Historical Events on September 11 (original) (raw)
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9 The Battle of the Teutoburg Forest ends after four days with a Germanic alliance defeating Roman forces and putting an end to expansion of the empire east of the Rhine
910 Benedictine abbey of Cluny founded by William, Duke of Aquitaine, in Burgundy, France, one of the greatest monasteries of Western Europe
1185 Byzantine nobleman Isaac II Angelos kills courtier Stephanus Hagiochristophorites, triggering a revolt and the overthrow of Emperor Andronikos I Komnenos, placing Isaac on the throne
1213 Chinese general Chih-Chung assassinates Emperor Wei Shao Wang (former Prince of Wei) in Peking and proclaims himself Regent
1226 The Roman Catholic practice of public adoration of the Blessed Sacrament outside of Mass spreads from monasteries to parishes
Ögedei Khan
1229 Ögedei, son of Genghis Khan, is elected the Mongolian Khan, succeeding Genghis after his father's death (or September 13)
Battle of Stirling Bridge
1297 Battle of Stirling Bridge: Scottish rebel William Wallace defeats the English
1304 William the Good 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 and Lutheran theology debated in Worms
1609 An expulsion order is issued against the Moriscos of Valencia, beginning the expulsion of all of Spain's Moriscos (former Muslims and their descendants)
Siege of Bristol
1645 General Thomas Fairfax's New Model Army occupies Bristol after the city surrenders
- 1655 Peter Stuyvesant recaptures Dutch Fort Casimir from the Swedes in Delaware
Battle of Zenta
1697 Battle of Zenta: Holy League forces led by Prince Eugene of Savoy defeat an Ottoman army under Mustafa II near Zenta in the Kingdom of Hungary, ending Ottoman control over large parts of Central Europe
Swedish Invasion of Russia
1708 Great Northern War: Charles XII of Sweden stops his march to conquer Moscow outside Smolensk, the turning point in the war
1709 Battle at Malplaquet during War of the Spanish Succession: English, Austrian and Dutch Great Alliance defeat France
1714 French and Spanish troops under the Duke of Berwick occupy Barcelona
1741 Queen of Bohemia Maria Theresa addresses the Hungarian Parliament
1758 Battle of Saint Cast: France repels British invasion during the Seven Years' War
1786 Annapolis Convention on interstate commerce opens to discuss reversing protectionist trade barriers between US states
1792 The French Blue gem (later the Hope Diamond) is stolen along with other French crown jewels from the royal storehouse in Paris during the Reign of Terror
1802 France annexes the Kingdom of Piedmont
1814 Americans defeat the British at the Battle of Plattsburgh, which began on September 6, during the War of 1812
1814 Battle of Lake Champlain: The American Navy defeats the Royal Navy at Plattsburgh, New York, ending the British invasion of the northern states during the War of 1812
1839 First Canadian track and field meet held at Caer Howell Grounds
Oh! Susanna
1847 First singing of Stephen Foster's "Oh! Susanna" in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
The Swedish Nightingale
1850 Opera singer Jenny Lind, "The Swedish Nightingale," gives her first US concert at Castle Garden in New York City, promoted by P. T. Barnum [1]
1852 Olympia Columbian is the first newspaper published north of the Columbia River
1853 First electric telegraph used between Merchant's Exchange, San Francisco, and Point Lobos, California
1857 Mountain Meadows Massacre: Mormons, disguised as Native Americans, murder 120 settlers in Utah
1877 Russo-Turkish War: The third Russian assault on Plevna, Ottoman Empire (now Pleven, Bulgaria), aided by Romanian forces, mostly fails, although the Romanians take Grivitsa; up to 20,000 Russian and 6,000 Turkish casualties
1881 Triple landslides bury Elm, Switzerland
1882 First international conference to promote anti-Semitism meets in Dresden, Germany (Congress for the Safeguarding of Non-Jewish Interests)
1883 American architect James Cutler patents the postal mail chute for the Elwood Building in Rochester, New York
1885 Moses Hopkins is named minister to Liberia
1886 6th America's Cup: Mayflower (NY Yacht Club) beats Galatea (Royal Northern & Clyde Yacht Club, Scotland) for a 2-0 series victory
1891 The Jewish Colonization Association is established by Baron Maurice de Hirsch
1893 "Svoboda," the oldest existing Ukrainian newspaper, is founded as a weekly publication by Father Hryhorii Hrushka in Jersey City, New Jersey, and expands to a daily in 1921
1893 Bronx Gas & Electric Company opens on Frisby and Tremont Ave
1893 First conference of the World Parliament of Religions is held in Chicago, Indian monk Swami Vivekananda gives influential speech
1893 Shaku Soen is the first Zen teacher to visit the West (Chicago)
Kingdom of Kaffa Ends
1897 After months of pursuit, generals of Menelik II of Ethiopia capture Gaki Sherocho, the last king of Kaffa, bringing an end to the ancient kingdom
Kruger Leaves Transvaal
1900 President of Transvaal, Paul Kruger, crosses the border into Mozambique
- 1903 The first race at the Milwaukee Mile in West Allis, Wisconsin is held, making it the oldest major speedway in the world
Satyagraha
1906 Indian attorney M.K. Gandhi coins the term "Satyagraha" to characterize the non-violence movement in South Africa
- 1909 German astronomer Max Wolf rediscovers Halley's comet
- 1910 First commercially successful electric bus line opens in Los Angeles
Collins Steals Record
1912 Philadelphia second baseman Eddie Collins steals an MLB record of 6 bases in the Athletics' 9-7 win over the Detroit Tigers at Navin Field
- 1914 Australia invades New Britain, defeating German colonial forces
St Louis Blues
1914 Father of the Blues, W. C. Handy, publishes "St. Louis Blues," his most famous composition
First Supermarket
1916 First true self-service supermarket, Clarence Saunders' "Piggly Wiggly," opens in Memphis, Tennessee [1]
- 1916 German troops conquer Kavalla, Greece
- 1916 The Quebec Bridge's central span collapses during reconstruction, killing 11 men
- 1919 US Marines again send troops to Honduras
- 1921 Nahalal, the first moshav in Israel, is settled
- 1922 Australian newspaper The Sun News-Pictorial, the predecessor of the Herald Sun of Melbourne, is founded
- 1922 The Treaty of Kars is ratified in Yerevan, Armenia
- 1923 Bernie Neis hits the 1,000th Dodger home run
- 1923 Boston Red Sox pitcher Howard Ehmke retires 27 New York Yankees
- 1923 ZR-1 (biggest active dirigible) flies over New York's tallest skyscraper, Woolworth Tower
- 1926 Aloha Tower is dedicated in Honolulu, Hawaii
- 1926 Spain leaves the League of Nations due to Germany joining
- 1926 Yankees' Bob Meusel ties the record with three sacrifice flies
- 1927 After losing 21 in a row to New York, the Browns win their last meeting 6-2
- 1927 Yankees slugger Babe Ruth hits his 50th home run during his MLB record 60 HR season in New York's 6-2 loss to the St. Louis Browns at Yankee Stadium
- 1928 First trans-Tasman crossing from Australia to New Zealand is piloted by Charles Kingsford-Smith and Charles Ulm, arriving in Christchurch after 14 hours and 25 minutes
- 1928 First TV drama WGY's "The Queen's Messenger," starring Izetta Jewell, broadcasts in the New York area
Ty Cobb's Last Hit
1928 Philadelphia Athletics' Ty Cobb pops out in his last MLB at-bat in a 5-3 loss to the Yankees in New York
- 1929 San Francisco Mayor Rolph inaugurates a new pedestrian traffic light system
- 1930 Stromboli volcano in Sicily ejects 2-ton basaltic rocks 2 miles, making it one of the most violent eruptions in recorded history
- 1932 Polish aviators Franciszek Żwirko (36) and Stanisław Wigura (31), international "Challenge 1932" winners, are killed when their RWD-6 plane crashes in a forest in Těrlicko, Czechoslovakia, during a storm en route to an air meet in Prague
- 1933 Antwerp's Sportpaleis in Belgium, the largest indoor arena in Europe, opens; renovated from 2010 to 2013
- 1936 A's pitcher Horace Lisenbee gives up 26 hits in a game
- 1939 Battle of Kutno Pocket: Germans advance to Warsaw
- 1939 British submarine Triton torpedoes British submarine Oxley
- 1939 Iraq and Saudi Arabia declare war on Nazi Germany
- 1940 Anton Mussert establishes the Dutch SS
- 1940 Buckingham Palace in London is damaged by German bombs
- 1940 Frank C. Walker of Pennsylvania takes office as the 54th US Postmaster General
- 1940 George Stibitz pioneers the first remote operation of a computer
- 1940 Nazi Germany begins Operation Seelöwe (Sealion, the aborted invasion of England)
Lindbergh's War Claim
1941 Charles Lindbergh claims the "British, Jewish, and Roosevelt administration" are trying to get the US into World War II
Pentagon Construction Begins
1941 Construction of the Pentagon begins in Arlington County, Virginia (completed January 15, 1943). Designed by architect George Bergstrom and built by contractor John McShain, construction is overseen by Leslie Groves
Order to Shoot Axis Ships
1941 Franklin D. Roosevelt orders the US Navy that any Axis ship found in American waters be shot on sight
Five on a Treasure Island
1942 Enid Blyton publishes "Five on a Treasure Island," the first of her "Famous Five" children's novels, starting one of the best-selling children's series ever with over 100 million copies sold
- 1942 Transport #31 departs with French Jews to Nazi Germany
- 1943 Jewish ghettos of Minsk and Lida, Belarus, are liquidated
- 1943 Last German Q-ship or "pirate ship" sinks near Rapa Nui (Easter Island), Chile
- 1943 US and Australian troops join in Salamaua, New Guinea
- 1943 WWII: Allied armed forces conquer Salerno, Italy
- 1944 A reconnaissance squadron of the US 5th Armored Division "Victory Division" is the first Allied force to enter Nazi Germany
Tojo Attempts Suicide
1945 Hideki Tojo, Japanese Prime Minister during most of World War II, attempts suicide rather than face a war crimes tribunal but fails; he is later hanged
- 1945 Physician Willem J. Kolff performs the first successful kidney dialysis, using his artificial kidney machine in the Netherlands
- 1946 First mobile long-distance car-to-car telephone conversation
- 1950 A train crash in Coshocton, Ohio, kills 33
- 1950 An episode from the TV series "Dick Tracy" sparks an uproar over violent content
- 1950 First typesetting machine to dispense with metal type is exhibited
Chadwick Swims Channel
1951 Florence Chadwick becomes the first woman to swim the English Channel from England to France, taking 16 hours and 19 minutes
The Rake's Progress
1951 Igor Stravinsky's opera "The Rake's Progress," with libretto by W. H. Auden and Chester Kallman, premieres at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice, Italy
1953 KSBW TV channel 8 in Salinas-Monterey, CA (NBC) begins broadcasting
1953 WEHT TV channel 25 in Evansville, IN (CBS) begins broadcasting
1954 20.4 cm of rainfall at Brunswick, Maine (state record)
1954 KXJB TV Channel 4 in Valley City (Fargo) (NBC) begins broadcasting
1955 Dedication of the first temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Europe, the Bern Switzerland Temple
1955 KTVT TV channel 11 in Fort Worth-Dallas, TX (IND) begins broadcasting
1956 Cincinnati Reds outfielder Frank Robinson ties rookie record with his 38th home run
1956 New York Yankees Yogi Berra ties career record for home runs by a catcher (236)
1956 Vladimir Kuts runs a world record 10,000 m in 28:42.8
1958 Great Britain performs an atmospheric nuclear test on Christmas Island
1959 Baltimore starter Jerry Walker pitches all 16 innings as the Orioles edge the Chicago White Sox 1-0 at Memorial Stadium
Spingarn Medal
1959 Composer and jazz orchestra leader Duke Ellington wins NAACP's Spingarn Medal for his musical achievements
- 1959 Congress passes a bill authorizing food stamps for low-income Americans
- 1959 Pittsburgh pitcher Elroy Face's 22-game winning streak ends as Dodgers beat Pirates 5-4 at LA Memorial Coliseum
- 1960 The Young Americans for Freedom, meeting at the home of William F. Buckley Jr., promulgate the Sharon Statement
- 1960 XVII Summer Olympic Games close at Stadio Olimpico in Rome, Italy
- 1961 Founding of the World Wildlife Fund in Morges, Switzerland
- 1961 Hurricane Carla strikes near Port O'Connor, Texas, with winds of 175 mph
- 1962 KVCR TV channel 24 in San Bernardino, CA (PBS) begins broadcasting
- 1962 The Beatles record "Love Me Do," "PS I Love You," and a slow version of "Please, Please Me," with session player Andy White on drums; Ringo relegated to tambourine
- 1963 Typhoon Gloria strikes Taiwan, killing 330 people and causing $17.5 million in damage
Mornyork Ltd
1964 Beatles guitarist George Harrison forms Mornyork Ltd, a music publishing company now known as Harrisongs
- 1964 Gillette's 20-year contract with Madison Square Garden and ABC to televise fights for free ends as Dick Tiger defeats Don Fullmer at Cleveland Auditorium
- 1965 Beatles' "Help!" album goes to #1 and stays at #1 for 9 weeks
- 1965 Braves' second consecutive one-hitter against the Mets
- 1965 The 1st Cavalry Division of the United States Army arrives in Vietnam
- 1966 France performs nuclear test at Mururoa Atoll
- 1966 Johnny Miller becomes the first New York Yankee to hit a home run in his first MLB at-bat; his second home run comes in his final MLB at-bat in 1969
Rolling Stones on Ed Sullivan
1966 Rolling Stones' fourth appearance on "The Ed Sullivan Show"; they perform three songs, including "Paint It Black"
The Carol Burnett Show
1967 "The Carol Burnett Show," starring Carol Burnett, premieres on CBS-TV in the US
- 1967 A's drop grievance filed with the National Labor Relations Board against C. Finley
- 1967 Beatles' Magical Mystery Tour begins with a bus driven somewhat aimlessly around Western England
- 1967 French President Charles de Gaulle visits Poland
- 1967 India/China border conflicts
- 1967 US Surveyor 5 makes the first 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 the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
Hendrix's Last Interview
1970 American rock guitar legend Jimi Hendrix gives what becomes his final interview with NME's Keith Altham in England
- 1970 Ford Motor Company introduces its first North American subcompact model, the Pinto
- 1970 Members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine release the majority of 310 hostages from the Dawson's Field hijackings near Zarqa, Jordan; 56 hostages, mostly Jews and Israeli citizens, are held until September 25
- 1971 Egypt adopts its constitution
- 1972 BART begins service with a 26-mile (42-kilometer) line from Oakland to Fremont
- 1972 XX Summer Olympic Games close at the Olympiastadion in Munich, West Germany
Allende Deposed in Coup
1973 Chilean President Salvador Allende, the first elected Marxist president of a South American country, is deposed in a military coup led by General Augusto Pinochet
- 1974 Cardinals beat Mets 4-3 in 25 innings (7 hours 4 minutes), record 202 plate appearances, and Félix Millán and John Milner come to bat 12 times each
- 1976 Minnie Miñoso (52) bats for the Chicago White Sox 12 years after his retirement as a player; he goes hitless
Crosby and Bowie Record Duet
1977 American crooner Bing Crosby and British singer David Bowie record duet "Peace on Earth/Little Drummer Boy" at ATV Elstree Studios near London for television special "Bing Crosby's Merrie Olde Christmas"
The Atari 2600
1977 The Atari 2600, originally known as the Atari Video Computer System (Atari VCS), is released in North America, revolutionizing the video game industry
- 1978 Medical photographer Janet Parker is the last known person to die of smallpox; she contracted the infection in a laboratory in Birmingham, England
- 1980 Chile adopts its constitution
- 1980 Ron LeFlore (91st) and Rodney Scott (58th) set a teammate steal record
- 1981 Second government of Dries van Agt forms in the Netherlands
- 1983 Pittsburgh running back Franco Harris runs for 118 yards in a Steelers 25-21 win at Green Bay to become only the third player in NFL history to rush for 11,000 yards
- 1983 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
- 1985 International Cometary Explorer (ISEE 3) passes Giacobini-Zinner by 7,900 km
Rose Passes Cobb
1985 Pete Rose of the Cincinnati Reds gets career hit 4,192 off Eric Show of the San Diego Padres, eclipsing Ty Cobb's record
1985 Sri Lanka achieves its first Test cricket victory, defeating India by 149 runs
1986 Dow Jones Industrial Average suffers biggest one-day decline ever, plummeting 86.61 points to 1,792.89 as 237.57 million shares trade
1986 US performs a nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1988 Lost steamship "the Ship of Gold" SS Central America, sunk in 1857, is rediscovered in waters off North Carolina by a group led by Tommy Gregory Thompson using Bayesian search theory [1]
1988 One-third of the population argues for Estonian autonomy
1988 Sport Aid, a series of charity runs, is held to raise money for children suffering from hunger and famine
1988 St. Jean Bosco massacre: Rogue paramilitary group shoot congregants at Jean-Bertrand Aristide's Catholic church in Haiti, 13 die and 77 wounded
1989 Drexel formally pleads guilty to securities fraud
1989 KSO-AM in Des Moines, Iowa, changes its 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, Texas
1991 Atlanta Braves pitchers Kent Mercker, Mark Wohlers and Alejandro Pena pitch first combined no-hitter in the National League, beating the San Diego Padres 1-0 at Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium
1991 NY Yankees final game at Baltimore Orioles' Memorial Stadium
1992 Hurricane Iniki hits Kauai, Hawaii, killing 3 people and injuring 8,000
1993 Junxia Qu runs a 1500 m women's world record in 3:50.46
1994 46th Emmy Awards: Frasier, Picket Fences, and Kelsey Grammer win
1994 Jingyi Le swims a world record in the women's 50 m freestyle with a time of 24.51 seconds
1995 Eastern Tennessee begins using 423 as the new area code
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 16th Commonwealth Games open in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, making it the first Asian country to host the games
Starr Report
1998 Independent counsel Ken Starr sends a report to the U.S. Congress accusing President Bill Clinton of 11 possible impeachable offenses
- 2000 Activists protest against the World Economic Forum meeting in Melbourne, Australia
Blueprint
2001 Jay-Z releases his album "Blueprint," featuring contributions by Eminem and Kanye West
9/11: United Flight 93
2001 Passengers and crew of United Airlines Flight 93 attempt to retake control of their hijacked plane from terrorists, causing the plane to crash in a Pennsylvania field, killing all 44 people on board