ALl the events that happened on my birthday(september 11) included a
few deaths
- 1996 – Union Pacific Railroad purchases Southern Pacific Railroad.
- 1997 – NASA's Mars Global Surveyor reaches Mars.
- 1997 – After a nationwide referendum, Scotland votes to establish a devolved parliament, within the United Kingdom.
- 1998 – Independent counsel Kenneth Starr sends a report to the U.S. Congress accusing President Bill Clinton of 11 possible impeachable offenses.
- 1998 – Opening ceremony for the 1998 Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Malaysia is the first Asian country to host the games.
- 2000 – Activists protest against the World Economic Forum meeting in Melbourne, Australia.
- 2001 – The September 11 attacks take place in the United States. Airplane hijackings result in the collapse of the World Trade Center in New York City, destruction of the western portion of The Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, and a passenger airliner crash in Shanksville, Pennsylvania.
- 2002 – The Pentagon is rededicated after repairs are completed, exactly one year after the attack on the building.
- 2003 – Swedish foreign minister Anna Lindh dies after being assaulted and fatally wounded on September 10.
- 2003 – The Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety enters into effect.
- 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).
- 2005 – The State of Israel completes its unilateral disengagement from the Gaza Strip.
- 2007 – Russia tests the largest conventional weapon ever, the Father of all bombs.