Today is Tuesday, September 11, the 253rd day of 2007. There are 112 days left in the year.
1609 _ Henry Hudson discovers Manhattan island
1919 _ U.S. marines invade Honduras
1922 _ British mandate of Palestine begins
1927 _ Babe Ruth hits 50th of 60 homers
1936 _ Franklin D. Roosevelt dedicates Boulder Dam, now known as Hoover Dam
1950 _ The first typesetting machine to dispense with metal type exhibited
1952 _ West German Chancellor Adenauer signs a reparation pact for Jews
1954 _ The first Miss America TV broadcast
1973 _ Chile's President Salvador Allende deposed in a military coup
1986 _ The Dow Jones Industrial Average suffered the biggest 1-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