On This Day:
Wednesday September 11, 2013 This is the 254th day of the year, with 111 days remaining in 2013. Fact of the Day: library A library is broadly defined as a collection of books used for reading or study, or the building or room in which such a collection is kept. The word derives from the Latin liber "book." One of the first libraries discovered was a temple in the Babylonian town of Nippur, from around the first half of the 3rd millennium BC; the temple had a number of rooms filled with clay tablets, suggesting a well-stocked archive or library. We have now moved beyond the "hard copy" tradition to refer to the vast collections of information from the Internet, cable television, etc. as "virtual" or "digital" libraries.
Holidays Ethiopia: New Year
Pakistan: Jinnah Day (founder's death anniversary).
Chile: National Liberation Day.
Philippines: Barangay Day.
Niger: Cure Salee (celebration of the Salted Cure).
United States: Patriot Day.
Cape Verde and Guinea-Bissau: National Day.
Events 1297 - Scottish patriot Sir William Wallace defeated the army of Edward I at Stirling Bridge.
1709 - Duke of Marlborough (John Churchill) and Prince Eugene of Savoy 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 William Howe at the Battle of Brandywine, Pennsylvania.
1786 - Annapolis Convention in which 12 delegates met to discuss commercial matters of interest between the states was convened, leading to the Constitutional Convention.
1789 - Alexander Hamilton was appointed the first U.S. Secretary of the Treasury.
1814 - American fleet scored a 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," made 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 was launched in New York.
1916 - First time "Star Spangled Banner" was 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 U.S. into World War II, sparking charges of anti-Semitism.
1954 - Miss America Pageant debuted on TV; Miss California, Lee Ann Meriwether, was crowned the winner.
1959 - The first U.S. food stamps were authorized by Congress.
1967 - "The Carol Burnett Show" premiered on TV.
1977 - South African black student leader Steven Biko died while in police custody, setting off an global outcry.
1992 - Hurricane Iniki, one of the most damaging hurricanes in United States history during its time, devastates the State of Hawaii, especially the islands of Kauai and Oahu.
2001 - Suicide hijackers crashed two airliners into the World Trade Center in New York, causing the 110-story twin towers to collapse. Another hijacked airliner hit the Pentagon and a fourth crashed in a field in Pennsylvania. The attackers were Islamic terrorists from Saudi Arabia and several other Arab nations. Reportedly financed by Saudi fugitive Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda terrorist organization, they were allegedly acting in retaliation for America's s upport of Israel, its involvement in the Persian Gulf War, and its continued military presence in the Middle East.
2003 - Swedish foreign minister Anna Lindh dies after being assaulted and fatally wounded on September 10.
2005 - The State of Israel completes its unilateral disengagement from the Gaza Strip.
Births 1862 - O. Henry (William Sydney Porter), American short story writer.
1885 - D.H. 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, American movie director.
1943 - Mickey Hart, best known as one of the two drummers in the rock band the Grateful Dead.
1965 - Moby (born Richard Melville Hall), an American songwriter and singer.
1965 - Bashar al-Assad, President of Syria.
1967 - Harry Connick, Jr., American singer.
Deaths 1966 - C. E. Woolman, American airline magnate.
1971 - Nikita Khrushchev, former Soviet Union leader.
1972 - Max Fleischer, Austrian-born American animator.
1973 - Chilean President Salvador Allende, in a violent military coup.
1987 - Peter Tosh, Jamaican reggae singer-songwriter.
1987 - Lorne Greene, Canadian actor.
1994 - Jessica Tandy, English stage and film actress.
2001 - Victims of the September 11, 2001 attacks.
2002 - Johnny Unitas, football hall-of-famer, at age 69.
2003 - John Ritter, 54, American film and television actor and son of legendary country singing star and actor Tex Ritter.
2004 - Patriarch Peter VII of Alexandria.
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