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Bush and three former presidents pray together at the National Cathedral

An imam, a rabbi, and Christian clergy share the pulpit three days after the towers fell.

Three days after hijacked planes struck New York, the Pentagon, and a field in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, the nation still had no full count of its dead. On September 14, 2001, President George W. Bush proclaimed a National Day of Prayer and Remembrance and led a service at Washington National Cathedral, joined by former Presidents Bill Clinton, George H. W. Bush, Jimmy Carter, and Gerald Ford. Clergy from multiple faiths spoke inside the Neo-Gothic sanctuary as the service was carried live into millions of American homes…

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1901

Roosevelt takes the oath in a borrowed library; at 42, he is the youngest president yet

McKinley died that morning; by afternoon Judge John Hazel had sworn in his successor at Ansley Wilcox's house.
1863

Little Rock falls; the last Confederates are out by five o'clock

The city's civilian government hands over Arkansas's capital two hours after Sterling Price's army disappears south.
1814

Dawn reveals the flag still flying over Fort McHenry; Key starts writing on the back of a letter

A prisoner-exchange lawyer watches an all-night bombardment from a British ship and reaches for the nearest scrap of paper.
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Pope Paul VI canonizes Elizabeth Ann Seton before a crowd in St. Peter's Square, calling her wholly American.
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1997

A Titan IVB rises from Cape Canaveral, carrying Cassini toward Saturn

The seven-year voyage begins with 72 pounds of plutonium and a DVD of 616,400 signatures tucked aboard.
2001

Apple shows a white box the size of a deck of cards: 1,000 songs in your pocket

Steve Jobs introduces a 6.5-ounce music player built around a 5 GB hard drive hidden inside a Cupertino auditorium.
2007

Discovery lifts off with Pamela Melroy in command, only the second woman to lead a shuttle crew

The mission carries a new station module and a piece of ice too small, NASA says, to worry about.
2000

Shepherd, Krikalev and Gidzenko dock at the space station and float inside

Their Soyuz reaches the aft port of the Zvezda module at 09:21 UTC; ninety minutes later the hatch opens on a station that has never had a resident crew.
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