Today in History
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2012 Attacks on The US Diplomatic Compounds in Benghazi, Libya
About 150 Islamic militants attacked two different US diplomatic buildings in the city with gunfire,
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2011 Occupy Wall Street movement begins
The Occupy Wall Street movement began in Zuccotti Park in the Wall Street District of New York City
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2007 Russia Tests Father of All Bombs
The world’s most powerful non-nuclear bomb was a thermobaric bomb – it detonated mid-air and uses th
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2001 September 11 Attacks in the United States
A series of 4 coordinated suicide attacks were carried out by the terrorist group Al Qaeda on the mo
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1998 Commonwealth Games Open in Kuala Lumpur
The 16th Commonwealth Games were held for the first time in an Asian country that did not have the B
Births On This Day,
September, 11
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1977 Ludacris
American rapper, producer, actor, founded Disturbing tha Peace Records
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1965 Moby
American singer-songwriter, DJ
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1965 Bashar al-Assad
Syrian politician, 21st President of Syria
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1924 Rudolf Vrba
Czech/Canadian holocaust survivor, educator
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1885 D. H. Lawrence
English novelist
Deaths On This Day,
September, 11
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1987 Peter Tosh
Jamaican singer-songwriter, guitarist
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1973 Salvador Allende
Chilean physician, politician
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1971 Nikita Khrushchev
Soviet politician, 7th Premier of the Soviet Union
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1948 Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Indian/Pakistani lawyer, politician, founder of Pakistan
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1941 Christian Rakovsky
Bulgarian revolutionary, politician