Major Events
- 1297 Battle at Stirling Bridge, Scottish rebel William Wallace defeats the English
- 1609 Expulsion order announced against the Moriscos of Valencia; beginning of the expulsion of all Spain's Moriscos
- 1697 Battle of Zenta: forces of Prince Eugen of Savoye defeat the Turks, ending Ottoman control of large parts of Central Europe
- 1708 Great Northern War: Charles XII of Sweden stops his march to conquer Moscow outside Smolensk, marking the turning point in the war
- 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 on board
- 2001 Terrorists hijack a passenger plane and crash it into the Pentagon causing the deaths of 125 people
- 2001 Two passenger planes hijacked by Al Qaeda terrorists crash into New York's World Trade Towers causing the collapse of both and deaths of 2,606 people
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Sep 11 in Film & TV
- 1928 1st ever TV drama WGY's "Queens Messenger" broadcast in the New York area starring Izetta Jewell
Sep 11 in Music
- 1914 W. C. Handy "Father of the Blues" publishes his most famous composition "St Louis Blues"
Sep 11 in Sport
- 1985 Sri Lanka score their 1st Test Cricket victory, by 149 runs v India
Did You Know?
O. Henry
D. H. Lawrence
Theodor W. Adorno
Ferdinand Marcos
Bob Packwood
Bashar al-Assad
Ed Sabol
Tom Dreesen
Harry Connick Jr
Paul "Bear" Bryant
Tom Landry
Franz Beckenbauer
Fun Fact About September 11
Mountain Meadows Massacre, Mormons dressed as Indians murder 120 colonists in Utah
Famous Weddings
- 1878 German philosopher Friedrich Engels (57) marries Lizzie Burns (51), hours before her death in London
- 1930 Mystery writer Agatha Christie (39) weds archaeologist Max Mallowan (26)
- 1941 Belgium King Leopold secretly marries Lilian Baels
Famous Divorces
- 1977 TV's Rhoda gets divorced
More September 11 Weddings
Cornelis de Houtman
Jan Smuts
Billy Bishop
Nikita Khrushchev
Salvador Allende
Todd BeamerArticles, Photos and Quiz
The Plot Behind Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel Masterpiece
Michelangelo’s work on 12 Apostles, started on this day, was abandoned after a call from Rome – which led to the magnificent painting of the Sistine Chapel.
September 11, 1503
The Atari 2600
An Atari 2600 video game console
September 11, 1977
9/11 Attack on NY's World Trade Towers
UA Flight 175 flies toward the South Tower of the World Trade Center while the North Tower burns
September 11, 2001
