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Events

★ 451 - According to some sources, this was the date of the Battle of Chalons: Flavius Aetius' victory over Attila the Hun.

★ 1187 - Saladin begins the Siege of Jerusalem.

★ 1378 - Cardinal 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 the Inquisition for teaching that the Earth orbits the Sun.

★ 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.

★ 1792 - French troops stop allied invasion of France, during the War of the First Coalition at Valmy.

★ 1835 - Farroupilha's Revolution begins in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.

★ 1854 - Battle of Alma: British and French troops defeat Russians in the Crimea.

★ 1857 - The Indian Mutiny ends with the recapture of Delhi by troops loyal to the 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 unification of Italy; 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 Football Club, the oldest club in Ireland, are founded by John McCredy McAlery.

★ 1881 - Chester A. Arthur is inaugurated as the 21st President of the United States.

★ 1891 - The first gasoline-powered car debuts in Springfield, Massachusetts, United States.

★ 1906 - Cunard Line's RMS ''Mauretania'' is launched at the Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson shipyard in Newcastle, England.

★ 1917 - Paraguay becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.

★ 1920 - Foundation of the Spanish Legion.

★ 1930 - Syro-Malankara Catholic Church was formed by Archbishop Mar Ivanios

★ 1939 - A German Messerschmitt Bf 109 is shot down by Fairey Battle gunner Sgt. F. Letchard during a patrol near Aachen. This is the RAF's first aerial victory of the Second World War.

★ 1940 - Genevieve Grotjan completes the decryption of the Japanese Purple code.

★ 1942 - Holocaust in Letychiv, Ukraine. In the course of two days German SS murders at least 3.000 Jews

★ 1946 - The first Cannes Film Festival is held.

★ 1954 - New Zealand's Special Committee on Moral Delinquency in Children and Adolescents 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 RMS ''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 Houston Astrodome in Houston, Texas.

★ 1977 - The Socialist Republic of Vietnam is admitted to the United Nations

★ 1979 - Lee Iacocca is elected president of the Chrysler Corporation.

★ 1979 - A coup d'état in the Central African Empire overthrows Emperor Bokasa I.

★ 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.

★ 1984 - A suicide bomber in a car attacks the U.S. 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 ''ABC'' respectively.

★ 1990 - South Ossetia declares its independence from Georgia.

★ 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 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 - Maldives civil unrest: the death of prisoner Hassan Evan Naseem sparks a day of rioting in Malé.

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, Revolutionary War hero (d. 1825)

★ 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 - Rama V, 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)

★ 1884 - Maxwell Perkins, American editor and publisher (d. 1947)

★ 1886 - Charles Williams, 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)

★ 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)

★ 1926 - Donald Hall, American poet and US Poet Laureate

★ 1927 - Johnny Dankworth, English musician and composer

★ 1927 - Rachel Roberts, 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

★ 1933 - Dennis Viollet, English former footballer (d. 1999)

★ 1934 - Sophia Loren, Italian actress

★ 1935 - Jim Taylor, National Football League player

★ 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)

★ 1949 - John W. Henry, American MLB team owner

★ 1951 - Guy Lafleur, Canadian ice hockey player

★ 1951 - Javier Marías, Spanish novelist

★ 1954 - Henry Samueli, American NHL team owner

★ 1956 - Gary Cole, American actor

★ 1959 - Danny Devos, Belgian artist

★ 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 and Matthew Nelson, American musicians (Nelson)

★ 1968 - Leah Pinsent, Canadian actress

★ 1968 - Darrell Russell, American race car driver (d. 2004)

★ 1969 - Victoria Dillard, American actress

★ 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 - 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, 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, Canadian ice hockey player

★ 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, 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

★ 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 laureate (b. 1900)

★ 1973 - Jim Croce, American singer and songwriter (b. 1943)

★ 1975 - Saint-John Perse, French diplomat and writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1887)

★ 1979 - Ludvík Svoboda, President of Czechoslovakia (b. 1895)

★ 1980 - Sanpei Hayashiya, Japanese comedian (b. 1925)

★ 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)

★ 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)

Holidays and observances

★ Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul only - Farroupilha's Revolution (1835)

★ 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:

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★ The Korean Martyrs, including Andrew Kim Taegon and Laurent-Marie-Joseph Imbert

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★ Eustace

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★ Vincent Madelgaire

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★ Yves Mayeuc

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★ Francis de Posadas

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★ Thomas Johnson, John Davy, and companions (martyrs).

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

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★ John Coleridge Patteson.

★ Also see September 20 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics).

External links

★ BBC: On This Day

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★ On This Day in Canada
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