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With the media focused on remembrance of this date in 2001, I looked back to find how this day fared on other years in history
Perhaps instead of "Patriot Day" future calandars could just read "Stay in bed":
Sept 11 1777
General George Washington loses to British forces under the command of Gen Sir William Howe at the Battle of Brandywine PA...The Yanks later return to reclaim this strategic ski resort
Sept 11 1847
Stephen Foster's "Oh! Susanna" is first performed in a saloon in Pittsburgh. setting off a hellish fad of "banjo mania" unparalleled until the 1970s movie "Deliverance".
Sept 11 1857
150 years ago, the Mountain Meadows Massacre took place in present-day southern Utah as a 120-member Arkansas immigrant party was slaughtered by Mormon settlers. The incident eventually results in a PR blitz recruiting pop icons Donnie & Marie and a subtle name change to LDS.
Sept 11 1887
First drunken driving arrest.
A 25 year old taxi driver named George Smith was arrested for driving drunk after crashing into a house. Smith later pled guilty and was fined 25 Shilling.
Sept 11 1941
Charles A. Lindbergh sparked charges of anti-Semitism with a speech in Des Moines, Iowa, in which he said "the British, the Jewish and the Roosevelt administration" were trying to draw the United States into World War II.
Sept 11 1941
FDR orders any Axis ship found in American waters be shot on sight.
Sept 11 1946
1st mobile long-distance car-to-car telephone conversation. It didn't catch on right away, but no teens were harmed in the experiment.
Sept 11 1950
33 die in a train crash in Coshocton Ohio.
Sept 11 1950
Dick Tracy TV show sparks uproar concerning violence. "Tom And Jerry" would soon serve to raise the bar.
Sept 11 1964
The last of the Friday Night Fights was seen on free, home TV. The Gillette Safety Razor Company, Madison Square Garden and ABC-TV televised a fight between Dick Tiger and Don Fullmer from Cleveland, OH. Tiger beat Fullmer to wrap up the 20-year TV series. Boxing soon went to closed-circuit TV in theatres and to cable and pay-per-view TV. I remember my dad weeping that night.
Sept 11 1965
The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile) arrives in South Vietnam and is stationed at An Khe. I'm not going into how that went, let's just say they aren't there anymore.
Sept 11 1967
"The Carol Burnett Show" premiered on CBS. We could have gone all our lives without knowing secret ear-tugging and Harvey Korman.
Sept 11 1971
Former Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev died at age 77. He was best known as the first politician to be roundly critisized for tapping his shoe.
Sept 11 1972
The troubled Munich Summer Olympics ended with only minimal number of deaths.
Sept 11 1973
With the blessing of Henry Kissinger and the CIA, general Augusto Pinochet stages a violent coup in Chile, overthrowing the government of Salvador Allende, the country's democratically-elected but nonetheless Marxist president.
Sept 11 1974
An Eastern Airlines DC-9 crashed during a landing attempt in Charlotte, N.C., killing 71 of the people on board.
Sept 11 1974
On "A very Special" episode of the popular spin-off sitcom "Rhoda" ... She gets a divorce from an overly sensitive balding guy in a pastel leisure suit. Funny stuff.
Sept 11 1977
At Baumetes Prison in Marseille, France, Hamida Djandoubi, a Tunisian immigrant convicted of murder, becomes the last person executed by guillotine. Shares of Gillette plummet on the news.
Sept 11 1978
Janet Parker, a medical photographer, is the final victim of smallpox. It is likely she contracted the disease at Birmingham University's medical lab, an accident while working on an unrelated project.
Sept 11 1986
The stock market plunged 86.61 points to 1792.89. It was the busiest day ever (to that day) for investors, brokers and traders on Wall Street as the big board tumbled.
Sept 11 1987
Upset over delays due to live coverage of a pro tennis match, television anchorman Dan Rather walks off the set of the CBS Evening News. When the sports program ends unexpectedly, Rather is nowhere to be found. The network feed goes dark for six whole minutes before Dan can be persuaded to return.
Sept 11 1987
Actor Lorne Greene, star of television's Bonanza and Battlestar Galactica, dies of pneumonia in Santa Monica, California. Greene, whose credits also include 1986's Vasectomy: A Delicate Matter, was 504 in dog years.
Sept 11 1991
Boxer Mike Tyson is arrested for raping Desiree Washington in an Indianapolis hotel room. After his conviction and three years spent behind bars, Tyson continues to maintain his innocence, telling one reporter: "I just hate her guts... I really wish I did now... now I really do want to rape her."
Sept 11 1991
"La Toya: Growing Up in the Jackson Family" goes on sale, snatched from the shelves by hordes of obsessed fans who thought it was Michael in drag.
Sept 11 1991
14 die in a Continental Express commuter plane crash near Houston.
Sep 11 1993
Mariah Carey’s album Music Box reached #1 on U.K. album charts, while a single from that album, Dreamlover, was hitting #1 on U.S. singles charts.
Sept 11 1997
The Army issued a searing indictment of itself, asserting that "sexual harassment exists throughout the Army, crossing gender, rank and racial lines."
Sept 11 1997
Football Hall of Famer Johnny Unitas dies at age 69.
Sept 11 2003
Tommy Chong, half of the perpetually high comedy duo Cheech and Chong, is sentenced to nine months in federal prison. Chong was targeted and made an example of as the result of two U.S. investigations (Operation Pipe Dreams and Operation Headhunter) which sought to close down businesses selling bongs and other marijuana-related drug paraphernalia over the Internet. This serves to answer the post 2001 question: "Are we safe yet?"
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