HISTORY AT A GLANCE

TODAY is Monday, September 11, the 254th day of 2017. There are 111 days left in the year.

Highlights in history on this date:

1973 – A coup in Chile headed by General Augusto Pinochet topples the democratically elected president Salvador Allende. Pinochet exercises dictatorial power until ousted in a referendum in

1988, staying in power until 1990.

1978 – Janet Parker is the last person to die of smallpox, in a laboratory-associated outbreak.

1980 – Voters approve a new Constitution of Chile, later amended after the departure of president Pinochet.

1982 – The international forces that were guaranteeing the safety of Palestinian refugees following Israel’s 1982 Invasion of Lebanon leave Beirut. Five days later, several thousand refugees are massacred in the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps.

1985 – Pete Rose breaks Ty Cobb’s baseball record for most career hits with his 4,192nd hit.

1988 – The St. Jean Bosco massacre takes place in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.

1989 – Hungary announces that the East German refugees who had been housed in temporary camps were free to leave for West Germany.

1992 – Hurricane Iniki, one of the most damaging hurricanes in United States history, devastates the Hawaiian islands of Kauai and Oahu.

1997 – NASA’s Mars Global Surveyor reaches Mars.

1997 – After a nationwide referendum, Scotland votes to establish a devolved parliament within the United Kingdom.

1998 – Opening ceremony for the 1998 Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Malaysia is the first Asian country to host the games.

2001 – Two hijacked aircraft crash into the World Trade Center in New York City, while a third smashes into The Pentagon in Arlington County, Virginia, and a fourth into a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania, in a series of coordinated suicide attacks by 19 members of al-Qaeda. In total 2,996 people are killed.

2007 – Russia tests the largest conventional weapon ever, the Father of All Bombs.

2012 – A total of 315 people are killed in two garment factory fires in Pakistan.

2012 – The US embassy in Benghazi, Libya is attacked, resulting in four deaths.

2013 – A 400 km long human chain called Catalan Way is organized by the Assemblea Nacional Catalana for the independence of Catalonia