Notable Historical Events on September 20th
September 20th Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
368 |
Emperor Valentinianus visits Nijmegen |
451 |
Roman General Flavius Aetius defeats Attila the Hun at The Battle of the Catalaunian Plainsat (Chalons-sur-Marne) halting Hun invasion of Roman Gaul |
622 |
Prophet Mohammed/Abu Bakr arrives in Jathrib (Medina) |
1066 |
Battle of Fulford, Yorkshire: Harald III Hardrada of Norway defeats Northern Saxon Earls Edwin and Morcar |
1187 |
Saladin begins the Siege of Jerusalem. |
1258 |
Salisbury Cathedral inaugurated |
1378 |
Robert de Geneve, "butcher of Cesena" crowned anti-pope Clemens VII |
1519 |
Ferdinand Magellan starts 1st successful circumnavigation of the world |
1530 |
Luther advises protestant monarch compromise |
1565 |
Spaniards capture Fort Caroline Fla & massacre the French |
1596 |
Diego de Montemayor founded the city of Monterrey in New Spain. |
1604 |
Spanish army under Spinola recaptures Oostende |
1620 |
Battle at Jassy: Turks beat king Sigismund III of Poland |
1643 |
First Battle of Newbury (English civil war): King Charles I's forces beaten by a parliamentary army led by the Earl of Essex and Philip Stapleton |
1664 |
Maryland passes 1st anti-amalgamation law to stop intermarriage of English women & black men |
1674 |
2nd West Indies Company forms |
1688 |
French troops occupies Palts |
1697 |
Peace of Saki (ends 9 years war) |
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. |
1746 |
Bonnie Prince Charlie flees to France from Scotland |
1777 |
Battle of Paoli; British forces under Major General Charles Grey attacked Brigadier General Anthony Wayne's encampment. Claims that the British gave no quarter led to the engagement becoming known (from an American perspective) as the "Paoli Massacre." |
1787 |
Prince Willem V returns to Hague |
1792 |
French defeat Prussians at Valmy |
1793 |
British troops under Major-general Williamson lands on (French) Haiti |
1797 |
US frigate Constitution (Old Ironsides) launched in Boston |
1814 |
"Star Spangled Banner" published as a song, lyrics by Francis Scott Key, tune by John Stafford Smith |
1830 |
1st Negro Convention of Free Men agree to boycott slave-produced goods |
1833 |
Charles Darwin rides horse to Buenos Aires |
1835 |
Farroupilha's Revolution begins in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. |
1839 |
1st railroad in Netherland opens (Amsterdam-Haarlem) |
1848 |
The American Association for the Advancement of Science is created. |
1850 |
Slave trade abolished in DC, but slavery allowed to continue |
1854 |
Battle of the Alma: first major battle of Crimean War. British and French alliance defeat the Russians |
1859 |
George Simpson patents electric range |
1860 |
First British royalty to visit US, Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII) |
1861 |
Battle of Lexington, MI-captured by Union |
1863 |
Battle of Shepardstown VA |
1863 |
Civil War Battle of Chickamauga, near Chattanooga Tenn, ends |
1870 |
Italian army under Victor Emmanuel II seizes Rome from the French |
1870 |
Mayor William Tweed accused of robbing NY treasury |
1870 |
Pope Pius IX surrenders to King Victor Emmanuel |
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. |
1873 |
Panic sweeps NY Stock Exchange (railroad bond default/bank failure) NY shut banks for 10 days due to a bank scandal |
1876 |
Ottawa Football Club forms |
1877 |
Chase National Bank opens in NYC (later merges into Chase Manhattan) |
1879 |
Ulysses S. Grant and family go to SF for elaborate extended visit |
1881 |
Chester A. Arthur sworn in as 21st president |
1884 |
6.2 mile Arlberg railroad tunnel completed in Austria |
1884 |
Equal Rights Party nominates female candidates for Pres & VP |
1891 |
The first gasoline-powered car debuts in Springfield, Massachusetts, United States. |
1902 |
Chicago White Sox Jim Callahan no-hits Detroit Tigers, 3-0 |
1904 |
George Ade's "College Widow," premieres in NYC |
1904 |
Orville & Wilbur Wright fly a circle in their Flyer II |
1905 |
Cleveland makes AL record 7 errors in an inning |
1906 |
Cunard Line's RMS Mauretania is launched at the Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson shipyard in Newcastle, England. |
1907 |
Pitts Nick Maddox no-hits Bkln Dodgers, 2-1 |
1908 |
Chicago White Sox Frank Smith 2nd no-hitter, beats Phila 1-0 |
1909 |
The British Parliament passes the South Africa Act; it calls for union of Cape Colony, Natal, Orange River Colony, and Transvaal; and both English and Dutch as official languages |
1911 |
Yanks set team record 12 errors in a double header |
1913 |
19th US Golf Open: Francis Ouimet shoots a 304 at The Country Club MA |
1914 |
John Redmond urges Irish Volunteers to enlist in the British Army |
1917 |
British assault on Polygon Forest, France |
1917 |
Paraguay becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty. |
1918 |
Royal Dutch Blast furnace & Steel factory opens in Hague |
1919 |
2nd PGA Championship: Jim Barnes at Engineers CC Roslyn NY |
1919 |
Babe Ruth ties Ned Williamson's major league mark of 27 HRs |
1919 |
Booth Tarkington's "Clarence," premieres in NYC |
1920 |
Foundation of the Spanish Legion. |
1922 |
Goodman & Atteridge's musical "Passing Show," premieres in NYC |
1922 |
Rogers Hornsby ends hitting streak of 33 games |
1922 |
Franco Ventriglia, Fairfield, Connecticut, opera singer, (d. 2012) |
1924 |
Carl Mays is 1st pitcher to win 20 games seasons for 3 different teams |
1924 |
Cub's Grover Cleveland Alexander beats NY Giants to win 300th game |
1926 |
Bugs Moran attempts to assassinate Al Capone in a drive-by shooting but fails |
1930 |
Syro-Malankara Catholic Church is formed by Archbishop Mar Ivanios. |
1931 |
Lou Gehrig's 4 RBIs break his old RBI mark of 175 en route to 184 |
1932 |
Chicago Cubs clinch the NL pennant |
1932 |
Dutch South Seas rebaptized in IJsselmeer |
1932 |
Gandhi begins hunger strike against treatment of untouchables |
1933 |
Pittsburgh Steelers (as Pirates) play 1st NFL game, lose 23-2 |
1935 |
Pitts Crawfords beat NY Cubans to win Negro NL Championship, 3-0 |
1938 |
Dmitri Shostakovitch's Suite for jazz orchestra, premieres |
1938 |
Emlyn Williams' "Corn is Green," premieres in London |
1939 |
British navy captures German U-27 boat |
1939 |
Joe Louis KOs Bob Pastor in 11 for heavyweight boxing title |
1942 |
Gunther Hagg becomes world champ of all records from 1500m to 5000m |
1943 |
Liberator bomber sinks U-338 |
1944 |
Nijmegen is liberated from German occupation |
1944 |
Polish forces free Terneuzen Neth |
1945 |
German rocket engineers begin work in US |
1946 |
Churchill argues for a 'United States of Europe' |
1946 |
The first Cannes Film Festival is held. |
1948 |
"Magdalena" opens at Ziegfeld Theater NYC for 48 performances |
1948 |
Mexican Baseball league disbanded |
1949 |
Dutch Guilder devalued 30.3% |
1949 |
Tennis player Pancho Gonzales turns professional |
1951 |
1st North Pole jet crossing |
1951 |
NL President Ford Frick elected 3rd commissioner of baseball |
1951 |
Swiss males votes against female suffrage |
1952 |
KPTV TV channel 12 in Portland, OR (IND) begins broadcasting |
1953 |
Cubs Ernie Banks hits his 1st major league HR |
1954 |
1st FORTRAN computer program run |
1954 |
1st National People's Congress adopts Chinese constitution |
1954 |
KETC TV channel 9 in Saint Louis, MO (PBS) begins broadcasting |
1954 |
Los Stravinsky's "In Memoriam Dylan Thomas," premieres in Angeles |
1954 |
Roger Bannister awarded Britain's Silver Pears Trophy |
1954 |
New Zealand's Special Committee on Moral Delinquency in Children and Adolescents reports just ten days after concluding hearings. |
1955 |
Willie Mays (Giants) homers off Vern Law (Pirates) in both ends of DH |
1955 |
Willie Mays is 7th player to reach 50 HRS in a season |
1958 |
Baltimore Oriole knuckler Hoyt Wilhelm no-hits NY Yankees 1-0 |
1958 |
Ferhat Abbas forms Algerian government in exile (Cairo) |
1958 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR |
1959 |
Beverly Hanson wins LPGA Links Golf Invitation Open |
1960 |
UN General Assembly admit 13 African countries & Cyprus (96 nations) |
1960 |
WFSU TV channel 11 in Tallahassee, FL (PBS) begins broadcasting |
1961 |
After 84 1/3 innings Bill Fischer gives up a base on balls |
1961 |
James Meredith refused access as a student in Mississippi |
1961 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR |
1961 |
Roger Maris hits home run # 59 & barely misses # 60 in game 154 of the season. Yanks clinch pennant #26 |
1962 |
Ben Bella wins 1st elections in independent Algeria |
1962 |
Gov R Barnett refuses to admit a black to Miss Univ (James Meredith) |
1963 |
JFK proposes a joint US-Soviet voyage to the moon |
1964 |
Gunter Grass' "Die Plebejern proben den Aufstand," premieres in Berlin |
1964 |
Paramount Theater (NYC) presented the Beatles with Steve & Eydie |
1965 |
WXXW (now WYCC) TV channel 20 in Chicago, IL (PBS) begins broadcasting |
1966 |
US Surveyor B launched toward Moon; crashed Sept 23 |
1967 |
Benin separates from Nigeria |
1967 |
British liner Queen Elizabeth II launched at Clydebank Scotland |
1967 |
Hurricane Beulah hits Texas-Mexican border, kills 38 |
1967 |
WCAE TV channel 50 in St John, IN (PBS) begins broadcasting |
1967 |
WCIX TV channel 6 in Miami, FL (CBS) begins broadcasting |
1968 |
Mickey Mantle hits final career homer # 536 |
1969 |
18th Ryder Cup: Draw, 16-16 at Royal Birkdale, England |
1969 |
Archies' "Sugar Sugar" hits #1 |
1969 |
Pitts Pirate Bob Moose no-hits NY Mets, 4-0 |
1970 |
Jim Morrison found not guilty of "lewd" behavior |
1970 |
Luna 16 lands on Moon's Mare Fecunditatis, drills core sample |
1972 |
Police find cannabis growing on Paul & Linda McCartney's farm |
1972 |
Libya acquires a 50 percent interest in two ENI oil concessions |
1972 |
The Social Democratic and Labour Party issues a document entitled Towards a New Ireland, proposing that the British and Irish governments should have joint sovereignty over Northern Ireland |
1972 |
The Social Democratic and Labour Party issues a document entitled Towards a New Ireland, proposing that the British and Irish governments should have joint sovereignty over Northern Ireland |
1973 |
Billy Jean King beats Bobby Riggs in battle-of-sexes tennis match |
1973 |
Willie Mays announces retirement at end of 1973 season |
1975 |
21st Ryder Cup: US, 21-11 at Laurel Valley Golf Club (Ligonier, Pennsylvania, US) |
1975 |
David Bowie's "Fame," single goes #1 for 2 weeks |
1975 |
Gary Sentman draws a record 176 lb longbow to a maximum 28½" draw |
1976 |
Metroliner official opens in Brussels |
1976 |
Playboy releases Jimmy Carter's interview that he lusts for women |
1976 |
Sid Berstein offers $230 million charity concert for Beatle reunion |
1977 |
"Estrada" opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 7 performances |
1977 |
Vietnam & Djibouti ask for membership in UN |
1978 |
"Eubie!" opens at Ambassador Theater NYC for 439 performances |
1978 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1978 |
Yamada Mumon Roshi visits Benedictine Abbey of Maria Laach Germany |
1979 |
Coup in Central African Rep: David Dacko overthrows emperor Bokassa I |
1979 |
Jose E dod Santos becomes president of Angola |
1979 |
NASA launches HEAO |
1979 |
Lee Iacocca is elected president of the Chrysler Corporation. |
1979 |
The Punjab wing of the Unity Centre of Communist Revolutionaries of India (Marxist-Leninist) formally splits and constitutes a parallel UCCRI(ML). |
1979 |
Assassination of French left-wing militant Pierre Goldman. |
1980 |
Bronze plaque dedicated to memory of Thurman Munson at Yankee Stadium |
1980 |
George Brett goes 0-for-4 dropping his avg below .400 for good |
1980 |
Spectacular Bid runs in Belmont alone as 3 horses drop out |
1981 |
24th Ryder Cup: US, 18½-9½ at Walton Heath Golf Club (Walton-on-the-Hill, Surrey, England) |
1981 |
Joe Danelo kicks then NY Giant record 55 yard field goal |
1981 |
Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Henredon Golf Classic |
1982 |
Jalaluddin takes a one-day hat-trick Pakistan v Australia |
1982 |
NFL players begin a 57 day strike |
1983 |
3,112 turn out to see Pirates play NY Mets at Shea Stadium |
1983 |
Cryptographic Communications System & Method (RSA) patented |
1984 |
"Cosby Show" premieres on NBC-TV |
1984 |
Cubs break 2 million in home attendance for 1st time |
1984 |
Suicide car bomb attacks US Embassy annex in Beirut, kills 23 |
1985 |
Curtis Strong is convicted for selling cocaine to pro baseball players |
1985 |
Walt Disney World's 200-millionth guest |
1986 |
Wichita State Shockers blow a 35-3 lead; lose 36-35 to Morehead State |
1987 |
"Big River" closes at Eugene O'Neill Theater NYC after 1005 perfs |
1987 |
39th Emmy Awards: LA Law, Bruce Willis & Sharon Gless win |
1987 |
Alain Prost wins record 28th Formula one auto race |
1987 |
Dwight Clark ends NFL streak of 105 consecutive game receptions |
1987 |
Jan Stephenson wins LPGA SAFECO Golf Classic |
1987 |
Walter Payton scores NFL record 107th rushing touchdown |
1988 |
Darrell Evans hits his 400th career home run |
1988 |
Greg Louganis wins Olympic gold medal in springboard diving |
1988 |
Wade Boggs is 1st player to get 200 hits for 6 consecutive seasons |
1989 |
FW De Klerk sworn in as president of South Africa |
1989 |
Musical "Miss Saigon," premieres in London |
1989 |
USAir overshoots runway at LaGuardia Airport in NYC, 2 people die |
1990 |
Both Germanys ratify reunification |
1990 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
1990 |
South Ossetia declares its independence from Georgia. |
1991 |
Lion's Terry Taylor reinstated after 1 year drug related suspension |
1992 |
Colleen Walker wins LPGA SAFECO Golf Classic |
1992 |
France votes in favor of Maastricht treaty |
1992 |
Leanza Cornett (Florida), 21, crowned 66th Miss America 1993 |
1992 |
Phils' Mickey Moradini makes an unassisted triple play |
1992 |
Space shuttle STS-47 (Endeavour 2) lands |
1994 |
Space shuttle STS-64 (Discovery 20), lands |
1995 |
Cincinnati Reds becomes 1st team to clinch NL Central |
1997 |
Yanks clinch 37th appearance in post season, 3rd consecutive |
1998 |
Solheim Cup |
2000 |
Patent on RSA cryptograph algorithm ends |
2000 |
The British MI6 Secret Intelligence Service building is attacked by a Russian-built Mark 22 anti-tank missile. |
2001 |
In an address to a joint session of Congress and the American people, U.S. President George W. Bush declares a "war on terror". |
2002 |
The Kolka-Karmadon rock/ice slide started. |
2003 |
Maldives civil unrest: the death of prisoner Hassan Evan Naseem sparks a day of rioting in Malé. |
2003 |
A referendum is held in Latvia to decide the country's accession to the European Union. |
2009 |
61st Emmy Awards: Mad Men, 30 Rock, Bryan Cranston & Glenn Close win |
2010 |
The National Bureau of Economic Research state today that the US left the recession in June 2009, with managing director Lakshman Achuthan of the Economic Cycle Research Institute saying GDP recovered to 70% of the pre-recession level |
2011 |
The United States ends its "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy, allowing gay men and women to serve openly for the first time. |
2011 |
"New Girl", starring Zooey Deschanel, debuts on Fox |
2012 |
50 people are killed and dozens injured after a gas station is bombed by the Syrian Army in Ain Issa |
2012 |
14 people are killed in a cafe suicide bominbg in Somalia |
2012 |
AU Optronics fined $500 million for a LCD screen price-fixing |
2013 |
46 soldiers are killed in army-base attacks in Shabwah Governorate, Yemen |
2013 |
Grand Theft Auto becomes the fastest entertainment product to reach $1 Billion in sales |
2013 |
Greenpeace ship Artic Sunrise is boarded by Russian military |
2013 |
Alex Rodriquez sets new MLB record with 24 Grand Slam home runs for the New York Yankees |
2014 |
New Zealand's National Government wins a 3rd term in the elections despite allegations of corruption and revelations about state surveillance |
2017 |
More than 100 dead in major earthquake near Mexico City |
2017 |
Trump vows to 'totally destroy North Korea' at UN assembly |
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