TODAY IN HISTORY - SEPTEMEBR 11TH

1775 – Benedict Arnold's expedition to Quebec leaves Cambridge, Massachusetts.

1789 – Alexander Hamilton is appointed the first United States Secretary of the Treasury.

1792 – The Hope Diamond is stolen along with other French crown jewels when six men break into the house where they are stored.

1826 – Captain William Morgan, an ex-freemason is arrested in Batavia, New York for debt after declaring that he would publish The Mysteries of Free Masonry, a book against Freemasonry. This sets into motion the events that lead to his mysterious disappearance.

1857 – The Mountain Meadows massacre: Mormon settlers and Paiutes massacre 120 pioneers at Mountain Meadows, Utah.

1862 – O. Henry, American pharmacist and author (d. 1910) is born.

1903 – The first race at the Milwaukee Mile in West Allis, Wisconsin is held. It is the oldest major speedway in the world.

1916 – Ed Sabol, American film producer, co-founded NFL Films (d. 2015) is born.

1919 – U.S. Marines invade Honduras.

1939 – Charles Geschke, American businessman, co-founded Adobe Systems is born.

1941 – Ground is broken for the construction of The Pentagon.

1950 – Korean War: President Harry S. Truman approved military operations north of the 38^th parallel.

1972 – The San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit system begins passenger service.

1976 – A group of Croatian nationalists plant a bomb in a coin locker at Grand Central Terminal. After stating political demands, they reveal the location and provided instructions for disarming the bomb. The disarming operation are not executed properly and the bomb explodes, killing one NYPD bomb squad specialist.

1978 – Janet Parker is the last person to die of smallpox, in a laboratory-associated outbreak.

1985 – Pete Rose breaks Ty Cobb's baseball record for most career hits with his 4,192nd hit.

2001 – Two hijacked aircraft crash into the World Trade Center in New York City, while a third smashes into The Pentagon in Arlington County, Virginia, and a fourth into a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania, in a series of coordinated suicide attacks by 19 members of al-Qaeda. In total 2,996 people are killed.

2002 – Johnny Unitas, American football player and sportscaster (b. 1933) dies.

2003 – John Ritter, American actor and producer (b. 1948) dies.

2012 – The U.S. embassy in Benghazi, Libya is attacked, resulting in four deaths.