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1297 Battle of Stirling Bridge: Scots commanded by William Wallace defeated the English.

1541 Santiago, Chile, founded by Pedro de Valdivia as 'Santiago de Nueva Extremadura' on February 12 of the same year, was destroyed by indigenous tribes. The Mapuche people repeatedly burned many of the first European settlements.

1609 An expulsion order was announced against the Moriscos of Valencia; beginning of the expulsion of all Spain's Moriscos.

1609 Henry Hudson landed on Manhattan island.

1648 The Levellers submitted the Large Petition with 40,000 signatures to English Parliament.

"The deed was decisive because it set in motion the terrible events that culminated four months later in the execution of Charles Stuart, King of England, and because the Levellers, the first popular democratic political party in European, if not world, history, announced their opposition to the enclosures of the commons, or the privatization of the English land."   Source

1649 Oliver Cromwell executed 1,500 Irish rebels in the city of Drogheda.

1680 "Roger Crab died in Bethnal Green … aged 59. During the Civil War, his skull was 'cloven to the braine' by a Royalist soldier, and most contemporaries regarded him as a crackpot. In about 1651, he gave everything away (he was a prosperous hatter), built himself a cottage in Uxbridge, dressed in sackcloth and lived on what he could forage, such as turnips, dock leaves and grass. After a religious vision, Crab became a 'Philadelphian', a sort of communist mystic, as well as a popular healer and soothsayer. He supposedly foretold the accession of William of Orange."   Source

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1709 Battle of Malplaquet: Great Britain, Netherlands and Austria defeated France.

1714 Barcelona surrendered to the Spanish and French Bourbonic armies in the War of the Spanish Succession.

1776 British-American peace conference on Staten Island failed to stop the nascent American Revolution.

1777 General William Howe's English forces defeated the American forces of George Washington at the Battle of Brandywine.

1789 USA: Alexander Hamilton was appointed as first Secretary of the Treasury.

1795 Australia: Captain John Hunter became second governor of New South Wales. (Australia was yet to be given its name.) Hunter's years as governor were difficult due to a power struggle between military and civil authorities in New South Wales. During the time between founding Governor Arthur Phillip's departure and the arrival of his successor, Hunter, the military took control of the colony and its institutions.

1814 The Battle of Plattsburgh.

1823 Death of David Ricardo, economist.

1843 Death of Joseph Nicollet, mathematician and explorer.

1847 Stephen Foster's most memorable song, 'Oh! Susanna', was first performed, in a saloon in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.

1851 The Christiana Riot

"On September 11, 1851, a Maryland slave owner named Edward Gorsuch made his way before dawn to the village of Christiana along with a U.S. Marshall and deputies with the expectation of capturing his runaway slaves. A violent and brutal conflict broke out that sent shock waves across the nation. The violence came one year after the second fugitive slave law was passed by Congress, requiring the return of all escaped slaves to their owners in the South.  Edward Gorsuch was killed and two others wounded during the fight. In the aftermath of the Christiana Riot, 38 men were arrested and charged with treason under the provisions of the Fugitive Slave Law. Most were acquitted."   Source

1857 Mormon settlers and Paiutes massacred 120 pioneers at Mountain Meadows, Utah.

1858 George Mary Searle discovered the asteroid 55 Pandora.

1863 Australian bushranger Captain Thunderbolt and fellow convict Frederick Britten escaped from the Cockatoo Island prison, situated in Sydney Harbour. Some sources say that Thunderbolt's girlfriend, Mary Ann Bugg had been instrumental in the planning, which enabled both men to swim to their freedom, doing so by hiding their heads under boxes as they swam.

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1875 Publication of the first newspaper cartoon strip.  

1876 At about noon, in the Straits of Malacca, the passengers and crew of the British ship, SS Nestor, reportedly saw a 'sea-monster', which was reported in a Singaporean newspaper on the next Monday, September 18 (qv) and followed by a letter confirmation by the ship's captain.

1888 Death of the Argentine politician Domingo Sarmiento; the date of Latin American Teachers' Day marks his death.

1906 South Africa: Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (Mahatma Gandhi), Indian leader and proponent of civil disobedience, at the age of 37, spoke at a mass meeting in the Empire Theatre, Johannesburg and launched a campaign of non-violent resistance (satyagraha) and civil disobedience to protest discrimination against Indians.

1914 Australia invaded New Britain, defeating the German contingent there.

1919 US Marines invaded Honduras.

1921 Hollywood movie star Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle was arrested for rape.

1922 The British Mandate of Palestine began.

1922 One of the Herald Sun of Melbourne, Australia's predecessor papers, The Sun News-Pictorial, was founded.

1926 An assassination attempt on Benito Mussolini failed.

1928 The first play shown on television, The Queen's Messenger, was broadcast on Station WGY, Schenectady, New York, USA.

1931 Salvatore Maranzano was murdered by Charles Luciano's hitmen.

1940 George Stibitz pioneered the first remote operation of a computer.

1941 USA: Ground was broken for the construction of the Pentagon.

1941 World War II: the US Navy was ordered to attack German U-boats.

1942 'Austerity meals' were first served in Australia, as a wartime measure. All cafés and restaurants were required to charge no more than five shillings for a dinner, four for lunch and three for breakfast.

1943 World War II: German troops occupied Corsica and Kosovo-Metohien.

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 US Army (commanded by General Omar Bradley) crossed the western border of Nazi Germany at Eupen.

1948 Henri Queuille became Prime Minister of France.

1951 The first performance of Igor Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress took place in Venice, with the libretto by WH Auden.

"After The Rake Auden had offered him another libretto (a masque entitled Delia), but Stravinsky, nervous of repeating himself, turned instead to Dylan Thomas, who proposed as a subject 'the rediscovery of our planet following an atomic misadventure'. The composer has left a touching account of their one meeting in 1953: the only music that resulted from it, however, was In Memoriam Dylan Thomas (1954), a setting of 'Do not go gentle' for tenor, string quartet, and four trombones."   Source

1958 Death of Robert Service (b. 1874), English-born Canadian poet of goldfield yarns and poems ('The Cremation of Sam McGee').

"Robert William Service was born in Preston, Lancashire, England of Scottish parents. He spent his childhood in Scotland and attended the University of Glasgow. His vagabond career took him throughout the world, with a diversity of jobs from cook to clerk, from hobo to correspondent . He emigrated to Canada in 1894 and took a job with the Canadian Bank of Commerce and was stationed for eight years in Whitehorse, Yukon."   Source

"Although the name Robert W. Service might be all but forgotten, close to a century after the 'Gold rush of '98' his poetry and stories of the Yukon and its prospectors are still remembered today.

"Late in 1904 he arrived in Whitehorse, Yukon, where he was employed as a teller for the Bank of Commerce. Although his arrival was at the tail end of the Yukon gold rush, the well-worn yarns of wizened Sourdoughs left over from the heyday of the Yukon's gold rush were still being told around fire places and in saloons: thus the inspiration for his early works was found."   Source

'L'Envoi'

By Robert Service

I guess this is the final score:
Alas! I now shall write no more,
Though sad's my mood;
Since I've been sixty years a bard,
I must admit it's rather hard
To quit for good.
For three-score years I've roped in rhyme,
Till weary of the worn-out chime
I've sought for new;
But I've decided in the end,
With thirty-thousand couplets penned,
The old must do.
So let this be the last of me;
No more my personality
I'll plant in verse;
Within a year I may be dead,
Then if my books are no more read,
I'm none the worse.
Far better scribes than I have gone
The way to bleak oblivion
With none to sigh;
Ah, well! My writing's been such fun,
And now my job of work is done,
Dear friends, who've let me have my run,
Good-bye, – good-bye!

From 'The Song of the Wage-Slave'

By Robert Service

When the long, long day is over, and the Big Boss gives me my pay,
I hope that it won't be hell-fire, as some of the parsons say.
And I hope that it won't be heaven, with some of the parsons I've met –
All I want is just quiet, just to rest and forget.
Look at my face, toil-furrowed; look at my calloused hands;
Master, I've done Thy bidding, wrought in Thy many lands –
Wrought for the little masters, big-bellied they be, and rich;
I've done their desire for a daily hire, and I die like a dog in a ditch.
I have used the strength Thou hast given, Thou knowest I did not shirk;
Threescore years of labor – Thine be the long day's work.
And now, Big Master, I'm broken and bent and twisted and scarred,
But I've held my job, and Thou knowest, and Thou will not judge me hard.
Thou knowest my sins are many, and often I've played the fool –
Whiskey and cards and women, they made me the devil's tool.
I was just like a child with money; I flung it away with a curse,
Feasting a fawning parasite, or glutting a harlot's purse;
Then back to the woods repentant, back to the mill or the mine,
I, the worker of workers, everything in my line ...

1961 Formation of the World Wildlife Fund.

1965 The 1^st Cavalry Division of the United States Army arrived in Vietnam.

1970 The Ford Pinto was introduced.

1973 Chilean coup of 1973: President Salvador Allende's democratically elected Marxist government in Chile was toppled by a coup led by CIA-backed General Augusto Pinochet. Allende lost his life in the events, while Pinochet notoriously went on to a career of mass murder and torture, causing many thousands of Chileans to flee the country.

"The democratically elected Chilean government of Salvador Allende falls to a bloody U.S.-supported military coup led by General Augusto Pinochet [au-GOOS-toh PEE-no-shay]. The dictator immediately will kill or 'disappear' hundreds and, in coming years, thousands more. On September 19th, 1974, U.S. intelligence sources will reveal that striking Chilean labor unions, instrumental in destabalizing [sic] the Allende government, were secretly bankrolled by the CIA."   Source

1978 Georgi Markov, a defector from Bulgaria, died in a British hospital four days after having been stabbed by an assailant wielding a poisoned umbrella.

In March 1991, Bulgarian authorities announced that the official files in this case had been destroyed by former intelligence chief, General Vladimir Todorov.

"Having parked the car, Markov climbed the stairs to the bus stop. As he neared the queue of people waiting for the bus, he experienced a sudden stinging pain in the back of his right thigh. He turned and saw a man bending to pick up a dropped umbrella.

The man was facing away from Markov. He apologized. Markov subsequently remembered that the apology was made in a foreign accent. The man then hailed a taxi and departed. Markov later described him as heavy set and about 40 years old.

Though in pain, Markov boarded the bus to work. But the pain continued. Markov noticed a small blood spot on his jeans …"   Source

Pictured above: Markov was shot with a pellet fired from a device fitted in the ferrule of an umbrella. Two 0.34 millimetre holes had been drilled into the pellet. They contained ricin, a poison derived from castor-oil seeds.

1981 USA: The Pee-wee Herman Show aired as a special on HBO.

1987 9-1-1 Emergency Number Day, USA.

1987 Peter Tosh, reggae musician from Jamaica who played with Bob Marley and The Wailers, was shot dead by burglars in his home.

Wilson's Almanac Book of Days hip list

1990 Céline Dion released her first English-language album, Unison.

1991 Ghaith Pharaon, a key player in the Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI) fraud scandal, was fined $US37 million.

1992 Hurricane Iniki, the third most damaging hurricane in United States history so far, devastated the State of Hawai'i, especially the islands of Kaua'i and Oahu.

1997 Scotland voted to re-establish its own Parliament on the 700th anniversary of the Battle of Stirling Bridge, after 290 years of union with England.

1998 Independent counsel Kenneth Starr sent a report to the US Congress accusing President Bill Clinton of 11 possible impeachable offences.

2000 Activists protested against the World Economic Forum meeting in Melbourne, Australia.  

Both images taken at 9:03 a.m.: Bush takes part in a meaningless photo-op, 
knowing full well the US is already under attack.
Source: An Interesting Day, detailing what really happened.

2001 USA: The September 11 attacks destroyed the World Trade Center in New York City, and part of the Pentagon in Washington, DC, and brought down a passenger airliner in Pennsylvania. In total, almost 3,000 were killed.

President George W Bush said he saw it on TV, but as is well known today, this was not possible, as the timeline of his actions and movements on that day shows quite plainly. Was Bush complicit in the attacks? Why did he lie? People are still trying to sort that one out. One thing is certain, the Bush cabal was one of the groups that initially gained from this tragedy.

Although Bush sat like a stunned mullet when told about the attack, he very quickly made political capital out of the tragedy. His administration's PR machine rolled into action and within days the attack, apparently by a band of mainly Saudi Arabians, became the Republicans' casus belli to invade two unrelated countries, Afghanistan and Iraq. Enough Americans, including most of the Democratic Party, were hoodwinked to allow these illegal invasions to occur, with the consequential tragic loss of scores of thousands of civilian lives. (100,000 estimated by October, 2004 in Lancet, one of the world's most prestigious medical journals.)

A May 2006 Zogby International poll indicated that 42 per cent of Americans more likely agree with people who believe that "the US government and its 9/11 Commission concealed or refused to investigate critical evidence that contradicts their official explanation of the September 11th attacks, saying there has been a cover-up."

Bush rejected Afghanistan's offer to hand bin Laden over to justice

Before the USA invaded Afghanistan, the government of that country offered to hand over Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden to an independent, international court if America provided damning evidence about bin Laden's role in the outrage, and if America stopped raining bombs on Afghani citizens.

However, Bush's government, intent on gaining the geo-strategically important Afghanistan, and the oil-rich Iraq, refused – a point generally conveniently overlooked by the pro-war faction even today. At time of writing (March, 2006), the people of the USA and the world still have not been given the damning evidence and very few Americans have ever demanded it. Their God-King (President) said it was so, so most of them believed it. Shades of England's King George III and France's Louis XIV.

"Meanwhile, President Bush rejected Sunday the latest Taliban offer to discuss turning over Osama bin Laden to a third country if the United States stops its bombing campaign and provides evidence of bin Laden's complicity in the September 11 attacks." CNN, October 14, 2001

"A secret meeting takes place between Taliban and US government representatives in the city of Quetta, Pakistan. Afghan-American businessman Kabir Mohabbat serves as a middleman. US officials deny the meeting takes place, but later in the month Mohabbat explains that the US demands the Taliban hand over bin Laden, extradite foreign members of al-Qaeda who are wanted in their home countries, and shut down bin Laden's bases and camps. Mohabbat claims that the Taliban agrees to meet all the demands. However, some days later he is told the US position has changed and the Taliban must surrender or be killed. Later in the month, the Taliban again agrees to hand over bin Laden unconditionally, but the US replies that 'the train had moved.'" [Counterpunch, 11/1/04; CBS, 9/25/01]
Source: Complete 911 Timeline

"The power of these lies was considerable. In a CBS News/New York Times poll released on Sept. 25, 2001, 60 percent of Americans thought Osama bin Laden had been the culprit in the attacks of two weeks earlier, either alone or in league with unnamed 'others' or with the Taliban; only 6 percent thought bin Laden had collaborated with Saddam; and only 2 percent thought Saddam had been the sole instigator. By the time we invaded Iraq in 2003, however, CBS News found that 53 percent believed Saddam had been 'personally involved' in 9/11; other polls showed that a similar percentage of Americans had even convinced themselves that the hijackers were Iraqis."
Frank Rich, '"We Do Not Torture" and Other Funny Stories', NY Times, November 13, 2005

Read the whole article free at alt.impeach.bush

Much more in Myths of the War on Terrorism and Iraq, in the Scriptorium (see Footnote 56)

Unquestioned Answers: Nonconspiracy theorist David Ray Griffin takes aim at the official 9-11 story

9/11 Citizens' Watch    UnansweredQuestions.org    A big page of 9-11 links    More links

Journal of 9/11 Studies    September 11 Prior Knowledge Archive    More timelines    Did Bush Know?

9/11 conspiracy theories at Wikipedia    (Mayor of SF) Brown got low-key early warning about air travel    

Why were some warned?    What Bush Knew Before Sept. 11    Video on explosions in WTC    More

Bush just sat there (9-11 video)
Weird: Bush's incongruous behaviour on September 11

President Bush announces his Global Peace Imaginatorium
Is it satire, is it prophetic, or is it just maybe a good idea?

Text of President Bush's leaflet dropped over Iraq
A parody that might get me sent to Guantanamo hell-hole

Terror alerts!
From our Department of Homeland Fascism

The Real Reason for the Iraq War
WC has a different slant from the usual "it's all about oil"

Fake terror – the road to war and dictatorship

Bush took FBI agents off bin Laden family trail

Pentagon mystery explored

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"Niaz Naik, a former Pakistani Foreign Secretary, was told by senior American officials in mid-July that military action against Afghanistan would go ahead by the middle of October."   Source: BBC

2003 The Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety came into effect.

2004 Petros VII, the (Greek Orthodox) Patriarch of Alexandria, and his company were killed in an unexplained helicopter crash outside Mount Athos, Greece.

2005 The State of Israel officially declared an intent to leave the disputed territory, the Gaza Strip after 38 years.

Tomorrow: Timothy Leary escapes from prison

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