September 20
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September 20 is the 263rd day of the year (264th in leap years). There are 102 days remaining.
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Events
- 1596 - Diego de Montemayor founded the city of Monterrey, Mexico.
- 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 - 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.
- 1917 - Paraguay becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
- 1946 - First Cannes Film Festival
- 1954 - 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
- 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
- 1981 - Coup in Central African Republic overthrows President David Dacko
- 1984 - Suicide bomber in a car attacks the United States embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, killing twelve people
- 1998 - 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
- 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)
- 1873 - Ferenc Szisz, Hungarian-born French race car driver (d. 1944)
- 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)
- 1923 - Geraldine Clinton Little, Irish - American Poet
- 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
- 1937 - Monica Zetterlund, Swedish actress and singer (d. 2005)
- 1938 - Pia Lindstrom, journalist
- 1947 - Chuck Panozzo, musician
- 1948 - George R. R. Martin, science fiction writer
- 1951 - Guy Lafleur, National Hockey League star
- 1954 - Peter White, jazz musician
- 1956 - Gary Cole, actor
- 1967 - Kristen Johnston, actress
- 1967 - Gunnar Nelson and Matthew Nelson, singers
- 1968 - Leah Pinsent, Canadian actress
- 1968 - Darrell Russell, NHRA drag racer (d. 2004)
- 1971 - Henrik Larsson, Swedish football star
- 1975 - Asia Argento, actress
- 1975 - Juan Pablo Montoya, Formula One racer
- 1976 - Yui Horie, Yoshiko Horie, a Japanese voice actress and a singer.
- 1977 - Namie Amuro, Japanese singer
- 1978 - Jason Bay, Canadian baseball player
- 1978 - Sarit Hadad, Israeli singer
Deaths
- 1460 - Gilles Binchois, composer
- 1586 - Chidiock Tichborne, English conspirator and poet (executed)
- 1803 - Robert Emmet, Irish patriot
- 1852 - Philander Chase, American university founder
- 1863 - Jacob Grimm, German folklorist (b. 1785)
- 1898 - Theodor Fontane, German writer (b. 1819)
- 1908 - Pablo de Sarasate, Spanish violinist and composer
- 1932 - Wovoka, Northern Paiute visionary
- 1947 - Fiorello LaGuardia, Mayor of New York City
- 1949 - Nikolaos Skalkottas, composer
- 1957 - Jean Sibelius, Finnish composer
- 1973 - Jim Croce, singer and songwriter
- 1974 - José Mojica, Mexican singer and film actor (b. 1899)
- 1975 - Saint-John Perse, French diplomat and poet (b. 1887)
- 1996 - Paul Erdös, mathematician (b. 1913)
- 1999 - Raisa Gorbachev, Russian wife of Mikhail Gorbachev
- 2000 - Gherman Titov, cosmonaut
- 2003 - Lord Williams of Mostyn, British politician
- 2003 - Simon Muzenda, Zimbabwe politician
- 2004 - Townsend Hoopes, American politician
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:
- Eustachius
- 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:
External links
- BBC: On This Day (http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/september/20)
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