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September 11 is the 254th day of the year (255th in leap years).
There are 111 days remaining.
It is usually the first day of the Coptic calendar (in the period
1900 to 2099 A.D.).
The terms "September 11" and "9/11" have been widely used in the Western media as a shorthand for the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center and The Pentagon in the United States.
Events
- 1297 - Battle of Stirling Bridge - Scots of William Wallace defeat English.
- 1541 - Santiago, Chile
destroyed by indigenous tribes.
- 1609 - Henry Hudson lands on
Manhattan island.
- 1709 - Battle of
Malplaquet - Britain, Netherlands and Austria defeat France.
- 1714 - Barcelona surrenders to Spanish
and French Borbonic armies in the War of the
Spanish Succession.
- 1776 - British-American peace conference on Staten Island
fails to stop nascent American Revolution.
- 1777 - Battle of
Brandywine
- 1789 - Alexander
Hamilton is appointed as first Secretary of the Treasury.
- 1814 - The Battle
of Plattsburgh.
- 1847 - Stephen Foster's most
memorable song, Oh! Susanna, is first performed at a saloon in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
- 1857 - Mormon settlers and Paiutes massacre 120 pioneers at Mountain Meadows, Utah.
- 1858 - George Mary
Searle discovers the asteroid 55
Pandora.
- 1888 - Death of the Argentine
politician Domingo Sarmiento, after which the Latin American Teacher's
Day was chosen.
- 1914 - Australia invades New Britain, defeating German contingent
there.
- 1918 - The Boston Red Sox won
the World Series for the last time in 85 years (so far).
- 1919 - US
Marines invade Honduras.
- 1921 - Fatty Arbuckle
arrested for rape.
- 1922 - British Mandate of Palestine begins.
- 1926 - Assassination attempt on Benito Mussolini fails.
- 1931 - Salvatore
Maranzano is murdered by Charles Luciano's hitmen.
- 1940 - George Stibitz
pioneered the first remote operation of a computer.
- 1941 - Ground broken for the construction of The Pentagon. US Navy ordered to attack German U-boats.
- 1948 - Henri Queuille becomes
Prime Minister of France.
- 1961 - Formation of the World Wildlife Fund.
- 1965 - The 1st Cavalry Division of the United States Army arrives in Vietnam.
- 1970 - The Ford Pinto is
introduced.
- 1973 - Chilean armed forces headed by General
Augusto Pinochet take control of the country in a coup against the elected Marxist President Salvador Allende. Allende dies during the coup, though it is unknown whether he committed suicide or was
assassinated.
- 1981 - The
Pee-wee Herman Show bows on HBO
- 1985 - Pete Rose gets his 4,192nd
career base hit, breaking Ty Cobb's record which stood for over 60 years.
- 1992 - Hurricane Iniki devastates the State of Hawai'i, especially the
islands of Kaua'i and Oahu. It was the third most
damaging hurricane in United
States history. A total of six people died during the impact.
- 1997 - Scotland votes to re-establish its
own Parliament after 290 years of union with England and the 700th anniversary of the Battle of Stirling Bridge.
- 1998 - Independent counsel Kenneth
Starr sends a report to the US Congress accusing
President Bill Clinton of 11 possible impeachable offenses.
- 2000 - Activists protest against the World Economic Forum meeting in Melbourne, Australia.
- 2001 - The September 11 attacks kill almost 3,000 in the U.S.
Births
- 1524 - Pierre de
Ronsard, French poet (d. 1585)
- 1711 - William Boyce, composer
(d. 1779)
- 1825 - Eduard Hanslick,
music critic (d. 1904)
- 1862 - O. Henry, writer (d. 1910)
- 1885 - D.H. Lawrence, novelist
(d. 1930)
- 1899 - Jimmie Davis, composer (d.
2000)
- 1913 - Paul 'Bear' Bryant, college football coach (d. 1983)
- 1917 - Ferdinand Marcos,
Philippine political figure (d. 1989)
- 1917 - Jessica Mitford, writer (d. 1996)
- 1924 - Tom Landry, National Football League coach (d. 2000)
- 1927 - G. David Schine,
businessman (d. 1996)
- 1933 - Dr. William
L. Pierce, author, National Alliance Leader (d. 2002)
- 1933 - Susan Sontag, author
- 1935 - Gherman Titov, cosmonaut
(d. 2000)
- 1940 - Brian de Palma,
director
- 1940 - Theodore Olson, U.S. Solicitor General
- 1942 - Lola Falana, singer
- 1943 - Mickey Hart, musician
- 1943 - Gilbert Proesch, artist, half of Gilbert and
George
- 1943 - Raymond
Villeneuve, founding member of the FLQ terrorist organization
- 1945 - Franz
Beckenbauer, German footballer
- 1948 - John Martyn, musician
- 1962 - Elizabeth Daily,
actress
- 1962 - Kristy McNichol, actress
- 1964 - Roxann Dawson, actress
(Star Trek: Voyager)
- 1965 - Richard Melville Hall aka Moby,
musician
- 1965 - David Roe, English snooker player
- 1966 - Bashar al-Assad,
Syrian dictator since 2000
- 1967 - Harry Connick,
Jr., singer
- 1968 - Kay Hanley, musician
- 1969 - Michael Coulton, Game Designer
- 1971 - Richard Ashcroft,
singer
- 1977 - Ludacris, rap singer
- 1977 - Matthew Stevens,
Welsh snooker player
- 1981 - Dylan Klebold, one of
the Columbine High School massacre
gunmen (d. 1999)
Deaths
- 1821 - Subramanya
Bharathy, a Tamil Indian poet
- 1823 - David Ricardo, economist
- 1843 - Joseph Nicollet,
mathematician and explorer
- 1851 - Sylvester Graham
inventor of Graham cracker
- 1931 - Salvatore
Maranzano, crime boss
- 1948 - Muhammed Ali
Jinnah, first Governor-General of Pakistan
- 1956 - Billy Bishop, Canadian ace in World War I
- 1958 - Robert Service,
poet
- 1971 - Nikita Sergeevich
Khrushchev, Soviet politician and leader
- 1972 - Max Flesicher, animator
- 1973 - Salvador Allende,
Chilean President
- 1978 - Georgi Markov, Bulgarian dissident, assassinated with a poisoned umbrella.
- 1978 - Janet Parker, medical photographer, the final victim of smallpox
(contracted in a lab accident).
- 1987 - Lorne Greene, actor
- 1987 - Peter Tosh, Jamaican musician and singer
- 1994 - Jessica Tandy,
actress
- 1995 - Anita Harding,
neurologist
- 2001 - See Casualties of the September 11, 2001 attacks
- 2002 - Johnny Unitas, Pro Football Hall of Famer (b. 1933)
- 2003 - Anna Lindh, Swedish Minister for Foreign Affairs (assassinated)
- 2003 - John Ritter, actor
Holidays
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