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September 20

September 20 is the 263rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 102 days remain until the end of the year.

Events
Pre-16001058Agnes of Poitou and Andrew I of Hungary meet to negotiate about the border territory of Burgenland. • 1066 – At the Battle of Fulford, Harald Hardrada defeats earls Morcar and Edwin. • 1187Saladin begins the Siege of Jerusalem. • 1260 – The Great Prussian Uprising among the old Prussians begins against the Teutonic Knights. • 1378 – Cardinal Robert of Geneva is elected as Pope Clement VII, beginning the Papal schism. • 1498 – The Nankai tsunami washes away the building housing the Great Buddha at Kōtoku-in; it has been located outside ever since. • 1519Ferdinand Magellan sets sail from Sanlúcar de Barrameda with about 270 men on his expedition which ultimately culminates in the first circumnavigation of the globe. • 1586 – A number of conspirators in the Babington Plot are hanged, drawn and quartered. 1601–19001602 – The Spanish-held Dutch town of Grave capitulates to a besieging Dutch and English army under the command of Maurice of Orange. • 1697 – The Treaty of Ryswick is signed by France, England, Spain, the Holy Roman Empire and the Dutch Republic, ending the Nine Years' War. • 1737 – The Walking Purchase concludes, which forces the cession of of Lenape-Delaware tribal land to the Pennsylvania Colony. • 1792 – French troops stop an allied invasion of France at the Battle of Valmy. • 1835 – The decade-long Ragamuffin War starts when rebels capture Porto Alegre in Brazil. • 1848 – The American Association for the Advancement of Science is created. • 1854Crimean War: British and French troops defeat Russians at the Battle of Alma. • 1857 – The Indian Rebellion of 1857 ends with the recapture of Delhi by troops loyal to the East India Company. • 1860 – The future King Edward VII of the United Kingdom begins the first visit to North America by a Prince of Wales. • 1863American Civil War: The Battle of Chickamauga, in northwestern Georgia, ends in a Confederate victory. • 1870 – The Bersaglieri corps enter Rome through the Porta Pia, and complete the unification of Italy. • 1871 – Bishop John Coleridge Patteson, first bishop of Melanesia, is martyred on Nukapu, now in the Solomon Islands. • 1881 – U.S. President Chester A. Arthur is sworn in upon the death of James A. Garfield the previous day. • 1893Charles Duryea and his brother road-test the first American-made gasoline-powered automobile. 1901–present1911 – The White Star Line's collides with the British warship . • 1920Irish War of Independence: British police known as "Black and Tans" burn the town of Balbriggan and kill two local men in revenge for an IRA assassination. • 1941The Holocaust in Lithuania: Lithuanian Nazis and local police begin a mass execution of 403 Jews in Nemenčinė. • 1946 – The first Cannes Film Festival is held, having been delayed for seven years due to World War II. • 1946 – Six days after a referendum, King Christian X of Denmark annuls the declaration of independence of the Faroe Islands. • 1954 – The Moomin comics, created by Tove Jansson and Lars Jansson, is published internationally in the London newspaper The Evening News. • 1955 – The Treaty on Relations between the USSR and the GDR is signed. • 1961 – Greek general Konstantinos Dovas becomes Prime Minister of Greece. • 1962James Meredith, an African American, is temporarily barred from entering the University of Mississippi. • 1965 – Following the Battle of Burki, the Indian Army captures Dograi in during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965. • 1967 – The Cunard Liner Queen Elizabeth 2 is launched in Clydebank, Scotland. • 1971 – Having weakened after making landfall in Nicaragua the previous day, Hurricane Irene regains enough strength to be renamed Hurricane Olivia, making it the first known hurricane to cross from the Atlantic Ocean into the Pacific. • 1973 – Billie Jean King beats Bobby Riggs in the Battle of the Sexes tennis match at the Houston Astrodome. • 1973 – Singer Jim Croce, songwriter and musician Maury Muehleisen and four others die when their light aircraft crashes shortly after takeoff from Natchitoches Regional Airport in Louisiana. • 1977Vietnam is admitted to the United Nations. • 1979 – A French-supported ''coup d'état'' in the Central African Empire overthrows Emperor Bokassa I. • 1982NFL season: American football players in the National Football League begin a 57-day strike. • 1984 – A suicide bomber in a car attacks the U.S. embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, killing twenty-two people. • 1989USAir Flight 5050 crashes into Bowery Bay during a rejected takeoff from LaGuardia Airport, killing two people. • 1990South Ossetia declares its independence from Georgia. • 2000 – The United Kingdom's MI6 Secret Intelligence Service building is attacked by individuals using a Russian-built RPG-22 anti-tank missile. • 2001 – In an address to a joint session of Congress and the American people, U.S. President George W. Bush declares a "war on terror". • 2003Civil unrest in the Maldives breaks out after a prisoner is killed by guards. • 2007 – Between 15,000 and 20,000 protesters march on Jena, Louisiana, United States, in support of six black youths who had been convicted of assaulting a white classmate. • 2008 – A dump truck full of explosives detonates in front of the Marriott hotel in Islamabad, Pakistan, killing 54 people and injuring 266 others. • 2011 – The United States military ends its "don't ask, don't tell" policy, allowing gay men and women to serve openly for the first time. • 2017Hurricane Maria makes landfall in Puerto Rico as a powerful Category 4 hurricane, resulting in 2,975 deaths, US$90 billion in damage, and a major humanitarian crisis. • 2018 – At least 161 people die after a ferry capsizes close to the pier on Ukara Island in Lake Victoria, Tanzania. • 2019 – Roughly four million people, mostly students, demonstrate across the world to address climate change. Sixteen-year-old Greta Thunberg from Sweden leads the demonstration in New York City. ==Births==
Births
Pre-1600917Kyunyeo, Korean poet (died 973) • 1161Emperor Takakura of Japan (died 1181) • 1449Philipp I, Count of Hanau-Münzenberg (died 1500) • 1486Arthur, Prince of Wales (died 1502) • 1504Philip III, Count of Nassau-Weilburg (died 1559) • 1514Philipp IV, Count of Hanau-Lichtenberg (died 1590) • 1593Gottfried Scheidt, German organist and composer (died 1661) • 1599Christian the Younger of Brunswick (died 1623) 1601–19001608Jean-Jacques Olier, French priest and mystic, founder of the Society of Saint-Sulpice (died 1657) • 1614Martino Martini, Italian missionary, cartographer and historian (died 1661) • 1685Giuseppe Matteo Alberti, Italian violinist and composer (died 1751) • 1685Mateo de Toro Zambrano, 1st Count of La Conquista, President of the First Government Junta of Chile (died 1811) • 1746Maurice, Count de Benyovszky, Slovak-Hungarian explorer (died 1786) • 1758Jean-Jacques Dessalines, Haitian emperor (died 1806) • 1778Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen, Russian admiral, cartographer, and explorer (died 1852) • 1800Benjamin Franklin White, American singer and composer (died 1879) • 1815Richard Dry, Australian politician, 7th Premier of Tasmania (died 1869) • 1819Frederick Ellsworth Sickels, American inventor (died 1895) • 1820John F. Reynolds, American general (died 1863) • 1831Kate Harrington, American poet and educator (died 1917) • 1833Ernesto Teodoro Moneta, Italian soldier and journalist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1918) • 1842James Dewar, Scottish-English chemist and physicist (died 1923) • 1844William H. Illingworth, English-American photographer (died 1893) • 1847Susanna Rubinstein, Austrian psychologist (died 1914) • 1851Henry Arthur Jones, English playwright and critic (died 1929) • 1853Chulalongkorn, Siamese king (died 1910) • 1861Herbert Putnam, American lawyer and publisher, 8th Librarian of Congress (died 1955) • 1872Maurice Gamelin, French general (died 1958) • 1873Sidney Olcott, Canadian-American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (died 1949) • 1873 – Ferenc Szisz, Hungarian race car driver (died 1944) • 1875Matthias Erzberger, German publicist and politician (died 1921) • 1876Carleton Ellis, American inventor and chemist (died 1941) • 1878Upton Sinclair, American novelist, critic, and essayist (died 1968) • 1878 – Francisco Lagos Cházaro, acting president of Mexico (died 1932) • 1880Ildebrando Pizzetti, Italian composer, musicologist and critic (died 1968) • 1884Maxwell Perkins, American editor (died 1947) • 1885Enrico Mizzi, Maltese lawyer and politician, 6th Prime Minister of Malta (died 1950) • 1886Charles Williams, English author, poet, and critic (died 1945) • 1889Oskar Kaplur, Estonian wrestler (died 1962) • 1889 – Charles Reidpath, American runner and general (died 1975) • 1890Linda Eenpalu, Estonian activist and politician (died 1967) • 1891Tomás Garrido Canabal, Mexican revolutionary (died 1943) • 1893Colin Fraser Barron, Scottish-Canadian sergeant, Victoria Cross recipient (died 1958) • 1893 – Hermann Lux, German footballer and manager (died 1962) • 1895Walter Dubislav, German logician and philosopher of science (died 1937) • 1899Leo Strauss, German-American political scientist, philosopher, and academic (died 1973) 1901–present1902Stevie Smith, English author and poet (died 1971) • 1906Jean Dréville, French actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (died 1997) • 1906 – Vera Faddeeva, Russian mathematician (died 1983) • 1910Dorothy Vaughan, American mathematician (died 2008) • 1913Sidney Dillon Ripley, American ornithologist and academic (died 2001) • 1914Kenneth More, English actor (died 1982) • 1915Malik Meraj Khalid, Pakistani politician, Prime Minister of Pakistan (died 2003) • 1917Red Auerbach, American basketball player and coach (died 2006) • 1917 – Obdulio Varela, Uruguayan footballer (died 1996) • 1920Jay Ward, American animator, producer, and screenwriter, founded Jay Ward Productions (died 1989) • 1921Chico Hamilton, American drummer, composer, and bandleader (died 2013) • 1923 – Maurice Sauvé, Canadian economist, academic, and politician (died 1992) • 1924Gogi Grant, American singer (died 2016) • 1924 – Albert Marre, American director, and producer (died 2012) • 1924 – Jackie Paris, American singer and guitarist (died 2004) • 1925James Bernard, English composer and screenwriter (died 2001) • 1925 – Ananda Mahidol, King Rama VIII of Thailand (died 1946) • 1925 – Nelly Moretto, Argentine composer (died 1978) • 1926Libero Liberati, Italian motorcycle racer (died 1962) • 1927Colette Bonheur, Canadian singer (died 1966) • 1927 – John Dankworth, English saxophonist, clarinet player, and composer (died 2010) • 1927 – Red Mitchell, American bassist, composer, and poet (died 1992) • 1927 – Rachel Roberts, Welsh actress (died 1980) • 1928Alberto de Lacerda, Mozambican-Portuguese poet and radio host (died 2007) • 1928 – Olga Ferri, Argentinian dancer and choreographer (died 2012) • 1928 – Donald Hall, American poet, editor, and critic (died 2018) • 1928 – Juarez Teixeira, Brazilian footballer (died 2026) • 1929Anne Meara, American actress and playwright (died 2015) • 1929 – Vittorio Taviani, Italian film director and screenwriter (died 2018) • 1929 – Joe Temperley, Scottish saxophonist and clarinet player (died 2016) • 1930Richard Montague, American mathematician and philosopher (died 1971) • 1931Cherd Songsri, Thai director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2006) • 1933Dennis Viollet, English footballer and manager (died 1999) • 1934Hamit Kaplan, Turkish World and Olympic champion sports wrestler (died 1976) • 1934 – Sophia Loren, Italian actress • 1934 – David Marquand, Welsh academic and politician (died 2024) • 1934 – Jeff Morris, American actor (died 2004) • 1934 – Rajinder Puri, Indian cartoonist, journalist, and activist (died 2015) • 1935David Pegg, English footballer (died 1958) • 1935 – Keith Roberts, English author and illustrator (died 2000) • 1935 – Jim Taylor, American football player and sportscaster (died 2018) • 1936Andrew Davies, Welsh author, screenwriter, and producer • 1936 – Salvador Reyes Monteón, Mexican footballer and manager (died 2012) • 1937Birgitta Dahl, Swedish politician, Swedish Minister for the Environment • 1937 – Garry Johnson, English general • 1937 – Monica Zetterlund, Swedish actress and singer (died 2005) • 1938Eric Gale, American guitarist and producer (died 1994) • 1938 – Jane Manning, English soprano and educator (died 2021) • 1940Tarō Asō, Japanese target shooter and politician, 92nd Prime Minister of Japan • 1940 – William Finley, American actor (died 2012) • 1940 – Anna Pavord, Welsh-English journalist and author • 1941Dale Chihuly, American sculptor and educator • 1946 – Pete Coors, American businessman and politician • 1946 – Markandey Katju, Indian lawyer and judge • 1947Mia Martini, Italian singer (died 1995) • 1947 – Patrick Poivre d'Arvor, French journalist and author • 1948Rey Langit, Filipino journalist and radio host • 1948 – Victoria Mallory, American singer and actress (died 2014) • 1948 – George R. R. Martin, American novelist and short story writer • 1950 – Matt Blair, American football player (died 2020) • 1951Guy Lafleur, Canadian ice hockey player (died 2022) • 1951 – Javier Marías, Spanish journalist, author, and academic (died 2022) • 1951 – Debbi Morgan, American actress • 1955 – José Rivero, Spanish golfer • 1956Jennifer Tour Chayes, American mathematician and computer scientist • 1956 – Gary Cole, American actor • 1958Arn Anderson, American wrestler and trainer • 1959Joseph Alessi, American trombonist and educator • 1959 – Joanna Domańska, Polish pianist and educator • 1959 – Meral Okay, Turkish actress, producer, and screenwriter (died 2012) • 1960Lee Hall, English playwright and screenwriter • 1960 – Dave Hemingway, English singer-songwriter and drummer • 1960 – Deborah Roberts, American journalist • 1961Lisa Bloom, American lawyer and journalist • 1961 – Caroline Flint, English politician, Minister of State for Europe • 1961 – Erwin Koeman, Dutch retired football player and coach • 1962Jim Al-Khalili, Iraqi-English physicist, author, and academic • 1963Anil Dalpat, Pakistani cricketer • 1964Randy Bradbury, American bass player • 1969Patrick Pentland, Irish-Canadian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer • 1969 – Tim Rogers, Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist • 1969 – Ben Shepherd, American musician and songwriter • 1969 – Richard Witschge, Dutch footballer and coach • 1970N'Bushe Wright, American actress and dancer • 1971Todd Blackadder, New Zealand rugby player and coach • 1971 – Masashi Hamauzu, Japanese pianist and composer • 1971 – Henrik Larsson, Swedish footballer and manager • 1971 – Dominika Peczynski, Swedish singer and television host • 1972Enuka Okuma, Canadian actress • 1978 – Scott Minto, Australian rugby league player • 1978 – Charlie Weber, American actor • 1981 – Jordan Tata, American baseball player • 1982Jason Bacashihua, American ice hockey player • 1982 – Aaron Burkart, German race car driver • 1982 – Brian Fortuna, American dancer and choreographer • 1982 – Inna Osypenko-Radomska, Ukrainian-Azerbaijani sprint kayaker • 1982 – Sexy Star, Mexican wrestler • 1982 – Athanasios Tsigas, Greek footballer • 1983Sancho Lyttle, Vincentian-Spanish basketball player • 1983 – Freya Ross, Scottish runner • 1983 – Ángel Sánchez, Puerto Rican baseball player • 1984Brian Joubert, French figure skater • 1985Ian Desmond, American baseball player • 1985 – Mami Yamasaki, Japanese model and actress • 1986Hayato Fujita, Japanese wrestler • 1986 – Aldis Hodge, American actor • 1987Gain, South Korean singer • 1987 – Jack Lawless, American drummer • 1988 – Khabib Nurmagomedov, Russian mixed martial artist • 1988 – Ayano Ōmoto, Japanese singer and dancer • 1988 – Ryan Simpkins, Australian rugby league player • 1990Ken Giles, American baseball player • 1990 – Carlos Hyde, American football player • 1990 – Donatas Motiejūnas, Lithuanian basketball player • 1990 – Phillip Phillips, American singer-songwriter and guitarist • 1993 – Julian Draxler, German footballer • 1995Laura Dekker, Dutch sailor • 1995 – Sammi Hanratty, American actress • 1998Trevon Diggs, American football player • 2003Thomas Matthew Crooks, American attempted assassin of Donald Trump (died 2024) ==Deaths==
Deaths
Pre-1600855Gozbald, bishop of Würzburg • 1085Hermann II, Count Palatine of Lotharingia (born 1049) • 1190Adelog of Hildesheim, German bishop • 1241Conrad II of Salzwedel, German nobleman and bishop • 1246Michael of Chernigov (born 1185) • 1266Jan Prandota, Bishop of Kraków • 1328Ibn Taymiyyah, Syrian theologian and scholar (born 1263) • 1384Louis I, Duke of Anjou (born 1339) • 1440Frederick I, Elector of Brandenburg (born 1371) • 1460Gilles Binchois, Flemish composer (born 1400) • 1492Anne Neville, Countess of Warwick (born 1426) • 1501Agostino Barbarigo, Doge of Venice • 1501 – Thomas Grey, 1st Marquess of Dorset, stepson of Edward IV of England (born 1457) • 1533Veit Stoss, German sculptor (born c. 1447) • 1537Pavle Bakić, medieval Serb monarch; last Serb Despot1565Cipriano de Rore, Flemish composer and teacher (born 1515) • 1586 – Sir Anthony Babington, English Catholic conspirator (born 1561) • 1586 – Chidiock Tichborne, English conspirator and poet (born 1558) • 1590Lodovico Agostini, Italian priest, composer, and scholar (born 1534) 1601–19001625Heinrich Meibom, German historian and poet (born 1555) • 1627Jan Gruter, Dutch scholar and critic (born 1560) • 1639Johannes Meursius, Dutch historian and scholar (born 1579) • 1643Lucius Cary, 2nd Viscount Falkland, English soldier and politician, Secretary of State for England (born 1610) • 1684Kim Seok-ju, Korean scholar and politician (born 1634) • 1740Francis Scobell, English politician (born 1664) • 1793Fletcher Christian, English lieutenant and mutineer (born 1764) • 1803Robert Emmet, Irish republican (born 1780) • 1815Nicolas Desmarest, French geologist and scholar (born 1725) • 1839Sir Thomas Hardy, 1st Baronet, English admiral (born 1769) • 1840José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia, Paraguayan lawyer and politician, Consul of Paraguay (born 1766) • 1845Matvei Gedenschtrom, Russian explorer and public servant (born 1780) • 1852Philander Chase, American bishop and educator, founded Kenyon College (born 1775) • 1855José Trinidad Reyes, Honduran priest and educator (born 1797) • 1863Jacob Grimm, German philologist and mythologist (born 1785) • 1884Leopold Fitzinger, Austrian zoologist and author (born 1802) • 1898Theodor Fontane, German author and poet (born 1819) 1901–present1906Robert R. Hitt, American politician, 13th United States Assistant Secretary of State (born 1834) • 1908Pablo de Sarasate, Spanish violinist and composer (born 1844) • 1927George Nichols, American actor, director, and screenwriter (born 1864) • 1930Gombojab Tsybikov, Russian anthropologist and explorer (born 1873) • 1932Francisco S. Carvajal, Mexican lawyer and politician, president 1914 (born 1870) • 1933Annie Besant, English theosophist and activist (born 1847) • 1939Paul Bruchési, Canadian archbishop (born 1855) • 1942Kārlis Ulmanis, Latvian prime minister and president (born 1877) • 1945Augusto Tasso Fragoso, Brazilian politician, President of Brazil (born 1869) • 1945 – William Seabrook, American occultist, journalist, and explorer (born 1884) • 1945 – Eduard Wirths, German physician (born 1909) • 1947Fiorello H. La Guardia, American lawyer and politician, 99th Mayor of New York City (born 1882) • 1947 – Jantina Tammes, Dutch biologist, geneticist, and academic (born 1871) • 1957Heino Kaski, Finnish pianist and composer (born 1885) • 1957 – Jean Sibelius, Finnish violinist and composer (born 1865) • 1970Alexandros Othonaios, Greek general and politician, 126h Prime Minister of Greece (born 1879) • 1971Giorgos Seferis, Greek poet and diplomat, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1900) • 1971 – James Westerfield, American actor (born 1913) • 1972Pierre-Henri Simon, French historian and author (born 1903) • 1973Jim Croce, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1943) • 1975Saint-John Perse, French poet and diplomat, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1887) • 1979Ludvík Svoboda, Czech general and politician, 8th President of Czechoslovakia (born 1895) • 1984Steve Goodman, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1948) • 1987Michael Stewart, American playwright and composer (born 1924) • 1993Erich Hartmann, German soldier and pilot (born 1922) • 1994Abioseh Nicol, Sierra Leonean physician, academic, and diplomat (born 1924) • 1994 – Jule Styne, American composer (born 1905) • 1996Paul Erdős, Hungarian-Polish mathematician and academic (born 1913) • 1996 – Reuben Kamanga, Zambian politician, 1st Vice-President of Zambia (born 1929) • 1996 – Paul Weston, American pianist, composer, and conductor (born 1912) • 1999Robert Lebel, Canadian businessman (born 1905) • 2000Gherman Titov, Russian general, pilot, and astronaut (born 1935) • 2002Sergei Bodrov Jr., Russian actor, director, and screenwriter (born 1971) • 2003Simon Muzenda, Zimbabwean politician, 1st Vice-President of Zimbabwe (born 1922) • 2003 – Gareth Williams, Baron Williams of Mostyn, Welsh lawyer and politician, Lord President of the Council (born 1941) • 2004Brian Clough, English footballer and manager (born 1935) • 2004 – Townsend Hoopes, American soldier and historian (born 1922) • 2005Simon Wiesenthal, Austrian human rights activist, Holocaust survivor (born 1908) • 2006Armin Jordan, Swiss conductor (born 1932) • 2006 – Sven Nykvist, Swedish director, producer, and cinematographer (born 1922) • 2006 – John W. Peterson, American pilot and songwriter (born 1921) • 2007Johnny Gavin, Irish footballer (born 1928) • 2010Leonard Skinner, American soldier and educator (born 1933) • 2011Oscar Handlin, American historian and author (born 1915) • 2011 – Burhanuddin Rabbani, Afghan academic and politician, 10th President of Afghanistan (born 1940) • 2012Fortunato Baldelli, Italian cardinal (born 1935) • 2012 – Richard H. Cracroft, American author and academic (born 1936) • 2012 – Tereska Torrès, French soldier and author (born 1920) • 2013James B. Vaught, American general (born 1926) • 2013 – Gilles Verlant, Belgian journalist and critic (born 1957) • 2014Anatoly Berezovoy, Russian colonel, pilot, and cosmonaut (born 1942) • 2014 – Polly Bergen, American actress and singer (born 1930) • 2014 – Takako Doi, Japanese scholar and politician (born 1928) • 2014 – George Sluizer, French-Dutch director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1932) • 2015Mario Caiano, Italian director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1933) • 2015 – Jagmohan Dalmiya, Indian businessman (born 1940) • 2015 – Jack Larson, American actor (born 1928) • 2016Curtis Hanson, American film director and screenwriter (born 1945) • 2016 – Peter Leo Gerety, American bishop (born 1912) • 2023- Maddy Cusack, English football player (born 1995) • 2024Ibrahim Aqil, Hezbollah militant (born 1962) • 2024 – Kathryn Crosby, American actress and singer (born 1933) • 2024 – Daniel J. Evans, American politician, 16th Governor of Washington (born 1925) • 2024 – Sayuri, Japanese musician (born 1996) • 2024 – Cleo Sylvestre, English actress (born 1945) • 2024 – Eduardo Xol, American designer and author (born 1966) • 2025- Matt Beard, English football manager (born 1978) ==Holidays and observances==
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