Associated Press

On Sept. 13, 1788, the Congress of the Confederation authorized the first national election and declared New York City the temporary U.S. capital.

In 1948, Republican Margaret Chase Smith of Maine was elected to the U.S. Senate; she became the first woman to serve in both houses of Congress.

In 1971, a four-day inmate rebellion at the Attica Correctional Facility in western New York ended as police and guards stormed the prison; the ordeal and final assault claimed the lives of 32 inmates and 11 hostages.

In 1993, at the White House, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO chairman Yasser Arafat shook hands after signing an accord granting limited Palestinian autonomy.

In 2021, school resumed for New York City public schools in the nation’s largest experiment of in- person learning during the coronavirus pandemic.