On Sept. 11, 1297, clans under William Wallace defeated an English force at the Battle of Stirling Bridge.
In 1789 Alexander Hamilton was appointed the first treasury secretary.
In 1862 William Sydney Porter, known as O. Henry, was born in Greensboro, N.C.
In 1897 striking coal miners in Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia won an eight-hour workday. (The previous day, sheriff’s deputies killed 20 Pennsylvania miners.)
In 1918 the Cubs lost the World Series to the Boston Red Sox.
In 1945 former Japanese Premier Hideki Tojo attempted suicide. (He recovered and was executed as a war criminal.)
In 1961 “Bozo’s Circus” made its TV debut on WGN.
In 1962 the Beatles recorded their first single (”Love Me Do” and ”P.S., I Love You”) at Abbey Road Studios in London.
In 1971 former Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev died of a heart attack at 77.
In 1973 Chile’s President Salvador Allende was deposed in a military coup led by Gen. Augusto Pinochet; the new leaders claimed he committed suicide.
In 1985 Pete Rose got his 4,192nd hit, breaking Ty Cobb’s 57-year-old career record.
In 1994 actress Jessica Tandy (”Driving Miss Daisy”) died at 85 in Easton, Conn.
In 1997 Scots voted to create their own parliament after 290 years of union with the English.
In 2001 in the deadliest attack on the U.S., nearly 3,000 people were killed when terrorists hijacked four jetliners, crashing two into the 110-story twin towers of New York’s World Trade Center, one into the Pentagon and another in a Pennsylvania field.
In 2002 football Hall of Famer Johnny Unitas died at 69.
In 2005 sportscaster Chris Schenkel died at 82 in Ft. Wayne, Ind.
