September 11
Today is
Patriot Day
This day is also marked as a
Nat'l Day of Service and Remembrance.
1985 – Pete Rose breaks Ty Cobb's baseball record for most career hits with his 4,192nd hit.
2001 – Two hijacked aircraft crash into the World Trade Center in New York City, while a third smashes into The Pentagon in Arlington County, Virginia, and a fourth into a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania, in a series of coordinated suicide attacks by 19 members of al-Qaeda. A total of 2,996 people are killed.
2012 – The U.S. embassy in Benghazi, Libya is attacked, resulting in four deaths.