September 11
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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.
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Events
\n*1297 - Battle of Stirling Bridge - Scots of William Wallace defeat English.\n*1541 - Santiago, Chile destroyed by indigenous tribes.\n*1609 - Henry Hudson lands on Manhattan island.\n*1609 - Expulsion order announced against the Moriscos of Valencia; beginning of the expulsion of all Spain's Moriscos\n*1709 - Battle of Malplaquet - Great Britain, Netherlands and Austria defeat France.\n*1714 - Barcelona surrenders to Spanish and French Borbonic armies in the War of the Spanish Succession.\n*1776 - British-American peace conference on Staten Island fails to stop nascent American Revolution.\n*1777 - Battle of Brandywine\n*1789 - Alexander Hamilton is appointed as first Secretary of the Treasury.\n*1814 - The Battle of Plattsburgh.\n*1847 - Stephen Foster's most memorable song, Oh! Susanna, is first performed at a saloon in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.\n*1857 - Mormon settlers and Paiutes massacre 120 pioneers at Mountain Meadows, Utah.\n*1858 - George Mary Searle discovers the asteroid 55 Pandora.\n*1888 - Death of the Argentine politician Domingo Sarmiento, after which the Latin American Teacher's Day was chosen.\n*1914 - Australia invades New Britain, defeating German contingent there.\n*1918 - The Boston Red Sox won the World Series for the last time in 85 years (so far).\n*1919 - US Marines invade Honduras.\n*1921 - Fatty Arbuckle arrested for rape.\n*1922 - British Mandate of Palestine begins.\n*1922 - One of the Herald Sun of Melbourne, Australia's predecessor papers The Sun News-Pictorial is founded.\n*1926 - Assassination attempt on Benito Mussolini fails.\n*1931 - Salvatore Maranzano is murdered by Charles Luciano's hitmen.\n*1940 - George Stibitz pioneered the first remote operation of a computer.\n*1941 - Ground broken for the construction of The Pentagon. US Navy ordered to attack German U-boats.\n*1943 - German troops occupy Corsica and Kosovo-Metohien, start of the liquidation of the Ghettos in Minsk und Lidaby the Nazis\n*1944 - The first allied troops of the US Army cross the western border of Nazi Germany\n*1948 - Henri Queuille becomes Prime Minister of France.\n*1961 - Formation of the World Wildlife Fund.\n*1965 - The 1st Cavalry Division of the United States Army arrives in Vietnam.\n*1970 - The Ford Pinto is introduced.\n*1973 - CIA supported 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.\n*1981 - The Pee-wee Herman Show airs as a special on HBO\n*1985 - Pete Rose gets his 4,192nd career base hit, breaking Ty Cobb's record which stood for over 60 years.\n*1987 - 9-1-1 Emergency Number Day\n* 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.\n*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.\n*1998 - Independent counsel Kenneth Starr sends a report to the US Congress accusing President Bill Clinton of 11 possible impeachable offenses.\n*2000 - Activists protest against the World Economic Forum meeting in Melbourne, Australia.\n*2001 - The September 11 attacks kill almost 3,000 in the U.S.
Births
\n*1524 - Pierre de Ronsard, French poet (d. 1585)\n*1711 - William Boyce, composer (d. 1779)\n*1825 - Eduard Hanslick, music critic (d. 1904)\n*1862 - O. Henry, writer (d. 1910)\n*1885 - D.H. Lawrence, novelist (d. 1930)\n*1899 - Jimmie Davis, composer (d. 2000)\n*1913 - Paul 'Bear' Bryant, college football coach (d. 1983)\n*1917 - Ferdinand Marcos, Philippine political figure (d. 1989)\n* 1917 - Jessica Mitford, writer (d. 1996)\n*1924 - Tom Landry, National Football League coach (d. 2000)\n*1927 - G. David Schine, businessman (d. 1996)\n*1933 - Dr. William L. Pierce, author, National Alliance Leader (d. 2002)\n* 1933 - Susan Sontag, author\n*1935 - Gherman Titov, cosmonaut (d. 2000)\n*1940 - Brian de Palma, director\n* 1940 - Theodore Olson, U.S. Solicitor General\n*1942 - Lola Falana, singer\n*1943 - Mickey Hart, musician\n* 1943 - Gilbert Proesch, artist, half of Gilbert and George\n* 1943 - Raymond Villeneuve, founding member of the FLQ terrorist organization\n*1945 - Franz Beckenbauer, German footballer\n*1948 - John Martyn, musician\n*1962 - Elizabeth Daily, actress\n* 1962 - Kristy McNichol, actress\n*1964 - Roxann Dawson, actress (Star Trek: Voyager)\n*1965 - Richard Melville Hall aka Moby, musician\n* 1965 - David Roe, English snooker player\n*1966 - Bashar al-Assad, Syrian dictator since 2000\n*1967 - Harry Connick, Jr, singer\n*1968 - Kay Hanley, musician\n*1969 - Michael Coulton, Game Designer\n*1971 - Richard Ashcroft, singer\n*1977 - Ludacris, rap singer\n* 1977 - Matthew Stevens, Welsh snooker player\n*1981 - Dylan Klebold, one of the Columbine High School massacre gunmen (d. 1999)
Deaths
\n*1821 - Subramanya Bharathy, a Tamil Indian poet\n*1823 - David Ricardo, economist\n*1843 - Joseph Nicollet, mathematician and explorer\n*1851 - Sylvester Graham inventor of Graham cracker\n*1888 - Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, Argentinian President.\n*1931 - Salvatore Maranzano, crime boss\n*1948 - Muhammed Ali Jinnah, first Governor-General of Pakistan\n*1956 - Billy Bishop, Canadian ace in World War I\n*1958 - Robert Service, poet\n*1971 - Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev, Soviet politician and leader\n*1972 - Max Flesicher, animator\n*1973 - Salvador Allende, Chilean President\n*1978 - Georgi Markov, Bulgarian dissident, assassinated with a poisoned umbrella.\n*1978 - Janet Parker, medical photographer, the final victim of smallpox (contracted in a lab accident).\n*1987 - Lorne Greene, actor\n*1987 - Peter Tosh, Jamaican musician and singer\n*1994 - Jessica Tandy, actress\n*1995 - Anita Harding, neurologist\n*2001 - See Casualties of the September 11, 2001 attacks\n*2002 - Johnny Unitas, Pro Football Hall of Famer (b. 1933)\n*2003 - Anna Lindh, Swedish Minister for Foreign Affairs (assassinated)\n*2003 - John Ritter, actor
Holidays
\n* Catalonia national day, after the 1714 defeat\n* Coptic Orthodox Church - Feast of Neyrouz\n* Patriot Day (USA) - Anniversary of the September 11 attacks
Other Observances
\n* Proclaimed 9-1-1 Emergency Number Day by President Reagan on August 26 in 1987 and celebrated since then by some United States communities, particularly the local emergency services. \n----\nSeptember 10 · September 12 · August 11 · October 11 · more historical anniversaries
