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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.
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 at 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
356 BC - Alexander the Great (d. 323 BC)
AD 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)
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
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
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.
1863 - Jacob Grimm, folklorist
1908 - Pablo de Sarasate, violinist
1947 - Fiorello LaGuardia, former mayor of New York City
1949 - Nikolaos Skalkottas, composer
1957 - Jean Sibelius, composer
1973 - Jim Croce, singer-songwriter
1974 - José Mojica, Mexican singer and film actor (b. 1899)
1996 - Paul Erdős, mathematician
1999 - Raisa Gorbachev, First Lady of the Soviet Union
2000 - Gherman Titov, cosmonaut
2003 - Lord Williams of Mostyn, British Cabinet minister, Leader of the House of Lords
2003 - Simon Muzenda, vice president of Zimbabwe under Robert Mugabe
2004 - Townsend Hoopes, United States Under Secretary of Defense for the Air Force
Holidays
In ancient Greece, the seventh day of the Eleusinian Mysteries, when the secret rites in the Telesterion began.
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