History for September 11

History for September 11 - On-This-Day.com:
O. Henry (William Sidney Porter) 1862, D.H. Lawrence 1885, Bear Bryant 1913 


Ferdinand Marcos (Philippines) 1917, Tom Landry 1924, Gherman Titov 1935 


Tommy Shaw (Styx) 1952, Virginia Madsen 1963, Harry Connick, Jr. 1967 


1609 - Explorer Henry Hudson sailed into New York harbor and discovered Manhattan Island and the Hudson River. 


1695 - Imperial troops under Eugene of Savoy defeated the Turks at the Battle of Zenta. 


1777 - American forces, under General George Washington, were forced to retreat at the Battle of Brandywine Creek by British forces under William Howe. The Stars and Stripes (American flag) were carried for the first time in the battle. 


1842 - 1,400 Mexican troops captured San Antonio, TX. The Mexicans retreated with prisoners. 


1952 - Dr. Charles Hufnagel successfully replaced a diseased aorta valve with an artificial valve made of plastic. 


1959 - The U.S. Congress passed a bill authorizing the creation of food stamps. 


1990 - U.S. President Bush vowed "Saddam Hussein will fail" while addressing Congress on the Persian Gulf crisis. In the speech Bush spoke of an objective of a new world order - "freer from the threat of terror, stronger in the pursuit of justice, and more secure in the quest for peace". 


1998 - Independent counsel Kenneth Starr sent a report to the U.S. Congress accusing President Clinton of 11 possible impeachable offenses. 


2001 - In the U.S., four airliners were hijacked and were intentionally crashed. Two airliners hit the World Trade Center, which collapsed shortly after, in New York City, NY. One airliner hit the Pentagon in Arlington, VA. Another airliner crashed into a field in Pennsylvania. About 3,000 people were killed. 


2012 - Terrorists attacked the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya. Four Americans were brutally murdered and ten others were injured.