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 September 11th Friday

• 1802 France annexes the Kingdom of Piedmont.
• 1814 Begun on the 6th Sept, Americans defeat British at Battle of Plattsburgh during War of 1812
• 1814 Battle of Lake Champlain, NY; American Navy defeats British
• 1839 1st Canadian track & field meet held (Caer Howell Grounds)
• 1850 "Swedish Nightingale" Jenny Lind gives 1st US concert
• 1852 Olympia Columbian is 1st newspaper published north of Columbia River
• 1853 1st electric telegraph used - Merchant's Exchange, San Francisco to Pt Lobos, California
• 1857 Mountain Meadows Massacre, Mormons dressed as Indians murder 120 colonists in Utah
• 1862 British Open Men's Golf, Prestwick GC: Tom Morris Sr retains his title; beats Willie Park Sr. by 3 strokes
• 1875 1st newspaper cartoon strip
• 1877 Rijkslandbouwhoge school opens in Wageningen
• 1881 Triple landslides bury Elm, Switzerland
• 1883 James Cutler patents postal mail chute
• 1885 Moses Hopkins, named minister to Liberia
• 1886 Mayflower (US) beats Galatea (England) in 7th America's Cup
• 1888 Death of the Argentine politician Domingo Sarmiento, after whom the Latin American Teacher's Day is chosen.
• 1890 British Open Men's Golf, Prestwick GC: John Ball becomes first Englishman and first amateur to win the Open; beats Willie Fernie and Archie Simpson by 3 strokes
• 1891 The Jewish Colonization Association is established by Baron Maurice de Hirsch.
• 1893 Bronx Gas & Electric Company opens on Frisby & Tremont Ave
• 1893 Shaku Soen is 1st Zen teacher to visit the West (Chicago)
• 1893 First conference of the World Parliament of Religions is held in Chicago, Indian monk Swani Vivekananda gives influential speech
• 1895 FA Cup stolen in Birmingham
• 1900 President of Transvaal Paul Kruger crosses border into Mozambique
• 1903 The first race at The Milwaukee Mile in West Allis, Wisconsin is held. It is the oldest major speedway in the world.
• 1909 Max Wolf rediscovers Halley's comet
• 1910 1st commercially successful electric bus line opens (Hollywood)
• 1912 Netherland Olympic Committee forms
• 1914 Australia invades New Britain, defeating a German contingent there.
• 1916 German troops conquer Kavalla Greece
• 1916 The Quebec Bridge's central span collapses during reconstruction, killing 11 men
• 1918 Boston Red Sox beat Chicago Cubs, 4 games to 2 in 15th World Series
• 1919 US Marines again send troops to Honduras
• 1921 Nahalal, the first moshav in Israel, is settled.
• 1922 British mandate of Palestine begins
• 1922 Yankees play their farewell home game in Polo Grounds win doubleheader
• 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.
• 1923 After a single, Red Sox Howard Ehmke retires next 27 Yanks
• 1923 Bernie Neis, hits the 1,000th Dodger home run
• 1923 ZR-1 (biggest active dirigible) flies over NY's tallest skyscraper, Woolworth Tower
• 1926 21st Davis Cup: USA beats France in Philadelphia (4-1), for their 7th straight championship
• 1926 Aloha Tower dedicated in Honolulu
• 1926 Spain leaves League of Nation due to Germany joining
• 1926 Yanks' Bob Meusel ties record with 3 sacrifice flies
• 1927 After losing 21 in a row to NY, the Browns win their last meeting, 6-2
• 1932 Franciszek Żwirko and Stanisław Wigura, Polish Challenge 1932 winners, are killed in a plane crash when their RWD 6 crashes into the ground during a storm.
• 1933 Antwerps Sportpaleis, the largest indoor arena in Europe opens; renovated 2010-13
• 1936 A's pitcher Horace Lisenbee gives up 26 hits in a game
• 1937 US National Championship Men's Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: American Don Budge wins first of 2 straight US titles; beats Gottfried von Cramm of Germany 6-1, 7-9, 6-1, 3-6, 6-1
• 1937 US National Championship Women's Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: Anita Lizana of Chile becomes first Latin American to win a major; beats Jadwiga Jędrzejowska of Poland 6-4, 6-2
• 1939 Battle of Kutno-pocket: Germans advance to Warsaw
• 1939 British submarine Triton torpedoes British submarine Oxley
• 1939 Iraq and Saudi Arabia declare war on Nazi Germany
• 1940 -12] Buckingham Palace damaged by German bombs
• 1940 54th US Postmaster General: Frank C Walker of Pa takes office
• 1940 Anton Mussert establishes Dutch SS
• 1943 Allied armed forces conquer Salerno, Italy
• 1943 Jewish ghettos of Minsk & Lida Belorussia liquidated
• 1943 Last German Q/pirate ship sinks near Easter Island
• 1943 US & Australian troops join in Salamaua, New Guinea
• 1950 1st typesetting machine to dispense with metal type exhibited
• 1950 33 die in a train crash in Coshocton Ohio
• 1950 Dick Tracy TV show sparks uproar concerning violence
• 1951 Stravinsky's opera "Rake's Progress," premieres in Venice
• 1959 Congress passes a bill authorizing food stamps for poor Americans
• 1959 Elroy Face's 22 game winning streak ends as Dodgers beat Pirates 5-4
• 1959 Baltimore starter Jerry Walker pitches all 16 innings as the Orioles edge the Chicago White Sox, 1-0 at Memorial Stadium
• 1960 17th Olympic games close in Rome Italy
• 1960 The Young Americans for Freedom, meeting at home of William F. Buckley, Jr., promulgate the Sharon Statement.
• 1961 Hurricane Carla strikes Texas with winds of 175 mph
• 1961 Foundation of the World Wildlife Fund.
• 1962 Beatles cut "Love Me Do" & "PS I Love You" with Andy White on drums
• 1962 KVCR TV channel 24 in San Bernardino, CA (PBS) begins broadcasting
• 1963 Typhoon Gloria strikes Taiwan killing 330, with $17.5 million damage
• 1970 The Ford Pinto is introduced.
• 1971 "2 by 2" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 343 performances
• 1971 Egypt adopts its constitution
• 1971 Laurel Lea Schaefer (Ohio), 22, crowned 44th Miss America 1972
• 1978 The last known person dies of smallpox - medical photographer Janet Parker through infection in a laboratory, in Birmingham, England
• 1980 Chile adopts its constitution
• 1980 Ron LeFlore (91st) & Rodney Scott (58th), set teammate steal record
• 1981 2nd government of Van Agt forms in Netherlands
• 1982 Debbie Maffett (California), 25, crowned 55th Miss America 1983
• 1982 US Open Women's Tennis: Chris Evert wins her 6th and final US title, beating Hana Mandlíková 6-3, 6-1
• 1983 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
• 1995 Eastern Tennessee begins using new area code 423
• 1995 Ohio's Governor Voinovich proclaims "Cleveland Indians Day"
• 1995 Soyuz TM-22, lands
• 1996 Union Pacific Railroad purchases Southern Pacific Railroad.
• 1997 After a nationwide referendum, Scotland votes to establish a devolved parliament, within the United Kingdom.
• 2002 Through extreme and coordinated effort, The Pentagon is rededicated after repairs are completed, exactly one year after the attack on the building.
• 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)
• 2004 US Open Women's Tennis: In an all-Russian final Svetlana Kuznetsova wins her first Grand Slam title; beats Elena Dementieva 6-3, 7-5
• 2005 The State of Israel completes its unilateral disengagement from the Gaza Strip.
• 2007 Russia tests the largest conventional weapon ever, the Father of all bombs.
• 2009 The Brazilian economy technically leaves the recession when GDP grew 1.9% in the second quarter of 2009 after having fallen in the first quarter of 2009 and last quarter of 2008
• 2009 Sweden emerges from the recession after witnessing GDP growth of 0.2% in the second quarter
• 2010 US Open Women's Tennis: Belgian defending champion Kim Clijsters beats Vera Zvonareva of Russia 6-2, 6-1 for her third US singles crown
• 2012 50 Al-Shabaab fighters are killed in conflict with the Somali National Army
• 2012 The US consulate in Benghazi, Libya, is stormed, looted and burned down, killing five people, including the US ambassador
• 2012 The US is warned by Moody's that its AAA credit rating is at risk if lawmakers fail to produce a long-term debt reduction plan
• 2012 29 people are killed and 11 injured after a bus runs off a mountain highway in Nepal
• 2012 Japan nationalizes three of the disputed Senkaku Islands
• 201312 Alawite sect members are killed by rebel fighters in central Syria
• 2014 South African athlete Oscar Pistorius is found not guilty of murdering his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp (and is later found guilty of culpable homicide)
• 2015 A large crane collapses killing more than 100 people in Mecca, Saudi Arabia
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