September 11: Patriot Day in the United States
Portrait of Gabriel Fauré by John Singer Sargent
- 1226 – The Catholic practice of Eucharistic adoration among lay people formally began in Avignon, France.
- 1649 – Cromwellian conquest of Ireland: Oliver Cromwell's New Model Army ended the Siege of Drogheda, took over the town and massacred its garrison.
- 1924 – French composer Gabriel Fauré (pictured) finished his last piece, a string quartet, before dying two months later.
- 1992 – The eye of Hurricane Iniki, the most powerful hurricane to strike the state of Hawaii and the Hawaiian Islands in recorded history, passed directly over the island of Kauai, killing six people and causing around US$1.8 billion dollars in damage.
- 2001 – Al-Qaeda used four hijacked passenger airliners to carry out a series of suicide attacks against targets in New York City and the Washington, D.C., area.
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