MONDAY, Sept. 11, 2023

1609 ― Henry Hudson discovers Manhattan Island

1773 ― Benjamin Franklin writes, "There never was a good war or bad peace."

1852 ― Olympia Columbian is first newspaper published north of Columbia River

1875 ― First newspaper cartoon strip

1910 ― First commercially successful electric bus line opens (Hollywood)

1919 ― U.S. marines inserted in Honduras

1926 ― Aloha Tower dedicated in Honolulu

1928 ― First TV drama airs - WGY's “The Queen's Messenger”

1946 ― First mobile long-distance car-to-car telephone conversation held

1951 ― Florence Chadwick becomes first woman to swim the English Channel from England to France taking 16 hours and 19 minutes

1988 ― Sports Aid runners join Race Against Time to feed the world

2001 ― The worst terrorist attack on American soil in history ― 2819+ die in hijacked airplane attacks on the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and when on crashes into a field in Western Pennsylvania