Today is Wednesday, September 11, the 254th day of 2013. There are 111 days left in the year.
Highlights in history on this date:
1297 - Scottish rebels under William Wallace slaughter a larger English force at Stirling Bridge.
1499 - French forces take Milan, Italy, with little opposition.
1557 - Pope Paul IV makes peace with Philip II of Spain.
1697 - Prince Eugene of Savoy defeats Turks at Zenta, Hungary.
1783 - American statesman and philosopher Benjamin Franklin negotiates a peace settlement between United States, Great Britain and France; calling it the Treaty of Paris.
1830 - Republic of Ecuador is established and granted a constitution by Colombia under which it is to be part of the Confederation of Colombia.
1914 - Two Australian battalions land near Rabaul and occupy the German colony on New Britain, off northeastern New Guinea.
1922 - British mandate in Palestine is proclaimed while Arabs declare day of mourning.
1936 - U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt dedicates Boulder Dam — now Hoover Dam — by pressing a key in Washington to signal the startup of the dam's first hydroelectric generator in Nevada.
1944 - U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill meet in Canada at the second Quebec Conference.
1955 - Thirteen U.S. Air Force men are killed when a B-29 plane crashes in the Pacific between Japan and Formosa.
1973 - Chile's President Salvador Allende dies in a U.S.-supported military coup, and military officials say he committed suicide rather than surrender.
1978 - At least 20 dead and 100 wounded are reported in gun battles between Nicaraguan troops and rebels intent on toppling President Anastasio Somoza.
1990 - U.S. President George H.W. Bush addresses a national television audience to gain support for his deployment of U.S. military forces to the Persian Gulf region to confront the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait.
1991 - Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev says thousands of Soviet troops will soon leave Cuba; Germany says it will launch an international emergency aid program to help Soviet Union through the winter.
1992 - Hurricane Iniki strikes Hawaiian islands of Kauai, Oahu and Niilau, killing six people.
1993 - In front of human rights observers, a prominent supporter of exiled President Jean-Bertrand Aristide is dragged from a Mass and assassinated outside a church in Haiti.
1996 - Iraq fires two missiles at U.S. F-16 jets patrolling a "no-fly" zone in northern Iraq. Both missiles miss, but the United States responds by sending B-52 bombers to the region.
1998 - Independent counsel Kenneth Starr tells the U.S. Congress there are 11 grounds for impeachment of President Bill Clinton; Russian lawmakers approve Yevgeny Primakov as prime minister.
2001 - Terrorists crash two hijacked airplanes into the World Trade Center in New York City, bringing down the twin 110-story towers, killing more than 2,700 people. Another hijacked jetliner slams into the Pentagon in Washington D.C., killing at least 189 people. A fourth hijacked plane crashes in rural southern Pennsylvania, killing 44 people aboard.
2002 - The entire 21-member Palestinian cabinet resigns, after it becomes evident that Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat could not prevent a vote of no-confidence in the cabinet by the Palestinian Legislative Council.
2003 - Swedish Foreign Minister Anna Lindh dies in a hospital after being stabbed repeatedly the previous day by an unidentified male attacker while shopping at a department store in Stockholm.
2004 - A U.S. soldier admits abusing inmates at Abu Ghraib prison, receiving a lighter sentence in return for his testimony against others charged in the scandal.
2005 - Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi scores a political triumph as the long-ruling Liberal Democratic Party heads for a landslide win in an election touted as a referendum on his push to privatize Japan's cash-swelled postal system.
2006 - The Islamic group Hamas makes a deal to share power with the more moderate Fatah headed by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas after six months of crushing sanctions imposed to force the militants to recognize Israel and end violence.
2007 - The World Health Organization issues an alert urging more doctors to travel to Congo to combat an outbreak of Ebola fever. The Congolese government declares a quarantine of the area in southeastern Congo.
2008 - Spain's highest court rejects plans for a referendum in the Basque region on self-determination.
2009 - Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei warns the country's reformist opposition it will face a "harsh response" for confronting the Islamic establishment.
2010 - Greece's prime minister promises to lower corporate taxes to help revive the debt-plagued country's shrinking economy, while thousands of protesters march — mostly peacefully — against the government's harsh austerity measures.
2011 - A convoy carrying ousted Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi's son al-Saadi crosses into neighboring Niger, a spokesman for Niger's government says, one of the highest-profile former regime figures to flee to the landlocked African nation.
2012 - Mainly ultraconservative protesters climb the walls of the U.S. Embassy in Egypt's capital and bring down the American flag, replacing it with a black Islamic flag to protest a U.S.-produced film attacking the Prophet Muhammad.
Today's Birthdays:
D.H. Lawrence, English author (1885-1930); O. Henry (William Sydney Porter), U.S. writer (1862-1910); Ferdinand Marcos, Philippine president (1917-1989); Tom Landry, U.S. football coach (1924-2000); Brian DePalma, U.S. film director (1940--); Harry Connick Jr., U.S. singer/actor (1967--); Moby, U.S. DJ/musician (1965--); Mickey Hart, U.S. rock drummer (1943--).
Thought for Today:
There is nothing so powerful as the truth, and nothing so strange — Daniel Webster, U.S. statesman (1782-1852).
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