TODAY IS WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 2019 ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY:

1297 - Scotsman William Wallace defeated the English forces of Sir Hugh de Cressingham at the Battle of Stirling Bridge.

1499 - French forces took over Milan, Italy.

1695 - Imperial troops under Eugene of Savoy defeated the Turks at the Battle of Zenta.

1709 - An Anglo-Dutch-Austrian force defeated the French in the Battle of Malplaquet.

1714 - Spanish and French troops broke into Barcelona and ended Catalonia’s sovereignty after 13 months of siege.

1842 - 1,400 Mexican troops captured San Antonio, TX. The Mexicans retreated with prisoners.

1855 - The siege of Sevastopol ended when French, British and Piedmontese troops captured the main naval base of the Russian Black fleet in the Crimean War.

1863 - Bushranger Captain Thunderbolt escapes from the supposedly escape-proof Cockatoo Island gaol.

1914 - Australian troops land in New Guinea in the first significant Australian action of World War I.

1978 - The coat of arms of the Northern Territory is granted by Queen Elizabeth II.

1991 - Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev announced that thousands of troops would be drawn out of Cuba.

1997 - Scotland voted to create its own Parliament after 290 years of union with England.

Birthdays

James Thomson 1700 O. Henry (William Sidney Porter) 1862

James Jeans

D.H. Lawrence 1885 Jimmie Davis 1899 Anne Seymour 1909 Bear Bryant 1913 Jessica Mitford 1917 Ferdinand Marcos (Philippines) 1917

Betsy Drake 1923

Tom Landry 1924 Alfred Slote 1926

Lee Richardson 1926

Earl Holliman 1928

Arvo Part 1935 Gherman Titov 1935 Brian DePalma 1940

Lola Falana 1943

Harry Connick, Jr. 1967