September 11

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September 11 is the 254th day of the year (255th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 111 days remaining until the end of the year.

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, 11 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; September 11 is also Enkutatash or New Year's Day in the Ethiopian calendar.

1 Events
2 Births
3 Deaths
4 Holidays and observances
5 External links

Events

9 - Battle of the Teutoburg Forest ends.
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 - 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 execute its garrison.
1683 - John III Sobieski of Poland arrives on Kahlen Hill, leading to the Battle of Vienna the next day.[1]
1697 - Battle of Zenta
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 Bourbon armies in the War of the Spanish Succession.
1773 - The Public Advertiser publishes a satirical essay titled Rules By Which A Great Empire May Be Reduced To A Small One, which is written by 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.
1786 - 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.
1802 - France annexed the Kingdom of Piedmont.
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, 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.
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.
1903 - First race is held at The Milwaukee Mile in West Allis, Wisconsin. It is the oldest major speedway in the world.
1906 - Mahatma Gandhi coins the term Satyagraha to characterize the Non-Violence movement in South Africa.
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's central span collapses, killing 11 men. The bridge initially collapsed in toto on August 29, 1907.
1919 - U.S. Marines invade Honduras.
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 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 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.
1941 - Charles Lindberg's Des Moines Speech accusing the British, Jews and FDR's administration of pressing for war with Germany.
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-run 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 September 15.
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.
1960 - Young Americans for Freedom meeting at home of William F. Buckley, Jr. promulgates the Sharon Statement.
1961 - Formation of the World Wildlife Fund.
1961 - Hurricane Carla strikes the Texas coast as a Category 4 hurricane, the strongest storm ever to hit the state.
1965 - The 1st Cavalry Division of the United States Army arrives in Vietnam.
1968 - Air France Flight 1611 crashes off Nice, France, killing 89 passengers and 6 crew.
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.
1973 - A CIA backed coup in Chile headed by General Augusto Pinochet topples the democratically elected President Salvador Allende. 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.
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.
1980 - Voters approve the present Constitution of Chile.
1981 - A small plane crashes into the Swing Auditorium in San Bernardino damaging it beyond repair.
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 - Dan Rather walks off the set of the CBS Evening News over disapproval of the handling of a major event being interrupted and postponed by a sports program, leaving six minutes of dead air.
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".(full text of the speech)
1992 - Hurricane Iniki, one of the most damaging hurricanes in United States history , devastates the State of Hawaii, especially the islands of Kauai 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 - After a nationwide referendum, Scotland votes to establish a devolved parliament, within the United Kingdom.
1998 - Independent counsel Kenneth Starr sends a report to the U.S. Congress accusing President Bill Clinton of 11 possible impeachable offenses.
1998 - Opening ceremony for the 1998 Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Malaysia was the first Asian country to host the games.
2000 - Activists protest against the World Economic Forum meeting in Melbourne, Australia. See S11.

View of the WTC on fire and the Statue of Liberty

2001 - Coordinated attacks result in the collapse of the World Trade Center in New York City, destruction of the western portion of The Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, and an unintentional passenger airliner crash in Shanksville, Pennsylvania after airplane passengers fought back on the plane. In total, 2,974 people are killed in the September 11, 2001 attacks.
2002 - Through extreme and coordinated effort, The Pentagon is rededicated after repairs are completed, exactly one year after the attack on the building.
2003 - Swedish foreign minister Anna Lindh dies after being assaulted and fatally wounded on September 10.
2003 - The Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety enters into effect.
2004 - All passengers are killed when a helicopter crashes in the Aegean Sea. Passengers include Patriarch Peter VII of Alexandria and 16 others (including journalists and bishops of the Greek Orthodox Church of Alexandria).
2005 - The State of Israel completes its unilateral disengagement from the Gaza Strip.
2007 - Russia tests the largest conventional weapon ever, the Father of all bombs.

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, 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)
1891 - William Thomas Walsh, American author (d. 1949)
1892 - Pinto Colvig, Goofy's and Pluto's voice (d. 1967)
1892 - Lucien Buysse, Belgian cyclist (d. 1980)
1893 - W. Douglas Hawkes, British racing driver (d. 1974)
1899 - Jimmie Davis, composer (d. 2000)
1899 - Philipp Bouhler, German nazi leader (d. 1945)
1900 - D. W. Brooks, American farmer and businessman (d. 1999)
1903 - Theodor Adorno, German philosopher and sociologist (d. 1969)
1911 - Bola de Nieve, Cuban pianist (d. 1971)
1913 - Paul "Bear" Bryant, American football coach (d. 1983)
1914 - Pavle, Patriarch of Serbia, Patriarch of Serbian Orthodox Church
1917 - Ferdinand Marcos, President of the Philippines (d. 1989)
1917 - Jessica Mitford, British writer (d. 1996)
1917 - Herbert Lom, Czech-born British film actor
1917 - Daniel Wildenstein, French art dealer and racehorse owner (d. 2001)
1918 - Don Blakeslee, American fighter pilot
1921 - Edwin Richfield, British Actor (d. 1990)
1923 - Dharmsamrat Paramhans Swami Madhavananda, Hindu guru (d. 2003)
1924 - Daniel Akaka, Chinese-American politician
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)
1927 - Willie Christine King, Sister of Martin Luther King Jr.
1928 - Reubin O'Donovan Askew, American politician
1928 - Earl Holliman, American actor
1930 - Saleh Selim, Egyptian football player (d. 2002)
1932 - Peter Anderson, English footballer
1933 - William Luther 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
1938 - David Higgins, British Composer and Conductor
1939 - Charles Geschke, American inventor and businessman
1940 - Brian de Palma, American film director
1940 - Theodore Olson, U.S. Solicitor General
1940 - Nong Duc Manh, General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam
1942 - Lola Falana, American singer
1942 - Gerome Ragni American Playwright
1943 - Mickey Hart, American drummer (Grateful Dead)
1943 - Raymond Villeneuve, Canadian terrorist
1944 - Everaldo, Brazilian footballer
1944 - Freddy Thielemans, mayor of Brussels
1945 - Franz Beckenbauer, German footballer
1945 - Leo Kottke, American acoustic guitarist
1945 - Felton Perry, American actor
1948 - John Martyn, English musician
1949 - Bill Whittington, race car driver
1950 - Bruce Doull, Australian rules footballer
1950 - Amy Madigan, American actress
1950 - Barry Sheene, British motorcyclist (d. 2003)
1951 - Richard D. Gill, British-Dutch mathematician
1951 - Hugo Porta, Argentine rugby player
1953 - Tommy Shaw, American musician and singer (Styx)
1953 - Jani Allan, South African journalist and media personality
1956 - Tony Gilroy, American screenwriter and director
1957 - Brad Bird, American director and animator
1957 - Jeff Sluman, American professional golfer
1958 - Scott Patterson, American actor
1958 - Roxann Dawson, American actress
1958 - Phoef Sutton, American television writer and producer
1960 - Anne Ramsay, American actress
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
1963 - Colin Wells, English actor
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
1967 - Maria Bartiromo, financial broadcast journalist
1967 - Harry Connick, Jr., American singer
1967 - Tony David, Australian darts player
1968 - Kay Hanley, American musician
1968 - Paul Mayeda Berges, American film writer and director
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
1970 - Laura Wright, American actress
1971 - Richard Ashcroft, British singer
1971 - Markos Moulitsas, American blogger and author
1971 - Johnny Vegas, English comedian
1971 - Shelton Quarles, American football player
1975 - Juan Cobián, former Argentine footballer
1975 - Pierre Issa, South African footballer
1975 - Mark Klepaski, American musician
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)
1978 - Ed Reed, American football player
1978 - Ben Lee, Australian musician and singer
1978 - Dejan Stanković, Serbian footballer
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 race car driver
1981 - Andrea Dossena, Italian footballer
1981 - Dylan Klebold, Columbine High School Massacre co-perpetrator (d. 1999)
1982 - Shriya Saran, South Indian actress
1983 - Ike Diogu, American basketball player
1983 - Jacoby Ellsbury, American baseball player
1985 - Shaun Livingston, American basketball player
1985 - Zack Stortini, Canadian ice hockey player
1986 - Chiliboy Ralepelle, South African rugby player
1986 - Dwayne Jarrett, American football player
1987 - Tyler Hoechlin, American actor