11 September 1697: Austrian forces won a decisive victory over an Ottoman army at the Battle of Zenta.
11 September 1709: The duke of Marlborough led a British army of 100,000 men against a French army of 90,000 at the Battle of Malplaquet in the War of the Spanish Succession.
11 September 1777: British forces defeated the Americans at the Battle of the Brandywine during the American Revolution.
11 September 1789: Alexander Hamilton was appointed the first Secretary of the Treasury.
11 September 1814: U.S. naval forces under Thomas Macdonough defeated a larger British force at the Battle of Lake Champlain during the War of 1812.
11 September 1855: The 11-month Siege of Sevastopol ended after British and French troops finally captured the main naval base of the Russian Black Sea fleet during the Crimean War.
11 September 1936: President Franklin Delano Roosevelt dedicated Boulder Dam (now Hoover Dam) in Nevada.
11 September 1944: Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt met in Canada at the second Quebec Conference.
11 September 1962: The Beatles recorded their first single, Love Me Do.
11 September 1973: General Augusto Pinochet led a coup d’état, overthrowing the government of President Salvador Allende of Chile.
11 September 2001: World Trade Center and Pentagon attacked by terrorists
To be prepared is half the victory.
- Miguel De Cervantes
A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.
- Jean Paul Richter
On September 11, 2001, the world fractured. It’s beyond my skill as a writer to capture that day, and the days that would follow — the planes, like specters, vanishing into steel and glass; the slow-motion cascade of the towers crumbling into themselves; the ash-covered figures wandering the streets; the anguish and the fear. Nor do I pretend to understand the stark nihilism that drove the terrorists that day and that drives their brethren still. My powers of empathy, my ability to reach into another’s heart, cannot penetrate the blank stares of those who would murder innocents with abstract, serene satisfaction.
- Barack Obama
