September 14


September 14 is the 257th day of the year (258th in leap years). There are
108 days remaining.

Events

   * 1752 - The British Empire adopts the Gregorian calendar, skipping
     eleven days (September 2 was followed directly by September 14 this
     year)
   * 1812 - Russian army burns Moscow to prevent Napoleon from capturing it
   * 1812 - Francis Scott Key writes The Star-Spangled Banner
   * 1847 - Winfield Scott captures Mexico City
   * 1886 - Typewriter ribbon patented

   * 1901 - Theodore Roosevelt becomes President of the United States.
   * 1917 - Republican government declared in Russia
   * 1923 - Miguel Primo de Rivera becomes dictator of Spain
   * 1944 - United States Marines land on the island of Peleliu
   * 1948 - Groundbreaking for the United Nations headquarters in New York
     City
   * 1959 - The Soviet probe Luna 2 crashes onto the Moon, becoming the
     first man-made object to reach it.
   * 1960 - The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) is
     founded.
   * 1964 - The opening of the third period of Second Vatican Council
   * 1965 - The opening of the fourth and final period of Second Vatican
     Council
   * 1984 - Joe Kittinger becomes the first person to fly a hot air balloon
     solo across the Atlantic Ocean.
   * 1975 - The first American saint, Elizabeth Ann Seton, is canonized by
     Pope John Paul II
   * 2000 - Juan Antonio Samaranch leaves the presidence of the
     International Olympic Comitee (IOC), after 20 years.

Births

   * 1760 - Luigi Cherubini, composer
   * 1769 - Alexander von Humboldt, naturalist and explorer
   * 1849 - Ivan Pavlov, scientist (+ 1936)
   * 1867 - Charles Gibson, artist (+ 1944)
   * 1879 - Margaret Sanger, birth control advocate (+ 1966)
   * 1899 - Hal Wallis, film producer (+ 1986)
   * 1914 - Clayton Moore, actor (+ 1999)
   * 1921 - Ruth Brooks Flippen, television writer (+ 1981)
   * 1923 - Bud Palmer, sports reporter
   * 1933 - Zoe Caldwell, actress
   * 1933 - Harve Presnell, actor
   * 1934 - Kate Millett, feminist writer
   * 1936 - Walter Koenig, actor
   * 1938 - Nicol Williamson, actor
   * 1948 - Sam Neill, actor
   * 1959 - Mary Frances, actress
   * 1971 - Kimberly Williams, actress
   * 1973 - Nas, rap music singer

Deaths

   * 258 - Cyprian, early Christian writer
   * 891 - Pope Stephen V
   * 1321 - Dante Aligheri, author
   * 1638 - John Harvard, clergyman, namesake of Harvard College
   * 1851 - James Fenimore Cooper, author
   * 1852 - Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, British general and
     Prime Minister
   * 1899 - Henry Bliss, first automobile fatality
   * 1901 - United States President William McKinley
   * 1927 - Isadora Duncan, dancer
   * 1936 - Irving Thalberg, film producer
   * 1960 - Sir Arthur Percy Morris Fleming, radar pioneer
   * 1966 - Gertrude Berg, actress
   * 1982 - Bashir Gemayel, President of Lebanon
   * 1982 - Princess Grace of Monaco
   * 1984 - Janet Gaynor, Academy Award winning actress
   * 1996 - Juliet Prowse, actress, dancer
   * 2000 - Beah Richards, actress

Holidays

   * Eastern Orthodox Church Exaltation of the Cross, which commemorates the
     discovery of the (allegedly) original Christian cross in 326 by Helena,
     mother of Constantine.
   * In ancient Greece, the first day of the Eleusinian mysteries, during
     which the sacred objects were brought from Eleusis to Athens.