Also on this day in history...

In Santiago, Chile on September 11, 1973 the democratically elected government of Salvador Allende was overthrown in a bloody coup d'etat led by General Augusto Pinochet. Much of the coup was organized and financed by the Central Intelligence Agency, acting on the Nixon administration's belief that a popular socialist government in South America undermined American authourity in the region.

General Pinochet would go on establish an brutal dictatorship which lasted 17 years, threw out democracy, catered exclusively to the rich, and killed over 3,000 of its own people: for those of you scoring at home, this page does count the "disappeared" in that number.

28 years later to the day, about the same number would be killed in Al-Qaida's terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. In both instances, American interventionist foreign policy failed to take into account its own instability, leading to tragedy and violence.