September 11
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
September 11 is the 254th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (255th in leap years). There are 111 days remaining.
It is usually the first day of the Coptic calendar and Ethiopian calendar (in the period AD 1900 to AD 2099).
The terms September 11th, 11th September, and 9/11 (pronounced "Nine-eleven") have been widely used in the Western media as a shorthand for the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center and The Pentagon in the United States of America.
In other places of the world the media also use it as shorthand for other events, for example, the September 11, 1973 Coup d'État in Chile is referred to as "El 11 de Septiembre" or "El once" ("September 11" or "The eleventh" in Spanish) as shorthand for the Coup events.
Contents |
[edit] Events
- 506 - The bishops of Visigothic Gaul meet in the Council of Agde.
- 1185 - Isaac II Angelus kills Stephanus Hagiochristophorites and then appeals to the people, resulting in the revolt which deposes Andronicus I Comnenus and places Isaac on the throne of the Byzantine Empire.
- 1226 - The Roman Catholic practice of perpetual adoration begins.
- 1297 - Battle of Stirling Bridge: Scots led by William Wallace defeat the English.
- 1541 - Santiago, Chile, is destroyed by indigenous warriors, lead by Michimalonko.
- 1609 - Henry Hudson lands on Manhattan island.
- 1609 - Expulsion order announced against the Moriscos of Valencia; beginning of the expulsion of all Spain's Moriscos.
- 1649 - Siege of Drogheda ends: Oliver Cromwell's English Parliamentarian troops take the town and massacre its garrison.
- 1683 - Battle of Vienna.
- 1708 - Charles XII of Sweden stops his march to conquer Moscow outside Smolensk, marking the turning point in the Great Northern War. The army is defeated nine months later in the battle of Poltava, and the Swedish empire is no longer a major power.
- 1709 - Battle of Malplaquet: Great Britain, Netherlands and Austria fight against France.
- 1714 - Barcelona surrenders to Spanish and French Bourbonic armies in the War of the Spanish Succession.
- 1773 - The Public Advertiser publishes a satirical essay titled Rules By Which A Great Empire May Be Reduced To A Small One, which is written by Benjamin Franklin.
- 1776 - British-American peace conference on Staten Island fails to stop nascent American Revolution.
- 1777 - Battle of Brandywine - Major American Revolutionary war victory for British in Chester County, Pennsylvania.
- 1780 - The Beginning of the Annapolis Convention.
- 1789 - Alexander Hamilton is appointed as first United States Secretary of the Treasury.
- 1792 - Hope Diamond is stolen along with other crown jewels when six men broke into the house used to store the jewels.
- 1814 - The climax of the Battle of Plattsburgh, a major United States victory in the War of 1812.
- 1847 - Stephen Foster's most well-known song, Oh! Susanna, is first performed at a saloon in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
- 1857 - The Mountain Meadows Massacre: Mormon settlers and Paiutes massacre 120 pioneers at Mountain Meadows, Utah.
- 1869 - Work completed on the Wallace Monument.
- 1888 - Death of the Argentine politician Domingo Sarmiento, after whom the Latin American Teacher's Day was chosen.
- 1891 - The Jewish Colonization Association is established by Baron Maurice de Hirsch.
- 1893 - First World Parliament of Religions conference held.
- 1897 - After months of pursuit, generals of Menelik II of Ethiopia capture Gaki Sherocho, the last king of Kaffa, bringing an end to that ancient kingdom.
- 1906 - Mahatma Gandhi starts Non-Violence movement Satyagraha.
- 1911 - Middle Tennessee State University is founded in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, as Middle Tennessee Normal School.
- 1914 - Australia invades New Britain, defeating a German contingent there.
- 1915 - The Pennsylvania Railroad begins electrified commuter rail service between Paoli and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, using overhead AC trolley wires for power.
- 1916 - The Quebec Bridge collapses for a second time, killing 11 men. The bridge initially collapsed on August 29, 1907.
- 1918 - Major League Baseball: The Boston Red Sox win last World Series until 2004, starting the "Curse of the Bambino."
- 1919 - U.S. Marines invade Honduras.
- 1921 - Motion picture star Fatty Arbuckle is arrested for rape.
- 1921 - Nahalal, the first moshav in Israel, is settled.
- 1922 - The British Mandate of Palestine begins.
- 1922 - The Treaty of Kars is ratified in Yerevan, Armenia.
- 1922 - One of the Herald Sun of Melbourne, Australia's predecessor papers The Sun News-Pictorial is founded.
- 1926 - An assassination attempt on Benito Mussolini fails.
- 1931 - Salvatore Maranzano is murdered by Charles Luciano's hitmen.
- 1932 - Franciszek Żwirko and Stanisław Wigura, Polish Challenge 1932 winners, killed in a plane crash as their RWD 6 crashed into the ground during a storm.
- 1940 - George Stibitz pioneers the first remote operation of a computer.
- 1940 - World War II: Buckingham Palace is damaged during a German air raid.
- 1941 - Ground broken for the construction of The Pentagon.
- 1941 - World War II: U.S. Navy ordered to attack German U-boats.
- 1943 - World War II: German troops occupy Corsica and Kosovo-Metohija.
- 1943 - World War II: start of the liquidation of the Ghettos in Minsk and Lida by the Nazis.
- 1944 - World War II: the first allied troops of the U.S. Army cross the western border of Nazi Germany.
- 1944 - World War II: RAF bombing raid on Darmstadt and the following firestorm kill 11,500.
- 1945 - World War II: Liberation of the Japanese POW and civilian internee camp at Batu Lintang, Kuching, Sarawak on the island of Borneo by Australian 9th Division forces. Over 2,000 prisoners, including women and children, were due to be executed on 15 September.
- 1948 - Henri Queuille becomes Prime Minister of France.
- 1955 - Dedication of the first Temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Europe, the Bern Switzerland Temple.
- 1956 - People to People International is founded by President Dwight D. Eisenhower.
- 1959- Lee Harvey Oswald is discharged from the United States Marine Corps.
- 1960 - Young Americans for Freedom meeting at home of William F. Buckley, Jr. promulgates the Sharon Statement.
- 1961 - Formation of the World Wildlife Fund.
- 1965 - The 1st Cavalry Division of the United States Army arrives in Vietnam.
- 1970 - 88 of the hostages from the Dawson's Field hijackings are released. The remaining hostages, mostly Jews or Israeli citizens, are held until September 25.
- 1970 - The Ford Pinto is introduced.
- 1971 - The Egyptian Constitution becomes official.
- 1972 - Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) in San Francisco, California begins regular service.
- 1972 - The Closing Ceremony of the Munich Olympics takes place. It was the Summer Olympics when the terrorist attack known as the Munich Massacre happened.
- 1973 - A coup in Chile headed by General Augusto Pinochet topples the democratically elected President Salvador Allende[1]. Pinochet remains in power for almost 17 years.
- 1974 - Eastern Air Lines Flight 212 crashes in Charlotte, North Carolina, killing 69 passengers and two crew.
- 1974 - The Stranglers formed in Guildford, Surrey.
- 1978 - U.S. President Jimmy Carter, President Sadat of Egypt, and Prime Minister Begin of Israel met at Camp David and agreed on a framework for peace between Israel and Egypt and a comprehensive peace in the Middle East.
- 1982 - The international forces, which were guaranteeing the safety of Palestinian refugees following Israel's 1982 Invasion of Lebanon, left Beirut. Five days later, several thousand refugees were massacred in the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps.
- 1985 - Baseball: Pete Rose gets his 4,192nd career base hit, breaking Ty Cobb's record which stood for over 60 years.
- 1987 - CBS Evening News anchor Dan Rather, angry over being preempted for a tennis match, marches off the set, leaving affiliates with six minutes of an empty news desk.
- 1987 - Twelve people die in a shoot-out in Jean-Bertrand Aristide's church in Haiti.
- 1989 - The iron curtain opens between the communist Hungary and Austria. From Hungary thousands of East Germans throng to Austria and West Germany.
- 1990 - U.S. President George H. W. Bush delivers a nationally televised speech in which he threatens the use of force to remove Iraqi soldiers from Kuwait, 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".
- 1992 - Hurricane Iniki, one of the most damaging hurricane in United States history during its time, devastates the State of Hawai'i, especially the islands of Kaua'i and Oahu.
- 1994 - Frank Eugene Corder steals a Cessna plane, intending to crash it into the White House.
- 1996 - Union Pacific Railroad purchases Southern Pacific Railroad.
- 1997 - NASA's Mars Global Surveyor reaches Mars.
- 1997 - Scotland referendum, 1997 - Scotland votes to establish a devolved parliament.
- 1998 - Independent counsel Kenneth Starr sends a report to the U.S. Congress accusing President Bill Clinton of 11 possible impeachable offenses.
- 1998 - Yevgeny Primakov is appointed Prime Minister of Russia.
- 1998 - Opening ceremony for the 1998 Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Malaysia was the first Asian country to host the games.
- 1999 - Tennis: Serena Williams, 2 weeks short of her 18th birthday, wins her first Grand Slam tournament when she became U.S. Open champion, becoming the first African American woman to win a Grand Slam tournament since Althea Gibson in 1958.
- 2000 - Activists protest against the World Economic Forum meeting in Melbourne, Australia. See S11.
- 2001 - The September 11 attacks destroy the World Trade Center in New York City and the western wall of The Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, and crash a passenger airliner in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. In total, 2,973 people are killed.
- 2003 - Swedish foreign minister Anna Lindh dies after being assaulted and fatally wounded on September 10.
- 2003 - The Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety enters into effect.
- 2004 - All passengers are killed when a helicopter crashes in the Aegean Sea. Passengers include Patriarch Peter VII of Alexandria and 16 others (including journalists and bishops of the Greek Orthodox Church of Alexandria).
- 2005 - The State of Israel completes its unilateral disengagement from the Gaza Strip.
[edit] Births
- It has been suggested by Ernest L. Martin that Jesus of Nazareth was born on September 11 in 3 BC when the moon moved in a rare pattern with Venus generating the Star of Bethlehem. On the Julian calendar, September 11 in 3 BC is also the second day of Rosh Hashana, the Jewish New Year.
- 1182 - Minamoto no Yoriie, Japanese shogun (d. 1204)
- 1522 - Ulisse Aldrovandi, Italian naturalist (d. 1605)
- 1524 - Pierre de Ronsard, French poet (d. 1585)
- 1611 - Henri de la Tour d'Auvergne, Vicomte de Turenne, Marshal of France (d. 1675)
- 1681 - Johann Gottlieb Heineccius, German jurist (d. 1741)
- 1700 - James Thomson, Scottish poet (d. 1748)
- 1711 - William Boyce, English composer (d. 1779)
- 1723 - Johann Bernhard Basedow, German educational reformer (d. 1790)
- 1786 - Friedrich Kuhlau, German composer (d. 1832)
- 1798 - Franz Ernst Neumann, German mineralogist and physicist (d. 1895)
- 1800 - Daniel S. Dickinson, New York senator (d. 1866)
- 1816 - Carl Zeiss, German lens maker (d. 1888)
- 1825 - Eduard Hanslick, German music critic (d. 1904)
- 1836 - Fitz Hugh Ludlow, American author (d. 1870)
- 1838 - John Ireland, American Catholic archbishop (d. 1918)
- 1859 - Vjenceslav Novak, Croatian writer (d. 1905)
- 1860 - Marianne von Werefkin, Russian-Swiss painter (d. 1938)
- 1860 - James Allan, former All Black (d. 1934}
- 1862 - O. Henry, American writer (d. 1910)
- 1862 - Julian Byng, British army officer (d. 1935)
- 1865 - Rainis, Latvian poet and playwright (d. 1929)
- 1877 - James Hopwood Jeans, Scientist (d. 1946)
- 1885 - D.H. Lawrence, English novelist (d. 1930)
- 1892 - Lucien Buysse, Belgian cyclist (d. 1980)
- 1899 - Jimmie Davis, composer (d. 2000)
- 1903 - Theodor Adorno, German sociologist (d. 1969)
- 1913 - Paul "Bear" Bryant, American football coach (d. 1983)
- 1914 - Patriarch Pavle, Patriarch of Serbian Orthodox Church
- 1917 - Ferdinand Marcos, President of the Philippines (d. 1989)
- 1917 - Jessica Mitford, British writer (d. 1996)
- 1917 - Herbert Lom, film actor
- 1923 - Dharmsamrat Paramhans Swami Madhavananda, Hindu guru (d. 2003)
- 1924 - Daniel Akaka Chinese-American U.S. senator
- 1924 - Tom Landry, American football coach (d. 2000)
- 1924 - Rudolf Vrba, Jewish Canadian professor, Holocaust survivor (d. 2006)
- 1925 - Harry Somers, Canadian composer (d. 1999)
- 1926 - Eddie Miksis, baseball player (d. 2005)
- 1927 - G. David Schine, American businessman (d. 1996)
- 1927 - Vernon Corea, Sri Lankan broadcaster (d. 2002)
- 1928 - Earl Holliman, American actor
- 1930 - Saleh Selim, Egyptian football player and president of sports club (d. 2002)
- 1932 - Peter Anderson, English footballer
- 1933 - Dr. William L. Pierce, American author and activist (d. 2002)
- 1934 - Oliver Jones, Canadian jazz pianist
- 1934 - Norma Croker, Australian sprinter
- 1935 - Arvo Pärt, Estonian composer
- 1935 - Gherman Titov, second man in space (d. 2000)
- 1937 - Iosif Kobzon, Soviet singer and Russian businessman
- 1937 - Queen Paola Ruffo di Calabria of Belgium
- 1937 - Robert Crippen, American astronaut
- 1939 - Charles Geschke, American inventor and businessman
- 1940 - Brian de Palma, American film director
- 1940 - Theodore Olson, U.S. Solicitor General
- 1942 - Lola Falana, American singer
- 1943 - Mickey Hart, American drummer (Grateful Dead)
- 1943 - Raymond Villeneuve, Canadian terrorist
- 1944 - Everaldo, Brazilian footballer
- 1945 - Franz Beckenbauer, German footballer
- 1945 - Leo Kottke, American acoustic guitarist
- 1945 - Felton Perry, American actor
- 1948 - John Martyn, English musician
- 1950 - Bruce Doull, Australian rules footballer
- 1950 - Amy Madigan, American actress
- 1950 - Barry Sheene, British motorcyclist
- 1951 - Richard D. Gill, British-Dutch mathematician
- 1953 - Tommy Shaw, American musician and singer Styx
- 1958 - Roxann Dawson, American actress
- 1958 - Scott Patterson, American actor
- 1961 - Virginia Madsen, American actress
- 1961 - Philip Ardagh, British writer
- 1962 - Elizabeth Daily, American actress
- 1962 - Filip Dewinter Belgian politician
- 1962 - Kristy McNichol, American actress
- 1962 - Julio Salinas, Spanish footballer
- 1963 - Dr Patrick McWilliams, Irish author
- 1964 - Ellis Burks, American baseball player
- 1964 - Victor Wooten, American musician
- 1965 - Bashar al-Assad, President of Syria
- 1965 - Paul Heyman, American wrestling manager
- 1965 - Moby, American musician
- 1965 - David Roe, English snooker player
- 1966 - Princess Akishino, Japanese Imperial Family
- 1966 - Troy Crosby, Canadian hockey player
- 1967 - Maria Bartiromo, financial broadcast journalist
- 1967 - Harry Connick, Jr., American singer
- 1967 - Tony David, Australian darts player
- 1968 - Kay Hanley, American musician
- 1969 - Eduardo Perez, American baseball player
- 1969 - Gidget Gein, American musician
- 1970 - Chris Garver, tattoo artist
- 1970 - Ted Leo, American musician
- 1971 - Richard Ashcroft, British singer
- 1971 - Markos Moulitsas, American blogger and author
- 1971 - Johnny Vegas, English comedian
- 1976 - Elephant Man, Jamaican musician
- 1976 - Tomáš Enge, Czech racing driver
- 1976 - Flora Redoumi, Greek hurdler
- 1977 - Ludacris, American rapper
- 1977 - Matthew Stevens, Welsh snooker player
- 1977 - Jon Buckland, British guitarist (Coldplay)
- 1977 - Becky Lee, American Survivor contestant
- 1978 - Ed Reed, American football player
- 1978 - Ben Lee, Australian musician and singer
- 1978 - Dejan Stanković, Serbian footballer
- 1979 - Andols Herrick, American drummer (Chimaira)
- 1979 - Nathan Gale, American murderer (d. 2004)
- 1979 - Ariana Richards, American actress
- 1979 - Frank Francisco, Major League Baseball pitcher
- 1979 - Steve Hofstetter, Comedian & radio personality
- 1979 - David Pizarro, Chilean footballer
- 1980 - Mike Comrie, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1980 - Antônio Pizzonia, Brazilian Formula One driver
- 1981 - Dylan Klebold, Columbine high school shooter (d. 1999)
- 1981 - Andrea Dossena, Italian footballer
- 1982 - Shriya Saran, South Indian actress
- 1983 - Ike Diogu, American basketball player
- 1985 - Shaun Livingston, American basketball player
- 1986 - Chiliboy Ralepelle, South African rugby union player
- 1987 - Tyler Hoechlin, American actor and baseball player
[edit] Deaths
- 1161 - Queen Melisende of Jerusalem (b. 1105)
- 1185 - Stephanus Hagiochristophorites, Byzantine courtier
- 1279 - Robert Kilwardby, Archbishop of Canterbury
- 1298 - Philip of Artois, French soldier (b. 1269)
- 1349 - Bonne of Luxembourg, wife of John II of France (b. 1315)
- 1599 - Beatrice Cenci, Italian noblewoman executed for planned fratricide (b. 1577)
- 1677 - James Harrington, English political philosopher (b. 1611)
- 1680 - Roger Crab, English Puritan political writer (b. 1621)
- 1680 - Emperor Go-Mizunoo of Japan (b. 1596)
- 1721 - Rudolf Jakob Camerarius, German botanist and physician (b. 1665)
- 1733 - François Couperin, French composer (b. 1668)
- 1760 - Louis Godin, French astronomer (b. 1704)
- 1822 - Fortunat Alojzy Gonzaga Żółkowski, Polish actor (b. 1777)
- 1823 - David Ricardo, economist (b. 1772)
- 1843 - Joseph Nicollet, mathematician and explorer (b. 1786)
- 1851 - Sylvester Graham, American nutritionist (b. 1794)
- 1865 - Christophe Léon Louis Juchault de Lamoricière, French general (b. 1806)
- 1888 - Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, President of Argentina
- 1911 - Louis Henri Boussenard, French novelist (b. 1847)
- 1915 - William Cornelius Van Horne, North American railway executive (b. 1843)
- 1917 - Georges Guynemer, French World War I aviator (b. 1894)
- 1921 - Subramanya Bharathy, Tamil poet (b. 1882)
- 1926 - Matsunosuke Onoe, Japanese actor (b. 1875)
- 1931 - Salvatore Maranzano, crime boss (b. 1868)
- 1932 - Franciszek Żwirko and Stanisław Wigura, Polish pilots (plane crash) (Żwirko b. 1895 Wigura b. 1901)
- 1939 - Konstantin Korovin, Russian painter (b. 1861)
- 1941 - Christian Rakovsky, Bulgarian-born socialist revolutionary (b. 1873)
- 1948 - Muhammad Ali Jinnah, founder of Pakistan (b. 1876)
- 1950 - Jan Smuts, South African soldier and statesman (b. 1870)
- 1956 - Billy Bishop, Canadian pilot in World War I (b. 1894)
- 1958 - Robert W. Service, Scottish-born Canadian poet (b. 1874)
- 1958 - Camillien Houde, French Canadian politician, mayor of Montreal (b. 1889)
- 1966 - C. E. Woolman, American airline magnate (b. 1889)
- 1967 - Tadeusz Żyliński, Polish technician and textilist (b. 1904)
- 1968 - René Cogny, French General (b. 1904)
- 1971 - Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev, Soviet politician and leader (b. 1894)
- 1972 - Max Fleischer, American animator (b. 1883)
- 1973 - Salvador Allende, President of Chile (b. 1908)
- 1978 - Georgi Markov, Bulgarian dissident (assassinated) (b. 1929)
- 1978 - Janet Parker, medical photographer, the final victim of smallpox
- 1978 - Ronnie Peterson, Swedish F1 driver. Crashed on Monza circuit. (b. 1944)
- 1984 - Jerry Voorhis, American politician (b. 1901)
- 1985 - William Alwyn, English composer (b. 1905)
- 1985 - Andrew C. Thornton II, Former Lexington, KY narcotics agent turned smuggler (b 1945)
- 1987 - Lorne Greene, Canadian actor (b. 1915)
- 1987 - Peter Tosh, Jamaican musician and singer (b. 1944)
- 1988 - John Sylvester White, American actor (b. 1919)
- 1990 - Myrna Mack, Guatemalan anthropologist (assassinated) (b. 1949)
- 1993 - Erich Leinsdorf, Austrian conductor (b. 1912)
- 1993 - Antoine Izméry, Haitian pro-democracy activist (assassinated)
- 1994 - Jessica Tandy, American actress (b. 1909)
- 1994 - William Obanhein, police officer, mentioned in "Alice's Restaurant" (b. 1924)
- 1995 - Anita Harding, neurologist (b. 1952)
- 1997 - Camille Henry, National Hockey League player (b. 1933)
- 1998 - Dane Clark, American actor (b. 1913)
- 1999 - Gonzalo Rodriguez, Uruguayan auto racing driver (b. 1972)
- 2001 - Alice Stewart Trillin, American author (b. 1938)
- 2001 – see Category:Victims of the September 11, 2001 attacks:
- 2001 - Marwan Al-Shehhi, 9/11 terrorist (b. 1978)
- 2001 - David Angell, American sitcom creator, passenger on American Airlines Flight 11 (b. 1946)
- 2001 - Mohamed Atta, 9/11 terrorist (b. 1968)
- 2001 - Garnet Bailey, NHL player and Los Angeles Kings scout, passenger on United Airlines Flight 175 (b. 1948)
- 2001 - Todd Beamer, passenger on United Airlines Flight 93 (b. 1968)
- 2001 - Berry Berenson, widow of actor Anthony Perkins and a passenger on American Airlines flight 11 (b. 1948)
- 2001 - Mark Bingham, passenger on United Airlines Flight 93 (b. 1970)
- 2001 - Tom Burnett, businessman and passenger on United Airlines Flight 93, (b. 1963)
- 2001 - Kevin Cosgrove, worker in the south tower of the world trade center (b. 1955)
- 2001 - Peter J. Ganci, Jr., Chief of Department, FDNY (b. 1946)
- 2001 - Hani Hanjour, 9/11 terrorist (b. 1972)
- 2001 - Ziad Jarrah, 9/11 terrorist (b. 1975)
- 2001 - Father Mychal F. Judge, Chaplain, FDNY (b. 1933)
- 2001 - Angel L. Juarbe, Jr., American firefighter, winner of Murder in Small Town X (b. 1966)
- 2001 - John P. O'Neill, former FBI agent, and Director of Security at the World Trade Center (b. 1952)
- 2001 - John Ogonowski, pilot for American Airlines Flight 11 (b. 1951)
- 2001 - Barbara Olson, American political commentator, passenger on American Airlines Flight 77 (b. 1955)
- 2001 - Betty Ong, flight attendant on American Airlines Flight 11 (b. 1956)
- 2001 - Madeline Amy Sweeney, flight attendant on American Airlines Flight 11 (b. 1966)
- 2002 - Kim Hunter, American actress (b. 1922)
- 2002 - Johnny Unitas, American football player (b. 1933)
- 2003 - Anna Lindh, Swedish Minister for Foreign Affairs (assassinated) (b. 1957)
- 2003 - John Ritter, American actor (b. 1948)
- 2004 - Patriarch Peter VII of Alexandria (helicopter crash) (b. 1949)
- 2004 - Fred Ebb, American lyricist (b. 1933)
- 2004 - David Mann, U.S. artist (emphysema) (b. 1939)
- 2005 - Chris Schenkel, American sportscaster (b. 1923)
- 2006 - William Auld, Scottish poet, writer and supporter of Esperanto (b. 1924)
- 2006 - Pat Corley, American actor (b. 1930)
- 2006 - Joachim Fest, German journalist and author (b. 1926)
- 2006 - Johannes Bob van Benthem, Dutch lawyer, first president of the European Patent Office (b. 1921)
[edit] Holidays
- RC Saints - Virgin of the Holy cave; Saint Deiniol, Our Lady of Coromoto, Protus and Hyacinth.
- Also see September 11 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics).
- Beheading of John The Baptist (or The Forerunner) in Eastern Orthodox tradition.
- Feast of Neyrouz, the New Year's Day in the Coptic calendar.
- New Year's Day in the Ethiopian calendar (Enkutatash).
- Catalonia - National Day.
- Latin America Teacher's Day, after the death of Argentine Domingo F. Sarmiento.
- Death anniversary of Muhammad Ali Jinnah, founder of Pakistan.
[edit] Other observances
- Proclaimed 9-1-1 Emergency Number Day by President Reagan on August 26 in 1987 and celebrated since then by some United States communities, particularly the local emergency services.
- Patriot Day (USA) - Anniversary of the September 11 attacks.
- Feast day of Saint Deiniol.
- National Day of Catalonia, remembering those Catalan patriots who died in the Siege of Barcelona, in defense of the city, against the Franco-Spanish army.
