1297 Battle of Stirling Bridge: Scottish rebel William Wallace defeats the English 1609 An expulsion order is issued against the Moriscos of Valencia, beginning the expulsion of all of Spain's Moriscos (former Muslims and their descendants) 1697 Battle of Zenta: Holy League forces led by Prince Eugene of Savoy defeat an Ottoman army under Mustafa II near Zenta in the Kingdom of Hungary, ending Ottoman control over large parts of Central Europe 1708 Great Northern War: Charles XII of Sweden stops his march to conquer Moscow outside Smolensk, the turning point in the war First Supermarket 1916 First true self-service supermarket, Clarence Saunders' " Piggly Wiggly ," opens in Memphis, Tennessee [1] First Supermarket 2001 Passengers and crew of United Airlines Flight 93 attempt to retake control of their hijacked plane from terrorists, causing the plane to crash in a Pennsylvania field, killing all 44 people on board 2001 Terrorists hijack a passenger plane and crash it into the Pentagon, killing 125 people 9/11 Attack on NY's World Trade Towers 2001 Two passenger planes hijacked by Al-Qaeda terrorists crash into New York's World Trade Center towers, causing the collapse of both and the deaths of 2,606 people 9/11 Attack on NY's World Trade Towers 1928 First TV drama WGY's "The Queen's Messenger," starring Izetta Jewell, broadcasts in the New York area 1914 Father of the Blues, W. C. Handy , publishes "St. Louis Blues," his most famous composition 1985 Sri Lanka achieves its first Test cricket victory, defeating India by 149 runs Benjamin Franklin writes "There never was a good war or bad peace" On This Day in 1783 O. Henry 1862 - 1910 D. H. Lawrence 1885 - 1930 Ferdinand Marcos 1917 - 1989 Ferdinand Marcos Bob Packwood 1932 - 2026 Bashar al-Assad 61st Birthday Bashar al-Assad Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya 44th Birthday Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya Tom Landry 1924 - 2000 Tom Dreesen 1942 - 2026

Franz Beckenbauer 1945 - 2024 Franz Beckenbauer Harry Connick Jr 59th Birthday Harry Connick Jr The Atari 2600, originally known as the Atari Video Computer System (Atari VCS), is released in North America, revolutionizing the video game industry On This Day in 1977 1878 German philosopher Friedrich Engels (57) marries Lizzie Burns (51), hours before her death in London 1930 Mystery writer Agatha Christie (39) weds archaeologist Max Mallowan (26) 1941 Belgium King Leopold secretly marries Lilian Baels Cornelis de Houtman 1565 - 1599 Cornelis de Houtman Billy Bishop 1894 - 1956 Nikita Khrushchev 1894 - 1971 Nikita Khrushchev Salvador Allende 1908 - 1973 Salvador Allende Roger Hargreaves 1935 - 1988 Roger Hargreaves Todd Beamer 1968 - 2001 Michelangelo’s work on 12 Apostles, started on this day, was abandoned after a call from Rome – which led to the magnificent painting of the Sistine Chapel. September 11, 1503 Abraham Lincoln Elizabeth Cady Stanton Frederick Douglass George Washington Martin Luther King Jr. Search the largest and most accurate independent site for today in history.