On this day .....

Joe Fan said:
September 11, 1683 -- Poland led the Holy League army to defeat the Turks at Vienna and drive them from Europe

After victory, King Sobieski said: "Veni, vidi, Deus vicit"


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Stupid question, but is this saying that September 11 has been a major Christian vs. Islam date in history since 300 years ago? Was that some connection point?
 
VYFan said:
Stupid question, but is this saying that September 11 has been a major Christian vs. Islam date in history since 300 years ago? Was that some connection point?
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The Battle of Viena was a big battlefield upset. Sobieski had only ~30,000 men when he defeated a Muslim Crusade force of ~300,000. It was such an embarrassing defeat for the Ottomans that they put their own leader, Mustafa, to death by strangulation. Had the Muslims sacked Vienna, they almost certainly would have marched on to take Rome, the Vatican and the Catholic Church, which would have been the end of Western Civilization. In this light, it was arguably as significant as the Battle of Thermopylae (but hasnt had a blue screen movie made about it yet (and may never given the sensitivities)).

Lawrence Wright wrote in The Looming Tower (Pulitzer winner) about Sept. 11, 1683 --
"For the next three hundred years, Islam would be overshadowed by the growth of Western Christian societies...."​

Osama bin Laden picked the date for the WTC attacks and saw it as Islam’s big comeback. The date has since been used by other jihadis, including the attack on the US compound in Benghazi which killed Ambassador Stevens and 3 other Americans.
 
22 September 1939:

Joint Nazi-Soviet victory parade in Brest-Litovsk after the abolition of Poland, igniting WW2

 
Today in 1835,

“You may all go to hell and I will go to Texas.” ​

-- Congressman David Crockett upon leaving Tennessee.
 
I'm a bit late on this.

November 1, 1913: Knute Rockne threw the first forward pass (in fact, the first 5 forward passes) to Gus Dorias, as underdog Notre Dame beat Army 35-13.
 
On this day, November 5, 1994, George Foreman knocked out Michael Moorer in the 10th round at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas to regain, at age 45, the heavyweight championship of the world.
 
99 years ago today:

11-11-11-18, the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month of 1918, the armistice had been signed and the guns fell silent in France. More than 33 million were dead, the land of northeastern and eastern France was obliterated. The troops celebrated and eventually came home, leaving the peace to be decided by the vindictive politicians of the allied nations. But this was just a lull in the fighting. In 21 years, a new and more devastating conflict would erupt. Europe would once again be engulfed in the flames of war.
 
After Pearl Harbor, stock market drifted lower, down to 92.92 on April 28, 1942.
Within two years, the Dow was up 50%, and it doubled by 1945.
By 1955, the Dow was up fivefold, and it doubled again ten years later.

Twenty-four years after FDR’s speech, the Dow had advanced close to 1,000% and that’s not counting dividends.
 
.... in 1795, French cavalry captured fourteen Dutch warships at sea as the water had frozen due to exceptionally cold weather, making it the only time in recorded history when horse-riding soldiers captured a fleet of ships.

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