Seven years ago today, it was still assumed to be acceptable to have a September 10 mentality.
Will tomorrow be the last day we’ll still be judged sensible for having a September 11 mentality?
I don’t know. (But neither do you.)
So what else happened on September 10?
1846 — Elias Howe receives a patent for his sewing machine.
1963 — Twenty black students enter Alabama public schools following a standoff between federal authorities and Gov. George C. Wallace.
1981 — Pablo Picasso’s painting “Guernica” is returned to Spain and put in Madrid’s Prado Museum. Picasso’s will said that the painting was not to return to Spain until the Fascists lost power and democracy restored.
1998 — President Clinton meets with members of his Cabinet to apologize, ask forgiveness, and promise to improve as a person in the wake of the Monica Lewinsky scandal.
2002 — Switzerland becomes the 190th member of the United Nations.
2008 — The world’s greatest atom-smasher starts operations in Geneva, Switzerland. So far, no Big Bang has been reported, but it’s still early in the day.