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| Birthday September 11, 1862 O. Henry, pen name of William Sidney Porter, short story writer |
| Birthday September 11, 1885 D.H. Lawrence, in Eastwood, Eng, (Lady Chatterly's Lover) |
| Birthday September 11, 1909 William Natcher, (D-Ky-Rep) |
| Birthday September 11, 1909 Anne Seymour, in England, Actress |
| Birthday September 11, 1913 Bear Bryant, keeps Crimson Tide winning |
| Birthday September 11, 1917 Ferdinand Marcos, Former Philippines Pres |
| Birthday September 11, 1922 Charles Evers, civil rights leader |
| Birthday September 11, 1923 Betsy Drake, physical fitness expert |
| Birthday September 11, 1924 Tom Landry, NFL player (NY Giants), coach (Dallas Cowboys) |
| Birthday September 11, 1924 Daniel Kahikina Akaka, (D-Hawaii-Rep) |
| Birthday September 11, 1928 Reubin Askew, (Gov-Fla) |
| Birthday September 11, 1928 Earl Holliman, (Police Woman) |
| Birthday September 11, 1932 Robert Packwood, (R-Ore-Sen) |
| Birthday September 11, 1932 Herbert (Sonny) Leon Callahan, (R-Ala-Rep) |
| Birthday September 11, 1935 Gherman Titov, 1st man to spend a day in space (Vostok 2) |
| Birthday September 11, 1937 Robert L. Crippen, astronaut (STS-1, 7, 41C, 41G) |
| Birthday September 11, 1940 Brian De Palma, director (Dressed to Kill) |
| Birthday September 11, 1946 Lola Falona, in Phila, Singer/dancer |
| Birthday September 11, 1962 Elizabeth Daily |
| Birthday September 11, 1962 Kristy McNichol, Actress, LA (Family) |
| History September 11, 1609 Henry Hudson discovered Manhattan island |
| History September 11, 1709 English Dutch & Austrians defeat French in Battle of Malplaquet. |
| History September 11, 1712 French astronomer G.D Cassini dies |
| History September 11, 1777 Battle of Brandywine Pa.; Americans lose to British. |
| History September 11, 1777 The Battle of Brandywine begins |
| History September 11, 1789 Alexander Hamilton appointed Secretary of the Treasury. |
| History September 11, 1814 Battle of Lake Champlain N.Y.; Americans defeat British. |
| History September 11, 1814 America victorious on Lake Champlain |
| History September 11, 1850 Swedish Nightingale Jenny Lind 1st US concert |
| History September 11, 1851 The Christiana Riot |
| History September 11, 1852 Olympia Columbian is 1st newspaper published north of Columbia R. |
| History September 11, 1853 1st electric telegraph in use Merchant's Exchange to Pt Lobos |
| History September 11, 1857 Mormons and Paiutes murder 120 emigrants at Mountain Meadows |
| History September 11, 1861 Rebels begin Cheat Mountain campaign |
| History September 11, 1910 1st commercially successful electric bus line opens in Hollywood. |
| History September 11, 1915 Emily Post's By Motor to the Fair appears in Collier's |
| History September 11, 1915 Zimmerwald Conference issues a call for immediate peace |
| History September 11, 1919 US marines invade Honduras. |
| History September 11, 1921 Silent-film star arrested for murder |
| History September 11, 1923 After a single Red Sox Howard Ehmke retires the next 27 Yanks |
| History September 11, 1926 Aloha Tower dedicated in Honolulu. |
| History September 11, 1926 Yanks Bob Meusel ties record with 3 sacrifice flies |
| History September 11, 1927 Babe Ruth hits 50th of 60 homers |
| History September 11, 1928 1st TV drama - WGY's The Queens Messenger |
| History September 11, 1929 Mayor Rolph inaugurates new pedestrian traffic light system |
| History September 11, 1930 Flowering Judas, by Katherine Anne Porter, is published |
| History September 11, 1936 FDR dedicates Boulder Dam now known as Hoover Dam |
| History September 11, 1940 Hitler focuses East, sends troops to Romania |
| History September 11, 1941 Charles Lindbergh charges `the British the Jewish and the Roosevelt administration' were trying to get the US into WW II |
| History September 11, 1944 FDR and Churchill meet in Canada at the second Quebec Conference |
| History September 11, 1946 1st mobile long-distance car-to-car telephone conversation |
| History September 11, 1947 US Defense Department formed |
| History September 11, 1950 1st typesetting machine to dispense with metal type exhibited |
| History September 11, 1950 Dick Tracy TV show sparks uproar concerning violence |
| History September 11, 1954 1st Miss America TV broadcast |
| History September 11, 1965 1st Cavalry Division arrives in country |
| History September 11, 1966 Johnny Miller became the 1st Yank to hit a HR on his 1st at bat |
| History September 11, 1967 US Surveyor 5 makes 1st chemical analysis of lunar material |
| History September 11, 1968 Heavy fighting rages in Tay Ninh |
| History September 11, 1971 Nikita Khrushchev dies of a heart attack at age 77 |
| History September 11, 1971 Donny Osmond has the #1 hit on the U.S. pop charts with Go Away Little Girl |
| History September 11, 1971 Nikita Khrushchev dies |
| History September 11, 1972 BART begins service with a 26 mile line from Oakland to Fremont |
| History September 11, 1973 Allende dies in coup |
| History September 11, 1973 Chile's President Salvador Allende deposed in a military coup |
| History September 11, 1977 TV's Rhoda gets divorced |
| History September 11, 1985 Pete Rose of the Cin Reds got career hit 4 192 off Eric Show of the San Diego Padres eclipsing the record held by Ty Cobb. |
| History September 11, 1985 Pete Rose hits into the record books |
| History September 11, 1986 Dow Jones Industrial Average suffered biggest one-day decline ever plummeting 86.61 points to 1 792.89. 237.57 million shares traded |
| History September 11, 1987 Lorne Green dies at 72 |
| History September 11, 1987 Fatal Attraction premieres |
| History September 11, 1991 Commuter plane crashes |
| History September 11, 2001 Bush learns of attack on World Trade Center |