September 11

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 - Great 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.
• 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 d'état (pushed by Kissinger, Nixon and CIA) against democratically elected President Salvador Allende.
• 1997 - Scotland votes to re-establish its own Parliament after 290 years of union with England.
• 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 († 1585)
• 1711 - William Boyce, composer († 1779)
• 1825 - Eduard Hanslick, music critic
• 1862 - O. Henry, writer († 1910)
• 1885 - D.H. Lawrence, novelist († 1930)
• 1899 - Jimmie Davis, composer († 2000)
• 1913 - Paul 'Bear' Bryant, College American football coach († 1983)
• 1917 - Jessica Mitford, writer
• 1917 - Ferdinand Marcos, Philippines politician († 1989)
• 1924 - Tom Landry, National Football League coach († 2000)
• 1927 - G. David Schine, businessman († 1996)
• 1933 - Susan Sontag, author
• 1935 - Gherman Titov, cosmonaut († 2000)
• 1940 - Brian de Palma, director
• 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
• 1965 - Richard Melville Hall aka Moby, musician
• 1966 - Bashar al-Assad, Syrian dictator since 2000
• 1967 - Harry Connick, Jr., singer
• 1971 - Richard Ashcroft, singer
• 1976 - Ludacris, rap singer

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, quarterback
• 2003 - Anna Lindh, Swedish Minister for Foreign Affairs (assassinated)
• 2003 - John Ritter, actor

Holidays

• Catalonia national day, after the 1714 defeat
• Coptic Orthodox Church - Feast of Neyrouz
• Patriot Day (USA) - Anniversary of the September 11 attacks

Other Observances

• 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.

See also: January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December - more historical anniversaries

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