Historical Events on September 11.

1. 1297, 11th September – Scots jointly led by William Wallace and Andrew Moray defeated the English.

2. 1792, 11th September – The Hope Diamond was stolen along with other French crown jewels when six men broke into the house where they were stolen.

3. 1893, 11th September – Swami Vivekananda delivered his famous speech at the World religions conference.

4. 1906, 11th September – Mahatma Gandhi firstly used the term “Satyagraha” in South Africa.

5. 1919, 11th September – United States Marine Corps invaded Honduras.

6. 1942, 11th September – Azad Hind Sena, operated by Subhash Chandra Bose, sung ‘Jan Gan Man’ as a national anthem.

7. 1961, 11th September – Establishment of the World Wildlife Fund (WWF).

8. 1965, 11th September – Indo-Pakistani War: The Indian Army captured the town of Burki, just southeast of Lahore.

9. 1971, 11th September – The Egyptian Constitution became official.

10. 1997, 11th September – NASA’s Mars Global Surveyor reached Mars.

11. 2001, 11th September – The United States become the victim of the worst terrorist attack ever launched. A Hijacked American Airlines Boeing 767 crashed into the North Tower of the World Trade Centre in New York, killing all passengers on board, and causing an enormous explosion. Fifteen minutes later, a second hijacked plane crashed into the South Tower. A third plane was flown at the Pentagon in Washington and a fourth crashed in Pennsylvania after the hijackers were overpowered. Both towers of the World Trade Centre later collapsed and the number of dead had been estimated at 3,000. No one has claimed responsibility, but many believed that was the work of Al-Qaeda.

12. 2007, 11th September – Russia tested the largest conventional weapon ever, the Father of All Bombs.

13. 2020, 11th September – Paresh Rawal became the chief of National School of Drama.

Famous Birthdays & Birth Anniversaries on September 11.

1. 1700 – James Thompson, a Scottish poet who wrote: “Rule Britannia”.

2. 1816 – Carl Zeiss, german lens maker, created the Optical instrument.

3. 1882 – O. Henry, an American short-story writer who established himself as a writer of merit with his first book, Cabbages, and Kings.

4. 1885 – D.H. Lawrence, a British novelist who examined human sexuality and social conditions in industrial society in Sons and Lovers and Women in Love and whose Lady Chatterley’s Lover was banned when it first appeared.

5. 1895 – Vinoba Bhave, Indian Gandhian Acharya, and advocate of non-violence and human rights.

6. 1911 – Lala Amarnath, Indian cricket player, player of the World Cup-winning team in 1983.

7. 1917 – Ferdinand Marcos, Filipino President whose conspicuously corrupt rule came to an end when he was deposed by Cory Aquino.

8. 1939 – Charles Geschke, American businessman, co-founded Adobe Systems.

9. 1950 – Mohan Bhagwat, Chief of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, India.

10. 1950 – Barry Sheene, British motorcycling champion.

11. 1965 – Bashar al-Assad, President of Syria.

Death Anniversaries of famous people on September 11.

1. 1888 – Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, Argentimian journalist and politician, 7th president of Argentina.

2. 1921 – Subramania Bharati, Indian journalist, poet, and activist.

3. 1948 – Muhammad Ali Jinnah, first governor-general of Pakistan.

4. 1964 – Gajanan Madhav Muktibodh, Indian poet and critic.

5. 1971 – Nikita Khrushchev, former Soviet premier.

6. 1973 – Salvador Allende, Chilean physician, and politician, 29th President of Chile.

7. 1987 – Mahadevi Verma, a Hindi poet, freedom fighter and educationist from India.

8. 2011 – Anjali Gupta, Indian soldier, and pilot. She was the first female officer in India and in the Air Force to be court martialled.

9. 2020 – Swami Agnivesh, Indian politician, Arya Samaj scholar, and MLA of Haryana.

11-September-1824

Shivling Surge died at Alpayu.

11-September-1875

Koyaji Jahangir Kuwanrji, famous economist, was born.

11-September-1888

Henry Heras, famous artist and an active member of the Indian Historical Records Commission, was born in Barcelona, Spain.

11-September-1889

Dr. P. Subbarayan, minister and leader of the House in O.P. and President of the Cricket Control Board, was born in Tamil Nadu.

11-September-1893

Swami Vivekananda represented Hinduism at Chicago's Parliament of the World's Religions, the first ever inter-faith gathering, dramatically enlightening Western opinion to the depth of Hindu philosophy and culture. He spoke for the first time in Chicago.

11-September-1895

Vinoba Bhave (real name Vinayak Narhari Bhave), great Gandhian Acharya, was born at Ganoda village of Maharashtra.

11-September-1906

Gandhiji addressed a mass meeting of Indians at Johannesburg, where they took oath of passive resistance against the newly promulgated 'Transvaal Asiatic Law Amendment Ordinance'.

11-September-1911

Amarnath Lala, right-hand Indian all-rounder of 30s and 40s, was born at Lahore in Pakistan. He was awarded with Padma Bhushan in 1991.

11-September-1913

Waman Ganesh Talwalkar, Marathi journalist and story writer, was born.

11-September-1921

Subramania Bharati, freedom fighter, Tamil poet and editor, passed away at an early age of 39.

11-September-1948

Indian Government troops enter in the Hyderabad State.

11-September-1948

Mohammad Ali Jinnah, father of Pakistan, died.

11-September-1950

Sorabjee Harmasji Colah, cricketer (69 runs in India's first 2 tests 1932-33), passed away.

11-September-1954

Ram Naresh, editor and Hindi author, was born.

11-September-1956

The PM announced in the Lok Sabha the conclusion of the Netaji Inquiry Committee that Netaji did die in an air-crash.

11-September-1958

India and Pakistan announced that most border disputes between the two countries had been settled.

11-September-1967

China and India exchange artillery fire on Sikkim-Tibet border.

11-September-1968

Central Government provides more autonomy to hilly region of Assam.

11-September-1985

Sri Lanka score their first Test victory by 149 runs against India.

11-September-1987

Mahadevi Verma, Gyanpith award winner and one of the greatest luminaries of modern Hindi literature, passed away.

11-September-1991

Tax concessions announced.

11-September-1991

V. S. Narayan, 'Janmabhumi' Newspaper Group chief, died.

11-September-1993

Former Andhra CM Rama Rao, 71, weds 44-year-old college lecturer Lakshmi Sivaparvathi.

11-September-1995

PM Narsimha Rao inaugurated the State Panchayat minister's meet for discussing panchayat election, devolution of administrative and financial power to the local bodies.

11-September-1999

India's Sachin Ratti won the men's singles title in the New Zealand International Badminton championship, defeating top seed and world No. 23 Rio Suryana of Australia in the final.

11-September-2000

A Delhi High Court exonerates senior Congress(I) leader and former Union Minister H.K.L. Bhagat in a 1984 anti-Sikh riot case in Delhi (in Mansarovar Park in East Delhi on November 1, 1984).