Today is Tuesday, September 11, the 255th day of 2011. There are 111 days left in the year.
1609 ― Henry Hudson discovers Manhattan island
1773 ― Benjamin Franklin writes “There never was a good war or bad peace."
1875 ― First newspaper cartoon strip
1922 ― British mandate of Palestine begins
1950 ― First typesetting machine to dispense with metal type exhibited
1973 ― Chile's President, Salvador Allende, deposed in a military coup
1982 ― Chris Evert sixth U.S. open title defeats Hana Mandlikava
1985 ― Pete Rose of the Cincinnati Reds gets career hit 4,192 off Eric Show of San Diego Padres, eclipsing Ty Cobb's record
1989 ― Drexel formally pleads guilty to security fraud
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