TODAY IN HISTORY

Lead Story

Attack on America, 2001

American Revolution

The Battle of Brandywine begins, 1777

Automotive

Emily Post's By Motor to the Fair appears in Collier's, 1915

Civil War

Rebels begin Cheat Mountain campaign, 1861

Cold War

Nikita Khrushchev dies, 1971

Crime

Silent-film star arrested for murder, 1921

Disaster

Commuter plane crashes, 1991

General Interest

America victorious on Lake Champlain, 1814

The Christiana Riot, 1851

Allende dies in coup, 1973

Hollywood

Fatal Attraction premieres, 1987

Literary

Flowering Judas, by Katherine Anne Porter, is published, 1930

Music

Donny Osmond has the #1 hit on the U.S. pop charts with "Go Away Little Girl", 1971

Old West

Mormons and Paiutes murder 120 emigrants at Mountain Meadows, 1857

Presidential

Bush learns of attack on World Trade Center, 2001

Sports

Pete Rose hits into the record books, 1985

Vietnam War

1st Cavalry Division arrives in country, 1965

Heavy fighting rages in Tay Ninh, 1968

World War I

Zimmerwald Conference issues a call for immediate peace, 1915

World War II

Hitler focuses East, sends troops to Romania, 1940