The category 5 hurricane Irma began dissipating, but the disaster left millions without electricity in Florida and Georgia.
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Two planes crashed into the World Trade Towers in New York City.
The English were defeated at the Battle of Stirling Bridge.
President George Washington appointed Alexander Hamilton as the first Secretary of the US Treasury.
Nahalal, the first moshav in modern-day Israel, was settled.
US Founding Father, Benjamin Franklin, wrote, 'There never was a good war or a bad peace,' in a letter to Josiah Quincy.
