9/11

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what happened on november 9th?

 

fecking arrogant yanks! its 11/9

 

day/month/year

[Chid 6,846]

you will find most countrys use

month day year

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you will find most countrys use

month day year

like who?

[Malt 379]

Which is the right way to write the date in proper English?

 

'September the eleventh,'

 

or

 

'The Eleventh of September'

 

I'm sure it's the first one...

 

But then the rest of the world does everything back to front, I mean, who in their right mind drives on the right?

[BlueCoyote 0]

what happened on November 9th?

 

here you go!

Historical Events That Occurred on November 9th

Juan Bautista de Anza - Explorer from 2006 Calendar Theme (2006)

The Northeast Blackout of 1965. (1965)

TAESA Flight 725, went down a few minutes after leaving the Uruapan airport en-route to Mexico City. 18 people were killed in the accident (1999)

John List, an accountant from Westfield, New Jersey murders his mother, wife and three children. He then hides under a new identity for 18 years. (1971)

Mary Campbell, a captive of the Lenape during the French and Indian War, is turned over to forces commanded by Colonel Henry Bouquet. (1764)

Kentucky marshals abduct abolitionist minister Calvin Fairbank from Jeffersonville, Indiana, and take him to Kentucky to stand trial for helping a slave escape. (1851)

At Miike in Japan, a coal mine explosion kills 458, and hospitalises 839 with carbon monoxide poisoning. On the same day, a three-train disaster in Yokohama, also in Japan, kills more than 160 people. (1963)

Catholic Worker member Roger Allen LaPorte, protesting against the Vietnam War, sets himself on fire in front of the United Nations building. (1965)

Peace of Etaples between Henry VII & Charles VIII. (1492)

The United States receives rights to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. (1887)

Kristallnacht, Nazi Germany's first large-scale act of physical anti-Jewish violence, begins. (1938)

Cambodia becomes independent from France. (1953)

The Cullinan Diamond is presented to King Edward VII on his birthday. (1907)

Neil Armstrong records a world record speed in a rocket plane of 6,587km/h flying a X-15. (1961)

Cold War: Communist-controlled East Germany opens checkpoints in the Berlin Wall allowing its citizens to freely travel to West Germany. (1989)

Albert Einstein awarded Nobel Prize in Physics for his work with the photoelectric effect. (1921)

The Venus Express mission of the European Space Agency is launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. (2005)

Theodore Roosevelt is the first sitting President of the United States to make an official trip outside the country (1906)

Napoleon Bonaparte leads the Coup d'état of 18 Brumaire ending the unwieldy Directory government, and becoming one of its three Consuls (1799)

The Great Boston Fire of 1872. (1872)

Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany abdicates after the German Revolution, and Germany is proclaimed a Republic. (1918)

Japanese troops take control of Shanghai, China. (1937)

Premiere of Joaquin Rodrigo's Concierto de Aranjuez in Barcelona, Spain. (1940)

Muriel Degauque becomes the first Belgian female suicide bomber, wounding one in Iraq. (2005)

Spain, France & England sign the Treaty of Seville. (1729)

Riots between conservative and socialist supporters in Switzerland kill 12 and injure 60. (1932)

Suicide bombers attacked three hotels in Amman, Jordan, killing at least 56 people. (2005)

Danish King Christian II executes 82 in the Stockholm Bloodbath. (1520)

Jack the Ripper kills Mary Jane Kelly, his last known victim. (1888)

Kurt Eisner, Provisional National Council Minister-President, declares Bavaria to be a republic. (1918)

Hispano-Visigothic king Egica accuses Jews of aiding Muslims, sentencing all Jews to slavery. (694)

American Civil War: Union General Ambrose Burnside assumes command of the Army of the Potomac, after George McClellan was removed. (1862)

Robert McNamara is named president of Ford Motor Co., the first non-Ford to serve in that post quitting a month later to join the newly-elected John F. Kennedy administration. (1960)

Apollo program: NASA launches the unmanned Apollo 4 test spacecraft from Cape Kennedy. (1967)

Brokerage houses are ordered to pay US$1.03 billion to cheated NASDAQ investors to compensate for their price-fixing. This is the largest civil settlement in United States history. (1998)

Robert Blum, German revolutionary, executed in Vienna (1848)

In Munich, Germany, police and government troops crush the Beer Hall Putsch in Bavaria. The failed coup is the work of the Nazis. (1923)

Mozilla Firefox 1.0 released. This has become one of Microsoft Internet Explorer's biggest competitors. (2004)

John Ashcroft and Don Evans resign their posts as U.S. Attorney General and U.S. Secretary of Commerce respectively. (2004)

Pope Martin IV excommunicates King Peter III of Aragon. (1282)

Vietnam War: The Supreme Court of the United States votes 6 to 3 against hearing a case to allow Massachusetts to enforce its law granting residents the right to refuse military service in an undeclared war. (1970)

Discovery of the chemical element Darmstadtium. (1994)

Halo 2 is released by the Microsoft Corporation. The sci-fi action shooter smashes entertainment records, grossing $125 Million on its opening day. (2004)

Family de' Medici become rulers of Florence. (1494)

Bill Watterson announsed his retirement in a brief letter to newspaper editors. (1995)

During the holy month of Ramadan, a suicide-terrorist attack in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, kills 17 people. (2003)

Romania: Election of Patriarch Teoctist Arpa_u (1986)

Stari most, the "old bridge" in Bosnian Mostar built in 1566, collapses after several days of bombing. (1993)

Holidays on November 9th

Europe - Inventor's Day - in honor of Hedy Lamarr's birthday

Germany - November 9th is often called Germany's Schicksalstag (day of fate) due to the events of 1848, 1918, 1923, 1938, and 1989.

Pakistan - Allama Iqbal Day (1877)

United States - World Freedom Day, to commenerate the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989

Roman Catholicism - Dedication of the Basilica di San Giovanni in Laterano, Cathedral of the Pope (memorial feast day)

Cambodia - Independence Day (1953)

Also see November 9 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Notable People Born on November 9th

Velimir Khlebnikov, Russian writer (d. 1922 (1885)

Imre Lakatos, philosopher (1922)

Tony Slattery, British actor and comedian (1959)

Stanford White, American architect (1853)

Ingvar Carlsson, Swedish politician (1934)

Jean Monnet, French internationalist (1889)

Marie Dressler, Canadian actress (1869)

Hermann Weyl, German mathematician (1885)

Viktor Chukarin, Soviet gymnast (1921)

Sisqó, American actor and singer (1978)

SE7EN, Korean hip-hop singer (1984)

Mabel Normand, American actress (1892)

Bryn Terfel, Welsh baritone (1965)

Benjamin Banneker, American scientist (1731)

Edna May Oliver, American actress (1883)

Ed Wynn, American actor (1886)

Dorothy Dandridge, American actress (1923)

Hedy Lamarr, Austrian actress (1913)

Teryl Rothery, Canadian actress (1965)

Ivan Turgenev, Russian writer (d. 1883 (1818)

Otfrid Foerster, German neurologist (1873)

Milan `ufflay, Croatian politician (1879)

Imre Kertész, Hungarian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (1929)

Roger McGough, English poet (1937)

Tom Weiskopf, American golfer (1942)

Martin Taylor, English footballer (1979)

Daniel Robert Graham, Governor of Florida (1936)

Chris Jericho, American professional wrestler, actor and musician (1970)

Johann Joachim Winckelmann, German classical scholar and archaeologist (1717)

Carl Sagan, American astronomer and writer (1934)

Thomas Quasthoff, German bass-baritone (1959)

Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, English architect (1880)

Mae Marsh, American actress (1895)

Delta Goodrem, Australian singer, songwriter, and actress (1984)

Martin Chemnitz, German theologian (1522)

Elijah P. Lovejoy, American abolitionist (1802)

Ronald George Wreyford Norrish, British chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (1897)

Corin Tucker, American singer (1972)

Alice Coachman, American athlete (1923)

Mikhail Tal, Latvian chess player (1936)

Susan Tedeschi, American musician (1970)

King Edward VII of the United Kingdom (1841)

Enrico De Nicola, Italian politician (1877)

Allama Iqbal, Indian philosopher and poet (1877)

Anthony Asquith, British film director (1902)

Bob Gibson, baseball player (1935)

Tom Fogerty, American musician (1941)

Lúcia Moniz, Portuguese singer and actress (1976)

Henry Wharton, English writer (1664)

A.P. Hill, American Confederate general (1825)

Nick Lachey, American pop singer (1973)

Luke Covell, Australian/New Zealand Rugby League player (1981)

Spiro Agnew, Vice President of the United States (1918)

Robert Duncan McNeill, American actor (1964)

Mark Akenside, English poet and physician (1721)

Sargent Shriver, U.S. Vice Presidential candidate (1915)

Erika Mann, German writer (1905)

Lou Ferrigno, American bodybuilder and actor (1951)

Albert III, Margrave of Brandenburg (1414)

Nazzareno Carusi, Italian pianist (1968)

Anne Sexton, American poet (1928)

Jill Dando, British television presenter (1961)

Alessandro Del Piero, Italian footballer (1974)

Adam Dunn, baseball player (1979)

André François, French cartoonist (1915)

Bernhard von Langenbeck, German surgeon (1810)

Notable People That Died on November 9th

Ramsay MacDonald, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1937)

Sigmund Romberg, Hungarian-born composer (1951)

Howard Pyle, American author and illustrator (1911)

Vasily Blyukher, Soviet military commander (1938)

Maude Fealy, American stage and film actor (1971)

William Schutz, psychologist (2002)

Ursula Reit, German actress from Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1998)

John Campbell, 4th Duke of Argyll, Scottish politician (1770)

Stephen Peter Alencastre, Portuguese Catholic prelate (1940)

Charles de Gaulle, President of France (1970)

Yves Montand, French actor (1991)

K. R. Narayanan, President of India (2005)

Paul Sandby, English cartographer and painter (1809)

Mary Jane Kelly, final victim of the infamous Whitechapel serial killer known as Jack the Ripper (1888)

Chaim Weizmann, first President of Israel (1952)

King Ferdinand II of Aragon (1504)

Sancha of Castile, wife of Alfonso II of Aragon (1208)

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian artist (1778)

Robert Blum, German politician and member of the National Assembly (1848)

Dylan Thomas, Welsh poet and author (1953)

William Camden, English historian (1623)

Hugh Paddick, British actor (2000)

Art Carney, American actor (2003)

Neville Chamberlain, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1940)

Frank Marshall, American chess player (1944)

Peter O'Connor, Irish athlete (1957)

Guillaume Apollinaire, French poet (1918)

Gordon Onslow Ford, English painter (2003)

Iris Chang, American author (2004)

Constantine VII, Byzantine Emperor (959)

John N. Mitchell, United States Attorney General and convicted Watergate criminal (1988)

Cardinal-Infante Ferdinand, Governor of the Netherlands and Bishop of Toledo (1641)

Edna May Oliver, American actress (1942)

Unico Wilhelm van Wassenaer, Dutch composer (1766)

Helenio Herrera, French football player and manager (1997)

Emperor Gaozong of China (1187)

[Malt 379]

Somebodies been looking at Wikipedia....

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its the 11th day of the 9th month in 2007th year

 

not

 

the ninth month of the 11th day in the 2007th year

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Jeeeeez coyote you must have a lot of time on your hands....lol ....what happend on 10/15?

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oh jeeez you guys! you make fun of how we write the dates in the US and you've never heard of cut and paste?!

 

http://www.learningcalendar.com/this_day_i..._date=2006-11-9

Edited September 11, 2008 by BlueCoyote

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When we had the bus bombings it was on 7/7... which is much better as it can be understood here and abroad.

 

:clapper: We must teach the Islamic terrorists to give more consideration to international date formats when planning their atrocities, how rude of them! :laugh:

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Jeeeeez coyote you must have a lot of time on your hands....lol ....what happend on 10/15?

 

what happened on 10/15

look it up yourself. it keeps changing the date september 11th every time i click on the link

http://www.learningcalendar.com/this_day_i...story/index.cfm

 

or should that be 15/10? i'm all confused now.... when i was still in school i used to write the day, month, year but teachers were getting confused

Edited September 11, 2008 by BlueCoyote

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Jeeeeez coyote you must have a lot of time on your hands....lol ....what happend on 10/15?

 

what happened on 10/15

look it up yourself. it keeps changing the date september 11th every time i click on the link

http://www.learningcalendar.com/this_day_i...story/index.cfm

 

or should that be 15/10? i'm all confused now.... when i was still in school i used to write the day, month, year but teachers were getting confused

 

I looked it up...says nothing happend that day.....lmao

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theres a whole list of events for that date!

you just did it wrong thats all

 

 

Historical Events That Occurred on October 15th

Worst driver in history (1966)

Professional cheerleader Krazy George Henderson leads the wave (1981)

China launches its first manned space mission. (2003)

Anwar Sadat elected President of Egypt (1970)

On October 15, 1972, Jackie Robinson threw out the ceremonial first pitch (1972)

The start of the 2500 Year Celebration of Iran, celebrating the birth of Persia. (1971)

Vietnam War: The National Coordinating Committee to End the War in Vietnam stages the first public burning of a draft card in the United States. (1965)

Vietnam War: Hundreds of thousands of people take part in National Moratorium antiwar demonstrations across the United States. (1969)

British nuclear test Totem 1 detonated at Emu Field, South Australia. (1953)

The Supreme Court of the United States declares part of the Civil Rights Act of 1875 to be unconstitutional. (1883)

Mexican soldiers kill Victorio, one of the greatest Apache military strategists. (1880)

World War I: At Vincennes outside of Paris, Dutch dancer Mata Hari is executed by firing squad for spying for Germany. (1917)

The New York Municipal Airport (1939)

The Great Dictator, a satiric social commentary film by and starring Charlie Chaplin, is released. (1940)

Nuremberg Trials: Hermann Göring poisons himself the night before his execution. (1946)

Wayne Gretzky becomes the all time leading points scorer in the NHL. (1989)

Thirty-five construction workers are killed when a section of the new West Gate Bridge in Melbourne collapses. (1970)

The Great Storm of 1987 hits France and England. (1987)

Brett Hull retires from the NHL as third highest all-time goal scorer (2005)

Napoleon I of France begins his exile on St. Helena in the Atlantic Ocean. (1815)

Tata Airlines (1932)

Iraqi constitution ratification vote (2005)

Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to lessen Cold War tensions and open up his nation. (1990)

The first supersonic land speed record is set by Andy Green in ThrustSSC (1997)

Edward Gibbon observes a group of friars singing in the ruined Temple of Jupiter in Rome, which inspires him to begin work on The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1764)

Alfred Dreyfus is arrested for spying - Dreyfus affair begins. (1894)

The Russian Baltic Fleet leaves Reval, Estonia for Port Arthur during the Russo-Japanese War. (1904)

Television sitcom I Love Lucy premieres. (1951)

Mexican chemist Luis E. Miramontes synthetized the first oral contraceptive (1951)

Khanate of Kazan is conquered by troops of Ivan Grozny. (1552)

World War II: The former premier of Vichy France Pierre Laval is shot by a firing squad for treason. (1945)

Saddam Hussein gains 99.96% of votes in Iraq's presidential elections. (1995)

The Staten Island Ferry boat Andrew J. Barberi collides with a pier at the St. George Ferry Terminal in Staten Island, killing 11 people and injuring 43 others (2003)

The Carolina Panthers win their first-ever regular season game by defeating the New York Jets at Clemson Memorial Stadium in South Carolina. (1995)

NASA's Galileo spacecraft passes within 112 miles of Jupiter's moon Io. (2001)

Ilham Aliyev becomes President of Azerbaijan succeeding his father Heydar Aliyev. (2003)

Pope Gregory XIII implements the Gregorian Calendar. In Italy, Poland, Portugal, and Spain, October 4 of this year is followed directly by October 15. (1582)

US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs a bill creating the United States Department of Transportation. (1966)

Terri Schiavo's feeding tube is removed following numerous failed petitions by her parents to prevent such action. (2003)

The airship, the Graf Zeppelin completed its first trans-Atlantic flight, landing at Lakehurst, New Jersey, USA. (1928)

Riot in Toledo, Ohio breaks out during a National Socialist/Neo-Nazi protest; over 100 are arrested (2005)

American Civil War: The first submarine to sink a ship, and first to sink an enemy warship, CSS H. L. Hunley sinks during a test, killing its inventor, Horace L. Hunley. (1863)

In Russia, Andrei Chikatilo is found guilty of 52 serial murders. (1992)

The Edison Electric Light Company begins operation. (1878)

Byzantine general Belisarius makes his formal entry into Carthage, having conquered it from the Vandals. (533)

The Cassini probe launches from Cape Canaveral on its way to Saturn. (1997)

Holidays on October 15th

Roman festivals - the Equirria or October equus: sacrifice of a horse to Mars

United States - White Cane Safety Day, National Grouch Day, Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Day

R.C. Saints - Saint Teresa of Avila

French Republican Calendar - Amaryllis (Amaryllis) Day, twenty-fourth day in the Month of Vendémiaire

Notable People Born on October 15th

Edith Bolling Galt Wilson, First Lady (1872)

Evangelista Torricelli, Italian physicist and mathematician (1608)

Jesse Leonard Greenstein, American astronomer (1909)

Boughera El Ouafi, Algerian athlete (1898)

Mikhail Lermontov, Russian author (1814)

Barry McGuire, American singer (1937)

Didier Deschamps, French football player (1968)

Varian Fry, American journalist and rescuer (1907)

Hiram Leong Fong, American politician (1906)

Fela Kuti, Nigerian musician (1938)

Kulbir Bhaura, British field hockey player (1955)

Asaph Hall, American astronomer (1829)

Friedrich Nietzsche, German philosopher (1844)

Arthur Schlesinger Jr., American political commentator and author (1917)

Sandra Kim, Belgian singer (1972)

James Tissot, French artist (1836)

Jan Miner, American actress (1917)

Mario Puzo, American novelist (1920)

Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam, President of India (1931)

Virgil, Roman poet (2005)

Lee Iacocca, American industrialist (1924)

David Trimble, Irish politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (1944)

Jim Palmer, baseball player (1945)

Thomas Robert Bugeaud de la Piconnerie, French marshal (1784)

Peter Doherty, Australian immunologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1940)

Sali Berisha, President of Albania (1944)

Guo Jingjing, Chinese diver (1981)

Prince Christian of Denmark (2005)

Moshe Sharett, second Prime Minister of Israel (1894)

Richard Carpenter, American singer, pianist, composer (1946)

Andy Cole, British footballer (1971)

Mris Verpakovskis, Latvian football player (1979)

Konrad Mutian, German humanist (1471)

Paul Robinson, English football player (1979)

Marie-Marguerite d'Youville, Canadian saint (1701)

John Kenneth Galbraith, Canadian economist (1908)

Robert Trout, American reporter (1909)

Michel Foucault, French philosopher (1926)

FM-2030, philosopher (1930)

Bobby Joe Morrow, American athlete (1935)

Mira Nair, Indian director (1957)

Todd Solondz, American film director (1959)

John L. Sullivan, American boxer (1858)

Jean Peters, American actress (1926)

Karl Richter, German conductor (1926)

Tito Jackson, American musician (1953)

Vanessa Marcil, American actress (1969)

Eric Benét, American singer (1970)

Erin McKeown, American musician (1977)

Allan Ramsay, Scottish poet (1686)

Wilhelm Miklas, Austrian president superseded by Nazi Germany (1872)

P. G. Wodehouse, British novelist (1881)

Yoon Son-ha, South Korean actress (1976)

King Carol II of Romania (1893)

Evan Hunter, American author (1926)

Penny Marshall, American actress, comedienne, and director (1942)

Roberto Vittori, Italian astronaut (1964)

Elena Dementieva, Russian tennis player (1981)

Emeril Lagasse, American chef (1959)

David Trézéguet, French football player (1977)

Mark Lenard, American actor (1924)

Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of York (1959)

Mervyn LeRoy, American film director (1900)

Paul Kostabi, American artist (1962)

Peter Bakowski, Australian poet (1954)

C. P. Snow, British writer (1905)

Italo Calvino. Italian writer (1923)

Ginuwine, American singer (1975)

Notable People That Died on October 15th

Cole Porter, American composer (1964)

Sir Nathaniel Dance-Holland, English painter (1811)

Sergey Vyazmitinov, Russian general and statesman (1819)

Karl Philipp Fürst zu Schwarzenberg, Austrian field marshal (1820)

Samuel Greig, Scottish-Russian admiral (1788)

Antoine Laumet de La Mothe, sieur de Cadillac, French explorer (1730)

Victorio, Apache leader (1880)

Raymond Poincaré, French statesman (1934)

Carlo Gambino, American Gangster (1976)

Matti Wuori, Finnish politician (2005)

Mata Hari, Dutch dancer and spy (1917)

Pierre Laval, Prime Minister of Vichy France (1945)

Bertram N. Brockhouse, Canadian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (2003)

Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji, English composer and pianist (1988)

Pope Urban VI (1389)

Hermann Göring, German air force commander (1946)

Zhang Xueliang, Chinese warlord (2001)

Gilbert Arthur a Beckett, English writer (1891)

Clara Kimball Young, American actress (1960)

Konrad Emil Bloch, German-born biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (2000)

Theophilus, Patriarch of Alexandria (412)

Ben Metcalfe, Canadian environmental activist (2003)

Vesalius, Flemish anatomist (1564)

Humphry Ditton, English mathematician (1715)

Otto-Henry, Duke of Burgundy (1002)

Walter de Stapledon, English bishop (1326)

Zdenk Fibich, Czech composer (1900)

Shirdi Sai Baba, Indian guru and fakir (1918)

Jason Collier, American basketball player (2005)

 

 

and i do not have too much time on my hands... its raining... and the kids are watching some stupid cartoon about dragons...

Edited September 11, 2008 by BlueCoyote

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Thank you!....lots of bad things happend on that day including me...lol

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only good thing i can tell that happened on my birthday was this

 

"Roman festivals in the Byzantine empire the Brumalia (a wine festival) were celebrated from this day until the winter solstice"

oh and i have the same birthday as Billy Connolly ...sorta... his is 1942, mines 1982...