Today is Saturday, Sept. 11, the 255th day of 2004. There are 111 days left in the year. On this date in 2001, in the worst single act of terrorism committed on U.S. soil, two hijacked jetliners crash

Today is Saturday, Sept. 11, the 255th day of 2004. There are 111 days left in the year. On this date in 2001, in the worst single act of terrorism committed on U.S. soil, two hijacked jetliners crash into New York's World Trade Center, causing the twin towers to fall and killing nearly 2,800 people; a commandeered jetliner smashes into the Pentagon, claiming 189 lives; and a fourth hijacked plane with 44 people aboard crashes in western Pennsylvania.
In 1789, Alexander Hamilton is appointed the first U.S. Secretary of the Treasury. In 1814, an American fleet scores a decisive victory over the British in the Battle of Lake Champlain in the War of 1812. In 1936, President Roosevelt dedicates Boulder Dam (now Hoover Dam) by pressing a key in Washington to signal the startup of the dam's first hydroelectric generator in Nevada. In 1941, Charles A. Lindbergh sparks charges of anti-Semitism with a speech in which he says "the British, the Jewish and the Roosevelt administration" are trying to draw the United States into World War II. In 1944, President Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill meet in Canada at the second Quebec Conference.
September 11, 1979: The national leadership of the United Auto Workers targets the General Motors Assembly Plant at Lordstown for a strike. The plant was picked because of the success in the market of its small cars, the Monza, Starfire, Skyhawk and Sunbird models.
New Castle Area School District's 275 teachers remain off the job for a second day after a strike on opening day of school.
A call for beefed up police patrols and a promise of stiff penalties are made by the Youngstown Board of Education and Juvenile Court officials after the beating and serious injury of a Rayen School student after the Ursuline-Barberton game at Rayen Stadium.
September 11, 1964: James M. Donaghy is named to succeed Robert C. Buchanan as general manager of the Youngstown Transit Co.
Semon E. Knudsen and Robert H. Gatham, general managers of the Chevrolet and Fisher Body divisions of General Motors, announce that ground will be broken Sept. 29 for the new GM plant at Lordstown.
Virtually all workable capacity in the Youngstown District's steel plants is turning out steel to keep up with increased demand. The Ohio Works, Republic Steel and Youngstown Sheet & amp; Tube Co. have a total of 51 open hearths and 10 blast furnaces in operation.
September 11, 1954: Paul J. Tusek of Power Point, Ohio, drives his 1906 Stanley Steamer from Holyrod Palace, Edinburg, Scotland, for the beginning of the Anglo-American Vintage Car Rally.
Engineers at WFMJ-TV are testing and making initial adjustments on $25,000 worth of color television equipment as Channel 21 station prepares to begin broadcasting color programs from the NBC network.
September 11, 1929: Charles Delisio Jr., 3, is crushed beneath a city tractor that was started by a group of neighborhood boys playing in a field at 416 Chicago Ave., Youngstown, where the machine had been parked.
Mahoning County commissioners must cut about $250,000 from the operating portion of the county's tentative budget or face having to ask for a levy of four-tenths of a mill in the November election.
British businessmen are using advanced schemes of advertising, and the latest is flying blimps bearing huge banners on which advertisements are displayed. Illuminated advertisements for night flights are also planned.
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