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The
20t o September
is the 263rd day o the year (264t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 102 days bidin.
Events
- 1187
-
Saladin
stairts his Siege o
Jerusalem
.
- 1459
- First documentit mention o
Bucharest
.
- 1519
-
Ferdinand Magellan
sets sail frae
Spain
.
- 1596
- The ceety o
Monterrey
in
Mexico
(then New Spain) is foondit.
- 1863
- The Confederates win the
Battle
o Chickamauga in the
American Ceevil War
.
- 1870
- The Unification o
Italy
is completit.
- 1932
-
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
stairts a hunger strike in jyle in
Pune
.
- 1942
- In
Letchev
,
Ukraine
, the
SS
murthers 3,000
Jewish fowk
in a single day.
- 1946
- The first
Cannes
film fest is held.
- 1967
- The ship "RMS Queen Elizabeth 2" is launched in
Clydebank
, on the wast coast o
Scotland
.
- 1984
- A suicide bomber attacks the Unitit States Embassy in
Beirut
,
Lebanon
, killin 20 fowk.
- 1990
-
Sooth Ossetie
declares unthirldom.
- 1999
-
Unitit Naitions
peacekeepin troops arrive on
East Timor
.
- 2001
-
George W. Bush
uses the term "War on Terror" for the first time.
- 2002
- The pairtial collapse o the Kolka
Glacier
in
North Ossetie
, Soothren
Roushie
, causes a rock-ice slide an avalanche. 125 fowk are kilt.
- 2003
- Voters in
Latvie
support, bi a majority, membership o the
European Union
.
- 2004
-
Wikipaedia
publishes airticles in its 100t
leid
.
- 2008
- A bomb attack on the Marriott Hotel in
Islamabad
,
Pakistan
, kills 54 fowk.
- 2011
- Umwhile
Preses
o
Afghanistan
Burhanuddin Rabbani
is kilt in a terrorist attack.
- 2014
-
John Key
is electit for a 3rd term as
Prime meenister
o
New Zealand
.
- 2017
-
Hurricane Maria
hits
Puerto Rico
, causin much destruction, killin thoosands o fowk an leavin the whole isle withoot electreecity.
- 2019
-
Climate chynge
protests are held aroond the warld.
Births
- 1161
-
Emperor Takakura
o
Japan
(d.
1181
)
- 1486
-
Arthur Tudor
,
Prince
o
Wales
(d.
1502
)
- 1735
-
James Keir
, Scots chemist, geologist an inventor (d.
1820
)
- 1778
-
Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen
, Baltic-German naval afficer an splorer (d.
1852
)
- 1833
-
Ernesto Teodoro Moneta
, Italian jurnalist an pacifist (d.
1918
)
- 1842
-
James Dewar
, Scots chemist (d.
1923
)
- 1853
-
Chulalongkorn
,
Keeng
o
Siam
(d.
1910
)
- 1878
-
Upton Sinclair
, American writer (d.
1968
)
- 1881
-
Alex Bennett
, Scots fitbawer (d.
1940
)
- 1925
-
Ananda Mahidol
,
Keeng
o
Thailand
(d.
1946
)
- 1934
-
Sophia Loren
, Italian actress
- 1940
-
Taro Aso
, umwhile
Prime meenister
o
Japan
- 1948
-
George R. R. Martin
, American writer
- 1961
-
Caroline Flint
, Inglis politeecian
- 1962
-
Jim Al-Khalili
, Inglis pheesicist, writer an braidcaster
- 1966
-
Douglas Gordon
, Scots airtist
- 1971
-
Henrik Larsson
, Swadish fitbawer
- 1972
-
Victor Ponta
, umwhile
Prime meenister
o
Romanie
- 1975
-
Juan Pablo Montoya
, Colombian racin driver
- 1980
-
Judith Schalansky
, German writer, beuk designer an publisher
- 1981
-
Feliciano Lopez
, Spainyie tennis player
- 1993
-
Julian Draxler
, German fitbawer
Daiths
- 1793
-
Fletcher Christian
, Inglis mutineer (b.
1764
)
- 1863
-
Jacob Grimm
, German filologist, jurist an meethologist (b.
1785
)
- 1898
-
Theodor Fontane
, German writer (b.
1819
)
- 1957
-
Jean Sibelius
, Finnish componer (b.
1865
)
- 1962
-
Robert Colquhoun
, Scots penter (b.
1914
)
- 1971
-
Giorgos Seferis
, Greek poet (b.
1900
)
- 1975
-
Saint-John Perse
, French writer (b.
1887
)
- 1983
-
Andy Beattie
, Scots fitbawer (b.
1913
)
- 2004
-
Brian Clough
, Inglis fitbaw manager (b.
1935
)
- 2005
-
Simon Wiesenthal
, Austrick Holocaust survivor (b.
1908
)
- 2011
-
Burhanuddin Rabbani
,
Preses
o
Afghanistan
(b.
1940
)
- 2016
-
Alan Cousin
, Scots fitbawer (b.
1938
)
Halidays