About September 11
September 11, 2024 is the 255th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 111 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.
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Virgo is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Sapphire is the modern birthstone for this month. Agate is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 140 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
September 11: More About This Day
It is usually the first day of the year in the Coptic calendar and Ethiopian calendar (in the period AD 1900 to AD 2099).
What Happened On September 11
- 1649 –Siege of Drogheda ends: Oliver Cromwell’s English Parliamentarian troops take the town and execute its garrison.
- 1758 –Battle of Saint Cast: France repels British invasion during the Seven Years’ War.
- 1792 –The Hope Diamond is stolen along with other French crown jewels when six men break into the house used to store them.
- 1813 –War of 1812: British troops arrive in Mount Vernon and prepare to march to and invade Washington D.C.
- 1847 –Stephen Foster’s well-known song, Oh! Susanna, is first performed at a saloon in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
- 1897 –After months of pursuit, generals of Menelik II of Ethiopia capture Gaki Sherocho, the last king of Kaffa, bringing an end to that ancient kingdom.
- 1916 –The Quebec Bridge’s central span collapses, killing 11 men. The bridge initially collapsed in toto on August 29, 1907.
- 1919 –U.S. Marines invade Honduras.
- 1922 –One of the Herald Sun of Melbourne, Australia’s predecessor papers The Sun News-Pictorial is founded.
- 1922 –The British Mandate of Palestine begins.
- 1931 –Salvatore Maranzano is murdered by Charles Luciano’s hitmen.
- 1941 –Ground is broken for the construction of The Pentagon.
- 1943 –World War II: Start of the liquidation of the Ghettos in Minsk and Lida by the Nazis.
- 1965 –Indo-Pakistani War: The Indian Army captures the town of Burki, just southeast of Lahore.
- 1973 –A coup in Chile headed by General Augusto Pinochet topples the democratically elected president Salvador Allende. Pinochet remains in power for almost 17 years.
- 1978 –U.S. President Jimmy Carter, President Anwar Sadat of Egypt, and Prime Minister Menachem Begin of Israel meet at Camp David and agree on the Camp David Accords a framework for peace between Israel and Egypt and a comprehensive peace in the Middle East.
- 1982 –The international forces that were guaranteeing the safety of Palestinian refugees following Israel’s 1982 Invasion of Lebanon leave Beirut. Five days later, several thousand refugees are massacred in the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps.
- 1985 –Pete Rose breaks Ty Cobb’s baseball record for most career hits with his 4,192nd hit
- 1997 –After a nationwide referendum, Scotland votes to establish a devolved parliament, within the United Kingdom.
- 2007 –Russia tests the largest conventional weapon ever, the Father of all bombs.
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