This Week in History

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This Week in History, Sep 4 - Sep 10

Sep 04, 1886
Geronimo surrenders-Apache chief Geronimo surrenders to U.S. government troops.
Sep 05, 1836
Sam Houston elected as president of Texas, which earned its independence from Mexico.
Sep 06, 1915
First tank produced, a prototype nicknamed Little Willie rolls off the assembly line in England.
Sep 07, 1813
United States nicknamed Uncle Sam, linked to Samuel Wilson, a meat packer from Troy, New York, who supplied barrels of beef to the United States Army during the War of 1812.
Sep 08, 1974

UNIVISION SENIOR ANCHORMAN, SENOR PINEDA

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For 40 + years, RAFAEL PINEDA has been NYC's most popular evening news anchor. He has and continues to appear on Univision’s TV 41, WXTV, Paterson. Senor Pineda started at Spanish-language broadcaster back in 1968, the same year the station signed on. He is the oldest and longest tenured anchor in New York City history.

R. Pineda says he woke up to the dramatic first reports of the attack on the World Trade Center.

FREE CONCERT

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FDU’s Petrocelli College is partnering with the American British Law Enforcement Educational Exchange Commemorating the 10th Anniversary of the 9/11 Attacks.

www.westyorkshirepoliceband.org.uk

Petrocelli College of Continuing Studiesin partnership with ABLE3 will host 9/11 Memorial Concert.

FREE CONCERT
Friday, September 9th
7 –9 pm
FDU’s Wilson Auditorium Dickinson Hall
140 University Plaza Drive
Hackensack, NJ

www.fdu.edu

Headlines 9/4/11

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THE DELUGE KEEPS COMING. Coastal Flooding From Texas to Florida.

OBAMA & CHRISTIE GO TO NJ. Inspecting Hurricane Damages.

RAINS CAUSE FINANCIAL PROBLEMS. Food Prices Will Rise.

DSK FINALLY FLIES AWAY. Just In Time Before Labor Day.

MIKE GOES TO THE MIKE. Mayor Answers Critics.

911livingmemorial.org

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The 911livingmemorial.org was created by Beverly Eckert and Mary Fetchet, who founders of Voices of September 11th. This nonprofit was founded in 2001 by Fetchet, a clinical social worker and educator who lost her 24-year-old son, and Eckert, who lost her husband in the attacks.

Today the living memorial is an ever-growing online collection of more than 60,000 pictures, tributes and personal mementos. The organization has 13,000 members, families and friends of victims living in the United States and abroad.

NYC World Police & Fire Games

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They fight crime, battle blazes––and also play a very good game of football, soccer, dodgeball, rugby and even excel at wrist-wrestling.

The 2011 World Police and Fire Games open in New York City this weekend and until–Sept. 5 across the five boroughs.

This is the first time the games will be held on the East Coast––and New York was chosen as the host city out of respect to the 10th anniversary of 9/11.

9/11 Alert

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ALERT NYC RESIDENTS The 9|11 Tribute in Light will be illuminated temporarily tonight.
The technicians will be aiming these lights. The display will comes on again on 9|11.

Meanwhile, a call to compassion and to share your story by visiting: www.calltocompassion.com

In the days following the 9/11 attacks, our nation came together to pray, reflect, and mourn. Washington National Cathedral was honored to serve as the spiritual home for our nation during those tragic, uncertain times.

The News Under The Headlines

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Texas Governor Rick Perry beats President Obama in the polls: Voter base prefers Texas governor to President Obama 44% to 41%. Texas Governor Rick Perry is riding high heading into next week's GOP presidential debate.

NYPD is investigating the case involving a wounded son and a bizarre slaying of his parents, a Queens couple who were executed in their home. Police are investigating whether a 23-year-old Queens man played a role in the slayings of his parents.

GANGSTER, OFFICER AND A GENTLEMAN

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Leonard Gold is a native New Yorker. Gold was born in Brooklyn, NY on July 21, 1919. When Lenny was nine years old he would sometimes sneak into local neighborhood junk yards while they were closed and steal hub caps, then he would re-sell these hub caps back to those junk yards. Eventually Lenny got busted for stealing these hubcaps. His dad called him a gangster and decided to move the entire family to The Bronx, where his dad felt was a good place to raise a gangster. He quickly lost all attraction to crime.

Headlines 9/3/11

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LEE LOUISIANA STORM. New Orleans Heavy Rains.

PALIN GOES TO IOWA. Speaks At Tea Party Rally.

AMERICANS OVERSEAS WARNED. Stay Alert.

ALASKA PLANE CRASH. Mid Air Collision Death.

65K WITHOUT POWER. LI in The Dark.

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