THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

Today is Thursday, September 11, the 255th day of 2008. There are 111 days left in the year.

1773 _ Benjamin Franklin writes ``There never was a good war or bad peace."

1853 _ First electric telegraph in use, Merchant's Exchange to Pt. Lobos

1875 _ First newspaper cartoon strip

1936 _ FDR dedicates Boulder Dam, now known as Hoover Dam

1951 _ Florence Chadwick becomes first woman to swim the English Channel from England to France. It takes 16 hours & 19 minutes

1952 _ West German Chancellor Adenauer signs a reparation pact for Jews

1962 _ Beatles cut ``Love Me Do" & ``PS I Love You"

1973 _ Chile's President, Salvador Allende, deposed in a military coup

1986 _ Dow Jones Industrial Average suffered biggest one-day decline ever, plummeting 86.61 points to 1,792.89. 237.57 million shares traded

2001 _ The worst terrorist attack on American soil - 2819+ die as a result of hijacked airplane attacks on the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and a field in Western Pennsylvania