On This Day September 11

1565 The Great Siege of Malta ends when the Ottoman retreat

1895 Someone steals the FA Cup in Birmingham

1918 Boston Red Sox win the World Series over the Chicago Cubs 4 games to 2.

1969 Pete Best leaves the Beatles Ringo Starr replaces him as the drummer

1940 World War 2 The German bomb and destroy Buckingham Palace in London England

1941 Construction starts on The Pentagon in Arlington Virginia

1967 The Carol Burnett Show debuts on CBS

1985 With his 4,192 hit Pete Rose becomes MLB all time hitting leader

1987 Peter Tosh pass away

1995 The Great Escape Is released by the band Blur

2011 The 911 attacks two planes crash into the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York and 1 into The Pentagon in Arlington Virginia

1885 DH Lawrence Author

1902 Barbecue Bob Musician

1933 Margaret Booth Judge

1940 Brian De Palma film director of Scarface, Carlito’s Way

1964 Victor Wooten musician Bass Player in Bands Bela Fleck and the Flecktones, Chick Corea

1965 Paul Heyman launched ECW, Pro Wrestling Advocate

1971 Richard Ashcroft musician in the band The Verve

1977 Ludacris rapper actor

1978 Ben Lee musician

1979 Ariana Richards actress Jurassic Park

1984 Agnes Albright actress Ballers, General Hospital

1991 Alicia Guastaferro reality personality,

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