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September 11 Enkutatash is the first day of the New Year in Ethiopia. September 11, 1973 Coup d'État in Chile the Blessed Sacrament is exposed to and adored by the faithful. On 11 September 1826, William Morgan was arrested 1297 - Battle of Stirling Bridge: Scots led by William Wallace defeat the English. 1609 - Expulsion order announced against the Moriscos of Valencia; beginning of the expulsion of all Spain's Moriscos. 1978 - U.S. President Jimmy Carter, President Sadat of Egypt, and Prime Minister Begin of Israel met at Camp David and agreed on a framework for peace between Israel and Egypt 1980 - Voters approve the present Constitution of Chile. 1982 - The international forces, which were guaranteeing the safety of Palestinian refugees following Israel's 1982 Invasion of Lebanon, left Beirut. Five days later, several thousand refugees were massacred in the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps. 1990 - U.S. President George H. W. Bush delivers a nationally televised speech in which he threatens the use of force to remove Iraqi soldiers from Kuwait, which Iraq had recently invaded. He mentions the term "New World Order" in this speech for the first time 1997 - NASA's Mars Global Surveyor reaches Mars. 1998 - Independent counsel Kenneth Starr sends a report to the U.S. Congress accusing President Bill Clinton of 11 possible impeachable offenses. 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). 2007 - Russia tests the largest conventional weapon ever, the Father of all
bombs.
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