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September 11 is the 254th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (255th in leap years ). There are 111 days remaining.
It is usually the first day of the Coptic calendar and Ethiopian calendar (in the period AD 1900 to AD 2099 ).
The terms
September 11th ,
11th September , and
9/11 (pronounced "
Nine-eleven ") 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 .
In other places of the world the media also use it as shorthand for other events, for example, the
September 11 ,
1973 Coup d'État in Chile is referred to as "El 11 de Septiembre" or "El once" ("September 11" or "The eleventh" in Spanish) as shorthand for the Coup events.
Contents
1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Holidays
5 External links
Events 506 - The bishops of Visigothic Gaul meet in the Council of Agde .
1185 - Isaac II Angelus kills Stephanus Hagiochristophorites and then appeals to the people, resulting in the revolt which deposes Andronicus I Comnenus and places Isaac on the throne of the Byzantine Empire .
1226 - The Roman Catholic practice of perpetual adoration begins.
1297 - Battle of Stirling Bridge : Scots led by William Wallace defeat the English .
1541 - Santiago, Chile , is destroyed by indigenous warriors, lead by Michimalonko .
1609 - Henry Hudson lands on Manhattan island.
1609 - 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.
1683 - Battle of Vienna .
1708 - Charles XII of Sweden stops his march to conquer Moscow outside Smolensk , marking the turning point in the Great Northern War . The army is defeated nine months later in the battle of Poltava , and the Swedish empire is no longer a major power .
1709 - Battle of Malplaquet : Great Britain , Netherlands and Austria fight against France .
1714 - Barcelona surrenders to Spanish and French Bourbonic armies in the War of the Spanish Succession .
1773 - The Public Advertiser essay titled Rules By Which A Great Empire May Be Reduced To A Small One ,Benjamin Franklin .
1776 - British -American peace conference on Staten Island fails to stop nascent American Revolution .
1777 - Battle of Brandywine - Major American Revolutionary war victory for British in Chester County , Pennsylvania .
1780 - The Beginning of the Annapolis Convention .
1789 - Alexander Hamilton is appointed as first United States 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 climax of the Battle of Plattsburgh , a major United States victory in the War of 1812 .
1847 - Stephen Foster 's most well-known song, Oh! Susanna 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 Argentine politician Domingo Sarmiento , after whom the Latin American Teacher's Day was chosen.
1891 - The Jewish Colonization Association is established by Baron Maurice de Hirsch .
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 Kaffa , bringing an end to that ancient kingdom.
1906 - Mahatma Gandhi starts Non-Violence movement Satyagraha .
1911 - Middle Tennessee State University is founded in Murfreesboro, Tennessee , as Middle Tennessee Normal School .
1914 - Australia invades New Britain , defeating a German contingent there.
1915 - The Pennsylvania Railroad begins electrified commuter rail service between Paoli and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania , using overhead AC trolley wires for power.
1916 - The Quebec Bridge collapses for a second time, killing 11 men. The bridge initially collapsed on August 29 , 1907 .
1918 - Major League Baseball : The Boston Red Sox win last World Series until 2004 , starting the "Curse of the Bambino ."
1919 - U.S. Marines invade Honduras .
1921 - Motion picture star Fatty Arbuckle is arrested for rape.
1921 - Nahalal , the first moshav in Israel , is settled.
1922 - The British Mandate of Palestine begins.
1922 - The Treaty of Kars is ratified in Yerevan , Armenia .
1922 - One of the Herald Sun Melbourne, Australia 's predecessor papers The Sun News-Pictorial 1926 - An assassination attempt on Benito Mussolini fails.
1931 - Salvatore Maranzano is murdered by Charles Luciano 's hitmen.
1932 - Franciszek Żwirko and 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.
1940 - World War II : Buckingham Palace is damaged during a German air raid.
1941 - Ground broken for the construction of The Pentagon .
1941 - World War II : U.S. Navy ordered to attack German U-boats.
1943 - World War II : 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 allied troops of the U.S. Army cross the western border of Nazi Germany .
1944 - World War II : RAF bombing raid on Darmstadt and the following firestorm kill 11,500.
1945 - World War II : Liberation of the Japanese POW and civilian internee camp at Batu Lintang , Kuching, Sarawak on the island of Borneo by Australian 9th Division forces. Over 2,000 prisoners, including women and children, were due to be executed on 15 September.
1948 - Henri Queuille becomes Prime Minister of France .
1955 - Dedication of the first Temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Europe , the Bern Switzerland Temple .
1956 - People to People International is founded by President Dwight D. Eisenhower .
1959 - Lee Harvey Oswald is discharged from the United States Marine Corps .
1960 - Young Americans for Freedom meeting at home of William F. Buckley, Jr. promulgates the Sharon Statement .
1961 - Formation of the World Wildlife Fund .
1965 - The 1st Cavalry Division of the United States Army arrives in Vietnam .
1970 - 88 of the hostages from the Dawson's Field hijackings are released. The remaining hostages, mostly Jews or Israeli citizens, are held until September 25 .
1970 - The Ford Pinto is introduced.
1971 - The Egyptian Constitution becomes official.
1972 - Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART ) in San Francisco, California begins regular service.
1972 - The Closing Ceremony of the Munich Olympics takes place. It was the Summer Olympics when the terrorist attack known as the Munich Massacre happened.
1973 - A coup in Chile headed by General Augusto Pinochet topples the democratically elected President Salvador Allende [1] . Pinochet remains in power for almost 17 years.
1974 - Eastern Air Lines Flight 212 crashes in Charlotte , North Carolina , killing 69 passengers and two crew.
1974 - The Stranglers formed in Guildford , Surrey .
1978 - U.S. President Jimmy Carter , President Sadat of Egypt , and Prime Minister Begin of Israel met at Camp David and agreed on a framework for peace between Israel and Egypt and a comprehensive peace in the Middle East .
1982 - The international forces, which were guaranteeing the safety of Palestinian refugees following Israel 's 1982 Invasion of Lebanon , left Beirut . Five days later, several thousand refugees were massacred in the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps .
1985 - Baseball : Pete Rose gets his 4,192nd career base hit, breaking Ty Cobb 's record which stood for over 60 years.
1987 - CBS Evening Newsanchor 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 - Twelve people die in a shoot-out in Jean-Bertrand Aristide 's church in Haiti .
1989 - The iron curtain opens between the communist Hungary and Austria . From Hungary thousands of East Germans throng to Austria and West Germany .
1990 - U.S. 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. He mentions the term "New World Order " in this speech for the first time, which is also named "Towards a New World Order".
1992 - Hurricane Iniki , one of the most damaging hurricanes in United States history during its time, devastates the State of Hawai'i , especially the islands of Kaua'i and Oahu .
1994 - Frank Eugene Corder steals a Cessna plane, intending to crash it into the White House .
1996 - Union Pacific Railroad purchases Southern Pacific Railroad.
1997 - NASA 's Mars Global Surveyor reaches Mars .
1997 - Scotland referendum, 1997 - Scotland votes to establish a devolved parliament .
1998 - Independent counsel Kenneth Starr sends a report to the U.S. Congress accusing President Bill Clinton of 11 possible impeachable offenses.
1998 - Yevgeny Primakov is appointed Prime Minister of Russia .
1998 - Opening ceremony for the 1998 Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur , Malaysia . Malaysia was the first Asian country to host the games.
1999 - Tennis : Serena Williams , 2 weeks short of her 18th birthday, wins her first Grand Slam tournament when she became U.S. 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 attacks destroy the World Trade Center in New York City and the western wall of The Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia , and crash a passenger airliner in Shanksville, Pennsylvania . In total, 2,973 people are killed.
Births It has been suggested by Ernest L. Martin that Jesus of Nazareth was born on September 11 in 3 BC when the moon moved in a rare pattern with Venus generating the Star of Bethlehem . On the Julian calendar , September 11 in 3 BC is also the second day of Rosh Hashana , the Jewish New Year .
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 , Scottish poet (d. 1748 )
1711 - William Boyce , English composer (d. 1779 )
1723 - Johann Bernhard Basedow , German educational reformer (d. 1790 )
1786 - Friedrich Kuhlau , German composer (d. 1832 )
1798 - Franz Ernst Neumann , German mineralogist and physicist (d. 1895 )
1800 - Daniel S. Dickinson , New York senator (d. 1866 )
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 , American Catholic archbishop (d. 1918 )
1859 - Vjenceslav Novak , Croatian writer (d. 1905 )
1860 - Marianne von Werefkin , Russian-Swiss painter (d. 1938 )
1860 - James Allan , former All Black (d. 1934 )
1862 - O. Henry , American writer (d. 1910 )
1862 - Julian Byng , British army officer (d. 1935 )
1865 - Rainis , Latvian poet and playwright (d. 1929 )
1877 - James Hopwood Jeans , Scientist (d. 1946 )
1885 - D.H. Lawrence , English novelist (d. 1930 )
1892 - Lucien Buysse , Belgian cyclist (d. 1980 )
1899 - Jimmie Davis , composer (d. 2000 )
1903 - Theodor Adorno , German sociologist (d. 1969 )
1913 - Paul "Bear" Bryant , American football coach (d. 1983 )
1914 - Patriarch Pavle , Patriarch of Serbian Orthodox Church
1917 - Ferdinand Marcos , President of the Philippines (d. 1989 )
1917 - Jessica Mitford , British writer (d. 1996 )
1917 - Herbert Lom , film actor
1923 - Dharmsamrat Paramhans Swami Madhavananda , Hindu guru (d. 2003 )
1924 - Daniel Akaka Chinese-American U.S. senator
1924 - Tom Landry , American football coach (d. 2000 )
1924 - Rudolf Vrba , Jewish Canadian professor, Holocaust survivor (d. 2006 )
1925 - Harry Somers , Canadian composer (d. 1999 )
1926 - Eddie Miksis , baseball player (d. 2005 )
1927 - G. David Schine , American businessman (d. 1996 )
1927 - Vernon Corea , Sri Lankan broadcaster (d. 2002 )
1928 - Earl Holliman , American actor
1930 - Saleh Selim , Egyptian football player and president of sports club (d. 2002 )
1932 - Peter Anderson , English footballer
1933 - Dr. William L. Pierce , American author and activist (d. 2002 )
1934 - Oliver Jones , Canadian jazz pianist
1934 - Norma Croker , Australian sprinter
1935 - Arvo Pärt , Estonian composer
1935 - Gherman Titov , second man in space (d. 2000 )
1936 - Ian Abercrombie , English actor
1937 - Iosif Kobzon , Soviet singer and Russian businessman
1937 - Queen Paola Ruffo di Calabria of Belgium
1937 - Robert Crippen , American astronaut
1939 - Charles Geschke , American inventor and businessman
1940 - Brian de Palma , American film director
1940 - Theodore Olson , U.S. Solicitor General
1942 - Lola Falana , American singer
1943 - Mickey Hart , American drummer (Grateful Dead )
1943 - Raymond Villeneuve , Canadian terrorist
1944 - Everaldo , Brazilian footballer
1945 - Franz Beckenbauer , German footballer
1945 - Leo Kottke , American acoustic guitarist
1945 - Felton Perry , American actor
1948 - John Martyn , English musician
1948 - Liam Nialhaj , American poet
1950 - Bruce Doull , Australian rules footballer
1950 - Amy Madigan , American actress
1950 - Barry Sheene , British motorcyclist
1951 - Richard D. Gill , British-Dutch mathematician
1953 - Tommy Shaw , American musician and singer Styx
1958 - Roxann Dawson , American actress
1957 - Brad Bird , American director and animator
1958 - Scott Patterson , American actor
1961 - Virginia Madsen , American actress
1961 - Philip Ardagh , British writer
1962 - Elizabeth Daily , American actress
1962 - Filip Dewinter Belgian politician
1962 - Kristy McNichol , American actress
1962 - Julio Salinas , Spanish footballer
1963 - Dr Patrick McWilliams , Irish author
1964 - Ellis Burks , American baseball player
1964 - Victor Wooten , American musician
1965 - Bashar al-Assad , President of Syria
1965 - Paul Heyman , American wrestling manager
1965 - Moby , American musician
1965 - David Roe , English snooker player
1966 - Princess Akishino , Japanese Imperial Family
1966 - Troy Crosby , Canadian hockey player
1967 - Maria Bartiromo , financial broadcast journalist
1967 - Harry Connick, Jr. , American singer
1967 - Tony David , Australian darts player
1968 - Kay Hanley , American musician
1969 - Eduardo Perez , American baseball player
1969 - Gidget Gein , American musician
1970 - Chris Garver , tattoo artist
1970 - Taraji P. Henson , American actress and singer
1970 - William Joppy , American boxer
1970 - Ted Leo , American musician
1971 - Richard Ashcroft , British singer
1971 - Markos Moulitsas , American blogger and author
1971 - Johnny Vegas , English comedian
1976 - Elephant Man , Jamaican musician
1976 - Tomáš Enge , Czech racing driver
1976 - Flora Redoumi , Greek hurdler
1977 - Ludacris , American rapper
1977 - Matthew Stevens , Welsh snooker player
1977 - Jon Buckland , British guitarist (Coldplay )
1977 - Becky Lee , American Survivor contestant
1978 - Ed Reed , American football player
1978 - Ben Lee , Australian musician and singer
1978 - Dejan Stanković , Serbian footballer
1979 - Andols Herrick , American drummer (Chimaira )
1979 - Nathan Gale , American murderer (d. 2004 )
1979 - Ariana Richards , American actress
1979 - Frank Francisco , Major League Baseball pitcher
1979 - Steve Hofstetter , Comedian & radio personality
1979 - David Pizarro , Chilean footballer
1980 - Mike Comrie , Canadian ice hockey player
1980 - Antônio Pizzonia , Brazilian Formula One driver
1981 - Dylan Klebold , Columbine high school shooter (d. 1999 )
1981 - Andrea Dossena , Italian footballer
1982 - Shriya Saran , South Indian actress
1983 - Ike Diogu , American basketball player
1985 - Shaun Livingston , American basketball player
1986 - Chiliboy Ralepelle , South African rugby union player
1987 - Tyler Hoechlin , American actor and baseball player
Deaths
