Today is Wednesday, September 11, the 255th day of the yr 2024. There are 111 days left within the yr.
Today in history:
On September 11, 2001, nearly 3,000 people were killed when 19 al-Qaeda hijackers took control of 4 passenger planes. Two of the planes crashed into the World Trade Center in New York, one into the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, and the fourth right into a field in western Pennsylvania. It stays the deadliest terrorist attack in history.
Also on this date:
In 1789, Alexander Hamilton was appointed the primary US Secretary of the Treasury.
In the War of 1812, an American fleet won a decisive victory over the British within the Battle of Lake Champlain in 1814.
In 1936, the Boulder Dam – later renamed the Hoover Dam – was put into operation when President Franklin D. Roosevelt pressed a button in Washington to signal the beginning of the dam's first hydroelectric generator.
The groundbreaking ceremony for the Pentagon took place in 1941.
In 1954, the Miss America beauty pageant was first broadcast on ABC.
In 1973, Chilean President Salvador Allende (ah-YEN'-day) died during a violent military coup led by General Augusto Pinochet.
In 1985, Pete Rose of the Cincinnati Reds broke Ty Cobb's MLB profession record together with his 4,192nd hit.
In 2008, presidential candidates John McCain and Barack Obama put politics aside and visited Ground Zero together on the anniversary of September 11 to commemorate the victims.
In 2012, a mob armed with rifles and grenades carried out a nighttime arson attack on a US diplomatic outpost and a CIA office in Benghazi, Libya, killing US Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans.
In 2023, greater than 4,000 people died and hundreds more went missing after heavy rains from Storm Daniel caused two dams to collapse and flood the Libyan city of Derna.
Today's birthdays:
- The composer Arvo Pärt is 89.
- Film director Brian De Palma is 84.
- The singer, actress and dancer Lola Falana is 82.
- The musician Mickey Hart is 81.
- Guitarist Leo Kottke is 78.
- Actress Amy Madigan is 74.
- Rock musician Tommy Shaw (Styx) is 71.
- Sports reporter Lesley Visser is 71.
- Actor Scott Patterson is 66.
- Actress/director Roxann Dawson is 66.
- Actor John Hawkes is 65.
- Actress Virginia Madsen is 63.
- The musician and composer Moby is 59.
- Singer Harry Connick Jr. is 57.
- Actor Taraji (tuh-RAH'-jee) P. Henson is 54.
- Rapper Ludacris is 47.
- Ed Reed, a member of the Football Hall of Fame, is 46.
- Country singer Charles Kelley (Lady A) is 43.
- Actress Elizabeth Henstridge is 37.
- Actor Tyler Hoechlin (HEK'-lihn) is 37.
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