September 11

September 11 is the 254th day of the year (255th in leap years). There are 111 days remaining.

Annually:

• [The United Nations Day of Peace]

Births:

• 1711: [William Boyce]? (composer)
• 1885: [D.H. Lawrence]? (novelist)
• 1948: John Martyn (musician)
• 1967: Harry Connick, Jr. (singer)

Deaths:

• 1971: Former Soviet Premier [Nikita Krushchev]? dies of a heart attack.
• 1973: Chilean President [Salvador Allende]? dies in a violent coup.
• 1978: [Janet Parker]?, a medical photographer, is the final victim of smallpox (contracted in a lab accident).
• 1987: [Lorne Greene]?, actor, of pneumonia?.
• 1994: Actress [Jessica Tandy]?
• 2001: [September 11 Terrorist Attack/Casualties]?

Events:

• 1609: First European ([Henry Hudson]?) sets foot on Manhattan island.
• 1973: Chilean armed forces headed by General [Augusto Pinochet]? take control of the country in a coup d'etat against President [Salvador Allende]?. Allende dies in the Palace of Goverment.
• 1978: The Television series "[Mork and Mindy]?" premieres.
• 1997: Scotland voted to create its own Parliament after 290 years of union with England.
• 1998: Independent counsel [Kenneth Starr]? sent a report to the [US Congress]? accusing President Bill Clinton of 11 possible impeachable offenses.
• 2001: Two aircraft crash into the World Trade Center in New York City within minutes of each other; the World Trade Center towers collapse. Another plane crashes into the Pentagon, destroying a section. A fourth plane crashes outside of Pittsburgh. See September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attack for more information.

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