September 11: On This Progressive DayMormon settlers and Paiutes massacre 120 pioneers at Mountain Meadows, Utah (1857)
Under the command of Progressive President Woodrow Wilson, U.S. Marines invade Honduras (1919)
Coordinated attacks by al-Qaeda Islamofascists using commercial aircraft result in the death of 2,974, destruction of the World Trade Center in New York City, the western portion of The Pentagon, and a passenger airliner crash in Shanksville, PA (2001)
President B. Hussein Obama and FLOTUS receive the Crown Prince Willem-Alexander and Princess Máxima of the Netherlands in the Yellow Oval Room of the White House (2009)
The U.S. embassy in Benghazi, Libya is attacked by Islamists claiming to be have been sent by the Muslim Brotherhood, who kill the U.S. Ambassador to Libya J. Christopher Stevens and three other Americans as Obama Administration officials issued stand-down orders (2012)
b: Felix Dzerzhinsky (1877), Philipp Bouhler (1899), Theodor Adorno (1903), Bashar al-Assad (1965); d: Nikita Khrushchev (1971), James Burnham (1987), Victims of the 9/11 attacks, J. Christopher Stevens (2012), Sean Smith (2012), Tyrone Woods (2012), Glen Doherty (2012)
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