5 September

Governor Woodes Rogers proclaims the crew pirates, naming both women.

Anne Bonny and Mary Read Convicted

Two women sailed with John Rackham for barely two months in 1720. Their trial in Jamaica is the solid record; almost everything else is later legend.

Jesse Woodson James is born in Clay County, Missouri.

Jesse James Killed before trial

Northfield's townspeople broke the James-Younger gang in seven minutes in 1876. Six years later a new recruit shot Jesse James in his own parlour.

McKinley speaks to a vast crowd at the Exposition on trade and the end of American isolation.

McKinley Assassination Executed

Buffalo, 1901: a young anarchist hides a revolver under a handkerchief in the president's receiving line. Eight days later McKinley is dead.