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A little Erik was born :-)

Then, 5 years ago, some jerks decided to hijack my day. Pfft. Some people’s kids.

You can find a list of other interesting things that happened on September 11th on wikipedia. Some items of note are:

• 1708 – Charles XII of Sweden stops outside Smolensk heading to the south, culminating in the disastrous battle of Poltava, the end of Sweden as a major power.
• 1918 – Baseball: The Boston Red Sox won the World Series; they would not do so again until October 27, 2004 after 86 years.
• 1941 – Ground broken for the construction of The Pentagon.
• 1970 – The Ford Pinto is introduced.
• 1981 – The Pee-wee Herman Show airs as a special on HBO.
• 1990 – President George H. W. Bush delivers a nationally televised speech in which he threatens the use of force to remove Iraqi soldiers from Kuwait, which Iraq had recently invaded.

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