Chile’s armed forces stage a coup d’état against the government of President Salvador Allende, the first democratically elected Marxist leader in Latin America.

Former Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev, one of the most significant figures of the Cold War and certainly one of the most colorful, dies on September 11, 1971.

On September 11, 1971, 13-year-old teen idol Donny Osmond earns his first solo (and second overall) #1 hit with “Go Away Little Girl.

In Christiana, Pennsylvania, a group of African Americans and white abolitionists skirmish with a Maryland posse intent on capturing four fugitive enslaved people hidden in the town.

During the Battle of Plattsburg on Lake Champlain, a newly built U.

Staking a tenuous claim to the natural riches of California, Russians dedicate Fort Ross on the coast north of San Francisco on September 11, 1812.

On September 11, 1777, General Sir William Howe and General Charles Cornwallis launch a full-scale British attack on General George Washington and the Patriot outpost at Brandywine Creek near Chadds Ford, in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, on the road linking Baltimore and Philadelphia.

Michelangelo’s work on 12 Apostles, started on this day, was abandoned after a call from Rome – which led to the magnificent painting of the Sistine Chapel.