September 11

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

It is usually the first day of the Coptic calendar and Ethiopian calendar (in the period AD 1900 to AD 2099).

Media Usage

The terms "September 11", "11th September", 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 of America.

In other places of the world the media also uses it as shorthand for other events, for example, the September 11, 1973 Coup D'Etat in Chile is referred to as "El 11 de Septiembre" ("September 11" in Spanish) as shorthand for the Coup events.

Events

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 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.
1609 - Henry Hudson lands on Manhattan island.
1683 - Battle of Vienna
1690 - 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 massacre its garrison.
1708 - Charles XII of Sweden stop outside Smolensk heading (by the lack of food since the Russians use the tactic of the burning soil) to the south, culminating in the disastrous battle of Poltava, the end of Sweden as a major power.
1709 - Battle of Malplaquet: Great Britain, Netherlands and Austria fight against 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 - 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 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.
1814 - The climax of the Battle of Plattsburgh, which ended 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.
1869 - Work completed on the Wallace Monument.
1888 - Death of the Argentine politician Domingo Sarmiento, after whom the Latin American Teacher's Day was chosen.
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.
1911 - Middle Tennessee State University is founded in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, as Middle Tennessee Normal School.
1914 - Australia invades New Britain, defeating a German contingent there.
1916 - The Quebec Bridge collapses for a second time, killing 11 men. The bridge initially collapsed on August 29, 1907.
1918 - Baseball: The Boston Red Sox won the World Series; they would not do so again until October 27, 2004 after 86 years.
1919 - US Marines invade Honduras.
1921 - Motion picture star Fatty Arbuckle is arrested for rape.
1922 - The British Mandate of Palestine begins.
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.
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-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 US Army cross the western border of Nazi Germany. The RAF bombing raid on Darmstadt and the following firestorm kill 11,500.
1948 - Henri Queuille becomes Prime Minister of France.
1955 - Dedication of the first Temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Europe, the Bern Switzerland Temple.
1960 - Young Americans for Freedom meeting at home of William F. Buckley, Jr. promulgates the Sharon Statement.
1961 - Formation of the World Wildlife Fund.
1962 - The Beatles record their debut single, Love Me Do.
1965 - The 1st Cavalry Division of the United States Army arrives in Vietnam.
1970 - The Ford Pinto is introduced.
1971 - The becomes official.
1972 - Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) in America begins regular service.
1973 - A military 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 Airlines Flight 212 crashes in 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.
1981 - The Pee-wee Herman Show airs as a special on HBO.
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 - 9-1-1 Emergency Number Day.
1987 - CBS Evening News anchor Dan Rather, angry over being preempted for a tennis match, marches off the set, leaving affiliates with six minutes of an empty news desk.
1987 - Reggae musician Peter Tosh is murdered in his own home in Kingston.
1989 - The iron curtain opens between the communist Hungary and Austria. From Hungary thousands of East Germans throng to Austria and West Germany.
1990 - 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.
1992 - Hurricane Iniki, one of the most damaging hurricane in United States history during its time, devastates the State of Hawai'i, especially the islands of Kaua'i and Oahu.
1996 - Union Pacific Railroad purchases Southern Pacific Railroad
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 U.S. Congress accusing President Bill Clinton of 11 possible impeachable offenses.
1998 - Yevgeny Primakov is appointed Prime Minister of Russia.
1998 - Opening ceremony for the 1998 Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Malaysia was the first Asian country to host the games.
1999 - Tennis: Serena Williams, 2 weeks short of her 18th birthday, wins her first Grand Slam tournament when she became US Open champion, becoming the first African American woman to win a Grand Slam tournament since Althea Gibson in 1958.
2000 - Activists protest against the World Economic Forum meeting in Melbourne, Australia. See S11.
2001 - The September 11 attacks destroy the World Trade Center in New York City, part of The Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, and crash a passenger airliner in Pennsylvania. In total almost 3,000 are killed.
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 - Petros VII, the (Greek Orthodox) Patriarch of Alexandria and his company are killed in an unexplained helicopter crash outside Mount Athos, Greece.
2005 - The State of Israel officially declares an end to military rule in the Gaza Strip after 38 years of occupation.

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)
1798 - Franz Ernst Neumann, German mineralogist and physicist (d. 1895)
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)
1860 - Marianne von Werefkin, Russian-Swiss painter (d. 1938)
1862 - O. Henry, American writer (d. 1910)
1865 - Rainis, Latvian poet and playwright (d. 1929)
1885 - D.H. Lawrence, English novelist (d. 1930)
1899 - Jimmie Davis, composer (d. 2000)
1903 - Theodor Adorno, German sociologist (d. 1969)
1913 - Paul "Bear" Bryant, American football coach (d. 1983)
1917 - Ferdinand Marcos, President of the Philippines (d. 1989)
1917 - Jessica Mitford, British writer (d. 1996)
1923 - Dharmsamrat Paramhans Swami Madhavananda, Hindu guru
1924 - Tom Landry, American football coach (d. 2000)
1927 - G. David Schine, American businessman (d. 1996)
1927 - Vernon Corea, Sri Lankan broadcaster (d. 2002)
1932 - Peter Anderson, English footballer
1933 - Dr. William L. Pierce, American author and activist (d. 2002)
1935 - Arvo Pärt, Estonian composer
1935 - Gherman Titov, second man in space (d. 2000)
1937 - Iosif Kobzon, Soviet singer and Russian businessman
1939 - Charles Geschke, American inventor and businessman
1940 - Brian de Palma, American film director
1940 - Theodore Olson, U.S. Solicitor General
1942 - Lola Falana, American singer
1943 - Mickey Hart, American drummer (Grateful Dead)
1943 - Raymond Villeneuve, Canadian terrorist
1944 - Everaldo, Brazilian football player
1945 - Franz Beckenbauer, German footballer
1945 - Felton Perry, American actor
1948 - John Martyn, English musician
1950 - Barry Sheene, British motorcyclist
1958 - Roxann Dawson, American actress
1958 - Scott Patterson, American actor
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
1964 - Ellis Burks, baseball player
1964 - Victor Wooten, American musician
1965 - Bashar al-Assad, The current President of Syria
1965 - Paul Heyman, American wrestling manager
1965 - Moby, American musician
1965 - David Roe, English snooker player
1966 - Princess Akishino, Wife of Prince Akishino, Japanese Imperial Family
1967 - Maria Bartiromo, Financial Broadcast Journalist
1967 - Harry Connick, Jr., American singer
1968 - Kay Hanley, American musician
1969 - Eduardo Perez, American baseball player
1971 - Richard Ashcroft, British singer
1976 - Elephant Man, Jamaican musician
1977 - Ludacris, American rapper
1977 - Matthew Stevens, Welsh snooker player
1978 - Ed Reed, American football player
1979 - Nathan Gale, American murderer (d. 2004)
1979 - Ariana Richards, American actress
1979 - Frank Francisco, Major League Baseball pitcher
1981 - Dylan Klebold, Columbine high school shooter (d. 1999)
1982 - Shriya Saran, South Indian actress

Deaths

1161 - Queen Melisende of Jerusalem (b. 1105)
1185 - Stephanus Hagiochristophorites, Byzantine courtier
1279 - Robert Kilwardby, Archbishop of Canterbury
1298 - Philip of Artois, French soldier (b. 1269)
1349 - Bonne of Luxembourg, wife of John II of France (b. 1315)
1599 - Beatrice Cenci, Italian noblewoman executed for conspiring to kill her father (b. 1577)
1677 - James Harrington, English politicial philosopher (b. 1611)
1680 - Roger Crab, English Puritan political writer (b. 1621)
1680 - Emperor Go-Mizunoo of Japan (b. 1596)
1721 - Rudolf Jakob Camerarius, German botanist and physician (b. 1665)
1760 - Louis Godin, French astronomer (b. 1704)
1823 - David Ricardo, economist
1843 - Joseph Nicollet, mathematician and explorer
1851 - Sylvester Graham, American nutritionist
1865 - Christophe Léon Louis Juchault de Lamoricière, French general (b. 1806)
1888 - Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, President of Argentina
1911 - Louis Henri Boussenard, French novelist (b. 1847)
1921 - Subramanya Bharathy, Tamil poet (b. 1882)
1931 - Salvatore Maranzano, crime boss
1932 - Franciszek Żwirko and Stanisław Wigura, Polish pilots (plane crash)
1939 - Konstantin Korovin, Russian painter (b. 1861)
1948 - Muhammad Ali Jinnah, founder of Pakistan
1950 - Jan Smuts, South African soldier and statesman
1956 - Billy Bishop, Canadian pilot in World War I
1958 - Robert W. Service, Scottish-born Canadian poet
1966 - C. E. Woolman, American airline magnate
1971 - Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev, Soviet politician and leader (b. 1894)
1972 - Max Fleischer, American animator (b. 1883)
1973 - Salvador Allende, President of Chile (b. 1908)
1978 - Georgi Markov, Bulgarian dissident (assassinated) (b. 1929)
1978 - Janet Parker, medical photographer, the final victim of smallpox
1978 - Ronnie Peterson, Swedish F1 driver. Crashed on Monza circuit.
1984 - Jerry Voorhis, American politician (b. 1901)
1985 - William Alwyn, English composer (b. 1905)
1987 - Lorne Greene, Canadian actor (b. 1915)
1987 - Peter Tosh, Jamaican musician and singer (b. 1944)
1988 - John Sylvester White, American actor (b. 1919)
1990 - Myrna Mack, Guatemalan anthropologist (assassinated) (b. 1949)
1993 - Erich Leinsdorf, Austrian conductor (b. 1912)
1993 - Antoine Izméry, Haitian pro-democracy activist (assassinated)
1994 - Jessica Tandy, American actress (b. 1909)
1994 - William Obanhein, police officer, mentioned in "Alice's Restaurant" (b. 1924)
1995 - Anita Harding, neurologist
1998 - Dane Clark, American actor (b. 1913)
1999 - Gonzalo Rodriguez, Uruguayan auto racing driver (b. 1972)
2001 - September 11, 2001 attacks
- David Angell, American sitcom creator (b. 1946)
- Muhammad Atta, Egyptian terrorist (b. 1968)
- Todd Beamer, passenger on United Airlines Flight 93 (b. 1968)
- Betty Ong, flight attendant on American Airlines Flight 11 (b. 1956)
- Madeline Amy Sweeney, flight attendant on American Airlines Flight 11
- Angel L. Juarbe, Jr., American firefighter, winner of Murder in Small Town X (b. 1966)
- John P. O'Neill, former FBI agent, and Director of Security at the World Trade Center (b. 1952)
- Barbara Olson, American political commentator (b. 1955)
2002 - Kim Hunter, American actress (b. 1922)
2002 - Johnny Unitas, American football player (b. 1933)
2003 - Anna Lindh, Swedish Minister for Foreign Affairs (assassinated) (b. 1957)
2003 - John Ritter, American actor (b. 1948)
2004 - Patriarch Peter VII of Alexandria (helicopter crash) (b. 1949)
2004 - Fred Ebb, American lyricist (b. 1933)
2004 - David Mann, U.S. artist (emphysema) (b. 1939)
2005 - Chris Schenkel, American sportscaster (b. 1923)

Holidays

RC Saints - Virgin of the Holy cave; Saint Deiniol, Our Lady of Coromoto, Protus and Hyacinth
Also see September 11 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Coptic Orthodox Church - Feast of Neyrouz, the New Year's Day in the Coptic calendar
New Year's Day in the Ethiopian calendar (Enkutatash)
Catalonia - National Day
Latin America Teacher's Day, after the death of Argentine Domingo F. Sarmiento
Death anniversary of Muhammad Ali Jinnah, founder of Pakistan

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.
Patriot Day (USA) - Anniversary of the September 11 attacks
Feast day of Saint Deiniol

External links

September 10 · September 12 · August 11 · October 11 · more historical anniversaries

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