9 – The Battle of the Teutoburg Forest ends.
1773 – Benjamin Franklin writes “There never was a good war or bad peace”
1853 – 1st electric telegraph used
1889 – Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure “Crooked Man”
1906 – Mahatma Gandhi coins the term “Satyagraha” to characterize the Non-Violence movement in South Africa.
1909 – Max Wolf rediscovers Halley’s comet
1910 – 1st commercially successful electric bus line opens (Hollywood)
2001 – Two passenger planes hijacked by terrorists crash into New York’s World Trade Towers causing the collapse of both and death of 2,752 people
2001 – Terrorists hijack a passenger plane and crash it into the Pentagon causing the death of 125 people
2001 – Attempt by passengers and crew of United Airlines Flight 93 to retake control of their hijacked plane from terrorists causes plane to crash in Pennsylvania field killing all 64 people onboard
2002 – Through extreme and coordinated effort, The Pentagon is rededicated after repairs are completed, exactly one year after the attack on the building.
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 – “Pride & Prejudice”, the film adaptation of Jane Austen’s novel of the same name is released
2014 – South African athlete Oscar Pistorius is found not guilty of murdering his girlfriend ReevaSteenkamp (and is later found guilty of culpable homicide)
By: Archa Dave
