We went to work.
8:46:40 : Flight 11 crashes into the north face of the North Tower (1 WTC) of the World Trade Center, between floors 93 and 99.
9:03:02 : Flight 175 crashes into the south face of the South Tower (2 WTC) of the World Trade Center, between floors 77 and 85.
9:37:46 : Flight 77 crashes into the western side of the Pentagon.
10:03:11 : Flight 93 is crashed by its hijackers as a result of fighting in the cockpit 80 miles southeast of Pittsburgh in Somerset County, Pennsylvania. Later reports indicate that passengers had learned about the World Trade Center and Pentagon crashes and were resisting the hijackers.
September 12 1959
The TV series Bonanza premiered on NBC, and it became one of the longest-running westerns in broadcast history.
On this day in history, September 12, 1953, John F. Kennedy weds Jacqueline Bouvier in Newport, Rhode Island
September 13 1788
The Constitutional Convention authorizes the first federal election resolving that electors in all the states will be appointed on January 7, 1789.
1847 American-Mexican war: US General Winfield Scott captures Mexico City
September 14 1814
Francis Scott Key writes the words to the “Star Spangled Banner” as he waits aboard a British launch in the Chesapeake Bay for the outcome of the British assault on Fort McHenry during the War of 1812.
September 15 2008
The largest Chapter 11 bankruptcy in US history is filed by Lehman Brothers financial services firm.
I remember that one.
Funny story about O’Connor and then Redskins running back John Riggins…
September 16 1919
The U.S. Congress granted a national charter to the American Legion, an organization of U.S. war veterans.
September 17 2001
The New York Stock Exchange reopens for the first time since the September 11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center; longest period of closure since the Great Depression of the 1930s.
September 17, 1787
The Constitution of the United States of America is signed by 39 delegates present at the conclusion of the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia.
September 17
My high school girlfriend, Kelly, is born.
September 18 1830
Tom Thumb, the first locomotive built in the United States, loses a nine-mile race in Maryland to a horse.