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Sep 11 2006, 03:31 PM
September 11
1297 Scots under William Wallace defeat the English at Stirling Bridge.
1695 Imperial troops under Eugene of Savoy defeat the Turks at the Battle of Zenta.
1709 John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough, wins the bloodiest battle of the 18th century at great
cost, against the French at Malplaquet.
1740 The first mention of an African American doctor or dentist in the colonies is made in the
Pennsylvania Gazette.
1777 General George Washington and his troops are defeated by the British under General Sir
William Howe at the Battle of Brandywine in Pennsylvania.
1786 The Convention of Annapolis opens with the aim of revising the articles of confederation.
1802 Piedmont, Italy, is annexed by France.
1814 U.S. forces led by Thomas Macdonough route the British fleet on Lake Champlain.
1847 Stephen Foster's "Oh! Susanna" is first performed in a saloon in Pittsburgh.
1850 Soprano opera singer Jenny Lind, the "Swedish Nightingale," makes her American debut at
New York's Castle Garden Theater.
1864 A 10-day truce is declared between generals Sherman and Hood so civilians may leave
Atlanta, Georgia.
1857 Indians incited by Mormon John D. Lee kill 120 California-bound settlers in the Mountain
Meadows Massacre.
1904 The battleship Connecticut, launched in New York, introduces a new era in naval
construction.
1916 The "Star Spangled Banner" is sung at the beginning of a baseball game for the first time in
Cooperstown, New York.
1944 American troops enter Luxembourg.
1962 Thurgood Marshall is appointed a judge of the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals.
1965 The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile) arrives in South Vietnam and is stationed at An Khe.
1974 Haile Selassie I is deposed from the Ethiopian throne.
2001 In an unprecedented, highly coordinated attack, terrorists hijack four U.S. passenger
airliners, flying two into the World Trade Center towers in New York and one into the
Pentagon, killing thousands. The fourth airliner, headed toward Washington likely to strike
the White House or Capitol, is crashed just over 100 miles away in Pennsylvania after
passengers storm the cockpit and overtake the hijackers
