SEPTEMBER 11
1985:Cincinnati Reds slugger Pete Rose breaks Ty Cobb's long-standing career hits record, hitting a single off of San Diego Padres pitcher Eric Show for the 4,192nd hit of his Major League Baseball career during a home game at Riverfront Stadium.
1982: Chris Evert defeats Czech opponent Hana Mandlikova 6-1, 6-3 to win the final U.S. Open tennis match of her career. Evert's victory brings her U.S. Open record to six women's singles title, including four consecutive wins from 1975 and 1978, at the West Side Tennis Club in Forest Hills, N.Y.
2001: Nearly 3,000 people are killed in the worst act of terrorism ever committed on U.S. soil, when 19 members of Al-Qaeda purposefully pilot three passenger jets into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. A fourth plane, likely intended to hit a major government target in Washington, D.C., crashes into farmland in Shanksville, Pa., thanks to passengers fighting back against the hijackers.
1972:The San Francisco BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit), public transit and subway system, opens up to passengers
1961:The World Wildlife Fund is founded
1940: World War II: Buckingham Palace is damaged during a German air raid.
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