Today is: September 11

Boast not thyself of tomorrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.
Proverbs 27:1

September is:

Children's Books Month Children's Eye Health and Safety Month National Childhood Injury Prevention Month National Honey Month National Piano Month National Rice Month National School Success Month National Sewing Month National Sickle Cell Month National Youth Pastors Appreciation Month Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month Southern Gospel Music Month

Celebrate September 11

American Short Story Day - Celebrated on the birthday of O. Henry. He was born, William Sydney Porter, this day in 1862. On this day we honor all short story writers. Sponsor: Book Marketing Update.

No News is Good News Day - Don't read any news today. You'll feel much better that way. Sponsor: Wellness Permission League.

Born on this Day

• 1458: Italian writer Bernardo Accolti (Virginia)
  
  

• 1522: Italian biologist and medical experimentor Ulisse Aldrovandi
  
  

• 1523: Poet Pierre de Ronsard
  
  

• 1525: Elector of Brandenburg Johan Georg (1571-91)
  
  

• 1700: Songwriter James Thomson (Rule Britannia)
  
  

• 1798: German mineralogist, mathematician and physicist Franz E Neumann
  
  

• 1862: American short story writer O. Henry (William Sydney Porter) -"The Gift of the Magi," and "The last Leaf"
  
  

• 1885: Author D.H. Lawrence - Lady Chatterley's Lover and Sons and Lovers
  
  

• 1899: Country singer and former Louisiana governor Jimmie Davis
  
  

• 19??: Crystal Lewis Birthday
  
  

• 1902: German Marxist philosopher Theodor Adorno.
  
  

• 1902: Country singer and former Louisiana governor Jimmie Davis
  
  

• 1913: University of Alabama football coach Paul "Bear" Bryant
  
  

• 1917: Jessica Mitford, writer who championed civil rights. She is best known for her book The American Way of Death.
  
  

• 1917: Former Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos
  
  

• 1923: Actress Betsy Drake
  
  

• 1924: Football Hall-of-Famer Tom Landry - Coach of the Dallas Cowboys professional football team, who won two Super Bowls
  
  

• 1926: Actor Lee Richardson
  
  

• 1928: Actor Earl Holliman
  
  

• 1940: Movie director Brian De Palma
  
  

• 1943: Singer-actress-dancer Lola Falana
  
  

• 1943: Rock musician Mickey Hart (The Grateful Dead)
  
  

• 1945: Singer-musician Leo Kottke
  
  

• 1954: Actor Reed Birney
  
  

• 1957: Musician Jon Moss (Culture Club)
  
  

• 1958: Rock musician Mick Talbot (The Style Council)
  
  

• 1962: Actress Kristy McNichol
  
  

• 1963: Actress Virginia Madsen
  
  

• 1964: Actress Roxann Dawson ("Star Trek: Voyager")
  
  

• 1965: Musician-composer Moby
  
  

• 1967: Singer Harry Connick Junior
  
  

• 1968: Rock musician Bart Van Der Zeeluw (K's Choice)
  
  

• 1970: Actress Laura Wright ("Guiding Light")
  
  

• 1977: Rapper Mr. Black
  
  

Events in History on this day
  

• 0812: Election of Louis, son of Charlemagne, as Holy Roman Emperor
  
  

• 0813: Coronation, by his own hand, of Louis I "the Pious," as Holy Roman Emperor
  
  

• 1227: Plague strikes the 5th Crusade, of Fredrick II, ending it
  
  

• 1297: Scots under William Wallace defeat English at Stirling Bridge.
  
  

• 1589: Barbara Huebmeyer, Appela Huebmeyer and Anna Schnelling burned as witches.
  
  

• 1649: Massacre of Drogheada, on orders of Oliver Cromwell
  
  

• 1672: Colonial American clergyman Solomon Stoddard, 29, was ordained pastor of the Congregational church in Northampton, Mass. He remained at this pulpit for the next 57 years.
  
  

• 1695: Imperial troops under Eugene of Savoy defeat the Turks at the Battle of Zenta.
  
  

• 1700: Neoclassical English poet James Thompson - "The Seasons" and "The Task,"
  
  

• 1709: John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough, wins the bloodiest battle of the 18th century at great cost, against the French at Malplaquet.
  
  

• 1733: Francois Couperin died. This prolific Baroque composer left us with some dismal last words: "Since hardly anyone has composed more than I have," he said, "I hope my family will find in my wallet something to make them regret my passing."
  
  

• 1740: The first mention of an African American doctor or dentist in the colonies is made in the Pennsylvania Gazette.
  
  

• 1777: Troops commanded by General George Washington were defeated by the British under General Sir William Howe in the Battle of Brandywine.
  
  

• 1786:The Convention of Annapolis opens with the aim of revising the articles of confederation.
  
  

• 1789: Alexander Hamilton was appointed the first US Secretary of the Treasury.
  
  

• 1802: Piedmont, Italy, is annexed by France.
  
  

• 1814: An American fleet, led by Thomas Macdonough, scored a decisive victory over the British in the Battle of Lake Champlain in the War of 1812.
  
  

• 1841: All members of President John Tyler's Cabinet resigned, except Secretary of State Daniel Webster, in protest of Tyler's veto of a banking bill.
  
  

• 1851: The Swedish singer Jenny Lind began touring America in the first private railroad car
  
  

• 1857: Mormon fanatic John D. Lee, angered over President Buchanan's order to remove Brigham Young from governorship of the Utah Territory, incited a band of Mormons and Indians to massacre a California-bound wagon train of 135 in Mountain Meadows, Utah . History Focus for Today
  
  

• 1864: A 10-day truce is declared between generals Sherman and Hood so civilians may leave Atlanta, Georgia.
  
  

• 1895: Sergei Rachmaninoff, already famous as a pianist, finished his First Symphony. The performance was terrible, the symphony failed and Rachmaninoff went into psychoanalysis for two years before he could compose again.
  
  

• 1897: A strike by coal miners in Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia ended, with the miners winning an eight-hour work day. (The day before, about 20 miners were killed when sheriff's deputies opened fire on them in Pennsylvania.)
  
  

• 1918: The volunteer medical aide Ernest Hemingway left the Ospedale Maggiore in Milan after leg injuries of an indeterminate nature. He fell in love with one of the nurses, Agnes von Kurovsky.
  
  

• 1928: The first coast-to-coast busline service in America began.
  
  

• 1936: President Roosevelt dedicated Boulder Dam (now Hoover Dam) by pressing a key in Washington to signal the startup of the dam's first hydroelectric generator in Nevada.
  

• 1944: President Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill met in Canada at the second Quebec Conference.
  
  

• 1954: The "Miss America" pageant made its network TV debut on ABC; Miss California, Lee Ann Meriwether, was crowned the winner.
  
  

• 1962: The Beatles recorded their first single for EMI, "Love Me Do" and "PS I Love You," at EMI studios in London.
  
  

• 1962: Thurgood Marshall 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.
  
  

• 1967: "The Carol Burnett Show" premiered on CBS.
  
  

• 1969: "Great White Wonder", said to be the first bootleg record album, appeared in record stores in Los Angeles. The two-record set featured unreleased Bob Dylan songs.
  
  

• 1971: Former Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev died at age 77.
  
  

• 1973: The elected Socialist government of Salvador Allende, of Chile, was toppled in a right-wing military coup supported by the CIA. Allende died, reportedly by his own hand.
  
  

• 1974: "Little House On The Prairie" starring Michael Landon made its television debut. The show also starred Melissa Gilbert.
  
  

• 1978: Georgi Markov, a Bulgarian defector, died at a British hospital four days after being stabbed by a man wielding a poisoned umbrella tip.
  
  

• 1982: Chris Evert Lloyd won her sixth U.S. Open by defeating Hana Mandlikova 6-3, 6-1.
  
  

• 1984: President Reagan announced he would meet with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei A. Gromyko at the White House on September 28.
  
  

• 1985: Pete Rose of the Cincinnati Reds cracked career hit number 4,192 off Eric Show of the San Diego Padres, eclipsing the record held by Ty Cobb.
  
  

• 1985: A U.S. satellite glided through the tail of the Giacobini-Zinner comet in the first-ever on-the-spot sampling of a comet.
  
  

• 1986: On Wall Street, the Dow Jones Industrial Average plummeted 86.61 points, ending the day at 1,792.89.
  
  

• 1987: The CBS TV network went "black" for six minutes after anchorman Dan Rather walked off the set of "The CBS Evening News" because a tennis tournament being carried by the network ran overtime. (The tennis coverage ended abruptly, catching the anchorman off guard.)
  
  

• 1988: Mats Wilander of Sweden won the men's US Open title in New York.
  
  

• 1989: The exodus of East German refugees from Hungary to West Germany by way of Austria began.
  
  

• 1990: President Bush addressed Congress on the Persian Gulf crisis, vowing that "Saddam Hussein will fail" in his takeover of Kuwait.
  
  

• 1991: Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev announced the Kremlin would withdraw thousands of troops from Cuba, a move bitterly denounced by the Havana government.
  
  

• 1991: In the Middle East, hopes grew for the release of Western hostages in Lebanon after Israel freed 51 prisoners.
  
  

• 1992: Hurricane "Iniki" struck Hawaii, leaving at least five people dead and more than ten-thousand homes damaged or destroyed.
  
  

• 1992: President Bush announced he was approving the sale of 72 F-15 jet fighters to Saudi Arabia.
  
  

• 1993: Antoine Izmery, a prominent supporter of exiled Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, was shot and killed outside a church in Port-au-Prince; the UN mission accused Haitian armed forces of involvement.
  
  

• 1993: Conductor Erich Leinsdorf died in Zurich, Switzerland, at age 81.
  
  

• 1994: Actress Jessica Tandy died in Easton, Connecticut, at age 85.
  
  

• 1994: At the 46th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards, "Frasier" won best comedy series while "Picket Fences" was named best drama series.
  
  

• 1994: Andre Agassi won the men's championship at the U.S. Open tennis tournament, defeating Michael Stich.
  
  

• 1995: The prosecution in the O.J. Simpson murder trial in Los Angeles reluctantly began its rebuttal case, as ordered by Judge Lance Ito, after the defense refused to rest.
  
  

• 1996: Two top officials with the Health and Human Services Department resigned over President Clinton's signing of the Republican welfare overhaul bill (another official had resigned the month before).
  
  

• 1996: Hurricane "Hortense" continued churning its way through the Caribbean.
  
  

• 1997: The Army issued a searing indictment of itself, asserting that "sexual harassment exists throughout the Army, crossing gender, rank and racial lines."
  
  

• 1997: Scots voted to create their own Parliament after 290 years of union with England.
  
  

• 1998: Russia's fractious parliament came together and confirmed compromise candidate Yevgeny Primakov as prime minister.
  
  

• 1998: Divers off Nova Scotia recovered the cockpit voice recorder from Swissair Flight 111, which had crashed September second with 229 people aboard.
  
  

• 1998: Congress released Kenneth Starr's voluminous report that offered graphic details of President Clinton's alleged sexual misconduct and leveled accusations of perjury and obstruction of justice; the president's attorneys quickly issued a point-by-point rebuttal. 
  

• 1999: President Clinton, attending a conference of Asia-Pacific leaders in New Zealand, demanded that Indonesia allow an international force to restore peace in East Timor.
  

• 1999: Serena Williams won the U.S. Open women's title, beating top-seeded Martina Hingis, 6-3, 7-6 (7-4).
  

• 1999: Eric Milton pitched a no-hitter for the Minnesota Twins in their 7-0 win over the Anaheim Angels.
  

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