Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/September 11
This is a list of selected September 11 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article or picture of the day.
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A fireball exploded as a hijacked airliner crashed into one of the World Trade Center towers on September 11, 2001. -
Hurricane Iniki near peak intensity on September 11, 1992
Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
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| National Day of Catalonia; | stub |
| {{<!--If next year is a leap year-->#ifexpr:{{IsLeapYear| {{CURRENTYEAR}} +1}}|<!--Don't show-->|New Year's Day in the Coptic and the Ethiopian calendars;}} | Coptic: refimprove: Ethiopian: no footnotes |
| 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 |
| 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 section |
| 1955 – The Bern Switzerland Temple, the first Temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Europe, was dedicated. | refimprove |
| 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
- 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.
- 1775 – American Revolutionary War: Benedict Arnold's expedition departed from Cambridge, Massachusetts as part of the invasion of Quebec.
- 1776 – British and American leaders held a peace conference on Staten Island, New York, in the hopes of bringing an end to the nascent American Revoloutionary War.
- 1789 – U.S. Founding Father Alexander Hamilton, co-writer of the Federalist Papers, became the first U.S. Secretary of the Treasury.
- 1814 – The Battle of Plattsburgh ended Britain's final invasion of the northern states during the War of 1812.
- 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 the First World War, 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.
Notes
- Hurricane Gilbert appears on September 13, so best not to have Iniki appear in the same year.
September 11: Teachers' Day in parts of Latin America; Patriot Day in the United States
- 1226 – The Catholic practice of Eucharistic adoration among lay people formally began in Avignon, France.
- 1649 – Cromwellian conquest of Ireland: Oliver Cromwell's New Model Army ended the Siege of Drogheda, took over the town and massacred its garrison.
- 1758 – Seven Years' War: The Battle of Saint Cast took place near Saint-Cast, with France handing Britain a decisive defeat.
- 1847 – Stephen Foster's "Oh! Susanna" (audio featured), one of the most famous American songs ever written, premiered at a concert in an ice cream shop in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
- 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.