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On This Day: September 14
1814: Francis Scott Key composed the lyrics to The Star Spangled Banner.
1901: President McKinley died of gunshot wounds inflicted by an assassin. Vice President Theodore Roosevelt succeeded him.
1940: Congress passed the Selective Service Act, providing for the first peacetime draft in U.S. history.
1959: The Soviet space probe Luna 2 became the first man-made object to reach the Moon when it crashed onto the lunar surface.
1982: Princess Grace of Monaco died from injuries sustained in a car crash the previous day.
1994: Acting commissioner Bud Selig announced the cancellation of the 1994 baseball season on the 34th day of a strike by players.
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