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- Augusto Pinochet
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A fireball exploded as a hijacked airliner crashed into one of the World Trade Center towers on September 11, 2001.
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| National Day of Catalonia; | stub |
| 1297 – First War of Scottish Independence: The Scots under Andrew Moray and William Wallace defeated English troops at the Battle of Stirling Bridge on the River Forth (pictured) near Stirling. | ref improve |
| 1649 – Cromwellian conquest of Ireland: Oliver Cromwell's New Model Army ended the Siege of Drogheda, took over the town and massacred its garrison. | Tagged with {{refimprove}} |
| 1697 – Great Turkish War: Forces led by Prince Eugene of Savoy decisively defeated the Ottoman troops near Senta, present-day Serbia, ending the Turkish threat to Europe. | {{Refimprove|date=November 2010}} |
| 1922 – The British Mandate of Palestine began. | Need to verify date |
| 1961 – The World Wide Fund for Nature, the world's largest independent conservation organisation, was founded in Morges, Switzerland. | disputed section |
| 1973 – A coup d'état in Chile led by General Augusto Pinochet overthrew the government of President Salvador Allende and established an anti-communist military dictatorship. | Tagged with {{refimprove}} |
Eligible
- 1789 – U.S. Founding Father Alexander Hamilton, co-writer of the Federalist Papers, became the first U.S. Secretary of the Treasury.
- 1955 – The Bern Switzerland Temple, the first Temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Europe, was dedicated.
- 2001 – Al-Qaeda terrorists hijacked four passenger airliners for a series of suicide attacks against targets in New York City and the Washington, D.C. area.
September 11: New Year's Day in the Coptic and the Ethiopian calendars; Teachers' Day in parts of Latin America; Patriot Day and National Grandparents Day (2011) in the United States
- 1709 – An allied British-Dutch-Austrian force defeated the French at the Battle of Malplaquet, one of the bloodiest battles of the War of the Spanish Succession.
- 1857 – A brigade of the Mormon militia led a massacre of about 120 California-bound pioneers from Arkansas in present-day Mountain Meadows, Utah.
- 1914 – During World War I, the Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force invaded German New Guinea, winning the Battle of Bita Paka.
- 1945 – The Japanese-run camp at Batu Lintang, Sarawak, in Borneo was liberated by the Australian 9th Division, averting the planned massacre of its 2,000-plus Allied POWs and civilian internees by four days.
- 1992 – The eye of Hurricane Iniki (pictured), the most powerful hurricane to strike the state of Hawaii and the Hawaiian Islands in recorded history, passed directly over the island of Kauai, killing six people and causing around USD$1.8 billion dollars in damage.