.

story written by: Brian Ducklinsky
Additional information provided by:
Tom Marsland - Executive Producer
of Marriage Builders Radio

The “Marriage Builders” show which first aired locally on two Northern Twin Cities area radio stations Spirit 95.9 FM WLKX in Forest Lake, and 1300 AM WQPM Princeton is now nationally syndicated through the USA Radio Network.

The show which aired weekdays from 3pm to 6pm locally started a few months ago after Joyce Harley left local Christian talk station AM 980 KKMS. Before leaving she had announced something big was on the way. Joyce and her husband Bill Harley had both been hosts on KKMS for years, as of late Joyce hosted a daily hour long talk show called In-Focus where she talked about many issues dealing with faith and politics mostly dealing with family issues, including marriage, family and education. Bill Harley was a regular feature on the KKMS show where he answered marriage and relationship questions for callers.

The current national show is heard live from 10 AM to 1 PM CST daily on the USA Radio Network and repeated 3 AM to 6 AM the following morning. The show is tape delayed for WLKX and WQPM where it still plays during it’s original 3 PM to 6 PM time slot, with plans to air the show live in the future. You can get more information and also listen live on the website http://marriagebuilders.com/

story written by: Brian Ducklinsky
Additional information provided by:
Tom Marsland - Executive Producer
of Marriage Builders Radio

The “Marriage Builders” show which first aired locally on two Northern Twin Cities area radio stations Spirit 95.9 FM WLKX in Forest Lake, and 1300 AM WQPM Princeton is now nationally syndicated through the USA Radio Network.

The show which aired weekdays from 3pm to 6pm locally started a few months ago after Joyce Harley left local Christian talk station AM 980 KKMS. Before leaving she had announced something big was on the way. Joyce and her husband Bill Harley had both been hosts on KKMS for years, as of late Joyce hosted a daily hour long talk show called In-Focus where she talked about many issues dealing with faith and politics mostly dealing with family issues, including marriage, family and education. Bill Harley was a regular feature on the KKMS show where he answered marriage and relationship questions for callers.

The current national show is heard live from 10 AM to 1 PM CST daily on the USA Radio Network and repeated 3 AM to 6 AM the following morning. The show is tape delayed for WLKX and WQPM where it still plays during it’s original 3 PM to 6 PM time slot, with plans to air the show live in the future. You can get more information and also listen live on the website http://marriagebuilders.com/

By Brian Ducklinsky -- North Statesman staff writer

Finally in less than a month Minnesota's Mr. Right returns. The FM talk station KTLK 100.3 will place Lewis in the drive time slot replacing the Crossfire style show Lambert and Janacek The question is will this save the fledgling station with lower ratings than it's previous format Smooth Jazz???

By Brian Ducklinsky -- North Statesman staff writer

Finally in less than a month Minnesota's Mr. Right returns. The FM talk station KTLK 100.3 will place Lewis in the drive time slot replacing the Crossfire style show Lambert and Janacek The question is will this save the fledgling station with lower ratings than it's previous format Smooth Jazz???

Put into to elegant words the UN has to go! The U.N. is right; you can't be any more “un”

Than you are right now, the U.N. is undone
Another mushroom cloud, another smoking gun
The threat is real, the Locust King has come
Don't tell me the truth; I don't like what they've done
It's payback time with the United Abominations

NATO invaded Yugoslavia to end ethnic cleansing, there was no U.N.
The U.S. invaded Afghanistan after 9/11, there was no U.N.
Saddam Hussein violated 17 U.N. resolutions; The U.N. was asked to join the war in Iraq. The U.S. invaded, Ha! there was no U.N.
Libya bombed a discotheque in Berlin killing Americans, there was no U.N.
Iran funds any terrorist organization it can, and attacked the U.S. in the seventies, there was no stinking U.N.
Facing War without end, looking into the future, there was no more U.N.

FROM undispatch.com-critic watch (scary)

Megadeth: United Abominations
Last week, we brought you news that Megadeth's next album will be titled United Abominations. Apparently, front man Dave Mustaine came up with that catchy phrase when he was “watching TV and saw the trucks that said 'UN' on them and said, 'Man, you are so un-cool, ineffective, anything...I thought, wow I got to run with this!'”

It seems that a similar amount of thought went into the album art. Without the flags, this could just as well be another historic New York City landmark.

Posted by Mark Leon Goldberg at 10:51 AM

Put into to elegant words the UN has to go! The U.N. is right; you can't be any more “un”

Than you are right now, the U.N. is undone
Another mushroom cloud, another smoking gun
The threat is real, the Locust King has come
Don't tell me the truth; I don't like what they've done
It's payback time with the United Abominations

NATO invaded Yugoslavia to end ethnic cleansing, there was no U.N.
The U.S. invaded Afghanistan after 9/11, there was no U.N.
Saddam Hussein violated 17 U.N. resolutions; The U.N. was asked to join the war in Iraq. The U.S. invaded, Ha! there was no U.N.
Libya bombed a discotheque in Berlin killing Americans, there was no U.N.
Iran funds any terrorist organization it can, and attacked the U.S. in the seventies, there was no stinking U.N.
Facing War without end, looking into the future, there was no more U.N.

FROM undispatch.com-critic watch (scary)

Megadeth: United Abominations
Last week, we brought you news that Megadeth's next album will be titled United Abominations. Apparently, front man Dave Mustaine came up with that catchy phrase when he was “watching TV and saw the trucks that said 'UN' on them and said, 'Man, you are so un-cool, ineffective, anything...I thought, wow I got to run with this!'”

It seems that a similar amount of thought went into the album art. Without the flags, this could just as well be another historic New York City landmark.

Posted by Mark Leon Goldberg at 10:51 AM

This Friday, June 29, at 6:00 pm local time, the revolutionary iPhone goes on sale at the 164 Apple retail stores nationwide, all of which will stay open until midnight. Customers can purchase up to two iPhones on a first-come, first-served basis.

from Apple.com plans only through AT&T not Qwest or others :(

Beginning Saturday morning, all Apple retail stores will offer free, in-depth workshops, so customers can learn how to get the most out of their new iPhones. They’ll also have access to free iPhone support at the Genius Bar and personal training through Apple’s new One to One program. [Jun 28, 2007]
Philly Mayor waits in line then leaves after someone asks about cities murder rate. Phone Premieres Friday Night at Apple Retail Stores read at endgadget.

This Friday, June 29, at 6:00 pm local time, the revolutionary iPhone goes on sale at the 164 Apple retail stores nationwide, all of which will stay open until midnight. Customers can purchase up to two iPhones on a first-come, first-served basis.

from Apple.com plans only through AT&T not Qwest or others :(

Beginning Saturday morning, all Apple retail stores will offer free, in-depth workshops, so customers can learn how to get the most out of their new iPhones. They’ll also have access to free iPhone support at the Genius Bar and personal training through Apple’s new One to One program. [Jun 28, 2007]
Philly Mayor waits in line then leaves after someone asks about cities murder rate. Phone Premieres Friday Night at Apple Retail Stores read at endgadget.

From the Star Bulletin:

courtesy of (click for larger) StarBulletin Curious creature caught off Keahole Point

The animal, dubbed an “octosquid,” is found off the Big Isle. By Brittany P. Yap / byap@starbulletin.com
It's a squid, it's an octopus, it's ... a mystery from the deep.

What appears to be a half-squid, half-octopus specimen found off Keahole Point on the Big Island remains unidentified today and could possibly be a new species, said local biologists.

The specimen was found caught in a filter in one of Natural Energy Laboratory of Hawaii Authority's deep-sea water pipelines last week. The pipeline, which runs 3,000 feet deep, sucks up cold, deep-sea water for the tenants of the natural energy lab.

“When we first saw it, I was really delighted because it was new and alive,” said Jan War, operations manager at NELHA. “I've never seen anything like that.”

From the Star Bulletin:

courtesy of (click for larger) StarBulletin Curious creature caught off Keahole Point

The animal, dubbed an “octosquid,” is found off the Big Isle. By Brittany P. Yap / byap@starbulletin.com
It's a squid, it's an octopus, it's ... a mystery from the deep.

What appears to be a half-squid, half-octopus specimen found off Keahole Point on the Big Island remains unidentified today and could possibly be a new species, said local biologists.

The specimen was found caught in a filter in one of Natural Energy Laboratory of Hawaii Authority's deep-sea water pipelines last week. The pipeline, which runs 3,000 feet deep, sucks up cold, deep-sea water for the tenants of the natural energy lab.

“When we first saw it, I was really delighted because it was new and alive,” said Jan War, operations manager at NELHA. “I've never seen anything like that.”

Rules By Which A Great Empire May Be Reduced To A Small One - Wikisource:

by Benjamin Franklin
, first appeared in The Public Advertiser, September 11, 1773.

[Presented privately to a late Minister, when he entered upon his Administration; and now first published.]

An ancient Sage valued himself upon this, that tho' he could not fiddle, he knew how to make a great City of a little one. The Science that I, a modern Simpleton, am about to communicate is the very reverse.

I address myself to all Ministers who have the Management of extensive Dominions, which from their very Greatness are become troublesome to govern, because the Multiplicity of their Affairs leaves no Time for fiddling.

1. In the first Place, Gentlemen, you are to consider, that a great Empire, like a great Cake, is most easily diminished at the Edges. Turn your Attention therefore first to your remotest Provinces; that as you get rid of them, the next may follow in Order.
2. That the Possibility of this Separation may always exist, take special Care the Provinces are never incorporated with the Mother Country, that they do not enjoy the same common Rights, the same Privileges in Commerce, and that they are governed by severer Laws, all of your enacting, without allowing them any Share in the Choice of the Legislators. By carefully making and preserving such Distinctions, you will (to keep to my Simile of the Cake) act like a wise Gingerbread Baker, who, to facilitate a Division, cuts his Dough half through in those Places, where, when bak'd, he would have it broken to Pieces.
3. These remote Provinces have perhaps been acquired, purchas'd, or conquer'd, at the sole Expence of the Settlers or their Ancestors, without the Aid of the Mother Country. If this should happen to increase her Strength by their growing Numbers ready to join in her Wars, her Commerce by their growing Demand for her Manufactures, or her Naval Power by greater Employment for her Ships and Seamen, they may probably suppose some Merit in this, and that it entitles them to some Favour; you are therefore to forget it all, or resent it as if they had done you Injury. If they happen to be zealous Whigs, Friends of Liberty,[1] nurtur'd in Revolution Principles, remember all that to their Prejudice, and contrive to punish it: For such Principles, after a Revolution is thoroughly established, are of no more Use, they are even odious and abominable.
4. However peaceably your Colonies have submitted to your Government, shewn their Affection to your Interest, and patiently borne their Grievances, you are to suppose them always inclined to revolt, and treat them accordingly. Quarter Troops among them, who by their Insolence may provoke the rising of Mobs, and by their Bullets and Bayonets suppress them. By this Means, like the Husband who uses his Wife ill from Suspicion, you may in Time convert your Suspicions into Realities.
5. Remote Provinces must have Governors,[2] and Judges, to represent the Royal Person, and execute every where the delegated Parts of his Office and Authority. You Ministers know, that much of the Strength of Government depends on the Opinion of the People; and much of that Opinion on the Choice of Rulers placed immediately over them. If you send them wise and good Men for Governors, who study the Interest of the Colonists, and advance their Prosperity, they will think their King wise and good, and that he wishes the Welfare of his Subjects. If you send them learned and upright Men for Judges, they will think him a Lover of Justice. This may attach your Provinces more to his Government. You are therefore to be careful who you recommend for those Offices. -- If you can find Prodigals who have ruined their Fortunes, broken Gamesters or Stock-Jobbers, these may do well as Governors; for they will probably be rapacious, and provoke the People by their Extortions. Wrangling Proctors and petty-fogging Lawyers too are not amiss, for they will be for ever disputing and quarrelling with their little Parliaments. If withal they should be ignorant, wrong-headed and insolent, so much the better. Attorneys Clerks and Newgate Solicitors will do for Chief-Justices, especially if they hold their Places during your Pleasure: -- And all will contribute to impress those ideas of your Government that are proper for a People you would wish to renounce it.
6. To confirm these Impressions, and strike them deeper, whenever the Injured come to the Capital with Complaints of Mal-administration, Oppression, or Injustice, punish such Suitors with long Delay, enormous Expence, and a final Judgment in Favour of the Oppressor. This will have an admirable Effect every Way. The Trouble of future Complaints will be prevented, and Governors and Judges will be encouraged to farther Acts of Oppression and Injustice; and thence the People may become more disaffected, and at length desperate.
7. When such Governors have crammed their Coffers, and made themselves so odious to the People that they can no longer remain among them with Safety to their Persons, recall and reward them with Pensions. You may make them Baronets too, if that respectable Order should not think fit to resent it. All will contribute to encourage new Governors in the same Practices, and make the supreme Government detestable.
8. If when you are engaged in War, your Colonies should vie in liberal Aids of Men and Money against the common Enemy, upon your simple Requisition, and give far beyond their Abilities, reflect, that a Penny taken from them by your Power is more honourable to you than a Pound presented by their Benevolence. Despise therefore their voluntary Grants, and resolve to harrass them with novel Taxes. They will probably complain to your Parliaments that they are taxed by a Body in which they have no Representative, and that this is contrary to common Right. They will petition for Redress. Let the Parliaments flout their Claims, reject their Petitions, refuse even to suffer the reading of them, and treat the Petitioners with the utmost Contempt. Nothing can have a better Effect, in producing the Alienation proposed; for though many can forgive Injuries, none ever forgave Contempt.
9. In laying these Taxes, never regard the heavy Burthens those remote People already undergo, in defending their own Frontiers, supporting their own provincial Governments, making new Roads, building Bridges, Churches and other public Edifices, which in old Countries have been done to your Hands by your Ancestors, but which occasion constant Calls and Demands on the Purses of a new People. Forget the Restraints you lay on their Trade for your own Benefit, and the Advantage a Monopoly of this Trade gives your exacting Merchants. Think nothing of the Wealth those Merchants and your Manufacturers acquire by the Colony Commerce; their encreased Ability thereby to pay Taxes at home; their accumulating, in the Price of their Commodities, most of those Taxes, and so levying them from their consuming Customers: All this, and the Employment and Support of Thousands of your Poor by the Colonists, you are intirely to forget. But remember to make your arbitrary Tax more grievous to your Provinces, by public Declarations importing that your Power of taxing them has no Limits, so that when you take from them without their Consent a Shilling in the Pound, you have a clear Right to the other nineteen. This will probably weaken every Idea of Security in their Property, and convince them that under such a Government they have nothing they can call their own; which can scarce fail of producing the happiest Consequences!
10. Possibly indeed some of them might still comfort themselves, and say, `Though we have no Property, we have yet something left that is valuable; we have constitutional Liberty both of Person and of Conscience. This King, these Lords, and these Commons, who it seems are too remote from us to know us and feel for us, cannot take from us our Habeas Corpus Right, or our Right of Trial by a Jury of our Neighbours: They cannot deprive us of the Exercise of our Religion, alter our ecclesiastical Constitutions, and compel us to be Papists if they please, or Mahometans.' To annihilate this Comfort, begin by Laws to perplex their Commerce with infinite Regulations impossible to be remembered and observed; ordain Seizures of their Property for every Failure; take away the Trial of such Property by Jury, and give it to arbitrary Judges of your own appointing, and of the lowest Characters in the Country, whose Salaries and Emoluments are to arise out of the Duties or Condemnations, and whose Appointments are during Pleasure. Then let there be a formal Declaration of both Houses, that Opposition to your Edicts is Treason, and that Persons suspected of Treason in the Provinces may, according to some obsolete Law, be seized and sent to the Metropolis of the Empire for Trial; and pass an Act that those there charged with certain other Offences shall be sent away in Chains from their Friends and Country to be tried in the same Manner for Felony. Then erect a new Court of Inquisition among them, accompanied by an armed Force, with Instructions to transport all such suspected Persons, to be ruined by the Expence if they bring over Evidences to prove their Innocence, or be found guilty and hanged if they can't afford it. And lest the People should think you cannot possibly go any farther, pass another solemn declaratory Act, that `King, Lords, and Commons had, hath, and of Right ought to have, full Power and Authority to make Statutes of sufficient Force and Validity to bind the unrepresented Provinces IN ALL CASES WHATSOEVER.' This will include spiritual with temporal; and taken together, must operate wonderfully to your Purpose, by convincing them, that they are at present under a Power something like that spoken of in the Scriptures, which can not only kill their Bodies, but damn their Souls to all Eternity, by compelling them, if it pleases, to worship the Devil.
11. To make your Taxes more odious, and more likely to procure Resistance, send from the Capital a Board of Officers to superintend the Collection, composed of the most indiscreet, ill-bred and insolent you can find. Let these have large Salaries out of the extorted Revenue, and live in open grating Luxury upon the Sweat and Blood of the Industrious, whom they are to worry continually with groundless and expensive Prosecutions before the above-mentioned arbitrary Revenue-Judges, all at the Cost of the Party prosecuted tho' acquitted, because the King is to pay no Costs. -- Let these Men by your Order be exempted from all the common Taxes and Burthens of the Province, though they and their Property are protected by its Laws. If any Revenue Officers are suspected of the least Tenderness for the People, discard them. If others are justly complained of, protect and reward them. If any of the Under-officers behave so as to provoke the People to drub them, promote those to better Offices: This will encourage others to procure for themselves such profitable Drubbings, by multiplying and enlarging such Provocations, and all with work towards the End you aim at.
12. Another Way to make your Tax odious, is to misapply the Produce of it. If it was originally appropriated for the Defence of the Provinces and the better Support of Government, and the Administration of Justice where it may be necessary, then apply none of it to that Defence, but bestow it where it is not necessary, in augmented Salaries or Pensions to every Governor who has distinguished himself by his Enmity to the People, and by calumniating them to their Sovereign. This will make them pay it more unwillingly, and be more apt to quarrel with those that collect it, and those that imposed it, who will quarrel again with them, and all shall contribute to your main Purpose of making them weary of your Government.
13. If the People of any Province have been accustomed to support their own Governors and Judges to Satisfaction, you are to apprehend that such Governors and Judges may be thereby influenced to treat the People kindly, and to do them Justice. This is another Reason for applying Part of that Revenue in larger Salaries to such Governors and Judges, given, as their Commissions are, during your Pleasure only, forbidding them to take any Salaries from their Provinces; that thus the People may no longer hope any Kindness from their Governors, or (in Crown Cases) any Justice from their Judges. And as the Money thus mis-applied in one Province is extorted from all, probably all will resent the Mis-application.
14. If the Parliaments of your Provinces should dare to claim Rights or complain of your Administration, order them to be harass'd with repeated Dissolutions. If the same Men are continually return'd by new Elections, adjourn their Meetings to some Country Village where they cannot be accommodated, and there keep them during Pleasure; for this, you know, is your PREROGATIVE; and an excellent one it is, as you may manage it, to promote Discontents among the People, diminish their Respect, and increase their Dis-affection.
15. Convert the brave honest Officers of your Navy into pimping Tide-waiters and Colony Officers of the Customs. Let those who in Time of War fought gallantly in Defence of the Commerce of their Countrymen, in Peace be taught to prey upon it. Let them learn to be corrupted by great and real Smugglers, but (to shew their Diligence) scour with armed Boats every Bay, Harbour, River, Creek, Cove or Nook throughout the Coast of your Colonies, stop and detain every Coaster, every Wood-boat, every Fisherman, tumble their Cargoes, and even their Ballast, inside out and upside down; and if a Penn'orth of Pins is found un-entered, let the Whole be seized and confiscated. Thus shall the Trade of your Colonists suffer more from their Friends in Time of Peace, than it did from their Enemies in War. Then let these Boats Crews land upon every Farm in their Way, rob the Orchards, steal the Pigs and Poultry, and insult the Inhabitants. If the injured and exasperated Farmers, unable to procure other Justice, should attack the Agressors, drub them and burn their Boats, you are to call this High Treason and Rebellion, order Fleets and Armies into their Country, and threaten to carry all the Offenders three thousand Miles to be hang'd, drawn and quartered. O! this will work admirably!
16. If you are told of Discontents in your Colonies, never believe that they are general, or that you have given Occasion for them; therefore do not think of applying any Remedy, or of changing any offensive Measure. Redress no Grievance, lest they should be encouraged to demand the Redress of some other Grievance. Grant no Request that is just and reasonable, lest they should make another that is unreasonable. Take all your Informations of the State of the Colonies from your Governors and Officers in Enmity with them. Encourage and reward these Leasing-makers; secrete their lying Accusations lest they should be confuted; but act upon them as the clearest Evidence, and believe nothing you hear from the Friends of the People. Suppose all their Complaints to be invented and promoted by a few factious Demagogues, whom if you could catch and hang, all would be quiet. Catch and hang a few of them accordingly; and the Blood of the Martyrs shall work Miracles in favour of your Purpose.
17. If you see rival Nations rejoicing at the Prospect of your Disunion with your Provinces, and endeavouring to promote it: If they translate, publish and applaud all the Complaints of your discontented Colonists, at the same Time privately stimulating you to severer Measures; let not that alarm or offend you. Why should it? since you all mean the same Thing.
18. If any Colony should at their own Charge erect a Fortress to secure their Port against the Fleets of a foreign Enemy, get your Governor to betray that Fortress into your Hands. Never think of paying what it cost the Country, for that would look, at least, like some Regard for Justice; but turn it into a Citadel to awe the Inhabitants and curb their Commerce. If they should have lodged in such Fortress the very Arms they bought and used to aid you in your Conquests, seize them all, 'twill provoke like Ingratitude added to Robbery. One admirable Effect of these Operations will be, to discourage every other Colony from erecting such Defences, and so their and your Enemies may more easily invade them, to the great Disgrace of your Government, and of course the Furtherance of your Project.
19. Send Armies into their Country under Pretence of protecting the Inhabitants; but instead of garrisoning the Forts on their Frontiers with those Troops, to prevent Incursions, demolish those Forts, and order the Troops into the Heart of the Country, that the Savages may be encouraged to attack the Frontiers, and that the Troops may be protected by the Inhabitants: This will seem to proceed from your Ill will or your Ignorance, and contribute farther to produce and strengthen an Opinion among them, that you are no longer fit to govern them.
20. Lastly, Invest the General of your Army in the Provinces with great and unconstitutional Powers, and free him from the Controul of even your own Civil Governors. Let him have Troops enow under his Command, with all the Fortresses in his Possession; and who knows but (like some provincial Generals in the Roman Empire, and encouraged by the universal Discontent you have produced) he may take it into his Head to set up for himself. If he should, and you have carefully practised these few excellent Rules of mine, take my Word for it, all the Provinces will immediately join him, and you will that Day (if you have not done it sooner) get rid of the Trouble of governing them, and all the Plagues attending their Commerce and Connection from thenceforth and for ever. Q. E. D.

Alex Jones' Infowars: There's a war on for your mind!:
Satire: Alex Jones and Ron Paul Become the Inspiration for a New Line-Up of Marvel Comics Super Villains

Fatima Guillermo Chen
The Spoof
February 23, 2008

SAN DIEGO - Marvel Comics announced last December that it was joining forces with the United Nations to bolster the world organization’s lack-luster image by producing “free” comic books depicting popular superheroes working in cooperation with the UN Security Council to resolve bloody international conflicts (unless perpetrated by the State of Israel) and rid the world of disease.

Today, at a press conference held during day six of the 2008 Comic-Con convention (the largest comic book and popular arts convention in the world), Marvel spokesperson Eugene Echs revealed more details about the forthcoming project.

“We will be introducing two new “Super Villains” to the “Marvel Universe” this summer” said Echs “and just as the United Nations is a real organization, we have drawn our inspiration for their adversaries from real life examples as well”

Story By: Brian Ducklinsky
North Statesman staff writer

Secret Life of The American Teenager, is a new show on ABC Family which debuted last week to an opening sequence where a wholesome girl comes home and takes a pregnancy test to find out she is pregnant. While this may sound like yet another awful show that makes sex look like no big deal and makes a mockery out of traditional values it is quiet the opposite. At first when I saw the promos for this new show on ABC Family, my gut reaction was this will be trashy and have no place on a "family channel" but when I saw that the creators of 7th Heaven were behind it and John Schneider of Dukes of Hazard fame was on it I new it might just be a quality show after all.

September 11 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:

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September 11 is the 254th day of the year (255th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 111 days remaining until the end of the year.

It is usually the first day of the Coptic calendar and Ethiopian calendar (in the period AD 1900 to AD 2099).

The terms September 11th, 11th September, 11 September, and 9/11 (pronounced "Nine-eleven") have been widely used in the Western media as a shorthand for the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and The Pentagon in the United States of America.

In other places of the world the media also use it as shorthand for other events; for example, the September 11, 1973 Coup d'État in Chile is referred to as "El 11 de Septiembre" or "El once" ("September 11" or "The eleventh" in Spanish) as shorthand for the Coup events; September 11 is also Enkutatash or New Year's Day in the Ethiopian calendar.
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* 1 Events
* 2 Births
* 3 Deaths
* 4 Holidays and observances
* 5 External links

Events

* 9 - The Battle of the Teutoburg Forest ends.
* 506 - The bishops of Visigothic Gaul meet in the Council of Agde.
* 1185 - Isaac II Angelus kills Stephanus Hagiochristophorites and then appeals to the people, resulting in the revolt that deposes Andronicus I Comnenus and places Isaac on the throne of the Byzantine Empire.
* 1226 - The Roman Catholic practice of public adoration of the Blessed Sacrament outside of Mass spreads from monasteries to parishes.
* 1297 - Battle of Stirling Bridge: Scots led by William Wallace defeat the English.
* 1390 - Lithuanian Civil War (1389–1392): the Teutonic Knights begin a five-week siege of Vilnius.
* 1541 - Santiago, Chile, is destroyed by indigenous warriors, lead by Michimalonko.
* 1609 - Expulsion order announced against the Moriscos of Valencia; beginning of the expulsion of all Spain's Moriscos.
* 1609 - Henry Hudson discovers Manhattan Island and the natives living there.
* 1649 - Siege of Drogheda ends: Oliver Cromwell's English Parliamentarian troops take the town and execute its garrison.
* 1683 - John III Sobieski of Poland arrives on Kahlen Hill, leading to the Battle of Vienna the next day.
* 1697 - Battle of Zenta.
* 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 is no longer a major power.
* 1709 - Battle of Malplaquet: Great Britain, Netherlands and Austria fight against France.
* 1714 - Barcelona surrenders to Spanish and French Bourbon armies in the War of the Spanish Succession.
* 1758 - Battle of Saint Cast France repels British invasion during the Seven Year's War.
* 1773 - The Public Advertiser publishes a satirical essay titled Rules By Which A Great Empire May Be Reduced To A Small One, which is written by Benjamin Franklin.
* 1776 - British-American peace conference on Staten Island fails to stop nascent American Revolution.
* 1777 - American Revolution: Battle of Brandywine - The British celebrate a major victory in Chester County, Pennsylvania.
* 1786 - The Beginning of the Annapolis Convention.
* 1789 - Alexander Hamilton is appointed as the first United States Secretary of the Treasury.
* 1792 - The Hope Diamond is stolen along with other crown jewels when six men break into the house used to store the jewels.
* 1802 - France annexes the Kingdom of Piedmont.
* 1814 - The climax of the Battle of Plattsburgh, a major United States victory in the War of 1812.
* 1847 - Stephen Foster's well-known song, Oh! Susanna, is first performed at a saloon in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
* 1857 - The Mountain Meadows Massacre: Mormon settlers and Paiutes massacre 120 pioneers at Mountain Meadows, Utah.
* 1888 - Death of the Argentine politician Domingo Sarmiento, after whom the Latin American Teacher's Day is chosen.
* 1891 - The Jewish Colonization Association is established by Baron Maurice de Hirsch.
* 1893 - First conference of the World Parliament of Religions is held.
* 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.
* 1903 - The first race at The Milwaukee Mile in West Allis, Wisconsin is held. It is the oldest major speedway in the world.
* 1906 - Mahatma Gandhi coins the term "Satyagraha" to characterize the Non-Violence movement in South Africa.
* 1914 - Australia invades New Britain, defeating a German contingent there.
* 1915 - The Pennsylvania Railroad begins electrified commuter rail service between Paoli and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, using overhead AC trolley wires for power.
* 1916 - The Quebec Bridge's central span collapses, killing 11 men. The bridge initially collapsed in toto on August 29, 1907.
* 1919 - U.S. Marines invade Honduras.
* 1921 - Nahalal, the first moshav in Israel, is settled.
* 1922 - The British Mandate of Palestine begins.
* 1922 - The Treaty of Kars is ratified in Yerevan, Armenia.
* 1922 - One of the Herald Sun of Melbourne, Australia's predecessor papers The Sun News-Pictorial is founded.
* 1926 - An assassination attempt on Benito Mussolini fails.
* 1931 - Salvatore Maranzano is murdered by Charles Luciano's hitmen.
* 1932 - Franciszek Żwirko and Stanisław Wigura, Polish Challenge 1932 winners, are killed in a plane crash when their RWD 6 crashes into the ground during a storm.
* 1940 - George Stibitz pioneers the first remote operation of a computer.
* 1940 - World War II: Buckingham Palace is damaged during a German air raid.
* 1941 - Ground is broken for the construction of The Pentagon.
* 1941 - World War II: The U.S. Navy is ordered to attack German U-boats.
* 1941 - Charles Lindberg's Des Moines Speech accusing the British, Jews and the Roosevelt administration of pressing for war with Germany.
* 1943 - World War II: German troops occupy Corsica and Kosovo-Metohija.
* 1943 - World War II: Start of the liquidation of the Ghettos in Minsk and Lida by the Nazis.
* 1944 - World War II: The first Allied troops of the U.S. Army cross the western border of Germany.
* 1944 - World War II: RAF bombing raid on Darmstadt and the following firestorm kill 11,500.
* 1945 - World War II: Liberation of the Japanese-run POW and civilian internee camp at Batu Lintang, Kuching, Sarawak on the island of Borneo by Australian 9th Division forces. Over 2,000 prisoners, including women and children, were due to be executed on September 15.
* 1955 - Dedication of the first Temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Europe, the Bern Switzerland Temple.
* 1956 - People to People International is founded by President Dwight D. Eisenhower.
* 1960 - The Young Americans for Freedom, meeting at home of William F. Buckley, Jr., promulgate the Sharon Statement.
* 1961 - Foundation of the World Wildlife Fund.
* 1961 - Hurricane Carla strikes the Texas coast as a Category 4 hurricane, the strongest storm ever to hit the state.
* 1965 - The 1st Cavalry Division of the United States Army arrives in Vietnam.
* 1968 - Air France Flight 1611 crashes off Nice, France, killing 89 passengers and 6 crew.
* 1970 - 88 of the hostages from the Dawson's Field hijackings are released. The remaining hostages, mostly Jews and Israeli citizens, are held until September 25.
* 1970 - The Ford Pinto is introduced.
* 1971 - The Egyptian Constitution becomes official.
* 1972 - Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) in San Francisco, California begins regular service.
* 1973 - A CIA backed coup in Chile headed by General Augusto Pinochet topples the democratically elected President Salvador Allende. Pinochet remains in power for almost 17 years.
* 1974 - Eastern Air Lines Flight 212 crashes in Charlotte, North Carolina, killing 69 passengers and two crew.
* 1978 - U.S. President Jimmy Carter, President Anwar Sadat of Egypt, and Prime Minister Menachem Begin of Israel meet at Camp David and agree on a framework for peace between Israel and Egypt and a comprehensive peace in the Middle East.
* 1980 - Voters approve the present Constitution of Chile.
* 1981 - A small plane crashes into the Swing Auditorium in San Bernardino, California damaging it beyond repair.
* 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.
* 1985 - Baseball: Pete Rose of the Cincinnati Reds gets his 4,192nd career base hit, breaking Ty Cobb's record which had stood for over 60 years.
* 1987 - Dan Rather walks off the set of the CBS Evening News over disapproval of the handling of a major event being interrupted and postponed by a sports program, leaving six minutes of dead air.
* 1989 - The iron curtain opens between the communist Hungary and Austria. From Hungary thousands of East Germans throng to Austria and West Germany.
* 1990 - U.S. President George H. W. Bush delivers a nationally televised speech in which he threatens the use of force to remove Iraqi soldiers from Kuwait, which Iraq had recently invaded. He mentions the term "New World Order" in this speech for the first time, which is also named "Towards a New World Order".(full text of the speech)
* 1992 - Hurricane Iniki, one of the most damaging hurricanes in United States history, devastates Hawaii, especially the islands of Kauai and Oahu.
* 1994 - Frank Eugene Corder steals a Cessna plane, intending to crash it into the White House.
* 1996 - Union Pacific Railroad purchases Southern Pacific Railroad.
* 1997 - NASA's Mars Global Surveyor reaches Mars.
* 1997 - After a nationwide referendum, Scotland votes to establish a devolved parliament, within the United Kingdom.
* 1998 - Independent counsel Kenneth Starr sends a report to the U.S. Congress accusing President Bill Clinton of 11 possible impeachable offenses.
* 1998 - Opening ceremony for the 1998 Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Malaysia is the first Asian country to host the games.
* 2000 - Activists protest against the World Economic Forum meeting in Melbourne, Australia.

View of the WTC on fire and the Statue of Liberty
View of the WTC on fire and the Statue of Liberty

* 2001 - Airplane hijackings and the subsequent coordinated attacks result in the collapse of the World Trade Center in New York City, destruction of the western portion of The Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, and an unplanned passenger airliner crash in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, which happened after airplane passengers fought back on the plane. In total, 2,974 people are killed in the September 11, 2001 attacks.
* 2002 - Through extreme and coordinated effort, The Pentagon is rededicated after repairs are completed, exactly one year after the attack on the building.
* 2003 - Swedish foreign minister Anna Lindh dies after being assaulted and fatally wounded on September 10.
* 2003 - The Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety enters into effect.
* 2004 - All passengers are killed when a helicopter crashes in the Aegean Sea. Passengers include Patriarch Peter VII of Alexandria and 16 others (including journalists and bishops of the Greek Orthodox Church of Alexandria).
* 2005 - The State of Israel completes its unilateral disengagement from the Gaza Strip.
* 2007 - Russia tests the largest conventional weapon ever, the Father of all bombs.

Births

* 1182 - Minamoto no Yoriie, Japanese shogun (d. 1204)
* 1522 - Ulisse Aldrovandi, Italian naturalist (d. 1605)
* 1524 - Pierre de Ronsard, French poet (d. 1585)
* 1611 - Henri de la Tour d'Auvergne, Vicomte de Turenne, Marshal of France (d. 1675)
* 1681 - Johann Gottlieb Heineccius, German jurist (d. 1741)
* 1700 - James Thomson, Scottish poet (d. 1748)
* 1711 - William Boyce, English composer (d. 1779)
* 1723 - Johann Bernhard Basedow, German educational reformer (d. 1790)
* 1786 - Friedrich Kuhlau, German composer (d. 1832)
* 1798 - Franz Ernst Neumann, German mineralogist and physicist (d. 1895)
* 1800 - Daniel S. Dickinson, New York senator (d. 1866)
* 1816 - Carl Zeiss, German lens maker (d. 1888)
* 1825 - Eduard Hanslick, German music critic (d. 1904)
* 1836 - Fitz Hugh Ludlow, American author (d. 1870)
* 1838 - John Ireland, American Catholic archbishop (d. 1918)
* 1859 - Vjenceslav Novak, Croatian writer (d. 1905)
* 1860 - Marianne von Werefkin, Russian-Swiss painter (d. 1938)
* 1860 - James Allan, former All Black (d. 1934)
* 1862 - O. Henry, American writer (d. 1910)
* 1862 - Julian Byng, British army officer (d. 1935)
* 1865 - Rainis, Latvian poet and playwright (d. 1929)
* 1877 - James Hopwood Jeans, Scientist (d. 1946)
* 1885 - D. H. Lawrence, English novelist (d. 1930)
* 1891 - William Thomas Walsh, American author (d. 1949)
* 1892 - Pinto Colvig, Goofy's and Pluto's voice (d. 1967)
* 1892 - Lucien Buysse, Belgian cyclist (d. 1980)
* 1893 - W. Douglas Hawkes, British racing driver (d. 1974)
* 1899 - Jimmie Davis, composer (d. 2000)
* 1899 - Philipp Bouhler, German nazi leader (d. 1945)
* 1900 - D. W. Brooks, American farmer and businessman (d. 1999)
* 1903 - Theodor Adorno, German philosopher and sociologist (d. 1969)
* 1911 - Bola de Nieve, Cuban pianist (d. 1971)
* 1913 - Paul "Bear" Bryant, American football coach (d. 1983)
* 1914 - Pavle, Patriarch of Serbia, Patriarch of Serbian Orthodox Church
* 1917 - Ferdinand Marcos, 10th President of the Philippines (d. 1989)
* 1917 - Jessica Mitford, British writer (d. 1996)
* 1917 - Herbert Lom, Czech-born British film actor
* 1917 - Daniel Wildenstein, French art dealer and racehorse owner (d. 2001)
* 1918 - Donald Blakeslee, American aviator (d. 2008)
* 1921 - Edwin Richfield, British Actor (d. 1990)
* 1924 - Daniel Akaka, Chinese-American politician
* 1924 - Tom Landry, American football coach (d. 2000)
* 1924 - Rudolf Vrba, Jewish Canadian professor, Holocaust survivor (d. 2006)
* 1925 - Harry Somers, Canadian composer (d. 1999)
* 1926 - Eddie Miksis, baseball player (d. 2005)
* 1927 - G. David Schine, American businessman (d. 1996)
* 1927 - Vernon Corea, Sri Lankan broadcaster (d. 2002)
* 1927 - Willie Christine King, Sister of Martin Luther King Jr.
* 1928 - Reubin O'Donovan Askew, American politician
* 1928 - Earl Holliman, American actor
* 1930 - Saleh Selim, Egyptian football player (d. 2002)
* 1931 - Hans-Ulrich Wehler, German historian
* 1932 - Peter Anderson, English footballer
* 1933 - William Luther Pierce, American author and activist (d. 2002)
* 1934 - Oliver Jones, Canadian jazz pianist
* 1934 - Norma Croker, Australian sprinter
* 1935 - Arvo Pärt, Estonian composer
* 1935 - Gherman Titov, second man in space (d. 2000)
* 1936 - Ian Abercrombie, English actor
* 1937 - Iosif Kobzon, Soviet singer and Russian businessman
* 1937 - Queen Paola Ruffo di Calabria of Belgium
* 1937 - Robert Crippen, American astronaut
* 1938 - David Higgins, British Composer and Conductor
* 1939 - Charles Geschke, American inventor and businessman
* 1940 - Brian de Palma, American film director
* 1940 - Theodore Olson, U.S. Solicitor General
* 1940 - Nong Duc Manh, General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam
* 1940 - Robert Palmer, last CEO of Digital Equipment Corporation
* 1942 - Lola Falana, American singer
* 1942 - Gerome Ragni American Playwright
* 1943 - Mickey Hart, American drummer (Grateful Dead)
* 1943 - Raymond Villeneuve, Canadian terrorist
* 1944 - Everaldo, Brazilian footballer
* 1944 - Freddy Thielemans, mayor of Brussels
* 1945 - Franz Beckenbauer, German footballer
* 1945 - Leo Kottke, American acoustic guitarist
* 1945 - Felton Perry, American actor
* 1948 - John Martyn, English musician
* 1949 - Bill Whittington, race car driver
* 1950 - Bruce Doull, Australian rules footballer
* 1950 - Amy Madigan, American actress
* 1950 - Barry Sheene, British motorcyclist (d. 2003)
* 1951 - Richard D. Gill, British-Dutch mathematician
* 1951 - Hugo Porta, Argentine rugby player
* 1951 - Miroslav Dvořák, Czechoslovak ice hockey player (d. 2008)
* 1953 - Tommy Shaw, American musician and singer (Styx)
* 1953 - Jani Allan, South African journalist and media personality
* 1956 - Tony Gilroy, American screenwriter and director
* 1957 - Brad Bird, American director and animator
* 1957 - Jeff Sluman, American professional golfer
* 1958 - Brad Lesley, American baseball player, actor and television personality
* 1958 - Scott Patterson, American actor
* 1958 - Roxann Dawson, American actress
* 1958 - Phoef Sutton, American television writer and producer
* 1960 - Anne Ramsay, American actress
* 1961 - Virginia Madsen, American actress
* 1961 - Philip Ardagh, British writer
* 1962 - Elizabeth Daily, American actress
* 1962 - Filip Dewinter Belgian politician
* 1962 - Kristy McNichol, American actress
* 1962 - Julio Salinas, Spanish footballer
* 1963 - Dr Patrick McWilliams, Irish author
* 1963 - Colin Wells, English actor
* 1964 - Ellis Burks, American baseball player
* 1964 - Victor Wooten, American musician
* 1965 - Bashar al-Assad, President of Syria
* 1965 - Paul Heyman, American wrestling manager
* 1965 - Moby, American musician
* 1965 - David Roe, English snooker player
* 1966 - Princess Akishino, Japanese Imperial Family
* 1967 - Maria Bartiromo, financial broadcast journalist
* 1967 - Harry Connick, Jr., American singer
* 1967 - Tony David, Australian darts player
* 1968 - Kay Hanley, American musician
* 1968 - Paul Mayeda Berges, American film writer and director
* 1969 - Eduardo Perez, American baseball player
* 1969 - Gidget Gein, American musician
* 1970 - Chris Garver, tattoo artist
* 1970 - Taraji P. Henson, American actress and singer
* 1970 - William Joppy, American boxer
* 1970 - Ted Leo, American musician
* 1970 - Laura Wright, American actress
* 1971 - Richard Ashcroft, British singer
* 1971 - Markos Moulitsas, American blogger and author
* 1971 - Johnny Vegas, English comedian
* 1971 - Shelton Quarles, American football player
* 1972 - Matthew Gilmore, Belgian cyclist
* 1975 - Juan Cobián, former Argentine footballer
* 1975 - Pierre Issa, South African footballer
* 1975 - Mark Klepaski, American musician
* 1976 - Elephant Man, Jamaican musician
* 1976 - Tomáš Enge, Czech racing driver
* 1976 - Flora Redoumi, Greek hurdler
* 1977 - Ludacris, American rapper
* 1977 - Matthew Stevens, Welsh snooker player
* 1977 - Jon Buckland, British guitarist (Coldplay)
* 1978 - Ed Reed, American football player
* 1978 - Ben Lee, Australian musician and singer
* 1978 - Dejan Stanković, Serbian footballer
* 1979 - Nathan Gale, American murderer (d. 2004)
* 1979 - Ariana Richards, American actress
* 1979 - Frank Francisco, Major League Baseball pitcher
* 1979 - Steve Hofstetter, comedian & radio personality
* 1979 - David Pizarro, Chilean footballer
* 1980 - Mike Comrie, Canadian ice hockey player
* 1980 - Antônio Pizzonia, Brazilian race car driver
* 1981 - Andrea Dossena, Italian footballer
* 1981 - Dylan Klebold, Columbine High School Massacre co-perpetrator (d. 1999)
* 1982 - Shriya Saran, South Indian actress
* 1983 - Ike Diogu, American basketball player
* 1983 - Jacoby Ellsbury, American baseball player
* 1985 - Shaun Livingston, American basketball player
* 1985 - Zack Stortini, Canadian ice hockey player
* 1986 - Chiliboy Ralepelle, South African rugby player
* 1986 - Dwayne Jarrett, American football player
* 1987 - Tyler Hoechlin, American actor

Deaths

* 1161 - Queen Melisende of Jerusalem (b. 1105)
* 1185 - Stephanus Hagiochristophorites, Byzantine courtier
* 1279 - Robert Kilwardby, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. c. 1215)
* 1298 - Philip of Artois, French soldier (b. 1269)
* 1349 - Bonne of Luxembourg, wife of John II of France (b. 1315)
* 1599 - Beatrice Cenci, Italian noblewoman executed for planned fratricide (b. 1577)
* 1677 - James Harrington, English political philosopher (b. 1611)
* 1680 - Roger Crab, English Puritan political writer (b. 1621)
* 1680 - Emperor Go-Mizunoo of Japan (b. 1596)
* 1721 - Rudolf Jakob Camerarius, German botanist and physician (b. 1665)
* 1733 - François Couperin, French composer (b. 1668)
* 1760 - Louis Godin, French astronomer (b. 1704)
* 1822 - Fortunat Alojzy Gonzaga Żółkowski, Polish actor (b. 1777)
* 1823 - David Ricardo, economist (b. 1772)
* 1843 - Joseph Nicollet, mathematician and explorer (b. 1786)
* 1851 - Sylvester Graham, American nutritionist (b. 1794)
* 1865 - Christophe Léon Louis Juchault de Lamoricière, French general (b. 1806)
* 1888 - Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, President of Argentina (b. 1811)
* 1896 - Francis James Child, American ballad collector (b. 1825)
* 1911 - Louis Henri Boussenard, French novelist (b. 1847)
* 1915 - William Sprague IV, American politician (b. 1830)
* 1915 - William Cornelius Van Horne, American railway executive (b. 1843)
* 1917 - Georges Guynemer, French aviator (b. 1894)
* 1921 - Subramanya Bharathy, Tamil poet (b. 1882)
* 1926 - Matsunosuke Onoe, Japanese actor (b. 1875)
* 1931 - Salvatore Maranzano, American crime boss (b. 1868)
* 1932 - Franciszek Zwirko and Stanislaw Wigura, Polish pilots (Żwirko b. 1895 Wigura b. 1901)
* 1939 - Konstantin Korovin, Russian painter (b. 1861)
* 1941 - Christian Rakovsky, Bulgarian-born socialist revolutionary (b. 1873)
* 1948 - Muhammad Ali Jinnah, founder of Pakistan (b. 1876)
* 1950 - Jan Smuts, South African soldier and statesman (b. 1870)
* 1956 - Billy Bishop, Canadian pilot in World War I (b. 1894)
* 1958 - Robert W. Service, Scottish-born Canadian poet (b. 1874)
* 1958 - Camillien Houde, French Canadian politician (b. 1889)
* 1965 - Ralph C. Smedley, Founder of Toastmasters International (b. 1878)
* 1966 - C. E. Woolman, American airline magnate (b. 1889)
* 1967 - Tadeusz Żyliński, Polish technician and textilist (b. 1904)
* 1968 - René Cogny, French General (b. 1904)
* 1971 - Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev, Soviet politician and leader (b. 1894)
* 1971 - Bella Darvi, Polish-born French actress (b. 1928)
* 1972 - Max Fleischer, American animator (b. 1883)
* 1973 - Salvador Allende, President of Chile (b. 1908)
* 1973 - Neem Karoli Baba, Indian guru
* 1974 - Víctor Olea Alegría, Chilean Socialist Party member
* 1978 - Mike Gazella, American baseball player (b. 1895)
* 1978 - Georgi Markov, Bulgarian dissident (b. 1929)
* 1978 - Janet Parker, medical photographer (b. c. 1938)
* 1978 - Ronnie Peterson, Swedish F1 driver (b. 1944)
* 1984 - Jerry Voorhis, American politician (b. 1901)
* 1985 - William Alwyn, English composer (b. 1905)
* 1985 - Andrew C. Thornton II, American drug smuggler (b. 1945)
* 1987 - Lorne Greene, Canadian actor (b. 1915)
* 1987 - Peter Tosh, Jamaican musician and singer (b. 1944)
* 1988 - John Sylvester White, American actor (b. 1919)
* 1990 - Myrna Mack, Guatemalan anthropologist (b. 1949)
* 1991 - Ernst Herbeck, German Poet (b. 1920)
* 1993 - Erich Leinsdorf, Austrian conductor (b. 1912)
* 1993 - Antoine Izméry, Haitian pro-democracy activist (b. unknown)
* 1994 - Jessica Tandy, American actress (b. 1909)
* 1994 - William Obanhein, police officer, mentioned in "Alice's Restaurant" (b. 1924)
* 1995 - Anita Harding, neurologist (b. 1952)
* 1997 - Camille Henry, National Hockey League player (b. 1933)
* 1997 - Hannah Weiner American experimental poet (b. 1928)
* 1998 - Dane Clark, American actor (b. 1913)
* 1999 - Belkis Ayón, Cuban artist (b. 1967)
* 1999 - Gonzalo Rodriguez, Uruguayan auto racing driver (b. 1972)
* 2001 - Alice Stewart Trillin, American author (b. 1938)
* 2001 – see also Category:Victims of the September 11 attacks:
o 2001 - Marwan Al-Shehhi, 9/11 terrorist (b. 1978)
o 2001 - David Angell, American sitcom creator (b. 1946)
o 2001 - Mohamed Atta, 9/11 terrorist (b. 1968)
o 2001 - Garnet Bailey, Canadian hockey player and scout (b. 1948)
o 2001 - Todd Beamer, passenger on United Airlines Flight 93 (b. 1968)
o 2001 - Berry Berenson, widow of Anthony Perkins (b. 1948)
o 2001 - Mark Bingham, passenger on United Airlines Flight 93 (b. 1970)
o 2001 - Tom Burnett, American businessman (b. 1963)
o 2001 - Peter J. Ganci, Jr., Chief of Department, FDNY (b. 1946)
o 2001 - Hani Hanjour, 9/11 terrorist (b. 1972)
o 2001 - Ziad Jarrah, 9/11 terrorist (b. 1975)
o 2001 - Father Mychal F. Judge, Chaplain, FDNY (b. 1933)
o 2001 - Angel L. Juarbe, Jr., American firefighter (b. 1966)
o 2001 - John P. O'Neill, American anti-terrorism FBI agent (b. 1952)
o 2001 - John Ogonowski, pilot for American Airlines Flight 11 (b. 1951)
o 2001 - Barbara Olson, American political commentator (b. 1955)
o 2001 - Daniel M. Lewin, founder of Akamai Technologies (b. 1970)
* 2002 - Kim Hunter, American actress (b. 1922)
* 2002 - Johnny Unitas, American football player (b. 1933)
* 2003 - Anna Lindh, Swedish Minister for Foreign Affairs (b. 1957)
* 2003 - John Ritter, American actor (b. 1948)
* 2004 - Patriarch Peter VII of Alexandria (b. 1949)
* 2004 - Fred Ebb, American lyricist (b. 1933)
* 2004 - David Mann, U.S. artist (b. 1939)
* 2005 - Chris Schenkel, American sportscaster (b. 1923)
* 2006 - William Auld, Scottish poet, writer and supporter of Esperanto (b. 1924)
* 2006 - Pat Corley, American actor (b. 1930)
* 2006 - Joachim Fest, German journalist and author (b. 1926)
* 2006 - Johannes Bob van Benthem, Dutch lawyer (b. 1921)
* 2007 - Ian Porterfield, Manager of Armenia National Football Club (b. 1946)
* 2007 - Gene Savoy, American author and cleric (b. 1927)
* 2007 - Joe Zawinul, Austrian musician (b. 1932)

Holidays and observances

* RC Saints - Virgin of the Holy cave; Saint Deiniol, Our Lady of Coromoto, Protus and Hyacinth.
* Also see September 11 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) (Revised Julian Calendar).
* Beheading of John the Baptist (or The Forerunner) in the Eastern Orthodox tradition (Julian Calendar).
* Feast of Neyrouz, the New Year's Day in the Coptic calendar.
* New Year's Day in the Ethiopian calendar (Enkutatash).
* Catalonia - National Day of Catalonia, remembering those Catalan patriots who died in the Siege of Barcelona, in defense of the city, against the Franco-Spanish army.
* Latin America Teacher's Day, after the death of Argentine Domingo F. Sarmiento.
* Liberation Day of Dijon, France (commemorating the Allied liberation of the city from Nazi occupation in 1944)
* Death anniversary of Muhammad Ali Jinnah, founder of Pakistan.
* Proclaimed 9-1-1 Emergency Number Day by President Reagan on August 26 in 1987 and celebrated since then by some United States communities, particularly the local emergency services.
* Patriot Day (USA) - Anniversary of the September 11 attacks.
* Feast day of Saint Deiniol.

External links

* BBC: On This Day
* The New York Times: On This Day
* On This Day in Canada

Army deploys combat unit in US for possible civil unrest :: www.uruknet.info :: informazione dall'Iraq occupato :: news from occupied Iraq :: - it:

Army deploys combat unit in US for possible civil unrest
Bill Van Auken, WSWS

25 September 2008

For the first time ever, the US military is deploying an active duty regular Army combat unit for full-time use inside the United States to deal with emergencies, including potential civil unrest.

Beginning on October 1, the First Brigade Combat Team of the Third Division will be placed under the command of US Army North, the Army’s component of the Pentagon’s Northern Command (NorthCom), which was created in the wake of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks with the stated mission of defending the US "homeland" and aiding federal, state and local authorities.

The unit—known as the "Raiders"—is among the Army’s most "blooded." It has spent nearly three out of the last five years deployed in Iraq, leading the assault on Baghdad in 2003 and carrying out house-to-house combat in the suppression of resistance in the city of Ramadi. It was the first brigade combat team to be sent to Iraq three times.

While active-duty units previously have been used in temporary assignments, such as the combat-equipped troops deployed in New Orleans, which was effectively placed under martial law in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, this marks the first time that an Army combat unit has been given a dedicated assignment in which US soil constitutes its "battle zone."

The Pentagon’s official pronouncements have stressed the role of specialized units in a potential response to terrorist attack within the US. Gen. George Casey, the Army chief of staff, attended a training exercise last week for about 250 members of the unit at Fort Stewart, Georgia. The focus of the exercise, according to the Army’s public affairs office, was how troops "might fly search and rescue missions, extract casualties and decontaminate people following a catastrophic nuclear attack in the nation’s heartland."

"We are at war with a global extremist network that is not going away," Casey told the soldiers. "I hope we don’t have to use it, but we need the capability."

However, the mission assigned to the nearly 4,000 troops of the First Brigade Combat Team does not consist merely of rescuing victims of terrorist attacks. An article that appeared earlier this month in the Army Times ("Brigade homeland tours start Oct. 1"), a publication that is widely read within the military, paints a different and far more ominous picture.

"They may be called upon to help with civil unrest and crowd control," the paper reports. It quotes the unit’s commander, Col. Robert Cloutier, as saying that the 1st BCT’s soldiers are being trained in the use of "the first ever nonlethal package the Army has fielded." The weapons, the paper reported, are "designed to subdue unruly or dangerous individuals without killing them." The equipment includes beanbag bullets, shields and batons and equipment for erecting roadblocks.

It appears that as part of the training for deployment within the US, the soldiers have been ordered to test some of this non-lethal equipment on each other.

"I was the first guy in the brigade to get Tasered," Cloutier told the Army Times. He described the effects of the electroshock weapon as "your worst muscle cramp ever—times 10 throughout your whole body."

The colonel’s remark suggests that, in preparation for their "homefront" duties, rank-and-file troops are also being routinely Tasered. The brutalizing effect and intent of such a macabre training exercise is to inure troops against sympathy for the pain and suffering they may be called upon to inflict on the civilian population using these same "non-lethal" weapons.

According to military officials quoted by the Army Times, the deployment of regular Army troops in the US begun with the First Brigade Combat Team is to become permanent, with different units rotated into the assignment on an annual basis.

In an online interview with reporters earlier this month, NorthCom officers were asked about the implications of the new deployment for the Posse Comitatus Act, the 230-year-old legal statute that bars the use of US military forces for law enforcement purposes within the US itself.

Col. Lou Volger, NorthCom’s chief of future operations, tried to downplay any enforcement role, but added, "We will integrate with law enforcement to understand the situation and make sure we’re aware of any threats."

Volger acknowledged the obvious, that the Brigade Combat Team is a military force, while attempting to dismiss the likelihood that it would play any military role. It "has forces for security," he said, "but that’s really—they call them security forces, but that’s really just to establish our own footprint and make sure that we can operate and run our own bases."

Lt. Col. James Shores, another NorthCom officer, chimed in, "Let’s say even if there was a scenario that developed into a branch of a civil disturbance—even at that point it would take a presidential directive to even get it close to anything that you’re suggesting."

Whatever is required to trigger such an intervention, clearly Col. Cloutier and his troops are preparing for it with their hands-on training in the use of "non-lethal" means of repression.

The extreme sensitivity of the military brass on this issue notwithstanding, the reality is that the intervention of the military in domestic affairs has grown sharply over the last period under conditions in which its involvement in two colonial-style wars abroad has given it a far more prominent role in American political life.

The Bush administration has worked to tear down any barriers to the use of the military in domestic repression. Thus, in the 2007 Pentagon spending bill it inserted a measure to amend the Posse Comitatus Act to clear the way for the domestic deployment of the military in the event of natural disaster, terrorist attack or "other conditions in which the president determines that domestic violence has occurred to the extent that state officials cannot maintain public order."

The provision granted the president sweeping new powers to impose martial law by declaring a "public emergency" for virtually any reason, allowing him to deploy troops anywhere in the US and to take control of state-based National Guard units without the consent of state governors in order to "suppress public disorder."

The provision was subsequently repealed by Congress as part of the 2008 military appropriations legislation, but the intent remains. Given the sweeping powers claimed by the White House in the name of the "commander in chief" in a global war on terror—powers to suspend habeas corpus, carry out wholesale domestic spying and conduct torture—there is no reason to believe it would respect legal restrictions against the use of military force at home.

It is noteworthy that the deployment of US combat troops "as an on-call federal response force for natural or manmade emergencies and disasters"—in the words of the Army Times—coincides with the eruption of the greatest economic emergency and financial disaster since the Great Depression of the 1930s.

Justified as a response to terrorist threats, the real source of the growing preparations for the use of US military force within America’s borders lies not in the events of September 11, 2001 or the danger that they will be repeated. Rather, the domestic mobilization of the armed forces is a response by the US ruling establishment to the growing threat to political stability.

Under conditions of deepening economic crisis, the unprecedented social chasm separating the country’s working people from the obscenely wealthy financial elite becomes unsustainable within the existing political framework.

:: Article nr. 47519 sent on 26-sep-2008 16:20 ECT

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