Today is Friday, September 11, the 254th day of 2009. There are 111 days left in the year.
1773 _ Benjamin Franklin writes ``There never was a good war or bad peace."
1789 _ Alexander Hamilton appointed Secretary of the Treasury
1875 _ first newspaper cartoon strip
1936 _ FDR dedicates Boulder Dam, now known as Hoover Dam
1950 _ First typesetting machine to dispense with metal type exhibited
1952 _ West German Chancellor Adenauer signs a reparation pact for Jews
1962 _ Beatles cut ``Love Me Do" & ``PS I Love You"
1967 _ U.S. Surveyor 5 makes first chemical analysis of lunar material
1973 _ Chile's President, Salvador Allende, deposed in a military coup
2001 _ The worst terrorist attack on American soil ― 2819-plus people die as a result of hijacked airplane attacks on the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and a field in Western Pennsylvania