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September 20 is the 263rd day of the year (264th in leap years).
There are 102 days remaining.
Events
- 451 - Atilla, king of the
Huns, invades Gaul, but is defeated by Aetius with the help of Roman Foederati in the
Battle of Chalons
- 1519 - Ferdinand
Magellan begins his voyage around the world.
- 1596 - Diego de Montemayor founded the city of Monterrey, Mexico.
- 1643 - English Civil
War: Battle of Newbury - Parliamentarian Robert
Devereux, the Earl of Essex defeats a Royalist army commanded by
Charles I of England at Newbury, Berkshire.
- 1644 - Shunzhi Emperor of China moved the capital city from Shenyang to Beijing.
- 1565 - Spaniards capture French Fort Caroline, near present-day Jacksonville, Florida
- 1792 - Battle of Valmy -
France defeats Prussia
- 1797 - The USS
Constitution is launched in Boston,
Massachusetts
- 1850 - Slave trading is abolished in the
District of Columbia
- 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 - Battle of
Chickamauga ends
- 1870 - Bersaglieri corps enters Rome at Porta Pia
and completes the unification of Italy
- 1881 - Chester A.
Arthur is inaugurated as the 21st President of the United States.
- 1946 - First Cannes
Film Festival
- 1954 - First FORTRAN program runs
- 1962 - James Meredith, an
African-American, is barred from entering the University of Mississippi
- 1973 - Billie Jean King
beats Bobby Riggs in battle-of-sexes tennis match
- 1979 - Lee Iacocca elected
president of the Chrysler Corporation
- 1979 - Coup in Central African Empire overthrows Emperor Bokasa I
- 1984 - Suicide bomber in a car attacks the United States embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, killing twelve people
- 2000 - After playing 2,632 consecutive games for the Baltimore Orioles, baseball player Cal Ripken, Jr takes a day off.
- 2003 - Referendum in Latvia over the joining
of the European Union
Births
- 356 BC - Alexander
the Great (d. 323 BC)
- 1842 - Sir James Dewar, chemist (d. 1923)
- 1853 - Chulalongkorn (Rama V),
king of Thailand (d. 1910)
- 1861 - Herbert Putnam,
Librarian of Congress (d. 1955)
- 1873 - Sidney Olcott, pioneer
film director (d. 1949)
- 1878 - Upton Sinclair,
writer, politician (d. 1968)
- 1889 - Charles Reidpath,
American athlete
- 1890 - Jelly Roll
Morton, composer (d. 1941)
- 1899 - Elliott Nugent, actor, director
- 1917 - Red Auerbach, National Basketball Association coach and
executive
- 1918 - Peg Phillips, actress
- 1922 - William Kapell,
pianist (d. 1953)
- 1924 - Gogi Grant (Audrey Brown),
singer
- 1925 - James Galanos, fashion designer
- 1927 - Johnny Dankworth, musician, composer
- 1927 - Rachel Roberts, actress (d. 1980)
- 1928 - Doctor Joyce Brothers, psychologist, advice columnist
- 1928 - Donald A. Hall,
author
- 1929 - Anne Meara, comic,
actress
- 1931 - Peter Palmer, actor
- 1934 - Sophia Loren, actress
- 1938 - Pia Lindstrom, journalist
- 1948 - George R. R.
Martin, science fiction writer
- 1951 - Guy Lafleur, National Hockey League star
- 1956 - Gary Cole, actor
- 1975 - Juan Pablo
Montoya, Formula 1 racer
- 1975 - Asia Argento, actress
- 1976 - Michael Ballack,
German football
star
Deaths
- 1460 - Gilles Binchois,
composer
- 1803 - Robert Emmet, Irish
patriot.
- 1863 - Jacob Grimm, folklorist
- 1908 - Pablo de
Sarasate, violinist
- 1947 - Fiorello
LaGuardia, former mayor of New York City
- 1949 - Nikolaos
Skalkottas, composer
- 1957 - Jean Sibelius,
composer
- 1973 - Jim Croce,
singer-songwriter
- 1996 - Paul Erdös,
mathematician
- 1999 - Raisa Gorbachev,
First Lady of the Soviet
Union
- 2000 - Gherman Titov, cosmonaut
- 2003 - Simon Muzenda, vice
president of Zimbabwe under Robert Mugabe
Holidays
September 19 ˇ September 21 ˇ August 20 ˇ October 20 ˇ more historical
anniversaries
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