Sept. 11 historic events
1609 Henry Hudson discovers Manhattan Island and the natives living there. (Although Indians were living there at the time, Hudson “discovered” it. Kind of like “Today I took the subway to work, and discovered 50th Street.”)
1789 Alexander Hamilton was appointed the first secretary of the treasury.
1792 The Hope Diamond is stolen along with other crown jewels when six men break into the house used to store the jewels.
1814 An American fleet scored a decisive victory over the British in the Battle of Lake Champlain during the War of 1812.
1885 Author D.H. Lawrence was born in Eastwood, England.
1921 Nahalal, the first moshav in Israel, is settled.
1922 The British Mandate of Palestine begins.
1936 President Franklin D. Roosevelt dedicated Boulder Dam (now Hoover Dam) in Nevada by pressing a key in Washington to signal the startup of the dam’s first hydroelectric generator.
1941 Charles A. Lindbergh sparked charges of anti-Semitism with a speech in which he blamed “the British, the Jewish and the Roosevelt administration” for trying to draw the United States into World War II. (“charges of anti-Semitism”? He was a known anti-Semite, Nazi-sympathizer and America-firster.)
1970 88 of the hostages from the Dawson’s Field hijackings are released. The remaining hostages, mostly Jews and Israeli citizens, are held until September 25.
1971 Former Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev died at age 77.
1973 Chilean President Salvador Allende died in a violent military coup.
1982 The international forces that were guaranteeing the safety of Palestinian refugees following Israel’s 1982 Invasion of Lebanon leave Beirut. Five days later, several thousand refugees are massacred in the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps. (Feeling confident that Israel would never release top-secret documents proving them wrong, Time magazine accuses Ariel Sharon of being complicit in the massacre. Sharon sues Time for libel, and Israel releases the documents. Although the Time story is proven to be both false and written with a reckless disregard of the truth, Sharon fails to win monetary compensation, since malicious intent was not proven.
1985 Pete Rose of the Cincinnati Reds recorded his 4,192nd hit, breaking Ty Cobb’s career record.
1987 CBS went black for six minutes after anchorman Dan Rather walked off the set of “The CBS Evening News” because a tennis tournament being carried by the network ran overtime.
1997 Scots voted to create their own Parliament after 290 years of union with England.
1998 Independent counsel Kenneth Starr sends a report to the U.S. Congress accusing President Bill Clinton of 11 possible impeachable offenses.
2001 Suicide hijackers crashed two airliners into the World Trade Center in New York, causing the 110-story twin towers to collapse. Another hijacked airliner hit the Pentagon and a fourth crashed in a field in Pennsylvania.
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2002 Football Hall of Famer Johnny Unitas died at age 69.
2002 The Pentagon is rededicated after repairs are completed, exactly one year after the attack on the building.
2003 Swedish Foreign Minister Anna Lindh died from stab wounds inflicted when she was attacked in a Stockholm department store a day earlier.
2005 The State of Israel completes its unilateral disengagement from the Gaza Strip. (The folly of the unilateral retreat from Gaza is apparent from the destruction of Gush Katif and other communities, the takeover by Hamas, which declared its intention not to abide by any agreements reached by the Israeli government and the PA, the kidnapping of Gilad Shalit and the murder of his comrades, the non-stop rocket attacks that rendered Sderot all-but-uninhabitable, and the subsequent “Cast Lead” invasion and its resulting casualties.)
2007 China signed an agreement to prohibit the use of lead paint on toys exported to the United States. (Now if they’d only prohibit anti-freeze in toothpaste and pet-food, and the evisceration of prisoners in order to sell black-market organs…)
2007 Russia tests the largest conventional weapon ever, the Father of all bombs.