Events for 9/11/1914...
- Australia invades New Britain, defeating a German contingent there.
-Australians captured German Headquarters at Herbertshöhe (New Guinea).
- William Christopher Handy publishes "St Louis Blues"
-HMS Hibernia reported 12-inch gun cracked; fifth such defect since outbreak of war.
-British 6th Division landed at St Nazaire.
-General von Moltke's last war council at Reims.
-General von Kluck at Fontenoy (Aisne).
-Allied left advancing on Compiègne. British reached Aisne near Soissons. Foch entered Châlons. Sarrail retook Revigny.
-Germans retook Insterburg.
-Russians closing on Grodek.
-HIMS Leipzig sank British ss Elsinore (6,542 tonnes) off Cape Corrientes.
Here's a link to the Daily Telegraph (UK), showing a few other stories of the day...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ww1-archive/11077830/Daily-Telegraph-September-11-1914.htmlThat generation has now passed on, and the Greatest Generation isn't too far behind them:
9/11/1944
Story about the 100th Bomb Group over the Czech-German Border, and about the memorial that was dedicated to that day in 1994Wikipedia: RAF Bombing raid of Darmstadt, most devastating raid against the city during WWIIStory about The Hump in the September 11th, 1944 issue of LIFE MagazineThis link has a LOT of entries about September 11th, 1944
Stone & Stone: War Diary for September 11th, 1944Another entry I found for September 11th, 1944:
-More than 1,200 die when U.S. forces sink two Japanese prison ships containing thousands of Allied captives.
This may be related to the USS Finback's sinkings that day, as delineated by Stone & Stone.
In answer to YOUR question, however, about 9/11/2001...-I was attending an annual conference on Thursday and we had a moment of silence during lunch.
-Also, we had a healing field set up in Sandy, Utah (there were some of these in other parts of the country as well):
http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865610679/Healing-Field-in-Sandy-gives-families-a-place-to-learn-on-911.html?pg=allSeveral other events locally as well, and I'm sure there were many across the country.