Today is Sunday, Sept. 11, the 255th day of 2016. There are 111 days left in the year.

Today’s birthdays: Actor Earl Holliman is 88. Movie director Brian De Palma is 76. Singer-actress-dancer Lola Falana is 74. Rock musician Mickey Hart (The Dead) is 73. Singer-musician Leo Kottke is 71. Actor John Hawkes is 57. Actress Anne Ramsay is 56. Actress Virginia Madsen is 55. Actress Kristy McNichol is 54. Musician-composer Moby is 51. Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is 51. Actress Taraji P. Henson is 46. Actress Laura Wright is 46. Rock musician Jeremy Popoff (Lit) is 45. Rapper Ludacris is 39. Rock singer Ben Lee is 38. Actor Ryan Slattery is 38. Country singer Charles Kelley (Lady Antebellum) is 35. Actress Mackenzie Aladjem is 15.

In 1714, the forces of King Philip V of Spain overcame Catalan defenders to end the 13-month-long Siege of Barcelona during the War of the Spanish Succession.

In 1789, Alexander Hamilton was appointed the first US secretary of the Treasury.

In 1814, an American fleet scored a decisive victory over the British in the Battle of Lake Champlain in the War of 1812.

In 1857, the Mountain Meadows Massacre took place in present-day southern Utah as a 120-member Arkansas immigrant party was slaughtered by Mormon militiamen aided by Paiute (PY’-oot) Indians.

In 1936, Boulder Dam (now Hoover Dam) began operation.

In 1941, groundbreaking took place for the Pentagon. In a speech that drew accusations of anti-Semitism, Charles A. Lindbergh told an America First rally in Des Moines, Iowa, that ‘‘the British, the Jewish and the Roosevelt administration’’ were pushing the United States toward war.

In 1954, the Miss America pageant made its network TV debut on ABC; Miss California, Lee Meriwether, was crowned the winner.

In 1962, The Beatles completed their first single for EMI, ‘‘Love Me Do’’ and ‘‘P.S. I Love You,’’ at EMI studios in London.

In 1985, Pete Rose of the Cincinnati Reds cracked hit number 4,192, breaking Ty Cobb’s record.

In 1997, Scots voted to create their own Parliament after 290 years of union with England.

In 2001, nearly 3,000 people were killed as 19 members of Al Qaeda hijacked four passenger jetliners, sending two of the planes smashing into New York’s World Trade Center, one into the Pentagon, and the fourth into a field in western Pennsylvania.

In 2011, a tree-covered memorial plaza at ground zero of the Sept. 11 attack officially opened.