This Day in History

I have a particular affection for this day, and yet, I can barely watch TV without being assaulted by news of what happened five years ago. It was neither good nor astounding the first time around. Why do people insist on reliving it each year?

To provide some perspective, I provide you with other September 11th happenings, good and bad, of as great or greater import than the happenings of five years ago:

3 BC: Some suggest this as the actual date of Christ's birth.

1297: Wallace beat the English at the Battle of Sterling Bridge.

1649: Cromwell's troops sacked Drogheda and killed the entire garrison.
1683: Jan Sobieski halted the Turkish invasion of Europe at the Battle of Vienna.
1777: The British won the Battle of the Brandywine in the Revolution.
1786: The Annapolis Convention (precursor to the Constitutional Convention) is convened.

1906: Ghandi began his non-violent movement for Indian freedom.

1933: While waiting for a red light, Leo Szilard conceived the idea of the nuclear chain reaction.
1971: Khrushchev died.
1973: In Chile, Pinochet's coup toppled Allende.
1978: The Camp David accords were signed by Sadat and Begin.
1989: The first part of the iron curtain fell in Hungary.
1990: President Bush (I) threatened to expel Iraqi soldiers from Kuwait.