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Events on the 14th of September in history

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14 Sep 1981 Domitian becomes Emperor of the Roman Empire upon the death of his brother Titus.
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14 Sep 0326 Helena of Constantinople discovers the True Cross and the Holy Sepulchre (Jesus's tomb) in Jerusalem.
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14 Sep 0629 Emperor Heraclius enters Constantinople in triumph after his victory over the Persian Empire.
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14 Sep 0786 "Night of the three Caliphs": Harun al-Rashid becomes the Abbasid caliph upon the death of his brother al-Hadi. Birth of Harun's son al-Ma'mun.
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14 Sep 0891 Stephen V ends his reign as Catholic Pope
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14 Sep 1163 Pastor Frederik forms convent at Mariengaarde Friesland
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14 Sep 1180 Battle of Ishibashiyama in Japan.
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14 Sep 1515 Battle at Marignano ends in French / Venetian victory
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14 Sep 1607 Flight of the Earls from Lough Swilly, Donegal, Ireland.
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14 Sep 1629 Spanish garrison surrenders to Prince Frederik Henry
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14 Sep 1662 Netherlands and England sign peace treaty
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14 Sep 1682 Bishop Gore School, one of the oldest schools in Wales, is founded.
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14 Sep 1716 1st lighthouse in US lit (Boston Harbor)
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14 Sep 1741 George Frederick Handel finishes "Messiah" oratorio, after working on it non-stop for 23 days
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14 Sep 1741 George Frideric Handel completes his oratorio Messiah
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14 Sep 1752 The British Empire adopts the Gregorian calendar, skipping eleven days (the previous day was September 2).
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14 Sep 1752 England & colonies adopt Gregorian calendar, 11 days disappear
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14 Sep 1759 Austrian troops occupy Dresden
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14 Sep 1763 Seneca warriors defeat British forces at the Battle of Devil's Hole during Pontiac's War.
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14 Sep 1791 The Papal States lose Avignon to the French Empire.
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14 Sep 1807 Aaron Burr acquitted of a misdemeanor charge
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14 Sep 1808 Finnish War: Russians defeat the Swedes in the bloody Battle of Oravais.
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14 Sep 1812 Napoleon occupies Moscow and fires start (fire extinguished on the 19th)
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14 Sep 1812 Napoleonic Wars: The French Grande Armée enters Moscow. The Fire of Moscow begins as soon as Russian troops leave the city.
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14 Sep 1812 Napoleon occupies Moscow
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14 Sep 1814 Francis Scott Key inspired to write "Star-Spangled Banner"
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14 Sep 1814 The poem Defence of Fort McHenry is written by Francis Scott Key. The poem is later used as the lyrics of The Star-Spangled Banner.
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14 Sep 1829 Peace of Adrianopel: ends Russian-Turkish war
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14 Sep 1829 The Ottoman Empire signs the Treaty of Adrianople with Russia, thus ending the Russo-Turkish War.
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14 Sep 1830 Princess WFLC Marianne marries Albrecht of Prussia
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14 Sep 1834 Charles Darwins company passes Tagua-tagua-more Chile
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14 Sep 1846 Jang Bahadur and his brothers massacre about 40 members of the Nepalese palace court.
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14 Sep 1847 US Marines under General Scott enter Mexico City (halls of Montezuma)
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14 Sep 1847 Mexican–American War: Winfield Scott captures Mexico City.
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14 Sep 1847 US troops under General Scott enter Mexico City
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14 Sep 1848 Alexander Stewart opens the 1st US dept store
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14 Sep 1852 18th Postmaster General: Samuel D Hubbard of Conn takes office
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14 Sep 1854 Allied armies, including those of Britain and France, land in Crimea
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14 Sep 1856 Battle of San Jacinto, Nicaragua defeats invaders
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14 Sep 1862 Battle at South Mountain: Union troops chases away Confederates
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14 Sep 1862 Battle of Munfordsville, Kentucky
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14 Sep 1862 Federal troops escape from beleaguered Harpers Ferry West Virginia
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14 Sep 1862 American Civil War: The Battle of South Mountain, part of the Maryland Campaign, is fought.
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14 Sep 1872 Britain pays the US $15
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14 Sep 1876 Leopold II closes Congo-conference
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14 Sep 1882 British General Wolseley reaches Cairo
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14 Sep 1886 George K Anderson of Memphis, Tennessee patents typewriter ribbon
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14 Sep 1891 "Empire State Express" train goes from NYC to East Buffalo, a distance of 436 miles, in a record 7H6M
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14 Sep 1892 AP Giannini marries Clorinda Cuneo
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14 Sep 1894 Hottentotten uprising in Southwest-Africa fails
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14 Sep 1899 Henry Bliss becomes 1st automobile fatality (NY)
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14 Sep 1901 U.S. President William McKinley dies after an assassination attempt on September 6, and is succeeded by Vice President Theodore Roosevelt.
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14 Sep 1903 New York Giant Red Ames no-hits St. Louis, 5-0 in a 5 inning game
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14 Sep 1905 Albert Cuypstrat street market in Amsterdam inaugurated
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14 Sep 1905 Dutch AR-politician AWF Idenburg named Governor of Suriname
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14 Sep 1905 RAC Tourist Trophy, 1st run, on the Isle of Man
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14 Sep 1913 27th US Womens Tennis: Mary K Browne beats Dorothy Green (62 75)
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14 Sep 1913 Cubs Larry Cheney hurls record 14-hit shutout against Giants (7-0)
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14 Sep 1914 German staff-chief von Moltke replaces von Falkenhayn
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14 Sep 1914 German troops withdraw from Aisne / invent trenches
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14 Sep 1916 Christy Mathewson pitches & wins his final game
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14 Sep 1917 Kerenski regime declares Russian Republic
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14 Sep 1917 Russia is officially proclaimed a republic.
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14 Sep 1917 Provisional government of Russia established, Republic proclaimed
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14 Sep 1923 Jack Dempsey KOs Luis Firpo in 2 for heavyweight boxing title
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14 Sep 1923 Red Sox 1st baseman George Burns pulls off an unassisted triple play
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14 Sep 1923 Miguel Primo de Rivera becomes dictator of Spain
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14 Sep 1924 Walter Johnson elected AL MVP
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14 Sep 1926 Guido Companions birthplace as a museum opens
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14 Sep 1929 49th US Mens Tennis: Bill Tilden beats Francis Hunter (36 63 46 62 64)
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14 Sep 1930 Detroit Lions (as Portsmouth Spartans) play 1st NFL game, win 13-6
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14 Sep 1930 Nazis gain 107 seats in German election
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14 Sep 1932 Military coup in Chile under Arturo Alessandri
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14 Sep 1933 Schaduwproces-Rijksdagbrand opens in London
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14 Sep 1933 2 billion board feet of lumber destroyed in Tillamook Oregon fire
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14 Sep 1938 Graf Zeppelin II, world's largest airship, makes maiden flight
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14 Sep 1939 British fleet attacks German U-39 boat
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14 Sep 1939 Minister Winston Churchill visits Scapa Flow
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14 Sep 1939 World War II: The Estonian military boards the Polish submarine ORP Orzeł in Tallinn, sparking a diplomatic incident that the Soviet Union will later use to justify the annexation of Estonia.
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14 Sep 1940 German bomb hits shelter in Chelsea; 100s die
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14 Sep 1940 Ip massacre: The Hungarian Army, supported by local Hungarians, kill 158 Romanian civilians in Ip, Sălaj, a village in Northern Transylvania, an act of ethnic cleansing.
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14 Sep 1940 Congress passes 1st peace-time conscription bill (draft law)
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14 Sep 1942 German troops occupy train station Stalingrad-1
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14 Sep 1943 Comedians Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara marries
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14 Sep 1943 World War II: The Wehrmacht starts a three-day retaliatory operation targeting several Greek villages in Viannos, whose death toll would exceeded 500 persons.
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14 Sep 1943 Yanks clinch pennant #14
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14 Sep 1944 6,500 Dutch / Indonesian captives sent to Junyo Maru
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14 Sep 1944 Gulpen, Meerssen and Maastricht freed
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14 Sep 1944 Hurricane hits New England: 389 die
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14 Sep 1944 US 28th Infantry division occupies 1.5 km of Roscheid
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14 Sep 1944 US 4th Ivy League Inf division pushes through Westwall
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14 Sep 1944 World War II: Maastricht becomes the first Dutch city to be liberated by allied forces.
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14 Sep 1947 61st US Womens Tennis: A Louise Brough beats M O duPont (86 46 61)
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14 Sep 1947 67th US Mens Tennis: Jack Kramer beats Frank A Parker (46 26 61 60 63)
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14 Sep 1948 Gerald Ford upsets Rep Bartel J Jonkman in Michigan 5th District Republican Primary
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14 Sep 1948 Groundbreaking ceremony for the UN world headquarters
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14 Sep 1948 Milton Berle starts his TV career on Texaco Star Theater
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14 Sep 1950 Western allies rearm West Germany
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14 Sep 1951 Giant's Bob Niemans homers on his 1st 2 at bats
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14 Sep 1953 Yanks clinch 5th straight pennant with 8-5 win over Indians
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14 Sep 1954 In a top secret nuclear test, a Soviet Tu-4 bomber drops a 40 kiloton atomic weapon just north of Totskoye village.
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14 Sep 1954 Hurricane Edna (2nd of 1954) hits NYC, $50 million damage
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14 Sep 1955 Herb Score sets rookie record of 235 strikeouts (en route 245)
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14 Sep 1956 1st prefrontal lobotomy performed, Washington DC
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14 Sep 1957 UN resolution deplores & condemns USSR invasion of Hungary
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14 Sep 1958 Jackie Pung wins LPGA Jackson Golf Open
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14 Sep 1958 Yankees win 24th pennant, and 9th under Casey Stengel
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14 Sep 1958 The first two German post-war rockets, designed by the German engineer Ernst Mohr, reach the upper atmosphere.
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14 Sep 1959 WQEX TV channel 16 in Pittsburgh, PA (PBS) begins broadcasting
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14 Sep 1959 The Soviet probe Luna 2 crashes onto the Moon, becoming the first man-made object to reach it.
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14 Sep 1960 Iraq, Iran, Kuwait, Saudi-Arabia and Venezuela form OPEC
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14 Sep 1960 KERA TV channel 13 in Dallas, TX (PBS) begins broadcasting
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14 Sep 1960 The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) is founded.
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14 Sep 1960 Congo Crisis: With CIA help, Mobutu Sese Seko seizes power in a military coup, suspending parliament and the constitution.
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14 Sep 1961 Dmitri Shostakovitch becomes member of CP of the USSR
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14 Sep 1963 Mary Ann Fischer, Aberdeen, SD, gave birth to America's 1st surviving quintuplets, 4 girls & a boy
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14 Sep 1964 WCVE TV channel 23 in Richmond, VA (PBS) begins broadcasting
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14 Sep 1964 Walt Disney awarded the Medal of Freedom at the White House
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14 Sep 1965 "F-Troop" premieres
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14 Sep 1965 4th meeting of 2nd Vatican council opened
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14 Sep 1965 "F-Troop" premiers
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14 Sep 1967 Melville Abrams Ball Field in the Bronx named
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14 Sep 1967 Thomas Pell Wildlife Refuge & Sanctuary opens in the Bronx
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14 Sep 1968 1st broadcast of "60 Minutes" on CBS-TV
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14 Sep 1968 Detroit Tigers' Denny McLain's 30th victory of the season
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14 Sep 1968 USSR's Zond 5 is launched on 1st circumlunar flight
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14 Sep 1969 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Wendell-West Golf Open
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14 Sep 1969 Males of Swiss kanton Schaffhausen rejects female suffrage
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14 Sep 1969 The US Selective Service selects September 14 as the First Draft Lottery Date.
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14 Sep 1970 Stevie Miracle marries Rita Wright, [Syreeta]
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14 Sep 1971 Cleveland Indians and Washingston Senators, play 20 innings
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14 Sep 1972 "Waltons" TV program premieres
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14 Sep 1972 West Germany and Poland establish diplomatic relations
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14 Sep 1972 "Waltons" TV program premiers
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14 Sep 1973 Indianapolis is awarded a WHA franchise
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14 Sep 1973 Israel shoots down 13 Syrian MIG-21s
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14 Sep 1973 Pres Nixon signed into law a measure lifting pro football's blackout
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14 Sep 1974 Charles Kowal discovers Leda, 13th satellite of Jupiter
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14 Sep 1975 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Southgate Golf Open
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14 Sep 1975 Pope Paul VI declares Mother Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton 1st US Saint
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14 Sep 1975 Rembrandts "Nightwatch" slashed and damaged in Amsterdam
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14 Sep 1975 The first American saint, Elizabeth Ann Seton, is canonized by Pope Paul VI.
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14 Sep 1975 Mother Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton canonized as 1st US-born saint
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14 Sep 1977 Christmas Tinto sentenced to 7 years in Robbeneiland South Africa
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14 Sep 1978 Portugal government of Da Costa falls
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14 Sep 1979 Afghan President Nur Muhammad Taraki is assassinated upon the order of Hafizullah Amin, who becomes the new president.
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14 Sep 1979 Theodore Coombs completes 5,193 mile roller skate from LA to NYC & back to Yates Center, Ks
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14 Sep 1980 "Charlie & Algernon" opens at Helen Hayes Theater NYC for 17 performances
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14 Sep 1980 Donna Caponi Young wins LPGA United Virginia Bank Golf Classic
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14 Sep 1980 Dwight Clark begins NFL streak of 105 consecutive game receptions
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14 Sep 1981 Entertainment Tonight premiers on TV
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14 Sep 1982 36" snow (Red Lodge, MT)
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14 Sep 1982 President-elect of Lebanon, Bachir Gemayel, is assassinated.
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14 Sep 1982 Cindy Nicholas of Canada makes her 19th swim of the English Channel
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14 Sep 1982 Trevor Baxter sets skateboard high jump record of 5' 5.7"
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14 Sep 1983 US House of Representatives votes, 416 to 0, in favor of a resolution condemning Russia for shooting down a Korean jetliner
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14 Sep 1984 Joe Kittinger becomes the first person to fly a gas balloon alone across the Atlantic Ocean.
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14 Sep 1984 1st MTV awards-Bette Midler & Dan Aykroyd host
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14 Sep 1985 Susan Akin (Miss), 21, crowned 59th Miss America 1986
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14 Sep 1985 Penang Bridge, the longest bridge in Malaysia, connecting the island of Penang to the mainland, opens to traffic.
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14 Sep 1986 Bomb attack in Paris, 2 killed
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14 Sep 1986 Bomb explosion on airport Kimpo at Seoul, 5 killed
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14 Sep 1986 Judy Dickinson wins LPGA SAFECO Golf Classic
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14 Sep 1986 Saskatchewan & Hamilton play 1st CFL regular-season overtime game
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14 Sep 1987 "Les Miserables, " opens at Rock Theatre, Vigzinhaz Budapest
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14 Sep 1987 107th US Mens Tennis: Ivan Lendl beats Mats Wilander (67 60 76 64)
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14 Sep 1987 Ivan Lendl defeat Mats Wilander to win US Tennis Open in 4 hours 47 minutes
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14 Sep 1987 The Toronto Blue Jays set a record for the most home runs in a single game, hitting 10 of them.
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14 Sep 1987 Oriole Cal Ripken Jr sets record of playing 8,243 inn in 910 games
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14 Sep 1987 Toronto Blue Jays hit a record 10 HRs vs Baltimore Orioles
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14 Sep 1989 Calgary Flames become 1st NHL team to play in the USSR, win 4-2
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14 Sep 1989 Jeff Reardon is 1st to record 30 saves in 5 consecutive seasons
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14 Sep 1990 Ken Griffey, Sr and Jr, hit back-to-back HRs in 1st inning
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14 Sep 1991 386 yards and scored 7 touchdowns as the Aztecs beat Pacific 55-34
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14 Sep 1991 Carolyn Suzanne Sapp (Hawaii), 24, crowned 65th Miss America 1992
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14 Sep 1991 Freshman Marshall Faulk of San Diego State rushed for NCAA record
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14 Sep 1991 Magic Johnson weds Erieatha "Cookie" Kelly
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14 Sep 1992 1st subway car completed to be exported from US (to Taiwan)
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14 Sep 1992 The Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina declares the breakaway Croatian Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia to be illegal.
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14 Sep 1994 All 28 baseball owners vote to cancel rest of 1994 season
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14 Sep 1994 The Major League Baseball season is canceled because of a strike.
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14 Sep 1995 Body Worlds opens in Tokyo, Japan
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14 Sep 1996 New York Met Todd Huntley sets record of 41 HRs by a catcher
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14 Sep 1996 Tara Dawn Holland (Kansas), 23, crowned 70th Miss America 1997
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14 Sep 1997 49th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards
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14 Sep 1997 Bank One Senior Golf Classic
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14 Sep 1997 Karrie Webb wins LPGA SAFECO Classic
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14 Sep 1997 Loren Roberts wins CVS Charity Golf Classic with a 266
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14 Sep 1998 Telecommunications companies MCI Communications and WorldCom complete their $37 billion merger to form MCI WorldCom.
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14 Sep 1999 Kiribati, Nauru and Tonga join the United Nations.
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14 Sep 2000 Microsoft releases Windows ME.
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14 Sep 2001 Historic National Prayer Service held at Washington National Cathedral for victims of the September 11 attacks. A similar service is held in Canada on Parliament Hill, the largest vigil ever held in the nation's capital.
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14 Sep 2003 In a referendum, Estonia approves joining the European Union.
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14 Sep 2007 Late-2000s financial crisis: The Northern Rock bank experiences the first bank run in the United Kingdom in 150 years.
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14 Sep 2008 All 88 people on board Aeroflot Flight 821 are killed when the plane crashes on approach to Perm Airport.
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