Historical Events on September 11

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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 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.
• 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

• 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 & Lutheran theology debated in Worms
• 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

• 1709 Battle at Malplaquet during War of the Spanish Succession: English, Austrian and Dutch Great Alliance defeat 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 Years' War

• 1786 Annapolis Convention to determine interstate commerce

• 1792 The French Blue gem (later the Hope Diamond) is stolen with other French crown jewels from Royal storehouse in Paris during Reign of Terror
• 1802 France annexes the Kingdom of Piedmont
• 1814 Battle of Lake Champlain, NY; American Navy defeats British
• 1814 Begun on the 6th Sept, Americans defeat British at Battle of Plattsburgh during War of 1812
• 1839 1st Canadian track and field meet held at Caer Howell Grounds

• 1852 Olympia Columbian is 1st newspaper published north of Columbia River
• 1853 1st electric telegraph used - Merchant's Exchange, San Francisco to Pt Lobos, California
• 1857 Mountain Meadows Massacre, Mormons dressed as Indians murder 120 colonists in Utah
• 1877 Rijkslandbouwhoge school opens in Wageningen
• 1877 Russo-Turkish War: 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 Turk casualties
• 1881 Triple landslides bury Elm, Switzerland
• 1883 American architect James Cutler patents postal mail chute for Elwood Building, Rochester, New York

• 1885 Moses Hopkins, named minister to Liberia
• 1886 6th America's Cup: Mayflower (NY Yacht Club) beats Galatea (Royal Northern & Clyde Yacht Club, Scotland) for 2-0 series victory
• 1888 Death of the Argentine politician Domingo Sarmiento, after whom the Latin American Teacher's Day is chosen.
• 1891 The Jewish Colonization Association is established by Baron Maurice de Hirsch
• 1893 "Svoboda", oldest existing Ukrainian newspaper founded as a weekly publication by Father Hryhorii Hrushka, in Jersey City, New Jersey; expands to a daily in 1921
• 1893 Bronx Gas & Electric Company opens on Frisby & Tremont Ave
• 1893 First conference of the World Parliament of Religions is held in Chicago, Indian monk Swani Vivekananda gives influential speech
• 1893 Shaku Soen is 1st Zen teacher to visit the West (Chicago)

• 1903 The first race at The Milwaukee Mile in West Allis, Wisconsin is held. The oldest major speedway in the world.

• 1909 German astronomer Max Wolf rediscovers Halley's comet
• 1910 1st commercially successful electric bus line opens (Hollywood)

• 1914 Australia invades New Britain, defeating a German contingent there.

• 1916 Clarence Saunders opens "Piggly Wiggly" - the 1st self-service supermarket, in Memphis, Tennessee
• 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 is founded, predecessor for the Herald Sun of Melbourne
• 1922 British mandate of Palestine begins
• 1922 The Treaty of Kars is ratified in Yerevan, Armenia
• 1923 After a single, Boston Red Sox pitcher Howard Ehmke retires next 27 New York Yankees
• 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 Aloha Tower dedicated in Honolulu
• 1926 Spain leaves the League of Nations 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

• 1928 1st ever TV drama WGY's "Queens Messenger" broadcast in the New York area starring Izetta Jewell

• 1929 San Francisco Mayor Rolph inaugurates new pedestrian traffic light system
• 1930 Stromboli volcano, Sicily throws 2-ton basaltic rocks 2 miles
• 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 of Těrlicko, Czechoslovakia during a storm enroute to an air meet in Prague
• 1933 Antwerps Sportpaleis, the largest indoor arena in Europe opens; renovated 2010-13
• 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 -12] Buckingham Palace damaged by German bombs
• 1940 54th US Postmaster General: Frank C. Walker of Pennsylvania takes office
• 1940 Anton Mussert establishes Dutch SS
• 1940 George Stibitz pioneers the first remote operation of a computer
• 1940 Nazi Germany begins Operation Seelöwe (Sealion - aborted invasion of England)

• 1942 Transport #31 departs with French Jews to Nazi Germany
• 1943 Allied armed forces conquer Salerno, Italy
• 1943 Jewish ghettos of Minsk & Lida Belorussia liquidated
• 1943 Last German Q/pirate ship sinks near Easter Island / Rapa Nui
• 1943 US & Australian troops join in Salamaua, New Guinea
• 1944 A reconnaissance squadron of the US 5th Armored Division "Victory 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 in the Netherlands
• 1946 1st mobile long-distance car-to-car telephone conversation
• 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

• 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 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 Vladimir Kuts runs world record 10k (28:42.8)
• 1958 Great Britain performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island
• 1959 Baltimore starter Jerry Walker pitches all 16 innings as the Orioles edge the Chicago White Sox, 1-0 at Memorial Stadium

• 1959 Congress passes a bill authorizing food stamps for poor Americans
• 1959 Elroy Face's 22 game winning streak ends as Dodgers beat Pirates 5-4
• 1960 17th Olympic games close in Rome Italy
• 1960 The Young Americans for Freedom, meeting at home of William F. Buckley, Jr., promulgate the Sharon Statement
• 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 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
• 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 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 France performs nuclear test at Mururoa atoll
• 1966 Johnny Miller becomes 1st New York Yankee to hit a HR on his 1st MLB at bat; his 2nd HR came on his final MLB at bat in 1969

• 1967 A's drop grievance filed with National Labor Relations against C Finley
• 1967 Beatles' Magical Mystery Tour begins with a bus driven somewhat aimlessly around western England

• 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 the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan

• 1970 Ford Motor Company introduces its first North American subcompact model - the Pinto
• 1970 Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine members release 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-mi (42-km) line from Oakland to Fremont
• 1972 XX Summer Olympic Games close in Munich, German FR

• 1974 Cards beat Mets, 4-3, in 25 (7h4m), record 202 plate appearances, Félix Millán & John Milner come to bat 12 times each
• 1976 Minnie Minoso bats for White Sox after a 12-year hiatus (hitless)

• 1978 The last known person dies of smallpox - medical photographer Janet Parker through infection in a laboratory, in Birmingham, England
• 1980 Chile adopts its constitution
• 1980 Ron LeFlore (91st) & Rodney Scott (58th), set 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 Steelers 25-21 win at Green Bay to become the 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 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
• 1986 Dow Jones Industrial Avg suffers biggest 1-day decline ever, plummeting 86.61 points to 1,792.89. 237.57 million shares traded.

• 1986 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
• 1987 Shoot out at Jean-Bertrand Aristides' church in Haiti, 12 die
• 1988 1/3 of population argues for Estonia autonomy
• 1988 Lost steamship 'the Ship of Gold' SS Central America, sunk in 1857, rediscovered in waters off North Carolina by group led by Tommy Gregory Thompson using Bayesian search theory [1]
• 1988 Sports Aid-jogging to feed the world
• 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 Atlanta Braves Kent Mercker, Mark Wohlers & Alejandro Pena pitched 1st combined no-hitter in NL, beating San Diego Padres, 1-0
• 1991 NY Yankees final game at Baltimore Oriole's Memorial Stadium
• 1992 Hurricane Iniki hits Kauai Hawaii; 3 die & 8,000 injured
• 1993 Junxia Qu runs 1500m ladies' world record (3:50.46)

• 1994 Jingyi Le swims female world record 50m freestyle
• 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 16th Commonwealth Games open in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia making Malaysia the first Asian country to host the games

• 2000 Activists protest against the World Economic Forum meeting in Melbourne, Australia.

• 2001 Betty Farmer, American jazz and cabaret singer, killed in World Trade Center attack at 62

• 2001 Terrorists hijack a passenger plane and crash it into the Pentagon causing the deaths of 125 people

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