SEPTEMBER 11 | Birthdays and Events
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Notable Birthdays for September 11
Pinto Colvig (1892-1967) - Animated voice of Goofy and Pluto.
D. W. Brooks (1901-1999) - Farmer who founded Gold Kist, one of the earliest fertilizer plants in the U.S.
Ed Sabol (1916-2015) - Co-founder of NFL Films.
Charles Geschke (1939-2021) - Co-founder of Adobe Systems.
Minnijean Trickey Brown (1941-Still Living) - One of nine Black teenagers who integrated Little Rock Central High School (Brown v. Board of Education).
Memorable Events for September 11
1789 - Alexander Hamilton is appointed as the first Secretary of the U.S. Treasury.
1847 - Oh! Susanna (written by Stephen Foster) is sang in public for the first time.
1883 - James Cutler patents the postal mail chute.
1941 - Construction begins on the Pentagon.
1946 - The first mobile long-distance car-to-car telephone conversation occurs.
1965 - The first Cavalry Division of the U.S.Army arrives in Vietnam.
2001 - The September 11 attacks--two aircraft crash into the World Trade Center in NY City, a third crashes into The Pentagon in Arlington County, VA, and a fourth into a field near Shanksville, PA, during a terrorist attacks killing 2,977 people.