Today in History 09/11 (Chilean coup d’état)

Date: Sep 11, 1973

Coup of September 11, 1973. Bombing of La Moneda (presidential palace)
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(1973) Allende overthrown in Chile as a dictator waits in the wings.
Also on this day,
1792 | King Louis XIV’s 68-carat ‘French Blue’ diamond is stolen
Also on this day,
1792 | King Louis XIV’s 68-carat ‘French Blue’ diamond is stolen
Looters take advantage of the French Revolution’s chaos by breaking into the Royal Storehouse and nabbing the Crown Jewels, among them a steel-blue diamond of enormous size. The ‘French Blue’ will vanish for 20 years before one recut piece surfaces in London as the Hope Diamond.1850 | ‘Swedish Nightingale’ makes her US debut to rapturous acclaim
American showman extraordinaire P.T. Barnum has secured the Swedish singing sensation, soprano Jenny Lind, for a US concert tour and tonight’s premiere in New York is met with a thunderous ovation. The press will dub the hubbub surrounding the singer’s American debut, ‘Lind mania.’2001 | Al-Qaeda attacks US cities in coordinated attack
Four passenger jets are hijacked in a terrorist suicide plot, with two planes slamming into New York’s World Trade Center twin towers, one hitting the Pentagon outside Washington, DC, and another crashing in Pennsylvania. The death toll from the worst terrorist attack on American soil will reach nearly 3,000.
Today in History 09/11/17

Date: Sep 11, 2001
Fatalities: 2,996
Diagram showing the attacks on the World Trade Center
wiki/September_11_attacks