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Teachers' Day in parts of Latin America; | refimprove section |
National DayofCatalonia; | refimprove |
{{<!--If next year is a leap year-->#ifexpr:{{IsLeapYear| {{CURRENTYEAR}} +1}}|<!--Don't show-->|New Year's Day in the Coptic and the Ethiopian calendars;}} | Coptic: refimprove: Ethiopian: refimprove |
1297 – First War of Scottish Independence: The Scots under Andrew Moray and William Wallace defeated English troops at the Battle of Stirling Bridge on the River Forth near Stirling. | refimprove |
1697 – Great Turkish War: Forces led by Prince Eugene of Savoy decisively defeated the Ottoman troops near Senta, present-day Serbia, ending the Turkish threat to Europe. | Refimprove sections |
1709 – An allied British-Dutch-Austrian force defeated the French at the Battle of Malplaquet, one of the bloodiest battles of the War of the Spanish Succession. | unreferenced section |
1714 – Siege of Barcelona: Barcelona, capital city of Catalonia, surrenders to Spanish and French Bourbon armies in the War of the Spanish Succession. | refimprove |
1775 – American Revolutionary War: Benedict Arnold's expedition departed from Cambridge, Massachusetts, as part of the invasion of Quebec. | TFA for 2017 |
1814 – The Battle of Plattsburgh ended Britain's final invasion of the northern states during the War of 1812. | refimprove section |
1955 – The Bern Switzerland Temple, the first temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Europe, was dedicated. | refimprove |
1961 – The World Wide Fund for Nature, the world's largest independent conservation organisation, was founded in Morges, Switzerland. | disputed section |
2003 – Swedish minister of Foreign Affairs Anna Lindh was assassinated in a knife attack in the NK department store in Stockholm by Mijailo Mijailović. | refimprove |
2012 - The American consulate and CIA annex, in a different diplomatic compound, were attacked by a heavily armed group resulting in the deaths of U.S. Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and three other Americans. | lead too long |
2012 – Garment factories in the Pakistani cities of Karachi and Lahore caught fire, leaving 315 dead. | refimprove section |
September 11: Patriot Day in the United States
Joseph Nicollet (d. 1843) · Daniel Wildenstein (b. 1917) · Jan Smuts (d. 1950)