Today in History
America Remembers
11 September
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11 September |
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| Charles the Great crowns Louis I emperor | ||
| 1297 - The Scots under William Wallace defeated a large English force under the Earl of Surrey at the Battle of Stirling Bridge. | ||
| 1304 - Willem III becomes earl of Holland | ||
| 1522 - Ulisse Aldrovandi, Italian biologist/medical was born | ||
| 1524 - Pierre de Ronsard, one of the most prolific poets of the French Renaissance, was born | ||
| 1525 - Johan Georg, elector of Brandenburg (1571-91) was born | ||
| 1557 - Catholic & Lutheran theology debated in Worm | ||
| 1645 - Thomas Fairfax' New Model-army occupies Bristol | ||
| 1649 - Massacre of Drogheda-Cromwell kills 3,000 royalists | ||
| 1649 - Oliver Cromwell, the leader of the victorious parliamentarians in the English Civil War, besieged Drogheda in Ireland and massacred most of the inhabitants. | ||
| 1697 - Battle at Zenta: Prince Eugen van Savoye beats Turkish superior power | ||
| 1709 - An Anglo-Dutch-Austrian force led by the Duke of Marlborough and Prince Eugene of Savoy won a costly victory over the French in the Battle of Malplaquet, the last great battle of the War of the Spanish Succession. | ||
| 1714 - French & Spanish troops under duke of Berwick occupy Barcelona | ||
| 1741 - Queen Maria Theresa addresses Hungarian Parliament | ||
| 1764 - Valentino Fioravanti, composer was born | ||
| 1773 - Benjamin Franklin writes "There never was a good war or bad peace" | ||
| 1777 - British troops defeated American soldiers, led by Gen. George Washington, at the Battle of Brandywine Creek in the U.S. War of Independence. | ||
| 1786 - Annapolis Convention to determine interstate commerce | ||
| 1789 - Alexander Hamilton appointed 1st Secretary of Treasury | ||
| 1813 - The nickname "Uncle Sam" was first used as a symbolic reference to the United States in an editorial in the Troy Post of New York | ||
| 1814 - The U.S. Navy defeated the British in the Battle of Lake Champlain | ||
| 1831 - Charles Darwin meets with capt Fitzroy at Plymouth | ||
| 1853 - 1st electric telegraph used | ||
| 1857 - Mountain Meadows Massacre-120 colonists killed by indians in Utah | ||
| 1860 - Giuseppe Garibaldi, leading his "Red Shirts," seized Naples in the Italian war of liberation against the Austrians. | ||
| 1875 - 1st newspaper cartoon strip | ||
| 1886 - Mayflower (US) beats Galatea (England) in 7th America's Cup | ||
| 1900 - President Kruger crosses border with Mozambique | ||
| 1912 - Netherland Olympic Committee forms | ||
| 1916 - German troops conquer Kavalla Greece | ||
| 1919 - US marines invade Honduras | ||
| 1922 - British mandate of Palestine begins | ||
| 1926 - Aloha Tower dedicated in Honolulu | ||
| 1930 - Stomboli volcano (Sicily) throws 2-ton basaltic rocks 2 miles | ||
| 1936 - President Roosevelt dedicated Boulder Dam (now Hoover Dam) by pressing a key in Washington to signal the startup of the dam's first hydroelectric generator in Nevada | ||
| 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 - In World War II, German air forces under Hermann Goering began the "Blitz" bombing campaign on London. More than 300 people were killed on this day alone. | ||
| 1940 - Buckingham Palace in London destroyed by German bombs | ||
| 1940 - Anton Mussert establishes Dutch SS | ||
| 1941 - Belgium King Leopold secretly marries Lilian Baels | ||
| 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 - US & Australian troops join in Salamaua, New Guinea | ||
| 1944 - FDR & Churchill meet in Canada at 2nd Quebec Conference | ||
| 1944 - US 5th pantzer division is 1st to enter nazi-Germany | ||
| 1958 - Great Britain performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Islan1950, 33 die in a train crash in Coshocton Ohio | ||
| 1959 - "Duke" Ellington wins Springarn Medal for his musical achievements | ||
| 1960 - 17th Olympic games close in Rome Italy | ||
| 1962 - Taiwan broke off diplomatic relations with Laos, a few hours after Laos had established diplomatic relations with China and North Vietnam. | ||
| 1967 - Indian/Chinese border fights | ||
| 1971 - Egypt adopts its constitution | ||
| 1978 - Keith Moon, drummer with British rock group The Who, died after a drug overdose. | ||
| 1980 - Chile adopts its constitution | ||
| 1988 - 1/3 of population argues for Estonia autonomy | ||
| 1986 - Bishop Desmond Tutu was enthroned as Archbishop of Cape Town, South Africa. He was the first black head of South Africa's Anglicans. | ||
| 1991 - 14 die in a Continental Express commuter plane crash near Houston | ||
| 1991 - Air crash at Djeddah, Saudi-Arabia, 263 die | ||
| 1992 - Hurricane Iniki hits Kauai Hawaii; 3 die & 8,000 injured | ||
| 1997 - Former Zairian dictator Mobutu Sese Seko died in exile in Morocco. | ||
| 1997 Scots voted in favor of a British government plan to give them their own assembly for the first time in nearly 300 years | ||
| 2001 World Trade Center in New York was destroied by terrorist attack |
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