What Happened On This Day ? September 14
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2000
Microsoft Launches Windows ME
The Millennium Edition was the last of the operating systems of the Windows 9x series.
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1985
The Golden Girls Make Their Television Debut
The popular American sitcom about 4 single and older women living together in a Miami, Florida house ran for 6 seasons on NBC. The main characters in the show were played by Beatrice Arthur, Estelle Getty, Rue McClanahan, and Betty White, each of whom won the Emmys for their acting in the show. The series also won 2 Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Comedy Series and 3 Golden Globe Awards for Best Television Series.
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1979
The Afghan President is assassinated
Nur Muhammad Taraki had taken office less than a year ago when he was killed by gunfire at the behest of Hafizullah Amin. Amin took the seat of the president after the assassination and ruled for only 3 months before he was killed by the Soviets during Operation Storm-333.
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1959
First Man-Made Object Successfully Lands on the Moon
Soviet space probe Luna 2 was also the first man-made spacecraft to land on any celestial object. It was launched on September 12, 1959, and lost communications with Earth as it impacted the Moon’s surface east of Mare Serenitatis near the Aristides, Archimedes, and Autolycus craters.
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1956
IBM 305 RAMAC is Released
The 350 RAMAC was the first computer with a disk drive and was primarily targeted towards business that did real-time transactions. RAMAC stood for Random Access Method of Accounting and Control. The RAMAC 350, which was one of the last vacuum tube computers manufactured by IBM, was replaced by the IBM 1401 in the early 1960s.
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1985
Aya Ueto
Japanese actress, singer
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1983
Amy Winehouse
English singer-songwriter
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1965
Dmitry Medvedev
Russian politician, 3rd President of Russia
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1879
Margaret Sanger
American activist
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1769
Alexander von Humboldt
German geographer, explorer
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1982
Grace Kelly
American actress
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1936
Irving Thalberg
American screenwriter, producer
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1901
William McKinley
American politician, 25th President of the United States
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1852
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington
Irish/English field marshal, politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
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1836
Aaron Burr
American politician, 3rd Vice President of the United States