Events occurring in history on Sept. 11th-
~1226 The Roman Catholic practice of perpetual adoration begins.
~1541 Santiago, Chile, is destroyed by indigenous warriors, lead by Michimalonko.
~1683 Battle of Vienna.
~1714 Barcelona surrenders to Spanish and French Bourbon armies in the War of the Spanish Succession.
~1773 The Public Advertiser publishes a satirical essay titled
Rules By Which A Great Empire May Be Reduced To A Small One, which is written by
Benjamin Franklin. He writes "There never was a good war or bad peace."
~1786 The Beginning of the Annapolis Convention.
~1789 Alexander Hamilton is appointed as first United States Secretary of the Treasury.
~1792 Hope Diamond is stolen along with other crown jewels when six men broke into the house used to store the jewels.
~1814 Battle of Lake Champlain, NY; Americans defeat British.
~1853 First electric telegraph in use, Merchant's Exchange to Pt Lobos.
~1857 The Mountain Meadows Massacre: Mormon settlers and Paiutes massacre 120 pioneers at Mountain Meadows, Utah.
~1891 The Jewish Colonization Association is established by Baron Maurice de Hirsch.
~1893 First World Parliament of Religions conference held.
~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.
~1906 Mahatma Gandhi coins the term Satyagraha to characterize the Non-Violence movement in South Africa.
~1919 U.S. Marines invade Honduras.
~1921 Nahalal, the first moshav in Israel, is settled.
~1922 British mandate of Palestine begins.
~1930 Stomboli volcano (Sicily) throws 2-ton basaltic rocks 2 miles.
~1936 FDR dedicates Boulder Dam, now known as Hoover Dam.
~1940 World War II: Buckingham Palace is damaged during a German air raid.
~1941 Charles Lindbergh, charges "the British, the Jewish & the Roosevelt administration" are trying to get the US into WW II.
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1941 Ground 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.
~1944 World War II: the first allied troops of the U.S. Army cross the western border of Nazi Germany.
~1946 First mobile long-distance car-to-car telephone conversation.
~1955 Dedication of the first Temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Europe, the Bern Switzerland Temple.
~1959 Lee Harvey Oswald is discharged from the United States Marine Corps.
~1961 Formation of the World Wildlife Fund.
~1961 Hurricane Carla strikes the Texas coast as a Category 4 hurricane, the strongest storm ever to hit the state.
~1965 The 1st Cavalry Division of the United States Army arrives in Vietnam.
~1967 US Surveyor 5 makes first chemical analysis of lunar material
~1968 Air France Flight 1611 crashes off Nice, France, killing 89 passengers and 6 crew.
~1968 Number one hit on UK music charts - The Beatles - Hey Jude.
~1971 The Egyptian Constitution becomes official.
~1972 The Closing Ceremony of the Munich Olympics takes place. It was the Summer Olympics when the terrorist attack known as the Munich Massacre
happened.
~1973 A CIA backed coup in Chile headed by General Augusto Pinochet topples the democratically elected President Salvador Allende[2]. Pinochet remains
in power for almost 17 years.
~1981 A small plane crashes into the Swing Auditorium in San Bernardino damaging it beyond repair.
~1982 The international forces, which were guaranteeing the safety of Palestinian refugees following Israel's 1982 Invasion of Lebanon, left Beirut.
Five days later, several thousand refugees were massacred in the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps.
~1991 14 die in a Continental Express commuter plane crash near Houston.
~1992 Hurricane Iniki, one of the most damaging hurricanes in United States history , devastates the State of Hawaii, especially the islands of Kauai
and Oahu.
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1994 Frank Eugene Corder steals a Cessna plane, intending to crash it into the White House.
~1997 NASA's Mars Global Surveyor reaches Mars.
~1998 Independent counsel Kenneth Starr sends a report to the U.S. Congress accusing President Bill Clinton of 11 possible impeachable offenses.
~2000 Activists protest against the World Economic Forum meeting in Melbourne, Australia. See S11.
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~2003 The Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety enters into effect.
~2004 All passengers are killed when a helicopter crashes in the Aegean Sea. Passengers include Patriarch Peter VII of Alexandria and 16 others
(including journalists and bishops of the Greek Orthodox Church of Alexandria).
~2005 The State of Israel completes its unilateral disengagement from the Gaza Strip.
~2007 Russia tests the largest conventional weapon ever, the Father of all bombs.
~2010
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All coincidence or something more? I'm not normally a numbers significance guy, but I don't know....some interesting things have happened on
9/11.
[edit on 1-3-2010 by Signals]