On today’s date September 11, 1789 Alexander Hamilton became the 1st United States Secretary of the Treasury. Portrait of Alexander Hamilton by John Trumbull via Wikimedia Commons, public domain

On September 11, 1777 the Battle of Brandywine was fought in present day Delaware County, Pennsylvania. Washington and his Continental Army attempted to halt the British near America’s capital city of Philadelphia. The British occupied Philadelphia later that month. Image: “Nation Makers” by Howard Pyle via Wikimedia Commons, public domain

American author O. Henry (William Sidney Porter) was born on September 11, 1862 in Greensboro, North Carolina. Image of O. Henry in his thirties via Wikimedia Commons, public domain

Yosemite Valley – El Capitan & Bridal Veil Falls by Thomas Hill who was born on September 11, 1829 Image via Wikimedia Commons, public domain

“But our fathers, imbued with the spirit ot liberty, which a free respiration of the air of the new world inspired, and goaded to desperation by the exactions of oppression, rolled the stone from the door of the sepulchre, where crucified and entombed liberty was slumbering, and it arose to light and life, to cheer, and bless, and give hope to the down-trodden humanity of earth” From an address by the Honorable Daniel S. Dickinson in 1861. The former U.S. Senator became the 27th Attorney General of New York the following year. On September 11, 1800 Daniel S. Dickinson was born in Goshen, Connecticut. Image via Wikimedia Commons, public domain

Sir Henry Hudson entering New York Bay, September 11, 1609, with Native American family watching on shore by Edward Moran via Wikimedia Commons, public domain

WWII Veteran and first head coach of the Dallas Cowboys, Tom Landry, was born on September 11, 1924 in Mission, Texas. He coached the Dallas Cowboys for 29 consecutive years. Image via Alamy

On September 11, 1857 Frederick Law Olmsted was appointed superintendent of Central Park in New York City. Engraving of Olmsted in 1893 via Library of Congress, no known restrictions