September 11 in history: • 1776 – British and American leaders held a peace conference on Staten Island, New York, in the hopes of bringing an end to the nascent American Revolutionary War. → go there • 1789 – Alexander Hamilton (pictured), co-writer of The Federalist Papers, became the first U.S. Secretary of the Treasury. → go there • 1851 – In a fight near Christiana, Pennsylvania, a group of escaped slaves and free Blacks led by William Parker fought off a federal posse seeking to arrest and return the escapees to slavery. → go there • 1945 – The Japanese-run camp at Batu Lintang in Borneo was liberated by the Australian 9th Division, averting the planned massacre of its 2,000-plus Allied POWs and civilian internees by four days. → go there • 2025 – Former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro was sentenced to 27 years in prison for his involvement in a coup plot. → go there Born 1724: Johann Bernhard Basedow Wiki link Born 1806: Paul Nahaolelua Wiki link Born 1982: Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya Wiki link Died 2024: Alberto Fujimori Wiki link Pictured: Alexander Hamilton.