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Events on the 20th of September in history

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20 Sep 0368 Emperor Valentinianus visits Nijmegen
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20 Sep 0451 General Aetius defeats Attila the Hun at Chalons-sur-Marne
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20 Sep 0480 Greeks defeat Persians in the Battle of Salamis
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20 Sep 0622 Prophet Mohammed / Abu Bakr arrives in Jathrib (Medina)
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20 Sep 0622 Muhammad and Abu Bakr arrived Medina
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20 Sep 0622 Mohammad's Hegira
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20 Sep 1058 Agnes of Poitou and Andrew I of Hungary meet to negotiate about the border-zone in present-day Burgenland.
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20 Sep 1066 Battle of Fulford, Viking Harald Hardrada defeats earls Morcar and Edwin
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20 Sep 1187 Saladin begins the Siege of Jerusalem.
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20 Sep 1258 Cathedral of Salisbury inaugurated
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20 Sep 1260 the Great Prussian Uprising among the old Prussians begins against the Teutonic Knights.
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20 Sep 1378 Cardinal Robert of Geneva, called by some the "Butcher of Cesena", is elected as Avignon Pope Clement VII, beginning the Papal schism.
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20 Sep 1498 The 1498 Nankai earthquake generates a tsunami that washes away the building housing the statue of the Great Buddha at Kōtoku-in in Kamakura, Kanagawa, Japan; since then the Buddha has sat in the open air.
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20 Sep 1519 Ferdinand Magellan starts 1st successful circumnavigation of world
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20 Sep 1519 Ferdinand Magellan sets sail from Sanlúcar de Barrameda with about 270 men on his expedition to circumnavigate the globe.
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20 Sep 1530 Luther advises protestant monarch compromise
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20 Sep 1565 Spaniards capture Fort Caroline, Florida and massacre the French
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20 Sep 1596 Diego de Montemayor founds the city of Monterrey in New Spain.
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20 Sep 1604 Spanish army under Spinola recaptures Oostende
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20 Sep 1620 Battle at Jassy: Turks beat King Sigismund III of Poland
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20 Sep 1664 Maryland passes 1st anti-amalgamation law to stop intermarriage of English women and black men
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20 Sep 1664 Maryland enacts 1st anti-amaglmation law to prevent widespread intermarriage of English women & black men
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20 Sep 1674 2nd West Indie Company forms
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20 Sep 1688 French troops occupies Palts
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20 Sep 1697 Peace of Saki (ends 9 years war)
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20 Sep 1697 The Treaty of Ryswick is signed by France, England, Spain, the Holy Roman Empire and the Dutch Republic ending the Nine Years' War (1688–97).
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20 Sep 1737 The finish of the Walking Purchase which forces the cession of 1.2 million acres (4,860 km²) of Lenape-Delaware tribal land to the Pennsylvania Colony.
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20 Sep 1746 Bonnie Prince Charlie flees to France from Scotland
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20 Sep 1777 Paoli massacre
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20 Sep 1787 Prince Willem V returns to Hague
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20 Sep 1792 French troops stop allied invasion of France, during the War of the First Coalition at Valmy.
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20 Sep 1792 French defeat Prussians at Valmy
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20 Sep 1793 British troops under Major-General Williamson lands on (French) Haiti
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20 Sep 1797 US frigate Constitution (Old Ironsides) launched in Boston
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20 Sep 1830 1st Negro Convention of Free Men agree to boycott slave-produced goods
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20 Sep 1830 1st National Black convention meets (Phila)
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20 Sep 1833 Charles Darwin rides horse to Buenos Aires
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20 Sep 1835 Ragamuffin rebels capture Porto Alegre, then capital of the Brazilian imperial province of Rio Grande do Sul, triggering the start of ten-year-long Ragamuffin War.
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20 Sep 1839 1st railroad in the Netherlands opens (Amsterdam-Haarlem)
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20 Sep 1848 The American Association for the Advancement of Science is created.
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20 Sep 1850 Slave trade abolished in DC, but slavery allowed to continue
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20 Sep 1854 Battle at Alma Krim: 1,000 British soldiers died
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20 Sep 1854 Battle of Alma: British and French troops defeat Russians in the Crimea.
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20 Sep 1854 British & French defeat Russians at Alma, in the Crimea
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20 Sep 1857 The Indian Rebellion of 1857 ends with the recapture of Delhi by troops loyal to the East India Company.
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20 Sep 1859 George Simpson patents electric range
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20 Sep 1859 Patent granted on the electric range
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20 Sep 1860 The Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII of the United Kingdom) visits the United States.
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20 Sep 1860 1st British royalty to visit US, Prince of Wales (King Edward VII)
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20 Sep 1861 Battle of Lexington, MI-captured by Union
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20 Sep 1863 Battle of Shepardstown, Virginia
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20 Sep 1863 American Civil War: The conclusion of the Battle of Chickamauga in northwestern Georgia, the bloodiest two-day battle of the conflict, and the only significant Confederate victory in the war's Western Theater.
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20 Sep 1863 Civil War Battle of Chickamauga, near Chattanooga, Tenn, ends
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20 Sep 1870 Italian army under Victor Emmanuel II seizes Rome from the French
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20 Sep 1870 Mayor William Tweed accused of robbing New York treasury
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20 Sep 1870 Pope Pius IX surrenders to King Victor Emmanuel
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20 Sep 1870 Bersaglieri corps enter Rome through the Porta Pia and complete the unification of Italy.
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20 Sep 1871 Bishop John Coleridge Patteson is martyred on the island of Nukapu, a Polynesian outlier island now in the Temotu Province of the Solomon Islands. He is the first bishop of Melanesia.
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20 Sep 1873 Panic sweeps New York Stock Exchange (railroad bond default / bank failure) New York shut banks for 10 days due to a bank scandal
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20 Sep 1873 Panic sweeps NY Stock Exchange (railroad bond default/bank failure)
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20 Sep 1876 Ottawa Football Club forms
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20 Sep 1877 Chase National Bank opens in NYC (later merges into Chase Manhattan)
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20 Sep 1879 US Grant comes to SF for elaborate extended visit
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20 Sep 1881 Chester A Arthur sworn in as 21st President
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20 Sep 1881 U.S. President Chester A. Arthur is sworn in, the morning after becoming President upon James A. Garfield's death.
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20 Sep 1884 Equal Rights Party nominates female candidates for President and VP
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20 Sep 1884 6.2 mile Arlberg railroad tunnel completed in Austria
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20 Sep 1893 Charles Duryea and his brother road-test the first American-made gasoline-powered automobile.
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20 Sep 1896 John Mcdermott wins 1st US marathon (NYC)
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20 Sep 1902 Chicago White Sox Jim Callahan no-hits Detroit Tigers, 3-0
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20 Sep 1904 Orville and Wilbur Wright fly a circle in their Flyer II
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20 Sep 1905 Cleveland makes AL record 7 errors in an inning
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20 Sep 1906 Cunard Line's RMS Mauretania is launched at the Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson shipyard in Newcastle upon Tyne, England.
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20 Sep 1907 Pitts Nick Maddox no-hits Brooklyn Dodgers, 2-1
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20 Sep 1908 Chicago White Sox Frank Smith 2nd no-hitter, beats Philadelphia 1-0
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20 Sep 1909 The Parliament of the United Kingdom passes the South Africa Act 1909, creating the Union of South Africa from the British Colonies of the Cape of Good Hope, Natal, Orange River Colony, and the Transvaal Colony.
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20 Sep 1910 The ocean liner SS France, later known as the "Versailles of the Atlantic", is launched.
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20 Sep 1911 White Star Line's RMS Olympic collides with British warship HMS Hawke.
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20 Sep 1911 Yanks set team record 12 errors in a double header
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20 Sep 1913 19th US Golf Open: Francis Ouimet shoots a 304 at The Country Club, Massachusetts
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20 Sep 1917 British assault on Polygon-forest, France
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20 Sep 1918 Royal Dutch Blast furnace and Steel factory opens in Hague
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20 Sep 1919 2nd PGA Championship: Jim Barnes at Engineers Country Club - Roslyn, New York
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20 Sep 1920 Foundation of the Spanish Legion.
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20 Sep 1922 Rogers Hornsby ends hitting streak of 33 games
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20 Sep 1924 Carl Mays is 1st pitcher to win 20 games seasons for 3 different teams
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20 Sep 1927 New York Yankee Babe Ruth hits record 60th HR of season off Tom Zachry
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20 Sep 1930 Syro-Malankara Catholic Church is formed by Archbishop Mar Ivanios.
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20 Sep 1932 Chicago Cubs clinch the NL pennant
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20 Sep 1932 Dutch South Seas rebaptized in IJsselmeer
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20 Sep 1932 Gandhi begins hunger strike against treatment of untouchables
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20 Sep 1933 Pittsburgh Steelers (as Pirates) play 1st NFL game, lose 23-2
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20 Sep 1935 Pitts Crawfords beat the New York Cubans to win Negro NL Championship, 3-0
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20 Sep 1939 British fleet takes German U-27 boat
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20 Sep 1939 Joe Louis KOs Bob Pastor in 11 for heavyweight boxing title
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20 Sep 1942 Holocaust in Letychiv, Ukraine. In the course of two days the German SS murders at least 3,000 Jews.
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20 Sep 1942 Gunther Hagg becomes world champ of all records from 1500m to 5000m
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20 Sep 1943 Liberator bombers sinks U-338
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20 Sep 1944 Nijmegen free
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20 Sep 1944 Polish forces free Terneuzen Neth
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20 Sep 1945 German rocket engineers begin work in US
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20 Sep 1946 Churchill argues for a "US of Europe"
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20 Sep 1946 The first Cannes Film Festival is held, having been delayed seven years due to World War II.
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20 Sep 1948 "Magdalena" opens at Ziegfeld Theater NYC for 48 performances
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20 Sep 1948 Mexican Baseball league disbanded
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20 Sep 1949 Dutch Guilder devalued 30.3%
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20 Sep 1949 Tennis player Pancho Gonzales turns professional
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20 Sep 1951 NL President Ford Frick elected 3rd commissioner of baseball
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20 Sep 1951 Swiss males votes against female suffrage
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20 Sep 1951 1st North Pole jet crossing
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20 Sep 1951 Ford Frick elected commissioner of baseball
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20 Sep 1952 KPTV TV channel 12 in Portland, OR (IND) begins broadcasting
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20 Sep 1953 Cubs Ernie Banks hits his 1st major league HR
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20 Sep 1954 KETC TV channel 9 in Saint Louis, MO (PBS) begins broadcasting
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20 Sep 1954 1st FORTRAN computer program run
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20 Sep 1954 1st National People's Congress adopts Chinese constitution
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20 Sep 1954 Roger Bannister awarded Britain's Silver Pears Trophy
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20 Sep 1955 Willie Mays (Giants) homers off Vern Law (Pirates) in both ends of DH
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20 Sep 1955 Willie Mays is 7th player to reach 50 HRS in a season
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20 Sep 1958 Baltimore Oriole knuckler Hoyt Wilhelm no-hits New York Yankees 1-0
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20 Sep 1958 Ferhat Abbas forms Algerian government in exile (Cairo)
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20 Sep 1958 Martin Luther King Jr stabbed in chest by a deranged black woman in NYC
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20 Sep 1959 Beverly Hanson wins LPGA Links Golf Invitation Open
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20 Sep 1960 WFSU TV channel 11 in Tallahassee, Florida (PBS) begins broadcasting
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20 Sep 1960 UN General Assembly admit 13 African countries & Cyprus (96 nations)
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20 Sep 1961 James Meredith refused access as a student in Mississippi
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20 Sep 1961 Greek general Konstantinos Dovas becomes Prime Minister of Greece.
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20 Sep 1961 After 84 1/3 innings Bill Fischer gives up a base on balls
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20 Sep 1961 Roger Maris hits home run # 59 & barely misses # 60 in game 154 of the season. Yanks clinch pennant #26
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20 Sep 1962 Ben Bella wins 1st elections in independent Algeria
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20 Sep 1962 Gov R Barnett refuses to admit a black to Miss Universe (James Meredith)
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20 Sep 1962 James Meredith, an African American, is temporarily barred from entering the University of Mississippi.
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20 Sep 1962 James Meredith is blocked from entering Miss U as its 1st black
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20 Sep 1963 JFK proposes a joint US-Soviet voyage to the moon
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20 Sep 1964 Paramount Theater (NYC) presented the Beatles with Steve and Eydie
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20 Sep 1965 WXXW (now WYCC) TV channel 20 in Chicago, IL (PBS) begins broadcasting
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20 Sep 1966 Passenger ship Queen Elizabeth II launched
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20 Sep 1966 US Surveyor B launched toward Moon; crashed September 23
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20 Sep 1967 Benin separates from Nigeria
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20 Sep 1967 British liner Queen Elizabeth II launched at Clydebank Scotland
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20 Sep 1967 WCAE TV channel 50 in St. John, IN (PBS) begins broadcasting
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20 Sep 1967 WCIX TV channel 6 in Miami, Florida (CBS) begins broadcasting
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20 Sep 1967 RMS Queen Elizabeth 2 is launched at John Brown & Company, Clydebank, Scotland. It is operated by the Cunard Line.
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20 Sep 1967 Hurricane Beulah hits Texas-Mexican border, kills 38
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20 Sep 1968 Mickey Mantle hits final career homer # 536
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20 Sep 1969 18th Ryder Cup: Draw, 16-16 at Royal Birkdale, England
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20 Sep 1969 Pittsburgh Pirate Bob Moose no-hits New York Mets, 4-0
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20 Sep 1969 Pitts Pirate Bob Moose no-hits NY Giants, 4-0
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20 Sep 1970 Jim Morrison found not guilty of "lewd" behavior
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20 Sep 1970 Syrian tanks roll into Jordan in response to continued fighting between Jordan and the fedayeen.
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20 Sep 1970 Luna 16 lands on Moon's Mare Fecunditatis, drills core sample
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20 Sep 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.
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20 Sep 1972 Police find cannabis growing on Paul & Linda McCartney's farm
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20 Sep 1973 Billie Jean King beats Bobby Riggs in the Battle of the Sexes tennis match at the Houston Astrodome.
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20 Sep 1973 Billy Jean King beats Bobby Riggs in battle-of-sexes tennis match
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20 Sep 1973 Willie Mays announces retirement at end of 1973 season
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20 Sep 1975 21st Ryder Cup: US, 21-11 at Laurel Valley Golf Club - Pennsylvania
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20 Sep 1975 David Bowie's "Fame," single goes #1 for 2 weeks
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20 Sep 1975 Gary Sentman draws a record 176 lb longbow to a maximum 28
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20 Sep 1976 Metroliner official opens in Brussels
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20 Sep 1976 Playboy releases Jimmy Carter's interview that he lusts for women
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20 Sep 1976 Sid Berstein offers $230 million charity concert for Beatle reunion
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20 Sep 1977 "Estrada" opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 7 performances
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20 Sep 1977 Vietnam and Djibouti ask for membership in UN
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20 Sep 1977 The Socialist Republic of Vietnam is admitted to the United Nations.
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20 Sep 1977 Voyager 2 launched for fly-by of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune
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20 Sep 1978 "Eubie!" opens at Ambassador Theater NYC for 439 performances
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20 Sep 1978 Yamada Mumon Roshi visits Benedictine Abbey of Maria Laach Germany
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20 Sep 1979 Coup in Central African Republic: David Dacko overthrows Emperor Bokassa I
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20 Sep 1979 Jose E dod Santos becomes President of Angola
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20 Sep 1979 A coup d'état in the Central African Empire overthrows Emperor Bokasa I.
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20 Sep 1979 Bloodless coup in Central African Rep overthrows Emperor Bokassa I
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20 Sep 1979 NASA launches HEAO
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20 Sep 1980 Bronze plaque dedicated to memory of Thurman Munson at Yankee Stadium
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20 Sep 1980 George Brett goes 0-for-4 dropping his average below .400 for good
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20 Sep 1980 Plaque dedicated in Thurman Munson's memory at Yankee Stadium
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20 Sep 1980 Spectacular Bid runs in Belmont alone as 3 horses drop out
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20 Sep 1981 Belize declares independence
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20 Sep 1981 Joe Danelo kicks then New York Giant record 55 yard field goal
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20 Sep 1981 Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Henredon Golf Classic
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20 Sep 1982 Jalaluddin takes a one-day hat-trick Pakistan vs. Australia
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20 Sep 1982 The National Football League players begin a 57-day strike.
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20 Sep 1982 NFL players begin a 57 day strike
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20 Sep 1983 Cryptographic Communications System and Method (RSA) patented
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20 Sep 1983 3,112 turn out to see the Pirates play the NY Mets at Shea Stadium
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20 Sep 1984 "Cosby Show" premieres on NBC-TV
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20 Sep 1984 Cubs break 2 million in home attendance for 1st time
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20 Sep 1984 Suicide car bomb attacks US Embassy annex in Beirut, kills 23
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20 Sep 1984 A suicide bomber in a car attacks the U.S. embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, killing twenty-two people.
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20 Sep 1985 Capital gains tax is introduced in Australia, one of a number of tax reforms by the Hawke/Keating government.
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20 Sep 1985 Curtis Strong is convicted for selling cocaine to pro baseball players
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20 Sep 1985 Walt Disney World's 200-millionth guest
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20 Sep 1986 Wichita State Shockers blow a 35-3 lead; lose 36-35 to Morehead State
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20 Sep 1987 39th Emmy Awards: LA Law, Bruce Willis and Sharon Gless wins
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20 Sep 1987 Dwight Clark ends NFL streak of 105 consecutive game receptions
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20 Sep 1987 Jan Stephenson wins LPGA SAFECO Golf Classic
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20 Sep 1987 Alain Prost wins record 28th Formula one auto race
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20 Sep 1987 Walter Payton scores NFL record 107th rushing touchdown
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20 Sep 1988 Darrell Evans hits his 400th career home run
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20 Sep 1988 Greg Louganis wins Olympic gold medal in springboard diving
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20 Sep 1988 Wade Boggs is 1st player to get 200 hits for 6 consecutive seasons
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20 Sep 1989 FW De Klerk sworn in as President of South Africa
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20 Sep 1989 Musical "Miss Saigon, " premieres in London
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20 Sep 1989 USAir overshoots runway at LaGuardia Airport in NYC, 2 people die
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20 Sep 1990 South Ossetia declares its independence from Georgia.
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20 Sep 1990 Both Germanys ratify reunification
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20 Sep 1990 Saddam Hussein demands US networks broadcast his message
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20 Sep 1992 Colleen Walker wins LPGA SAFECO Golf Classic
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20 Sep 1992 Frances votes in favor of Maastricht treaty
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20 Sep 1992 Leanza Cornett (Florida), 21, crowned 66th Miss America 1993
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20 Sep 1992 Space shuttle STS-47 (Endeavour 2) lands
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20 Sep 1994 Space shuttle STS-64 (Discovery 20), lands
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20 Sep 1995 Cincinnati Reds becomes 1st team to clinch NL Central
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20 Sep 1997 Yanks clinch 37th appearance in post season, 3rd consecutive
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20 Sep 2000 The United Kingdom's MI6 Secret Intelligence Service building is attacked by individuals using a Russian-built RPG-22 anti-tank missile. The perpetrators remain unidentified.
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20 Sep 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".
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20 Sep 2002 The Kolka-Karmadon rock/ice slide.
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20 Sep 2003 Maldives civil unrest: the death of prisoner Hassan Evan Naseem sparks a day of rioting in Malé.
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20 Sep 2007 Between 15,000 and 20,000 protesters marched on Jena, Louisiana, in support of six black youths who had been convicted of assaulting a white classmate.
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20 Sep 2008 A dump truck full of explosives detonates in front of the Marriott hotel in Islamabad, Pakistan, killing 54 people and injuring 266 others.
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20 Sep 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.
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