Historybook: College football coach Bear Bryant born (1913); Chilean President Salvador Allende dies by suicide in midst of coup d'état (1973); Pete Rose breaks baseball’s all-time hits record (1985); Coordinated terrorist attacks in the US kill 2,977, injure over 6,000 others (2001); US diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya, attacked resulting in death of four Americans (2012).
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"So many names, there is barely room on the walls of the heart."
- Billy Collins*
*The final line from the poem, The Names, US poet laureate Billy Collins' ode to the victims of the 9/11 attack.
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