September 11

Today in History
• 1541 - Santiago, Chile, is destroyed by indigenous warriors, lead by Michimalonko
• 1649 - Massacre of Drogheda, Ireland - Oliver Cromwell kills 3,000 royalists
• 1773 - Benjamin Franklin writes "There never was a good war or bad peace"
• 1852 - Olympia Columbian is 1st newspaper published north of Columbia River
• 1853 - 1st electric telegraph used, Merchant's Exchange, San Francisco to Pt Lobos, California
• 1857 - Mountain Meadows Massacre, Mormons dressed as Indians murder 120 colonists in Utah
• 1923 - ZR-1 (biggest active dirigible) flies over NY's tallest skyscraper, Woolworth Tower
• 1916 - The Quebec Bridge's central span collapses during reconstruction, killing 11 men


Holidays - Traditional and Obscure
• Ironman Wales
• Libraries Remember Day
• Make Your Bed Day
• National Boss/Employee Exchange Day
• National Hot Cross Bun Day
• National Make Your Bed Day
• No News is Good News Day
• Patriot Day

Birthdays
• 1182 - Minamoto no Yoriie, Japanese shogun
• 1611 - Henri de la Tour d'Auvergne, Vicomte de Turenne, Marshal of France
• 1771 - Mungo Park, explorer (first westerner to travel the central Niger River in Africa)
• 1800 - Daniel S. Dickinson, New York senator
• 1816 - Carl Zeiss, German scientific instrument and lens maker (Carl Zeiss AG)
• 1862 - Julian Byng, 1st Viscount Byng of Vimy
• 1917 - Ferdinand Marcos, 10th President of the Philippines (1965-86)
• 1922 - Charles Evers, civil rights leader (1st Black mayor in Mississippi since Reconstruction)