SEPTEMBER 20
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.
1377 - 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.
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 - American Civil War: The 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, 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
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
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.
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.
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.
1973 - Singer Jim Croce is killed in a plane crash.
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.
1981 - A coup d'état in the Central African Republic overthrows President David Dacko.
1983 - Birth of the goddess of love, beauty and fertility. The world rejoiced.
1984 - A suicide bomber in a car attacks the U.S. embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, killing twelve people
1989 - Miss Saigon makes its world premeire in London
1998 - Baseball: After playing 2,632 consecutive games for the Baltimore Orioles, Cal Ripken, Jr takes a day off.
2000 - Last performance of the musical Cats (musical) on Broadway.
2001 - George W. Bush delivers his "Freedom at War with Fear" speech to a joint session of Congress.
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 - 2003 Maldives civil unrest: the death of prisoner Hassan Evan Naseem sparks a day of rioting in Malé.
Births
1486 - Arthur Tudor, Prince of Wales, son of King Henry VII of England (d. 1502)
1599 - Christian, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg-Wolfenbüttel, German protestant military leader (d. 1623)
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 - Sir James Dewar, Scottish chemist (d. 1923)
1853 - Chulalongkorn, 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-born race car driver (d. 1944)
1878 - Upton Sinclair, American writer and politician (d. 1968)
1889 - Charles Reidpath, American athlete (d. 1975)
1899 - Leo Strauss, German-American Philosopher (d. 1973)
1902 - Stevie Smith, British poet and novelist (d. 1971)
1917 - Red Auerbach, American basketball coach and executive
1917 - Fernando Rey, Spanish-born actor (d. 1994)
1922 - William Kapell, American pianist (d. 1953)
1923 - Geraldine Clinton Little, Irish-born poet (d. 1997)
1924 - Gogi Grant, American singer
1925 - Ananda Mahidol, Rama VIII, King of Thailand (d. 1946)
1927 - Johnny Dankworth, English musician and composer
1927 - Rachel Roberts, English actress (d. 1980)
1928 - Joyce Brothers, American psychologist and advice columnist
1929 - Anne Meara, American comic and actress
1934 - Sophia Loren, Italian actress
1935 - Jim Taylor, National Football League player
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, Mayor of Montreal
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, American musician twins in the band Styx
1951 - Guy Lafleur, Canadian hockey player
1954 - Henry Samueli, American NHL team owner
1956 - Gary Cole, American actor
1964 - Maggie Cheung, Hong Kong actress
1965 - Robert Rusler, American actor
1966 - Nuno Bettencourt, Portuguese-born rock musician
1967 - Kristen Johnston, American actress
1967 - Gunnar and Matthew Nelson, Americans musicians (Nelson)
1968 - Leah Pinsent, Canadian actress
1968 - Darrell Russell, American race car driver (d. 2004)
1971 - Henrik Larsson, Swedish footballer
1975 - Asia Argento, Italian actress
1975 - Juan Pablo Montoya, Colombian race car driver
1976 - Yui Horie, Japanese voice actress and singer
1976 - Reuben Singh, British entrepreneur
1977 - Namie Amuro, Japanese singer
1978 - Jason Bay, Canadian Major League Baseball player
1978 - Sarit Hadad, Israeli singer
1978 - T.J. Tucker, Professional baseball player
1979 - Phil Waugh, Australian Rugby Union player
1980 - Mariacarla Boscono, Italian fashion model
1981 - Joanie Dodds, ANTM contestant
1981 - Feliciano López, Spanish tennis player
1981 - Dimitrios Papadopoulos, Greek football player
1983 - Richard Raymond Uy, a goddess
1991 - Spencer Locke, American actress
1993 - Kenny Kim, Korean-American actor
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)
1908 - Pablo de Sarasate, Spanish violinist and composer (b. 1844)
1932 - Wovoka, Paiute visionary
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 writer, 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)
1989 - Richie Ginther, American racing driver (b. 1930)
1993 - Erich Hartmann, German pilot (b. 1922)
1994 - Jules Styne, American songwriter (b. 1905)
1995 - Orville Redenbacher, Popcorn company founder (b. 1907)
1996 - Paul Erdős, Hungarian mathematician (b. 1913)
2000 - Gherman Titov, cosmonaut (b. 1935)
2003 - Lord Williams of Mostyn, British politician (b. 1941)
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)
Question: Ano ba meron sa September 20 at may napakahabang post ka dyan ah?
Answer: Kung talagang binabasa mo tong blog ko, napansin mo sana yung mga naka-italicized at iba ang font.. sa may Events and Birth.. (Sige, scroll up ka ulit.. Utang na loob hindi sa Deaths ah..)
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