Today in History: September 11, thousands killed in terrorist attack on US

Nowadays is Thursday Sept the th day of There are days left in the year This day in history On Sept nearly people were killed as al-Qaida hijackers seized control of four jetliners sending two of the planes into New York s World Bargain Center one into the Pentagon in Arlington Virginia and the fourth into a field in western Pennsylvania It remains the deadliest terror attack in history Also on this date In Alexander Hamilton was appointed the first U S Secretary of the Treasury Related Articles GOP barely defeats Senate effort to release Epstein files Polly Holliday theater star famous as the tart waitress Flo on sitcom Alice dies at Charlie Kirk helped build advocacy for Trump among young people Suspect dead after shooting schoolmates himself at Denver-area high school Conservative activist Charlie Kirk assassinated at Utah university In an American fleet scored a decisive win over the British in the Battle of Lake Champlain in the War of In Boulder Dam later renamed the Hoover Dam began operation as President Franklin D Roosevelt pressed a button in Washington to signal the startup of the dam s first hydroelectric generator In groundbreaking took place for the Pentagon In the Miss America pageant made its arrangement TV debut on ABC In Chilean President Salvador Allende ah-YEN -day died during a violent military coup led by General Augusto Pinochet In Pete Rose of the Cincinnati Reds broke Ty Cobb s MLB career hits record with his nd hit In presidential candidates John McCain and Barack Obama put aside politics as they visited ground zero together on the anniversary of to honor its casualties In a mob armed with guns and grenades launched a fiery nightlong attack on a U S diplomatic outpost and a CIA annex in Benghazi Libya killing U S Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans In over people died and thousands more were missing after heavy rain from Mediterranean Storm Daniel caused two dams to collapse flooding the city of Derna Libya In the current era s Birthdays Composer Arvo P rt is Film director Brian De Palma is Singer-actor-dancer Lola Falana is Musician Mickey Hart is Guitarist Leo Kottke is Actor Amy Madigan is Rock musician Tommy Shaw Styx is Sportscaster Lesley Visser is Actor Scott Patterson is Actor director Roxann Dawson is Actor John Hawkes is Actor Virginia Madsen is Musician-composer Moby is Singer Harry Connick Jr is Actor Taraji tuh-RAH -jee P Henson is Rapper Ludacris is Football Hall of Famer Ed Reed is Country singer Charles Kelley Lady A is Actor Elizabeth Henstridge is Actor Tyler Hoechlin HEK -lihn is