September 20
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September 20 is the 264th day of the year (265th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 101 days remaining after September 20 until the end of the year.
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[change] Events
- 331 BC – Alexander the Great crosses the Tigris on his way to conquering the Persians.
- 1187 – Saladin begins the Siege of Jerusalem.
- 1459 – First documented mention of Bucharest
- 1519 – Ferdinand Magellan sets sail from Spain with 270 crew members, of whom only 18 return home in 1522. Magellan is killed in the Philippines in 1521.
- 1863 – American Civil War: The Battle of Chickamauga ends in Confederate victory.
- 1881 – Chester A. Arthur is inaugurated as President of the United States.
- 1891 – The first gasoline-powered car in America debuts in Springfield, Massachusetts.
- 1910 – The Ocean Liner SS France is launched.
- 1962 – African American James Meredith is temporarily barred from entering the University of Mississippi.
- 1967 – The Ship RMS Queen Elizabeth 2 is launched at Clydebank near Glasgow.
- 1973 – Billie Jean King defeats Bobby Riggs in a 'Battle of the Sexes' tennis match in Houston, Texas.
- 1977 – The Socialist Republic of Vietnam joins the UN.
- 1979 – In the present-day Central African Republic, Jean Bedel Bokassa, self-declared Emperor Bokassa I is overthrown.
- 1984 – A bomb attack targets the US Embassy in Beirut, Lebanon.
- 1990 – South Ossetia declares its independence from the Republic of Georgia.
- 2001 – George W. Bush declares War on Terror.
- 2008 – A bomb attack at the Marriott Hotel in Islamabad kills 54 people.
- 2011 – Former President of Afghanistan Burhanuddin Rabbani is assassinated.
[change] Births
- 1486 – Arthur Tudor, son of Henry VII of England (d. 1502)
- 1599 – Christian the Younger of Brunswick, German Protestant military leader (d. 1626)
- 1758 – Jean-Jacques Dessalines, Emperor of Haiti (d. 1806)
- 1778 – Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen, Russian naval officer and explorer (d. 1852)
- 1820 – John F. Reynolds, American general (d. 1863)
- 1833 – Ernesto Teodoro Moneta, Italian pacifist (d. 1918)
- 1842 – James Dewar, Scottish chemist (d. 1923)
- 1853 – Rama V, King of Thailand (d. 1910)
- 1861 – Herbert Putnam, American Librarian of Congress (d. 1955)
- 1878 – Upton Sinclair, American writer (d. 1968)
- 1899 – Leo Strauss, German-born philosopher (d. 1973)
- 1917 – Red Auerbach, American basketball coach (d. 2006)
- 1925 – Ananda Mahidol, King of Thailand (d. 1946)
- 1927 – John Dankworth, British jazz musician (d. 2010)
- 1934 – Sophia Loren, Italian actress
- 1937 – Monica Zetterlund, Swedish actress and singer (d. 2005)
- 1940 – Taro Aso, former Prime Minister of Japan
- 1943 – Sani Abacha, President of Nigeria (d. 1998)
- 1948 – Chuck Panozzo, American musician
- 1948 – John Panozzo, American musician (d. 1996)
- 1952 – Manuel Zelaya, former President of Honduras
- 1962 – Jim Al-Khalili, British physicist, author and broadcaster
- 1969 – Richard Witschge, Dutch footballer
- 1971 – Henrik Larsson, Swedish footballer
- 1975 – Juan Pablo Montoya, Colombian race car driver
- 1977 – Namie Amuro, Japanese pop singer
- 1980 – Robert Koren, Slovenian footballer
- 1981 – Feliciano Lopez, Spanish tennis player
- 1990 – John Tavares, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1992 – Safura Alizadeh, Azerbaijani singer
- 1995 – Laura Dekker, Dutch sailor
[change] Deaths
- 1384 – King Louis of Naples (b. 1339)
- 1590 – Lodovico Agostini, Italian composer (b. 1534)
- 1793 – Fletcher Christian, English mutineer (b. 1764)
- 1863 – Jacob Grimm, German writer and folklorist (b. 1785)
- 1898 – Theodor Fontane, German writer (b. 1819)
- 1947 – Fiorello La Guardia, Mayor of New York City (b. 1882)
- 1957 – Jean Sibelius, Finnish composer (b. 1865)
- 1971 – Giorgos Seferis, Greek poet (b. 1900)
- 1975 – Saint-John Perse, French diplomat and writer (b. 1887)
- 1979 – Ludvik Svoboda, Czechoslovakian politician (b. 1895)
- 1996 – Paul Erdős, Hungarian mathematician (b. 1913)
- 1999 – Raisa Gorbachyova, wife of Mikhail Gorbachev (b. 1932)
- 2004 – Brian Clough, English football manager (b. 1935)
- 2005 – Simon Wiesenthal, Austrian Holocaust survivor (b. 1908)
- 2006 – Sven Nyqvist, Swedish cameraman and director (b. 1922)
- 2010 – Fud Leclerc, Belgian singer (b. 1924)
- 2011 – Burhanuddin Rabbani, President of Afghanistan (b. 1940)
[change] Observances
- National Youth Day (Thailand)
