09-10-2009, 07:43 PM
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September 11th
1297 ~ William Wallace led a Scottish army to defeat the English in the Battle of Stirling Bridge.
1711 ~ Birthday of William Boyce, Composer.
1914 ~ In one of the earlier military engagements of WWI, Australian forces defeat Germans in New Britain.
1948 ~ Death of Muhammad Ali Jinnah, first Governor-General of Pakistan.
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, walked off the set, leaving affiliates with six minutes of an empty news desk.
1987 ~ Death of Lorne Greene, Canadian actor.
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 were killed.
2002 ~ Death of Johnny Unitas, Football Hall of Famer.
2007 ~ Russia tests the largest conventional weapon ever, the "Father of All Bombs".
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