Today is Friday, Sept. 11, the 254th day of 2026. There are 111 days left in the year.<\/p>\n
Today in history:<\/p>\n
On Sept. 11, 2001, nearly 3,000 people were killed as 19 al-Qaida hijackers seized control of four jetliners, sending two of the planes into New York\u2019s World Trade 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.<\/p>\n
Also on this date:<\/p>\n
In 1789, Alexander Hamilton was appointed the first U.S. Secretary of the Treasury.<\/p>\n
In 1814, an American fleet scored a decisive victory over the British in the Battle of Lake Champlain in the War of 1812.<\/p>\n
In 1936, Boulder Dam \u2014 later renamed the Hoover Dam \u2014 began operation as President Franklin D. Roosevelt pressed a button in Washington to signal the startup of the dam\u2019s first hydroelectric generator.<\/p>\n
In 1941, groundbreaking took place for the Pentagon.<\/p>\n
In 1954, the Miss America pageant made its network TV debut on ABC.<\/p>\n
In 1973, Chilean President Salvador Allende (ah-YEN\u2019-day) died during a violent military coup led by General Augusto Pinochet.<\/p>\n
In 1985, Pete Rose of the Cincinnati Reds broke Ty Cobb\u2019s MLB career hits record with his 4,192nd hit.<\/p>\n
In 2008, presidential candidates John McCain and Barack Obama put aside politics as they visited ground zero together on the anniversary of 9\/11 to honor its victims.<\/p>\n
In 2012, a mob armed with guns and grenades launched a 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.<\/p>\n
In 2023, over 4,000 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.<\/p>\n
Today\u2019s Birthdays:<\/p>\n
Composer Arvo P\u00e4rt is 91.
\nFilm director Brian De Palma is 86.
\nSinger-actor-dancer Lola Falana is 84.
\nMusician Mickey Hart is 83.
\nGuitarist Leo Kottke is 81.
\nActor Amy Madigan is 76.
\nRock musician Tommy Shaw (Styx) is 73.
\nActor Scott Patterson is 68.
\nActor\/director Roxann Dawson is 68.
\nActor John Hawkes is 67.
\nActor Virginia Madsen is 65.
\nMusician-composer Moby is 61.
\nSinger Harry Connick Jr. is 59.
\nActor Taraji (tuh-RAH\u2019-jee) P. Henson is 56.
\nRapper Ludacris is 49.
\nFootball Hall of Famer Ed Reed is 48.
\nCountry singer Charles Kelley (Lady A) is 45.
\nActor Elizabeth Henstridge is 39.
\nActor Tyler Hoechlin (HEK\u2019-lihn) is 39.
\nNFL wide receiver Zay Flowers is 26.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Today is Friday, Sept. 11, the 254th day of 2026. There are 111 days left in the year.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":343976,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[5301,9,11,10,49,51,50,128907,13494,3646],"class_list":["post-343975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-9-11","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-state","tag-new-york-state-headlines","tag-new-york-state-news","tag-september-11-history","tag-terror-attack","tag-today-in-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343975\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/343976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}