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Events on the 11th of September in history

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11 Sep 0813 Charles the Great crowns Louis I Emperor
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11 Sep 1185 Isaac II Angelos kills Stephen Hagiochristophorites and then appeals to the people, resulting in the revolt that deposes Andronikos I Komnenos and places Isaac on the throne of the Byzantine Empire.
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11 Sep 1226 The Roman Catholic practice of public adoration of the Blessed Sacrament outside of Mass spreads from monasteries to parishes.
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11 Sep 1297 Battle at Stirling Bridge, Scottish rebel Wm Wallace beats English
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11 Sep 1297 Battle of Stirling Bridge: Scots jointly-led by William Wallace and Andrew Moray defeat the English.
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11 Sep 1304 Willem III becomes Earl of Holland
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11 Sep 1390 Lithuanian Civil War (1389–92): The Teutonic Knights begin a five-week siege of Vilnius.
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11 Sep 1541 Santiago, Chile, is destroyed by indigenous warriors, led by Michimalonco.
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11 Sep 1557 Catholic and Lutheran theology debated in Worm
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11 Sep 1565 Ottoman forces retreat from Malta ending the Great Siege of Malta.
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11 Sep 1609 Expulsion order announced against the Moriscos of Valencia; beginning of the expulsion of all Spain's Moriscos.
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11 Sep 1609 Henry Hudson discovers Manhattan Island and the indigenous people living there.
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11 Sep 1609 Henry Hudson discovers Manhattan island
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11 Sep 1649 Massacre of Drogheda-Cromwell kills 3,000 royalists
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11 Sep 1649 Oliver Cromwell seizes Drogheda Ireland, most inhabitants massacred
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11 Sep 1649 Siege of Drogheda ends: Oliver Cromwell's English Parliamentarian troops take the town and execute its garrison.
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11 Sep 1697 Battle at Zenta: Prince Eugen van Savoye beats Turkish superior power
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11 Sep 1697 Battle of Zenta.
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11 Sep 1708 Charles XII of Sweden stops his march to conquer Moscow outside Smolensk, marking the turning point in the Great Northern War. The army is defeated nine months later in the Battle of Poltava, and the Swedish Empire ceases to be a major power.
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11 Sep 1709 Battle at Malplaquet: Engl / Aust / Dutch Great Alliance beat France
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11 Sep 1709 Battle of Malplaquet: Great Britain, Netherlands and Austria fight against France.
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11 Sep 1709 English, Dutch & Austrians defeat French in Battle of Malplaquet
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11 Sep 1714 French and Spanish troops under Duke of Berwick occupy Barcelona
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11 Sep 1714 Siege of Barcelona: Barcelona, capital city of Catalonia, surrenders to Spanish and French Bourbon armies in the War of the Spanish Succession.
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11 Sep 1741 Queen Maria Theresa addresses Hungarian Parliament
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11 Sep 1758 Battle of Saint Cast: France repels British invasion during the Seven Years' War.
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11 Sep 1773 Benjamin Franklin writes "There never was a good war or bad peace"
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11 Sep 1775 Benedict Arnold's expedition to Quebec leaves Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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11 Sep 1776 British–American peace conference on Staten Island fails to stop nascent American Revolutionary War.
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11 Sep 1777 American Revolutionary War: Battle of Brandywine: The British celebrate a major victory in Chester County, Pennsylvania.
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11 Sep 1777 Battle of Brandywine, Pa; Americans lose to British
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11 Sep 1786 The beginning of the Annapolis Convention.
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11 Sep 1786 Annapolis Convention to determine interstate commerce
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11 Sep 1789 Alexander Hamilton is appointed the first United States Secretary of the Treasury.
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11 Sep 1789 Alexander Hamilton appointed Secretary of the Treasury
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11 Sep 1792 The Hope Diamond is stolen along with other French crown jewels when six men break into the house where they are stored.
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11 Sep 1802 France annexes the Kingdom of Piedmont.
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11 Sep 1803 Battle of Delhi, during the Second Anglo-Maratha War, between British troops under General Lake, and Marathas of Scindia's army under General Louis Bourquin.
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11 Sep 1813 War of 1812: British troops arrive in Mount Vernon and prepare to march to and invade Washington, D.C..
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11 Sep 1814 Battle of Lake Champlain, NY; American Navy defeats British
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11 Sep 1814 War of 1812: The climax of the Battle of Plattsburgh, a major United States victory in the war.
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11 Sep 1826 Captain William Morgan is arrested in Batavia, New York for debt. This sets into motion the events that lead to his mysterious disappearance.
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11 Sep 1829 Surrender of the expedition led by Isidro Barradas at Tampico, sent by the Spanish crown in order to retake Mexico. This was the consummation of Mexico's campaign for independence.
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11 Sep 1830 Anti-Masonic Party convention; one of the first American political party conventions.
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11 Sep 1831 Charles Darwin meets with Captain Fitzroy at Plymouth
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11 Sep 1839 1st Canadian track & field meet held (Caer Howell Grounds)
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11 Sep 1847 1st singing of Stephen Fosters "Susanna" (in Pittsburgh)
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11 Sep 1847 Stephen Foster's song "Oh! Susanna" is first performed at a saloon in Pittsburgh.
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11 Sep 1850 "Swedish Nightingale" Jenny Lind gives 1st US concert
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11 Sep 1851 Christiana Resistance: Escaped slaves stand against their former owner in armed resistance in Christiana, Pennsylvania, creating a rallying cry for the abolitionist movement.
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11 Sep 1852 The State of Buenos Aires secedes from the Argentine Federal government, rejoining on September 17, 1861. Several places are named Once de Septiembre after this event.
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11 Sep 1852 Olympia Columbian is 1st newspaper published north of Columbia R
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11 Sep 1853 1st electric telegraph in use, Merchant's Exchange to Pt Lobos
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11 Sep 1857 Mountain Meadows Massacre-120 colonists killed by indians in Utah
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11 Sep 1857 The Mountain Meadows massacre: Mormon settlers and Paiutes massacre 120 pioneers at Mountain Meadows, Utah.
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11 Sep 1875 1st newspaper cartoon strip
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11 Sep 1877 Rijkslandbouwhoge school opens in Wageningen
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11 Sep 1881 Triple landslides bury Elm Switzerland
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11 Sep 1883 James Cutler patents postal mail chute
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11 Sep 1885 Moses Hopkins, named minister to Liberia
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11 Sep 1886 Mayflower (US) beats Galatea (England) in 7th America's Cup
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11 Sep 1889 Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Crooked Man" (BG)
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11 Sep 1889 Start of the Sherlock Holmes adventure "The Crooked Man" (BG)
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11 Sep 1893 Bronx Gas and Electric Company opens on Frisby and Tremont Ave
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11 Sep 1893 Shaku Soen is 1st Zen teacher to visit the West (Chicago)
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11 Sep 1893 Parliament of the World's Religions opens in Chicago, where Swami Vivekananda delivers his speech on fanaticism, tolerance and the truth inherent in all religions.
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11 Sep 1895 FA Cup stolen in Birmingham
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11 Sep 1897 After months of pursuit, generals of Menelik II of Ethiopia capture Gaki Sherocho, the last king of Kaffa, bringing an end to that ancient kingdom.
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11 Sep 1900 President Kruger crosses border with Mozambique
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11 Sep 1903 The first race at the Milwaukee Mile in West Allis, Wisconsin is held. It is the oldest major speedway in the world.
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11 Sep 1910 1st commercially successful electric bus line opens (Hollywood)
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11 Sep 1912 Netherland Olympic Committee forms
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11 Sep 1912 Philadelphia Athletics Eddie Collins steals 6 bases in 1 game
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11 Sep 1914 T Handy publishes "St. Louis Blues"
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11 Sep 1914 Australia invades New Britain, defeating a German contingent at the Battle of Bita Paka.
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11 Sep 1916 German troops conquer Kavalla Greece
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11 Sep 1916 The Quebec Bridge's central span collapses, killing 11 men. The bridge previously collapsed completely on August 29, 1907.
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11 Sep 1918 Boston Red Sox beat Chicago Cubs, 4 games to 2 in 15th World Series
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11 Sep 1919 U.S. Marines invade Honduras.
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11 Sep 1921 Nahalal, the first moshav in Palestine, is settled as part of a Zionist plan to colonize Palestine and creating a Jewish state, later to be Israel.
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11 Sep 1922 Yankees play their farewell home game in Polo Grounds win doubleheader
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11 Sep 1922 The Treaty of Kars is ratified in Yerevan, Armenia.
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11 Sep 1922 One of the Herald Sun of Melbourne, Australia's predecessor papers The Sun News-Pictorial is founded.
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11 Sep 1922 British mandate of Palestine begins
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11 Sep 1923 Bernie Neis, hits the 1,000th Dodger home run
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11 Sep 1923 After a single, Red Sox Howard Ehmke retires the next 27 Yanks
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11 Sep 1923 The ZR-1 (biggest active dirigible) flies over NY's tallest skyscraper, the Woolworth Tower
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11 Sep 1926 21st Davis Cup: USA beats France in Philadelphia (4-1)
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11 Sep 1926 Spain leaves League of Nation due to Germany joining
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11 Sep 1926 Aloha Tower dedicated in Honolulu
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11 Sep 1926 US defeats France for their 7th straight Davis Cup championship
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11 Sep 1926 Yanks' Bob Meusel ties record with 3 sacrifice flies
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11 Sep 1927 After losing 21 in a row to NY, the Browns win their last meeting, 6-2
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11 Sep 1927 Babe Ruth hits 50th of 60 homers
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11 Sep 1928 Ty Cobb last hitting appearance, pops out against Yankees
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11 Sep 1928 1st TV drama-WGY's The Queens Messenger
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11 Sep 1929 San Francisco Mayor Rolph inaugurates new pedestrian traffic light system
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11 Sep 1930 Stomboli volcano (Sicily) throws 2-ton basaltic rocks 2 miles
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11 Sep 1931 Salvatore Maranzano is murdered by Lucky Luciano's hitmen.
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11 Sep 1932 Franciszek Żwirko and Stanisław Wigura, Polish Challenge 1932 winners, are killed when their RWD 6 airplane crashes during a storm.
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11 Sep 1935 49th US Womens Tennis: H H Jacobs beats Sarah H Palfrey Fabyan (62 64)
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11 Sep 1935 US captures Davis Cup for 7th straight year
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11 Sep 1936 A's pitcher Horace Lisenbee gives up 26 hits in a game
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11 Sep 1936 FDR dedicates Boulder Dam, now known as Hoover Dam
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11 Sep 1937 51st US Womens Tennis: Anita Lizana beats Jadwiga Jedrzejowska (64 62)
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11 Sep 1937 57th US Mens Tennis: J D Budge beats G v Cramm (61 79 61 36 61)
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11 Sep 1939 Battle of Kutno-pocket: Germans advance to Warsaw
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11 Sep 1939 British submarine Triton torpedoes British submarine Oxley
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11 Sep 1939 Iraq and Saudi Arabia declare war on Nazi-Germany
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11 Sep 1939 World War II: Canada declares war on Germany, the country's first independent declaration of war
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11 Sep 1940 54th Postmaster General: Frank C Walker of Pa takes office
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11 Sep 1940 Anton Mussert establishes Dutch SS
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11 Sep 1940 Buckingham Palace in London destroyed by German bombs
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11 Sep 1940 George Stibitz performs the first remote operation of a computer.
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11 Sep 1941 Belgium King Leopold secretly marries Lilian Baels
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11 Sep 1941 Ground is broken for the construction of The Pentagon.
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11 Sep 1941 Charles Lindbergh's Des Moines Speech accusing the British, Jews and the Roosevelt administration of pressing for war with Germany.
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11 Sep 1941 Charles Lindbergh, charges "the British, the Jewish & the Roosevelt administration" are trying to get the US into WW II
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11 Sep 1941 FDR orders any Axis ship found in American waters be shot on sight
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11 Sep 1943 Allied arm forces conquerors Salerno
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11 Sep 1943 Jewish ghettos of Minsk and Lida Belorussia liquidated
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11 Sep 1943 Last German Q / pirate ship sinks near Easter Island
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11 Sep 1943 US and Australian troops join in Salamaua, New Guinea
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11 Sep 1943 World War II: German troops occupy Corsica and Kosovo-Metohija.
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11 Sep 1943 World War II: Start of the liquidation of the Ghettos in Minsk and Lida by the Nazis.
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11 Sep 1944 US 5th pantzer division is 1st to enter Nazi-Germany
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11 Sep 1944 World War II: The first Allied troops of the U.S. Army cross the western border of Germany.
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11 Sep 1944 World War II: RAF bombing raid on Darmstadt and the following firestorm kill 11,500.
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11 Sep 1944 FDR & Churchill meet in Canada at the 2nd Quebec Conference
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11 Sep 1945 World War II: Australian 9th Division forces liberate the Japanese-run Batu Lintang camp, a POW and civilian internment camp on the island of Borneo.
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11 Sep 1946 1st mobile long-distance car-to-car telephone conversation
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11 Sep 1950 "Beetle Bailey" comic strip debuts
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11 Sep 1950 1st typesetting machine to dispense with metal type exhibited
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11 Sep 1950 33 die in a train crash in Coshocton Ohio
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11 Sep 1950 Dick Tracy TV show sparks uproar concerning violence
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11 Sep 1951 Florence Chadwick becomes 1st woman to swim the English Channel from England to France. It takes 16 hours & 19 minutes
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11 Sep 1952 West German Chancellor Adenauer signs a reparation pact for Jews
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11 Sep 1953 KSBW TV channel 8 in Salinas-Monterey, CA (NBC) begins broadcasting
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11 Sep 1953 WEHT TV channel 25 in Evansville, IN (CBS) begins broadcasting
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11 Sep 1954 20.4 cm rainfall at Brunswick, Maine (state record)
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11 Sep 1954 KXJB TV channel 4 in Valley City (Fargo) (NBC) begins broadcasting
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11 Sep 1954 Lee Meriwether (California), 19, crowned 27th Miss America 1955 (1st on TV)
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11 Sep 1954 Hurricane Edna hits New England as a Category 3 hurricane, causing significant damage and 29 deaths.
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11 Sep 1954 1st Miss America TV broadcast
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11 Sep 1955 69th US Womens Tennis: Doris Hart beats Patricia Ward (64 62)
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11 Sep 1955 75th US Mens Tennis: Tony Trabert beats Ken Rosewall beats (97 63 63)
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11 Sep 1955 KTVT TV channel 11 in Fort Worth-Dallas, TX (IND) begins broadcasting
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11 Sep 1956 Vladimir Kuts runs world record 10k (28:42.8)
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11 Sep 1956 Yanks Yogi Berra ties career record for HRs (236) by a catcher
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11 Sep 1956 Cincinnati Red Frank Robinson ties rookie record with his 38th HR
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11 Sep 1959 "Duke" Ellington wins Springarn Medal for his musical achievements
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11 Sep 1959 Congress passes a bill authorizing food stamps for poor Americans
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11 Sep 1959 Elroy Face's 22 game win streak ends as Dodgers beat Pirates 5-4
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11 Sep 1959 Oriole Jerry Walker pitches 16 inn beating White Sox 1-0
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11 Sep 1960 74th US Womens Tennis: Darlene R Hard beats Maria Fraser (64 1012 64)
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11 Sep 1960 80th US Mens Tennis: Neale A Fraser beats Rodney G Laver (64 64 97)
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11 Sep 1960 The 17th Olympic games close in Rome
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11 Sep 1961 Hurricane Carla strikes the Texas coast as a Category 4 hurricane, the second strongest storm ever to hit the state.
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11 Sep 1961 Bob Dylan's 1st NY performance
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11 Sep 1962 Beatles cut "Love Me Do" and"PS I Love You" with Andy White on drums
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11 Sep 1962 Drummer Ringo Starr replaces Pete Best of the Beatles
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11 Sep 1962 KVCR TV channel 24 in San Bernardino, CA (PBS) begins broadcasting
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11 Sep 1962 Beatles cut "Love Me Do" & "PS I Love You"
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11 Sep 1964 George Harrison forms Mornyork Ltd music publishing company
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11 Sep 1964 Gillette's 20 year contract with MSG & ABC to televise fights for free ends as Dick Tiger defeats Don Fullmer at the Cleve Auditorium
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11 Sep 1965 Braves 2nd straight one-hitter against the Mets
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11 Sep 1965 Indo-Pakistani War: The Indian Army captures the town of Burki, just southeast of Lahore.
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11 Sep 1965 Beatles' "Help!," album goes #1 & stays #1 for 9 weeks
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11 Sep 1966 80th US Womens Tennis: M Esther Bueno-Fraiser beats N Richey (63 61)
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11 Sep 1966 86th US Mens Tennis: Fred Stolle beats John Newcombe (46 12-10 63 64)
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11 Sep 1966 Rolling Stones perform on Ed Sullivan Show
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11 Sep 1966 Johnny Miller became the 1st Yank to hit a HR on his 1st at bat
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11 Sep 1967 French President De Gaulle visits Poland
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11 Sep 1967 Indian / Chinese border fights
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11 Sep 1967 WSRE TV channel 23 in Pensacola, Florida (PBS) begins broadcasting
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11 Sep 1967 WUNF TV channel 33 in Asheville, NC (PBS) begins broadcasting
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11 Sep 1967 WUNG TV channel 58 in Concord, NC (PBS) begins broadcasting
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11 Sep 1967 US Surveyor 5 makes 1st chemical analysis of lunar material
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11 Sep 1968 Air France Flight 1611 crashes off Nice, France, killing 89 passengers and six crew.
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11 Sep 1968 The International Association of Classification Societies (IACS) was found.
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11 Sep 1970 The Dawson's Field hijackers release 88 of their hostages. The remaining hostages, mostly Jews and Israeli citizens, are held until September 25.
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11 Sep 1971 "2 by 2" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 343 performances
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11 Sep 1971 Laurel Lea Schaefer (Ohio), 22, crowned 44th Miss America 1972
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11 Sep 1971 The Egyptian Constitution becomes official.
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11 Sep 1972 The San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit system begins passenger service.
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11 Sep 1972 BART begins service with a 26-mi (42-km) line from Oakland to Fremont
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11 Sep 1973 A coup in Chile headed by General Augusto Pinochet topples the democratically elected president Salvador Allende. Pinochet exercises dictatorial power until ousted in a referendum in 1988, staying in power until 1990.
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11 Sep 1973 Chile's President, Salvador Allende, deposed in a military coup
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11 Sep 1974 Eastern Air Lines Flight 212 crashes in Charlotte, North Carolina, killing 69 passengers and two crew.
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11 Sep 1974 Cards beat Mets, 4-3, in 25 (7h4m), record 202 plate appearances, Felix Milan & John Milner come to bat 12 times each
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11 Sep 1976 90th US Womens Tennis: C E L Mills beats E Goolagong Cawley (63 60) Evonne Goolagong loses her 4th straight US Open Final (Evert wins)
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11 Sep 1976 Dorothy Kathleen Benham (Minn), 20, crowned 49th Miss America 1977
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11 Sep 1976 Minnie Minoso bats for White Sox after a 12-year hiatus (hitless)
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11 Sep 1976 A group of Croatian nationalists plant a bomb in a coin locker at Grand Central Terminal. After stating political demands, they reveal the location and provided instructions for disarming the bomb. The disarming operation are not executed properly and the bomb explodes, killing one NYPD bomb squad specialist.
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11 Sep 1976 Evonne Goolagong loses her 4th straight US Open Final (Evert wins)
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11 Sep 1977 97th US Mens Tennis: Guillermo Vilas beats Jimmy Connors (26 63 75 60)
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11 Sep 1977 Joanne Carner wins LPGA National Jewish Hospital Golf Open
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11 Sep 1977 Guillermo Vilas beats Jimmy O'Connors wins US Open
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11 Sep 1977 TV's Rhoda gets divorced
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11 Sep 1978 Janet Parker is the last person to die of smallpox, in a laboratory-associated outbreak.
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11 Sep 1980 Chile adopts its constitution
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11 Sep 1980 Ron LeFlore (91st) and Rodney Scott (58th), set teammate steal record
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11 Sep 1980 Voters approve a new Constitution of Chile, later amended after the departure of president Pinochet.
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11 Sep 1981 2nd government of Agt forms
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11 Sep 1982 96th US Womens Tennis: C E L Mills beats Hana Mandlikova (63 61)
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11 Sep 1982 Chris Evert wins her 6th and final US Open Tennis match at West Side Tennis Club in Forest Hills, New York
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11 Sep 1982 Debbie Maffett (California), 25, crowned 55th Miss America 1983
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11 Sep 1982 The international forces that were guaranteeing the safety of Palestinian refugees following Israel's 1982 Invasion of Lebanon leave Beirut. Five days later, several thousand refugees are massacred in the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps.
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11 Sep 1982 Chris Evert 6th US open title defeats Hana Mandlikava
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11 Sep 1983 103rd US Mens Tennis: Jimmy Connors beats Ivan Lendl (63 67 75 60)
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11 Sep 1983 Fashion designer Donna Karen marries Stephan Weiss
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11 Sep 1983 Joanne Carner wins LPGA Portland Ping Golf Championship
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11 Sep 1983 Franco Harris becomes 3rd NFL to rush 11,000 yards
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11 Sep 1985 Flyby of Comet Giacobini-Zinner
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11 Sep 1985 International Cometary Explorer (ISEE 3) passes Giacobini-Zinner by 7900 km
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11 Sep 1985 Pete Rose breaks Ty Cobb's baseball record for most career hits with his 4,192nd hit.
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11 Sep 1985 Pete Rose of the Cin Reds gets career hit 4,192 off Eric Show of San Diego Padres, eclipsing Ty Cobb's record
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11 Sep 1986 Dow Jones Industrial Average suffered biggest 1-day decline ever, plummeting 86.61 points to 1,792.89. 237.57 million shares traded
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11 Sep 1986 President Mubarak receives Israeli Premier Peres
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11 Sep 1987 4th MTV Awards: Peter Gabriel wins
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11 Sep 1988 1 / 3 of population argues for Estonia autonomy
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11 Sep 1988 108th US Mens Tennis: Mats Wilander beats Ivan Lendl (64 46 63 57 64)
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11 Sep 1988 Betsy King wins LPGA Cellular One-Ping Golf Championship
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11 Sep 1988 The St. Jean Bosco massacre takes place in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
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11 Sep 1988 Sports Aid-jogging to feed the world
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11 Sep 1989 Hungary announces that the East German refugees who had been housed in temporary camps were free to leave for West Germany.
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11 Sep 1989 Drexel formally pleads guilty to security fraud
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11 Sep 1989 KSO-AM in Des Moines Iowa changes call letters to KGGO
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11 Sep 1991 "La Toya: Growing Up in The Jackson Family" goes on sale
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11 Sep 1991 Air crash at Djeddah, Saudi-Arabia, 263 die
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11 Sep 1991 Atlanta Braves Kent Mercker, Mark Wohlers and Alejandro Pena pitched 1st combined no-hitter in NL, beating San Diego Padres, 1-0
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11 Sep 1991 Emmy News and Documentaries Award presentation
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11 Sep 1991 14 die in a Continental Express commuter plane crash near Houston
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11 Sep 1992 Hurricane Iniki hits Kauai Hawaii; 3 die and 8,000 injured
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11 Sep 1992 Hurricane Iniki, one of the most damaging hurricanes in United States history, devastates the Hawaiian islands of Kauai and Oahu.
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11 Sep 1993 107th US Womens Tennis: Steffi Graf beats Helena Sukova (63 63)
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11 Sep 1993 Junxia Qu runs 1500m ladies world record (3:50.46)
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11 Sep 1994 114th US Mens Tennis: Andre Agassi beats Michael Stich (61 76 75)
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11 Sep 1994 46th Emmy Awards: Fraiser, Picket Fences and Kelsey Grammer wins
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11 Sep 1994 Jingyi Le swims female world record 50m freestyle
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11 Sep 1994 Missie McGeorge wins Ping-Cellular One LPGA Golf Championship
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11 Sep 1995 Eastern Tennessee begins using new area code 423
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11 Sep 1995 Soyuz TM-22, lands
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11 Sep 1997 NASA's Mars Global Surveyor reaches Mars.
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11 Sep 1997 After a nationwide referendum, Scotland votes to establish a devolved parliament within the United Kingdom.
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11 Sep 1997 Fourteen Estonian soldiers die in the Kurkse tragedy, drowning in the Baltic Sea.
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11 Sep 1998 Opening ceremony for the 1998 Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Malaysia is the first Asian country to host the games.
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11 Sep 2000 Melbourne hosts World Economic Forum where S11 protests also take place.
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11 Sep 2001 Two hijacked aircraft crash into the World Trade Center in New York City, while a third smashes into The Pentagon in Arlington County, Virginia, and a fourth into a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania, in a series of coordinated suicide attacks by 19 members of al-Qaeda. In total 2,996 people are killed.
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11 Sep 2001 The worst terrorist attack on American soil - 2819+ die as a result of hijacked airplane attacks on the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and a field in Western Pennsylvania
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11 Sep 2007 Russia tests the largest conventional weapon ever, the Father of All Bombs.
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11 Sep 2012 A total of 315 people are killed in two garment factory fires in Pakistan.
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11 Sep 2012 The U.S. embassy in Benghazi, Libya is attacked, resulting in four deaths.
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11 Sep 2013 A 400 km long human chain called Catalan Way is organized by the Assemblea Nacional Catalana for the independence of Catalonia
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