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<p><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_11" title="September 11">September 11</a></b>: <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Day_of_Catalonia" title="National Day of Catalonia">National Day of Catalonia</a></b>
</p><ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1297" title="1297">1297</a> – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_War_of_Scottish_Independence" title="First War of Scottish Independence">First War of Scottish Independence</a>: Scottish forces under <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Moray" title="Andrew Moray">Andrew Moray</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Wallace" title="William Wallace">William Wallace</a> defeated English troops at the <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Stirling_Bridge" title="Battle of Stirling Bridge">Battle of Stirling Bridge</a></b> on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River_Forth" title="River Forth">River Forth</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1945" title="1945">1945</a> – The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_Japanese_Army" title="Imperial Japanese Army">Japanese</a>-run camp at <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batu_Lintang_camp" title="Batu Lintang camp">Batu Lintang</a></b>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarawak" title="Sarawak">Sarawak</a>, in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borneo" title="Borneo">Borneo</a> was liberated by the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9th_Division_(Australia)" title="9th Division (Australia)">Australian 9th Division</a>, averting the planned massacre of its 2,000-plus Allied <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisoner_of_war" title="Prisoner of war">POWs</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internment" title="Internment">civilian internees</a> by four days.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1978" title="1978">1978</a> – British medical photographer Janet Parker <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1978_smallpox_outbreak_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="1978 smallpox outbreak in the United Kingdom">became the last recorded person</a></b> to die from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smallpox" title="Smallpox">smallpox</a>, leading to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smallpox_virus_retention_debate" title="Smallpox virus retention debate">a debate</a> on whether the virus should be preserved.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1995" title="1995">1995</a> – <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mir_EO-19" title="Mir EO-19">Mir EO-19</a></b>, the nineteenth crewed mission to the Russian space station <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mir" title="Mir">Mir</a></i>, returned to Earth after approximately 75 days in space. It was the first Mir expedition launched on an American <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle" title="Space Shuttle">Space Shuttle</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001" title="2001">2001</a> – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Qaeda" title="Al-Qaeda">Al-Qaeda</a> hijacked four passenger airliners headed for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California" title="California">California</a> to carry out <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_11_attacks" title="September 11 attacks">a series of terrorist attacks</a></b> against targets in New York City and the Washington, D.C., area.</li></ul>
<p><b>Births and Deaths: </b><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Hagiochristophorites" title="Stephen Hagiochristophorites">Stephen Hagiochristophorites</a></b> (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 1185); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Nahaolelua" title="Paul Nahaolelua">Paul Nahaolelua</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1806); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Watson_Whitney" title="Mary Watson Whitney">Mary Watson Whitney</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1847); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Issy_Smith" title="Issy Smith">Issy Smith</a></b> (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 1940)</p>
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