What I think is most fascinating about 9/11 is that there are three very important events on this date.
1. United States. 9/11/2001: The attack on the World Trade Centers
2. Chille. 9/11/ 1973: On the morning of Tuesday 11 September 1973, two jets launched a deadly attack on the Presidential Palace of La Moneda in the heart of Santiago, Chile. A military coup led by Augusto Pinochet ousted the presidency of Salvador Allende, the world's first democratically-elected Marxist head of state.
3. South Africa 9/11/1906: 3,000 people, mostly Indians, packed the old Empire Theater in Johannesburg, South Africa. They came to protest a draft of the Asiatic Law Amendment Ordinance that would require that every Indian over the age of 8 be fingerprinted and carry a registration card. Moreover, the law stipulated that the police could enter the home of any Indian at their discretion and fine, imprison or even deport those found without proper identification. This date marks the birth of Ghandi's nonviolence movement.
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It's something of a shame that the date 9/11 is automatically associated with the terrorist's attacks in 2001. Here's a site related to other 9/11 events in history.
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/62140/what_else_happened_on_september_11.html
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