 billion (July 2015)
- Continents: 7 (Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Antarctica, Europe, and Australia)
- Mean Radius: 6371.0 km
- Axial Tilt: 23,44°
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Our Solar System
Our solar system consists of
1 star (Sun) and 8 planets (Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune).
- 1 AU (astronomical unit) is roughly the distance between Earth and the Sun (about 150 million kilometres).
- The space probe Voyager 1 was launched by the NASA in 1977 and is meanwhile (autumn 2015) about 133 AU away from Earth.
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Why you should extend your general knowledge:
There are many reasons why one should or wants to extend his knowledge.
First you should consider that "general knowledge" is knowledge which a group of humans - who belong together regional, temporal or otherwise - owns. Thus, it describes a basic understanding of specific categories of knowledge.
As the English philosopher Francis Bacon said before: "Wisdom is Power" [Bacon 1597].