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Today in History ~ September 11
Founder's Death Anniversary in Pakistan
* 9-11 *
Events1297 - Battle at Stirling Bridge, Scottish rebel William Wallace beats English
1557 - Catholic & Lutheran theology debated in Worms
1609 - Henry Hudson discovered what is now known as Manhattan island.
1649 - Oliver Cromwell seizes Drogheda, Ireland, 3,000 inhabitants massacred and all Catholic Churches are blown up by cannon
1773 - Benjamin Franklin writes "There never was a good war or bad peace"
1777 - Troops commanded by Gen. George Washington were defeated by the British under Gen. William Howe in the Battle of Brandywine.
1783 - Benjamin Franklin drafts the Treaty of Paris
1789 - Alexander Hamilton was appointed the first U.S. Secretary of the Treasury.
1814 - During the Battle of Plattsburg Bay on Lake Champlain, Vermont, a newly built U.S. fleet under Master Commandant Thomas Macdonough destroyed a British squadron, forcing the British to abandon their siege of the U.S. fort at Plattsburg and retreat to Canada on foot. [H]
1841 - With his unusual platform of states' rights zeal and pro-Constitutional fervor, President John Tyler, known to some as "his accidency," had always wavered between Whig and Democrat policies. The ideological vacillation finally took its toll when all the members of his cabinet, except for Secretary of State Daniel Webster, resigned over Tyler's decision to veto a Whig-sponsored bank bill
1847 - 1st singing of Stephen Fosters "Oh! Susanna." (in Pittsburgh)
1850 - Jenny Lind, the "Swedish Nightingale," gave her first concert in the United States, at Castle Garden in New York.
1851 - African Americans skirmished with a band of slave bounty hunters intent on capturing any fugitive slaves hidden in the abolitionist town, Christiana, Pennsylvania. This was one year after the second fugitive slave law (first law was on February 12, 1793) was passed by Congress, requiring the return of all escaped slaves to their owners in the South. One bounty hunter was killed and 1 wounded during the skirmish. [H]
1853 -1st electric telegraph in use, Merchant's Exchange to Pt Lobos.
1857 - Mountain Meadows Massacre -- 120 colonists killed by Mormon guerillas and Paiute Indians in Utah [H]
1875 - 1st newspaper cartoon strip, "Professor Tigwissel’s Burglar Alarm" appeared in the New York "Daily Graphics" newspaper.
1883 - James Cutler patents postal mail chute
1897 - Coal Workers Strike (75,000 coal workers), which shut down mines in Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and Ohio, was settled after 10 weeks. Concessions included an eight-hour work day, semi-monthly pay, and the abolition of company stores (which were famous for over charging workers).
1910 - 1st commercially successful electric bus line opens (Hollywood)
1914 - T Handy publishes "St Louis Blues"
1918 - During the Russian Civil War, over four thousand U.S. troops arrived in northwestern Russia to join British, French, Italian, Serbian, and Russian counterrevolutionary forces in the struggle against the Bolsheviks.
1919 - US marines invade Honduras (again)
1921 - Fatty Arbuckle, one of the foremost comedians of the silent movie days, was arrested on suspicion of manslaughter in the death of a starlet in an alleged sexual assault during a wild drinking party. Arbuckle was eventually cleared but his career had been ruined.
1922 - British mandate of Palestine begins
1923 - ZR-1 (biggest active dirigible) flies over NY's tallest skyscraper, Woolworth Tower
1926 - Aloha Tower dedicated (in Honolulu).
1930 - Stomboli volcano (Sicily) throws 2-ton basaltic rocks 2 miles
1931 - Crime boss Salvatore Maranazano is shot and stabbed to death in New York City by four men working for Charles "Lucky" Luciano
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 - British submarine Triton torpedoes British submarine Oxley
1940 - Buckingham Palace in London hit by German bombs
1940 - Hitler prepares to launch invasion of England
1941 - FDR orders any Axis ship found in American waters be sunk on sight, in response to submarine attacks on US vessels
1941 - Charles A. Lindbergh sparked charges of anti-Semitism with a speech in which he said "the British, the Jewish and the Roosevelt administration" were trying to draw the United States into World War II.
1943 - Jewish ghettos of Minsk & Lida, Belorussia liquidated
1944 - President Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill met in Canada at the second Quebec Conference.
1946 - 1st mobile long-distance car-to-car telephone conversation
1950 - 1st typesetting machine to dispense with metal type exhibited
1951 - Florence Chadwick becomes 1st woman to swim English Channel from England to France. It takes 16 hours & 19 minutes
1951 - Stravinsky's opera "Rake's Progress," premieres in Venice
1952 - Noel Coward's "Quadrille," premieres in London
1952 - West German Chancellor Adenauer signs a reparation pact for Jews
1954 - Lassie premiers on CBS-TV.
1954 - The Miss America pageant made its network TV debut on ABC; Miss California, Lee Ann Meriwether, was crowned the winner.
1957 - Archbishop Makarios of Cyprus visits US
1958 - US Supreme Court orders Little Rock Ark high school to integrate
1959 - "Bonanza" premieres on NBC-TV
1959 - Congress passed a bill authorizing food stamps for low-income Americans.
1961 - Bob Dylan's 1st NY performance
1962 - Drummer Ringo Starr joins John, Paul and George for his first recording session as a Beatles, replacing Pete Best. "Love Me Do" was the result and it took 17 takes to complete.
1964 - Typhoon Gloria strikes Taiwan killing 330, with $17.5 million damage
1967 - Beatles' "Magical Mystery Tour" bus appeared for the first time on English highways -- shooting scenes, some of which eventually were included in a short film of the same name.
1968 - Albania announces it is withdrawing from the Warsaw Pact
1969 - Heavy bombing of Vietnam resumes under orders from President Nixon.
1970 - Supersonic airliner Concorde lands for 1st time at Heathrow airport
1970 - US LSD professor Timothy Leary escapes from Calif jail
1971 - The Arab Republic of Egypt adopted its first constitution. While the constitution established that "Islam is the religion of the State," it also guaranteed freedom of religion. Amended in 1980, the constitution provides considerable attention to human rights.
1972 - Cod War: Icelandic gunboats sink 2 British trawlers in North Sea
1972 - The troubled Munich Summer Olympics ended.
1973 - The Armed Forces of Chile with help and planning by CIA, overthrew the Popular Unity government of President Salvador Allende, who allegedly committed suicide died during the coup. His widow, though, claimed that he was murdered.
1974 - Opposition to court-ordered school "busing" turns violent on the opening day of classes in Boston, Massachusetts
1978 - "Taxi" premieres on ABC television
1978 - First annual "Day of Martyrs" was held in South Africa to remember those who gave their lives in the struggle against apartheid.
1983 - USSR vetoes UN resolution deploring its shooting down of Korean plane
1985 - Pete Rose of Cin Reds gets career hit 4,192 off Eric Show of San Diego Padres, eclipsing Ty Cobb's 57-year old career record as the Cincinnati Reds beat the San Diego Padres, 2-0.
1986 - Dow Jones Industrial Avg suffered biggest 1-day decline ever, plummeting 86.61 points to 1,792.89. 237.57 million shares traded
1986 - Pres Mubarak receives Israeli premier Peres
1987 - Shoot out at Jean-Bertrand Aristide's church in Haiti, 12 die
1991 - Air crash at Djeddah, Saudi-Arabia, 263 die
1991 - In the Middle East, hopes grew for the release of Western hostages in Lebanon after Israel freed 51 prisoners, after confirming the deaths of two missing Israeli soldiers in Lebanon.
1991 - Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev announced negotiations to withdraw 11,000 Soviet military advisers from Cuba and eliminate a $2 billion annual subsidy a move bitterly denounced by the Havana government.
1992 - A 17-year-old gunman opened fire in a high school hallway in Amarillo, Texas, following a pep rally. Eight students were injured.
1992 - Hurricane Iniki, packing winds gusting to 160 mph, roared ashore on the Hawaiian island of Kauai.
1992 - Six people were killed when two small planes collided in flight over Indianapolis and crashed into a heavily populated area.
1994 - 46th Emmy Awards: Fraiser, Picket Fences & Kelsey Grammer wins
1994 - Parti Quebecois wins parliamentary election
1996 - Two top officials with the Health and Human Services Department resigned over President Clinton's signing of the Republican welfare overhaul bill (another official had resigned the month before).
1996 - The Iraqis fired at -- but missed -- two American warplanes patrolling the no-fly zone. Washington ordered U.S. forces to the region.
1997 - Mother Teresa received the first state funeral accorded a private citizen of India since the death of Mohandas K. Gandhi in 1948. It was attended by foreign heads of state and other dignitaries, including U.S. first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton.
1998 - As the U.S. House voted to release to the public the text of the Starr report, President Clinton told religious leaders that he had sinned.
2000 - A report released by the Federal Trade Commission said the movie, video game and music industries aggressively marketed to underage youths violent products that carry adult ratings, a finding rejected by entertainment producers.
2001 - America was attacked. A gang of 19 Islamic terrorists hijacked four airliners and slammed two of them, 15 minutes apart, into the twin towers of New York's World Trade Center, The third plane crashed into the Pentagon outside Washington and the fourth, believed also headed for Washington, crashed in a Pennsylvania field after passengers apparently jumped their hijackers. [H]
2002 - Somber memorial observances were held across the nation on the first anniversary of the attacks as the United States further tightened security in anticipation of more terrorist activity.
2002 - Ramzi bin al-Shibh, under German indictment on 3,000 charges of murder stemming from the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, was arrested in Pakistan with others allegedly linked to al-Qaida.
Birthdays Today
1700 - James Thomson, songwriter (Rule Britannia)
1798 - Franz E Neumann, German mineralogist/mathematician/physicist
1838 - John Ireland, Irish/US archbishop of St Paul
1862 - O. Henry (William Sydney Porter) (author: short stories: Gift of the Magi; passed away June 5, 1910)
1877 - James Jeans, England, physicist/mathematician/astronomer
1885 - D.H. (David Herbert) Lawrence (writer: Lady Chatterly's Lover; passed away in Mar 2, 1930)
1902 - Jimmie (James Houston) Davis (politician: Governor of Louisiana [1944-1948, 1960-1964]; Country Music Hall of Fame songwriter: You are My Sunshine)
1910 - Gerhard Schroder, German chanellor
1913 - Hedy Lamarr was born in Austria, featured in numerous minor roles in Austro-German film prior to her 1938 Hollywood arrival, gained significant notoriety for her libidinous 10 nude scene in the Czech film 'Ecstasy' (1932). She was cast in many romantic films including 'Samson and Delilah' and 'My Favorite Spy'
1913 - Paul 'Bear' Bryant (football coach: University of Alabama: the winningest coach in college football [323 wins, 85 losses, 17 ties in 25 years]; passed away Jan 26, 1983)
1917 - Ferdinand (Edralin) Marcos (President of the Philippines [1966-1986]; passed away Sep 28, 1989)
1917 - Ferdinand Marcos, Philippines Pres (1965-86)
1917 - Jessica Lucy Mitford, author (American Way of Death)
1924 - Tom Landry (Pro Football Hall of Famer: coach: Dallas Cowboys [1960-1988], record: 270-178-6, 20 straight winning seasons, five NFC titles, two Super Bowl wins; passed away Feb 12, 2000)
1929 - David S Broder, Chicago Hgts Ill, journalist (Pulitzer 1973)
1932 - Valentino, Milan Italy, fashion designer (Jacqueline Kennedy Onasis)
1935 - Gherman Titov (Russian cosmonaut: second man in space [first was Yuri Gagarin]; first man to spend more than a day in space [25 hours: Vostok 2: 1961])
1940 - Brian (Russell) De Palma (director: Carrie, The Untouchables, Bonfire of the Vanities, Body Double, Scarface, Wise Guys)
1942 - Lola Falana (singer, actress: The New Bill Cosby Show, Ben Vereen - Comin' at Ya, Lady Cocoa, The Klansman)
1944 - Mickey Hart (musician: drums, songwriter: group: Grateful Dead: St. Stephen, China Cat Sunflower, Dark Star, Alabama Getaway; scored part of film: Apocalypse Now)
1945 - Leo Kottke, Athens Ga, guitarist (Ice Water, Greenhouse)
1948 - Jeff (Jeffrey Lynn) Newman (baseball: Oakland Athletics [all-star: 1979], Boston Red Sox)
1962 - Kristy McNichol (Emmy Award-winning actress: Family [1976-77, 1978-79]; Empty Nest, Apple's Way, Baby of the Bride, Women of Valor, Dream Lover, Only When I Laugh, Little Darlings, The Summer of My German Soldier)
1963 - Virginia Madsen (actress: The Prophecy, Blue Tiger, Caroline at Midnight, Candyman, Love Kills, The Hot Spot, Gotham, Slamdance, Dune)
1967 - Harry Connick, Jr. (Grammy Award-winning singer: We arein Love; actor: Copycat, When Harry Met Sally)
Famous deaths
1297 - Hugh de Cressingham, English treasurer, dies in battle
1630 - John de White, Calvinist/banker to Prague, commits suicide
1733 - Francois Couperin, French composer (Le Grand), dies at 64
1848 - Henri-Philippe Gerard, composer, dies at 87
1896 - Anton Joseph Bruckner, composer, dies at 72
1948 - Mohammed Ali Jinnah, 1st governor of Pakistan (1947-48), dies at 71 ( Founder/s Death Anniversary)
1950 - Jan C Smuts, co-found British RAF/S African PM (1919-48), dies at 80
1971 - Former Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev, dies of a heart attack at 77
1973 - Salvador Allende Gossens, president Chile (1970-73), murdered by Pinochet troops at 65
1987 - Lorne Greene, actor (Bonanza, Battlestar Galactica), dies at 72
1993 - Erich Leinsdorf, Austria/US conductor/author (Cadenza), dies at 81
1994 - Frederick Rand Weissman, philanthropist, dies at 82
1994 - Jessica Tandy, actress (Driving Miss Daisy), dies of cancer at 85
2001 - World Trade Center: 3,748 people missing, including those aboard two hijacked jets, Flight 11 and Flight 175; 556. Pentagon: 189 believed dead, including those aboard Flight 77. 44 killed aboard hijacked Flight 93. [H]
2003 - Three's Company' Star John Ritter dies at age 54
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