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September 20 is the 263rd day of the year (264th in Leap Year s). There are 102 days remaining.
Events
- ' victory over Attila The Hun .
- 1187 - Saladin begins the Siege Of Jerusalem .
- 1377 - Cardinal Robert of Geneva, called by some the Butcher of Cesena, is elected as Avignon Pope Clement VII , beginning the Papal Schism .
- 1519 - Ferdinand Magellan - set sail from Sanlúcar De Barrameda with about 270 men on his expedition to circumnavigate the globe.
- 1596 - Diego De Montemayor founded the city of Monterrey in New Spain .
- 1737 - Runner Edward Marshall completes his journey in the Walking Purchase forcing the cession of 1.2 million acres (4,860 km&2) of Lenape-Delaware tribal land to the Pennsylvania Colony .
- and French troops defeat Russia ns in the Crimea .
- 1860 - The Prince Of Wales (later King Edward VII Of The United Kingdom ) visits the United States .
- ends.
- 1870 - '' Bersaglieri '' corps enters Rome through ''Porta Pia'' and completes the Unification Of Italy
- 1881 - Chester A. Arthur is inaugurated as the 21st President Of The United States .
- 1891 - The first Gasoline -powered Car debuts in Springfield, Massachusetts , United States .
- 1906 - Cunard Line's RMS Mauretania is launched at the Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson shipyard in Newcastle, England .
- 1917 - Paraguay becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires Copyright Treaty .
- 1920 - Foundation of the Spanish Legion
- 1940 - Genevieve Grotjan completed the decryption of the Japanese Purple code
- 1946 - The first Cannes Film Festival is held.
- 1954 - The first program Compiled from FORTRAN runs.
- 1954 - New Zealand 's Special Committee On Moral Delinquency In Children And Adolescents reports just ten days after concluding hearings.
- 1962 - James Meredith , an African-American , is barred from entering the University Of Mississippi .
- 1967 - The Queen Elizabeth 2 sets sail. It it is operated by the Cunard Cruise Line
- 1973 - Billie Jean King beats Bobby Riggs in battle-of-sexes Tennis match. On this same day, singer Jim Croce is killed in a plane crash.
- 1979 - Lee Iacocca is elected president of the Chrysler Corporation .
- 1979 - A Coup D'état in the Central African Empire overthrows Emperor Bokasa I
- 1979 - The Punjab wing of the Unity Centre Of Communist Revolutionaries Of India (Marxist-Leninist) formally splits and constitutes a parallel UCCRI(ML) .
- 1979 - Assassination of French left-wing militant Pierre Goldman .
- 1981 - A Coup D'état in the Central African Republic overthrows President David Dacko .
- 1984 - A suicide bomber in a car attacks the U.S. embassy in Beirut , Lebanon , killing twelve people
- , Cal Ripken, Jr takes a day off.
- 2000 - Last performance of the musical Cats (musical) on Broadway.
- 2002 - Kolka-Karmadon Rock/ice Slide started.
- 2003 - A referendum is held in Latvia to decide the country's accession to the European Union
- 2003 - sparks a day of rioting in Malé .
Births
- 1599 - Christian, Duke Of Brunswick-Lüneburg-Wolfenbüttel , German protestant military leader (d. 1623 )
- 1778 - Fabian Gottlieb Von Bellingshausen , Russian naval officer and explorer (d. 1852 )
- 1833 - Ernesto Teodoro Moneta , Italian pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1918 )
- 1842 - Sir James Dewar , Scottish chemist (d. 1923 )
- 1853 - Chulalongkorn , Rama V, King Of Thailand (d. 1910 )
- 1861 - Herbert Putnam , Librarian Of Congress (d. 1955 )
- 1873 - Sidney Olcott , Canadian film director (d. 1949 )
- 1873 - Ferenc Szisz , Hungarian-born race car driver (d. 1944 )
- 1878 - Upton Sinclair , American writer and politician (d. 1968 )
- 1889 - Charles Reidpath , American athlete (d. 1975 )
- 1917 - Red Auerbach , American basketball coach and executive
- 1917 - Fernando Rey , Spanish-born actor (d. 1992 )
- 1922 - William Kapell , American pianist (d. 1953 )
- 1923 - Geraldine Clinton Little , Irish-born poet (d. 1997 )
- 1924 - Gogi Grant , American singer
- 1925 - Ananda Mahidol , Rama VIII, King Of Thailand (d. 1946 )
- 1927 - Johnny Dankworth , English musician and composer
- 1927 - Rachel Roberts , English actress (d. 1980 )
- 1928 - Joyce Brothers , American psychologist and advice columnist
- 1929 - Anne Meara , American comic and actress
- 1934 - Sophia Loren , Italian actress
- 1937 - Monica Zetterlund , Swedish actress and singer (d. 2005 )
- 1941 - Dale Chihuly , American glass artist
- 1947 - Chuck Panozzo , American musician ( Styx )
- 1947 - Mia Martini , Italian singer (d. 1995 )
- 1948 - George R. R. Martin , American writer
- 1951 - Guy Lafleur , Canadian hockey player
- 1954 - Henry Samueli , American NHL team owner
- 1956 - Gary Cole , American actor
- 1965 - Robert Rusler , American actor
- 1966 - Nuno Bettencourt , Portuguese-born rock musician
- 1967 - Kristen Johnston , American actress
- 1968 - Leah Pinsent , Canadian actress
- 1968 - Darrell Russell , American race car driver (d. 2004 )
- 1971 - Henrik Larsson , Swedish footballer
- 1975 - Asia Argento , Italian actress
- 1975 - Juan Pablo Montoya , Colombian race car driver
- 1976 - Yui Horie , Japanese voice actress and singer
- 1977 - Namie Amuro , Japanese singer
- 1978 - Jason Bay , Canadian Major League Baseball player
- 1978 - Sarit Hadad , Israeli singer
- 1979 - Phil Waugh , Australian Rugby Union player
- 1981 - Feliciano López , Spanish tennis player
- 1981 - Dimitrios Papadopoulos , Greek footballer
Deaths
- 1246 - Mikhail Of Chernigov , ruler of Kiev
- 1384 - King Louis I Of Naples (b. 1339 )
- 1460 - Gilles Binchois , Flemish composer
- 1586 - Chidiock Tichborne , English conspirator and poet (executed) (b. 1558 )
- 1590 - Lodovico Agostini , Italian composer (b. 1534 )
- 1625 - Heinrich Meibom , German historian and critic (b. 1555 )
- 1627 - Jan Gruter , Dutch critic (b. 1560 )
- 1630 - Claudio Saracini , Italian composer (b. 1586 )
- 1639 - Johannes Meursius , Dutch classical scholar (b. 1579 )
- 1643 - Lucius Cary, 2nd Viscount Falkland , English politician and writer
- 1721 - Thomas Doggett , Irish actor
- 1803 - Robert Emmet , Irish patriot (b. 1780 )
- 1815 - Nicolas Desmarest , French geologist (b. 1725 )
- 1852 - Philander Chase , American university founder (b. 1775 )
- 1863 - Jacob Grimm , German folklorist (b. 1785 )
- 1884 - Leopold Fitzinger , Austrian zoologist (b. 1802 )
- 1898 - Theodor Fontane , German writer (b. 1819 )
- 1908 - Pablo De Sarasate , Spanish violinist and composer (b. 1844 )
- 1932 - Wovoka , Paiute visionary
- 1947 - Fiorello LaGuardia , Mayor of New York City (b. 1882 )
- 1957 - Jean Sibelius , Finnish composer (b. 1865 )
- 1971 - Giorgos Seferis , Greek writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1900 )
- 1973 - Jim Croce , American singer and songwriter (b. 1943 )
- 1975 - Saint-John Perse , French diplomat and writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1887 )
- 1979 - Ludvík Svoboda , President Of Czechoslovakia (b. 1895 )
- 1993 - Erich Hartmann , German pilot (b. 1922 )
- 1996 - Paul Erdős , Hungarian mathematician (b. 1913 )
- 2000 - Gherman Titov , cosmonaut (b. 1935 )
- 2003 - Lord Williams Of Mostyn , British politician (b. 1941 )
- 2003 - Simon Muzenda , Zimbabwe politician (b. 1922 )
- 2004 - Brian Clough , English footballer and football manager (b. 1935 )
- 2004 - Townsend Hoopes , American politician (b. 1922 )
- 2005 - Simon Wiesenthal , Austrian-Polish Nazi hunter (b. 1908 )
Holidays
External links
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