1956 – The IBM 305 RAMAC is introduced, the first commercial computer to use disk storage.

On this day in history, September 13, 1857, milk chocolate magnate Milton Hershey is born

2013 – NASA confirms that its Voyager 1 probe has become the first manmade object to enter interstellar space.

1977 – South African anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko dies in police custody.

1958 – Jack Kilby demonstrates the first working integrated circuit while working at Texas Instruments.

1933 – Leó Szilárd, waiting for a red light on Southampton Row in Bloomsbury, conceives the idea of the nuclear chain reaction.

On this day in history, September 12, 1953, John F. Kennedy weds Jacqueline Bouvier in Newport, Rhode Island

I hadn't heard of this documentary.  This French film crew happened to be following the members of the FDNY that day.  Their planned shoot changed dramatically, as that day did for all of us.

It's like celebrating the defeat at the Alamo.

In December 1998, the Director of Central Intelligence Counterterrorist Center reported to President Bill Clinton that al-Qaeda was preparing for attacks in the U.S., including training personnel to hijack aircraft.

Two of the hijackers were Saudis, not Iraqi, and the Bush administration and FBI blocked a congressional investigation into that relationship", as reported by the Miami Herald: "And in Graham's book, Intelligence Matters, obtained by The HeraldSaturday, he made clear that some details of that financial support from Saudi Arabia were in the 27 pages of the congressional inquiry's final report that the administration blocked from release, despite pleas from leaders of both parties on the House and Senate intelligence committees."

The Wikipedia page has an in depth review of why it happened. It should be remembered, and the dead mourned, but I disagree that it's something on which to hang our typical 'Merica jingoism. 

 DaveInSaoMiguel wrote:

Scroll to the comments...Fox is even too lazy to start fresh when they re-post the article from last year.

 DaveInSaoMiguel wrote:

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"January 6th was the biggest emotional massacre in human history."
-Ann Lesby

On this day in history, September 11, 2001, US experiences the worst terrorist attack in American history

2008 – The Large Hadron Collider at CERN, described as the biggest scientific experiment in history, is powered up in Geneva, Switzerland.

On this day in history, September 10, 1987, Pope John Paul II arrives in Miami, is warmly welcomed by Reagans

1947 – First case of a computer bug being found: A moth lodges in a relay of a Harvard Mark II computer at Harvard University.

1839 – John Herschel takes the first glass plate photograph.

On this day in history, September 9, 1956, Elvis Presley appears on 'The Ed Sullivan Show' for first time

On this day in history, September 8, 1966, iconic TV series 'Star Trek' premieres

1936 – The last thylacine, a carnivorous marsupial, dies alone in its cage at the Hobart Zoo in Tasmania.