11 September

10 weird and wonderful things which happened on 11 September: 

1. This date in 1885 saw the birth of David Herbert "DH" Lawrence, writer whose books include Sons and Lovers, The Rainbow, Women in Love and Lady Chatterly's Lover. He wrote, "Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically."
2. In 1978, Georgi Markov, a 49 year old Bulgarian dissident, died three days after being stabbed with a poisoned Umbrella tip while waiting for a bus near Waterloo Bridge in London. The incident became known as “The Umbrella Murder”.
3. Two studies connecting behaviour with Music were published on this date. In 1996 Psychologists at Loughborough University reported that the suicide rate among white urban males in certain parts of the US was linked to the frequency of country music on the radio. Ten years later, in 2006, the University of Leicester found that more than a quarter of classical music fans had tried cannabis; blues fans are the most likely to have received a driving penalty; hip hop and dance music fans were more likely to have multiple sex partners and take drugs.
4. In 1895, the FA Cup was stolen from William Shillcock, football outfitters, in Birmingham. 68 years later, an 83 year old man confessed to the theft, and said that he'd melted it down to make counterfeit half-crown coins.
5. In 1792, the Crown Jewels of France were stolen in Paris, including the famous ‘cursed’ Hope Diamond.
6. In 1987, four men were arrested on charges of plotting to steal a Dolphin worth £25,000 from the Marineland Oceanarium in Morecambe, Lancashire.
7. In 1297, William Wallace led the Scots to victory against the English at Stirling Bridge.
8. The most infamous date in modern history was 11 September 2001, when the World Trade Centre twin towers in New York and the Pentagon in Washington were hit by hijacked passenger planes, killing over 7,000 people. The 110 storey WTC twin towers collapsed, 5 floors of the Pentagon collapsed. Another United Airlines 757 jetliner crashed near Shanksville western Pennsylvania, believed to have been brought down by passengers aware of the New York strikes.
9. This date in 1915 saw the opening of Britain’s first Women's Institute at Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch, Anglesey, Wales.
10. In 1905, the British government blamed the tedium of country life for the increase in lunacy.

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