September 14

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September 14 is the 257th day of the year (258th in leap years). There are 108 days remaining.

Contents

1 Events

2 Births

3 Deaths

4 Holidays and observances

5 External links

Events

786 - Harun al-Rashid becomes the Abbasid caliph upon the death of his brother al-Hadi
1752 - The British Empire adopts the Gregorian calendar, skipping eleven days (September 2 was followed directly by September 14 this year)
1812 - Russian army burns Moscow to prevent Napoleon from capturing it
1814 - Francis Scott Key writes The Star-Spangled Banner.
1847 - Winfield Scott captures Mexico City
1886 - Typewriter ribbon patented.
1901 - President of the United States William McKinley dies after an assassination attempt.
1901 - Theodore Roosevelt becomes President of the United States.
1917 - Republican government declared in Russia
1923 - Miguel Primo de Rivera becomes dictator of Spain
1944 - United States Marines land on the island of Peleliu
1948 - Groundbreaking for the United Nations headquarters in New York City
1958 - Two rockets of the German engineer Ernst Mohr reach as first German post-war rockets the upper atmosphere
1959 - The Soviet probe Luna 2 crashes onto the Moon, becoming the first man-made object to reach it.
1960 - The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) is founded.
1964 - The opening of the third period of Second Vatican Council
1965 - The opening of the fourth and final period of Second Vatican Council
1975 - The first American saint, Elizabeth Ann Seton, is canonized by Pope Paul VI
1984 - Joe Kittinger becomes the first person to fly a hot air balloon solo across the Atlantic Ocean.
1999 - Kiribati, Nauru and Tonga join the United Nations.
2000 - Juan Antonio Samaranch leaves the presidency of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), after 20 years.
2003 - Sweden rejects adopting the Euro in a referendum. (Results.)
2003 - Estonia approves joining the European Union in a referendum.
2004 - Canada wins the 2004 World cup of Hockey.

Births

1547 - Johan van Oldenbarnevelt, Dutch statesman (d. 1619)
1760 - Luigi Cherubini, composer (d. 1842)
1769 - Alexander von Humboldt, naturalist and explorer (d. 1859)
1804 - John Gould, English ornithologist
1849 - Ivan Pavlov, scientist (d. 1936)
1867 - Charles Dana Gibson, artist (d. 1944)
1879 - Margaret Sanger, birth control advocate (d. 1966)
1880 - Archie Hahn, American athlete
1898 - Hal B. Wallis, film producer (d. 1986)
1899 - José Mojica , Mexican singer and film actor (d. 1974)
1909 - Peter Scott, naturalist, artist, and explorer (d. 1989)
1913 - Jacobo Arbenz, president of Guatemala (d. 1971)
1914:
- Lída Baarová, Czech actress (d. 2000 )
- Clayton Moore, actor The Lone Ranger (d. 1999)
1918 - Israel López (Cachao) , Cuban musician
1920 - Mario Benedetti, Uruguayan writer
1921 - Ruth Brooks Flippen , television writer (d. 1981)
1923 - Bud Palmer , sports reporter
1926 - Alejandro Ulloa , Spanish cinematographer
1933:
- Zoe Caldwell , actress
- Harve Presnell, actor
1934 - Kate Millett, feminist writer
1936 - Walter Koenig, actor
1938 - Nicol Williamson , actor
1940 - Larry Brown, NBA basketball coach
1941 - Alberto Naranjo , Venezuelan musician
1947 - Sam Neill, actor
1951 - Arrigo Barnabé , Brazilian composer
1959
- Mary Frances , actress
- Morten Harket, singer with a-ha
1968 - Michelle Stafford, soap opera actress
1971 - Kimberly Williams, actress
1973 - Nas, rap music singer
1974 - Hicham El Guerrouj, Moroccan athlete
1984 - Adam Lamberg, actor (Lizzie McGuire)

Deaths

258 - Cyprian, early Christian writer
775 - Constantine V, Byzantine Emperor
786 - Al-Hadi, Abbasid caliph
891 - Pope Stephen V
1214 - Albert Avogadro, Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem
1321 - Dante Alighieri, Italian author (b. 1265)
1404 - Duke Albert IV of Austria
1523 - Pope Adrian VI
1638 - John Harvard, clergyman, namesake of Harvard College
1836 - Aaron Burr, Vice President of the United States (b. 1756)
1851 - James Fenimore Cooper, author
1852 - Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, British general and Prime Minister
1886 - Gurdon Saltonstall Hubbard
1898 - William Seward Burroughs, inventor of the calculator
1899 - Henry Bliss, first American automobile fatality
1901 - United States President William McKinley
1927 - Isadora Duncan, dancer & mother of modern dance (b. 1877)
1936 - Irving Thalberg, film producer
1960 - Sir Arthur Percy Morris Fleming , radar pioneer
1965 - J.W. Hearne Middlesex and England all-rounder (b. 1891).
1966 - Gertrude Berg, actress
1974 - Warren Hull, actor, (b. 1903)
1982:
- Bachir Gemayel, President-elect of Lebanon of Lebanon
- Princess Grace of Monaco
- John Gardner, American novelist
1984 - Janet Gaynor, Academy Award winning actress
1989 - Dámaso Pérez Prado, Cuban musician (b. 1916)
1996 - Juliet Prowse, actress, dancer (b. 1937)
2000 - Beah Richards, actress

Holidays and observances

Roman Catholicism-Exaltation of the Holy Cross (compare May 3- Finding of the Holy Cross).
Eastern Orthodox Church Exaltation of the Cross, which commemorates the discovery of the (allegedly) original Christian cross in 326 by Helena, mother of Constantine.
In the Irish calendar the Wednesday, Friday and Saturday following Sept. 14 were observed as Quarter tense.
In ancient Greece, the first day of the Eleusinian Mysteries, during which the sacred objects were brought from Eleusis to Athens.

External links

BBC: On This Day

September 13 - September 15 - August 14 - October 14 - more historical anniversaries