September 14
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September 14 is the 258th day of the year (259th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 107 days remaining after September 14 until the end of the year.
[change] Events
- 81 – Domitian becomes Roman Emperor.
- 1752 – The British Empire adopts the Gregorian Calendar. In the change, the dates from September 3 to September 13 are missed out.
- 1829 – The Russo-Turkish War ends.
- 1901 – President of the United States William McKinley dies more than one week after being shot by Leon Czolgosz.
- 1923 – Miguel Primo de Rivera becomes dictator of Spain.
- 1982 – Lebanese President-elect Bachir Gemayel is shot dead.
- 1982 – Grace Kelly dies after becoming seriously injured in a car crash.
- 1984 – Joe Kittinger flies a hot-air balloon across the Atlantic Ocean, becoming the first person to do so.
- 1999 – Kiribati, Tonga and Nauru join the United Nations.
- 2003 – Estonia approves EU membership.
[change] Births
- 1169 – Alexios II Komnenos, Byzantine Emperor (d. 1183)
- 1486 – Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa, German alchemist (d. 1535)
- 1580 – Francisco de Quevedo, Spanish writer (d. 1645)
- 1760 – Luigi Cherubini, Italian composer (d. 1842)
- 1769 – Alexander von Humboldt, German naturalist and explorer (d. 1859)
- 1849 – Ivan Pavlov, Russian physiologist, psychologist & physician (d. 1936)
- 1864 – Robert Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, British diplomat (d. 1958)
- 1879 – Margaret Sanger, birth control activist (d. 1966)
- 1886 – Jan Masaryk, Czech diplomat (d. 1948)
- 1889 – Maria Esther de Capovilla, Ecuadorean supercentenarian, World's oldest woman (d. 2006)
- 1891 – Ivan Mitveyevich Vinogradov, Russian mathematician (d. 1983)
- 1913 – Jacobo Arbenz, President of Guatemala (d. 1971)
- 1920 – Mario Benedetti, Uruguayan writer (d. 2009)
- 1920 – Lawrence Klein, American economist
- 1936 – Ferid Murad, American physician and pharmacologist
- 1940 – Larry Brown, American basketball player and coach
- 1940 – Jacques Godin, Canadian film and television actor
- 1942 – Bernard MacLaverty, Northern Irish writer
- 1944 – Guenter Netzer, German footballer
- 1947 – Sam Neill, New Zealand actor
- 1949 – Steve Gaines, guitarist (Lynyrd Skynyrd) (d. 1977)
- 1949 – Ed King, guitarist (Lynyrd Skynyrd)
- 1956 – Kostas Karamanlis, former Prime Minister of Greece
- 1956 – Ray Wilkins, English footballer
- 1959 – Morten Harket, Norwegian musician (a-ha)
- 1960 – Melissa Leo, American actress
- 1964 – Faith Ford, American actress
- 1965 – Dmitry Medvedev, President of Russia
- 1969 – Tyler Perry, American actor
- 1973 – Nas, American rapper
- 1981 – Ashley Roberts, American singer, dancer and actress (Pussycat Dolls)
- 1983 – Amy Winehouse, English singer-songwriter (d. 2011)
- 1986 – Ai Takahashi, Japanese singer (Morning Musume)
- 1989 – Jesse James (actor), American actor
[change] Deaths
- 258 – Cyprian, Bishop of Carthage
- 775 – Constantine V, Byzantine Emperor (b. 718)
- 1164 – Emperor Sutoku of Japan (b. 1119)
- 1321 – Dante Alighieri, Italian author (b. 1265)
- 1523 – Pope Adrian VI (b. 1459)
- 1638 – John Harvard, American clergyman (b. 1607)
- 1712 – Giovanni Domenico Cassini, Italian-born astronomer (b. 1625)
- 1851 – James Fenimore Cooper, American writer (b. 1789)
- 1852 – Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, British general and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1769)
- 1898 – William Seward Burroughs, American inventor (b. 1857)
- 1901 – William McKinley, 25th President of the United States (b. 1843)
- 1927 – Isadora Duncan, American dancer (b. 1877)
- 1936 – Irving Thalberg, American film producer (b. 1899)
- 1937 – Tomas Masaryk, Czech politician (b. 1850)
- 1951 – Fritz Busch, German conductor (b. 1890)
- 1982 – Kristjan Eldjarn, third President of Iceland (b. 1916)
- 1982 – Bachir Gemayel, Lebanese politician (b. 1947)
- 1982 – Grace Kelly, American actress, Princess of Monaco (b. 1929)
- 2009 – Patrick Swayze, American actor (b. 1952)
