Vero - Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/September 11

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  Swami Vivekananda
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  Hurricane Iniki near peak intensity on September 11, 1992
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  Oh! Susanna
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  Anna Lindh one year before her 2003 assassination.
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  King Gaki Sherocho in chains
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  The ward at East Birmingham Hospital where smallpox victim Janet Parker was admitted in 1978
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  Portrait of Gabriel Fauré by John Singer Sargent
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  One of five memorials in Mountain Meadow to the victims of the massacre
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  Alexander Hamilton
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  The Burlington Daily Hawk Eye Gazette reporting on the speech
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  Jair Bolsonaro

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Teachers' Day in parts of Latin America;	refimprove section
; Patriot Day in the United States	refimprove section
{{<!--If next year is a leap year-->#ifexpr:{{IsLeapYear| {{CURRENTYEAR}} +1}}|<!--Don't show-->|New Year's Day in the Coptic and the Ethiopian calendars;}}	Coptic: refimprove: Ethiopian: refimprove
1226 – The first instance of the Catholic practice of perpetual Eucharistic adoration formally began in Avignon, France.	Lots of cn
1709 – An allied British-Dutch-Austrian force defeated the French at the Battle of Malplaquet, one of the bloodiest battles of the War of the Spanish Succession.	unreferenced section
1714 – Siege of Barcelona: Barcelona, capital city of Catalonia, surrenders to Spanish and French Bourbon armies in the War of the Spanish Succession.	refimprove
1814 – The Battle of Plattsburgh ended Britain's final invasion of the northern states during the War of 1812.	refimprove section
1847 – Stephen Foster's "Oh! Susanna", one of the most famous American songs ever written, premiered at a concert in an ice cream shop in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.	High % of content with referencing problems
1955 – The Bern Switzerland Temple, the first temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Europe, was dedicated.	date not cited
1961 – The World Wide Fund for Nature, the world's largest independent conservation organisation, was founded in Morges, Switzerland.	primary sources
1965 – Indo-Pakistani War: Indian infantry captured the town of Burki near Lahore, Pakistan.	page numbers needed
1973 – A coup d'état in Chile led by General Augusto Pinochet overthrew the government of President Salvador Allende and established a junta.	refimprove section
1981 – Iranian politician Ayatollah Madani and three others were assassinated by an agent of the MEK who detonated a grenade during Friday prayers in Tabriz.	Orange "additional citations needed" banner
2003 – Swedish minister of Foreign Affairs Anna Lindh was assassinated in a knife attack in the NK department store in Stockholm by Mijailo Mijailović.	refimprove
2012 – Garment factories in the Pakistani cities of Karachi and Lahore caught fire, leaving 315 dead.	cleanup section
Kesta Styppiotes |d|883|	Death date not cited
Bonne of Luxembourg |d|1349|	Too much uncited
Susi Kentikian |b|1987	Birthday not cited
Masih Alinejad |b|1976|	Birthday not cited
Matsunosuke Onoe |d|1926|	Death day not cited

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• 1649 – Cromwellian conquest of Ireland: Oliver Cromwell's New Model Army ended the Siege of Drogheda, took over the town and massacred its garrison.
• 1897 – Gaki Sherocho was captured by the forces of Ethiopian emperor [[Menelik II|Template:Nowrap]], bringing an end to the Kingdom of Kaffa.
• 1914 – First World War: The Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force invaded German New Guinea, winning the Battle of Bita Paka.
• 1941 – In Des Moines, Iowa, American aviator Charles Lindbergh delivered an antisemitic speech (reporting pictured) accusing Jews of controlling the media and manipulating the United States into joining World War II.

• 1297 – First War of Scottish Independence: Scottish forces under Andrew Moray and William Wallace defeated English troops at the Battle of Stirling Bridge on the River Forth.
• 1697 – Great Turkish War: Forces led by Prince Eugene of Savoy decisively defeated Ottoman troops at the Battle of Zenta in present-day Serbia, ending the Turkish threat to Europe.
• 1758 – Seven Years' War: France repelled an invasion attempt by the British in the Battle of Saint Cast.
• 1775 – American Revolutionary War: Benedict Arnold's expedition departed from Cambridge, Massachusetts, as part of the invasion of Quebec.
• 1780 – American Revolutionary War: Approximately ten American soldiers were killed by Loyalists and their Native American allies in the Sugarloaf massacre in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania.
• 1789 – Alexander Hamilton (pictured), co-writer of The Federalist Papers, became the first U.S. Secretary of the Treasury.
• 1857 – A legion of Mormon militiamen completed a massacre of at least 120 California-bound Arkansas pioneers at Mountain Meadow, Utah.
• 1893 – Swami Vivekananda (pictured) gave a speech introducing Hinduism on the opening day of the first Parliament of the World's Religions in Chicago.
• 1978 – British medical photographer Janet Parker became the last recorded person to die from smallpox, leading to a debate on whether the virus should be preserved.
• 1992 – Hurricane Iniki, the most powerful hurricane on record to strike the Hawaiian Islands, passed directly over the island of Kauai, killing six people and causing around US$1.8 billion dollars in damage.
• 1995 – [[Mir EO-19|Mir Template:Nowrap]], the first expedition to the Russian space station Mir launched on an American Space Shuttle, returned to Earth after approximately 75 days in space.
• 2012 – The American consulate and CIA annex in Libya were attacked by a heavily armed group, resulting in the deaths of U.S. ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and three others.
• Born/died this day: | Melisende, Queen of Jerusalem|d|1161| Stephen Hagiochristophorites |d|1185| Daniyal Mirza |b|1572| Johann Bernhard Basedow |b|1724| Paul Nahaolelua |b|1806| John Ireland |baptized|1838| Joseph Nicollet |d|1843| Mary Watson Whitney |b|1847| Rosika Schwimmer |b|1877| Dajikaka Gadgil |b|1915| Daniel Wildenstein |b|1917| Jessica Mitford |b|1917| Arvo Pärt |b|1935| Issy Smith |d|1940| Jan Smuts |d|1950| Hiroshi Amano |b|1960| Bashar al-Assad |b|1965| Taraji P. Henson |b|1970| Nikita Khrushchev |d|1971| B. J. Habibie |d|2019|

Notes

• Hurricane Gilbert appears on September 13, so best not to have Iniki appear in the same year.

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• 1776 – British and American leaders held a peace conference on Staten Island, New York, in the hopes of bringing an end to the nascent American Revolutionary War.
• 1851 – In a fight near Christiana, Pennsylvania, a group of escaped slaves and free Blacks led by William Parker fought off a federal posse seeking to arrest and return the escapees to slavery.
• 1945 – The Japanese-run camp at Batu Lintang in Borneo was liberated by the Australian 9th Division, averting the planned massacre of its 2,000-plus Allied POWs and civilian internees by four days.
• 2001 – al-Qaeda hijacked four passenger airliners to carry out a series of terrorist attacks (one pictured) against targets in New York City and the area of Washington, D.C., killing 2,977 people.
• 2025 – Former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro was sentenced to 27 years in prison for his involvement in a coup plot.