Today is Thursday, Sept. 11, the 254th day of 2025. There are 111 days left in the year.
On 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 in Arlington, Virginia, and the fourth into a field in western Pennsylvania. It remains the deadliest terror attack in history.
In 1789, Alexander Hamilton was appointed the first U.S. Secretary of the Treasury.
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