"I can hear you, the rest of the world hears you and people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon."1901"I am leading because somebody must lead or else the fight would not be made at all."Theodore Roosevelt becomes America's youngest president at age 43. He succeeds William McKinley who dies more than a week after he is shot by an assassin.

1814Francis Scott Key is inspired to write the poem whose words ultimately become the national anthem of the United States . He composes The Star-Spangled Banner during the War of 1812 after witnessing the British bombardment of Ford McHenry in Maryland.

1879Margaret Sanger, the founder of America's birth control movement is born in Corning, New York.

1982Princess Grace of Monaco, the former movie actress Grace Kelly dies of injuries from a car crash the day before. She was 52 years old.

1927Isadore Duncan, the modern dance pioneer dies in an accident in Nice, France. She is killed when her scarf becomes entangled in a wheel of her sports car.

And 1994"It's not a very happy set of circumstances for man. After all, we are in the baseball business."Baseball's acting commissioner Bud Selig cancels the rest of the season due to a player's strike. That includes the World Series, the first October without that game in nearly 90 years.

Today in History, September 14th. Tim Maguire, the Associated Press.