TODAY IN HISTORY

On Sept. 13, 1788, the Congress of the Confederation declared New York City the temporary national capital.

In 1948, Republican Margaret Chase Smith of

Maine was elected to the U.S. Senate; she became the first woman to serve in both houses of Congress.

In 1971, a four-day inmates’ rebellion at the Attica Correctional Facility in western New York ended; the ordeal and final assault claimed the lives of 32 inmates and 11 hostages.

In 1993, at the White House, Israeli Prime

Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO chairman Yasser Arafat shook hands after signing an accord granting limited Palestinian autonomy.

In 1998, former Alabama Gov. George C. Wallace died at age 79.

In 2001, two days after the 9/11 terror attacks, the first few jetliners returned to the nation’s skies.