September 14
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September 14 is the 257th day of the year (258th in
leap years). There are 108 days remaining.
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Events
\n*786 - Harun al-Rashid becomes the Abbasid caliph upon the death of his brother al-Hadi\n*1752 - The British Empire adopts the Gregorian calendar, skipping eleven days (September 2 was followed directly by September 14 this year)\n*1812 - Russian army burns Moscow to prevent Napoleon from capturing it\n*1814 - Francis Scott Key writes The Star-Spangled Banner\n*1847 - Winfield Scott captures Mexico City\n*1886 - Typewriter ribbon patented\n*1901 - Theodore Roosevelt becomes President of the United States.\n*1917 - Republican government declared in Russia\n*1923 - Miguel Primo de Rivera becomes dictator of Spain\n*1944 - United States Marines land on the island of Peleliu\n*1948 - Groundbreaking for the United Nations headquarters in New York City\n*1959 - The Soviet probe Luna 2 crashes onto the Moon, becoming the first man-made object to reach it.\n*1960 - The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) is founded.\n*1964 - The opening of the third period of Second Vatican Council\n*1965 - The opening of the fourth and final period of Second Vatican Council\n*1984 - Joe Kittinger becomes the first person to fly a hot air balloon solo across the Atlantic Ocean.\n*1975 - The first Americann saint, Elizabeth Ann Seton, is canonized by Pope Paul VI\n*1999 - Kiribati, Nauru and Tonga join the United Nations.\n*2000 - Juan Antonio Samaranch leaves the presidency of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), after 20 years.\n*2003 - Sweden rejects adopting the Euro in a referendum. (Results.)\n*2003 - Estonia approves joining the European Union in a referendum.
Births
\n*1547 - Johan van Oldenbarnevelt, Dutch statesman (d. 1619)\n*1760 - Luigi Cherubini, composer (d. 1842)\n*1769 - Alexander von Humboldt, naturalist and explorer (d. 1859)\n*1849 - Ivan Pavlov, scientist (d. 1936)\n*1867 - Charles Dana Gibson, artist (d. 1944)\n*1879 - Margaret Sanger, birth control advocate (d. 1966)\n*1880 - Archie Hahn, American athlete\n*1899 - Hal Wallis, film producer (d. 1986)\n*1909 - Peter Scott, naturalist, artist, and explorer (d. 1989)\n*1914 - Clayton Moore, actor (d. 1999)\n*1921 - Ruth Brooks Flippen, television writer (d. 1981) \n*1923 - Bud Palmer, sports reporter \n*1933 - Zoe Caldwell, actress\n*1933 - Harve Presnell, actor\n*1934 - Kate Millett, feminist writer\n*1936 - Walter Koenig, actor\n*1938 - Nicol Williamson, actor\n*1940 - Larry Brown, NBA basketball coach\n*1947 - Sam Neill, actor\n*1959 - Mary Frances, actress\n*1959 - Morten Harket, singer with a-ha\n*1971 - Kimberly Williams, actress\n*1973 - Nas, rap music singer\n*1974 - Hicham El Guerrouj, Moroccan athlete\n*1980 - Nathaniel Lake, political scientist\n*1984 - Adam Lamberg, actor (Lizzie McGuire)
Deaths
\n*258 - Cyprian, early Christian writer\n*786 - Al-Hadi, Abbasid caliph\n*891 - Pope Stephen V\n*1321 - Dante Alighieri, author\n*1523 - Pope Adrian VI\n*1638 - John Harvard, clergyman, namesake of Harvard College\n*1851 - James Fenimore Cooper, author\n*1852 - Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, British general and Prime Minister\n*1899 - Henry Bliss, first American automobile fatality\n*1901 - United States President William McKinley \n*1927 - Isadora Duncan, dancer\n*1936 - Irving Thalberg, film producer\n*1960 - Sir Arthur Percy Morris Fleming, radar pioneer\n*1966 - Gertrude Berg, actress\n*1982 - Bachir Gemayel, President of Lebanon \n*1982 - Princess Grace of Monaco\n*1984 - Janet Gaynor, Academy Award winning actress\n*1996 - Juliet Prowse, actress, dancer\n*2000 - Beah Richards, actress
Holidays and Observances
\n*Roman Catholicism-Exaltation of the Holy Cross (compare May 3- Finding of the Holy Cross).\n*Eastern Orthodox Church Exaltation of the Cross, which commemorates the discovery of the (allegedly) original Christian cross in 326 by Helena, mother of Constantine.\n*In the Irish calendar the Wednesday, Friday and Saturday following Sept. 14 were observed as Quarter tense.\n*In ancient Greece, the first day of the Eleusinian mysteries, during which the sacred objects were brought from Eleusis to Athens.
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