Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/September 11
This is a list of selected September 11 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
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Swami Vivekananda -
Hurricane Iniki near peak intensity on September 11, 1992 -
Oh! Susanna
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Anna Lindh one year before her 2003 assassination. -
King Gaki Sherocho in chains -
The ward at East Birmingham Hospital where smallpox victim Janet Parker was admitted in 1978 -
Portrait of Gabriel Fauré by John Singer Sargent -
One of five memorials in Mountain Meadow to the victims of the massacre -
The World Trade Center towers after each being hit with hijacked Boeing 767s
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| Blurb | Reason |
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| Teachers' Day in parts of Latin America; | refimprove section |
| ; Patriot Day in the United States | refimprove section |
| {{<!--If next year is a leap year-->#ifexpr:{{IsLeapYear| {{CURRENTYEAR}} +1}}|<!--Don't show-->|New Year's Day in the Coptic and the Ethiopian calendars;}} | Coptic: refimprove: Ethiopian: refimprove |
| 1226 – The first instance of the Catholic practice of perpetual Eucharistic adoration formally began in Avignon, France. | Lots of cn |
| 1709 – An allied British-Dutch-Austrian force defeated the French at the Battle of Malplaquet, one of the bloodiest battles of the War of the Spanish Succession. | unreferenced section |
| 1714 – Siege of Barcelona: Barcelona, capital city of Catalonia, surrenders to Spanish and French Bourbon armies in the War of the Spanish Succession. | refimprove |
| 1814 – The Battle of Plattsburgh ended Britain's final invasion of the northern states during the War of 1812. | refimprove section |
| 1847 – Stephen Foster's "Oh! Susanna", one of the most famous American songs ever written, premiered at a concert in an ice cream shop in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. | High % of content with referencing problems |
| 1955 – The Bern Switzerland Temple, the first temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Europe, was dedicated. | date not cited |
| 1961 – The World Wide Fund for Nature, the world's largest independent conservation organisation, was founded in Morges, Switzerland. | primary sources |
| 1965 – Indo-Pakistani War: Indian infantry captured the town of Burki near Lahore, Pakistan. | page numbers needed |
| 1973 – A coup d'état in Chile led by General Augusto Pinochet overthrew the government of President Salvador Allende and established a junta. | refimprove section |
| 2003 – Swedish minister of Foreign Affairs Anna Lindh was assassinated in a knife attack in the NK department store in Stockholm by Mijailo Mijailović. | refimprove |
| 2012 – Garment factories in the Pakistani cities of Karachi and Lahore caught fire, leaving 315 dead. | cleanup section |
| Kesta Styppiotes |d|883| | Death date not cited |
| Susi Kentikian |b|1987 | Birthday not cited |
| Masih Alinejad |b|1976| | Birthday not cited |
| Matsunosuke Onoe |d|1926| | Deathday not cited |
Eligible
- 1649 – Cromwellian conquest of Ireland: Oliver Cromwell's New Model Army ended the Siege of Drogheda, took over the town and massacred its garrison.
- 1697 – Great Turkish War: Forces led by Prince Eugene of Savoy decisively defeated Ottoman troops at the Battle of Zenta in present-day Serbia, ending the Turkish threat to Europe.
- 1758 – Seven Years' War: France repelled an invasion attempt by the British in the Battle of Saint Cast.
- 1775 – American Revolutionary War: Benedict Arnold's expedition departed from Cambridge, Massachusetts, as part of the invasion of Quebec.
- 1776 – British and American leaders held a peace conference on Staten Island, New York, in the hopes of bringing an end to the nascent American Revolutionary War.
- 1780 – American Revolutionary War: Approximately ten American soldiers were killed by Loyalists and their Native American allies in the Sugarloaf massacre in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania.
- 1851 – In a fight near Christiana, Pennsylvania, a group of escaped slaves and free Blacks led by William Parker fought off a federal posse seeking to arrest and return the escapees to slavery.
- 1857 – A legion of Mormon militiamen completed a massacre of at least 120 California-bound Arkansas pioneers at Mountain Meadow, Utah.
- 1893 – Swami Vivekananda (pictured) gave a speech introducing Hinduism on the opening day of the first Parliament of the World's Religions in Chicago.
- 1897 – Gaki Sherocho was captured by the forces of Ethiopian emperor Menelik II, bringing an end to the Kingdom of Kaffa.
- 1914 – First World War: The Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force invaded German New Guinea, winning the Battle of Bita Paka.
- 1941 – American aviator Charles Lindbergh delivered his Des Moines speech, in which he used antisemitic tropes and accused Jews of manipulating America into joining World War II.
- 1945 – The Japanese-run camp at Batu Lintang in Borneo was liberated by the Australian 9th Division, averting the planned massacre of its 2,000-plus Allied POWs and civilian internees by four days.
- 1978 – British medical photographer Janet Parker became the last recorded person to die from smallpox, leading to a debate on whether the virus should be preserved.
- 1981 – Iranian politician Ayatollah Madani and three others were assassinated by an agent of the MEK who detonated a grenade during Friday prayers in Tabriz.
- 1992 – Hurricane Iniki, the most powerful hurricane on record to strike the Hawaiian Islands, passed directly over the island of Kauai, killing six people and causing around US$1.8 billion dollars in damage.
- 2001 – al-Qaeda hijacked four passenger airliners to carry out a series of terrorist attacks (one pictured) against targets in New York City and the area of Washington, D.C., killing 2,977 people.
- 2012 – The American consulate and CIA annex in Libya were attacked by a heavily armed group, resulting in the deaths of U.S. ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and three others.
- Born/died this day: | Daniyal Mirza |b|1572| Johann Bernhard Basedow |b|1724| John Ireland |baptized|1838| Joseph Nicollet |d|1843| Dajikaka Gadgil |b|1915| Daniel Wildenstein |b|1917| Jan Smuts |d|1950| Murali Kartik |b|1976|
Notes
- Hurricane Gilbert appears on September 13, so best not to have Iniki appear in the same year.
September 11: National Day of Catalonia
Alexander Hamilton
- 1297 – First War of Scottish Independence: Scottish forces under Andrew Moray and William Wallace defeated English troops at the Battle of Stirling Bridge on the River Forth.
- 1789 – Alexander Hamilton (pictured), co-writer of The Federalist Papers, became the first U.S. Secretary of the Treasury.
- 1978 – British medical photographer Janet Parker became the last recorded person to die from smallpox, leading to a debate on whether the virus should be preserved.
- 1995 – Mir EO-19, the first expedition to the Russian space station Mir launched on an American Space Shuttle, returned to Earth after approximately 75 days in space.
- Stephen Hagiochristophorites (d. 1185)
- Paul Nahaolelua (b. 1806)
- Mary Watson Whitney (b. 1847)
- Issy Smith (d. 1940)
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