This Day in History, Sept. 11

1297 - Battle of Stirling Bridge: Scots led by William Wallace defeat the English

1609 - Henry Hudson lands on Manhattan Island

1773 - The Public Advertiser publishes a satirical essay titled, "Rules By Which A Great Empire May Be Reduced To A Small One", which is written by Benjamin Franklin

1789 - Alexander Hamilton is appointed as the first US Secretary of the Treasury.

1911 - Middle Tennessee State University is founded in Murfreesboro, TN as "Middle Tennessee Normal School"

1918 - The Boston Red Sox win their last World Series until 2004, starting "The Curse of the Bambino".

1959 - Alleged Kennedy Assassin Lee Harvey Oswald is discharged from the US Marine Corps.

1970 - The Ford Pinto is introduced.

1974 - Eastern Airlines Flight 212 crashes in Charlotte, NC, killing 69 passengers and 2 crew.

1985 - Pete Rose gets his 4,192 base hit, breaking Ty Cobb's 60 year old record.

1998 - Independent Council Kenneth Starr sends a report to Congress accusing President Bill Clinton of 11 possible impeachable offenses.

*2001 - Radical Islamic Terrorists hijack United Airlines #175 and American Airlines #11 which are crashed into the World Trade Center Towers 1 and 2 in New York City. American Airlines # 77 crashes into the Pentagon in Washington, DC. United #93 crashes in Shanksville, PA enroute back to Washington, DC. 19 hijackers and 2,974 people are killed in the terrorist attacks.