11-09-2013, 09:33
September 11th
1814 - USA: At the Battle of Lake Champlain a newly built US fleet under the command of Master-Commandant Thomas Macdonough annihilate a British squadron, forcing British General Sir George Prevost and his army to abandon their siege of the US fort at Plattsburgh and retreat to Canada on foot.
1841 - USA: President John Tyler's entire Cabinet resigns, with the exception of Secretary of State Daniel Webster, over the president's bank bill veto.
1908 - USA: Aviator Orville Wright establishes a new flight record staying aloft for 70 minutes.
1910 - Germany: The 12th Zionist congress raises 100,000 marks to establish a Jewish colony in Palestine.
1912 - UK: Clothing manufacturer Barbour is founded.
1921 - USA: The Ku Klux Klan take over Lanier University in Atlanta, Georgia, saying it will teach "Americanism."
1928 - UK: Professors at Glasgow University claim scientists will soon be able to produce cells artificially.
1931 - British Honduras: Over 700 deaths are reported after the colony is lashed by 100mph winds.
1942 - Stalingrad: The Germans drive a wedge through the Soviet positions, threatening the core of the city.
1944 - Germany: The US first army under General Omar Bradley leads the Allies onto German soil.
1949 - UK: The milk ration is cut from three to two and a half pints a week.
1950 - Scotland: 115 trapped miners are saved from a pit in Knochshinnoch in Ayrshire; 13 other miners remain missing.
1956 - Washington: President Eisenhower tells southern states to end segregation in schools.
1962 - London: Commonwealth leaders announce they are against Britain joining the EEC.
1965 - Paris: Charles De Gaulle announces that France will leave NATO in 1969.
1971- Moscow: Former Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev dies in obscurity aged 77.
1974 - Mozambique: 100 people are feared dead after two days of disruptive violence.
1980 - Chile: A referendum finds 69.14% of voters in favour of an eight year extension in General Pinochet's term in power.
1983 - UK: The SPD conference votes against a merger with the Liberals for at least five years.
1985 - South Africa: The government announces it will restore citizenship to 15 million blacks living in "homelands."
1992 - Hawaii: Hurricane Iniki devastates the Hawaiian islands of Kauai and Oahu.
1997 - Outer Space: NASA's Mars global surveyor reaches the red planet.
2006 - USA: US and New York leaders along with families and friends of those who died in the September 11 2001 attacks remember the 5th anniversary with speeches and moments of silence.
2009 - USA: The world's oldest person Gertrude Baines dies in Los Angeles aged 115.
2011 - USA: The National September 11 Memorial, located on the site of the former World Trade Center, opens in New York City.
1814 - USA: At the Battle of Lake Champlain a newly built US fleet under the command of Master-Commandant Thomas Macdonough annihilate a British squadron, forcing British General Sir George Prevost and his army to abandon their siege of the US fort at Plattsburgh and retreat to Canada on foot.
1841 - USA: President John Tyler's entire Cabinet resigns, with the exception of Secretary of State Daniel Webster, over the president's bank bill veto.
1908 - USA: Aviator Orville Wright establishes a new flight record staying aloft for 70 minutes.
1910 - Germany: The 12th Zionist congress raises 100,000 marks to establish a Jewish colony in Palestine.
1912 - UK: Clothing manufacturer Barbour is founded.
1921 - USA: The Ku Klux Klan take over Lanier University in Atlanta, Georgia, saying it will teach "Americanism."
1928 - UK: Professors at Glasgow University claim scientists will soon be able to produce cells artificially.
1931 - British Honduras: Over 700 deaths are reported after the colony is lashed by 100mph winds.
1942 - Stalingrad: The Germans drive a wedge through the Soviet positions, threatening the core of the city.
1944 - Germany: The US first army under General Omar Bradley leads the Allies onto German soil.
1949 - UK: The milk ration is cut from three to two and a half pints a week.
1950 - Scotland: 115 trapped miners are saved from a pit in Knochshinnoch in Ayrshire; 13 other miners remain missing.
1956 - Washington: President Eisenhower tells southern states to end segregation in schools.
1962 - London: Commonwealth leaders announce they are against Britain joining the EEC.
1965 - Paris: Charles De Gaulle announces that France will leave NATO in 1969.
1971- Moscow: Former Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev dies in obscurity aged 77.
1974 - Mozambique: 100 people are feared dead after two days of disruptive violence.
1980 - Chile: A referendum finds 69.14% of voters in favour of an eight year extension in General Pinochet's term in power.
1983 - UK: The SPD conference votes against a merger with the Liberals for at least five years.
1985 - South Africa: The government announces it will restore citizenship to 15 million blacks living in "homelands."
1992 - Hawaii: Hurricane Iniki devastates the Hawaiian islands of Kauai and Oahu.
1997 - Outer Space: NASA's Mars global surveyor reaches the red planet.
2006 - USA: US and New York leaders along with families and friends of those who died in the September 11 2001 attacks remember the 5th anniversary with speeches and moments of silence.
2009 - USA: The world's oldest person Gertrude Baines dies in Los Angeles aged 115.
2011 - USA: The National September 11 Memorial, located on the site of the former World Trade Center, opens in New York City.