September 11, 1275 an earthquake shook Great Britain,
causing scores of deaths and destroying St. Michael’s Church on Glastonbury Tor. On this day in
1609, Henry Hudson arrived on Manhattan Island and met the indigenous people
living there. The Dutch eventually bought the island for 60 guilders (around $1,000
in today’s money). The Mountain Meadows Massacre, in which Mormon settlers murdered
120 pioneers, occurred September 11, 1857. In 1919 on September 11, the United States
Marine Corps invaded Honduras to quell an uprising that might have jeopardized
our banana supply. On this day in 2001, a
series of coordinated terrorist attacks killed 2,977 people using four aircraft
hijacked by 19 members of al-Qaeda. September 11, 2008, a major fire broke out
on a freight train in the tunnel under the English Channel. Part of the “chunnel”
would be closed for six months. On this day in 2012, the U.S. Embassy in
Benghazi was attacked, resulting in four deaths.
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