September 11

[[pl:11 wrze%B6nia]] 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.).

Events

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 - Mormons and Paiutes massacre 120 pioneers at Mountain Meadows, Utah
1914 - Australia invades New Britain, defeating German contingent there
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.
1944 - Netherlands liberated by Allies
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 against President Salvador Allende.
1982 - Lebanese Christian Militia kill 1,700 Palestinians in Beirut.
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 Attack - Two aircraft crash into the World Trade Center in New York City within minutes of each other; the World Trade Center towers collapse. Another plane crashes into The Pentagon, destroying a section. A fourth plane crashes outside of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Births

1711 - William Boyce, composer.
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
1948 - John Martyn, musician.
1962 - Elizabeth Daily, actress
1962 - Kristy McNichol, actress
1965 - Richard Melville Hall aka Moby, musician.
1967 - Harry Connick, Jr., singer.
1976 - Ludacris, rap singer.

Deaths

1931 - Salvatore Maranazano, crime boss
1948 - Muhammed Ali Jinnah, first Governor-General of Pakistan
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, US political figure
2002 - Johnny Unitas, quarterback

Holidays

Catalonia national day, after the 1714 defeat.
Coptic Orthodox Church - Feast of Neyrouz

Other Observances

Proclaimed 9-1-1 Emergency Number Day by President Regan 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.

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