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Events
- 1974 – Eastern Air Lines Flight 212 crashes in Charlotte, North Carolina, killing 69 passengers and two crew.
- 1985 – Pete Rose breaks Ty Cobb's baseball record for most career hits with his 4,192nd hit.
- 1992 – Hurricane Iniki, one of the most damaging hurricanes in United States history, devastates the Hawaiian islands of Kauai and Oahu.
- 1997 – NASA's Mars Global Surveyor reaches Mars.
- 2001 – 9/11 attacks: Almost 3,000 people are killed in suicide attacks at the World Trade Center in New York City, The Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, and in rural Shanksville, Pennsylvania.
- 2012 – The U.S. embassy in Benghazi, Libya is attacked, resulting in four deaths, including that of J. Christopher Stevens, the United States Ambassador to Libya.
Holidays and observances
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