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A bit of September 11th history…
1297 - Battle of Sterling Bridge: Scottish rebel William Wallace defeats the English
1789 - Alexander Hamilton appointed 1st Secretary of US Treasury
1857 - Mountain Meadows Massacre - Mormons dressed as Native Americans murder 120 colonists in Utah
1945 - Hideki Tojo, Japanese Prime Minister during most of WWII, attempts suicide rather than face war crimes tribunal but fails - later he is hanged
1959 - Congress passes a bill authorizing food stamps for poor Americans
1961 - World Wildlife Fund founded
1967 - “The Carol Burnett Show” premiers on CBS
1977 - The Atari 2600, originally known as the Atari Video Computer System, is released in North America revolutionizing the video game industry (pictured)
2001 - 2 passenger planes hijacked by Al Qaeda terrorists crash into NY’s World Trade Towers, causing the collapse of both and 2606 deaths; also a 3rd plane hijacked was crashed into the Pentagon causing 125 deaths (pictured)
2019 - Water detected for 1st time on planet outside our solar system, on exoplanet k2-18b, 110 light years away
Today In History: September 10