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Events

• 9
  9
  
  Year 9 was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar....
   - The Battle of the Teutoburg Forest
  Battle of the Teutoburg Forest
  
  The Battle of the Teutoburg Forest took place in 9 A.D. when an alliance of Germanic tribes led by Arminius, the son of Segimer of the Cherusci, ambushed and destroyed three Roman Empire Roman legions led by Publius Quinctilius Varus....
   ends.
• 506
  506
  
  Events...
   - The bishop
  Bishop
  
  A bishop is an ordination or consecration member of the Clergy#Christian clergy who is generally entrusted with a position of authority and oversight....
  s of Visigothic Gaul
  Gaul
  
  Gaul is the name used for the region of Western Europe comprising part of present day northern Italy, France, Belgium, western Switzerland and the parts of the Netherlands and Germany on the west bank of the River Rhine....
   meet in the Council of Agde
  Council of Agde
  
  In the history of Roman Catholicism in France, the Council of Agde was held 10 September 506 at Agatha or Agde in Languedoc, under the presidency of Caesarius of Arles....
  .
• 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
  Byzantine Empire
  
  Byzantine Empire and Eastern Roman Empire are conventional names used to describe the Roman Empire during the Middle Ages, centered on its capital of Constantinople....
  .
• 1226 - The Roman Catholic practice of public adoration of the Blessed Sacrament
  Eucharistic adoration
  
  Eucharistic adoration is a practice in the Roman Catholic Church and in some Anglican churches, in which the Blessed Sacrament is exposed to and adored by the faithful....
   outside of Mass
  Mass
  
  In physical science, mass refers to the degree of acceleration a body acquires when subject to a force: bodies with greater mass are accelerated less by the same force....
   spreads from monasteries to parishes.
• 1297 - Battle of Stirling Bridge
  Battle of Stirling Bridge
  
  The Battle of Stirling Bridge was a battle of the First War of Scottish Independence. On 11 September 1297, the forces of Andrew Moray and William Wallace defeated the combined England forces of John de Warenne, 7th Earl of Surrey and Hugh de Cressingham near Stirling, on the River Forth....
  : Scots
  Scottish people
  
  The Scots people are a nation and an ethnic group indigenous to Scotland.Historically, as an ethnic group, they emerged from an amalgamation of Celts, Picts, Gaels and Brythons....
   jointly-led by William Wallace
  William Wallace
  
  William Wallace was a Scotland knight and landowner who is known for leading a resistance during the Wars of Scottish Independence and regarded as a patriot and national hero....
   and Andrew Moray
  Andrew Moray
  
  Andrew Moray , , also known as Andrew de Moray, Andrew of Moray, or Andrew Murray, was a prominent military leader during the Scottish Wars of Independence....
   defeat the English
  England
  
  native_name =|conventional_long_name = England|common_name = England|image_flag = Flag of England.svg|image_coat = England COA.svg|symbol_type = Royal Coat of Arms...
  .
• 1390 - Lithuanian Civil War (1389–1392)
  Lithuanian Civil War (1389–1392)
  
  The Lithuanian Civil War of 1389?1392 was the second civil conflict between Jogaila, King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania, and his cousin Vytautas the Great....
  : the Teutonic Knights
  Teutonic Knights
  
  The Order of the Teutonic Knights of St. Mary's Hospital in Jerusalem , or for short the Teutonic Order was a Germans Roman Catholic religious order....
   begin a five-week siege of Vilnius
  Vilnius
  
  Vilnius is the largest city and the Capital of Lithuania, with a population of 555,613 as of 2008. It is the seat of the Vilnius city municipality and of the Vilnius district municipality....
  .
• 1541 - Santiago, Chile
  Santiago, Chile
  
  Santiago , is the Capital and largest city of Chile, and the center of its largest conurbation . It is located in the country's central valley, at an elevation of 520 m Above mean sea level....
  , is destroyed by indigenous warriors, lead by Michimalonko
  Michimalonco
  
  Michima Lonco was an indigenous chief said to be a great warrior, born in the Aconcagua Valley and educated in Cusco by the Inca Empire. He presented himself to the Spaniards, naked and covered by a black pigmentation....
  .
• 1609 - Expulsion order announced against the Morisco
  Morisco
  
  A morisco or mourisco was any Muslim of Spain or Portugal who converted to Catholicism during the reconquista of Spain. The term also became a pejorative applied to those who had converted but were suspected of secretly practicing Islam....
  s of Valencia; beginning of the expulsion of all Spain
  Spain
  
  Spain or the Kingdom of Spain , is a country located in Southern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula.The Spanish constitution does not establish any official denomination of the country, even though Espa?a , Estado espa?ol and Naci?n espa?ola are used interchangeably....
  's Moriscos.
• 1609 - Henry Hudson
  Henry Hudson
  
  Henry Hudson was an England sea explorer and navigator in the early 17th century. After several voyages on behalf of English merchants to explore a prospective Northeast Passage to China, Hudson explored the region around modern New York City while looking for a western route to the Orient under the auspices of the Dutch East India Company....
   discovers Manhattan Island and the natives living there.
• 1649 - Siege of Drogheda
  Siege of Drogheda
  
  Drogheda, a town in eastern Ireland, was besieged twice in the 1640s, during the Irish Confederate Wars and the Irish theatre of the Wars of the Three Kingdoms....
   ends: Oliver Cromwell
  Oliver Cromwell
  
  Oliver Cromwell was an English people Military history of the United Kingdom and Politics of England leader best known for his involvement in making England into a republican Commonwealth and for his later role as Lord Protector of England, Scotland, and Ireland....
  's English Parliamentarian
  Parliamentarian
  
  Parliamentarian can refer to a member or supporter of a Parliament, as in:*Member of Parliament*Roundheads, supporters of the parliamentary cause in the English Civil War...
   troops take the town and execute its garrison.
• 1683 - John III Sobieski
  John III Sobieski
  
  John III Sobieski was one of the most notable monarchs of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, from 1674 until his death King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania....
   of Poland
  Poland
  
  Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe. Poland is bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian Enclave and exclave, to the north....
   arrives on Kahlen Hill
  Kahlenberg
  
  Kahlenberg is a mountain located in the 19th District within Vienna, Austria ....
  , leading to the Battle of Vienna
  Battle of Vienna
  
  The Battle of Vienna , Ukrainian language: ????????? ?????? took place on 12 September 1683 after Vienna had been besieged by the Ottoman Empire for two months....
   the next day.
• 1697 - Battle of Zenta
  Battle of Zenta
  
  The Battle of Zenta or Battle of Senta, fought on 11 September 1697 just south of the modern Serbian town of Senta , on the east side of the Tisza river, was a major engagement in the Great Turkish War and one of the most decisive defeats in Ottoman Empire history....
  .
• 1708 - Charles XII of Sweden
  Charles XII of Sweden
  
  Charles XII was the Monarch of Sweden from 1697 to 1718.Charles was the only surviving son of King Charles XI of Sweden and Ulrike Eleonora of Denmark, and he assumed the crown at the age of fifteen, at the death of his father....
   stops his march to conquer Moscow
  Moscow
  
  Moscow is the capital and the largest types of inhabited localities in Russia of the Russian Federation. It is also the largest European cities and metropolitan areas, with the Moscow metropolitan area ranking among the largest urban areas in the world....
   outside Smolensk
  Smolensk
  
  Smolensk is a types of inhabited localities in Russia and the administrative centre of Smolensk Oblast, located on the Dnieper River. Situated west-southwest of Moscow, this walled city was destroyed several times throughout its long history since it was on the invasion routes of both Napoleon and Hitler....
  , marking the turning point in the Great Northern War
  Great Northern War
  
  The Great Northern War was a war in which the so-called Northern Alliance composed of Russia, Denmark-Norway, Polish?Lithuanian Commonwealth and Saxony engaged Sweden to challenge them for the supremacy in the Baltic Sea....
  . The army is defeated nine months later in the Battle of Poltava
  Battle of Poltava
  
  The Battle of Poltava on 27 June 1709 was the decisive victory of Peter I of Russia over Charles XII of Sweden in the most famous of the battles of the Great Northern War....
  , and the Swedish empire
  Swedish Empire
  
  Sweden was, between 1611 and 1718, one of the great powers of Europe. In modern historiography this period is known as the Swedish Empire, or stormaktstiden ....
   is no longer a major power.
• 1709 - Battle of Malplaquet
  Battle of Malplaquet
  
  The Battle of Malplaquet, fought on 11 September 1709, was one of the main battles of the War of the Spanish Succession, which opposed the Bourbons of History of France#Louis_XIV and Spain#Rise_and_fall_as_a_world_power:_From_the_Renaissance_to_the_19th_century against an alliance whose major members were the Habsburg Monarchy, the United Kin...
  : Great Britain
  Kingdom of Great Britain
  
  The Kingdom of Great Britain, also known as the United Kingdom of Great Britain, was a country in North-West Europe, in existence from 1707 to 1801....
  , Netherlands
  Netherlands
  
  The Netherlands is a country that is part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. It is a parliamentary democratic constitutional monarchy. The Netherlands is located in North-West Europe, and bordered by the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east....
   and Austria
  Austria
  
  Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It borders both Germany and the Czech Republic to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the west....
   fight against France
  France
  
  France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
  .
• 1714 - Barcelona
  Barcelona
  
  Barcelona is the capital and most populous city of the Autonomous communities of Spain of Catalonia and the second largest city in Spain, with a population of 1,615,908 in 2008, while the population of the Metropolitan Area was 3,161,081....
   surrenders to Spanish
  Spain
  
  Spain or the Kingdom of Spain , is a country located in Southern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula.The Spanish constitution does not establish any official denomination of the country, even though Espa?a , Estado espa?ol and Naci?n espa?ola are used interchangeably....
   and French Bourbon
  Philip V of Spain
  
  Philip V of Spain , born Philippe de France, fils de France and Counts and Dukes of Anjou, was king of Spain from 1700 to 1724 and 1724 to 1746, the first of the House of Bourbon dynasty in Spain....
   armies in the War of the Spanish Succession
  War of the Spanish Succession
  
  War of the Spanish Succession was a war fought in 1701-1714, in which several European powers combined to stop a possible unification of the Kingdoms of Spain and France under a single Bourbon monarch, upsetting the European Balance of power in international relations....
  .
• 1758 - Battle of Saint Cast
  Battle of Saint Cast
  
  The Battle of Saint Cast was a military engagement during the Seven Years War on the coast France between British Naval and Land expeditionary forces and French coastal defense forces....
   France repels British invasion during the Seven Year's War.
• 1773 - The Public Advertiser publishes a satirical essay
  Essay
  
  An essay is usually a short piece of writing. It is often written from an author's personal Perspective . Essays can be literary criticism, political manifestos, learned arguments, observations of daily life, recollections, and reflections of the author....
   titled Rules By Which A Great Empire May Be Reduced To A Small One, which is written by Benjamin Franklin
  Benjamin Franklin
  
  Benjamin Franklin was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States of the United States. A noted polymath, Franklin was a leading author and Printer , Satire, list of political philosophers, politician, scientist, inventor, activism, statesman, and diplomacy....
  .
• 1776 - British-American
  United States
  
  The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
   peace conference on Staten Island fails to stop nascent American Revolution
  American Revolution
  
  The American Revolution refers to the political upheaval during the last half of the 18th century in which the Thirteen Colonies of North America overthrew the governance of the British Empire and then rejected the British monarchy to become the sovereign United States of America....
  .
• 1777 - American Revolution: Battle of Brandywine
  Battle of Brandywine
  
  }|-||}The Battle of Brandywine was a battle of the Philadelphia campaign of the American Revolutionary War fought on September 11, 1777, in the area surrounding Chadds Ford Township, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania....
   - The British celebrate a major victory in Chester County
  Chester County, Pennsylvania
  
  Chester County is a county located in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. As of 2000, the population was 433,501. The county seat is West Chester, Pennsylvania....
  , Pennsylvania
  Pennsylvania
  
  The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania , often colloquially referred to as PA by natives and Northeasterners, is a U.S. state located in the Northeastern United States and Mid-Atlantic States regions of the United States....
  .
• 1786 - The Beginning of the Annapolis Convention
  Annapolis Convention (1786)
  
  The Annapolis Convention was a meeting at Annapolis, Maryland of 12 delegates from five U.S. states that called for a constitutional convention ....
  .
• 1789 - Alexander Hamilton
  Alexander Hamilton
  
  Alexander Hamilton was the first Secretary of the Treasury, a Founding Fathers of the United States, economist, and political philosopher. He led calls for the Philadelphia Convention, was one of America's first Constitutional lawyers, and cowrote the Federalist Papers, a primary source for Constitutional interpretation....
   is appointed as the first United States Secretary of the Treasury
  United States Secretary of the Treasury
  
  The United States Secretary of the Treasury is the head of the United States Department of the Treasury, concerned with finance and monetary matters, and, until 2003, some issues of national security and defense....
  .
• 1792 - The Hope Diamond
  Hope Diamond
  
  The Hope Diamond is a large, , fancy deep blue diamond, currently housed in the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C....
   is stolen along with other crown jewels when six men break into the house used to store the jewels.
• 1802 - France annexes the Kingdom of Piedmont
  Kingdom of Sardinia
  
  Kingdom of Sardinia, also known as Piedmont-Sardinia or Sardinia-Piedmont, was the name given to the possessions of the House of Savoy in 1720, when the island of Sardinia was awarded by the Treaty of London to Victor Amadeus II of Sardinia to compensate him for the loss of Sicily to Austrian Empire....
  .
• 1813 - British troops arrive in Mount Vernon
  Mount Vernon
  
  Mount Vernon was the Virginia estate of George Washington, the first President of the United States. The name may also refer to several other places around the world:...
   and prepare to march to Washington D.C. to invade it.(The War of 1812)
• 1814 - The climax of the Battle of Plattsburgh
  Battle of Plattsburgh
  
  The Battle of Plattsburgh, also known as the Battle of Lake Champlain, ended the final invasion of the northern states during the War of 1812....
  , a major United States victory in the War of 1812
  War of 1812
  
  The War of 1812, between the United States of America and the British Empire , was fought from 1812 to 1815.There were several immediate stated causes for the U.S....
  .
• 1847 - Stephen Foster
  Stephen Foster
  
  Stephen Collins Foster , known as the "father of American music," was the pre-eminent songwriter in the United States of the 19th century. His songs, such as "Oh! Susanna", "Camptown Races", "Old Folks at Home" , "My Old Kentucky Home", "Old Black Joe", and "Beautiful Dreamer" remain popular over 150 years after their composition....
  's well-known song, Oh! Susanna
  Oh! Susanna
  
  "Oh! Susanna" is a song written by Stephen Foster. It was first published on February 25, 1848. Popularly associated with the California Gold Rush, the song is occasionally called "Banjo on My Knee"....
  , is first performed at a saloon in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
  Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
  
  Pittsburgh is the second largest city in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania with a population of 312,819. The population of the seven-county metropolitan area is 2,462,571....
  .
• 1857 - The Mountain Meadows Massacre
  Mountain Meadows massacre
  
  The Mountain Meadows massacre involved a mass slaughter of the List of members of the Fancher party emigrant wagon train at Mountain Meadows, Utah in the Utah Territory by the local Mormon militia on 11 September 1857....
  : Mormon
  Mormon
  
  Mormon is a term used to describe the adherents, practitioners, followers or constituents of Mormonism. The term most often refers to a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints , which is commonly called the Mormon Church....
   settlers and Paiute
  Paiute
  
  Paiute refers to two related groups of Native Americans in the United States — the Northern Paiute of California, Nevada and Oregon, and the Southern Paiute of Arizona, southeastern California and Nevada, and Utah....
  s massacre 120 pioneers at Mountain Meadows, Utah
  Mountain Meadows, Utah
  
  Mountain Meadows is an area in present-day Washington County, Utah Utah. It is a place of rest and grazing used by migrants on the Old Spanish Trail on their way overland to California....
  .
• 1858 - First ascent of Dom, the third highest summit in the Alps.
• 1888 - Death of the Argentine
  Argentina
  
  Argentina, officially the Argentine Republic , is a country in South America, constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city....
   politician
  Politician
  
  A politician is an individual who is involved in influencing public decision making through the influence of politics or a person who influences the way a society is governed....
   Domingo Sarmiento, after whom the Latin America
  Latin America
  
  Latin America is a region of the Americas where Romance languages ? particularly Spanish language and Portuguese language, and variably French language ? are primarily spoken....
  n Teacher's Day is chosen.
• 1891 - The Jewish Colonization Association
  Jewish Colonization Association
  
  The Jewish Colonization Association was created on September 11, 1891 by the Baron Maurice de Hirsch. Its aim was to facilitate the mass emigration of Jews from Russia and other Eastern European countries, by settling them in agricultural colonies on lands purchased by the committee, particularly in North America and South America ....
   is established by Baron Maurice de Hirsch.
• 1893 - First conference of the World Parliament of Religions is held.
• 1897 - After months of pursuit, general
  General
  
  A General officer is an Officer of high military rank. The term or equivalent is used by nearly every country in the world. General can be used as a generic term for all grades of general officer, or it can specifically refer to a single rank that is just called general....
  s of Menelik II of Ethiopia capture Gaki Sherocho
  Gaki Sherocho
  
  Gaki Sherocho was the last king of the kingdom of Kaffa in what is now Ethiopia.In January 1897, Emperor of Ethiopia Menelik II of Ethiopia sent out three armies under the leadership of Ras Walda Giyorgis , Dejazmach Demissew Nassibu, and Dejazmach Tessema Nadew to conquer Kaffa....
  , the last king of Kaffa
  Kingdom of Kaffa
  
  The Kingdom of Kaffa was an early modern state located in what is now Ethiopia, with its capital at Bonga. The Gojeb River formed its northern border, beyond which lay the Gibe region kingdoms; to the east the territory of the Konta people and Kullo peoples lay between Kaffa and the Omo River; to the south numerous tribes of the Gimira peopl...
  , bringing an end to that ancient kingdom.
• 1903 - The first race at The Milwaukee Mile in West Allis, Wisconsin
  Wisconsin
  
  Wisconsin is one of the fifty U.S. state in the United States of America, located in the north central part of the United States. It borders two of the five Great Lakes and four U.S....
   is held. It is the oldest major speedway in the world.
• 1906 - Mahatma Gandhi
  Mahatma Gandhi
  
  Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was a major political and spiritual leader of India and the Indian independence movement. He was the pioneer of satyagraha?resistance to tyranny through mass civil disobedience, firmly founded upon ahimsa or total non-violence?which led India to Indian independence movement and inspired movements for civi...
   coins the term "Satyagraha
  Satyagraha
  
  Satyagraha is a philosophy and practice of nonviolent resistance developed by Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi . Gandhi deployed satyagraha in campaigns for Indian independence and also during his earlier struggles in South Africa....
  " to characterize the Non-Violence movement in South Africa
  South Africa
  
  The Republic of South Africa, also known by Official names of South Africa, is a country located at the southern tip of the continent of Africa....
  .
• 1914 - Australia
  Australia
  
  Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the southern hemisphere comprising the Australia of the world's smallest continent, the major island of Tasmania, and numerous list of islands of Australia in the Indian Ocean and Pacific Oceans....
   invades New Britain
  New Britain
  
  New Britain is the largest island in the Bismarck Archipelago of Papua New Guinea. It is separated from the island of New Guinea by the Dampier Strait , and from New Ireland by the St....
  , defeating a German
  Germany
  
  Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands....
   contingent there.
• 1915 - The Pennsylvania Railroad
  Pennsylvania Railroad
  
  The Pennsylvania Railroad was an United States railroad, founded in 1846. Commonly referred to as the "Pennsy," the PRR was headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania....
   begins electrified commuter rail
  R5 (SEPTA)
  
  The SEPTA R5 is a route of the SEPTA Regional Rail system. One end of the route serves the western suburbs of Philadelphia, USA, and the other the northern suburbs....
   service between Paoli
  Paoli, Pennsylvania
  
  Paoli is a census-designated place located in Chester County, Pennsylvania near Philadelphia. It is situated in portions of three townships: Easttown Township, Pennsylvania, Tredyffrin Township, Pennsylvania and Willistown Township, Pennsylvania....
   and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
  Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
  
  Philadelphia is the largest city in Pennsylvania and the List of United States cities by population city in the United States. It is the fifth-largest metropolitan area and fourth-largest urban area by population in the United States, the nation's fourth-largest consumer media market as ranked by the Nielsen Media Research, and the 49th-most...
  , using overhead AC trolley wires for power.
• 1916 - The Quebec Bridge
  Quebec Bridge
  
  The Quebec Bridge in List of bridges in Canada crosses the lower Saint Lawrence River to the west of Quebec City, and L?vis, Quebec, Quebec.The Quebec Bridge is a riveted steel truss structure and is 987 metres long, 29 m wide, and 104 m high....
  's central span collapses, killing 11 men. The bridge initially collapsed in toto on August 29, 1907.
• 1919 - U.S. Marines
  United States Marine Corps
  
  The United States Marine Corps is a branch of the United States Armed Forces responsible for providing Military power projection from the sea, using the mobility of the United States Navy to rapidly deliver Marine Air-Ground Task Force....
   invade Honduras
  Honduras
  
  Honduras is a democratic republic in Central America. It was formerly known as Spanish Honduras to differentiate it from British Honduras ....
  .
• 1921 - Nahalal
  Nahalal
  
  Nahalal , is a moshav in northern Israel. Covering 8,500 dunams, it falls under the jurisdiction of Jezreel Valley Regional Council. In 2006 it had a population of 913....
  , the first moshav
  Moshav
  
  Moshav is a type of Israeli settlement, in particular a type of cooperative agricultural community of individual farms settlered by the Labor Zionisms during the second aliyah ....
   in Israel
  Israel
  
  Israel officially the State of Israel , is a country in the Middle East located on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanon in the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan in the east, and Egypt on the southwest, and contains geographically diverse features within its relatively small area....
  , is settled.
• 1922 - The British Mandate of Palestine begins.
• 1922 - The Treaty of Kars
  Treaty of Kars
  
  The Treaty of Kars was a friendship treaty between the Grand National Assembly of Turkey, which in 1923 declared the Republic of Turkey, and representatives of Soviet Armenia, Soviet Azerbaijan and Soviet Georgia with participation of Bolshevist Russia....
   is ratified in Yerevan
  Yerevan
  
  Yerevan is the capital and largest city of Armenia. It is situated on the Hrazdan River, and is the administrative, cultural, and industrial center of the country....
  , Armenia
  Armenia
  
  Armenia , officially the Republic of Armenia , is a landlocked mountainous country in South Caucasus between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea....
  .
• 1922 - One of the Herald Sun
  Herald Sun
  
  The Herald Sun is a morning tabloid newspaper based in Melbourne, the state capital of Victoria Australia. It is published by The Herald and Weekly Times Ltd, a subsidiary of News Limited and owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation....
   of Melbourne, Australia's predecessor papers The Sun News-Pictorial
  The Sun News-Pictorial
  
  The Sun News-Pictorial, commonly known as The Sun, was a morning daily tabloid newspaper in Melbourne, Australia established in 1922 and closed in 1990....
   is founded.
• 1926 - An assassination attempt on Benito Mussolini
  Benito Mussolini
  
  Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini, Order of the Bath Sovereign Military Order of Malta Order of the Tower and Sword was an Italy politician who led the National Fascist Party and is credited with being one of the key figures in the creation of Fascism....
   fails.
• 1931 - Salvatore Maranzano
  Salvatore Maranzano
  
  Salvatore Maranzano was an organized crime figure from the town of Castellammare del Golfo, Sicily, and an early Cosa Nostra boss in the United States....
   is murdered by Charles Luciano
  Lucky Luciano
  
  Charles "Lucky" Luciano was a Sicilian mobster. Luciano is considered the father of modern organized crime and the mastermind of the massive postwar expansion of the international heroin trade....
  's hitmen.
• 1932 - Franciszek Zwirko
  Franciszek Zwirko
  
  Franciszek Zwirko was a prominent Poland sport and military aviator. Along with Stanislaw Wigura, he won the international air contest Challenge 1932....
   and Stanislaw Wigura
  Stanislaw Wigura
  
  Stanislaw Wigura was a Poland aircraft designer and aviator, co-founder of the RWD aircraft construction team and lecturer at the Warsaw University of Technology....
  , Polish
  Poland
  
  Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe. Poland is bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian Enclave and exclave, to the north....
   Challenge 1932
  Challenge 1932
  
  The Challenge 1932 was the third F?d?ration A?ronautique Internationale International Tourist Plane Contest , that took place between August 12 and August 28, 1932 in Berlin, Germany....
   winners, are killed in a plane crash when their RWD 6 crashes into the ground during a storm.
• 1940 - George Stibitz
  George Stibitz
  
  George Robert Stibitz is internationally recognized as a father of the modern digital computer. He was a Bell Labs researcher known for his 1930s and 1940s work on the realization of Boolean logic digital circuits using electromechanical relays as the switching element....
   pioneers the first remote operation of a computer.
• 1940 - World War II
  World War II
  
  World War II, or the Second World War , was a global military conflict which involved a Participants in World War II, including all of the great powers, organised into two opposing military alliances: the Allies of World War II and the Axis powers....
  : Buckingham Palace
  Buckingham Palace
  
  Buckingham Palace is the official London residence of the British monarch. Located in the City of Westminster, the palace is a setting for state occasions and royal entertaining, and a major tourist attraction....
   is damaged during a German
  Nazi Germany
  
  Nazi Germany and the Third Reich are the colloquial English names for Germany under the regime of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party , which established a Totalitarianism dictatorship that existed from 1933 to 1945....
   air raid.
• 1941 - Ground is broken for the construction of The Pentagon
  The Pentagon
  
  The Pentagon is the headquarters of the United States Department of Defense, located in Arlington County, Virginia, Virginia. As a symbol of the Military of the United States, "the Pentagon" is often used Metonymy to refer to the Department of Defense rather than the building itself....
  .
• 1941 - World War II: The U.S. Navy is ordered to attack German U-boats.
• 1941 - Charles Lindberg's Des Moines Speech
  Charles Lindbergh
  
  Charles Augustus Lindbergh was an United States aviator, author, inventor and explorer.On May 20?21, 1927, Lindbergh emerged instantaneously from virtual obscurity to world fame as the result of his Orteig Prize-winning solo non-stop flight from Roosevelt Field, Long Island in New York City to Paris - Le Bourget Airport in Paris in the s...
   accusing the British, Jews and the Roosevelt
  Franklin D. Roosevelt
  
  Franklin Delano Roosevelt , often referred to by his initials FDR, was the List of Presidents of the United States President of the United States....
   administration of pressing for war with Germany.
• 1943 - World War II: German troops
  Wehrmacht
  
  Wehrmacht was the name of the unified armed forces of Germany from 1935 to 1945. It consisted of the Heer , the Kriegsmarine and the Luftwaffe ....
   occupy Corsica
  Corsica
  
  Corsica is the Mediterranean islands#By area in the Mediterranean Sea . It is located west of Italy, southeast of the France mainland, and north of the island of Sardinia....
   and Kosovo
  Kosovo
  
  Kosovo is a disputed region in the Balkans. Its majority is governed by the partially-recognised Republic of Kosovo . Serbia does not recognise the secession of Kosovo and considers it a United Nations-governed entity within its sovereign territory, the Autonomous Province of Kosovo and Metohija that was re-created by Slobodan M...
  -Metohija
  Metohija
  
  Metohija , is a large drainage basin and the name of the region covering the southwestern part of Kosovo. It encompasses three of the seven Subdivisions of Kosovo of Kosovo, namely:...
  .
• 1943 - World War II: Start of the liquidation of the Ghetto
  Ghetto
  
  A ghetto is described as a "portion of a city in which members of a minority group live especially because of social, legal, or economic pressure."...
  s in Minsk
  Minsk
  
  Minsk is the Capital and largest city in Belarus, situated on the Svislach River and Nemiga rivers. Minsk is also a headquarters of the Commonwealth of Independent States ....
   and Lida
  Lida
  
  Lida is a city in western Belarus in Hrodna Voblast, situated 160 km west of Minsk. It is the fourteenth largest city in Belarus....
   by the Nazis.
• 1944 - World War II: The first Allied
  Allies of World War II
  
  The Allies of World War II were the countries officially opposed to the Axis powers of World War II during the World War II. Within the ranks of the Allies powers, the British Empire, the Soviet Union, and the United States of America were known as "The Big Three"....
   troops of the U.S. Army
  United States Army
  
  The United States Army is the branch of the United States Armed Forces responsible for Army operations. It is the largest and oldest established branch of the U.S....
   cross the western border of Germany.
• 1944 - World War II: RAF bombing raid on Darmstadt
  Darmstadt
  
  Darmstadt is a city in the States of Germany of Hesse in Germany, located in the southern part of the Frankfurt Rhine Main Area.The city of Darmstadt was founded by the Counts of Katzenelnbogen in 1330, though settlement in the area is known to have been present as early as the late 11th century....
   and the following firestorm kill 11,500.
• 1945 - World War II: Liberation of the Japan
  Japan
  
  Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, People's Republic of China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south....
  ese-run POW and civilian internee camp at Batu Lintang
  Batu Lintang camp
  
  Batu Lintang camp at Kuching, Sarawak on the island of Borneo was a Empire of Japan internment camp during the Second World War. It was unusual in that it housed both Allies of World War II Prisoner of war and internment....
  , Kuching, Sarawak
  Sarawak
  
  Sarawak is one of two Malaysian states on the island of Borneo. Known as Bumi Kenyalang , it is situated on the north-west of the island. It is the largest state in Malaysia; the second largest, Sabah, lies to the northeast....
   on the island of Borneo
  Borneo
  
  Borneo is the List of islands by area and is located at the centre of Maritime Southeast Asia. Administratively, this island is divided between Indonesia, Malaysia and Brunei....
   by Australian 9th Division forces. Over 2,000 prisoners, including women and children, were due to be executed on September 15.
• 1955 - Dedication of the first Temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Europe
  Europe
  
  Europe is, conventionally, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally divided from Asia to its east by the water divide of the Ural Mountains, the Ural , the Caspian Sea, and by the Caucasus Mountains to the southeast....
  , the Bern Switzerland Temple
  Bern Switzerland Temple
  
  The Bern Switzerland Temple is a Temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints . Though the building is located in M?nchenbuchsee, its postal address is assigned to the neighboring municipality of Zollikofen....
  .
• 1956 - People to People International
  People to People International
  
  People to People International was established on September 11, 1956 by President Dwight D. Eisenhower. At the time, the first people to travel as a part of the program were professionals from varying fields....
   is founded by President
  President of the United States
  
  The President of the United States is the head of state and head of government of the United States and is the highest political official in the United States by influence and recognition....
   Dwight D. Eisenhower
  Dwight D. Eisenhower
  
  Dwight David ?Ike? Eisenhower was the List of Presidents of the United States President of the United States from 1953 until 1961 and a General of the Army in the United States Army....
  .
• 1960 - The Young Americans for Freedom
  Young Americans for Freedom
  
  Young Americans for Freedom is a conservative youth organization that was founded in 1960. While the 1960s were its most successful years in terms of numbers and influence, YAF continues to be active as a national organization with chapters throughout the United States....
  , meeting at home of William F. Buckley, Jr.
  William F. Buckley, Jr.
  
  William Frank Buckley Jr. was an United States Conservatism in the United States author and political commentator. He founded the political magazine National Review in 1955, hosted 1429 episodes of the television show Firing Line from 1966 until 1999, and was a nationally Print syndication newspaper columnist....
  , promulgate the Sharon Statement
  Sharon Statement
  
  The Sharon Statement is the founding statement of principles of the Young Americans for Freedom.Written by M. Stanton Evans with the assistance of Annette Kirk, wife of Russell Kirk, and adopted on September 11, 1960, the statement is named for the location of the inaugural meeting of Young Americans for Freedom, held at William F....
  .
• 1961 - Foundation of the World Wildlife Fund.
• 1961 - Hurricane Carla
  Hurricane Carla
  
  Hurricane Carla was one of two Category 5 tropical cyclones during the 1961 Atlantic hurricane season. It struck the Texas coast as a Category 4 hurricane, becoming one of the most powerful storms to ever strike the United States....
   strikes the Texas
  Texas
  
  Texas is a U.S. state located in the South Central United States, nicknamed the Lone Star State. Texas is the second largest U.S. state in both area and population, spanning , and with a growing population of 24.3 million residents....
   coast as a Category 4 hurricane, the strongest storm ever to hit the state.
• 1965 - The 1st Cavalry Division of the United States Army arrives in Vietnam
  Vietnam
  
  Vietnam , officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam , is the easternmost country on the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia. It is bordered by People's Republic of China to the north, Laos to the northwest, Cambodia to the southwest, and the South China Sea to the east....
  .
• 1968 - Air France Flight 1611
  Air France Flight 1611
  
  Air France Flight 1611 was en route from Corsica to Nice, France on September 11 1968 when it crashed into the Mediterranean Sea off Nice, killing all 95 on board....
   crashes off Nice, France, killing 89 passengers and 6 crew.
• 1970 - 88 of the hostages from the Dawson's Field hijackings
  Dawson's Field hijackings
  
  In the Dawson's Field hijackings four jet aircraft bound for New York City were aircraft hijacking by members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine....
   are released. The remaining hostages, mostly Jews and Israel
  Israel
  
  Israel officially the State of Israel , is a country in the Middle East located on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanon in the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan in the east, and Egypt on the southwest, and contains geographically diverse features within its relatively small area....
  i citizens, are held until September 25.
• 1970 - The Ford Pinto
  Ford Pinto
  
  The Ford Pinto was a subcompact car manufactured by the Ford Motor Company for the North American market, first introduced on September 11, 1970, and built through the 1980 model year....
   is introduced.
• 1971 - The Egyptian Constitution
  Politics of Egypt
  
  The government of Egypt consists of a semi-presidential system republic, whereby the President of Egypt is the fact both head of state and head of government, and of a system dominated by the National Democratic Party ....
   becomes official.
• 1972 - Bay Area Rapid Transit
  Bay Area Rapid Transit
  
  Bay Area Rapid Transit is a rapid transit system serving the San Francisco Bay Area. The Passenger rail terminology#Heavy rail public transit system connects downtown San Francisco with suburbs in the East Bay and northern San Mateo County, California....
   (BART) in San Francisco, California
  San Francisco, California
  
  The City and County of San Francisco is the fourth most populous city in California and the List of United States cities by population in the United States, with a 2007 estimated population of 799,183....
   begins regular service.
• 1973 - A CIA
  Central Intelligence Agency
  
  The Central Intelligence Agency is a civilian intelligence agency of the Federal government of the United States. It is the successor of the Office of Strategic Services formed during World War II to coordinate espionage activities between the branches of the US military services....
   backed coup
  Chilean coup of 1973
  
  The Chilean coup d'?tat of 1973 is a landmark in the history of Chile and the Soviet-American Cold War. On 11 September 1973, the government of President Salvador Allende was overthrown by the military in a coup d??tat....
   in Chile
  Chile
  
  Chile, officially the Republic of Chile , is a country in South America occupying a long and narrow coastal strip wedged between the Andes mountains and the Pacific Ocean....
   headed by General
  General
  
  A General officer is an Officer of high military rank. The term or equivalent is used by nearly every country in the world. General can be used as a generic term for all grades of general officer, or it can specifically refer to a single rank that is just called general....
   Augusto Pinochet topples the democratically elected President
  President
  
  President is a title held by many leaders of organizations, company, trade unions, university, and country. Etymology, a "president" is one who Wiktionary:Preside, who sits in leadership ....
   Salvador Allende
  Salvador Allende
  
  Salvador Isabelino Allende Gossens was President of Chile of Chile from November 1970 until his death during the 1973 Chilean coup d'?tat.Allende's involvement in Chilean political life spanned a period of nearly forty years....
  . Pinochet remains in power for almost 17 years.
• 1974 - Eastern Air Lines Flight 212
  Eastern Air Lines Flight 212
  
  Eastern Air Lines Flight 212 was an Eastern Air Lines DC-9, carrying 78 passengers and 4 crew, operating as a scheduled flight from Charleston, South Carolina to Chicago, Illinois, with an intermediate stop in Charlotte, North Carolina....
   crashes in Charlotte
  Charlotte, North Carolina
  
  Charlotte is the largest city in the state of North Carolina and the seat of Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. The List of United States cities by population in the United States....
  , North Carolina
  North Carolina
  
  North Carolina is a U.S. state located on the Atlantic Seaboard in the southeastern United States. The state borders South Carolina and Georgia to the south, Tennessee to the west and Virginia to the north....
  , killing 69 passengers and two crew.
• 1978 - U.S. President Jimmy Carter
  Jimmy Carter
  
  James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr. served as the List of Presidents of the United States President of the United States from 1977 to 1981 and was the recipient of the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize....
  , President Anwar Sadat
  Anwar Sadat
  
  Muhammad Anwar Al Sadat, or Anwar El Sadat , was the third President of Egypt, serving from 15 October 1970 until his assassination on 6 October 1981....
   of Egypt
  Egypt
  
  Egypt is a country mainly in North Africa, with the Sinai Peninsula forming a land bridge in Western Asia. Covering an area of about , Egypt borders the Mediterranean Sea to the north, the Gaza Strip and Israel to the northeast, the Red Sea to the east, Sudan to the south and Libya to the west....
  , and Prime Minister Menachem Begin
  Menachem Begin
  
  was the sixth Prime Minister of Israel. Before the establishment of the state, he was the leader of the Irgun, playing a central role in Jewish resistance to the British Mandate of Palestine....
   of Israel meet at Camp David
  Camp David
  
  Naval Support Facility Thurmont, popularly known as Camp David, is a mountain based military camp in Frederick_County,_Maryland, Maryland used as a country retreat and for high alert protection of the President of the United States and his guests....
   and agree on a framework for peace
  Camp David Accords
  
  The Camp David Accords were signed by Egyptian President Anwar El Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin on September 17, 1978, following twelve days of secret negotiations at Camp David....
   between Israel and Egypt and a comprehensive peace in the Middle East
  Middle East
  
  File:GreaterMiddleEast1.pngThe Middle East is a region that spans southwestern Asia, western Asia, and northeastern Africa. It has no clear boundaries, often used as a synonym to Near East, in opposition to Far East....
  .
• 1980 - Voters approve the present Constitution of Chile
  Constitution of Chile
  
  In its temporary dispositions, the document ordered the transition from the former military government, with Augusto Pinochet as President of the Republic, and the Legislative Power of the Military dictatorship , to a civil one, with a time frame of eight years, during which the Legislative Power would still be the Military Junta....
  .
• 1981 - A small plane crashes into the Swing Auditorium
  Swing Auditorium
  
  Swing Auditorium was an list of indoor arenas located on E Street in San Bernardino, California, a suburb of Los Angeles. Named for Senator Ralph E....
   in San Bernardino, California
  San Bernardino, California
  
  San Bernardino is the county seat of San Bernardino County, California, United States. San Bernardino's estimated population, as of 2006, is 205,010....
   damaging it beyond repair.
• 1982 - The international forces that were guaranteeing the safety of Palestinian refugees following Israel
  Israel
  
  Israel officially the State of Israel , is a country in the Middle East located on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanon in the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan in the east, and Egypt on the southwest, and contains geographically diverse features within its relatively small area....
  's 1982 Invasion of Lebanon leave Beirut
  Beirut
  
  Beirut is the Capital and largest city of Lebanon with a population of over 2.1 million as of 2007. Located on a peninsula at the midpoint of Lebanon's coastline with the Mediterranean sea, it serves as the country's largest and main seaport and also forms the Beirut District area, which consists of the city and its suburbs....
  . Five days later, several thousand refugees are massacred in the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps
  Sabra and Shatila massacre
  
  The Sabra and Shatila massacre was carried out between September 16 and 18, 1982 by the Lebanese Forces Christian militia group after the Israeli Defense Forces allowed Lebanese Kataeb Party militiamen to enter two Palestinian refugee camps, and the militia massacred civilians inside....
  .
• 1985 - Baseball
  Baseball
  
  Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two team sport of nine players each. The goal of baseball is to score run by hitting a thrown Baseball with a baseball bat and touching a series of four markers called base arranged at the corners of a ninety-foot square, or diamond. Players on one team take turns hitting against...
  : Pete Rose
  Pete Rose
  
  Peter Edward "Pete" Rose, Sr. , nicknamed Charlie Hustle, is a former player and Manager in Major League Baseball. Rose played from to , best known for his many years with the Cincinnati Reds....
   of the Cincinnati Reds
  Cincinnati Reds
  
  The Cincinnati Reds are a Major League Baseball team based in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. They are members of the National League Central of the National League....
   gets his 4,192nd career base hit, breaking Ty Cobb
  Ty Cobb
  
  Tyrus Raymond "Ty" Cobb , nicknamed "The Georgia Peach," was a Major league baseball player and is regarded by historians and journalists as the best player of the dead-ball era and as one of the greatest players of all time....
  's record which had stood for over 60 years.
• 1987 - Dan Rather
  Dan Rather
  
  Daniel Irvin "Dan" Rather, Jr. is a journalist and former news presenter for the CBS Evening News and is now managing editor and anchor of a television news magazine, Dan Rather Reports, on the cable channel HDNet....
   walks off the set of the CBS Evening News
  CBS Evening News
  
  CBS Evening News is the flagship nightly television news program of the American television network CBS. The network has broadcast this program since 1948 in television, and has used the CBS Evening News title since 1963....
   over disapproval of the handling of a major event being interrupted and postponed by a sports program, leaving six minutes of dead air.
• 1989 - The iron curtain
  Iron Curtain
  
  The Iron Curtain was the symbolic, ideological, and physical boundary dividing Europe into two separate areas from the end of World War II in 1945 until the end of the Cold War in 1991....
   opens between the communist Hungary
  Hungary
  
  Hungary , officially in English the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in the Carpathian Basin of Central Europe, bordered by Austria, Slovakia, Ukraine, Romania, Serbia, Croatia, and Slovenia....
   and Austria
  Austria
  
  Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It borders both Germany and the Czech Republic to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the west....
  . From Hungary thousands of East Germans throng to Austria and West Germany
  West Germany
  
  West Germany was the common English name for the Germany , from its formation in May 1949 to German reunification in October 1990, when East Germany was dissolved and its States of Germany became part of the Federal Republic, ending the more than 40-year division of Germany....
  .
• 1990 - U.S. President George H. W. Bush
  George H. W. Bush
  
  George Herbert Walker Bush served as the List of Presidents of the United States President of the United States from 1989 to 1993. Bush held a variety of political positions prior to his presidency, including Vice President of the United States in the administration of Ronald Reagan and Director of Central Intelligence under Gerald R....
   delivers a nationally televised speech in which he threatens the use of force to remove Iraq
  Iraq
  
  Iraq , officially the Republic of Iraq , is a country in Western Asia spanning most of the northwestern end of the Zagros Mountains, the eastern part of the Syrian Desert and the northern part of the Arabian Desert....
  i soldiers from Kuwait
  Kuwait
  
  The State of Kuwait is a sovereign Arab emirate on the coast of the Persian Gulf, enclosed by Saudi Arabia to the south and Iraq to the north and west....
  , which Iraq had recently invaded. He mentions the term "New World Order" in this speech for the first time, which is also named "Towards a New World Order".(full text of the speech)
• 1992 - Hurricane Iniki
  Hurricane Iniki
  
  Hurricane Iniki was the most powerful hurricane to strike the U.S. state of Hawaii and the Hawaiian Islands in recorded history. Forming during the strong El Ni?o-Southern Oscillation of 1991?1994, Iniki was one of eleven Central Pacific tropical cyclones during the 1992 Pacific hurricane season....
  , one of the most damaging hurricanes in United States
  United States
  
  The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
   history, devastates Hawaii
  Hawaii
  
  File:Pahoehoe and Aa flows at Hawaii.jpgThe State of Hawaii is a U.S. state in the United States, located on an archipelago in the central Pacific Ocean southwest of the continental United States, southeast of Japan, and northeast of Australia....
  , especially the islands of Kauai
  Kauai
  
  Kauai or Kauai is the oldest of the main Hawaiian Islands. With an area of , it is the fourth largest of the main islands in the Hawaiian archipelago and the List of islands of the United States by area....
   and Oahu
  Oahu
  
  'Oahu' or 'Oahu' , known as Gathering_place#Island_of_O.7B.7Bokina.7D.7Dahu_as_The_Gathering_Place, is the third largest of the Hawaiian Islands and most populous of the islands in the State of Hawaii....
  .
• 1996 - Union Pacific Railroad
  Union Pacific Railroad
  
  The Union Pacific Railroad , headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska, is the largest railroad network in the United States. James R. Young is president, CEO and Chairman....
   purchases Southern Pacific Railroad
  Southern Pacific Railroad
  
  The Southern Pacific Transportation Company , earlier Southern Pacific Railroad and Southern Pacific Company , was an United States railroad....
  .
• 1997 - NASA
  NASA
  
  The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is an agency of the Federal government of the United States, responsible for the nation's public list of space agencies....
  's Mars Global Surveyor
  Mars Global Surveyor
  
  The Mars Global Surveyor was a US spacecraft developed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and launched November 1996. It began the United States's return to Mars after a 20-year absence....
   reaches Mars
  MARS
  
  In cryptography, MARS is a block cipher that was IBM's submission to the Advanced Encryption Standard process. MARS was selected as an AES finalist in August 1999, after the AES2 conference in March 1999, where it was voted as the fifth and last finalist algorithm....
  .
• 1997 - After a nationwide referendum
  Scotland referendum, 1997
  
  The Scottish referendum of 1997 was a pre-legislative referendum held in Scotland, over whether there was support for the creation of a Scottish Parliament for Scotland and whether there was support for a parliament with tax varying powers....
  , Scotland votes to establish a devolved parliament
  Scottish Parliament
  
  The Scottish Parliament is the Devolution national, Unicameralism legislature of Scotland, located in the Holyrood, Edinburgh area of the capital Edinburgh....
  , within the United Kingdom
  United Kingdom
  
  The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
  .
• 1998 - Independent counsel
  Counsel
  
  A counsel or a counsellor gives advice, more particularly in law matters.The legal system in England uses the term counsel as an approximate synonym for a Barristers in England and Wales ', and may apply it to mean either a single person who pleadings a cause, or collectively, the body of barristers engaged in a Legal case....
   Kenneth Starr
  Kenneth Starr
  
  Kenneth Winston Starr is an United States lawyer and former judge and solicitor general who was appointed to the Office of the Independent Counsel to investigate the suicide death of the deputy White House counsel Vince Foster and the Whitewater controversy land transactions by U.S....
   sends a report to the U.S. Congress accusing President Bill Clinton
  Bill Clinton
  
  William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton served as the List of Presidents of the United States President of the United States from 1993 to 2001. He was the fifteenth Democrat elected to that office....
   of 11 possible impeachable offenses.
• 1998 - Opening ceremony for the 1998 Commonwealth Games
  1998 Commonwealth Games
  
  The 1998 XVI Commonwealth Games were held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia from 11 September to 21 September 1998 making it the first Asian country to act as :wikt:host and the last Commonwealth Games for the 20th century....
   in Kuala Lumpur
  Kuala Lumpur
  
  Kuala Lumpur , is the largest city of Malaysia. The city proper, making up an area of , has an estimated population of 1.6 million in 2006. Greater Kuala Lumpur, also known as the Klang Valley, is an urban agglomeration of 7.2 million....
  , Malaysia
  Malaysia
  
  Malaysia is a federation that consists of States of Malaysia in Southeast Asia with a total landmass of . The capital city is Kuala Lumpur, while Putrajaya is the seat of the federal government....
  . Malaysia
  Malaysia
  
  Malaysia is a federation that consists of States of Malaysia in Southeast Asia with a total landmass of . The capital city is Kuala Lumpur, while Putrajaya is the seat of the federal government....
   is the first Asia
  Asia
  
  Asia is the world's largest and most populous continent. It covers 8.6% of the Earth's total surface area and, with over 4 billion people, it contains more than 60% of the world's current human population....
  n country to host the games.
• 2000 - Activists protest
  S11 (protest)
  
  S11 refers to a series of protests against meetings of the World Economic Forum on 11, 12 and 13 September 2000 in Melbourne, Australia. One of the groups involved in the protests called itself the S11 Alliance and the success of the protest led to the creation of the M1 Alliance on 1 November 2000 in preparation for the next yea...
   against the World Economic Forum
  World Economic Forum
  
  The World Economic Forum is a Geneva-based non-profit foundation best known for its annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland which brings together top business leaders, international political leaders, selected intellectuals and journalists to discuss the most pressing issues facing the world including health and the environment....
   meeting in Melbourne
  Melbourne
  
  Melbourne is the more common name for the geographic region and Census in Australia of the Greater Melbourne metropolitan area. It is the second List of cities in Australia by population in Australia, with a population of approximately 3.8 million and serves as the List of Australian capital cities of Victoria ....
  , Australia
  Australia
  
  Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the southern hemisphere comprising the Australia of the world's smallest continent, the major island of Tasmania, and numerous list of islands of Australia in the Indian Ocean and Pacific Oceans....
  .
• 2001 - The September 11, 2001 attacks take place In the United States
  United States
  
  The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
  . Airplane hijackings
  Aircraft hijacking
  
  Aircraft hijacking is the unlawful seizure of an aircraft by force, by either an individual or a group. In most cases the pilot is forced to fly according to the orders of the hijackers....
   result in the collapse of the World Trade Center
  World trade center
  
  The World Trade Centers Association founded in 1970, is a not-for-profit, non-political association dedicated to the establishment and effective operation of World Trade Centers as instruments for trade expansion representing 316 members in 91 countries....
   in New York City
  New York City
  
  The City of New York is the List of United States cities by population in the United States, while the New York metropolitan area ranks among the List of urban areas by population....
  , destruction of the western portion of The Pentagon
  The Pentagon
  
  The Pentagon is the headquarters of the United States Department of Defense, located in Arlington County, Virginia, Virginia. As a symbol of the Military of the United States, "the Pentagon" is often used Metonymy to refer to the Department of Defense rather than the building itself....
   in Arlington, Virginia, and a passenger airliner crash in Shanksville, Pennsylvania
  Shanksville, Pennsylvania
  
  Shanksville is a Borough in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania, United States, with a population of 245, as of the 2000 census. It is part of the Johnstown, Pennsylvania Metropolitan Statistical Area as well as the Pittsburgh Tri-State....
  .
• 2002 - The Pentagon
  The Pentagon
  
  The Pentagon is the headquarters of the United States Department of Defense, located in Arlington County, Virginia, Virginia. As a symbol of the Military of the United States, "the Pentagon" is often used Metonymy to refer to the Department of Defense rather than the building itself....
   is rededicated after repairs are completed, exactly one year after the attack on the building.
• 2003 - Swedish
  Sweden
  
  Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic countries on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden has land borders with Norway to the west and Finland to the northeast, and it is connected to Denmark by the ?resund Bridge in the south....
   foreign minister
  Foreign minister
  
  A minister for foreign affairs, or foreign minister, is a governmental cabinet Political minister who helps form the foreign policy of a sovereign nation....
   Anna Lindh
  Anna Lindh
  
  Ylva Anna Maria Lindh was a Sweden Swedish Social Democratic Party politician who served as Swedish Minister for Foreign Affairs from 1998 until her assassination in 2003....
   dies after being assaulted and fatally wounded on September 10.
• 2003 - The Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety
  Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety
  
  The Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety is an international agreement on biosafety, as a supplement to the Convention on Biological Diversity....
   enters into effect.
• 2004 - All passengers are killed when a helicopter crashes in the Aegean Sea
  Aegean Sea
  
  The Aegean Sea is an elongated embayment of the Mediterranean Sea located between the southern Balkans and Anatolian peninsulas, i.e., between the mainlands of Greece and Turkey respectively....
  . Passengers include Patriarch Peter VII of Alexandria
  Patriarch Peter VII of Alexandria
  
  Petros VII was the Eastern Orthodoxy Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Alexandria from 1997 to 2004....
   and 16 others (including journalists and bishops of the Greek Orthodox Church of Alexandria
  Greek Orthodox Church of Alexandria
  
  The Greek Orthodox Church of Alexandria, also known as the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Alexandria and All Africa is one of the autocephaly Eastern Orthodox Churches....
  ).
• 2005 - The State of Israel
  Israel
  
  Israel officially the State of Israel , is a country in the Middle East located on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanon in the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan in the east, and Egypt on the southwest, and contains geographically diverse features within its relatively small area....
   completes its unilateral disengagement
  Israel's unilateral disengagement plan
  
  Israel's unilateral disengagement plan , also known as the "Disengagement plan", "Gaza pull-out plan", and "Hitnatkut") was a proposal by Prime Ministers of Israel Ariel Sharon, adopted by the government on June 6, 2004 and enacted in August 2005, to evict all Israelis from the Gaza Strip and from four Israeli settlements in the northern West...
   from the Gaza Strip
  Gaza Strip
  
  The Gaza Strip is a coastal strip of land along the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Egypt on the south-west and Israel on the south, east and north....
  .
• 2007 - Russia
  Russia
  
  Russia , or the Russian Federation , is a list of countries spanning more than one continent country extending over much of northern Eurasia....
   tests the largest conventional weapon
  Conventional weapon
  
  A conventional weapon or conventional arm is a weapon that is not forbidden according to conventions, such as the Convention on Cluster Munitions or the Ottawa Treaty....
   ever, the Father of all bombs
  Father of all bombs
  
  Aviation Thermobaric Bomb of Increased Power , nicknamed "Father of All Bombs" , is a Russian-made bomber thermobaric weapon that is reportedly four times more powerful than the Military of the United States GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast bomb ....
  .

Births

• 1182 - Minamoto no Yoriie
  Minamoto no Yoriie
  
  was the second shogun of the Kamakura shogunate of Japan. Eldest son of the founder of the Kamakura shogunate Minamoto no Yoritomo, his mother was Hojo Masako....
  , Japanese shogun (d. 1204)
• 1522 - Ulisse Aldrovandi
  Ulisse Aldrovandi
  
  Ulisse Aldrovandi was an Italy natural history, the moving force behind Bologna's botanical garden, one of the first in Europe. Carolus Linnaeus and the Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon reckoned him the father of natural history studies....
  , Italian naturalist (d. 1605)
• 1524 - Pierre de Ronsard
  Pierre de Ronsard
  
  Pierre de Ronsard was a France poet and "prince of poets" ....
  , French poet (d. 1585)
• 1611 - Henri de la Tour d'Auvergne, Vicomte de Turenne
  Henri de la Tour d'Auvergne, Vicomte de Turenne
  
  Henri de la Tour d'Auvergne, Vicomte de Turenne,often called simply Turenne was the most illustrious member of the La Tour d'Auvergne family....
  , Marshal of France (d. 1675)
• 1681 - Johann Gottlieb Heineccius
  Johann Gottlieb Heineccius
  
  Johann Gottlieb Heineccius was a Germany jurist from Eisenberg, Thuringia.He studied theology at university of Leipzig, and law at university of Halle; and at the latter university he was appointed in 1713 professor of philosophy, and in 1718 professor of jurisprudence....
  , German jurist (d. 1741)
• 1700 - James Thomson, Scottish poet (d. 1748)
• 1711 - William Boyce
  William Boyce
  
  William Boyce is widely regarded as one of the most important England-born composers of the 18th century.Born in London, Boyce was a choirboy at St Paul's Cathedral before studying music with Maurice Greene after his voice broke....
  , English composer (d. 1779)
• 1723 - Johann Bernhard Basedow
  Johann Bernhard Basedow
  
  Johann Bernhard Basedow was a German people Education reform. He was born as the son of a hairdresser.He was educated at the Johanneum in that town, where he came under the influence of the rationalist Hermann Samuel Reimarus , author of the famous Wolfenb?tteler Fragmente, published by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing....
  , German educational reformer (d. 1790)
• 1786 - Friedrich Kuhlau
  Friedrich Kuhlau
  
  Friedrich Daniel Rudolf Kuhlau was a Germany-Denmark composer during the Classical period and Romantic music periods.Born in Germany, after losing his right eye in a street accident at the age of seven, he studied piano in Hamburg....
  , German composer (d. 1832)
• 1798 - Franz Ernst Neumann
  Franz Ernst Neumann
  
  Franz Ernst Neumann was a Germany mineralogist, physicist and mathematician....
  , German mineralogist and physicist (d. 1895)
• 1800 - Daniel S. Dickinson
  Daniel S. Dickinson
  
  Daniel Stevens Dickinson was a New York politician, most notable as a United States Senator from 1844 to 1851....
  , New York senator (d. 1866)
• 1816 - Carl Zeiss
  Carl Zeiss
  
  File:4microssopes4.jpgCarl Zeiss was an optician commonly known for the company he founded, Carl Zeiss AG. Zeiss made contributions to lens manufacturing that have aided the modern production of lenses....
  , German lens maker (d. 1888)
• 1825 - Eduard Hanslick
  Eduard Hanslick
  
  Eduard Hanslick was a Bohemian-Austrian writer on music....
  , German music critic (d. 1904)
• 1836 - Fitz Hugh Ludlow
  Fitz Hugh Ludlow
  
  Fitz Hugh Ludlow, sometimes seen as ?Fitzhugh Ludlow,? was an American author, journalist, and explorer; best-known for his autobiographical book The Hasheesh Eater ....
  , American author (d. 1870)
• 1838 - John Ireland
  John Ireland (archbishop)
  
  John Ireland was the third bishop and first Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis . He became both a religious as well as civic leader in Saint Paul, Minnesota during the turn of the century....
  , American Catholic archbishop (d. 1918)
• 1859 - Vjenceslav Novak
  Vjenceslav Novak
  
  Vjenceslav Novak was a Croatian people Romanticism writer and dramatist.He was born into an emigrant Czechs family, of which his mother was from an emigrant Bavarian family....
  , Croatian writer (d. 1905)
• 1860 - Marianne von Werefkin
  Marianne von Werefkin
  
  File:Marianne von Werefkin Selbstbildnis um 1910-1.jpgMarianne von Werefkin , born Marianna Wladimirowna Werewkina , was a Russian-Swiss Expressionism painter....
  , Russian-Swiss painter (d. 1938)
• 1860 - James Allan
  James Allan (rugby)
  
  James Allan was a former New Zealand rugby union player who played 8 games for the All Blacks, the New Zealand national rugby union team. He is listed as the first All Black in playing order and was nicknamed the Taieri Giant....
  , former All Black (d. 1934)
• 1862 - O. Henry
  O. Henry
  
  O. Henry was the pen name of United States writer William Sydney Porter . O. Henry short stories are known for wit, wordplay, warm characterization and clever twist endings....
  , American writer (d. 1910)
• 1862 - Julian Byng, British army officer (d. 1935)
• 1865 - Rainis
  Rainis
  
  Rainis, was the pseudonym of Janis Pliek?ans , a Poetry, playwright, Translation, and politics who is considered to be the greatest Latvian writer....
  , Latvian poet and playwright (d. 1929)
• 1877 - James Hopwood Jeans
  James Hopwood Jeans
  
  Sir James Hopwood Jeans Order of Merit Royal Society MA DSc ScD LLD was an England physicist, astronomer and mathematician....
  , Scientist (d. 1946)
• 1885 - D. H. Lawrence
  D. H. Lawrence
  
  David Herbert Richards Lawrence was an England author, poet, playwright, essayist and literary criticism. His collected works represent an extended reflection upon the dehumanizing effects of modernity and industrialization....
  , English novelist (d. 1930)
• 1891 - William Thomas Walsh
  William Thomas Walsh
  
  William Thomas Walsh , born in Waterbury, Connecticut, was a prominent historian, educator and author; he was also an accomplished violinist. His educational background included a B.A....
  , American author (d. 1949)
• 1892 - Pinto Colvig
  Pinto Colvig
  
  Vance DeBar "Pinto" Colvig was a vaudeville actor, radio actor, newspaper cartoonist, prolific movie voice actor, and circus performer whose schtick was playing clarinet off-key while mugging....
  , Goofy
  Goofy
  
  Goofy is an animated cartoon character from the Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse universe. He is an anthropomorphic dog and is one of Mickey Mouse's best friends....
  's and Pluto
  Pluto (Disney)
  
  Pluto is an animated cartoon character made famous in a series of The Walt Disney Company short animation. He has most frequently appeared as Mickey Mouse's pet dog....
  's voice (d. 1967)
• 1892 - Lucien Buysse
  Lucien Buysse
  
  Lucien Buysse was a Belgium cyclist and a champion of the Tour de France.Born in Wontergem, Buysse began racing professionally in 1914, when he entered the Tour de France but did not finish....
  , Belgian cyclist (d. 1980)
• 1893 - W. Douglas Hawkes
  W. Douglas Hawkes
  
  W. Douglas Hawkes was a United Kingdom racecar driver.Indy 500 resultsReferences...
  , British racing driver (d. 1974)
• 1899 - Jimmie Davis
  Jimmie Davis
  
  James Houston Davis , better known as Jimmie Davis, was a noted singer of both sacred and popular songs who served two nonconsecutive terms as a Democratic Party governor of Louisiana ....
  , composer (d. 2000)
• 1899 - Philipp Bouhler
  Philipp Bouhler
  
  Philipp Bouhler was a Nazi Germany government official, SS-Obergruppenf?hrer, head of the F?hrer's Chancellery and leader of the euthanasia programme, the so-called Action T4....
  , German nazi leader (d. 1945)
• 1900 - D. W. Brooks
  D. W. Brooks
  
  David William Brooks was an United States farmer and businessman.Born in Royston, Georgia, Brooks enrolled at the age of 16 at the University of Georgia and graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Agriculture and an Master of Science in Agriculture ....
  , American farmer and businessman (d. 1999)
• 1903 - Theodor Adorno, German philosopher and sociologist (d. 1969)
• 1911 - Bola de Nieve
  Bola de Nieve
  
  Bola de Nieve , born Ignacio Jacinto Villa, , was a successful Cuban singer-pianist and songwriter. His round black face earned him the nickname by which he was always known....
  , Cuban pianist (d. 1971 in music|1971)
• 1913 - Paul "Bear" Bryant
  Bear Bryant
  
  Paul William "Bear" Bryant was an United States college football coach . He was best known as the longtime head coach of the University of Alabama Alabama Crimson Tide football....
  , American football coach (d. 1983)
• 1914 - Pavle, Patriarch of Serbia
  Pavle, Patriarch of Serbia
  
  Patriarch Pavle is the 44th Patriarch of the Serbian Orthodox Church, the spiritual leader of Eastern Orthodox Serbs. His full title is His Holiness the Patriarchate of Pec, Metropolitan of Belgrade and Sremski Karlovci, Patriarch of Serbia Pavle....
  , Patriarch of Serbian Orthodox Church
• 1917 - Ferdinand Marcos
  Ferdinand Marcos
  
  Ferdinand Emmanuel Edral?n Marcos was President of the Philippines from 1965 to 1986. He was a lawyer, member of the Philippine House of Representatives and a member of the Philippine Senate ....
  , 10^th President of the Philippines
  President of the Philippines
  
  File:Flag President of Philippines.pngThe President of the Philippines is the head of state and government of the Philippines. The President of the Philippines in Filipino is referred to as Ang Pangulo or Pangulo ....
   (d. 1989)
• 1917 - Jessica Mitford
  Jessica Mitford
  
  Jessica Lucy Freeman-Mitford was an England author, journalist and political campaigner, best known as one of the noted Mitford sisters....
  , British writer (d. 1996)
• 1917 - Herbert Lom
  Herbert Lom
  
  Herbert Lom is a Czech Britons international film actor. Leonard Maltin wrote of him, ?At one time considered a British counterpart to Charles Boyer , Lom didn't get as many starring assignments as he rated, but makes a lasting impression in character parts.?...
  , Czech-born British film actor
• 1917 - Daniel Wildenstein
  Daniel Wildenstein
  
  Daniel Leopold Wildenstein was a major international art dealer and scholar, as well as a leading thoroughbred race horse owner and breeder.Born in Verri?res-le-Buisson, France , Wildenstein inherited the responsibility in 1963 of running Wildenstein & Company, a five-generation family business founded in 1875 by Nathan Wildenstein ....
  , French art dealer and racehorse owner (d. 2001)
• 1917 - Donald Blakeslee
  Donald Blakeslee
  
  Donald James Matthew Blakeslee was an officer in the United States Air Force, whose career began as a pilot in the Royal Canadian Air Force and flew Supermarine Spitfire, during World War II....
  , American aviator (d. 2008)
• 1921 - Edwin Richfield
  Edwin Richfield
  
  Edwin Richfield was an England actor.His film credits include: X the Unknown, Quatermass 2, The Camp on Blood Island, The Face of Fu Manchu and Quatermass and the Pit ....
  , British Actor (d. 1990)
• 1924 - Daniel Akaka
  Daniel Akaka
  
  Daniel Kahikina Akaka is the junior United States Senate from Hawaii and a member of the Democratic Party . He is the first U.S. Senator of Native Hawaiian ancestry and is currently the only Chinese American member of the Senate....
  , Chinese-American politician
• 1924 - Tom Landry
  Tom Landry
  
  Thomas Wade Landry was an American football player and coach. He is legendary for his successes as the coach of the Dallas Cowboys. He is ranked as one of the greatest and most innovative coaches in NFL history....
  , American football coach (d. 2000)
• 1924 - Rudolf Vrba
  Rudolf Vrba
  
  Rudolf 'Rudi' Vrba, born Walter Rosenberg , was a Slovak-Canadian professor of pharmacology at the University of British Columbia. He came to public attention in 1944 when, in April that year, he and a friend, Alfr?d Wetzler, escaped from the Auschwitz concentration camp and passed information to the Allies about the mass murder that w...
  , Jewish Canadian professor, Holocaust survivor (d. 2006)
• 1925 - Harry Somers
  Harry Somers
  
  Harry Stewart Somers, Order of Canada was the foremost English-Canadian composer of his period.He was born in middle-class Toronto in 1925 but did not become interested in music until his early teenage years, when he met a doctor and his wife, both pianists, who introduced him to classical music....
  , Canadian composer (d. 1999)
• 1926 - Eddie Miksis
  Eddie Miksis
  
  Edward Thomas "Eddie" Miksis played Major League Baseball. He was born on September 11, 1926 in Burlington, New Jersey and stood 6' 0" and weighed 185 lbs....
  , baseball player (d. 2005)
• 1927 - G. David Schine
  G. David Schine
  
  Gerard David Schine, better known as G. David Schine , was a wealthy heir to a hotel chain fortune who received national attention when he became a central figure in the Army-McCarthy Hearings of 1954 in his role as the chief consultant to the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations....
  , American businessman (d. 1996)
• 1927 - Vernon Corea
  Vernon Corea
  
  Vernon Corea was a pioneer radio broadcaster with 45 years of public service broadcasting both in Sri Lanka and the UK. He joined Radio Ceylon, South Asia's oldest radio station, in 1956 and later the Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation....
  , Sri Lankan broadcaster (d. 2002)
• 1927 - Willie Christine King, Sister of Martin Luther King Jr.
• 1928 - Reubin O'Donovan Askew
  Reubin O'Donovan Askew
  
  Reubin O'Donovan Askew is an Politics of the United States, who served as the 37th List of Governors of Florida of the U.S. state of Florida from 1971 to 1979....
  , American politician
• 1928 - Earl Holliman
  Earl Holliman
  
  Earl Holliman is an United States film and television actor....
  , American actor
• 1930 - Renzo Montagnani
  Renzo Montagnani
  
  Renzo Montagnani was an Italian film and theatre actor and dubber.Montagnani was born in Alessandria, Piedmont, and debuted as theatre actor thanks to the help of Erminio Macario....
  , Italian actor (d. 1997)
• 1930 - Saleh Selim
  Saleh Selim
  
  Saleh Selim was a famous Egyptians football player and actor. He was nicknamed El Maestro because of his way of leading the El Ahly football team to many victories....
  , Egyptian football player (d. 2002)
• 1931 - Hans-Ulrich Wehler
  Hans-Ulrich Wehler
  
  Hans-Ulrich Wehler is a left-wing Germany historian known for his "critical" studies of 19th century Germany. He was born in Freudenberg, Westphalia and was educated at the universities of University of Cologne and University of Bonn and at Ohio University between 1952?1958....
  , German historian
• 1932 - Peter Anderson
  Peter Anderson (footballer)
  
  Peter Dennis Anderson was an England professional footballer, playing as a winger. He was born in Devonport, Devon, Plymouth.Peter Anderson began his career with local Devon side Vospers Oak Villa A.F.C....
  , English footballer
• 1933 - William Luther Pierce
  William Luther Pierce
  
  William Luther Pierce III , was the leader of the white separatist National Alliance organization, and a principal ideologue of the white nationalist movement....
  , American author and activist (d. 2002)
• 1934 - Oliver Jones, Canadian jazz pianist
• 1934 - Norma Croker
  Norma Croker
  
  Norma Croker Fleming is a former Australian Sprint .At the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia, she placed 4th in the individual 200 metres race, but won the gold medal in 4 x 100 metres relay, together with Shirley Strickland, Fleur Mellor and Betty Cuthbert....
  , Australian sprinter
• 1935 - Arvo Pärt
  Arvo Pärt
  
  Arvo P?rt , is an Estonian classical composer. P?rt works in a minimalist style that employs tintinnabulation and hypnotic repetitions influenced by the intellectual counterpoint elements of European jazz, but fitting into European-American classical post-modernism rather than so-called world music....
  , Estonian composer
• 1935 - Gherman Titov
  Gherman Titov
  
  Gherman Stepanovich Titov was a Soviet Union astronaut and the second human to orbit the Earth....
  , second man in space (d. 2000)
• 1936 - Ian Abercrombie
  Ian Abercrombie
  
  Ian Abercrombie is an England actor, best known for playing Alfred Pennyworth in Birds of Prey . He appeared as Elaine Benes' boss Justin Pitt during the sixth season of Seinfeld, and as a fastidious butler on Desperate Housewives....
  , English actor
• 1937 - Iosif Kobzon, Soviet singer and Russian businessman
• 1937 - Queen Paola Ruffo di Calabria
  Queen Paola of Belgium
  
  }|}Paola, Queen of the Belgians , is the queen consort of Albert II of Belgium. She is the seventh and youngest child of Fulco Ruffo di Calabria, 6th Duke of Guardia Lombarda ....
   of Belgium
• 1937 - Robert Crippen
  Robert Crippen
  
  Robert Laurel Crippen is a former USN and NASA astronaut, and flew on four Space Shuttle missions , including three as commander. Crippen is a recipient of the Congressional Space Medal of Honor....
  , American astronaut
• 1938 - David Higgins
  David Higgins
  
  David Roger Higgins was a composer and choral Conducting. Born in Sheffield, he began teaching music at the age of 22. During his time in Sheffield he was the organist of the Sheffield University Church and musical director of Opera 14....
  , British Composer and Conductor
• 1939 - Charles Geschke
  Charles Geschke
  
  Charles M. "Chuck" Geschke is best known as the co-founder with John Warnock of Adobe Systems Inc., the graphics and publishing software company, in 1982....
  , American inventor and businessman
• 1940 - Brian de Palma
  Brian De Palma
  
  Brian De Palma is an US film director. In a career spanning over forty years, he is probably best known for his suspense and thriller films, including such box office successes as Carrie , Dressed to Kill , Scarface , The Untouchables , and Mission: Impossible ....
  , American film director
• 1940 - Theodore Olson
  Theodore Olson
  
  Theodore Bevry Olson was the 42nd United States Solicitor General, serving from June 2001 to July 2004....
  , U.S. Solicitor General
  United States Solicitor General
  
  The United States Solicitor General is the person appointed to argue for the Government of the United States in front of the Supreme Court of the United States whenever the government is party to a case....
  
• 1940 - Nong Duc Manh, General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam
• 1940 - Robert Palmer
  Robert Palmer (computer businessman)
  
  Robert B. Palmer is an United States businessman best known for his role as the last Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Digital Equipment Corporation....
  , last CEO of Digital Equipment Corporation
  Digital Equipment Corporation
  
  Digital Equipment Corporation was a pioneering United States company in the computer industry. It is often referred to within the computing industry as DEC ....
  
• 1942 - Lola Falana
  Lola Falana
  
  Lola Falana is an United States dancer and actress of Cubans and African American descent. Falana's father left Cuba to become a welder in the United States, where he met his wife....
  , American singer
• 1942 - Gerome Ragni
  Gerome Ragni
  
  Gerome Bernard Ragni was an American actor, singer and songwriter, best known as the co-author of the groundbreaking 1960s rock musical Hair ....
   American Playwright
• 1943 - Mickey Hart
  Mickey Hart
  
  Mickey Hart is a percussion instrument and musicology. He is best known as one of the two drummers of the rock music band the Grateful Dead. He was a member of the Grateful Dead from September 1967 to February 1971, and from October 1974 to August 1995....
  , American drummer (Grateful Dead
  Grateful Dead
  
  The Grateful Dead was an American rock band formed in 1965 in the San Francisco Bay Area. The band was known for its unique and eclectic style, which fused elements of Rock music, Folk music, bluegrass music, blues, reggae, country music, jazz, Psychedelic rock, space rock and gospel music?and for live performances of long musical improvisati...
  )
• 1943 - Raymond Villeneuve
  Raymond Villeneuve
  
  Raymond Villeneuve was a founding member of the Front de lib?ration du Qu?bec terrorism organization. Beginning in the early 1960s, the FLQ was responsible for more than two hundred bombings and numerous armed bank robbery that led to the events in 1970 known as the October Crisis....
  , Canadian terrorist
• 1944 - Everaldo
  Everaldo
  
  Everaldo Marques da Silva , nicknamed Everaldo, was a football player from Brazil. He was defender with Gr?mio Foot-Ball Porto Alegrense and with the Brazil national football team....
  , Brazilian footballer
• 1944 - Freddy Thielemans
  Freddy Thielemans
  
  Freddy Thielemans is a Belgium socialist politician and, since 2001, the current mayor of Brussels. He had previously served as the mayor of Brussels for a period in 1994....
  , mayor of Brussels
  Brussels
  
  Brussels , officially the Brussels Capital-Region, is the de facto capital city of the European Union and the largest urban area in Belgium....
  
• 1945 - Franz Beckenbauer
  Franz Beckenbauer
  
  Franz Anton Beckenbauer is a Germany Football coach, manager, and former player, nicknamed der Kaiser because of his elegant style, his leadership qualities, his first name "Franz" , and his dominance on the football pitch....
  , German footballer
• 1945 - Leo Kottke
  Leo Kottke
  
  Leo Kottke is an steel-string acoustic guitar. He is widely known for his innovative fingerpicking style, which draws on influences from blues, jazz, and folk music, and his syncopation, polyphony melodies....
  , American acoustic guitarist
• 1945 - Felton Perry
  Felton Perry
  
  Felton Perry is an American actor. He is known for his role as Inspector Early Smith in the 1973 movie Magnum Force, which is the second film in the Dirty Harry series....
  , American actor
• 1948 - John Martyn, English musician
• 1949 - Bill Whittington
  Bill Whittington
  
  Bill Whittington is a former American racing driver from Lubbock, Texas who won the 1979 24 Hours of Le Mans together with his brother Don Whittington and Klaus Ludwig in a Porsche 935....
  , race car driver
• 1950 - Bruce Doull
  Bruce Doull
  
  Bruce Doull is a former Australian rules football player who played for the Carlton Football Club.Wearing guernsy number 11 and nicknamed the "Flying Doormat" due to the matted appearance of the constantly disarranged long portions of his extreme "comb over" hairstyle....
  , Australian rules footballer
• 1950 - Amy Madigan
  Amy Madigan
  
  Amy Madigan is an United States actress who is known for her role as Annie Kinsella in the 1989 film Field of Dreams and Iris Crowe in the HBO television series Carnivale....
  , American actress
• 1950 - Barry Sheene
  Barry Sheene
  
  Barry Sheene Order of the British Empire was a Great Britain former List of Grand Prix motorcycle racing World Champions Grand Prix motorcycle racing motorcycle road racing....
  , British motorcyclist (d. 2003)
• 1951 - Richard D. Gill
  Richard D. Gill (mathematician)
  
  Richard David Gill was born in the United Kingdom. He studied mathematics at the University of Cambridge , and subsequently followed the Diploma of Statistics course there ....
  , British-Dutch mathematician
• 1951 - Hugo Porta
  Hugo Porta
  
  Hugo Porta is a former Argentine Rugby Union footballer, an inductee of both the International Rugby Hall of Fame and IRB Hall of Fame, and arguably the best the sport has seen....
  , Argentine rugby player
• 1951 - Miroslav Dvorák
  Miroslav Dvorák
  
  Miroslav Dvor?k , was a Czechoslovak professional ice hockey player , well known as a famous player of Czech Extraliga team HC Cesk? Budejovice, where he spent the most of his active career....
  , Czechoslovak ice hockey player (d. 2008)
• 1953 - Tommy Shaw
  Tommy Shaw
  
  Tommy Roland Shaw is an United States guitarist, best known for his work with the Rock music band Styx . In between his stints with Styx, he has played with the supergroup Damn Yankees and Shaw Blades, and has released several solo albums....
  , American musician and singer (Styx
  Styx (band)
  
  Styx is an American Rock band. Their hit songs have included "Come Sail Away", "Mr. Roboto", "Babe ", "Lady ", "Blue Collar Man" and "The Best of Times ." Styx is the first band to have four consecutive albums certified multi-platinum by the RIAA....
  )
• 1953 - Jani Allan
  Jani Allan
  
  Jani Allan is a former South African columnist and radio commentator. She sparked intense media attention regarding her association with right-wing political figure and interviewee Eug?ne Terre'Blanche and subsequent assassination attempt and libel suit....
  , South African journalist and media personality
• 1956 - Tony Gilroy
  Tony Gilroy
  
  Anthony Joseph Gilroy is an United States screenwriter and Film director. He wrote the screenplays for the Jason Bourne series starring Matt Damon....
  , American screenwriter and director
• 1957 - Brad Bird
  Brad Bird
  
  Phillip Bradley "Brad" Bird is a two-time Academy Award-winning United States Film director. His best known works are Walt Disney Pictures/Pixar's The Incredibles and Ratatouille ....
  , American director and animator
• 1957 - Jeff Sluman
  Jeff Sluman
  
  Jeffrey George "Jeff" Sluman is an United States professional golfer who has won numerous professional golf tournaments including six PGA Tour victories....
  , American professional golfer
• 1958 - Brad Lesley
  Brad Lesley
  
  Bradley Jay Lesley is a former Major League Baseball player for the Cincinnati Reds and Milwaukee Brewers from 1982 to 1985. Lesley, who was nicknamed "The Animal", was known for his aggressive style to motivate himself....
  , American baseball player, actor and television personality
• 1958 - Scott Patterson
  Scott Patterson (actor)
  
  Scott Gordon Patterson is an United States actor. He is known for his role as Luke Danes in Gilmore Girls and List of Saw characters#Peter Strahm in Saw IV and Saw V....
  , American actor
• 1958 - Roxann Dawson
  Roxann Dawson
  
  Roxann Dawson is an United States actor, television producer and television director, best known as B'Elanna Torres on the television series Star Trek: Voyager....
  , American actress
• 1958 - Phoef Sutton
  Phoef Sutton
  
  Robert Christopher Sutton is United States Screenwriting and television producer.A 1981 graduate of James Madison University , Sutton began his career writing scripts for Newhart....
  , American television writer and producer
• 1960 - Anne Ramsay
  Anne Ramsay
  
  Anne Elizabeth Ramsay is an American actress best known for her role as Lisa Stemple on Mad About You, for which she shared a Best Ensemble in a Comedy series for the Screen Actors Guild Awards nomination....
  , American actress
• 1961 - Virginia Madsen
  Virginia Madsen
  
  Virginia Madsen is an United States actor. She came to fame during the 1980s, having appeared in several films aimed at a teenage audience. During the 2000s, she once again became known after an Academy Award- and Golden Globe-nominated role in the film Sideways....
  , American actress
• 1961 - Philip Ardagh
  Philip Ardagh
  
  Philip Ardagh is the best-selling British children's author of the Eddie Dickens books. Although primarily known for his children's novels, Ardagh has written over seventy books including adult fiction and children's non-fiction....
  , British writer
• 1962 - Elizabeth Daily
  Elizabeth Daily
  
  Elizabeth Ann Guttman , better known by her stage names of Elizabeth Daily and E.G. Daily, is an United States voice acting, actor, singing, songwriter, and musician....
  , American actress
• 1962 - Victoria Poleva
  Victoria Poleva
  
  Victoria Poleva is a Ukrainian composer. Born on September 11, 1962 in Kyiv, Ukraine. Her father ? a composer Valery Polevoy . In 1989 she graduated from Kiev Conservatory ....
  , Ukrainian composer
• 1962 - Filip Dewinter
  Filip Dewinter
  
  Philip Michel Frans "Filip" Dewinter is a Flanders politician in Belgium. He is one of the leading members of Vlaams Belang, a right-wing Flemish nationalism and secessionist political party....
   Belgian politician
• 1962 - Kristy McNichol
  Kristy McNichol
  
  Christina Ann "Kristy" McNichol is a American actress who has since retired from the industry. She is best known for her roles as Leticia 'Buddy' Lawrence on the TV drama Family and as Barbara Weston on the sitcom Empty Nest ....
  , American actress
• 1962 - Julio Salinas
  Julio Salinas
  
  Julio Salinas Fern?ndez is a former Spain-Basque people soccer during the 1980s and 1990s.A tall, lanky centre forward with skills, Salinas is best remembered for his spell at FC Barcelona, while he was also a prolific goalscorer for club and Spain national football team....
  , Spanish footballer
• 1963 - Dr Patrick McWilliams
  Patrick McWilliams
  
  Patrick McWilliams is an Irish author. Amongst his main publications is the 40-volume OS Memoirs of Ireland series and subsequent index ....
  , Irish author
• 1963 - Colin Wells
  Colin Wells (actor)
  
  Colin Wells is an English actor. Born 11 September 1963, he has one daughter, Rachael. He is best-known for his role as Johnno Dean in the long-running television drama series Hollyoaks....
  , English actor
• 1964 - Ellis Burks
  Ellis Burks
  
  Ellis Rena Burks is a former outfielder and designated hitter who played in Major League Baseball for 18 seasons. He batted and threw right-handed....
  , American baseball player
• 1964 - Victor Wooten
  Victor Wooten
  
  Victor Lemonte Wooten is an electric bass player. He is known for his technical Virtuoso and his skills as musician, composer, and author. Wooten has won the "Bass Player of the Year" award from Bass Player three times in a row, and was the first person to win the award more than once....
  , American musician
• 1965 - Bashar al-Assad
  Bashar al-Assad
  
  Dr. Bashar al-Assad is the List of Presidents of Syria of the Syria, Regional Secretary of the Baath Party, and the son of former President Hafez al-Assad....
  , President of Syria
• 1965 - Paul Heyman
  Paul Heyman
  
  Paul Heyman is an United States entertainment producer, most well-known for his former roles in professional wrestling as Promoter , Manager , and commentator....
  , American wrestling manager
• 1965 - Moby
  Moby
  
  Richard Melville Hall , better known by his stage name Moby is an American DJ, singer-songwriter and musician.He plays keyboard, guitar, bass guitar and drums....
  , American musician
• 1965 - David Roe
  David Roe
  
  David Roe is an English people professional snooker player, and a four-time Snooker world rankings quarter-finalist. He has consistently held a Top-64 ranking since the Snooker season 1988/1989 season, peaking at no....
  , English snooker player
• 1966 - Princess Akishino
  Princess Akishino
  
  , formerly is the wife of Prince Akishino, who is the second son of the Akihito and the Empress Michiko of Japan of Japan. The daughter of a university professor, she became the second commoner to marry into the imperial family; her mother-in-law, the Empress, was the first in 1959....
  , Japanese Imperial Family
• 1967 - Maria Bartiromo
  Maria Bartiromo
  
  Maria Bartiromo is a business News presenter and interviewer. Since 1993 she has worked for CNBC television, where she is currently co-host of the Closing Bell program from 3 to 5pm Eastern Time Zone on weekdays, as well as host and managing editor for the nationally syndicated Wall Street Journal Report with Maria Bartiromo program....
  , financial broadcast journalist
• 1967 - Harry Connick, Jr.
  Harry Connick, Jr.
  
  Joseph Harry Fowler Connick, Jr. is an American Popular Music/Performers, pianist, composer, actor, and humanitarian. Connick?s music encompasses jazz, some of it very much in the style of the crooners of the 1940s and early 1950s, funk and blues....
  , American singer
• 1967 - Tony David
  Tony David
  
  Tony David is a darts player and is the only Australian player to have been a senior singles world champion. David won the 2002 BDO World Darts Championship....
  , Australian darts player
• 1968 - Kay Hanley
  Kay Hanley
  
  Kay Hanley is an American alternative rock musician. She is known as the vocalist for the band Letters to Cleo.Hanley was born in Dorchester, Massachusetts....
  , American musician
• 1968 - Paul Mayeda Berges, American film writer and director
• 1969 - Eduardo Perez
  Eduardo Perez
  
  Eduardo Atanasio P?rez is a former Major League Baseball and Nippon Professional Baseball player. He batted and threw right-handed and joined the league in after playing college baseball under head coach Mike Martin for the Florida State University Seminoles....
  , American baseball player
• 1969 - Gidget Gein
  Gidget Gein
  
  Gidget Gein was an United States musician. He was the second bassist for Alternative metal band Marilyn Manson , during which time his stage name was created through the fusion of the names of actress Gidget and serial killer Ed Gein....
  , American musician
• 1970 - Chris Garver
  Chris Garver
  
  Chris Garver is a Tattoo featured on the TLC reality television show Miami Ink.Garver was born and raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania where he attended The Pittsburgh High School for the Creative and Performing Arts....
  , tattoo artist
• 1970 - Taraji P. Henson
  Taraji P. Henson
  
  Taraji Penda Henson is an Academy Award-nominated United States actress. She is best known for her roles as Yvette in Baby Boy , Shug in Hustle and Flow and Queenie in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button ....
  , American actress and singer
• 1970 - William Joppy
  William Joppy
  
  William Torelle Joppy is an American middleweight Boxing. Born in Silver Spring, Maryland on September 11, 1970, he has held the World Boxing Association middleweight title on two occasions....
  , American boxer
• 1970 - Ted Leo
  Ted Leo
  
  Theodore Francis "Ted" Leo is an United States pop punk singer, songwriter and guitarist. Leo has played with many bands, including Citizens Arrest, Chisel , the Sin-Eaters, and Ted Leo and the Pharmacists, his current group....
  , American musician
• 1970 - Laura Wright
  Laura Wright
  
  Laura Wright is an United States actor.In 1991 Wright was cast as Allison "Ally" Rescott Alden Bowman on Loving . When that show ended in 1995, she reprised her role on spin-off soap The City until its cancellation in 1997....
  , American actress
• 1971 - Richard Ashcroft
  Richard Ashcroft
  
  Richard Paul Ashcroft is an England singer-songwriter. He is the lead singer of The Verve, an English rock music band that he helped form in 1989....
  , British singer
• 1971 - Markos Moulitsas, American blogger and author
• 1971 - Johnny Vegas
  Johnny Vegas
  
  Johnny Vegas is an England actor and comedian. He is known for his bizarre rants, portly figure, husky voice, loyal support of rugby league and avid consumption of Guinness....
  , English comedian
• 1971 - Shelton Quarles
  Shelton Quarles
  
  Shelton Eugene Quarles is a former linebacker for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, the team he played for in his ten-year career from 1997 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season to 2006 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season....
  , American football player
• 1972 - Matthew Gilmore
  Matthew Gilmore
  
  Matthew Gilmore is an Australian-born retired track cyclist, who mostly competed and was most successful on track for Belgium.At the 2000 Summer Olympics he won a silver medal in the men's Madison event together with Etienne De Wilde....
  , Belgian cyclist
• 1975 - Juan Cobián
  Juan Cobián
  
  Juan Manuel Cobi?n is a former Argentine footballer who played at right back for clubs including Sheffield Wednesday F.C., Swindon Town F.C., Aberdeen F.C....
  , former Argentine footballer
• 1975 - Pierre Issa
  Pierre Issa
  
  Pierre Issa is a South African football of Lebanon descent.He is best known in England for his spell with Watford F.C. in 2001-02 in English football....
  , South African footballer
• 1975 - Mark Klepaski
  Mark Klepaski
  
  Marcus James Klepaski is the bass guitar player for Breaking Benjamin, and the former bass guitar player for Lifer . He plays a Warwick Streamer Stage II 5-string bass to add color and thick bottom end to the rock sound....
  , American musician
• 1976 - Elephant Man, Jamaican musician
• 1976 - Tomáš Enge
  Tomáš Enge
  
  Tom? Enge is a motor racing driver from the Czech Republic, who has competed in many classes of motorsport, including three races in Formula One....
  , Czech racing driver
• 1976 - Flora Redoumi
  Flora Redoumi
  
  Flora Redoumi is a Greece 100 metres hurdles.She was born in Athens.She finished fifth at the 2002 European Indoor Championships in Athletics, seventh at the 2004 IAAF World Indoor Championships and seventh at the 2006 IAAF World Cup....
  , Greek hurdler
• 1977 - Ludacris
  Ludacris
  
  Christopher Bridges , better known by his stage name Ludacris, Grammy Award-winning American rapping. Along with his manager, Chaka Zulu, Ludacris is the co-founder of Disturbing tha Peace, an imprint distributed by Def Jam Recordings....
  , American rapper
• 1977 - Matthew Stevens
  Matthew Stevens
  
  Matthew Stevens is a Welsh people professional snooker player. Turning professional in 1994, Stevens reached number six in the Snooker world rankings 2000/2001 and spent the next seven seasons in the top 8, peaking at #4 for Snooker world rankings 2005/2006....
  , Welsh snooker player
• 1977 - Jon Buckland, British guitarist (Coldplay
  Coldplay
  
  Coldplay are a United Kingdom alternative rock Musical ensemble formed in London, England in 1998. The group comprises vocalist/pianist/guitarist Chris Martin, lead guitarist Jonny Buckland, bassist Guy Berryman, and drummer/multi-instrumentalist Will Champion....
  )
• 1978 - Ed Reed
  Ed Reed
  
  Edward Earl Reed Jr. is an American football Safety for the Baltimore Ravens of the National Football League. He was drafted by the Ravens 24th overall in the 2002 NFL Draft....
  , American football player
• 1978 - Ben Lee
  Ben Lee
  
  Benjamin Michael Lee is an ARIA Award winning Jewish Australian musician and actor. Lee began his career as a musician at the age of 14 with the Sydney band Noise Addict, but focused on his solo career when the band broke up....
  , Australian musician and singer
• 1978 - Dejan Stankovic
  Dejan Stankovic
  
  Dejan Stankovic is a Serbian football player who plays for the Italian side F.C. Internazionale Milano and is the current captain of Serbia national football team....
  , Serbian footballer
• 1979 - Nathan Gale
  Nathan Gale
  
  Nathan Gale was a former United States Marines who murdered former Pantera guitarist "Dimebag" Darrell Abbott during a Damageplan concert at the Alrosa Villa club in Columbus, Ohio on December 8, 2004....
  , American murderer (d. 2004)
• 1979 - Ariana Richards
  Ariana Richards
  
  Ariana Richards is an American actor and professional painting. She is best known for her role as List of characters in Jurassic Park#Alexis Murphy in the film Jurassic Park ....
  , American actress
• 1979 - Frank Francisco
  Frank Francisco
  
  Franklin Francisco is a Major League Baseball relief pitcher for the Texas Rangers .Francisco was originally signed as an amateur free agent by the Boston Red Sox....
  , Major League Baseball
  Major League Baseball
  
  Major League Baseball is the highest level of play in American professional baseball. Specifically, Major League Baseball refers to the organization that operates the National League and the American League, by means of a joint organizational structure that has developed gradually between them since 1903 ....
   pitcher
• 1979 - Steve Hofstetter
  Steve Hofstetter
  
  Steve Hofstetter is an author, columnist and comedian, who started with material particularly pertaining to college life, and has since become a social commentator....
  , comedian & radio personality
• 1979 - David Pizarro
  David Pizarro
  
  David Marcelo Pizarro Cort?s is a Chilean international football player, who was a member of the national squad competing at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney....
  , Chilean footballer
• 1980 - Mike Comrie
  Mike Comrie
  
  Michael William Comrie is a Canada Professional#Sport ice hockey Center with the Ottawa Senators of the National Hockey League....
  , Canadian ice hockey player
• 1980 - Antônio Pizzonia
  Antônio Pizzonia
  
  Ant?nio Reginaldo Pizzonia J?nior is a Brazilian racing driver who has raced in Formula One and the Champ Car World Series.He is nicknamed "Jungle Boy", a reference to his native Amazonas ....
  , Brazilian race car driver
• 1981 - Andrea Dossena
  Andrea Dossena
  
  Andrea Dossena is an Italians Association football who plays in the Defender #Full back position. He currently plays for the English club Liverpool F.C.....
  , Italian footballer
• 1981 - Dylan Klebold, Columbine High School Massacre
  Columbine High School massacre
  
  The Columbine High School massacre occurred on Tuesday, April 20, 1999, at Columbine High School in Columbine, Colorado in unincorporated area Jefferson County, Colorado, Colorado, United States, near Denver, Colorado and Littleton, Colorado....
   co-perpetrator (d. 1999)
• 1982 - Shriya Saran
  Shriya Saran
  
  Shriya Saran is an Cinema of India actress. She began her career acting in music videos, while also attending an acting studio to follow her dream to act....
  , South Indian actress
• 1983 - Ike Diogu
  Ike Diogu
  
  Ikechukwu Somtochukwu Diogu, referred to as Ike Diogu , is an United States professional basketball player for the National Basketball Association's Sacramento Kings....
  , American basketball player
• 1983 - Jacoby Ellsbury
  Jacoby Ellsbury
  
  Jacoby McCabe Ellsbury is a Major League Baseball outfielder for the Boston Red Sox. Ellsbury was first drafted, but not signed, by the Tampa Bay Rays in the 23rd round of the 2002 MLB Draft; he was drafted by Boston in 2005 MLB Draft, 23rd overall, in the draft, after three years at Oregon State University....
  , American baseball player
• 1985 - Shaun Livingston
  Shaun Livingston
  
  Shaun Patrick Livingston is an United States professional basketball player who is a free agent. The oft-injured point guard spent four seasons with the Los Angeles Clippers of the NBA before unsuccessfully trying to revitalise his career with the Miami Heat....
  , American basketball player
• 1985 - Zack Stortini
  Zack Stortini
  
  Zack Stortini is a Canada professional ice hockey winger for the Edmonton Oilers of the National Hockey League....
  , Canadian ice hockey player
• 1986 - Chiliboy Ralepelle
  Chiliboy Ralepelle
  
  Mahlatse "Chiliboy" Ralepelle , generally referred to by his nickname, is a South African rugby union footballer. His usual position is at hooker....
  , South African rugby player
• 1986 - Dwayne Jarrett
  Dwayne Jarrett
  
  Dwayne Jarrett is an American football wide receiver for the Carolina Panthers of the National Football League. He was originally drafted by the Panthers in the second round the 2007 NFL Draft....
  , American football player
• 1987 - Tyler Hoechlin
  Tyler Hoechlin
  
  Tyler Lee Hoechlin is an American actor who got his big break starring alongside Tom Hanks in the film Road to Perdition as Michael Sullivan Jr....
  , American actor
• 1988 - Lee Yong Dae, South Korean badminton player

Deaths

• 1063 - Béla I of Hungary
  Béla I of Hungary
  
  B?la I the Champion or the Bison , King of Hungary . He descended from a younger branch of the ?rp?d dynasty and spent seventeen years in exile, probably in the court of the Kings of Poland....
  , King of Hungary
• 1161 - Queen Melisende of Jerusalem
  Melisende of Jerusalem
  
  Melisende of Jerusalem was Kingdom of Jerusalem from 1131 to 1152, and regent for her son between 1153-1161 while he was on campaign. She was the eldest daughter of King Baldwin II of Jerusalem, and the Armenian princess Morphia of Melitene....
   (b. 1105)
• 1185 - Stephanus Hagiochristophorites, Byzantine courtier
• 1279 - Robert Kilwardby
  Robert Kilwardby
  
  Robert Kilwardby was an Archbishop of Canterbury in England and a cardinal ....
  , Archbishop of Canterbury (b. c. 1215)
• 1298 - Philip of Artois
  Philip of Artois
  
  Philip of Artois was the son of Robert II of Artois, Count of Artois and Amicie de Courtenay. He was the Lord of Conches, Nonancourt, and Domfront....
  , French soldier (b. 1269)
• 1349 - Bonne of Luxembourg, wife of John II of France (b. 1315)
• 1599 - Beatrice Cenci
  Beatrice Cenci
  
  Beatrice Cenci was an Italy noblewoman. She is famous as the protagonist in a lurid murder trial in Rome.Beatrice was the daughter of Francesco Cenci, an aristocrat who, due to his violent temper and immoral behaviour, had found himself in trouble with papal justice more than once....
  , Italian noblewoman executed for planned fratricide (b. 1577)
• 1677 - James Harrington
  James Harrington
  
  James Harrington was an England political theorist of classical republicanism, best known for his controversial work, The Commonwealth of Oceana ....
  , English political philosopher (b. 1611)
• 1680 - Roger Crab
  Roger Crab
  
  Roger Crab was a political writer and vegetarian....
  , English Puritan political writer (b. 1621)
• 1680 - Emperor Go-Mizunoo of Japan (b. 1596)
• 1721 - Rudolf Jakob Camerarius
  Rudolf Jakob Camerarius
  
  Rudolf Jakob Camerarius or Camerer was a Germany botanist and physician.Camerarius was born at T?bingen, and became professor of medicine and director of the botanical gardens at T?bingen in 1687....
  , German botanist and physician (b. 1665)
• 1733 - François Couperin
  François Couperin
  
  Fran?ois Couperin was a French Baroque composer, organist and harpsichordist. Fran?ois Couperin was known as "Couperin le Grand" to distinguish him from the other members of the musically talented Couperin family....
  , French composer (b. 1668)
• 1760 - Louis Godin
  Louis Godin
  
  Louis Godin was a France astronomer.Godin was a member, along with Charles Marie de La Condamine and Pierre Bouguer, of the 1735 French Geodesic Mission to the Royal Audience of Quito in the Spanish Empire, to a region which is today part of Ecuador....
  , French astronomer (b. 1704)
• 1822 - Fortunat Alojzy Gonzaga Zólkowski
  Fortunat Alojzy Gonzaga Zólkowski
  
  Fortunat Alojzy Gonzaga Z?lkowski, Zi?lkowski , was a Poland actor, comedist, adaptor, translator, and editor of humour magazines. He performed at Teatr Narodowy....
  , Polish actor (b. 1777)
• 1823 - David Ricardo
  David Ricardo
  
  David Ricardo was a political economy, often credited with systematizing economics, and was one of the most influential of the classical economicss, along with Thomas Malthus and Adam Smith....
  , economist (b. 1772)
• 1843 - Joseph Nicollet
  Joseph Nicollet
  
  Joseph Nicolas Nicollet , also known as Jean-Nicolas Nicollet, was a France geographer and mathematician known for cartography the Upper Mississippi River basin during the 1830s....
  , mathematician and explorer (b. 1786)
• 1851 - Sylvester Graham
  Sylvester Graham
  
  File:Graham.JPGSylvester Graham was an American diet ary reformer. He was born in Suffield, Connecticut, and was ordained in 1826 as a Presbyterian Religious minister....
  , American nutritionist (b. 1794)
• 1865 - Christophe Léon Louis Juchault de Lamoricière
  Christophe Léon Louis Juchault de Lamoricière
  
  Christophe L?on Louis Juchault de Lamorici?re was a France general.He was born at Nantes, and entered the Engineers in 1828. He served in the Algerian campaigns from 1830 onwards, and by 1840 he had risen to the grade of mar?chal-de-camp ....
  , French general (b. 1806)
• 1888 - Domingo Faustino Sarmiento
  Domingo Faustino Sarmiento
  
  Domingo Faustino Sarmiento Albarrac?n was an Argentina activist, intellectual, and writer, and the seventh President of Argentina. His writing spanned a wide range of genres and topics, from journalism to autobiography, to political philosophy and history....
  , President of Argentina (b. 1811)
• 1896 - Francis James Child
  Francis James Child
  
  Francis James Child was an United States scholar, educationist, and folkloristics, who collected what came to be known as the Child Ballads....
  , American ballad collector (b. 1825)
• 1911 - Louis Henri Boussenard
  Louis Henri Boussenard
  
  Louis Henri Boussenard was a French author of adventure novels, dubbed the French Rider Haggard during his lifetime but better known today in Eastern Europe than in Francophone countries....
  , French novelist (b. 1847)
• 1915 - William Sprague IV
  William Sprague (1830-1915)
  
  William Sprague IV was Governor of the U.S. state of Rhode Island from 1860-1863, and U.S. Senator from 1863-1875. He participated in the First Battle of Bull Run during the American Civil War....
  , American politician (b. 1830)
• 1915 - William Cornelius Van Horne
  William Cornelius Van Horne
  
  Sir William Cornelius Van Horne, KCMG was a pioneering North American railway corporate officer.Born in 1843 he moved with his family to Joliet, Illinois when he was eight years old....
  , American railway executive (b. 1843)
• 1917 - Georges Guynemer
  Georges Guynemer
  
  Georges Guynemer was a France national hero during World War I, and a top fighter ace at the time of his death....
  , French aviator (b. 1894)
• 1921 - Subramanya Bharathy
  Subramanya Bharathy
  
  Subramania Bharati was a Tamil poet from Tamil Nadu, India, independence fighter and reformer. Known as Mahakavi Bharati , he is celebrated as one of India's greatest poets....
  , Tamil poet (b. 1882)
• 1926 - Matsunosuke Onoe
  Matsunosuke Onoe
  
  , sometimes known as Medama no Matchan , was a Japanese actor. His birth name is Tsuruzo Nakamura. He is sometimes credited as Yukio Koki, Tamijaku Onoe, or Tsunusaburo Onoe, and as a kabuki artist he went by the name Tsurusaburo Onoe....
  , Japanese actor (b. 1875)
• 1931 - Salvatore Maranzano
  Salvatore Maranzano
  
  Salvatore Maranzano was an organized crime figure from the town of Castellammare del Golfo, Sicily, and an early Cosa Nostra boss in the United States....
  , American crime boss (b. 1868)
• 1932 - Stanislaw Wigura
  Stanislaw Wigura
  
  Stanislaw Wigura was a Poland aircraft designer and aviator, co-founder of the RWD aircraft construction team and lecturer at the Warsaw University of Technology....
  , Polish pilot (b. 1901)
• 1932 - Franciszek Zwirko
  Franciszek Zwirko
  
  Franciszek Zwirko was a prominent Poland sport and military aviator. Along with Stanislaw Wigura, he won the international air contest Challenge 1932....
  , Polish pilot (b. 1895)
• 1939 - Konstantin Korovin
  Konstantin Korovin
  
  Konstantin Alekseyevich Korovin was a leading Russian Impressionism painter....
  , Russian painter (b. 1861)
• 1941 - Christian Rakovsky
  Christian Rakovsky
  
  Christian Rakovsky was a Bulgarian Socialism Professional revolutionaries, a Bolshevik politician and Soviet Union diplomat; he was also noted as a journalist, physician, and essayist....
  , Bulgarian-born socialist revolutionary (b. 1873)
• 1948 - Muhammad Ali Jinnah
  Muhammad Ali Jinnah
  
  Muhammad Ali Jinnah Urdu language: }} , a 20th century politician and statesman, is generally regarded as the father of the state of Pakistan. He served as leader of the Muslim League and served as Pakistan's first Governor-General of Pakistan....
  , founder of Pakistan (b. 1876)
• 1950 - Jan Smuts
  Jan Smuts
  
  Field Marshal Jan Christiaan Smuts, Order of Merit, Companion of Honour, Privy Counsellor, Efficiency Decoration, King's Counsel, Royal Society, Order of the Tower and Sword was a prominent South African and British Commonwealth of Nations statesman, military leader and philosopher....
  , South African soldier and statesman (b. 1870)
• 1956 - Billy Bishop
  Billy Bishop
  
  Air Marshal William Avery "Billy" Bishop Victoria Cross, Order of the Bath, Distinguished Service Order, Military Cross, Distinguished Flying Cross , Canadian Efficiency Decoration was a Canada World War I flying ace, officially credited with 72 victories, making him the top Canadian ace, and according to some sources, the top ace of the Br...
  , Canadian pilot in World War I (b. 1894)
• 1958 - Robert W. Service
  Robert W. Service
  
  Robert William Service was a poet and writer, sometimes referred to as "the Bard of the Yukon". He is best-known for his writings on the Canadian North, including the poems "The Shooting of Dan McGrew", "The Law of the Yukon", and "The Cremation of Sam McGee"....
  , Scottish-born Canadian poet (b. 1874)
• 1958 - Camillien Houde
  Camillien Houde
  
  Camillien Houde was a Quebec politician, a Member of Parliament, and a four-time mayor of Montreal, Quebec, Canada ....
  , French Canadian politician (b. 1889)
• 1965 - Ralph C. Smedley
  Ralph C. Smedley
  
  Ralph C. Smedley was the founder of Toastmasters International, an international speaking organization with more than 200 thousand members in almost 100 countries....
  , Founder of Toastmasters International
  Toastmasters International
  
  Toastmasters International is a Non-profit organization educational organization that operates clubs worldwide for the purpose of helping members improve their communication, public speaking and leadership skills....
   (b. 1878)
• 1966 - C. E. Woolman, American airline magnate (b. 1889)
• 1967 - Tadeusz Zylinski
  Tadeusz Zylinski
  
  Tadeusz Zylinski was a Poland technician and textile. He was a professor of Technical University of L?dz, creator of Polish school of textile metrology. Author of Metrologia wl?kiennicza and Nauka o wl?knie....
  , Polish technician and textilist (b. 1904)
• 1968 - René Cogny
  René Cogny
  
  Ren? Cogny was a France G?n?ral de division, World War II veteran and later commander of the French forces in Tonkin during the First Indochina War and notably the Battle of Dien Bien Phu....
  , French General (b. 1904)
• 1971 - Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev
  Nikita Khrushchev
  
  Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev served as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964, following the death of Joseph Stalin, and Premier of the Soviet Union from 1958 to 1964....
  , Soviet politician and leader (b. 1894)
• 1971 - Bella Darvi
  Bella Darvi
  
  Bella Darvi was a Poland French actress....
  , Polish-born French actress (b. 1928)
• 1972 - Max Fleischer
  Max Fleischer
  
  File:MaxFleischerPDUS.JPGMax Fleischer was an important Jewish-American pioneer in the development of the animated cartoon who served as the head of Fleischer Studios....
  , American animator (b. 1883)
• 1973 - Salvador Allende
  Salvador Allende
  
  Salvador Isabelino Allende Gossens was President of Chile of Chile from November 1970 until his death during the 1973 Chilean coup d'?tat.Allende's involvement in Chilean political life spanned a period of nearly forty years....
  , President of Chile
  President of Chile
  
  The President of Chile is both the chief of state and the head of government. Under the current Constitution of Chile , the President is elected by popular vote to serve for a period of four years, with immediate re-election being prohibited....
   (b. 1908)
• 1973 - Neem Karoli Baba
  Neem Karoli Baba
  
  Shri Neem Karoli Baba or Shri Neeb Karori Baba , also known to followers as Maharaj-ji, was a Hinduism guru and devotee of the Hindu deities Hanuman....
  , Indian guru
• 1974 - Víctor Olea Alegría
  Víctor Olea Alegría
  
  V?ctor Olea Alegr?a was a member of Socialist Party .Olea lived in Santiago, Chile. He was detained by ?DINA? on 11 September 1974, and became one of the "detenidos desaparecidos"....
  , Chilean Socialist Party member
• 1978 - Mike Gazella
  Mike Gazella
  
  Michael Gazella was an United States Major League Baseball baseball player who played for the New York Yankees on several championship teams in the 1920s....
  , American baseball player (b. 1895)
• 1978 - Georgi Markov
  Georgi Markov
  
  Georgi Ivanov Markov was a Bulgarian dissident.Markov originally worked as a novelist and playwright, but in 1969, he defected from Bulgaria, then a communist state under the leadership of President Todor Zhivkov....
  , Bulgarian dissident (b. 1929)
• 1978 - Janet Parker
  Janet Parker
  
  Janet Parker was the last known person to die from smallpox. She was a medical photographer and worked in the Anatomy department of University of Birmingham Medical School....
  , medical photographer (b. c.1938)
• 1978 - Ronnie Peterson
  Ronnie Peterson
  
  Bengt Ronnie Peterson, was a Swedish auto racing. Affectionately nicknamed Super Swede by F1 fans for his attacking driving style, along with Stirling Moss and Gilles Villeneuve, he was regarded as one of the greatest drivers never to have won the Formula One World Championship....
  , Swedish F1 driver (b. 1944)
• 1984 - Jerry Voorhis
  Jerry Voorhis
  
  Horace Jeremiah "Jerry" Voorhis was a Democratic Party politician from California. He served five terms in the United States House of Representatives, representing the 12th Congressional district in Los Angeles County, California from 1937 to 1947....
  , American politician (b. 1901)
• 1985 - William Alwyn
  William Alwyn
  
  William Alwyn, Order of the British Empire, born William Alwyn Smith was an English composer, Conducting, and music teacher....
  , English composer (b. 1905)
• 1985 - Andrew C. Thornton II
  Andrew C. Thornton II
  
  Andrew C. Thornton II was a head member of "The Company", a drug smuggling ring in Kentucky. The son of Carter and Peggy Thornton of Threave Main Stud farm in southern Bourbon County, Kentucky....
  , American drug smuggler (b. 1945)
• 1987 - Lorne Greene
  Lorne Greene
  
  Lyon Chaim Green Order of Canada, Doctor of Laws was a Canada actor, best known in the United States for his roles on two American television programs: the long-running western Bonanza and the shorter-lived original incarnation of the cult classic science fiction franchise of Battlestar Galactica ....
  , Canadian actor (b. 1915)
• 1987 - Peter Tosh
  Peter Tosh
  
  Peter Tosh, born Winston Hubert McIntosh was a reggae musician who was a core member of The Wailers who then went on to have a successful solo career as well as being a trailblazer for the Rastafari movement....
  , Jamaican musician and singer (b. 1944)
• 1988 - John Sylvester White
  John Sylvester White
  
  John Sylvester White was a Philadelphia, Pennsylvania-born United States actor.He was best known for his starring role as "Keith Barron" on the television soap opera Search for Tomorrow from 1951 to 1952, and many years later, to a different generation as the crabby, diminutive high school Vice-Principal "Mr....
  , American actor (b. 1919)
• 1990 - Myrna Mack
  Myrna Mack
  
  Myrna Mack Chang was a Guatemalan anthropology.She was born in Barrio San Nicol?s, Retalhuleu Departments of Guatemala, to a mixed Maya peoples/Han Chinese family....
  , Guatemalan anthropologist (b. 1949)
• 1991 - Ernst Herbeck
  Ernst Herbeck
  
  Ernst Herbeck was a Germany poet. In 1940, at the age of 20, Herbeck was committed to the Nieder?sterreichi national mental hospital where he spent almost his entire life, writing thousands of poems, until his death on 11 September 1991....
  , German Poet (b. 1920)
• 1993 - Erich Leinsdorf
  Erich Leinsdorf
  
  Erich Leinsdorf was an Austrian-born American conducting. He performed and recorded with leading orchestras and opera companies throughout the United States and Europe, earning a reputation for exacting standards as well as an acerbic personality....
  , Austrian conductor (b. 1912)
• 1993 - Antoine Izméry
  Antoine Izméry
  
  Antoine Izm?ry was a Ha?tian businessman and pro-democracy activist.Izm?ry, who was of Palestinian descent, was among the wealthiest people in Ha?ti....
  , Haitian pro-democracy activist
• 1994 - Jessica Tandy
  Jessica Tandy
  
  Jessie Alice "Jessica" Tandy was a United Kingdom-United States stage and film actress....
  , American actress (b. 1909)
• 1994 - William Obanhein
  William Obanhein
  
  William J. Obanhein , sometimes better known as Officer Obie, was the chief of police for the New England town of Stockbridge, Massachusetts, Massachusetts....
  , police officer, mentioned in "Alice's Restaurant" (b. 1924)
• 1995 - Anita Harding
  Anita Harding
  
  Anita Harding was a United Kingdom neurologist. She was educated at the King Edward VI High School for Girls.Anita Harding made several significant contributions especially in the field of inherited neurologic disorders....
  , neurologist (b. 1952)
• 1997 - Camille Henry
  Camille Henry
  
  Camille Joseph Wilfred Henry was a professional ice hockey left winger.Born in Quebec City, Henry, nicknamed 'The Eel', had his greatest success wearing number 21 for the New York Rangers where he won the Calder Memorial Trophy as National Hockey League rookie of the year in 1953?54 NHL season ....
  , National Hockey League player (b. 1933)
• 1997 - Hannah Weiner
  Hannah Weiner
  
  Hannah Adelle Weiner was an American poet who is often grouped with the Language poets because of the prominent place she assumed in the poetics of that group....
   American experimental poet (b. 1928)
• 1998 - Dane Clark
  Dane Clark
  
  Dane Clark was an United States actor who was known for playing, as he labeled himself, "Joe Average"....
  , American actor (b. 1913)
• 1999 - Belkis Ayón
  Belkis Ayón
  
  Belkis Ay?n Manso was a Cuban artist and lithographer. Her work was based on Afro-Cuban religion, combining the myth of Sikan and the traditions of the Abaku?, a men's secret society, though her work was often thought to reflect her personal issues as well....
  , Cuban artist (b. 1967)
• 1999 - Gonzalo Rodriguez
  Gonzalo Rodriguez
  
  Gonzalo Gonchi Rodr?guez was a racing driver. He showed promise in International Formula 3000 for three seasons, taking two wins in 1998 Formula 3000 season at Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps and N?rburgring, winning the 1999 Formula 3000 season in Circuit de Monaco and finishing third in both championships....
  , Uruguayan auto racing driver (b. 1972)
• 2001 - Alice Stewart Trillin
  Alice Stewart Trillin
  
  Alice Stewart Trillin was an educator, author, film producer and longtime muse to her husband, author Calvin Trillin. She was also known for her work with cancer patients....
  , American author (b. 1938)
• 2001 – see also :Category:Victims of the September 11 attacks:
• 2001 - Marwan Al-Shehhi
  Marwan al-Shehhi
  
  A University student, Marwan Yousef al-Shehhi was named by the Federal Bureau of Investigation as the suicide pilot aboard United Airlines Flight 175 which crashed into the second World Trade Center tower on September 11 attacks....
  , 9/11 terrorist (b. 1978)
• 2001 - David Angell
  David Angell
  
  David Lawrence Angell was an United States television producer of sitcoms. Angell won multiple Emmy Awards as the creator and executive producer, along with Peter Casey and David Lee , of the comedy series Frasier....
  , American sitcom creator (b. 1946)
• 2001 - Mohamed Atta
  Mohamed Atta
  
  Mohamed Atta was an Egyptian Islamism terrorist, was a known associate of al-Qaeda, and the ringleader of the 19 hijackers in the September 11 attacks....
  , 9/11 terrorist (b. 1968)
• 2001 - Garnet Bailey
  Garnet Bailey
  
  Garnet Edward "Ace" Bailey , was a Canada professional ice hockey player and scout who was a member of Stanley Cup and Memorial Cup winning teams....
  , Canadian hockey player and scout (b. 1948)
• 2001 - Todd Beamer
  Todd Beamer
  
  Lisa Beamer is the widow of Todd Beamer, a victim of the United Flight 93 crash as part of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in the United States....
  , passenger on United Airlines Flight 93 (b. 1968)
• 2001 - Berry Berenson
  Berry Berenson
  
  Berinthia "Berry" Berenson , , was an American photographer, actress, and model who was best known as the widow of actor Anthony Perkins....
  , widow of Anthony Perkins
  Anthony Perkins
  
  Anthony Perkins was an Academy Award-nominated, Golden Globe-winning United States actor, best known for his role as Norman Bates in Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho and its three sequels....
   (b. 1948)
• 2001 - Mark Bingham
  Mark Bingham
  
  Mark Kendall Bingham was an United States public relations executive who founded his own company, the Bingham Group. He died at age 31 in the September 11, 2001 attacks on board United Airlines Flight 93....
  , passenger on United Airlines Flight 93 (b. 1970)
• 2001 - Tom Burnett
  Tom Burnett
  
  Thomas Edward Burnett Jr. , was the vice president and Chief operating officer of a Pleasanton, California, medical devices company, Thoratec Corporation....
  , American businessman (b. 1963)
• 2001 - Peter J. Ganci, Jr.
  Peter J. Ganci, Jr.
  
  Peter J. Ganci, Jr. was a career firefighter in the New York City Fire Department. At the time of the September 11 terrorist attacks he held the rank of Chief of Department, the highest ranking uniformed fire officer in the department....
  , Chief of Department, FDNY (b. 1946)
• 2001 - Hani Hanjour
  Hani Hanjour
  
  A pilot who had lived intermittently in the United States for ten years, Hani Saleh Hanjour, was one of five men named by the Federal Bureau of Investigation as Organizers of the September 11 attacks of American Airlines flight 77 in the September 11 attacks....
  , 9/11 terrorist (b. 1972)
• 2001 - Ziad Jarrah
  Ziad Jarrah
  
  An aerospace engineering student, Ziad Samir Jarrah ; , was the hijacker who acted as Aviator of United Airlines Flight 93, part of the September 11 attacks....
  , 9/11 terrorist (b. 1975)
• 2001 - Father Mychal F. Judge, Chaplain, FDNY (b. 1933)
• 2001 - Angel L. Juarbe, Jr., American firefighter (b. 1966)
• 2001 - John P. O'Neill
  John P. O'Neill
  
  John Patrick O'Neill was a top United States anti-terrorism expert who worked as a special agent and eventually Assistant Director in the Federal Bureau of Investigation until late 2001....
  , American anti-terrorism FBI agent (b. 1952)
• 2001 - John Ogonowski
  John Ogonowski
  
  John A. Ogonowski was a aviator and an agricultural activist. A resident of Dracut, Massachusetts, Ogonowski was a leading figure on behalf of farming in Massachusetts, particularly for immigrant farmers from Cambodia, whom he assisted as part of the New Entry Sustainable Farming Project....
  , pilot for American Airlines Flight 11 (b. 1951)
• 2001 - Barbara Olson
  Barbara Olson
  
  Barbara Olson was a Conservatism United States television commentator and lawyer who worked for Fox News Channel, CNN and several other outlets....
  , American political commentator (b. 1955)
• 2001 - Daniel M. Lewin
  Daniel M. Lewin
  
  Daniel "Danny" Mark Lewin was a mathematician and entrepreneur, best known for co-founding internet company Akamai Technologies.Lewin was born in Denver, Colorado and raised in Jerusalem....
  , founder of Akamai Technologies
  Akamai Technologies
  
  Akamai Technologies, Inc. , , is a company that provides a distributed computing platform for global Internet Content Delivery Network, headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts....
   (b. 1970)
• 2002 - Kim Hunter
  Kim Hunter
  
  Kim Hunter was an United States film, television, and stage actress....
  , American actress (b. 1922)
• 2002 - Johnny Unitas
  Johnny Unitas
  
  John Constantine "Johnny" Unitas , nicknamed The Golden Arm and often called Johnny U, was a professional American football player in the 1950s through the 1970s, spending the majority of his career with the Indianapolis Colts....
  , American football player (b. 1933)
• 2003 - Anna Lindh
  Anna Lindh
  
  Ylva Anna Maria Lindh was a Sweden Swedish Social Democratic Party politician who served as Swedish Minister for Foreign Affairs from 1998 until her assassination in 2003....
  , Swedish Minister for Foreign Affairs (b. 1957)
• 2003 - John Ritter
  John Ritter
  
  Jonathan Southworth ?John? Ritter was an United States actor and comedian perhaps best known for playing Jack Tripper in the American Broadcasting Company sitcom Three's Company....
  , American actor (b. 1948)
• 2004 - Patriarch Peter VII of Alexandria
  Patriarch Peter VII of Alexandria
  
  Petros VII was the Eastern Orthodoxy Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Alexandria from 1997 to 2004....
   (b. 1949)
• 2004 - Fred Ebb
  Fred Ebb
  
  Fred Ebb was an American musical theatre lyricist who had many successful collaborations with composer John Kander. The Kander and Ebb team frequently wrote for such performers as Liza Minnelli and Chita Rivera....
  , American lyricist (b. 1933)
• 2004 - David Mann
  David Mann (painter)
  
  David Mann was an United States artist famous for his paintings of motorcycles and motorcycle culture. Most of his works have been for the motorcycle industry, especially for motorcycle magazines....
  , U.S. artist (b. 1939)
• 2005 - Chris Schenkel
  Chris Schenkel
  
  Christopher Eugene "Chris" Schenkel was an United States of America sportscaster. Over the course of five decades he called play-by-play for numerous sports on television and radio, becoming known for his smooth delivery and baritone voice....
  , American sportscaster (b. 1923)
• 2006 - William Auld
  William Auld
  
  William Auld was a Scotland author and the deputy director of a grammar school. He began to study Esperanto in 1937, but only became active in the propagation of the language in 1947, and from then on wrote many works in Esperanto....
  , Scottish poet, writer and supporter of Esperanto (b. 1924)
• 2006 - Pat Corley
  Pat Corley
  
  Pat Corley was an United States actor. He was perhaps best known for his role as bar owner Phil on the CBS situation comedy Murphy Brown from 1988-1996, where he served sage advice along with drinks....
  , American actor (b. 1930)
• 2006 - Joachim Fest
  Joachim Fest
  
  Joachim Clemens Fest , Germany historian, journalist, critic and editor, is best known for his writings and public commentary on Nazi Germany, including an important biography of Adolf Hitler and books about Albert Speer and the German Resistance....
  , German journalist and author (b. 1926)
• 2006 - Johannes Bob van Benthem
  Johannes Bob van Benthem
  
  Dr. Johannes Bob van Benthem was a Netherlands lawyer. He was the first president of the European Patent Office, from November 1, 1977 to April 30, 1985....
  , Dutch lawyer (b. 1921)
• 2007 - Ian Porterfield
  Ian Porterfield
  
  John "Ian" Porterfield was a professional Association football, and an experienced football coach who worked at both club and international level for almost 30 years....
  , Manager of Armenia National Football Club (b. 1946)
• 2007 - Gene Savoy
  Gene Savoy
  
  Douglas Eugene "Gene" Savoy was an United States author, explorer, and cleric. He is best known for his claims to have discovered more than 40 Lost city in Peru....
  , American author and cleric (b. 1927)
• 2007 - Joe Zawinul
  Joe Zawinul
  
  Josef Erich Zawinul was an Austrians jazz keyboard instrument and composer.First coming to prominence with saxophonist Cannonball Adderley, Zawinul went on to play with trumpeter Miles Davis, and to become one of the creators of jazz fusion, an innovative musical genre that combined jazz with elements of Rock music and world music....
  , Austrian musician (b. 1932)

Holidays and observances

• RC Saints
  Calendar of saints
  
  The calendar of saints is a traditional Christianity method of organizing a liturgical year by associating each day with one or more saints and referring to the day as that saint's feast day....
   - Virgin of the Holy cave; Saint Deiniol
  Deiniol
  
  Saint Deiniol was the first Bishop of Bangor in the Kingdom of Gwynedd, Wales. He is also veneration in Brittany as Saint Denoual. In English language, the name is translated as Daniel but this is rarely used....
  , Our Lady of Coromoto, Protus and Hyacinth.
• Also see September 11 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) (Revised Julian Calendar
  Revised Julian calendar
  
  The Revised Julian calendar or, less formally, New Calendar, is a calendar scheme, originated in 1923, which effectively discontinued the 340 years of divergence between the naming of dates sanctioned by those Eastern Orthodoxy adopting it and the Gregorian calendar scheme that has come to predominate worldwide....
  ).
• Beheading of John the Baptist (or The Forerunner) in the Eastern Orthodox tradition
  John the Baptist
  
  John the Baptist was a mission preacher and a major religious figure who led a movement of baptism at the Jordan River in expectation of a divine apocalypse that would restore occupied Israel....
   (Julian Calendar
  Julian calendar
  
  The Julian calendar, a reform of the Roman calendar, was introduced by Julius Caesar in 46 BC, and came into force in 45 BC . It was chosen after consultation with the astronomer Sosigenes of Alexandria and was probably designed to approximate the tropical year, known at least since Hipparchus....
  ).
• Feast of Neyrouz, the New Year's Day
  New Year's Day
  
  New Year's Day is the first day of the new year. On the modern Gregorian calendar, it is celebrated on January 1, as it was also in ancient Rome ....
   in the Coptic calendar
  Coptic calendar
  
  The Coptic calendar, also called the Alexandrian calendar, is used by the Coptic Orthodox Church and still used in Egypt. This calendar is based on the ancient Egyptian calendar....
  .
• New Year's Day
  New Year's Day
  
  New Year's Day is the first day of the new year. On the modern Gregorian calendar, it is celebrated on January 1, as it was also in ancient Rome ....
   in the Ethiopian calendar
  Ethiopian calendar
  
  The Ethiopian calendar , also called the Ge'ez calendar, is the principal calendar used in Ethiopia and is also the liturgical year of Christians in Eritrea belonging to the Eritrean Orthodox Tewahdo Church, Eastern Catholic Church of Eritrea and Lutheran ....
   (Enkutatash
  Enkutatash
  
  Enkutatash is the first day of the New Year in Ethiopia. It occurs on Meskerem 1 on the Ethiopian calendar, which is September 11 according to the Gregorian calendar....
  ).
• Catalonia - National Day of Catalonia
  National Day of Catalonia
  
  On September 11, Catalonia commemorates the 1714 Siege of Barcelona defeat during the War of the Spanish Succession. As a punishment for their support to the claim of Habsburg Archduke Charles to the throne of Spain, institutions and rights of the territories of the Crown of Aragon were abolished by the victorious absolutism House of Bourbon in...
  , remembering those Catalan
  Catalonia
  
  Catalonia , is an Autonomous Community in northeast Spain.Catalonia covers an area of 32,114 km? and has an official population of 7,210,508. It borders France and Andorra to the north, Aragon to the west, the Valencian Community to the south, and the Mediterranean Sea to the east ....
   patriot
  Patriot
  
  A patriot is someone who thinks, feels or voices expressions of patriotism, support for their country.Patriot or Patriots may also refer to:...
  s who died in the Siege of Barcelona
  Siege of Barcelona
  
  The Siege of Barcelona was a battle at the end of the War of Spanish Succession , which pitted Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor , against Philip V of Spain, backed by France in a contest for the Spanish crown....
  , in defense of the city
  Barcelona
  
  Barcelona is the capital and most populous city of the Autonomous communities of Spain of Catalonia and the second largest city in Spain, with a population of 1,615,908 in 2008, while the population of the Metropolitan Area was 3,161,081....
  , against the Franco
  Early Modern France
  
  Early Modern France is the early modern period of French history from the end of the 15th century to the end of the 18th century . During this period France evolved from a feudalism regime to an increasingly centralized state organized around a powerful absolute monarchy that relied on the doctrine of the Divine Right of Kings and the explic...
  -Spanish
  Spanish Empire
  
  The Spanish Empire was one of the largest empires in world history, and one of the first global empires. It included territories and colonies ruled by Spain in Europe, the Americas, Africa, Asia and Oceania between the 15th and late 19th centuries....
   army.
• Latin America
  Latin America
  
  Latin America is a region of the Americas where Romance languages ? particularly Spanish language and Portuguese language, and variably French language ? are primarily spoken....
   Teacher's Day, after the death of Argentine
  Argentina
  
  Argentina, officially the Argentine Republic , is a country in South America, constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city....
   Domingo F. Sarmiento.
• Liberation Day of Dijon
  Dijon
  
  Dijon is a communes of France in eastern France, the capital of the C?te-d'Or Departments of France and of the Bourgogne Regions of France. Dijon is the historical capital of the provinces of France of Burgundy ....
  , France
  France
  
  France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
   (commemorating the Allied liberation of the city from Nazi occupation in 1944)
• Death anniversary of Muhammad Ali Jinnah
  Muhammad Ali Jinnah
  
  Muhammad Ali Jinnah Urdu language: }} , a 20th century politician and statesman, is generally regarded as the father of the state of Pakistan. He served as leader of the Muslim League and served as Pakistan's first Governor-General of Pakistan....
  , founder of Pakistan
  Pakistan
  
  Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, is a country located in South Asia and borders Central Asia and the Middle East. It has a 1,046 kilometre coastline along the Arabian Sea and Gulf of Oman in the south, and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and People's Republic of China in th...
  .
• Proclaimed 9-1-1
  9-1-1
  
  9-1-1 is the emergency telephone number for the North American Numbering Plan . It is one of eight N11 codes. In some jurisdictions, the use of this number is reserved for true emergency circumstances only....
   Emergency Number
  Emergency telephone number
  
  Many countries' Public switched telephone network have a single emergency telephone number, sometimes known as the universal emergency telephone number or occasionally the emergency services number, that allows a caller to contact local emergency services for assistance....
   Day by President
  President
  
  President is a title held by many leaders of organizations, company, trade unions, university, and country. Etymology, a "president" is one who Wiktionary:Preside, who sits in leadership ....
   Reagan
  Ronald Reagan
  
  Ronald Wilson Reagan was the List of Presidents of the United States President of the United States and the 33rd Governor of California . Born in Illinois, Reagan moved to Los Angeles, California in the 1930s, where he was an actor, president of the Screen Actors Guild , and a spokesman for General Electric ....
    on August 26 in 1987 and celebrated since then by some United States
  United States
  
  The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
   communities, particularly the local emergency service
  Emergency service
  
  Emergency services are organizations which ensure public safety by addressing different emergencies. Some agencies exist solely for addressing certain types of emergencies whilst others deal with ad hoc emergencies as part of their normal responsibilities....
  s.
• Patriot Day
  Patriot Day
  
  In the United States, Patriot Day occurs on September 11 of each year, designated in memory of the nearly September 11 attacks#Casualties who died in the September 11 attacks....
   (USA
  United States
  
  The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
  ) - Anniversary of the September 11 attacks.
• Feast day of Saint Deiniol.

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