Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/September 11
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September 11: New Year's Day in the Coptic and the Ethiopian calendars, National Day of Catalonia, Teacher's Day in parts of Latin America.
- 1297 - Scots under William Wallace defeated English troops in the Battle of Stirling Bridge.
- 1857 - Paiutes and Mormon militias killed about 120 California-bound pioneers in a wagon train in the Mountain Meadows massacre.
- 1922 - The British Mandate of Palestine began.
- 1973 - A military coup in Chile headed by Augusto Pinochet overthrew the government of President Salvador Allende. In total, some 3,000 people were killed or disappeared.
- 2001 - September 11 Attacks: Three passenger airliners were hijacked to destroy the World Trade Center in New York City (pictured) and part of The Pentagon in Washington, D.C., and a fourth crashed in Pennsylvania. In total, almost 3,000 people were killed.
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