11th September anniversaries

• Birth
  • 1674
  • Great Britain
  • "Birth of Elizabeth Rowe, English poet and novelist." more
  • 1700
  • Great Britain
  • "Birth of James Thomson, poet whose best known work were the words to Rule, Britannia!"
  • 1885
  • Great Britain
  • "Birth of D H Lawrence, novelist son of a Nottinghanshire miner, best known for Sons and Lovers, Women in Love and Lady Chatterly's Lover." more
• event
  • 1297
  • Great Britain
  • "Battle of Stirling Bridge, defeat of English Army"
  • 1609
  • "English explorer Henry Hudson landed on what is now known as Manhattan Island, New York (recorded as Manna-hata in the ships log)"
  • 1709
  • "War of the Spanish Succession: Battle of Malplaquet, France England, led by the Duke of Marlborough, and Austria defeated the French"
  • 1918
  • "Russian Civil War: The Polar Bear Expedition – 5,000 American troops from the American North Russia Expeditionary Force (ANREF) arrived in."
  • 1919
  • US Marines landed in Honduras to maintain order and safeguard American banana interests during an attempted revolution
  • 1942
  • "World War II: The British RAF carried out a massive night raid on Dusseldorf, Germany, dropping 100,000 bombs"
  • 1959
  • US Congress introduced food stamps for Americans on low incomes
  • 1997
  • Scotland votes Yes to a Scottish Parliament
  • 1997
  • Massive terrorist attack on the United States – commercial planes hi-jacked and crashed into the twin towers of the World Trade Centre (destroying it) and one section of the Pentagon
  • 1997
  • The American space probe Mars Global Surveyor went into orbit around Mars
  • 1998
  • "US Congress voted to release Kenneth Starr’s report on President Bill Clinton’s alleged sexual misconduct, perjury and obstruction of justice. It."
  • 2001
  • United States
  • Attacks by Al Quaeda on New York and Washington
• Death
  • 1950
  • South Africa
  • "Death of Jan Smuts, Prime Minister of South Africa"
  • 1958
  • "Death of Robert W. Service, Scottish-born Canadian poet ."
  • 1971
  • Russian Federation
  • "Death of Nikita Krushchev, Prime Minister of USSR."
  • 1978
  • "Death of Georgi Markov, Bulgarian defector, fatally stabbed in London by a secret agent with a poisoned umbrella point."
  • 1994
  • United States
  • "Death of Jessica Tandy, Actress"
  • 1998
  • "Death of Dane Clark, American actor ."