September 11
Today is
Patriot Day, today is also
September 11 National Day of Service, both observed in the United States.
1297 –
Battle of Stirling Bridge: Scots jointly-led by
William Wallace and
Andrew Moray defeat the English.
1609 –
Henry Hudson 'discovers'
Manhattan Island and the indigenous people living there.
1792 – The
Hope Diamond is stolen along with other French crown jewels when six men break into the house where they are stored.
1813 –
War of 1812: British troops arrive in
Mount Vernon and prepare to march to and invade Washington, D.C..
1826 –
Captain William Morgan, an ex-freemason is arrested in Batavia, New York for debt after declaring that he would publish
The Mysteries of Free Masonry, a book against Freemasonry. This sets into motion the events that lead to his
mysterious disappearance.
1851 –
Christiana Resistance: Escaped slaves stand against their former owner in armed resistance in Christiana, Pennsylvania, creating a rallying cry for the abolitionist movement.
1857 – The
Mountain Meadows massacre:
Mormon settlers and
Paiutes massacre 120 pioneers at
Mountain Meadows, Utah.
1903 – The first race at the
Milwaukee Mile in West Allis, Wisconsin is held. It is the oldest major speedway in the world.
1916 – The
Quebec Bridge's central span collapses, killing 11 men. The bridge previously collapsed completely on August 29, 1907. A total of 88 lives were lost in the two events.
1939 – World War II: Canada declares war on Germany, the country's first
independent declaration of war.
1941 – Ground is broken in Arlington, Virginia for the construction of
The Pentagon.
1944 – World War II: The
Western Allied invasion of Germany begins near the city of Aachen.
World War II: RAF bombing raid on
Darmstadt and the following firestorm kill 11,500.
1950 –
Korean War: President Harry S. Truman approved military operations north of the 38th parallel.
1964 - The
London Evening News reported that a 16 year-old Eltham Collage boy, introduced as Laurie Yarham, was everyone's idea of a winner in a
Mick Jagger look-a-like competition. Laurie looked like Mick Jagger and seemed to know his every action and the audience at Greenwich Town Hall were delighted, until the winner turned out to be Mick's younger brother
Chris Jagger.
1970 -
NME’s Keith Allston interviewed
Jimi Hendrix in England. The interview turned out to be Hendrix's last; he died a mere seven days later.
1973 –
A coup in Chile headed by General
Augusto Pinochet topples the democratically elected president
Salvador Allende. Pinochet exercises dictatorial power until ousted in a referendum in 1988, staying in power until 1990.
1977 -
David Bowie recorded a guest appearance on '
Bing Crosby's 'Merrie Olde Christmas' TV show duetting with Crosby on '
Peace On Earth - Little Drummer Boy'. The track became a UK No.3 hit five years later in 1982.
1978 –
Janet Parker is the last person to die of
smallpox, in a laboratory-associated outbreak.
1982,
John Camp Cougarmellen became the only male artist to have two singles in the US Top Ten as well as the No.1 album. ‘
Jack and Diane’ was No.4, while ‘
Hurts So Good’ was at No.8. His album ‘
American Fool’ was at No.1 for the first of nine weeks.
1985 –
Pete Rose breaks
Ty Cobb's baseball record for most career hits with his 4,192nd hit.
1987 - Founding member of
The Wailers Peter Tosh was shot dead at his home in Kingston Jamaica by armed robbers.
Peter Gabriel cleaned up at this year's (1987)
MTV Awards, winning best video, best male video, best concept video, best special effects and five other awards for the track '
Sledgehammer'.
1997 – NASA's
Mars Global Surveyor reaches Mars.
2001 – Two hijacked aircraft crash into the
World Trade Center in New York City, while a third smashes into
The Pentagon in Arlington County, Virginia, and a fourth into a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania, in
a series of coordinated suicide attacks by 19 members of
al-Qaeda. In total 2,996 people are killed.
2001 - Walking to work in New York (as an comic book illustrator)
Gerard Way witnessed the
9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center. The day's events inspired him to start a band, which became
My Chemical Romance with Way becoming their lead singer.
2003 -
Tommy Chong, one-half of the comedy team of
Cheech and Chong, was
sentenced to nine months in federal prison and fined $20,000 for selling drug paraphernalia over the Internet.
2008 – A major
Channel Tunnel fire broke out on a freight train, closed part of
chunnel for 6 months.
2012 – The
U.S. embassy in Benghazi, Libya is attacked, resulting in four deaths.
Births
1816 – Carl Zeiss (lens maker); 1862 – Hawley Harvey Crippen (murderer, first person captured with the aid of wireless telegraphy), O. Henry; 1885 – D. H. Lawrence (not 'of Arabia'); 1913 – Bear Bryant; 1916 – Ed Sabol (founded NFL Films); 1917 – Ferdinand Marcos; 1924 – Tom Landry; 1928 – Earl Holliman (
Police Woman); 1937 – Robert Crippen (astronaut); 1939 – Charles Geschke (co-founded Adobe Systems); 1940 – Brian De Palma; 1942 – Lola Falana♪ ♫(Her name was Lola); 1943 – Jack Ely♪ ♫, Mickey Hart
(The Grateful Dead); 1950 – Amy Madigan; 1953 – Tommy Shaw
(Styx); 1961 – Elizabeth Daily, Virginia Madsen; 1962 – Kristy McNichol; 1965 – Moby♪ ♫(dj); 1967 – Maria Bartiromo, Harry Connick Jr.; 1969 – Gidget Gein
(Marilyn Manson); 1970 – Taraji P. Henson
; 1977 – Ludacris♪ ♫
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