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Today, September 11th, is the anniversary of a number of events, but two in particular are being talked about today: the twelve year anniversary of the World Trade Center/Pentagon attacks, of course, and the forty year anniversary of the overthrow and forced suicide of democratically elected president of Chile Salvador Allende.
41 years ago today, the US government forcibly ended the nearly two year long occupation of Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay. Alcatraz was a famous prison which closed down in 1963. A group of American Indians claimed the island while by citing a 1868 treaty which promised to return all abandoned and unused federal lands.
This gorgeous graphic has been making its way around the internet lately: