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stormiestl
stormiestlOn This Day: Saturday September 11, 2004 - This is the 255th day of the year, with 111 days remaining in 2004.
Holidays
Ethiopia: New Year's Day.
Pakistan: Jinnah Day (founder's death anniversary).
Chile: National Liberation Day.
Philippine Barangay Day.
Niger: Cure Salee (celebration of the Salted Cure).
Events
1297 - Scottish patriot Sir William Wallace defeats the army of Edward I at Stirling Bridge.
1709 - Duke of Marlborough and Prince Eugene of Austria defeated French Marshal Villars at the battle of Malplaquet, France.
1777 - General George Washington and his troops are defeated by the British under General Howe at the Battle of Brandywine, Pennsylvania.
1786 - Annapolis Convention in which 12 delegates met to discuss commercial matters of interest between the states. This led to the Constitutional Convention.
1789 - Alexander Hamilton was appointed the first US Secretary of the Treasury.
1814 - American fleet scores decisive victory over the British in Battle of Lake Champlain (War of 1812). The American victory, coupled with the end of the British war against Napoleon, led to peace negotiations in Ghent, Belgium.
1841 - President John Tyler's veto of the Banking Bill prompted his cabinet to resign (except Secretary of State Daniel Webster).
1850 - Opera singer Jenny Lind, the "Swedish Nightingale," makes her American debut at New York's Castle Garden Theater.
1897 - A strike by 75,000 coal mine workers ended after 10 weeks. The miners won an 8-hour workday, semimonthly paychecks, and the abolition of company stores.
1904 - The battleship Connecticut is launched in New York.
1916 - First time "Star Spangled Banner" is sung at the beginning of a baseball game (Cooperstown, New York).
1918 - American troops arrived in Russia to fight the Bolsheviks.
1941 - Charles A. Lindbergh said "the British, the Jewish and the Roosevelt administration" were trying to draw the US into World War II, sparking charges of anti-Semitism.
1954 - Miss America Pageant debuts on TV. Miss California, Lee Ann Meriwether, was crowned the winner.
1959 - The first US food stamps were authorized by Congress.
1967 - "The Carol Burnett Show" premieres on TV.
Births
1862 - O. Henry (William Sydney Porter), short story writer.
1885 - D(avid).H(erbert). Lawrence, English novelist and editor.
1917 - Ferdinand Marcos, Philippines president (1965-1986).
1924 - Tom Landry, coach of the Dallas Cowboys football team.
1940 - Brian DePalma, movie director.
Deaths
1971 - Nikita Khrushchev, former Soviet leader.
1973 - Chilean President Salvador Allende, in a violent military coup.
Holidays
Ethiopia: New Year's Day.
Pakistan: Jinnah Day (founder's death anniversary).
Chile: National Liberation Day.
Philippine Barangay Day.
Niger: Cure Salee (celebration of the Salted Cure).
Events
1297 - Scottish patriot Sir William Wallace defeats the army of Edward I at Stirling Bridge.
1709 - Duke of Marlborough and Prince Eugene of Austria defeated French Marshal Villars at the battle of Malplaquet, France.
1777 - General George Washington and his troops are defeated by the British under General Howe at the Battle of Brandywine, Pennsylvania.
1786 - Annapolis Convention in which 12 delegates met to discuss commercial matters of interest between the states. This led to the Constitutional Convention.
1789 - Alexander Hamilton was appointed the first US Secretary of the Treasury.
1814 - American fleet scores decisive victory over the British in Battle of Lake Champlain (War of 1812). The American victory, coupled with the end of the British war against Napoleon, led to peace negotiations in Ghent, Belgium.
1841 - President John Tyler's veto of the Banking Bill prompted his cabinet to resign (except Secretary of State Daniel Webster).
1850 - Opera singer Jenny Lind, the "Swedish Nightingale," makes her American debut at New York's Castle Garden Theater.
1897 - A strike by 75,000 coal mine workers ended after 10 weeks. The miners won an 8-hour workday, semimonthly paychecks, and the abolition of company stores.
1904 - The battleship Connecticut is launched in New York.
1916 - First time "Star Spangled Banner" is sung at the beginning of a baseball game (Cooperstown, New York).
1918 - American troops arrived in Russia to fight the Bolsheviks.
1941 - Charles A. Lindbergh said "the British, the Jewish and the Roosevelt administration" were trying to draw the US into World War II, sparking charges of anti-Semitism.
1954 - Miss America Pageant debuts on TV. Miss California, Lee Ann Meriwether, was crowned the winner.
1959 - The first US food stamps were authorized by Congress.
1967 - "The Carol Burnett Show" premieres on TV.
Births
1862 - O. Henry (William Sydney Porter), short story writer.
1885 - D(avid).H(erbert). Lawrence, English novelist and editor.
1917 - Ferdinand Marcos, Philippines president (1965-1986).
1924 - Tom Landry, coach of the Dallas Cowboys football team.
1940 - Brian DePalma, movie director.
Deaths
1971 - Nikita Khrushchev, former Soviet leader.
1973 - Chilean President Salvador Allende, in a violent military coup.
