September 11 in History

Historical Events on September 11

1565 Ottoman forces retreat from Malta ending the Great Siege of Malta.

1609 Henry Hudson discovers Manhattan Island and the indigenous people living there.

1789 Alexander Hamilton is appointed the first United States Secretary of the Treasury.

1813 War of 1812: British troops arrive in Mount Vernon and prepare to march to and invade Washington, D.C..

1943 World War II: German troops occupy Corsica and Kosovo-Metohija ending the Italian occupation of Corsica.

1950 Korean War: President Harry S. Truman approved military operations north of the 38th parallel.

1997 NASA's Mars Global Surveyor reaches Mars.

2001 Two hijacked aircraft crash into the World Trade Center in New York City, while a third smashes into The Pentagon in Arlington County, Virginia, and a fourth into a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania, in a series of coordinated suicide attacks by 19 members of al-Qaeda. A total of 2,996 people are killed.

2012 The U.S. embassy in Benghazi, Libya is attacked, resulting in four deaths.

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Famous Birthdays on September 11

1917 Ferdinand Marcos

1965 Bashar al-Assad

1981 Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold

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Famous Deaths on September 11

1948 Muhammad Ali Jinnah

1952 Alfrēds Riekstiņš

1971 Nikita Khrushchev

2001 Casualties of the September 11 attacks

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