The terms “September 11th”, “11th September”, and “9/11″ (pronounced “nine-eleven”) have been widely used in the Western media as a shorthand for the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center and The Pentagon in the United States of America.
- 1926 – An assassination attempt on Benito Mussolini failed
- 1942 – Lola Falana, American singer was born
- 1945 – Franz Beckenbauer, German footballer was born
- 1965 – Bashar al-Assad, The current President of Syria was born
- 1971 – The Egyptian Constitution became official
- 1987 – 9-1-1 Emergency Number Day became official
- 1987 – Reggae musician Peter Tosh was murdered in his own home in Kingston
- 1998 – Opening ceremony for the 1998 Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Malaysia was the first Asian country to host the games
- 1999 – Tennis: Serena Williams, 2 weeks short of her 18th birthday, won her first Grand Slam tournament when she became US Open champion, becoming the first African American woman to win a Grand Slam tournament since Althea Gibson in 1958
- 2000 – Activists protest against the World Economic Forum meeting in Melbourne, Australia
- 2001 – The September 11 attacks destroy the World Trade Center in New York City, part of The Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, and crash a passenger airliner in Pennsylvania. In total almost 3,000 are killed
please gideon permit me to ask a question.
does the no. 9-1-1 have anything to do with 9-11. as in the attacks and the date matching the number. you know that kind of thing.
i’ll be awaiting your answer.