On this day in History - Sep. 11

• 1161 - Melisende dies (b. 1105). Queen of Jerusalem
• 1182 - Minamoto no Yoriie was born (d. 1204). Japanese shogun.
• 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.
• 1279 - Robert Kilwardby dies. Archbishop of Canterbury.
• 1297 - Battle of Stirling Bridge: - Scots led by William Wallace “Braveheart" defeat the English.
• 1298 - Philip of Artois dies (b. 1269). French soldier.
• 1349 - Bonne of Luxembourg dies (b. 1315). Wife of John II of France
• 1522 - Ulisse Aldrovandi was born (d. 1605). Italian naturalist.
• 1524 - Pierre de Ronsard was born (d. 1585). French poet.
• 1541 - Santiago, Chile, is destroyed by indigenous warriors / En Chile, ataque y destrucción de la recientemente fundada ciudad de Santiago a manos del cacique Michimalonco.
• 1541 - Guatemala, un terremoto destruye totalmente la ciudad de Guatemala.
• 1599 - Beatrice Cenci dies (b. 1577). Italian noblewoman executed for conspiring to kill her father
• 1609 - Henry Hudson lands on Manhattan island.
• 1609 - Expulsion order announced against the Moriscos of Valencia; beginning of the expulsion of all Spain's Moriscos
• 1611 - Henri de la Tour d'Auvergne, Vicomte de Turenne was born (d. 1675). Marshal of France.
• 1649 - Oliver Cromwell seized Drogheda, Ireland. 3,000 inhabitants were massacred and all Catholic Churches were blown up by cannon
• 1649 - Siege of Drogheda ends: Oliver Cromwell's English Parliamentarian troops take the town and massacre its garrison.
• 1658 - Nasce Sóror Mariana do Céu, freira e escritora barrica portuguesa
• 1677 - James Harrington dies (b. 1611). English politicial philosopher.
• 1680 - Roger Crab dies (b. 1621). English Puritan political writer.
• 1680 - Emperor Go-Mizunoo of Japan dies (b. 1596)
• 1681 - Johann Gottlieb Heineccius was born (d. 1741). German jurist.
• 1683 - Christian Army under the command of the King of Poland defeats an invading Muslim Army attempting to take Vienna.
• 1700 - James Thomson was born. Scottish poet and songwriter (“Rule Britannia”).
• 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 defeat France.
• 1711 - William Boyce was born (d. 1779). English composer.
• 1714 - Barcelona surrenders to Spanish and French Bourbonic armies in the War of the Spanish Succession.
• 1721 - Rudolf Jakob Camerarius dies (b. 1665). German botanist and physician.
• 1723 - Johann Bernhard Basedow was born (d. 1790). German educational reformer
• 1733 - François Couperin dies (b. 1668). French composer.
• 1740 - Nasce Dom Frei Caetano Brandão, Bispo do Pará, Arcebispo de Braga († 1805)
• 1760 - Louis Godin dies (b. 1704). French astronomer.
• 1773 - The Public Advertiser publishes a satrical essay titled Rules By Which A Great Empire May Be Reduced To A Small One, which is written by Benjamin Franklin.
• 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.
• 1786 - Friedrich Kuhlau was born (d. 1832). German composer,
• 1788 - Morre José, Duque de Bragança (n. 1761). Príncipe herdeiro de Portugal.
• 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.
• 1798 - Franz Ernst Neumann was born. German mineralogist, mathematician and physicist.
• 1802 - Aleksandr Radischchev dies. Russian writer.
• 1808 - José Celestino Mutis dies. Spanish mathematician and botanist.
• 1814 - The climax of the Battle of Plattsburgh, which ended the War of 1812.
• 1816 - Carl Zeiss was born (d. 1888). German lens maker.
• 1823 - David Ricardo dies. English (classic school) economist (The wealth of Nations).
• 1823 - Morre Hipólito José da Costa (n. 1774). Jornalista e diplomata brasileiro. Foi fundador do Correio Brasiliense.
• 1825 - Eduard Hanslick was born (d. 1904). Music critic.
• 1836 - Brasil: Rebeldes farroupilhas proclamam a República Rio-Grandense (v. Guerra dos Farrapos)
• 1836 - Fitz Hugh Ludlow was born (d. 1870). Author.
• 1838 - John Ireland was born (d. 1918). American Catholic archbishop.
• 1843 - Joseph Nicollet dies. Mathematician and explorer.
• 1847 - Stephen Foster's most memorable song, Oh! Susanna, is first performed at a saloon in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
• 1851 - Sylvester Graham dies. American nutritionist.
• 1855 - Manuel Basilio Bustamante assume a presidência do Uruguai
• 1857 - The Mountain Meadows Massacre: Mormon settlers and Paiutes massacre 120 pioneers at Mountain Meadows, Utah.
• 1858 - George Mary Searle discovers the asteroid 55 Pandora.
• 1860 - Honduras, fusilan al aventurero estadounidense William Walker, quien se había poderado de Nicaragua.
• 1860 - Marianne von Werefkin was born (d. 1938). Russian-Swiss painter.
• 1862 - O. Henry was born (d. 1910). American writer
• 1862 - Julian Byng was born (d. 1935). British army officer
• 1862 - O. Henry (William Sydney Porter) was born (d. 1910). Short-story writer (“The Gift of the Magi”; “The Last Leaf.” )
• 1865 - Rainis was born (d. 1929). Latvian poet and playwright.
• 1865 - Christophe Léon Louis Juchault de Lamoricière dies (b. 1806). French general.
• 1869 - Work completed on the Wallace Monument
• 1875 - Se establece la Academia Mexicana de la Lengua
• 1877 - James Jeans was born (d. 1946). English physicist, mathematician and astronomer who was was the first to propose that matter is continuously created throughout the universe.
• 1885 - D.H. Lawrence was born ( † 1930). English novelist ( "Lady Chatterley's Lover”; “Sons and Lovers").
• 1887 - José Cuneo was born. Uruguyan painter.
• 1888 - Death of the Argentine politician Domingo Sarmiento, after whom the Latin American Teacher's Day was chosen.
• 1888 - Domingo Faustino Sarmiento dies. President of Argentina and writer.
• 1891 - Antero de Quental dies (b. 1842). Portugese writer /Morre Antero de Quental (n. 1842). Escritor português.
• 1892 - Lucien Buysse was born (d. 1980). Belgian cyclist.
• 1893 - First World Parliament of Religions conference held.
• 1897 - After months of pursuit, generals of Menelik II of Ethiopia capture Gaki Sherocho, he last king of Kaffa, bringing an end to that ancient kingdom.
• 1899 - Jimmie Davis was born (d. 2000). Composer.
• 1903 - Theodor Adorno was born († 1969). German philosopher.
• 1906 - Mahatma Gandhi starts Non-Violence movement
• 1910 - Gerhard Schroder was born. German chancellor.
• 1911 - Middle Tennessee State University is founded in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, as Middle Tennessee Normal School.
• 1911 - Louis Henri Boussenard dies (b. 1847). French novelist.
• 1913 - Jacinto Convit was born. Venezuelan physician and scientist.
• 1913 - Paul "Bear" Bryant was born (d. 1983). American football coach.
• 1914 - Australia invades New Britain, defeating German contingent there.
• 1915 - William Cornelius Van Horne dies ( b. 1843). North American railway executive
• 1916 - The Quebec Bridge collapses for a second time, killing 11 men. The bridge initially collapsed on August 29, 1907.
• 1917 - Ferdinand Marcos was born (d. 1989). President of the Philippines.
• 1917 - Jessica Mitford was born (d. 1996). Writer (The American Way of Death).
• 1917 - Georges Guynemer dies (b. 1894). French World War 1 aviator.
• 1918 - Baseball: The Boston Red Sox won the World Series; they would do so again on October 27, 2004 after 86 years.
• 1918 - Joaquín Arcadio Pagaza dies. Mexican writer.
• 1919 - US Marines invade Honduras.
• 1921 - Motion picture star Fatty Arbuckle is arrested for rape.
• 1921 - Subramanya Bharathy dies (b. 1882). Tamil poet.
• 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.
• 1922 - The Treaty of Kars is ratified in Yerevan, Armenia.
• 1923 - Dharmsamrat Paramhans Swami Madhavananda was born. Hindu guru
• 1924 - Tom Landry was born (d. 2000). American football coach.
• 1924 - Daniel Akaka was born. Chinese-American US senator
• 1924 - Rudolf Vrba was born (d. 2006). Jewish Canadian professor, Holocaust survivor.
• 1925 - Harry Somers was born (d. 1999). Canadian composer.
• 1926 - An assassination attempt on Benito Mussolini fails.
• 1926 - Eddie Miksis was born (d. 2005). Baseball player.
• 1927 - Vernon Corea was born (d. 2002). Sri Lankan broadcaster.
• 1927 - G. David Schine was born (d. 1996). Businessman.
• 1928 - Earl Holliman was born. American actor
• 1931 - Calixto Oyuela é eleito presidente da Academia Argentina de Letras
• 1931 - Salvatore Maranzano is murdered by Charles Luciano's hitmen. Crime boss
• 1932 - Franciszek Żwirko and Stanisław Wigura, Polish Challenge 1932 winners, killed in a plane crash as their RWD 6 crashed in the ground during a storm.
• 1932 - Valentino was born in Milan, Italy. Fashion designer for Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.
• 1932 - Peter Anderson was born. English footballer.
• 1933 - Dr. William L. Pierce was born (d. 2002). Author and activist.
• 1933 - Susan Sontag was born (d. 2004). Author.
• 1934 - Oliver Jones was born. Quebec jazz pianist
• 1935 - Arvo Pärt was born. Estonian composer
• 1935 - Gherman Titov was born (d. 2000). Cosmonaut.
• 1937 - Iosif Kobzon was born. Soviet singer and Russian businessman.
• 1937 - Queen Paola Ruffo di Calabria of Belgium was born.
• 1937 - Robert Crippen was born. American astronaut.
• 1939 - Charles Geschke was born. American inventor and businessman
• 1939 - Konstantin Korovin dies (b. 1861). Russian painter.
• 1940 - Brian de Palma was born in Newark, NJ.. Director (Body Double, Dressed to Kill)
• 1940 - Theodore Olson was born. U.S. Solicitor General
• 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.
• 1942 - Morte de Bento Gonçalves (n. 1902). Ex-secretário geral do Partido Comunista Português.
• 1942 - Lola Falana was born. Singer
• 1943 - Mickey Hart was born. Musician
• 1943 - Gilbert Proesch was born. Musican (Gilbert and George)
• 1943 - Raymond Villeneuve was born. Canadian terrorist.
• 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
• 1944 - Everaldo was born. Brazilian football player
• 1945 - Franz Beckenbauer was born. German footballer
• 1945 - Felton Perry was born. American actor
• 1946 - Portugal torna-se membro da Food and Agriculture Organization - FAO
• 1948 - John Martyn was born. English musician.
• 1948 - Henri Queuille becomes Prime Minister of France.
• 1948 - Muhammad Ali Jinnah dies. Founder of Pakistan
• 1950 - Jan Smuts dies. South African soldier and statesman
• 1950 - Barry Sheene was born. British motorcyclist.
• 1953 - Tommy Shaw was born. American musician, lead singer of Styx
• 1954 - The Miss America pageant made its network TV debut on ABC; Miss California, Lee Ann Meriwether, was crowned the winner.
• 1955 - Dedication of the first Temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Europe, the Bern Switzerland Temple.
• 1956 - Billy Bishop dies. Canadian pilot in World War I
• 1958 - Roxann Dawson was born. American actress.
• 1958 - Scott Patterson was born. American actor
• 1958 - Robert W. Service dies. Scottish-born Canadian poet.
• 1958 - Camillien Houde dies (b. 1889). French Canadian politician, mayor of Montreal
• 1960 - Young Americans for Freedom meeting at home of William F. Buckley, Jr. promulgates the Sharon Statement.
• 1961 - Formation of the World Wildlife Fund.
• 1961 - Virginia Madsen was born. American actress
• 1961 - Philip Ardagh was born. British writer.
• 1962 - Elizabeth Daily was born. American actress.
• 1962 - Filip Dewinter was born. Belgian politician
• 1962 - Kristy McNichol was born. American actress
• 1962 - Filip Dewinter was born. Belgian politician
• 1962 - The Beatles record their debut single, Love Me Do.
• 1963 - Dr Patrick McWilliams was born. Irish author.
• 1964 - Victor Wooten was born. American musician
• 1964 - Ellis Burks was born. Baseball player
• 1964 - Roxann Dawson was born. Actress
• 1964 - Victor Wooten was born. American musician
• 1965 - Moby was born. American musician
• 1965 - Paul Heyman was born. Professional wrestling promoter, manager and writer
• 1965 - David Roe was born. English snooker player
• 1965 - Bashar al-Assad was born. Syrian dictator
• 1965 - The 1st Cavalry Division of the United States Army arrives in Vietnam.
• 1966 - Princess Akishino was born. Wife of Prince Akishino, Japanese Imperial Family
• 1966 - C. E. Woolman dies. American airline magnate
• 1967 - Harry Connick, Jr. was born. American singer
• 1967 - Maria Bartiromo was born. Financial Broadcast Journalist
• 1968 - Kay Hanley was born. American musician
• 1969 - Eduardo Perez was born. American baseball player
• 1970 - The Ford Pinto is introduced.
• 1970 - 88 of the hostages from the Dawson's Field hijackings are released. The remaining hostages, mostly Jews or Israeli citizens, are held until September 25.
• 1971 - The Egyptian Constitution becomes official.
• 1971 - Richard Ashcroft was born. British singer.
• 1971 - Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev dies. Soviet politician and leader
• 1972 - Max Fleischer dies. American animator
• 1972 - Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) begins regular service.
• 1972 - The troubled 20th Olympic games closed at Munich, Germany.
• 1973 - A military coup in Chile headed by General Augusto Pinochet (with the suport of USA) topples the democratically elected President Salvador Allende.
• 1973 - Salvador Allende dies (b. 1908). President of Chile.
• 1974 -É criada a Frente Revolucionária de Timor Leste Independente (FRETILIN).
• 1974 - An Eastern Airlines DC-9, Flight 212, crashed 3 miles from the Douglas Municipal Airport in North Carolina. Of the 82 persons aboard the aircraft, 11 and two crewmembers survived the accident.
• 1976 - Elephant Man was born. Jamaican musician
• 1977 - Ludacris was born. American rapper
• 1977 - Matthew Stevens was born. Welsh snooker player
• 1977 - Jon Buckland was born. British guitarist (Coldplay)
• 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.
• 1978 - Dejan Stankovic was born. Footballer.
• 1978 - Ed Reed was born. American football player.
• 1978 - Ben Lee was born. Australian musician and singer
• 1978 - Georgi Markov dies (assassinated). Bulgarian dissident.
• 1978 - Janet Parker dies. Medical photographer, the final victim of smallpox.
• 1978 - Ronnie Peterson dies crashed on Monza circuit. Swedish F1 driver.
• 1979 - Andols Herrick was born. American drummer (Chimaira)
• 1979 - Nathan Gale was born (d. 2004). American murderer
• 1979 - Ariana Richards was born. American actress.
• 1979 - Frank Francisco was born. Major League Baseball pitcher
• 1980 - Antonio Pizzonia was born. Brazilian formula 1 driver
• 1981 - Dylan Klebold was born (d. 1999). Columbine High School massacre gunman.
• 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.
• 1982 - Shriya Saran was born. South Indian actress
• 1983 - José Fonseca e Costa, realizador português, conquista o Prémio de Melhor Realização com o filme Sem Sombra de Pecado no Festival de Cinema da Corunha, e a actriz Victoria Abril, protagonista no filme, recebe o Prémio para a Melhor Actriz.
• 1984 - Jerry Voorhis dies (b. 1901). American politician.
• 1985 - Ocorre o maior desastre ferroviário registado em Portugal: um choque frontal de dois comboios, a poucos quilómetros do apeadeiro de Moimenta-Alcafache (linha da Beira Alta), provoca 52 mortos.
• 1985 - Baseball: Pete Rose gets his 4,192nd career base hit, breaking Ty Cobb's record which stood for over 60 years.
• 1985 - William Alwyn dies (b. 1905). English composer.
• 1987 - Lorne Greene dies. American actor (Bonanza).
• 1987 - Peter Tosh dies. Jamaican musician and singer.
• 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.
• 1988 - John Sylvester White dies (b. 1919). American actor.
• 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.
• 1990 - Myrna Mack dies assassinated (b. 1949). Guatemalan anthropologist.
• 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.
• 1993 - Erich Leinsdorf dies (b. 1912). Austrian conductor and author (Cadenza).
• 1993 - Antoine Izméry dies assassinated. Haitian pro-democracy activist
• 1994 - Jessica Tandy dies. American actress.
• 1995 - Anita Harding dies. Neurologist.
• 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.
• 1997 - Camille Henry dies (b. 1933). National Hockey League player
• 1998 - Dane Clark dies (b. 1913). American actor.
• 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 shy 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.
• 1999 - Gonzalo Rodriguez dies (b. 1972). Uruguayan auto racing driver.
• 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 Arlington, Virginia, and down a passenger airliner in Pennsylvania. In total, almost 3,000 are killed.
• 2001 - Terrorism: nearly 3,000 people died when two hijacked jetliners crashed into New York's World Trade Center, causing the twin towers to fall, a commandeered jetliner smashed into the Pentagon and a fourth hijacked plane crashed in western Pennsylvania.
• 2002 - Niko was born. A dog that is a great friend mine.
• 2002 - Johnny Unitas dies (b. 1933). American football player.
• 2002 - Kim Hunter dies (b. 1922). American actress.
• 2003 - Swedish foreign minister Anna Lindh dies after being fatally wounded on September 10.
• 2003 - The Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety enters into effect.
• 2003 - Anna Lindh dies assassinated (b. 1957). Swedish Minister for Foreign Affairs.
• 2003 - John Ritter dies (b. 1948). American actor.
• 2004 - Petros VII, the (Greek Orthodox) Patriarch of Alexandria and his company are killed in an unexplained helicopter crash outside Mount Athos, Greece.
• 2004 - Hurricane Ivan lashed Jamaica with monstrous waves, driving rain and winds nearing 155 mph, killing at least 15 people. Total deaths from the hurricane reached 65.
• 2004 - Patriarch Peter VII of Alexandria dies (helicopter crash) (b. 1949).
• 2004 - David Mann dies (b. 1939). American artist.
• 2004 - A tenista russa Svetlana Kusnetsova vence Elena Dementieva e conquista o US Open
• 2004 - Fred Ebb dies (b. 1933). American lyricist.
• 2004 - David Mann dies (b. 1939). U.S. artist
• 2005 - Chris Schenkel dies (b. 1923). American sportscaster.
• 2005 - The State of Israel officially declares an intent to leave the disputed territory, the Gaza Strip after 38 years
• RC Saints - Virgin of the Holy cave; Saint Deiniol, Our Lady of Coromoto, Protus and Hyacinth
• Coptic Orthodox Church - Feast of Neyrouz, the new years day in the Coptic calendar
• New Year's Day in the Ethiopian calendar (Enkutatash)
• Catalonia (Spain) - National Day
• Patriot Day (USA) - Anniversary of the September 11 attacks
• Latin America Teacher's Day, after the death of Argentine Domingo F. Sarmiento