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Events

451 - The Battle of Chalons, in North Eastern France. Flavius Aetius' victory over Attila the Hun in a day of combat, considered and believed to be the largest battle in the ancient world.
1187 - Saladin begins the Siege of Jerusalem (1187).
1378 - Cardinal (Catholicism) 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.
1633 - Galileo Galilei is tried before Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith for teaching that the Earth orbits the Sun.
1737 - Running Edward Marshall completes his journey in the Walking Purchase forcing the cession of 1.2 million acres (4,860 km²) of Lenape tribal land to the Pennsylvania Colony.
1792 - French troops stop allied invasion of France, during the War of the First Coalition at Battle of Valmy.
1835 - War of Tatters begins in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.
1848 - The American Association for the Advancement of Science was created.
1854 - Battle of Alma: United Kingdom and France troops defeat Russians in the Crimea.
1857 - The Indian Mutiny ends with the recapture of Delhi by troops loyal to the Honourable East India Company.
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 Italian Unification; see capture of Rome.
1871 - Bishop John Coleridge Patteson martyred on the island of Nukapu a Polynesian outlier island now in the Temotu province of the Solomon Islands. He was the first bishop of Melanesia.
1879 - Cliftonville F.C., the oldest club in Ireland, is founded by John McCredy McAlery.
1881 - Chester A. Arthur is inaugurated as the 21st President of the United States.
1891 - The first gasoline-powered automobile debuts in Springfield, Massachusetts, United States.
1906 - Cunard Line's RMS Mauretania (1906) is launched at the Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson shipyard in Newcastle, England.
1917 - Paraguay becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires Convention copyright treaty.
1920 - Foundation of the Spanish Legion.
1930 - Syro-Malankara Catholic Church was formed by Archbishop Mar Ivanios
1939 - A Nazi Germany Messerschmitt Messerschmitt Bf 109 is shot down by Fairey Aviation Fairey Battle gunner Sgt. F. Letchard during a patrol near Aachen. This is the Royal Air Force first Catastrophic kill of the Second World War.
1940 - Genevieve Grotjan completes the decryption of the PURPLE code.
1942 - Holocaust in Letychiv, Ukraine. In the course of two days Germany SS murders at least 3,000 Jews
1946 - The first Cannes Film Festival is held.
1954 - New Zealand's Mazengarb Report reports just ten days after concluding hearings.
1959 - Brion Gysin makes his first cut-up in the Beat Hotel in Paris.
1962 - James Meredith, an African-American, is barred from entering the University of Mississippi.
1967 - The Queen Elizabeth 2 is launched at John Brown & Company, Clydebank, Scotland. It is operated by the Cunard Line.
1969 - John Lennon leaves The Beatles but does not make a public announcement
1970 - Syrian tanks roll into Jordan in response to continued fighting between Jordan and the fedayeen. The Jordanians knock out 30 of the Syrian tanks.
1973 - Billie Jean King beats Bobby Riggs in battle-of-sexes tennis match at the Reliant Astrodome in Houston, Texas.
1977 - The Vietnam is admitted to the United Nations
1979 - Lee Iacocca is elected president of the DaimlerChrysler.
1979 - A coup d'état in the Central African Republic overthrows Emperor Jean-Bédel Bokassa.
1979 - The Punjab, India wing of the Unity Centre of Communist Revolutionaries of India (Marxist-Leninist) formally splits and constitutes a parallel Unity Centre of Communist Revolutionaries of India (Marxist-Leninist) (Harbhajan Sohi).
1979 - Assassination of France left-wing militant Pierre Goldman.
1984 - A suicide bomber in a car attacks the United States embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, killing twenty-two people.
1984 - The popular American sitcoms The Cosby Show and Who's the Boss? premiere on NBC and American Broadcasting Company respectively.
1990 - South Ossetia declares its independence from Georgia (country).
1992 - National Football League: Brett Favre, quarterback of the Green Bay Packers, begins his most consecutive starts streak for a quarterback in the NFL.
1998 - Major League Baseball: Cal Ripken, Jr of the Baltimore Orioles takes a day off after playing a record 2,632 consecutive games.
2000 - The British MI6 Secret Intelligence Service SIS Building was attacked by a Russian-built Mark 22 anti-tank missile
2001 - In an address to a joint session of Congress and the American People president George W. Bush declares "war on terror".
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.
2007 - Lebanese right-wing parliamentarian Antoine Ghanem is killed in a bomb attack in Beirut.

Births

1486 - Arthur, Prince of Wales, son of King Henry VII of England (d. 1502)
1599 - Christian the Younger, German Protestant military leader (d. 1623)
1744 - Thomas Grosvenor, American Revolutionary War hero (d. 1825)
1746 - Moric Benovsky, Slovak officer and explorer, King of Madagaskar (d. 1786)
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 - James Dewar, Scottish chemist (d. 1923)
1844 - William H. Illingworth, American photographer (d. 1893)
1853 - Chulalongkorn, King of Thailand (d. 1910)
1861 - Herbert Putnam, Librarian of Congress (d. 1955)
1872 - Maurice Gamelin, French army general (d. 1958)
1873 - Sidney Olcott, Canadian film director (d. 1949)
1873 - Ferenc Szisz, Hungarian race car driver (d. 1944)
1878 - Upton Sinclair, American writer (d. 1968)
1880 - Louise Peete, American murderess (d. 1947)
1884 - Maxwell Perkins, American editor and publisher (d. 1947)
1886 - Charles Williams (UK writer), British author (d. 1945)
1889 - Charles Reidpath, American athlete (d. 1975)
1899 - Leo Strauss, German-born philosopher (d. 1973)
1902 - Stevie Smith, British poet (d. 1971)
1911 - Shriram Sharma Acharya, Indian spiritual leader (d. 1991)
1914 - Kenneth More, English actor (d. 1982)
1917 - Red Auerbach, American basketball coach (d. 2006)
1917 - Fernando Rey, Spanish-born actor (d. 1994)
1920 - Jay Ward, American animated cartoonist (d. 1989)
1920 - Alberto de Lacerda, Portuguese poet (d. 2007)
1922 - William Kapell, American pianist (d. 1953)
1923 - Geraldine Clinton Little, Irish-born poet (d. 1997)
1924 - Gogi Grant, American singer
1925 - Ananda Mahidol, King of Thailand (d. 1946)
1925 - Bobby Nunn, American singer (The Coasters) (d. 1986)
1926 - Donald Hall, American poet and Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress
1927 - Johnny Dankworth, English musician and composer
1927 - Rachel Roberts (British actress), English actress (d. 1980)
1928 - Joyce Brothers, American psychologist and advice columnist
1928 - Kirsten Rolffes, Danish actress (d. 2000)
1929 - Anne Meara, American comic and actress
1931 - Cherd Songsri, Thai filmmaker (d. 2006)
1933 - Dennis Viollet, English former footballer (d. 1999)
1934 - Sophia Loren, Italian actress
1935 - Jim Taylor, National Football League player
1935 - Keith Roberts, British science fiction author (d. 2000)
1935 - David Pegg, English footballer (d. 1958)
1937 - Birgitta Dahl, Swedish politician
1937 - Monica Zetterlund, Swedish actress and singer (d. 2005)
1939 - Robert L. Gerry III, American businessman
1941 - Dale Chihuly, American glass artist
1942 - Gérald Tremblay, Québec politician
1947 - Mia Martini, Italian singer (d. 1995)
1947 - Bruce Pasternack, American CEO
1948 - George R. R. Martin, American writer
1948 - Chuck Panozzo and John Panozzo (d. 1996), American musicians (Styx (band))
1949 - John W. Henry, American Major League Baseball team owner
1949 - Mahesh Bhatt. Indian film director
1951 - Guy Lafleur, Canadian ice hockey player
1951 - Javier Marías, Spanish novelist
1954 - Henry Samueli, American NHL team owner
1956 - Gary Cole, American actor
1957 - Alannah Currie, New Zealander musician (Thompson Twins)
1958 - Arn Anderson, American wrestler
1959 - Danny Devos, Belgian artist
1960 - Deborah Roberts, American journalist and TV reporter
1961 - Lisa Bloom, American lawyer and television personality
1964 - Maggie Cheung, Hong Kong actress
1965 - Robert Rusler, American actor
1966 - Nuno Bettencourt, Portuguese rock musician
1967 - Kristen Johnston, American actress
1967 - Gunnar Nelson and Matthew Nelson, American musicians (Nelson (band))
1968 - Leah Pinsent, Canadian actress
1968 - Darrell Russell (drag racer), American race car driver (d. 2004)
1968 - Tim Rogers, Australian singer / songwriter
1969 - Victoria Dillard, American actress
1970 - Moon Bloodgood, American actress and model
1971 - Henrik Larsson, Swedish footballer
1971 - Masashi Hamauzu, Japanese composer
1974 - Michael Waddington, American defense lawyer
1975 - Asia Argento, Italian actress
1975 - Juan Pablo Montoya, Colombian race car driver
1976 - Yui Horie, Japanese seiyuu
1976 - Enuka Okuma, Canadian actress
1976 - Reuben Singh, British entrepreneur
1977 - Namie Amuro, Japanese pop singer
1978 - Jason Bay, Canadian baseball player
1978 - Sarit Hadad, Israeli singer
1978 - T.J. Tucker, American baseball player
1979 - Sean Davis (footballer), English footballer
1980 - Mariacarla Boscono, Italian fashion model
1980 - Jonathan Le Billon, British actor
1980 - Vladimir Karpets, Russian cyclist
1980 - Luke Munns, Australian singer / songwriter
1981 - Joanie Dodds, America's Next Top Model contestant
1981 - Feliciano López, Spanish tennis player
1983 - Yuna Ito, Japanese singer and actress
1990 - John Tavares (ice hockey), Canadian ice hockey player
1990 - Marilou, Quebec pop singer
1991 - Spencer Locke, American actress
1995 - Sammi Hanratty, American actress

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 (poet), 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)
1906 - Robert R. Hitt, American politician (b. 1834)
1908 - Pablo de Sarasate, Spanish violinist and composer (b. 1844)
1932 - Wovoka, Paiute visionary
1933 - Annie Besant, women's rights activist (b. 1847)
1939 - Paul Bruchési, French Canadian Catholic archbishop of Montreal (b. 1855)
1945 - William Buehler Seabrook, Writer, journalist, occultist and explorer (b. 1884)
1945 - Eduard Wirths, Nazi physician at Auschwitz concentration camp (b. 1909)
1946 - Raimu, French actor (b. 1883)
1947 - Fiorello LaGuardia, Mayor of New York City (b. 1882)
1957 - Jean Sibelius, Finnish composer (b. 1865)
1971 - Giorgos Seferis, Greek poet, Nobel Prize in Literature laureate (b. 1900)
1973 - Jim Croce, American singer and songwriter (b. 1943)
1975 - Saint-John Perse, French diplomat and writer, Nobel Prize in Literature laureate (b. 1887)
1979 - Ludvík Svoboda, President of Czechoslovakia (b. 1895)
1980 - Sanpei Hayashiya, Japanese comedian (b. 1925)
1984 - Steve Goodman, American folk music singer-songwriter (b. 1948)
1989 - Richie Ginther, American racing driver (b. 1930)
1993 - Erich Hartmann, German pilot (b. 1922)
1994 - Jule Styne, American songwriter (b. 1905)
1994 - Abioseh Nicol, Sierra Leonean diplomat and noted author (b. 1924)
1996 - Paul Erdős, Hungarian mathematician (b. 1913)
1999 - Raisa Gorbachyova, wife of Mikhail Gorbachev (b. 1932)
1999 - Robert Lebel, Quebec ice hockey administrator (b. 1905)
2000 - Gherman Titov, cosmonaut (b. 1935)
2003 - Lord Williams of Mostyn, British politician (b. 1941)
2003 - Gordon Mitchell, American actor (b. 1923)
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)
2006 - Armin Jordan, Swiss conductor (b. 1932)
2006 - John W. Peterson, American songwriter (b. 1921)
2007 - Johnny Gavin (footballer), Irish footballer (b. 1928)

Holidays and observances

Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul only - War of Tatters (1835)
In Greek mythology, the seventh day of the Eleusinian Mysteries, when the secret rites in the Telesterion began.
Feast day of the following Calendar of Saints in the Roman Catholic Church:

The Korean Martyrs, including Andrew Kim Taegon and Laurent-Marie-Joseph Imbert
Saint Eustace (legend)
Thomas Johnson, John Davy, and companions (martyrs).

Feast day of the following saint(s) in the Anglican Communion:

John Coleridge Patteson.

Also see September 20 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics).

External links

BBC: On This Day
On This Day in Canada

September 20 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
September 20 is the 263rd day of the year (264th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 102 days remaining until the end of the year.

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