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Events on September 11

• 1609 Henry Hudson discovers the island of Manhattan.
• 1801 In Leipzig, Friedrich Schiller's romantic tragedy The Maid of Orleans is premiered. The play, which is part of Weimar Classicism, becomes Schiller's most frequently performed work in his lifetime.
• 1867 In Hamburg, the extensive first volume of Karl Marx's main work, Capital, is published.
• 1912 In Berlin, the Diesel-Klose-Sulzer thermal locomotive for the Prussian State Railways is completed—the world's first diesel locomotive.
• 1944 World War II: The first Allied troops of the US Army cross the border of the German Empire north of Trier. In the so-called “firestorm night” in Darmstadt, 11,500 people die in a major Royal Air Force raid followed by a firestorm.
• 1954 The Federal Social Court in Kassel is ceremonially inaugurated.
• 1961 The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) is founded in Switzerland under the name World Wildlife Fund.
• 1972 The Games of the XX Olympiad end in Munich one day later than planned with the closing ceremony. Those present stand up during the ceremony to commemorate the victims of the Olympic attack on Israeli athletes.
• 1973 In Chile, a military coup supported by the US government against the government of Salvador Allende takes place under Augusto Pinochet. According to official estimates, approximately 3,000 Chileans are killed under the ensuing military dictatorship. More than 1 million people flee into exile.
• 1989 Hungary opens the Iron Curtain to give Germans from East Germany the opportunity to emigrate to the West.
• 2001 Terrorist attacks in the USA: Four passenger aircraft are hijacked on domestic flights, and the perpetrators fly two of them into the World Trade Center and one into the Pentagon. The fourth aircraft crashes in a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania. In total, approximately 3,000 people die.
• 2017 Hurricane Irma causes widespread damage in Florida.

Born on September 11

• 1881 Asta Nielsen, Danish actress
• 1910 Gerhard Schröder, German lawyer and politician, member of the Bundestag, multiple-time federal minister, candidate for Federal President
• 1917 Herbert Lom, Czech actor
• 1921 Bruno Moravetz, German sports reporter
• 1931 Hans-Ulrich Wehler, German historian
• 1940 Brian De Palma, American film director
• 1971 Richard Ashcroft, British musician
• 1981 Andreas Birnbacher, German biathlete
• 1991 Jordan Ayew, Ghanaian footballer
• 1991 Kygo, Norwegian DJ

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „11. September“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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