Year 1297
Scots jointly led by William Wallace and Andrew Moray defeated the English.
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11 September: What Happened On This Day in History
Curated historical timeline of momentous political pacts, freedom struggle uprisings, constitutional developments, scientific breakthroughs, and prominent birthdays recorded on 11 September.
Year 1792
The Hope Diamond was stolen along with other French crown jewels when six men broke into the house where they were stolen.
Year 1893
Swami Vivekananda delivered his famous speech at the World religions conference.
Year 1906
Mahatma Gandhi firstly used the term “Satyagraha” in South Africa.
Year 1919
United States Marine Corps invaded Honduras.
Year 1942
Azad Hind Sena, operated by Subhash Chandra Bose, sung ‘Jan Gan Man’ as a national anthem.
Year 1961
Establishment of the World Wildlife Fund (WWF).
Year 1965
Indo-Pakistani War: The Indian Army captured the town of Burki, just southeast of Lahore.
Year 1971
The Egyptian Constitution became official.
Year 1997
NASA’s Mars Global Surveyor reached Mars.
Year 2001
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.
Year 2007
Russia tested the largest conventional weapon ever, the Father of All Bombs.
Year 2020
Paresh Rawal became the chief of National School of Drama.
Born 1700
James Thompson, a Scottish poet who wrote: “Rule Britannia”.
Born 1816
Carl Zeiss, german lens maker, created the Optical instrument.
Born 1882
O. Henry, an American short-story writer who established himself as a writer of merit with his first book, Cabbages, and Kings.
Born 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.
Born 1884
Sudhamoy Pramanick, Indian activist and politician (d. 1974)
Born 1895
Vinoba Bhave, Indian Gandhian Acharya, and advocate of non-violence and human rights.
Born 1911
Lala Amarnath, Indian cricket player, player of the World Cup-winning team in 1983.
Born 1917
Ferdinand Marcos, Filipino President whose conspicuously corrupt rule came to an end when he was deposed by Cory Aquino.
Born 1939
Charles Geschke, American businessman, co-founded Adobe Systems.
Born 1950
Mohan Bhagwat, Chief of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, India.
Born 1950
Barry Sheene, British motorcycling champion.
Born 1965
Bashar al-Assad, President of Syria.
Born 1976
Murali Kartik, Indian cricketer
Died 1888
Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, Argentimian journalist and politician, 7th president of Argentina.
Died 1921
Subramania Bharati, Indian journalist, poet, and activist.
Died 1948
Muhammad Ali Jinnah, first governor-general of Pakistan.
Died 1964
Gajanan Madhav Muktibodh, Indian poet and critic.
Died 1971
Nikita Khrushchev, former Soviet premier.
Died 1973
Salvador Allende, Chilean physician, and politician, 29th President of Chile.
Died 1987
Mahadevi Verma, a Hindi poet, freedom fighter and educationist from India.
Died 2011
Anjali Gupta, Indian soldier, and pilot. She was the first female officer in India and in the Air Force to be court martialled.
Died 2020
Swami Agnivesh, Indian politician, Arya Samaj scholar, and MLA of Haryana.