On this day in..

On this day in...
1609 – Henry Hudson discovers Manhattan Island and the natives living there.
1847 – Stephen Foster's well-known song, Oh! Susanna, is first performed at a saloon in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
1906 – Mahatma Gandhi coins the term "Satyagraha" to characterize the Non-Violence movement in South Africa.
1931 – Salvatore Maranzano is murdered by Charles Luciano's hitmen.
1970 – The Ford Pinto is introduced.
1985 – Baseball: Pete Rose of the Cincinnati Reds gets his 4,192nd career base hit, breaking Ty Cobb's record which had stood for over 60 years.
1987 – Dan Rather walks off the set of the CBS Evening News over disapproval of the handling of a major event being interrupted and postponed by a sports program, leaving six minutes of dead air.
1998 – Independent counsel Kenneth Starr sends a report to the U.S. Congress accusing President Bill Clinton of 11 possible impeachable offenses.
2001 – The September 11 attacks take place in the United States. Airplane hijackings result in the collapse of the World Trade Center in New York City, destruction of the western portion of The Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, and a passenger airliner crash in Shanksville, Pennsylvania.

Births
1913 – Paul "Bear" Bryant, American football coach (d. 1983)
1924 – Tom Landry, American football coach (d. 2000)
1965 – Paul Heyman, American wrestling manager
1965 – Moby, American musician
1977 – Ludacris, American rapper
1978 – Ed Reed, American football player

Obviously the WTC attacks are the biggest historic story on 9/11, but I was strengly surprised about the amount of historically relevant stuff has happened on this day. Sure, Pete Rose, a mobter's murder and the Ford Pinto pale in comparison to what happened in 2001, but they are significant.

I can still remember that day in 2001. We had moved into the first 27th St. house not long before and Clay, my bro and I were still sleeping in one room. My mom called and woke us up and let us know to turn the TV on and we saw the second plane hit live. All we did for the next two days was drink beer and watch news. Probably the most historically significant day I'll ever experience. Maybe.

P.S. - Bear Bryant and Tom Landry born on the same day. That's pretty cool.