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September 11 1789

Alexander Hamilton appointed our first Secretary of Treasury.

Hamilton was a highly influential member of President Washington’s cabinet, and was appointed as the first Secretary of the Treasury on 11 September 1789. He continued in this role for almost five years, during which he had a key role in defining the structure of the government of the United States and created the country’s first national bank.
 
September 15 1963
Cynthia Wesley (14) Carole Robertson (14) Addie Mae Collins (14) and Carol Denise McNair (11) were killed in the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing in Birmingham. It was confirmed that 15 sticks of dynamite was detonated by timer.
 
Ted Williams becomes last player to hit .400

On this day in 1941, the Boston Red Sox’s Ted Williams plays a double-header against the Philadelphia Athletics on the last day of the regular season and gets six hits in eight trips to the plate, to boost his batting average to .406 and become the first player since Bill Terry in 1930 to hit .400. Williams, who spent his entire career with the Sox, played his final game exactly 19 years later, on September 28, 1960, at Boston’s Fenway Park and hit a home run in his last time at bat, for a career total of 521 homeruns.

On another note, Ted is the only person to be inducted in to 2 Hall of Fame's...MLB and Sport Fishing.
 
Oct. 4, 1957: Launched, Sputnik I, the world's first artificial satellite.

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Today there are an estimated 4,900 satellites in orbit; of those only about 1,900 remain functional.

I had to do a paper in college on the impact that had on the next 30 years of US History. It was crazy looking at the reactions of straight fear from the US when this happened.
 
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