September 11

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 terrorist attacks on that date in 2001 (see below).

Table of contents

1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Holidays 4.1 Other Observances

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.
• 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.
• 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'etat (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 Terrorist Attacks kill more than 3,000 in the U.S.

• 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)
• 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
• 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
• 1976 - Ludacris, rap singer

• 1851 - Sylvester Graham inventor of Graham cracker
• 1931 - Salvatore Maranazano, crime boss
• 1948 - Muhammed Ali Jinnah, first Governor-General of Pakistan
• 1956 - Billy Bishop, Canadian ace in World War I
• 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 - Barbara K. Olson, television commentator, killed in the September 11 Terrorist Attacks.
• 2002 - Johnny Unitas, quarterback
• 2003 - Anna Lindh, Swedish Minister for Foreign Affairs (assassinated)
• 2003 - John Ritter, actor

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

• 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.
• Proclaimed Patriot Day by Congress after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack.

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