Notable Historical Events on September 11th
September 11th Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
9 |
The Battle of the Teutoburg Forest ends. |
506 |
The bishops of Visigothic Gaul meet in the Council of Agde. |
813 |
Charles the Great crowns Louis I emperor |
1185 |
Isaac II Angelus kills Stephanus Hagiochristophorites and then appeals to the people, resulting in the revolt that deposes Andronicus I Comnenus and places Isaac on the throne of the Byzantine Empire. |
1226 |
The Roman Catholic practice of public adoration of the Blessed Sacrament outside of Mass spreads from monasteries to parishes. |
1297 |
Battle at Stirling Bridge, Scottish rebel William Wallace beats English |
1304 |
Willem III becomes earl of Holland |
1390 |
Lithuanian Civil War (1389-1392): the Teutonic Knights begin a five-week siege of Vilnius. |
1541 |
Santiago, Chile, is destroyed by indigenous warriors, lead by Michimalonko. |
1557 |
Catholic & Lutheran theology debated in Worms |
1609 |
Expulsion order announced against the Moriscos of Valencia; beginning of the expulsion of all Spain's Moriscos. |
1645 |
Thomas Fairfax's 'New Model Army' occupies Bristol |
1648 |
-13] Battle at Pilawce: Bohdan Chmielricki's beats John Casimir [OS] |
1649 |
Massacre of Drogheda, Ireland - Oliver Cromwell kills 3,000 royalists |
1697 |
Battle of Zenta: Prince Eugen of Savoye beats Turks, ending Ottoman control of large parts of Central Europe |
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 at Malplaquet during War of the Spanish Succession: Engl/Aust/Dutch Great Alliance beat France |
1714 |
French & Spanish troops under Duke of Berwick occupy Barcelona |
1741 |
Queen Maria Theresa addresses Hungarian Parliament |
1758 |
Battle of Saint Cast France repels British invasion during the Seven Year's War. |
1773 |
Benjamin Franklin writes "There never was a good war or bad peace" |
1777 |
Battle of Brandywine, Pa; Americans lose to British |
1786 |
Annapolis Convention to determine interstate commerce |
1789 |
Alexander Hamilton appointed 1st Secretary of Treasury |
1792 |
The Hope Diamond is stolen with other crown jewels when six men break into house used to store the jewels. |
1802 |
France annexes the Kingdom of Piedmont. |
1814 |
Begun on the 6th Sept, Americans defeat British at Battle of Plattsburgh during War of 1812 |
1814 |
Battle of Lake Champlain, NY; American Navy defeats British |
1831 |
Charles Darwin meets with capt Fitzroy at Plymouth |
1839 |
1st Canadian track & field meet held (Caer Howell Grounds) |
1847 |
1st singing of Stephen Foster's "Susanna" (in Pittsburgh) |
1850 |
"Swedish Nightingale" Jenny Lind gives 1st US concert |
1852 |
Olympia Columbian is 1st newspaper published north of Columbia R |
1853 |
1st electric telegraph used (Merchant's Exchange to Pt Lobos) |
1857 |
Mountain Meadows Massacre, Mormons dressed as Indians murder 120 colonists in Utah |
1875 |
1st newspaper cartoon strip |
1877 |
Rijkslandbouwhoge school opens in Wageningen |
1881 |
Triple landslides bury Elm Switz |
1883 |
James Cutler patents postal mail chute |
1885 |
Moses Hopkins, named minister to Liberia |
1886 |
Mayflower (US) beats Galatea (England) in 7th America's Cup |
1888 |
Death of the Argentine politician Domingo Sarmiento, after whom the Latin American Teacher's Day is chosen. |
1889 |
Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Crooked Man" (BG) |
1891 |
The Jewish Colonization Association is established by Baron Maurice de Hirsch. |
1893 |
Bronx Gas & Electric Company opens on Frisby & Tremont Ave |
1893 |
Shaku Soen is 1st Zen teacher to visit the West (Chicago) |
1893 |
First conference of the World Parliament of Religions is held. |
1895 |
FA Cup stolen in Birmingham |
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. |
1900 |
President Paul Kruger crosses border into Mozambique |
1903 |
The first race at The Milwaukee Mile in West Allis, Wisconsin is held. It is the oldest major speedway in the world. |
1906 |
Mahatma Gandhi coins the term "Satyagraha" to characterize the Non-Violence movement in South Africa. |
1909 |
Max Wolf rediscovers Halley's comet |
1910 |
1st commercially successful electric bus line opens (Hollywood) |
1912 |
Netherland Olympic Committee forms |
1912 |
Phila A's Eddie Collins steals 6 bases in 1 game |
1914 |
William Christopher Handy publishes "St Louis Blues" |
1914 |
Australia invades New Britain, defeating a German contingent there. |
1916 |
German troops conquer Kavalla Greece |
1916 |
The Quebec Bridge's central span collapses during reconstruction, killing 11 men, following initially total collapsed on August 29, 1907. |
1918 |
Boston Red Sox beat Chicago Cubs, 4 games to 2 in 15th World Series |
1919 |
US marines invade Honduras |
1921 |
Nahalal, the first moshav in Israel, is settled. |
1922 |
British mandate of Palestine begins |
1922 |
Yankees play their farewell home game in Polo Grounds win doubleheader |
1922 |
The Treaty of Kars is ratified in Yerevan, Armenia. |
1922 |
One of the Herald Sun of Melbourne, Australia's predecessor papers The Sun News-Pictorial is founded. |
1923 |
After a single, Red Sox Howard Ehmke retires next 27 Yanks |
1923 |
Bernie Neis, hits the 1,000th Dodger home run |
1923 |
ZR-1 (biggest active dirigible) flies over NY's tallest skyscraper, Woolworth Tower |
1926 |
21st Davis Cup: USA beats France in Philadelphia (4-1), for their 7th straight championship |
1926 |
Aloha Tower dedicated in Honolulu |
1926 |
Spain leaves League of Nation due to Germany joining |
1926 |
Yanks' Bob Meusel ties record with 3 sacrifice flies |
1927 |
After losing 21 in a row to NY, the Browns win their last meeting, 6-2 |
1927 |
Babe Ruth hits 50th of 60 homers |
1928 |
1st TV drama-WGY's Queens Messenger |
1928 |
Ty Cobb last hitting appearance, pops out against Yankees |
1929 |
SF Mayor Rolph inaugurates new pedestrian traffic light system |
1930 |
Stromboli volcano (Sicily) throws 2-ton basaltic rocks 2 miles |
1931 |
Salvatore Maranzano is murdered by Charles Luciano's hitmen. |
1932 |
Franciszek Żwirko and Stanisław Wigura, Polish Challenge 1932 winners, are killed in a plane crash when their RWD 6 crashes into the ground during a storm. |
1933 |
Britain's Fred Perry thwarts Australian Jack Crawford's bid for a Grand Slam by defeating him at US Tennis championship |
1935 |
49th US Womens Tennis: H H Jacobs beats Sarah H Palfrey Fabyan (6-2 6-4) |
1935 |
US captures Davis Cup for 7th straight year |
1936 |
A's pitcher Horace Lisenbee gives up 26 hits in a game |
1936 |
FDR dedicates Boulder Dam, now known as Hoover Dam |
1937 |
51st US Women's Tennis: Anita Lizana beats Jadwiga Jedrzejowska (6-4 6-2) |
1937 |
57th US Men's Tennis: J D Budge beats G v Cramm (6-1 7-9 6-1 3-6 6-1) |
1939 |
Battle of Kutno-pocket: Germans advance to Warsaw |
1939 |
British submarine Triton torpedoes British submarine Oxley |
1939 |
Iraq & Saudi Arabia declare war on nazi-Germany |
1940 |
-12] Buckingham Palace damaged by German bombs |
1940 |
54th US Postmaster General: Frank C Walker of Pa takes office |
1940 |
Anton Mussert establishes Dutch SS |
1940 |
Hitler begins operation Seelöwe (Sealion - aborted invasion England) |
1940 |
George Stibitz pioneers the first remote operation of a computer. |
1941 |
FDR orders any Axis ship found in American waters be shot at on sight |
1941 |
Charles Lindbergh, charges "British, Jewish & Roosevelt administration" are trying to get US into WW II |
1941 |
World War II: The U.S. Navy is ordered to attack German U-boats. |
1941 |
Construction of the Pentagon begins (completed 15 Jan 1943) |
1942 |
Transport nr 31 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany |
1943 |
Allied arm forces conquerors Salerno |
1943 |
Jewish ghettos of Minsk & Lida Belorussia liquidated |
1943 |
Last German Q/pirate ship sinks near Easter Island |
1943 |
US & Australian troops join in Salamaua, New Guinea |
1944 |
FDR & Churchill meet in Canada at 2nd Quebec Conference |
1944 |
US 5th Armored Division is 1st allied force to enter nazi-Germany |
1945 |
Physician Willem J Kolff performs the first successful kidney dialysis using his artificial kidney machine, the Netherlands |
1946 |
1st mobile long-distance car-to-car telephone conversation |
1950 |
"Beetle Bailey" comic strip debuts |
1950 |
1st typesetting machine to dispense with metal type exhibited |
1950 |
33 die in a train crash in Coshocton Ohio |
1950 |
Dick Tracy TV show sparks uproar concerning violence |
1951 |
Stravinsky's opera "Rake's Progress," premieres in Venice |
1951 |
Florence Chadwick becomes 1st woman to swim English Channel from England to France. It takes 16 hours & 19 minutes |
1952 |
West German Chancellor Adenauer signs a reparation pact for Jews |
1953 |
KSBW TV channel 8 in Salinas-Monterey, CA (NBC) begins broadcasting |
1953 |
WEHT TV channel 25 in Evansville, IN (CBS) begins broadcasting |
1954 |
1st Miss America TV broadcast |
1954 |
20.4 cm rainfall at Brunswick, Maine (state record) |
1954 |
KXJB TV channel 4 in Valley City (Fargo) (NBC) begins broadcasting |
1954 |
Lee Meriwether (California), 19, crowned 27th Miss America 1955 (1st on TV) |
1955 |
69th US Womens Tennis: Doris Hart beats Patricia Ward (6-4 6-2) |
1955 |
75th US Mens Tennis: Tony Trabert beats Ken Rosewall beats (9-7 6-3 6-3) |
1955 |
KTVT TV channel 11 in Fort Worth-Dallas, TX (IND) begins broadcasting |
1955 |
Dedication of the first Temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Europe, the Bern Switzerland Temple. |
1956 |
Cin Red Frank Robinson ties rookie record with his 38th HR |
1956 |
Vladimir Kuts runs world record 10k (28:42.8) |
1956 |
Yanks Yogi Berra ties career record for HRs (236) by a catcher |
1958 |
Great Britain performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island |
1959 |
"Duke" Ellington wins Springarn Medal for his musical achievements |
1959 |
Congress passes a bill authorizing food stamps for poor Americans |
1959 |
Elroy Face's 22 game win streak ends as Dodgers beat Pirates 5-4 |
1959 |
Oriole Jerry Walker pitches 16 inn beating White Sox 1-0 |
1960 |
17th Olympic games close in Rome Italy |
1960 |
74th US Womens Tennis: Darlene R Hard beats Maria Fraser (64 1012 64) |
1960 |
80th US Mens Tennis: Neale A Fraser beats Rodney G Laver (64 64 97) |
1960 |
The Young Americans for Freedom, meeting at home of William F. Buckley, Jr., promulgate the Sharon Statement. |
1961 |
Foundation of the World Wildlife Fund. |
1962 |
Beatles cut "Love Me Do" & "PS I Love You" with Andy White on drums |
1962 |
Drummer Ringo Starr replaces Pete Best of the Beatles |
1962 |
KVCR TV channel 24 in San Bernardino, CA (PBS) begins broadcasting |
1963 |
Typhoon Gloria strikes Taiwan killing 330, with $17.5 million damage |
1964 |
George Harrison forms Mornyork Ltd music publishing company |
1964 |
Gillette's 20 year contract with Madison Square Garden & ABC to televise fights for free ends as Dick Tiger defeats Don Fullmer at Cleve Auditorium |
1965 |
Beatles' "Help!," album goes #1 & stays #1 for 9 weeks |
1965 |
Braves 2nd straight one-hitter against the Mets |
1965 |
The 1st Cavalry Division of the United States Army arrives in Vietnam. |
1966 |
80th US Womens Tennis: M Esther Bueno-Fraiser beats N Richey (63 61) |
1966 |
86th US Mens Tennis: Fred Stolle beats John Newcombe (46 12-10 63 64) |
1966 |
France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
1966 |
Johnny Miller becomes 1st Yank to hit a HR on his 1st at bat |
1966 |
Mickey Wright wins LPGA Pacific Ladies' Golf Classic |
1966 |
Rolling Stones perform on Ed Sullivan Show |
1967 |
A's drop grievance filed with Natl Labor Relations against C Finley |
1967 |
Beatles' Magical Mystery Bus driven around England |
1967 |
French president De Gaulle visits Poland |
1967 |
Indian/Chinese border fights |
1967 |
US Surveyor 5 makes 1st chemical analysis of lunar material |
1967 |
WSRE TV channel 23 in Pensacola, FL (PBS) begins broadcasting |
1967 |
WUNE TV channel 17 in Linville, NC (PBS) begins broadcasting |
1967 |
WUNF TV channel 33 in Asheville, NC (PBS) begins broadcasting |
1967 |
WUNG TV channel 58 in Concord, NC (PBS) begins broadcasting |
1968 |
Air France Flight 1611 crashes off Nice, France, killing 89 passengers and 6 crew. |
1969 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1970 |
88 of the hostages from the Dawson's Field hijackings are released. The remaining hostages, mostly Jews and Israeli citizens, are held until September 25. |
1970 |
The Ford Pinto is introduced. |
1971 |
"2 by 2" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 343 performances |
1971 |
Egypt adopts its constitution |
1971 |
Laurel Lea Schaefer (Ohio), 22, crowned 44th Miss America 1972 |
1972 |
BART begins service with a 26-mi (42-km) line from Oakland to Fremont |
1973 |
Chile's President Salvador Allende deposed in a military coup |
1974 |
Cards beat Mets, 4-3, in 25 (7h4m), record 202 plate appearances, Félix Millán & John Milner come to bat 12 times each |
1976 |
Dorothy Kathleen Benham (Minn), 20, crowned 49th Miss America 1977 |
1976 |
Minnie Minoso bats for White Sox after a 12-year hiatus (hitless) |
1976 |
90th US Women's Tennis: C E L Mills beats E Goolagong Cawley (63 60) Evonne Goolagong loses her 4th straight US Open Final (Evert wins) |
1977 |
29th Emmy Awards: Mary Tyler Moore Show, Carroll O'Conner & Bea Arthur win |
1977 |
97th US Men's Tennis: Guillermo Vilas beats Jimmy Connors (26 63 75 60) |
1977 |
Joanne Carner wins LPGA National Jewish Hospital Golf Open |
1977 |
TV's Rhoda gets divorced |
1980 |
Chile adopts its constitution |
1980 |
Ron LeFlore (91st) & Rodney Scott (58th), set teammate steal record |
1981 |
2nd government of Van Agt forms in Netherlands |
1982 |
96th US Womens Tennis: C E L Mills beats Hana Mandlikova (63 61) |
1982 |
Debbie Maffett (California), 25, crowned 55th Miss America 1983 |
1982 |
Chris Evert wins her 6th & final US Open Tennis match at West Side Tennis Club in Forest Hills NY |
1983 |
103rd US Men's Tennis: Jimmy Connors beats Ivan Lendl (63 67 75 60) |
1983 |
Franco Harris becomes 3rd NFL to rush 11,000 yards |
1983 |
Joanne Carner wins LPGA Portland Ping Golf Championship |
1983 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1985 |
Intl Cometary Explorer (ISEE 3) passes Giacobini-Zinner by 7900 km |
1985 |
Sri Lanka score their 1st Test Cricket victory, by 149 runs v India |
1985 |
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1986 |
Pres Mubarak receives Israeli premier Peres |
1986 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
1986 |
Dow Jones Industrial Avg suffered biggest 1-day decline ever, plummeting 86.61 points to 1,792.89. 237.57 million shares traded |
1987 |
4th MTV Awards: Peter Gabriel wins |
1987 |
Shoot out at Jean-Bertrand Aristides' church in Haiti, 12 die |
1988 |
1/3 of population argues for Estonia autonomy |
1988 |
Betsy King wins LPGA Cellular One-Ping Golf Championship |
1988 |
Sports Aid-jogging to feed the world |
1988 |
108th US Men's Tennis: Mats Wilander beats Ivan Lendl (64 46 63 57 64) in 4hrs 55 min - longest men's final in US Open history |
1989 |
Drexel formally pleads guilty to security fraud |
1989 |
KSO-AM in Des Moines Iowa changes call letters to KGGO |
1991 |
"La Toya: Growing Up in The Jackson Family" goes on sale |
1991 |
14 die in a Continental Express commuter plane crash near Houston |
1991 |
Air crash at Djeddah, Saudi-Arabia, 263 die |
1991 |
Emmy News & Documentaries Award presentation |
1991 |
NY Yankees final game at Baltimore Oriole's Memorial Stadium |
1991 |
Atlanta Braves Kent Mercker, Mark Wohlers & Alejandro Pena pitched 1st combined no-hitter in NL, beating San Diego Padres, 1-0 |
1992 |
Hurricane Iniki hits Kauai Hawaii; 3 die & 8,000 injured |
1993 |
107th US Women's Tennis: Steffi Graf beats Helena Sukova (6-3 6-3) |
1993 |
Junxia Qu runs 1500m ladies' world record (3:50.46) |
1994 |
114th US Men's Tennis: Andre Agassi beats Michael Stich (61 76 75) |
1994 |
46th Emmy Awards: Fraiser, Picket Fences & Kelsey Grammer win |
1994 |
Jingyi Le swims female world record 50m freestyle |
1994 |
Missie McGeorge wins Ping-Cellular One LPGA Golf Championship |
1995 |
Eastern Tennessee begins using new area code 423 |
1995 |
Ohio's Governor Voinovich proclaims "Cleveland Indians Day" |
1995 |
Soyuz TM-22, lands |
1996 |
Union Pacific Railroad purchases Southern Pacific Railroad. |
1997 |
After a nationwide referendum, Scotland votes to establish a devolved parliament, within the United Kingdom. |
1998 |
Independent counsel Kenneth Starr sends a report to the U.S. Congress accusing President Bill Clinton of 11 possible impeachable offenses. |
1998 |
Opening ceremony for the 1998 Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Malaysia is the first Asian country to host the games. |
2000 |
Activists protest against the World Economic Forum meeting in Melbourne, Australia. |
2001 |
Two passenger planes hijacked by terrorists crashes into New York's World Trade Towers causing the collapse of both & death of 2,752 people |
2001 |
Terrorists hijack a passenger plane and crash it into the Pentagon causing the death of 125 people |
2001 |
Attempt by passengers and crew of United Airlines Flight 93 to retake control of their hijacked plane from terrorists causes plane to crash in Pennsylvania field killing all 64 people onboard |
2002 |
Through extreme and coordinated effort, The Pentagon is rededicated after repairs are completed, exactly one year after the attack on the building. |
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 |
All passengers are killed when a helicopter crashes in the Aegean Sea. Passengers include Patriarch Peter VII of Alexandria and 16 others (including journalists and bishops of the Greek Orthodox Church of Alexandria). |
2005 |
The State of Israel completes its unilateral disengagement from the Gaza Strip. |
2005 |
"Pride & Prejudice", the film adaptation of Jane Austen's novel of the same name, starring Keira Knightley as Elizabeth Bennet, is released |
2007 |
Russia tests the largest conventional weapon ever, the Father of all bombs. |
2009 |
The Brazilian economy technically leaves the recession when GDP grew 1.9% in the second quarter of 2009 after having fallen in the first quarter of 2009 and last quarter of 2008 |
2009 |
Sweden emerges from the recession after witnessing GDP growth of 0.2% in the second quarter |
2012 |
50 Al-Shabaab fighters are killed in conflict with the Somali National Army |
2012 |
The US consulate in Benghazi, Libya, is stormed, looted and burned down, killing five people, including the US ambassador |
2012 |
The US is warned by Moody's that its AAA credit rating is at risk if lawmakers fail to produce a long-term debt reduction plan |
2012 |
29 people are killed and 11 injured after a bus runs off a mountain highway in Nepal |
2012 |
Japan nationalizes three of the disputed Senkaku Islands |
2013 |
12 Alawite sect members are killed by rebel fighters in central Syria |
2014 |
South African athlete Oscar Pistorius is found not guilty of murdering his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp (and is later found guilty of culpable homicide) |
2016 |
Kerber begins reign as number one with US Open win |
2017 |
More than 3 million customers without power in Florida after Hurricane Irma |
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