Wikipedia:Main Page history/2019 September 11

the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit.

From today's featured article

The World Trade Center
is prominently featured
in the episode.

"The City of New York vs. Homer Simpson" is the first episode of The Simpsons' ninth season. The 179th episode of the series overall, it was originally broadcast on the Fox network in the United States on September 21, 1997. Written by Ian Maxtone-Graham, the episode features the Simpson family traveling to recover the family car, which Barney Gumble had abandoned in Manhattan with numerous parking tickets and a parking boot. Executive producers Bill Oakley and Josh Weinstein suggested that the car be found at the World Trade Center (pictured in 2001), as they wanted a location that would be widely known. The animators painstakingly replicated city landmarks. The episode received generally positive reviews, and has since been on accolade lists of The Simpsons episodes. It was taken off syndication in many areas following the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center, but had come back into syndication by 2006. (Full article...)

Recently featured:

Did you know...

Map of Poland showing provinces and counties declared LGBT-free zones

... that as of August 2019, around thirty LGBT-free zones have been declared in Poland, including four south-eastern voivodeships (depicted on map)?
... that hematologist Samuel Charache discovered the first effective treatment for sickle cell disease?
... that St Andrew's Cross in Glasgow is also known as Eglinton Toll, as it was the entry point to an inland dock for a canal established by Hugh Montgomerie, 12th Earl of Eglinton, in the early 19th century?
... that Chinese-American mathematician Stephen Shing-Toung Yau established the "Yau algebra" and the "Yau number"?
... that Aama was the first Nepalese film to be produced in Nepal?
... that Siegel modular varieties naturally capture information about black hole entropy in string theory?
... that billionaire Max Auschnitt bribed Romanian authorities, and worked with "an anti-Semite, but a civilized one", to help Jews escape the Holocaust?
... that in 1874, the New York Herald wrote a hoax story to draw attention to inadequate safety precautions at the Central Park Zoo?

In the news

Robert Mugabe

A stampede during the celebration of Ashura in Karbala, Iraq, kills at least thirty-one people and injures more than a hundred others.
The Indian Space Research Organisation loses contact with Chandrayaan-2's Vikram lunar lander approximately 2.1 kilometres (1.3 mi) above the Moon's surface.
Former Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe (pictured) dies at the age of 95.
A fire aboard a charter boat near Santa Cruz Island in California leaves at least thirty-three people dead and one other missing.

On this day

September 11: National Day of Catalonia

Portrait of Gabriel Fauré by John Singer Sargent

1780 - American Revolutionary War: Forty-one American soldiers were massacred by loyalists and their Native American allies in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania.
1897 – Gaki Sherocho was captured by the forces of Ethiopian emperor Menelik II, bringing an end to the Kingdom of Kaffa.
1924 – French composer Gabriel Fauré (depicted) finished his last composition, a string quartet, before dying two months later.
1965 – Indo-Pakistani War: Indian infantry captured the town of Burki near Lahore, Pakistan.
2012 – The American consulate and CIA annex in Libya were attacked by a heavily armed group, resulting in the deaths of U.S. ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and three other Americans.

Stephen Hagiochristophorites (d. 1185) · Mary Watson Whitney (b. 1847) · Murali Kartik (b. 1976)

More anniversaries:

Today's featured picture

The collapse of the World Trade Center in New York City occurred as a result of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, after the buildings were struck by two hijacked commercial airliners. The North Tower was hit at 8:46 am and collapsed at 10:28 am. The South Tower was hit at 9:03 am and collapsed at 9:59 am. The resulting debris severely damaged or destroyed more than a dozen other adjacent and nearby structures, ultimately leading to the collapse of Seven World Trade Center at 5:21 pm.

This picture, taken four days after the collapse, shows a New York City fireman calling for ten more rescue workers to make their way into the rubble of the World Trade Center.

Photograph credit: Preston Keres; retouched by Lise Broer

Recently featured:

Other areas of Wikipedia

Community portal – Bulletin board, projects, resources and activities covering a wide range of Wikipedia areas.
Help desk – Ask questions about using Wikipedia.
Local embassy – For Wikipedia-related communication in languages other than English.
Reference desk – Serving as virtual librarians, Wikipedia volunteers tackle your questions on a wide range of subjects.
Site news – Announcements, updates, articles and press releases on Wikipedia and the Wikimedia Foundation.
Village pump – For discussions about Wikipedia itself, including areas for technical issues and policies.