September 10th facts
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On the night of September 10th, 2001, an artist by the name Monika Bravo filmed 7 hours of footage of a thunderstorm from the 91st floor of the WTC North Tower. She took the raw footage home with her that night. The next morning, both towers collapsed. The video she edited is found here:
In China Teacher's Day is September 10th. People have petitioned to have it moved to Confucius" birthday on September 28th, the same day as Taiwan celebrates their teachers.
In my opinion, it is useful to put together a list of the most interesting details from trusted sources that I've come across. Here are 29 of the best facts about September 10th I managed to collect.
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On September 10th, 2001, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld gave a speech that $2.3 Trillion of Pentagon funds had been unaccounted for, a figure that equated to $8,000 per US citizen that could not be traced to any transactions.
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The Second Continental Congress met at a variety of locations during its existence. It met in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania from May 10th, 1775 to December 12th, 1776. It met in Baltimore, Maryland from December 20th, 1776 to March 4th, 1777. It met in Philadelphia from March 5th, 1777 to September 18th, 1777. It met in Lancaster, Pennsylvania on one day only on September 27th, 1777. It met in York, Pennsylvania from September 30th, 1777 to June 27th, 1778. It met in Philadelphia from July 2nd, 1778 until March 1st, 1781.
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The first accomplishment of the First Continental Congress was a compact to boycott British goods, agreed to by the colonies. It was also agreed that if the acts were not repealed the colonies would cease to export to Britain as of September 10th, 1775.
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The months September-December are named for their former numerical positions in the Roman Calender. Sept (7th), Oct (8th), Nov (9th), Dec (10th).
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Chinua Achebe married Christiana Chinwe Okoli on September 10th, 1961. They had several children together including Chinelo, Ikechukwu, Chidi, Nwando, and eventually had several grandchildren as well.
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September, October, November, and December were the 7th, 8th, 9th, and 10th months (as the prefixes suggest), before the Romans added January and February to the beginning of the year, putting things out of order.
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September, October, November and December were named as such because they were the 7th, 8th, 9th and 10th months of the Roman calendar respectively.
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On September 10th, the day before 9/11, Donald Rumsfeld warned of $2.3 trillion of unaccounted for spending
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On September 10th 1977 France used the guillotine for the last time as a form of execution.
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If the Queen survives till 10th September 2015, she will be the LONGEST REIGNING monarch in British history at 63 years 217 days, overtaking her great-great grandmother, Queen Victoria. (Do I hear a Bank Holiday coming??)
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Lawyer and CNN commentator Barbara Olsen intended to fly to California on September 10th 2001 but decided to instead fly on the 11th to surprise her husband on his birthday. Barbara died when her plane - Airlines Flight 777 - was flown into the Pentagon as part of the 9/11 attacks.
The thrash band Slayer released their studio album called "God Hates Us All" on September 11, 2001. Their record label changed the release date from July 10th to September 11th due to several audio mixing concerns. - source
Valve's Steam client accepted its first users on the 10th of September 2003. On that day, there were only thirteen accounts on all of Steam. Today, there are 75 million active accounts, and 165 million total. - source
The months SEPTember, OCTober, NOVember, and DECember used to be the 7th, 8th, 9th, and 10th months until Julius Ceaser and Augustus came into power and added the months July and August.
In October 1582, 10 calendar days were skipped in order to move the equinox to the 21st of March and September, as it had slowly slipped backwards to the 10th due to a flaw in the Julian calendar.
10th of September is Irma name day in Czech Republic
Comedian George Carlin recorded a special called "I Kinda Like It When a Lotta People Die" on September 10th, 2001.
Tom Kenney, a FEMA employee gave an interview on September 13th 2001 saying that his team arrived in New York City on September 10th late at night and went to work Tuesday morning in support of the disaster the day of September 11th, 2001.
September, October, November, and December used to be the 7th, 8th, 9th, and 10th months of the year, as their prefixes would logically suggest.
