September 11

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 kills more than 3,000 in the US.

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

• 1851 - Sylvester Graham inventor of Graham cracker
• 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 Reagan 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.

See Also: January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December - more historical anniversaries