Irma weakened to a tropical storm, and then a tropical depression, and finally left Florida after a run up the entire 400-mile length of the state. Rick Scott described as scenes of devastation from Hurricane Irma. President Barack Obama and Republican rival Mitt Romney toned down the campaign rhetoric and pulled negative ads amid commemorations of the 9/11 attacks, saying it was not a day for politics.įive years ago: Authorities sent an aircraft carrier and other Navy ships to help with search-and-rescue operations in Florida, where a flyover of the Keys revealed what Gov. Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans. diplomatic outpost and a CIA annex in Benghazi, Libya, killing U.S. Ten years ago: A mob armed with guns and grenades launched a fiery nightlong attack on a U.S. In 2016, Hillary Clinton abruptly left a 9/11 anniversary event at ground zero in New York after feeling “overheated,” according to her campaign, and hours later her doctor disclosed that the Democratic presidential nominee had pneumonia. In 2008, presidential candidates John McCain and Barack Obama put aside politics as they visited ground zero together on the anniversary of 9/11 to honor its victims. Bush invoked the memory of the victims of the 9/11 attacks as he staunchly defended the war in Iraq, though he acknowledged that Saddam Hussein was not responsible for the attacks. In 2006, in a prime-time address, President George W. In 1997, Scots voted to create their own Parliament after 290 years of union with England. In 1973, Chilean President Salvador Allende (ah-YEN’-day) died during a violent military coup. Northern California’s Bay Area Rapid Transit system began operations. In 1972, the troubled Munich Summer Olympics ended. In 1967, the comedy-variety program “The Carol Burnett Show” premiered on CBS. In 1954, the Miss America pageant made its network TV debut on ABC Miss California, Lee Meriwether, was crowned the winner. Lindbergh told an America First rally in Des Moines, Iowa, that “the British, the Jewish and the Roosevelt administration” were pushing the United States toward war. In a speech that drew accusations of anti-Semitism, Charles A. In 1941, groundbreaking took place for the Pentagon. Roosevelt pressed a key in Washington to signal the startup of the dam’s first hydroelectric generator. In 1936, Boulder Dam (now Hoover Dam) began operation as President Franklin D. In 1814, an American fleet scored a decisive victory over the British in the Battle of Lake Champlain in the War of 1812. In 1789, Alexander Hamilton was appointed the first U.S. 11, 2001, nearly 3,000 people were killed as 19 al-Qaida hijackers seized control of four jetliners, sending two of the planes into New York’s World Trade Center, one into the Pentagon and the fourth into a field in western Pennsylvania.
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