September 20

September 20 is the 263rd day of the year (264th in leap years). There are 102 days remaining.

Events

• 1596 – Diego de Montemayor founded the city of Monterrey, Mexico.
• 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.
• 1854 – Battle of Alma – British and French troops defeat Russians in the Crimea
• 1860 – The Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII of the United Kingdom) visits the United States
• 1863 – Battle of Chickamauga ends
• 1870 – Bersaglieri corps enters Rome through Porta Pia and completes the unification of Italy
• 1881 – Chester A. Arthur is inaugurated as the 21st President of the United States.
• 1891 – The first gasoline-powered car debuts in Springfield, Massachusetts.
• 1946 – First Cannes Film Festival
• 1954 – First program compiled from FORTRAN runs
• 1954 – New Zealand's Special Committee on Moral Delinquency in Children and Adolescents reports just ten days after concluding hearings.
• 1962 – James Meredith, an African-American, is barred from entering the University of Mississippi
• 1973 – Billie Jean King beats Bobby Riggs in battle-of-sexes tennis match
• 1979 – Lee Iacocca elected president of the Chrysler Corporation
• 1979 – Coup in Central African Empire overthrows Emperor Bokasa I
• 1981 – Coup in Central African Republic overthrows President David Dacko
• 1984 – Suicide bomber in a car attacks the United States embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, killing twelve people
• 1998 – After playing 2,632 consecutive games for the Baltimore Orioles, baseball player Cal Ripken, Jr takes a day off.
• 2003 – Referendum in Latvia over the joining of the European Union

Births

• 1842 – Sir James Dewar, chemist (d. 1923)
• 1853 – Chulalongkorn (Rama V), king of Thailand (d. 1910)
• 1861 – Herbert Putnam, Librarian of Congress (d. 1955)
• 1873 – Sidney Olcott, pioneer film director (d. 1949)
• 1873 – Ferenc Szisz, Hungarian-born French race car driver (d. 1944)
• 1878 – Upton Sinclair, writer, politician (d. 1968)
• 1889 – Charles Reidpath, American athlete
• 1890 – Jelly Roll Morton, composer (d. 1941)
• 1899 – Elliott Nugent, actor, director
• 1917 – Red Auerbach, National Basketball Association coach and executive
• 1918 – Peg Phillips, actress
• 1922 – William Kapell, pianist (d. 1953)
• 1924 – Gogi Grant (Audrey Brown), singer
• 1925 – James Galanos, fashion designer
• 1927 – Johnny Dankworth, musician, composer
• 1927 – Rachel Roberts, actress (d. 1980)
• 1928 – Doctor Joyce Brothers, psychologist, advice columnist
• 1928 – Donald A. Hall, author
• 1929 – Anne Meara, comic, actress
• 1931 – Peter Palmer, actor
• 1934 – Sophia Loren, actress
• 1937 – Monica Zetterlund, Swedish actress and singer (d. 2005)
• 1938 – Pia Lindstrom, journalist
• 1947 – Chuck Panozzo, musician
• 1948 – George R. R. Martin, science fiction writer
• 1951 – Guy Lafleur, National Hockey League star
• 1954 – Peter White, jazz musician
• 1956 – Gary Cole, actor
• 1967 – Kristen Johnston, actress
• 1967  – Gunnar Nelson and Matthew Nelson, singers
• 1968 – Leah Pinsent, Canadian actress
• 1968 – Darrell Russell, NHRA drag racer (d. 2004)
• 1971 – Henrik Larsson, Swedish football star
• 1975 – Asia Argento, actress
• 1975  – Juan Pablo Montoya, Formula One racer
• 1976 – Michael Ballack, German football star
• 1977 – Namie Amuro, Japanese singer
• 1978 – Jason Bay, Canadian baseball player
• 1978 – Sarit Hadad, Israeli singer

Deaths

• 1460 – Gilles Binchois, composer
• 1586 – Chidiock Tichborne, English conspirator and poet (executed)
• 1803 – Robert Emmet, Irish patriot
• 1852 – Philander Chase, American university founder
• 1863 – Jacob Grimm, German folklorist (b. 1785)
• 1898 – Theodor Fontane, German writer (b. 1819)
• 1908 – Pablo de Sarasate, Spanish violinist and composer
• 1947 – Fiorello LaGuardia, Mayor of New York City
• 1949 – Nikolaos Skalkottas, composer
• 1957 – Jean Sibelius, Finnish composer
• 1973 – Jim Croce, singer and songwriter
• 1974 – José Mojica, Mexican singer and film actor (b. 1899)
• 1975 – Saint-John Perse, French diplomat and poet (b. 1887)
• 1996 – Paul Erdös, mathematician (b. 1913)
• 1999 – Raisa Gorbachev, Russian wife of Mikhail Gorbachev
• 2000 – Gherman Titov, cosmonaut
• 2003 – Lord Williams of Mostyn, British politician
• 2003 – Simon Muzenda, Zimbabwe politician
• 2004 – Townsend Hoopes, American politician

Holidays

• 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:
  • Eustachius
  • Vincent Madelgaire
  • Yves Mayeuc
  • Francis de Posadas
  • Thomas Johnson, John Davy, and companions (martyrs).
• Feast day of the following saint(s) in the Anglican Church:
  • John Coleridge Patteson

External links

• BBC: On This Day

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