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Wednesday 2024-09-11 Bahrain time
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20 السنبلة 1402 هجري شمسي
فصل الصيف نوء سهيل 19
نجم الجبهة 6

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• 12 September United Nations Day for South-South Cooperation
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Happened this day (11 September) * Source Wikipedia

- Pre-1600
- 3114 BC The Mesoamerican Long Count calendar, used by several pre-Columbian Mesoamerican civilizations, notably the Maya, begins.
- 2492 BC Traditional date of the defeat of Bel by Hayk, progenitor and founder of the Armenian nation.
- 106 The south-western part of Dacia (modern Romania) becomes a Roman province: Roman Dacia.
- 117 Hadrian is proclaimed Roman emperor, two days after Trajan's death.
- 355 Claudius Silvanus, accused of treason, proclaims himself Roman Emperor against Constantius II.
- 490 Battle of Adda: The Goths under Theodoric the Great and his ally Alaric II defeat the forces of Odoacer on the Adda River, near Milan.
- 923 The Qarmatians of Bahrayn capture and pillage the city of Basra.
- 1315 The Great Famine of Europe becomes so dire that even the king of England has difficulties buying bread for himself and his entourage.
- 1332 Wars of Scottish Independence: Battle of Dupplin Moor: Scots under Domhnall II, Earl of Mar are routed by Edward Balliol.
- 1473 The Battle of Otlukbeli: Mehmed the Conqueror of the Ottoman Empire decisively defeats Uzun Hassan of Aq Qoyunlu.
- 1492 Rodrigo de Borja is elected as Head of the Catholic Church, taking the name Pope Alexander VI.
- 1601–1900
- 1675 Franco-Dutch War: Forces of the Holy Roman Empire defeat the French in the Battle of Konzer Brücke.
- 1685 Morean War: The 49-day Siege of Coron ends with the surrender and massacre of its garrison by the Venetians.
- 1786 Captain Francis Light establishes the British colony of Penang in Malaysia.
- 1804 Francis II assumes the title of first Emperor of Austria.
- 1812 Peninsular War: French troops engage British-Portuguese forces in the Battle of Majadahonda.
- 1813 In Colombia, Juan del Corral declares the independence of Antioquia.
- 1858 The Eiger in the Bernese Alps is ascended for the first time by Charles Barrington accompanied by Christian Almer and Peter Bohren.
- 1871 An explosion of guncotton occurs in Stowmarket, England, killing 28.
- 1898 Spanish–American War: American troops enter the city of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico.
- 1901–present
- 1918 World War I: The Battle of Amiens ends.
- 1919 Germany's Weimar Constitution is signed into law.
- 1920 The 1920 Cork hunger strike begins which eventually results in the deaths of three Irish Republicans including the Lord Mayor of Cork Terence MacSwiney.
- 1920 The Latvian–Soviet Peace Treaty, which relinquished Russia's authority and pretenses to Latvia, is signed, ending the Latvian War of Independence.
- 1929 Babe Ruth becomes the first baseball player to hit 500 home runs in his career with a home run at League Park in Cleveland, Ohio.
- 1934 The first civilian prisoners arrive at the Federal prison on Alcatraz Island.
- 1942 Actress Hedy Lamarr and composer George Antheil receive a patent for a Frequency-hopping spread spectrum communication system that later became the basis for modern technologies in wireless telephones, two-way radio communications, and Wi-Fi.
- 1945 Poles in Kraków engage in a pogrom against Jews in the city, killing one and wounding five.
- 1952 Hussein bin Talal is proclaimed King of Jordan.
- 1959 Sheremetyevo International Airport, the second-largest airport in Russia, opens.
- 1960 Chad declares independence from France.
- 1961 The former Portuguese territories in India of Dadra and Nagar Haveli are merged to create the Union Territory Dadra and Nagar Haveli.
- 1962 Vostok 3 launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome and cosmonaut Andrian Nikolayev becomes the first person to float in microgravity.
- 1965 Race riots (the Watts Riots) begin in the Watts area of Los Angeles, California.
- 1969 The Apollo 11 astronauts are released from a three-week quarantine following their liftoff from the Moon.
- 1972 Vietnam War: The last United States ground combat unit leaves South Vietnam.
- 1975 East Timor: Governor Mário Lemos Pires of Portuguese Timor abandons the capital Dili, following a coup by the Timorese Democratic Union (UDT) and the outbreak of civil war between UDT and Fretilin.
- 1979 Two Aeroflot Tupolev Tu-134s collide over the Ukrainian city of Dniprodzerzhynsk and crash, killing all 178 aboard both airliners.
- 1982 A bomb explodes on Pan Am Flight 830, en route from Tokyo, Japan to Honolulu, Hawaii, killing one passenger and injuring 15 others.
- 1984 "We begin bombing in five minutes": United States President Ronald Reagan, while running for re-election, jokes while preparing to make his weekly Saturday address on National Public Radio.
- 1988 A meeting between Sayyed Imam Al-Sharif, Osama bin Laden, Abdullah Yusuf Azzam, and leaders of Egyptian Islamic Jihad in Afghanistan culminates in the formation of Al-Qaeda.
- 1991 Nickelodeon's first line of “Nicktoons” (Doug, Rugrats & Ren & Stimpy) premiere on the channel.
- 1992 The Mall of America in Bloomington, Minnesota opens. At the time the largest shopping mall in the United States.
- 2000 An air rage incident occurs on board Southwest Airlines Flight 1763 when 19-year-old Jonathan Burton attempts to storm the cockpit, but he is subdued by other passengers and dies from his injuries.
- 2003 NATO takes over command of the peacekeeping force in Afghanistan, marking its first major operation outside Europe in its 54-year-history.
- 2003 Jemaah Islamiyah leader Riduan Isamuddin, better known as Hambali, is arrested in Bangkok, Thailand.
- 2006 The oil tanker MT Solar 1 sinks off the coast of Guimaras and Negros Islands in the Philippines, causing the country's worst oil spill.
- 2012 At least 306 people are killed and 3,000 others injured in a pair of earthquakes near Tabriz, Iran.
- 2017 At least 41 people are killed and another 179 injured after two passenger trains collide in Alexandria, Egypt.
- 2023 Luna 25 launches from the Vostochny Cosmodrome.