HISTORY WAS MADE ON THIS DAY IN 2001

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The September 11 attacks were the deadliest terrorist attacks in
human history, causing the deaths of 2,996 people, including
2,977 victims and 19 hijackers who committed murder–suicide.

Thousands more were injured, and long-term health effects have
arisen as a consequence of the attacks.
New York City took the
brunt of the death toll when the Twin Towers of the
World Trade
Center
complex in Lower Manhattan were attacked, with an
estimated 1,600 victims from the
North Tower and around a
thousand from the
South Tower.

Two hundred miles southwest in Arlington County, Virginia,
another 125 were killed in
the Pentagon. The remaining 265
fatalities included the ninety-two passengers and crew of
American Airlines Flight 11, the sixty-five aboard United
Airlines Flight 175
, the sixty-four on American Airlines Flight
77
and the forty-four who boarded United Airlines Flight 93.

The attack on the World Trade Center’s North Tower alone
made the September 11 attacks the deadliest act of terrorism
in human history.

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Explosion following the crash of Flight 175 into the South Tower of the World Trade Center

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FIRST DRUNK DRIVING ARREST ON THIS DAY

On September 10, 1897, a 25-year-old London taxi driver named
George Smith became the
first person ever arrested for drunk
driving
after slamming his cab into a building. Smith later
pleaded guilty and was fined 25 shillings.

In the United States, the first laws against operating a motor
vehicle while under the influence of alcohol went into effect in
New York in 1910. In 1936, Dr. Rolla Harger, a professor of
biochemistry and toxicology, patented the Drunkometer, a
balloon-like device into which people would breathe to
determine whether they were inebriated.

In 1953, Robert Borkenstein, a former Indiana state police captain
and university professor who had collaborated with Harger on
the Drunkometer, invented the Breathalyzer.

Prof. Rolla N. Harger assigns his Drunk-o-meter invention to Indiana University Foundation ...
Dr. Rolla Harger and his Drunkometer.

Robert F. Borkenstein – The Indiana History Blog

Robert Frank Borkenstein, desenvolveu o Drunkometer, um dos primeiros instrumentos que mediram ...
Robert Borkenstein’s Breathalyzer.




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POLITICAL CARTOON OF THE DAY FROM FOX

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HURRICANE HIT THE FLORIDA KEYS IN 1960

Hurricane Donna, September 10, 1960

On September 10, 1960, Hurricane Donna hit the Florida Keys
as a Category 4 storm. Having formed near Cape Verde off the
African coast, it would go on to cause 150 deaths from
Puerto
Rico
to New England over the course of two weeks.

Donna first attained hurricane status on August 31 and headed
west toward the Caribbean Sea.

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In 1960, Hurricane Donna struck the Gulf Coast and impacted a number of the buildings and ...

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Hurricane Donna in 1960 looms large among Orlando storm memories

1960 - Hurricane Donna

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AWARD WINNING ACTRISS TO RETIRE SOON

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LOS ANGELES (TND) — Legendary actress, Kathy Bates, revealed
she just wants her life back.

Bates revealed her retirement plan during an interview with The
New York Times
about her upcoming project.

The Oscar winner is ready to quit acting after filming "Matlock,"
which she called her "last dance."

The 76-year-old actress will play the role of Madeline Matlock in
the reboot that’s scheduled to debut September 22 on CBS.

Bates shared she was ready to leave the spotlight after an
unnamed movie shoot left her sobbing on a sofa.

"It becomes my life, Bates told The New York Times. "Sometimes
I get jealous of having this talent. Because I can’t hold it back, and
I just want my life."

In the 1990s Bates won a "best actress" Academy Award for her
role in the horror thriller “Misery.”

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Kathy Bates
Kathy Bates as Miriam Amanda "Ma" Ferguson (1875 – 1961)
who was governor of Texas from 1925 to 1927.

 


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