On this day... September 14:

On this day...

September 14:  Feast of the Cross (Christianity) 81 – Domitian became the last Flavian emperor ofRome, succeeding his brother Titus. 1752 – In adopting the Gregorian calendar under the terms of the Calendar (New Style) Act 1750, theBritish Empire skipped eleven days: (September 2 was followed directly by September 14). 1901 – Theodore Roosevelt became President of the United Statesat age 42, the youngest person ever to do so, eight days afterWilliam McKinley was fatally wounded in Buffalo, New York. 1911 – Prime Minister of Russia Pyotr Stolypin (pictured) was mortally shot at the Kiev Opera House. 2003 – Kumba Ialá, the President of Guinea-Bissau, was deposed in a bloodless coup.