Today in History - History - September 11th

1964George Harrison forms Mornyork Ltd music publishing company

1962Drummer Ringo Starr replaces Pete Best of the Beatles

1773Benjamin Franklin writes "There never was a good war or bad peace"

1956Yanks Yogi Berra ties career record for HRs (236) by a catcher

1998Independent counsel Kenneth Starr sends a report to the U.S. Congress accusing President Bill Clinton of 11 possible impeachable offenses.

1985Pete Rose of Cin Reds gets career hit 4,192 off Eric Show of San Diego Padres, eclipsing Ty Cobb's record

198296th US Womens Tennis: C E L Mills beats Hana Mandlikova (63 61)

1649Massacre of Drogheda, Ireland - Oliver Cromwell kills 3,000 royalists

1941Charles Lindbergh, charges "British, Jewish & Roosevelt administration" are trying to get US into WW II

1906Mahatma Gandhi coins the term "Satyagraha" to characterize the Non-Violence movement in South Africa.

1917Ferdinand Marcos, Philippines President (1965-86)

1942Tom Dreesen, Harvey, Illinois, comedian (Tim Ried's partner)

1967Harry Connick Jr, New Orleans Louisiana, singer (We Are in Love)

1924Tom Landry, Mission Texas, NFL player (NY Giants)/coach (Dallas Cowboys)

1916Ed Sabol, Atlantic City New Jersey, American filmmaker (NFL Films)

1885David Herbert Lawrence (DH), Eastwood Nottinghamshire, poet/writer (Lady Chatterley's Lover) (d. 1930)

1930Mystery writer Agatha Christie (39) weds archaeologist Max Mallowan (26)

1993Country singer Merle Haggard (56) weds fifth wife Theresa Ann Lane at his ranch near Redding, California

2001Todd Beamer, passenger on United Airlines Flight 93 (b. 1968)

1971Nikita Khrushchev, dies of a heart attack at 77

2002Johnny Unitas, American football player, dies of a heart attack at 69

1956Billy Bishop, Canadian pilot in World War I (b. 1894)