September 20

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

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Contents

1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Holidays 5 External links

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 km�) 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.
• 1917 - Paraguay becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
• 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)
• 1923 - Geraldine Clinton Little, Irish - American Poet
• 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 - Yui Horie, Yoshiko Horie, a Japanese voice actress and a singer.
• 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
• 1932 - Wovoka, Northern Paiute visionary
• 1947 - Fiorello LaGuardia, Mayor of New York City
• 1949 - Nikolaos Skalkottas, composer
• 1957 - Jean Sibelius, Finnish composer
• 1973 - Jim Croce, singer and songwriter
• 1974 - Jos� Mojica, Mexican singer and film actor (b. 1899)
• 1975 - Saint-John Perse, French diplomat and poet (b. 1887)
• 1996 - Paul Erd�s, 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 (http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/september/20)

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