September 11

September 11 is the 254th day of the year (255th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. 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).

Events

• 1297 - Battle of Stirling Bridge: Scots led by William Wallace defeat the English.
• 1541 - Santiago, Chile, is destroyed by indigenous warriors, lead by Michimalonko.
• 1649 - Siege of Drogheda ends: Oliver Cromwell's English Parliamentarian troops take the town and execute its garrison.
• 1683 - Battle of Vienna starts.
• 1697 - Battle of Zenta
• 1708 - Charles XII of Sweden stops his march to conquer Moscow outside Smolensk, marking the turning point in the Great Northern War. The army is defeated nine months later in the battle of Poltava, and the Swedish empire is no longer a major power.
• 1709 - Battle of Malplaquet: Great Britain, Netherlands and Austria fight against France.
• 1714 - Barcelona surrenders to Spanish and French 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.
• 1814 - The climax of the Battle of Plattsburgh, a major United States victory in the War of 1812.
• 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.
• 1914 - Australia invades New Britain, defeating a German contingent there.
• 1919 - U.S. Marines invade Honduras.
• 1940 - World War II: Buckingham Palace is damaged during a German air raid.
• 1941 - Ground broken for the construction of The Pentagon.
• 1941 - World War II: U.S. 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 U.S. Army cross the western border of Nazi Germany.
• 1944 - World War II: RAF bombing raid on Darmstadt and the following firestorm kill 11,500.
• 1945 - World War II: Liberation of the Japanese-run POW and civilian internee camp at Batu Lintang, Kuching, Sarawak on the island of Borneo by Australian 9th Division forces. Over 2,000 prisoners, including women and children, were due to be executed on September 15.
• 1959 - Lee Harvey Oswald is discharged from the United States Marine Corps.
• 1965 - The 1st Cavalry Division of the United States Army arrives in Vietnam.
• 1973 - A CIA backed coup in Chile headed by General Augusto Pinochet topples the democratically elected President Salvador Allende. Pinochet remains in power for almost 17 years.
• 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.
• 1989 - The iron curtain opens between the communist Hungary and Austria. From Hungary thousands of East Germans throng to Austria and West Germany.
• 2001 - Coordinated attacks resulting in the collapse or severe damage of several skyscrapers at the World Trade Center in New York City, destruction of the western portion of The Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, and an intentional passenger airliner crash in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. In total, 2,974 people are killed in these coordinated attacks.
• 2007 - Russia tested the largest conventional bomb, the Father of All Bombs.

Births

• 1182 - Minamoto no Yoriie, Japanese shogun (d. 1204)
• 1862 - Julian Byng, British army officer (d. 1935)
• 1899 - Philipp Bouhler, German nazi leader (d. 1945)

Deaths

• 1298 - Philip of Artois, French soldier (b. 1269)
• 1865 - Christophe Léon Louis Juchault de Lamoricière, French general (b. 1806)
• 1917 - Georges Guynemer, French World War I aviator (b. 1894)
• 1968 - René Cogny, French General (b. 1904)
• 2001 - Victims of the September 11, 2001 attacks

Holidays or Observations

• Patriot Day (USA) - Anniversary of the September 11 attacks.

External Links

• BBC: On This Day
• On This Day in Canada