2001 – September 11 Attacks in the United States
A series of 4 coordinated suicide attacks were carried out by the terrorist group Al Qaeda on the morning of September 11. Nineteen militants hijacked 4 California-bound airplanes from east coast cities in the US and used the planes to target major American landmarks. Two planes were crashed into the two towers of the World Trade Center, which caused them to collapse within two hours of being struck. One plane was crashed into the Pentagon building in Arlington, Virginia, while the fourth plane, thought to be bound towards Washington DC, crashed in a field in Pennsylvania after passengers tried to fight back against the hijackers.
1185 – Isaac II Angelus kills Stephanus Hagiochristophorites and then appeals to the people, resulting in the revolt which deposes Andronicus I Comnenus and places Isaac on the throne of the Byzantine Empire.”
1226 – The Roman Catholic practice of perpetual adoration begins.
1297 – Scotsman William Wallace defeated the English forces of Sir Hugh de Cressingham at the Battle of Stirling Bridge.
1499 – French forces took over Milan, Italy.
1541 – Santiago, Chile, is destroyed by indigenous warriors, lead by Michimalonko
1609 – Explorer Henry Hudson sailed into New York harbor and discovered Manhattan Island and the Hudson River.
1649 – Siege of Drogheda ends: Oliver Cromwell’s English Parliamentarian troops take the town and execute its garrison.
1695 – Imperial troops under Eugene of Savoy defeated the Turks at the Battle of Zenta.
1708 – Charles XII of Sweden stops his march to conquer Moscow outside Smolensk, marking the turning point in the Great Northern War. The army is defeated nine months later in the battle of Poltava, and the Swedish empire is no longer a major power
1714 – Spanish and French troops broke into Barcelona and ended Catalonia’s sovereignty after 13 months of seige.
1773 – The Public Advertiser publishes a satirical essay titled Rules By Which A Great Empire May Be Reduced To A Small One, which is written by Benjamin Franklin.
1776 – A Peace Conference was held between British General Howe and three representatives of the Continental Congress (Benjamin Franklin, John Adams and Edward Rutledge). The conference failed and the American war for independence continued for seven years.
1777 – American forces, under General George Washington, were forced to retreat at the Battle of Brandywine Creek by British forces under William Howe. The Stars and Stripes (American flag) were carried for the first time in the battle.
1786 – The Convention of Annapolis opened with the aim of revising the articles of the confederation.
1789 – Alexander Hamilton was appointed by U.S. President George Washington to be the first secretary of the treasury.
1814 – The U.S. fleet defeated a squadron of British ships in the Battle of Lake Champlain, VT.
1842 – 1,400 Mexican troops captured San Antonio, TX. The Mexicans retreated with prisoners.
1847 – Stephen Foster’s most well-known song, Oh! Susanna, is first performed at a saloon in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
1855 – The siege of Sevastopol ended when French, British and Piedmontese troops captured the main naval base of the Russian Black fleet in the Crimean War.
1857 – The Mountain Meadows Massacre: Mormon settlers and Paiutes massacre 120 pioneers at Mountain Meadows, Utah
1883 – The mail chute was patented by James Cutler. The new device was first used in the Elwood Building in Rochester, NY.
1897 – A ten-week strike of coal workers in Pennsylvania, WV, and Ohio came to an end. The workers won and eight-hour workday, semi-monthly pay, and company stores were abolished.
1904 – The U.S. battleship Connecticut was launched in New York.
1906 – Mahatma Gandhi coins the term Satyagraha to characterize the Non-Violence movement in South Africa.
1919 – U.S. Marines invade Honduras.
1926 – In Honolulu Harbor, HI, the Aloha Tower was dedicated.
1931 – Salvatore Maranzano is murdered by Charles Luciano’s hitmen.
1936 – Boulder Dam in Nevada was dedicated by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt by turning on the dam’s first hydroelectric generator. The dam is now called Hoover Dam.
1941 – Charles A. Lindbergh brought on charges of anti-Semitism with a speech in which he blamed “the British, the Jewish and the Roosevelt administration” for trying to draw the United States into World War II.
1944 – FDR and Churchill meet in Canada at the 2nd Quebec Conference
1950 – Dick Tracy TV show sparks uproar concerning violence
1952 – Dr. Charles Hufnagel successfully replaced a diseased aorta valve with an artificial valve made of plastic.
1959 – The U.S. Congress passed a bill authorizing the creation of food stamps.
1960 – Young Americans for Freedom meeting at home of William F. Buckley, Jr. promulgates the Sharon Statement
1965 – The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile) arrived in South Vietnam and was stationed at An Khe.
1970 – 88 of the hostages from the Dawson’s Field hijackings are released. The remaining hostages, mostly Jews or Israeli citizens, are held until September 25
1973 – A CIA backed coup in Chile headed by General Augusto Pinochet topples the democratically elected President Salvador Allende[2]. Pinochet remains in power for almost 17 years.
1974 – The St. Louis Cardinals and the New York Mets set a National League record when they played 25 innings. It was the second longest game in professional baseball history.
1977 – The Atari 2600 was released. It was originally sold as the Atari VCS. The system was discontinued on January 1, 1992.
1982 – The international forces, which were guaranteeing the safety of Palestinian refugees following Israel’s 1982 Invasion of Lebanon, left Beirut. Five days later, several thousand refugees were massacred in the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps.
1985 – A U.S. satellite passed through the tail of the Giacobini-Zinner comet. It was the first on-the-spot sampling of a comet.
1987 – Twelve people die in a shoot-out in Jean-Bertrand Aristide’s church in Haiti.
1989 – The iron curtain opens between the communist Hungary and Austria. From Hungary thousands of East Germans throng to Austria and West Germany.
1990 – U.S. President Bush vowed “Saddam Hussein will fail” while addressing Congress on the Persian Gulf crisis. In the speech Bush spoke of an objective of a new world order – “freer from the threat of terror, stronger in the pursuit of justice, and more secure in the quest for peace”.
1991 – Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev announced that thousands of troops would be drawn out of Cuba.
1994 – Frank Eugene Corder steals a Cessna plane, intending to crash it into the White House
1997 – Scotland voted to create its own Parliament after 290 years of union with England.
1998 – Independent counsel Kenneth Starr sent a report to the U.S. Congress accusing President Clinton of 11 possible impeachable offenses.
1999 – The Wall Street Journal reported that Bayer Corp. had quit putting a wad of cotton in their bottles of aspirin. Bayer had actually stopped the practice earlier in the year.
2001 – September 11 Attacks in the United States
A series of 4 coordinated suicide attacks were carried out by the terrorist group Al Qaeda on the morning of September 11. Nineteen militants hijacked 4 California-bound airplanes from east coast cities in the US and used the planes to target major American landmarks. Two planes were crashed into the two towers of the World Trade Center, which caused them to collapse within two hours of being struck. One plane was crashed into the Pentagon building in Arlington, Virginia, while the fourth plane, thought to be bound towards Washington DC, crashed in a field in Pennsylvania after passengers tried to fight back against the hijackers. The attacks injured about 6000 people, claimed the lives of about 3000 people, caused significant economic damage, and destroyed property worth tens of billions of dollars. The attack was the precursor to the War Against Terror and the War in Afghanistan.
2002 – Through extreme and coordinated effort, The Pentagon is rededicated after repairs are completed, exactly one year after the attack on the building
2005 – The State of Israel completes its unilateral disengagement from the Gaza Strip.
2007 – Russia Tests Father of All Bombs, The world’s most powerful non-nuclear bomb was a thermobaric bomb – it detonated mid-air and uses the oxygen in the air to create an explosion. The energy released by the bomb equaled 44 tons of TNT.
2011 – Occupy Wall Street movement begins, The Occupy Wall Street movement began in Zuccotti Park in the Wall Street District of New York Cit
2012 Attacks on The US Diplomatic Compounds in Benghazi, Libya
About 150 Islamic militants attacked two different US diplomatic buildings in the city with gunfire, grenades, and mortars. 4 Americans including US ambassador J. Christopher Stevens died in the attack. The incident led to political controversy in the country, especially related to the statements made by then Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, and members of the State Department.
2013 – 12 Alawite sect members are killed by rebel fighters in central Syria
2017 – One million march on this state’s national day in Barcelona in support of independence for Catalonia
2018 – American-backed militia begins final push to oust militants from Hajin, Syria, last area under Islamic State control
2019 – Water detected for first time on planet outside out solar system, on exoplanet K2-18b 110 light-years away, in findings published in “Nature Astronomy”
2022 – Ukraine’s military says it has retaken 3,000 sq km during a rapid counter-offensive in eastern Ukraine in the last few days
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