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September 20

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

Table of contents
1 Events
2 Births
3 Deaths
4 Holidays

Events

\n*451 - Atilla, king of the Huns, invades Gaul, but is defeated by Aetius with the help of Roman Foederati in the Battle of Chalons\n*1519 - Ferdinand Magellan begins his voyage around the world.\n*1596 - Diego de Montemayor founded the city of Monterrey, Mexico.\n*1643 - English Civil War: Battle of Newbury - Parliamentarian Robert Devereux, the Earl of Essex defeats a Royalist army commanded by Charles I of England at Newbury, Berkshire. \n*1644 - Shunzhi Emperor of China moved the capital city from Shenyang to Beijing.\n*1565 - Spaniards capture French Fort Caroline, near present-day Jacksonville, Florida\n*1792 - Battle of Valmy - France defeats Prussia\n*1797 - The USS Constitution is launched in Boston, Massachusetts\n*1850 - Slave trading is abolished in the District of Columbia\n*1854 - Battle of Alma - British and French troops defeat Russians in the Crimea\n*1860 - The Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII of the United Kingdom) visits the United States\n*1863 - Battle of Chickamauga ends\n*1870 - Bersaglieri corps enters Rome at Porta Pia and completes the unification of Italy\n*1881 - Chester A. Arthur is inaugurated as the 21st President of the United States.\n*1946 - First Cannes Film Festival\n*1954 - First FORTRAN program runs\n*1962 - James Meredith, an African-American, is barred from entering the University of Mississippi\n*1973 - Billie Jean King beats Bobby Riggs in battle-of-sexes tennis match \n*1979 - Lee Iacocca elected president of the Chrysler Corporation\n*1979 - Coup in Central African Empire overthrows Emperor Bokasa I\n*1984 - Suicide bomber in a car attacks the United States embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, killing twelve people\n*2000 - After playing 2,632 consecutive games for the Baltimore Orioles, baseball player Cal Ripken, Jr takes a day off.\n*2003 - Referendum in Latvia over the joining of the European Union

Births

\n*356 BC - Alexander the Great (d. 323 BC)\n*1842 - Sir James Dewar, chemist (d. 1923)\n*1853 - Chulalongkorn (Rama V), king of Thailand (d. 1910)\n*1861 - Herbert Putnam, Librarian of Congress (d. 1955)\n*1873 - Sidney Olcott, pioneer film director (d. 1949)\n*1878 - Upton Sinclair, writer, politician (d. 1968)\n*1889 - Charles Reidpath, American athlete\n*1890 - Jelly Roll Morton, composer (d. 1941)\n*1899 - Elliott Nugent, actor, director\n*1917 - Red Auerbach, National Basketball Association coach and executive\n*1918 - Peg Phillips, actress\n*1922 - William Kapell, pianist (d. 1953)\n*1924 - Gogi Grant (Audrey Brown), singer\n*1925 - James Galanos, fashion designer\n*1927 - Johnny Dankworth, musician, composer\n* 1927 - Rachel Roberts, actress (d. 1980)\n*1928 - Doctor Joyce Brothers, psychologist, advice columnist\n* 1928 - Donald A. Hall, author\n*1929 - Anne Meara, comic, actress\n*1931 - Peter Palmer, actor\n*1934 - Sophia Loren, actress\n*1938 - Pia Lindstrom, journalist\n*1948 - George R. R. Martin, science fiction writer\n*1951 - Guy Lafleur, National Hockey League star\n*1956 - Gary Cole, actor\n*1968 - Darrell Russell, NHRA drag racer (d. 2004)\n*1975 - Asia Argento, actress\n* 1975 - Juan Pablo Montoya, Formula 1 racer\n*1976 - Michael Ballack, German football star

Deaths

Holidays

\n*In ancient Greece, the seventh day of the Eleusinian mysteries, when the secret rites in the Telesterion began.
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