SEPTEMBER 11
2001;Passengers aboard United Airlines Flight 93 attempt to wrest control of the hijacked airliner from al-Qaeda terrorists, crashing the plane—likely bound for a high-profile target in Washington, D.C.—into a field near Shanksville, Pa. Three other hijacked commercial jetliners crash into the World Trade Center's twin towers and the Pentagon. Almost 3,000 people die in the attacks, the worst act of terrorism ever committed on U.S. soil.
1789: Alexander Hamilton is appointed first secretary of the Treasury after Robert Morris turns down the job.
1850: Soprano singer Jenny Lind, the "Swedish Nightingale," makes her American debut at Castle Garden in New York, beginning a highly successful tour arranged by showman P.T. Barnum.
1789: Alexander Hamilton is appointed first secretary of the Treasury after Robert Morris turns down the job.
1850: Soprano singer Jenny Lind, the "Swedish Nightingale," makes her American debut at Castle Garden in New York, beginning a highly successful tour arranged by showman P.T. Barnum.
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