September 11th

Armed gunmen stormed the American consulate in Benghazi and killed U.S. ambassador to Libya Christopher Stevens and three other embassy officials.

Occupy Wall Street movement begins. The Occupy Wall Street movement began in Zuccotti Park in the Wall Street District of New York City

Michael Jordan was enshrined in the basketball Hall of Fame.

China signed an agreement to prohibit the use of lead paint on toys exported to the United States.

Football Hall of Famer Johnny Unitas died at age 69.

Two hijacked commercial jets were crashed by terrorists into the north and south towers of the World Trade Center in New York City, causing the collapse of both towers. A short while later, another plane was crashed into the Pentagon, and fourth into a field near Shanksville, Pa.

Congress released Kenneth Starr's report, which offered graphic details of President Bill Clinton's alleged sexual misconduct and leveled accusations of perjury and obstruction of justice.

In Scotland, voters approved the establishment of a parliament to run their domestic affairs, after 290 years of union with England.

Pete Rose of the Cincinnati Reds recorded his 4,192nd hit, breaking Ty Cobb's career record.

Chilean President Salvador Allende died in a violent military coup.

Former Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev died at age 77.

The Beatles recorded their first single, "Love Me Do" and "P.S. I Love You," at EMI studios in London.

Charles A. Lindbergh sparked charges of anti-Semitism with a speech in which he blamed "the British, the Jewish and the Roosevelt administration" for trying to draw the United States into World War II.

President Franklin Delano Roosevelt dedicated Boulder Dam (now Hoover Dam) in Nevada.

Author D.H. Lawrence was born in Eastwood, England.

Jenny Lind, the "Swedish Nightingale," gave her first concert in the United States, at Castle Garden in New York.

An American fleet scored a decisive victory over the British in the Battle of Lake Champlain during the War of 1812.

Alexander Hamilton was appointed the first secretary of the treasury.

Battle of Zenta: forces of Prince Eugen of Savoye defeat the Turks, ending Ottoman control of large parts of Central Europe.

Expulsion order announced against the Moriscos of Valencia. beginning of the expulsion of all Spain's Moriscos

Battle at Stirling Bridge, Scottish rebel William Wallace beats English.