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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 The Pentagon in the United States.
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- 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.
- 1609 - Expulsion order announced against the MoriscoMorisco (Spanish "Moor-like") or mourisco (Portuguese) is a term referring to a kind of New Christian' in Spain and Portugal. From the late 1400s to the early 1600s Moors (Iberian Muslims) were forced to convert from Islam to Catholicism. The Moriscos wers of ValenciaThis article is about the original city in Spain called "Valencia". For other uses of the name, see Valencia (disambiguation). Valencia ( Spanish: Valencia /ba'lenθja/; Valencian: Valencia /v'lεnsj/) is a medium-sized port city (the third la; beginning of the expulsion of all SpainThe Kingdom of Spain is a country located in the southwest of Europe. It shares the Iberian Peninsula with Portugal, Gibraltar and Andorra. To the northeast, along the Pyrenees mountain range, it borders France and the tiny principality of Andorra. It inc's Moriscos
- 1709Events January 12 Two-month freezing period begins in France The coast of the Atlantic and Seine River freeze, crops fail and at least 24. 000 Parisians die February 2 Alexander Selkirk is rescued from shipwreck on a desert island, inspiring the book Robi - Battle of MalplaquetThe Battle of Malplaquet was a battle of the War of the Spanish Succession that took place on September 11, 1709 between France and a British- Austrian alliance (known as the Allies). The British and Austrians were led by the Duke of Marlborough and Princ - Great BritainThe United Kingdom of Great Britain was created by the merger of the Kingdoms of Scotland and England in 1707 (see Act of Union 1707). A single parliament and government, based in Westminster in London, ran the entire kingdom. They had shared a monarch si, NetherlandsDutch redirects here. For other uses, see Dutch (disambiguation). The Netherlands ( Dutch: Nederland is the European part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, a constitutional monarchy. It is located in northwestern Europe and borders the North Sea, Belgium and AustriaAustria is a landlocked country in Central Europe, a federation of nine states. Austria is bordered by Germany and the Czech Republic to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the defeat France.
- 1714 - Barcelona surrenders to Spanish and French Bourbonic armies in the War of the Spanish Succession.
- 1776 - British- American peace conference on Staten Island fails to stop nascent American Revolution.
- 1777 - Battle of Brandywine
- 1786 - The Beginning of the Annapolis Convention.
- 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.
- 1858 - George Mary Searle discovers the asteroid 55 Pandora.
- 1888 - Death of the Argentine politician Domingo Sarmiento, after which the Latin American Teacher's Day was chosen.
- 1914 - Australia invades New Britain, defeating German contingent there.
- 1918 - The Boston Red Sox won the World Series; they would do so again on October 27, 2004 after 86 years.
- 1919 - US Marines invade Honduras.
- 1921 - Fatty Arbuckle arrested for rape.
- 1922 - British Mandate of Palestine begins.
- 1922 - One of the Herald Sun of Melbourne, Australia's predecessor papers The Sun News-Pictorial is founded.
- 1926 - Assassination attempt on Benito Mussolini fails.
- 1931 - Salvatore Maranzano is murdered by Charles Luciano's hitmen.
- 1932 - Franciszek Zwirko and Stanislaw Wigura , Polish Challenge 1932 winners, killed in a plane crash as their RWD 6 crashed in the ground during a storm.
- 1940 - George Stibitz pioneered the first remote operation of a computer.
- 1941 - Ground broken for the construction of The Pentagon.
- 1941 - World War II: US Navy ordered to attack German U-boats.
- 1943 - World War II: German troops occupy Corsica and Kosovo-Metohien
- 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 US Army cross the western border of Nazi Germany
- 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 - A military coup in Chile headed by General Augusto Pinochet topple elected Marxist President Salvador Allende. The CIA had attempted to oust Allende for 3 years before this.
- 1981 - The Pee-wee Herman Show airs as a special on HBO
- 1985 - Pete Rose gets his 4,192nd career base hit, breaking Ty Cobb's record which stood for over 60 years.
- 1987 - 9-1-1 Emergency Number Day
- 1989 - The iron curtain opens between the communist Hungary and Austria. From Hungary thousands of East Germans throng to Austria and West Germany.
- 1990 - Céline Dion releases her first English-language album, Unison.
- 1992 - Hurricane Iniki, the third most damaging hurricane in United States history so far, devastates the State of Hawai'i, especially the islands of Kaua'i and Oahu.
- 1997 - Scotland votes to re-establish its own Parliament on the 700th anniversary of the Battle of Stirling Bridge, 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 destroy the World Trade Center in New York City, part of The Pentagon in Washington, D.C., and down a passenger airliner in Pennsylvania. In total, almost 3,000 are killed.
- 2003 - Swedish foreign minister Anna Lindh dies after being fatally wounded on September 10.
