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A much earlier historic September 11 in the US: Christiana resistance
"Resistance" is a more modern name for it. It was originally called a riot and that is how the historic marker reads.
http://explorepahistory.com/hmarker.php?markerId=1-A-109
I first learned of this tonight, while watching, of all things, an episode of "Who Do You Think You Are?", featuring the ancestry of Zooey Deschanel.
According to one of the historians filling her in about her ancestors, the event was one of the pivotal events that led to the Civil War.
I'd heard of the Fugitive Slave Act before, but I'd never heard of Christiana before. Yet, I learned of it watching what I assumed would be near mindless TV.
