TODAY in HISTORY: September 11

Following are some of the major events to have occurred on Sept 11

 

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1922 - A British mandate was proclaimed in Palestine. It came into effect at the end of the month, despite Arab protests.

 

1948 - Muhammad Ali Jinnah, the founder of Pakistan, died at 71, the year after his country achieved independence from Britain.

 

1973 - President Salvador Allende of Chile died in unclear circumstances during a military coup led by General Augusto Pinochet.

 

1988 - Canadian sprinter Ben Johnson shatters world record in 100m gold-medal win at Olympics.

 

1994 - Actress Jessica Tandy, who appeared in "A Streetcar Named Desire" and won an Oscar for "Driving Miss Daisy", died aged 85.

 

1997 - Scotland voted in favour of a British government plan to give it its own assembly for the first time in nearly 300 years.

 

2001 - Four hijacked planes crashed into New York's twin World Trade Center towers, the Pentagon in Washington and a field in Pennsylvania, 2,973 people were killed in a coordinated attack unprecedented in modern history and blamed by the United States on the network of Saudi-born militant Osama bin Laden.

 

2004 - Specialist Armin Cruz, the first U.S. military intelligence soldier to be court-martialled over the abuse of detainees at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, was sentenced to eight months in jail, a reduction in rank and a bad-conduct discharge.

 

2007 - Keyboardist Joe Zawinul, who played with Miles Davis and helped shape jazz fusion with his band Weather Report, died in his native city of Vienna, aged 75.

 

2012 - U.S. Consulate attacked in Benghazi, Libya with American staff member dying in the clashes.

 

2015 - Construction crane crashes in Mecca, Saudi Arabia killing more than a hundred people.