Today in History

September 11

1871 - The 1st passenger train passed through the Mount Cenis Tunnel between France and Italy.

1916 - The Quebec Bridge in Canada collapseS for the second time while it was being constructed, killing 13 workers.

1919 - US Marines invade Honduras.

1922 - British mandate in Palestine is proclaimed while Arabs declare day of mourning. 1936 - US President Franklin Roosevelt dedicates Boulder Dam (now Hoover Dam).

1955 - Thirteen US Air Force men are killed when a B-29 plane crashes in the Pacific between Japan and Formosa.

1973 - Chile’s President Salvador Allende dies in a USsupported military coup.

2006 - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas reaches a deal with Esmail Haniya of Hamas to form unity government.