September 20

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September 20 is the 263rd day of the year (264th in leap years). There are 102 days remaining.

Contents 1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Holidays 5 External links

Events

• 451- According to some sources, this was the date of the Battle of Chalons: Flavius Aetius' 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 km²) of Lenape-Delaware tribal land to the Pennsylvania Colony.
• 1854 - Battle of Alma: British and French troops defeat Russians in the Crimea.
• 1860 - The Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII of the United Kingdom) visits the United States.
• 1863 - American Civil War: The Battle of Chickamauga 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.
• 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.
• 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
• 1998 - Baseball: After playing 2,632 consecutive games for the Baltimore Orioles, 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 - 2003 Maldives civil unrest: the death of prisoner Hassan Evan Naseem 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
• 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

• In ancient Greece, the seventh day of the Eleusinian Mysteries, when the secret rites in the Telesterion began.
• Feast day of the following saints in the Roman Catholic Church:
  • The Korean Martyrs
  • Eustace
  • Vincent Madelgaire
  • Yves Mayeuc
  • Francis de Posadas
  • Thomas Johnson, John Davy, and companions (martyrs).
• Feast day of the following saint(s) in the Anglican Church:
  • John Coleridge Patteson
• Also see September 20 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

External links

• BBC: On This Day

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