On this day...

September 11: Patriot Day in the United States

Portrait of Gabriel Faur by John Singer Sargent

Portrait of Gabriel Faur by John Singer Sargent
1226 The Catholic practice of Eucharistic adoration among lay people formally
began in Avignon, France.
1649 Cromwellian conquest of Ireland: Oliver Cromwell's New Model Army ended the
Siege of Drogheda, took over the town and massacred its garrison.
1924 French composer Gabriel Faur (pictured) finished his last piece, a string
quartet, before dying two months later.
1992 The eye of Hurricane Iniki, the most powerful hurricane to strike the state
of Hawaii and the Hawaiian Islands in recorded history, passed directly over the
island of Kauai, killing six people and causing around US$1.8 billion dollars in
damage.
2001 Al-Qaeda used four hijacked passenger airliners to carry out a series of
suicide attacks against targets in New York City and the Washington, D.C., area.