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Historical events & facts — September 11
What happened on September 11?
On September 11, 2001, nineteen Al-Qaeda terrorists hijacked four commercial aircraft in the United States. Two struck the Twin Towers in New York, one hit the Pentagon, and a fourth crashed in Pennsylvania after passengers fought back. Nearly 3,000 people died. The attacks triggered the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
On September 11, 1973, General Augusto Pinochet led a coup that overthrew democratically elected President Salvador Allende, who died during the bombing of the La Moneda Palace. The military dictatorship that followed lasted seventeen years, during which thousands of people were detained, tortured or disappeared.
On September 11, 1297, the Scottish commander William Wallace defeated the English army at the Battle of Stirling Bridge with a far smaller force. The victory was made possible by a trap set on the narrow bridge over the Forth river. Wallace became the symbol of Scottish resistance against the English rule of Edward I.
Notable birthdays — September 11
Famous people born on September 11
Hawley Harvey Crippen
Hawley Harvey Crippen, colloquially known as Dr. Crippen, was an American homeopath, ear and eye specialist and medicine dispenser who was hanged in Pentonville Prison, London, for the murder of his second wife, Cora Henrietta Crippen. He was the first criminal to be captured with the aid of wireless telegraphy.
Anton Koolmann
Anton Koolmann was a wrestler and coach from Kuusalu Parish, Estonia who took part at the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris, France.
Ferdinand Marcos
Ferdinand Emmanuel Edralin Marcos Sr. was a Filipino lawyer, dictator, and kleptocrat who served as the tenth president of the Philippines from 1965 to 1986.
Rudolf Vrba
Rudolf Vrba was a Slovak-Jewish biochemist who, as a teenager in 1942, was deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp in German-occupied Poland. He escaped from the camp in April 1944, at the height of the Holocaust, and co-wrote the Vrba-Wetzler report, a detailed report about the mass murder taking place there.
Saleh Selim
Mohamed Saleh Mohamed Selim was an Egyptian football executive, former football player and an actor. He was the 13th president of Al Ahly SC.
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