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{{PAGENAME}} is the 254th day of the year in the
Gregorian calendar (255th in
leap years). There are 111 days remaining. The terms "September 11", "11th September", 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 of America.
It is usually the first day of the
Coptic calendar and
Ethiopian calendar (in the period
Anno Domini AD 1900 to AD
2099).
Events
*
1226 - The
Catholic practice of
Eucharistic adoration perpetual adoration begins.
*
1297 -
Battle of Stirling Bridge: Scots led by
William Wallace defeat the
England English.
*
1541 -
Santiago, Chile, is destroyed by
Amerindian indigenous warriors.
*
1609 -
Henry Hudson lands on
Manhattan island.
*
1683 -
Battle of Vienna
*
1690 - Expulsion order announced against the
Moriscos of
Valencia; beginning of the expulsion of all
Spain's Moriscos.
*
1649 -
Siege of Drogheda ends:
Oliver Cromwell's English Parliamentarian troops take the town and massacre its garrison.
*
1709 -
Battle of Malplaquet:
Kingdom of Great Britain Great Britain,
Netherlands and
Austria fight against
France.
*
1714 -
Barcelona surrenders to Spanish and French Bourbonic armies in the
War of the Spanish Succession.
*
1776 -
Britain British-
United States American peace conference on
Staten Island, New York Staten Island fails to stop nascent
American Revolution.
*
1777 -
Battle of Brandywine - Major
American Revolutionary war victory for
Kingdom of Great Britain British in
Chester County, Pennsylvania Chester County,
Pennsylvania.
*
1786 - The Beginning of the
Annapolis Convention (1786) Annapolis Convention.
*
1789 -
Alexander Hamilton is appointed as first
United States Secretary of the Treasury Secretary of the Treasury.
*
1792 -
Hope Diamond is stolen along with other crown jewels when six men broke into the house used to store the jewels.
*
1814 - The
Battle of Plattsburgh.
*
1847 -
Stephen Foster's most memorable song, ''Oh! Susanna'', is first performed at a saloon in
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
*
1857 - The
Mountain Meadows Massacre:
Mormon settlers and
Paiutes massacre 120 pioneers at
Mountain Meadows, Utah.
*
1869 - Work completed on the
Wallace Monument.
*
1888 - Death of the
Argentina Argentine politician
Domingo Sarmiento, after whom the
Latin American
Teacher's Day was chosen.
*
1893 - First
World Parliament of Religions conference held.
*
1897 - After months of pursuit, generals of
Menelik II of Ethiopia capture
Gaki Sherocho, the last king of
Kingdom of Kaffa Kaffa, bringing an end to that ancient kingdom.
*
1911 -
Middle Tennessee State University is founded in
Murfreesboro, Tennessee, as Middle Tennessee Normal School.
*
1914 -
Australia invades
New Britain, defeating a
Germany German contingent there.
*
1916 - The
Quebec Bridge collapses for a second time, killing 11 men. The bridge initially collapsed on
August 29,
1907.
*
1918 -
Baseball: The
Boston Red Sox won the
World Series; they would do so again on
October 27,
2004 after 86 years.
*
1919 -
United States Marine Corps US Marines invade
Honduras.
*
1921 - Motion picture star
Roscoe Arbuckle Fatty Arbuckle is arrested for rape.
*
1922 - The
British Mandate of Palestine begins.
* 1922 - One of the ''
Herald Sun'' of
Melbourne, Australia's predecessor papers ''The Sun News-Pictorial'' is founded.
*
1926 - An assassination attempt on
Benito Mussolini fails.
*
1931 -
Salvatore Maranzano is murdered by
Lucky Luciano Charles Luciano's hitmen.
*
1932 -
Franciszek Zwirko Franciszek Żwirko and
Stanislaw Wigura Stanisław Wigura, Polish
Challenge 1932 winners, killed in a plane crash as their
RWD 6 crashed into the ground during a storm.
*
1940 -
George Stibitz pioneers the first remote operation of a computer.
*
1941 - Ground broken for the construction of
The Pentagon.
* 1941 -
World War II:
US Navy ordered to attack German U-boats.
*
1943 - World War II:
Wehrmacht German troops occupy
Corsica and
Kosovo-
Metohija
* 1943 - World War II: start of the liquidation of the
Ghettos in
Minsk and
Lida by the
Nazis
*
1944 - World War II: the first
allies allied troops of the
United States Army US Army cross the western border of
Nazi Germany. The RAF bombing raid on
Darmstadt and the following firestorm kill 11,500.
*
1948 -
Henri Queuille becomes Prime Minister of
France.
*
1955 - Dedication of the first
Temples (Mormonism) Temple of
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Europe, the
Bern Switzerland Temple.
*
1960 -
Young Americans for Freedom meeting at home of
William F. Buckley, Jr. promulgates the
Sharon Statement.
*
1961 - Formation of the
World Wildlife Fund.
*
1962 -
The Beatles record their debut single,
Love Me Do.
*
1965 - The
US 1st Cavalry Division 1st Cavalry Division of the
United States Army arrives in
Vietnam.
*
1970 - The
Ford Pinto is introduced.
*
1971 - The
Politics_of_Egypt#Constitution: Egyptian Constitution becomes official.
*
1972 -
Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) in America begins regular service.
*
1973 - A military
Chilean coup of 1973 coup in
Chile headed by General
Augusto Pinochet topples the democratically elected President
Salvador Allende.
*
1981 -
The Pee-wee Herman Show airs as a special on
HBO.
*
1985 -
Baseball:
Pete Rose gets his 4,192nd career base hit, breaking
Ty Cobb's record which stood for over 60 years.
*
1987 - ''9-1-1
Emergency telephone number Emergency Number Day''.
* 1987 - ''
CBS Evening News'' anchor
Dan Rather, angry over being preempted for a
tennis match, marches off the set, leaving affiliates with six minutes of an empty news desk.
* 1987 -
Reggae Music musician Peter Tosh is
Murder murdered in his own home in
Kingston, Jamaica Kingston.
*
1989 - The
iron curtain opens between the
communist Hungary and
Austria. From Hungary thousands of
East Germany East Germans throng to Austria and
West Germany.
*
1990 - President
George H. W. Bush delivers a nationally televised speech in which he threatens the use of force to remove
Iraqi soldiers from
Kuwait, which Iraq had recently invaded.
*
1992 -
Hurricane Iniki, one of the most damaging
hurricane in
United States history during its time, devastates the
Hawaii State of Hawai'i, especially the islands of
Kauai Kaua'i and
Oahu.
*
1996 -
Union Pacific Railroad purchases
Southern Pacific Railroad
*
1997 -
Scotland votes to re-establish its own
Parliament on the 700th anniversary of the
Battle of Stirling Bridge, after 290 years of union with
England.
*
1998 - Independent counsel
Kenneth Starr sends a report to the
Congress of the United States U.S. Congress accusing President
Bill Clinton of 11 possible impeachable offenses.
*
1999 -
Tennis:
Serena Williams, 2 weeks short of her 18th birthday, wins her first Grand Slam tournament when she became US Open champion, becoming the first African American woman to win a Grand Slam tournament since Althea Gibson in 1958.
*
2000 - Activists protest against the
World Economic Forum meeting in
Melbourne,
Australia. See
S11.
*
2001 - The
September 11, 2001 attacks September 11 attacks destroy the
World Trade Center in
New York City, part of
The Pentagon in
Arlington, Virginia, and crashed a passenger airliner in
Pennsylvania. In total,
:sep11: almost 3,000 are killed.
*
2003 -
Sweden Swedish foreign minister
Anna Lindh dies after being assaulted and fatally wounded on
September 10.
*
2004 -
Patriarch Peter VII of Alexandria Petros VII, the (Greek Orthodox) Patriarch of Alexandria and his company are killed in an unexplained helicopter crash outside
Mount Athos,
Greece.
*
2005 - The
State of Israel officially declares an end to military rule in the
Gaza Strip after 38 years of
Military occupation occupation.
Births
*
1182 -
Minamoto no Yoriie, Japanese shogun (d.
1204)
*
1522 -
Ulisse Aldrovandi, Italian naturalist (d.
1605)
*
1524 -
Pierre de Ronsard, French poet (d.
1585)
*
1611 -
Henri de la Tour d'Auvergne, Vicomte de Turenne, Marshal of France (d.
1675)
*
1681 -
Johann Gottlieb Heineccius, German jurist (d.
1741)
*
1700 -
James Thomson (Seasons) James Thomson, Scottish poet (d.
1748)
*
1711 -
William Boyce, English composer (d.
1779)
*
1723 -
Johann Bernhard Basedow, German educational reformer (d.
1790)
*
1798 -
Franz Ernst Neumann, German mineralogist and physicist (d.
1895)
*
1816 -
Carl Zeiss, German lens maker (d.
1888)
*
1825 -
Eduard Hanslick, German music critic (d.
1904)
*
1836 -
Fitz Hugh Ludlow, American author (d.
1870)
*
1838 -
John Ireland (archbishop) John Ireland, American Catholic archbishop (d.
1918)
*
1847 -
Thomas Alva Edison, inventor with over 1,000 patents to his name
*
1862 -
O. Henry, American writer (d.
1910)
*
1865 -
Rainis, Latvian poet and playwright (d.
1929)
*
1885 -
D.H. Lawrence, English novelist (d.
1930)
*
1899 -
Jimmie Davis, composer (d.
2000)
*
1903 -
Theodor Adorno, German sociologist (d.
1969)
*
1913 -
Bear Bryant Paul "Bear" Bryant, American football coach (d.
1983)
*
1917 -
Ferdinand Marcos,
President of the Philippines (d.
1989)
* 1917 -
Jessica Mitford, British writer (d.
1996)
*
1923 -
Dharmsamrat Paramhans Swami Madhavananda, Hindu guru
*
1924 -
Tom Landry, American football coach (d.
2000)
*
1927 -
G. David Schine, American businessman (d.
1996)
* 1927 -
Vernon Corea, Sri Lankan broadcaster (d.
2002)
*
1933 -
Dr. William L. Pierce, American author and activist (d.
2002)
*
1935 -
Arvo Pärt, Estonian composer
*
1935 -
Gherman Titov, second man in space (d.
2000)
*
1937 -
Iosif Kobzon, Soviet singer and Russian businessman
*
1939 -
Charles Geschke, American inventor and businessman
*
1940 -
Brian de Palma, American film director
* 1940 -
Theodore Olson,
United States Solicitor General U.S. Solicitor General
*
1942 -
Lola Falana, American singer
*
1943 -
Mickey Hart, American drummer (
Grateful Dead)
* 1943 -
Raymond Villeneuve, Canadian terrorist
*
1944 -
Everaldo, Brazilian football player
*
1945 -
Franz Beckenbauer, German footballer
* 1945 -
Felton Perry, American actor
*
1948 -
John Martyn, English musician
*
1950 -
Barry Sheene, British motorcyclist
*
1957 -
Brad Bird, American animator
*
1958 -
Roxann Dawson, American actress
*
1962 -
Elizabeth Daily, American actress
* 1962 -
Filip Dewinter Belgian politician
* 1962 -
Kristy McNichol, American actress
*
1963 -
Virginia Madsen, American actress
*
1964 -
Ellis Burks, baseball player
* 1964 -
Victor Wooten, American musician
*
1965 -
Bashar al-Assad, The current President of Syria
* 1965 -
Paul Heyman, American professional wrestling promoter, manager, and writer
* 1965 -
Moby, American musician
* 1965 -
David Roe, English snooker player
*
1966 -
Princess Akishino, Wife of
Prince Akishino,
Japanese Imperial Family
*
1967 -
Maria Bartiromo, Financial Broadcast Journalist
* 1967 -
Harry Connick, Jr., American singer
*
1968 -
Kay Hanley, American musician
*
1971 -
Richard Ashcroft, British singer
*
1976 -
Elephant Man, Jamaican musician
*
1977 -
Ludacris, American rapper
* 1977 -
Matthew Stevens, Welsh snooker player
*
1978 -
Ed Reed, American football player
*
1979 -
Ariana Richards, American actress
*
1981 -
Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold Dylan Klebold, American mass murderer (d.
1999)
*
1982 -
Shriya Saran, South Indian Actress
Deaths
*
1161 - Queen
Melisende of Jerusalem (b.
1105)
*
1279 -
Robert Kilwardby,
Archbishop of Canterbury
*
1298 -
Philip of Artois, French soldier (b.
1269)
*
1349 -
Bonne of Luxembourg, queen of
John II of France (b.
1315)
*
1599 -
Beatrice Cenci, Italian noblewoman executed for conspiring to kill her father (b.
1577)
*
1677 -
James Harrington, English politicial philosopher (b.
1611)
*
1680 -
Roger Crab, English Puritan political writer (b.
1621)
* 1680 -
Emperor Go-Mizunoo of Japan (b.
1596)
*
1721 -
Rudolf Jakob Camerarius, German botanist and physician (b.
1665)
*
1760 -
Louis Godin, French astronomer (b.
1704)
*
1823 -
David Ricardo, economist
*
1843 -
Joseph Nicollet, mathematician and explorer
*
1851 -
Sylvester Graham, American nutritionist
*
1888 -
Domingo Faustino Sarmiento,
President of Argentina
*
1911 -
Louis Henri Boussenard, French novelist (b.
1847)
*
1921 -
Subramanya Bharathy, Tamil poet (b.
1882)
*
1931 -
Salvatore Maranzano, crime boss
*
1932 -
Franciszek Zwirko Franciszek Żwirko and
Stanislaw Wigura Stanisław Wigura, Polish pilots (plane crash)
*
1948 -
Muhammad Ali Jinnah, founder of Pakistan
*
1950 -
Jan Smuts, South African soldier and statesman
*
1956 -
Billy Bishop, Canadian pilot in World War I
*
1958 -
Robert W. Service, Scottish-born Canadian poet
*
1966 -
C. E. Woolman, American airline magnate
*
1971 -
Nikita Khrushchev Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev, Soviet politician and leader (b.
1894)
*
1972 -
Max Fleischer, American animator (b.
1883)
*
1973 -
Salvador Allende,
President of Chile (presumed suicide) (b.
1908)
*
1978 -
Georgi Markov, Bulgarian dissident (assassinated) (b.
1929)
* 1978 -
Janet Parker, medical photographer, the final victim of smallpox
*
1984 -
Jerry Voorhis, American politician (b.
1901)
*
1985 -
William Alwyn, English composer (b.
1905)
*
1987 -
Lorne Greene, Canadian actor (b.
1915)
* 1987 -
Peter Tosh, Jamaican musician and singer (b.
1944)
*
1988 -
John Sylvester White, American actor (b.
1919)
*
1990 -
Myrna Mack, Guatemalan anthropologist (assassinated) (b.
1949)
*
1993 -
Erich Leinsdorf, Austrian conductor (b.
1912)
* 1993 -
Antoine Izméry Haitian pro-democracy activist (assassinated).
*
1994 -
Jessica Tandy, American actress (b.
1909)
* 1994 -
William Obanhein, police officer, mentioned in "
Alice's Restaurant" (b.
1924)
*
1995 -
Anita Harding, neurologist
*
1998 -
Dane Clark, American actor (b.
1913)
*
1999 -
Gonzalo Rodriguez, Uruguayan auto racing driver (b.
1972)
*
2001 - '''
September 11, 2001 attacks'''
**
David Angell, American sitcom creator (b.
1946)
**
Mohamed Atta al-Sayed Muhammad Atta, Egyptian
terrorism terrorist (b.
1968)
**
Todd Beamer, passenger on
United Airlines Flight 93 (b.
1968)
**
Angel L. Juarbe, Jr., American firefighter, winner of
Murder in Small Town X (b.
1966)
**
John P. O'Neill, former
FBI agent, and Director of Security at the
World Trade Center (b.
1952)
**
Barbara Olson, American political commentator (b.
1955)
*
2002 -
Kim Hunter, American actress (b.
1922)
* 2002 -
Johnny Unitas, American football player (b.
1933)
*
2003 -
Anna Lindh, Swedish Minister for Foreign Affairs (assassinated) (b.
1957)
* 2003 -
John Ritter, American actor (b.
1948)
*
2004 -
Patriarch Peter VII of Alexandria (helicopter crash) (b.
1949)
* 2004 -
Fred Ebb, American lyricist (b.
1933)
* 2004 -
David Mann (painter) David Mann, U.S. artist (emphysema) (b.
1939)
*
2005 -
Chris Schenkel, American sportscaster (b.
1923)
Holidays
*
Calendar of Saints RC Saints - Virgin of the Holy cave; Saint
Deiniol,
Patron saints#Saints associated with countries Our Lady of Coromoto, Protus & Hyacynthus
Also see
September 11 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
*
Coptic Orthodox Church - Feast of Neyrouz, the New Year's Day in the
Coptic calendar
*
New Year's Day in the
Ethiopian calendar (
Enkutatash)
*
Autonomous Community of Catalonia Catalonia (Spain) -
National Day of Catalonia National Day
*
Patriot Day (
United States USA) - Anniversary of the
September 11, 2001 attacks September 11 attacks
*
Latin America Teacher's Day, after the death of
Argentine Domingo F. Sarmiento
* Death anniversary of
Muhammad Ali Jinnah, founder of
Pakistan
Other observances
* Proclaimed ''
9-1-1 Emergency telephone number Emergency Number Day'' by President
Ronald Reagan Reagan on
August 26 in
1987 and celebrated since then by some United States communities, particularly the local
emergency services.
* Feast day of
Saint Deiniol
External links
-
BBC: On This Day
-
''The New York Times'': On This Day
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September 10 ·
September 12 ·
August 11 ·
October 11 · more
historical anniversaries
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