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 September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center and 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. 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'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 attacks kill almost 3,000 in the U.S. Births 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 1976 - Ludacris, rap singer Deaths 1821 - Subramanya Bharathy, a Tamil Indian poet 1823 - David Ricardo, economist 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 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 - Barbara K. Olson, television commentator, and 3,000 others, killed in the September 11 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. September 10 · September 12 · August 11 · October 11 · more historical anniversaries
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