History for September 11

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O. Henry (William Sidney Porter) 1862, D.H. Lawrence 1885, Bear Bryant 1913


Ferdinand Marcos (Philippines) 1917, Tom Landry 1924, Virginia Madsen 1963


1842 - 1,400 Mexican troops captured San Antonio, TX. The Mexicans retreated with prisoners.


1952 - Dr. Charles Hufnagel successfully replaced a diseased aorta valve with an artificial valve made of plastic.


1959 - The U.S. Congress passed a bill authorizing the creation of food stamps.

1974 - "Little House On The Prairie" made its television debut.


1990 - U.S. President Bush vowed "Saddam Hussein will fail" while addressing Congress on the Persian Gulf crisis. In the speech Bush spoke of an objective of a new world order - "freer from the threat of terror, stronger in the pursuit of justice, and more secure in the quest for peace".


1998 - Independent counsel Kenneth Starr sent a report to the U.S. Congress accusing President Clinton of 11 possible impeachable offenses.


2001 - In the U.S., four airliners were hijacked and were intentionally crashed. Two airliners hit the World Trade Center, which collapsed shortly after, in New York City, NY. One airliner hit the Pentagon in Arlington, VA. Another airliner crashed into a field in Pennsylvania. About 3,000 people were killed.


2012 - Terrorists attacked the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya. Four Americans were brutally murdered and ten others were injured.