September 11: National Day of Catalonia

 1697 – Great Turkish War: Forces led by Prince Eugene of Savoy decisively defeated
Ottoman troops at the Battle of Zenta in present-day Serbia, ending the Turkish
threat to Europe.
 1857 – A legion of Mormon militiamen completed a massacre of at least 120
California-bound Arkansas pioneers at Mountain Meadow, Utah.
 1893 – Swami Vivekananda (pictured) gave a speech introducing Hinduism on the
opening day of the first Parliament of the World's Religions in Chicago.
 1992 – Hurricane Iniki, the most powerful hurricane on record to strike the
Hawaiian Islands, passed directly over the island of Kauai, killing six people and
causing around US$1.8 billion dollars in damage.
 2012 – The American consulate and CIA annex in Libya were attacked by a heavily
armed group, resulting in the deaths of U.S. ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and
three others.