TODAY IN HISTORY

TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT

Sept. 11, 2001

Nearly 3,000 people were killed as 19 alQaida 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.