09-11-2005, 06:00 AM
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September 11th
1297 ~ Scots of William Wallace defeat English in the Battle of Stirling Bridge
1711 ~ Birthday of William Boyce, Composer.
1914 ~ World War I: In one of the first military engagements, Australian forces defeat Germans in New Britain.
1922 ~ British Mandate of Palestine began.
1948 ~ Death of Muhammad Ali Jinnah, first Governor-General of Pakistan.
1962 ~ The Beatles recorded their debut single, Love Me Do.
1973 ~ A military coup in Chile headed by General Augusto Pinochet toppled elected Marxist President Salvador Allende.
1987 ~ CBS Evening News anchor Dan Rather, angry over being preempted for a tennis match, marched off the set, leaving affiliates with six minutes of an empty news desk.
1997 ~ Scotland voted to re-establish its own Parliament after 290 years of union with England and the 700th anniversary of the Battle of Stirling Bridge.
2001 ~ The September 11 terrorist attacks destroyed the World Trade Center in New York City, part of The Pentagon in Washington, D.C., and crashed a passenger airliner in Pennsylvania. In total, almost 3,000 are killed.
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