TODAY IN HISTORY

TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT

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’s World Trade Center, one into the Pentagon and the fourth into a field in western Pennsylvania.

ON THIS DATE

1789

Alexander Hamilton was appointed the first U.S. Secretary of the Treasury.

1967

The comedy-variety program “The Carol Burnett Show” premiered on CBS.

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.