On this day in History - Sep 14

0258 - Cyprian dies. Bishop of Carthage
0585 - Emperor Bidatsu dies (b. 0538). Emperor of Japan.
0775 - Constantine V dies (b. 0718). Byzantine Emperor
0786 - Al-Hadi dies. Abbasid caliph
0786 - Harun al-Rashid becomes the Abbasid caliph upon the death of his brother al-Hadi
0891 - Pope Stephen V dies.
1214 - Albert Avogadro dies (b. 1149). Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem.

1321 - Dante Alighieri dies (b. 1265). Italian author (The Divine Comedy)
1404 - Duke Albert IV of Austria dies (b. 1377)
1523 - Pope Adrian VI dies (b. 1459)
1543 - Claudio Aquaviva was born (d. 1615). Italian Jesuit.
1547 - Johan van Oldenbarnevelt was born (d. 1619). Dutch statesman.

1596 - Francisco de Toledo dies (b. 4 Oct 1532). Spanish teologist and philosopher.
1605 - Jan Tarnowski dies (b. 1550). Archbishop of Krakow.

1617 - Peter Lely was born. Dutch painter.
1638 - John Harvard dies (b. 1607). American clergyman.
1646 - Robert Devereux, 3rd Earl of Essex dies (b. 1591). English Civil War general.
1656 - Thomas Baker was born (d. 1746). English antiquarian.
1712 - Giovanni Domenico Cassini dies (b. 1625). Italian-born astronomer.
1737 - Michael Haydn was born (d. 1806). Austrian composer.
1743 - Nicolas Lancret dies (b. 1690). French painter.
1749 - Richard Temple, 1st Viscount Cobham dies (b. 1675). English soldier and politician.
1752 - The British Empire adopts the Gregorian calendar, skipping eleven days (September 2 was followed directly by September 14 this year)
1760 - Luigi Cherubini was born (d. 1842). Italian composer.
1769 - Alexander von Humboldt was born (d. 1859). German naturalist and explorer.
1804 - John Gould was born (d. 1881). English ornithologist.
1804 - Louis Maigret was born (d. 1882). French Catholic prelate.
1812 - Fundação do Condado de Madison
1812 - Russian army burns Moscow to prevent Napoleon from capturing it
1814 - Francis Scott Key writes The Star-Spangled Banner.
1836 - Aaron Burr dies (b. 1756). Vice President of the United States.

1846 - Joaquín Costa Martinez was born in Monzón, Huesca († 8 Feb 1911). Spanish politician.
1847 - Winfield Scott captures Mexico City
1849 - Ivan Pavlov was born (d. 1936). Russian scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
1851 - James Fenimore Cooper dies (b. 1789). American author.
1852 - Augustus Pugin dies (b. 1812). English architect.
1852 - Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington dies (b. 1769). British general and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

1864 - Robert Cecil was born. British politician and diplomat who won the 1937 Nobel Prize for Peace .
1867 - Charles Dana Gibson was born (d. 1944). American artist.

1868 - Nasce, em Acarati (CE), o Pde. António Tomás de Sales (m. 16 Jul 1941 em Fortaleza). Poliglota e sonetista, foi eleito príncipe dos poetas cearenses. A sua obra foi reunida postumamente.
1879 - Margaret Sanger was born (d. 1966). American birth control advocate.
1880 - Archie Hahn was born (d. 1955). American athlete.

1886 - Jan Masaryk was born (d. 1948). Czech foreign minister and diplomat.
1886 - Typewriter ribbon patented.
1886 - Gurdon Saltonstall Hubbard dies (b. 1802). American land speculator.

1893 - Erminio Blotta was born. Argentine sculptor.
1898 - William Seward Burroughs dies (b. 1857). American inventor.
1898 - Hal B. Wallis was born (d. 1986). American film producer.
1901 - President of the United States William McKinley dies in Buffalo, N.Y. after an assassination attempt. Vice President Theodore Roosevelt succeeded him.
1901 - Theodore Roosevelt becomes President of the United States.
1901 - William McKinley dies assassinated (b. 1843). 25th President of the United States
1905 - Ismael Silva was born (d. 1978). Brazilian singer.
1909 - Peter Scott was born (d. 1989). English naturalist, artist, and explorer.
1913 - Jacobo Arbenz was born (d. 1971). President of Guatemala (1951-1954).
1914 - Lída Baarová was born (d. 2000). Czech actress.
1914 - Clayton Moore was born (d. 1999). American actor.
1917 - Republican government declared in Russia

1916 - José Echegaray y Eizaguirre dies. Spanish engineer, playwright and politician. 1904 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate

1917 - Fundação da cidade de Presidente Prudente (S. Paulo - Brasil)
1920 - Lawrence Robert Klein was born. American economist.
1920 - Mario Benedetti was born. Uruguayan writer
1923 - Miguel Primo de Rivera becomes dictator of Spain
1926 - Michel Butor was born. French novelist
1927 - Isadora Duncan dies in Nice, France, when her scarf became entangled in a wheel of her sports car (b. 1877). American modern dance pioneer.
1933 - Zoe Caldwell was born. American actress.
1933 - Harve Presnell was born. American actor
1934 - Kate Millett was born. American feminist writer
1935 - Ferid Murad was born. American physician.
1936 - Walter Koenig was born. American actor
1936 - Irving Thalberg dies (b. 1899). American film producer.
1937 - Renzo Piano was born. Italian architect.
1937 - Tomás Masaryk dies (b. 1850). President of Checoslováquia
1938 - Nicol Williamson was born. Scottish-born actor
1940 - Larry Brown was born. American basketball coach.
1940 - US Congress passed the Selective Service Act, providing for the first peacetime draft in U.S. history.
1942 - Ezra Seymour Gosney dies (b. 1855). American philanthropist and eugenicist.
1944 - United States Marines land on the island of Peleliu
1947 - Sam Neill was born. Irish actor
1948 - Vera Gimenez was born. Brazilian actress.
1948 - Groundbreaking for the United Nations headquarters in New York City

1948 - Hungria passa a ser membro da UNESCO
1949 - Eikichi Yazawa was born. Japanese rock singer
1950 - Paul Kossoff was born (d. 1976). British guitarist (Free).

1950 - Oscar Osorio assume a presidência de El Salvador
1951 - Arrigo Barnabé was born. Brazilian musician and actor.

1956 - José María Lemus López assume a presidência de El Salvador
1958 - Two rockets of the German engineer Ernst Mohr reach as first German post-war rockets the upper atmosphere
1958 - Arlindo Cruz was born in Rio de Janeiro. Brazilian singer, composer and instrumentist
1959 - The Soviet probe Luna 2 crashes onto the Moon, becoming the first man-made object to reach it.
1959 - Mary Crosby was born. Actress.
1959 - Morten Harket was born. Norwegian singer (a-ha)
1960 - The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) is founded.

1961 - Morte do poeta argentino Jorge Basgall.
1964 - The opening of the third period of Second Vatican Council
1965 - The opening of the fourth and final period of Second Vatican Council
1965 - J.W. Hearne dies (b. 1891). English cricketer.
1966 - Gertrude Berg dies (b. 1899). American actress.
1968 - Michelle Stafford was born. American actress
1970 - Craig Montoya was born. American musician (Everclear)
1970 - Rudolf Carnap dies (b. 1891). German philosoper.
1971 - Kimberly Williams was born. American actress

1971 - Morte de Mateus Nunes (Caco Velho). Cantor e compositor brasileiro.
1973 - Nas was born. American rapper
1974 - Hicham El Guerrouj was born. Moroccan athlete.

1974 - Sunday Oliseh was born. Nigerian football player.
1974 - Warren Hull dies (b. 1903). American actor.
1975 - The first American saint, Elizabeth Ann Seton, is canonized by Pope Paul VI
1978 - Carmen Kass was born. Estonian model.

1978 - Silvia Navarro was born. Mexican actress.

1978 - Em Portugal, é derrubado o III Governo Constitucional com os votos conjuntos do PS, do CDS e da UDP.
1980 - Abertura oficial do XIX Festival Internacional de Cinema da Figueira da Foz com a antestreia do filme Kilas, o Mau da Fita, do realizador português José Fonseca e Costa.

1981 - Papa João Paulo II publica a encíclica "Laborem Exercens"
1982 - Bachir Gemayel dies, killed by a bomb (b. 1947). President-elect of Lebanon.
1982 - Princess Grace of Monaco, Grace Kelly, dies (b. 1929). American actress.
1982 - John Gardner dies (b. 1933). American novelist.
1984 - Janet Gaynor dies (b. 1906). American actress.
1984 - Joe Kittinger becomes the first person to fly a hot air balloon solo across the Atlantic Ocean.
1985 - Shiite Muslim kidnappers in Lebanon released the Rev. Benjamin Weir after holding him captive for 16 months.
1989 - Dámaso Pérez Prado dies (b. 1916). Cuban musician.

1991 - O cineasta português Manoel de Oliveira recebe o Prémio Especial do Júri do Festival de Cinema de Veneza pelo seu filme A Divina Comédia.

1996 - Juliet Prowse dies (b. 1937). British actress and dancer.
1998 - Telecommunications companies MCI Communications and WorldCom complete their $37 billion merger to form MCI WorldCom.
1999 - Kiribati, Nauru and Tonga join the United Nations.
2000 - Juan Antonio Samaranch leaves the presidency of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), after 20 years.
2000 - Beah Richards dies (b. 1920). American actress.
2001- Historic National Prayer Service held at Washington National Cathedral for victims of the September 11 attacks. While the rest of the world sees the service at the National Cathedral, Canada sees the service on Parliament Hill--"the largest single vigil" ever in their nation's capital.
2003 - Sweden rejects adopting the Euro in a referendum. (Results.)
2003 - Estonia approves joining the European Union in a referendum.
2003 - Yetunde Price dies, murdered. American sister of Venus and Serena Williams
2004 - Canada wins the 2004 World cup of Hockey.

2004 - Marcelo Bielsa deixa de ser o técnico da Seleção Argentina de Futebol
In ancient Greece, the first day of the Eleusinian Mysteries, during which the sacred objects were brought from Eleusis to Athens.
Roman Catholic Church - Triumph of the Cross (compare May 3- Finding of the Holy Cross).
Eastern Orthodox Church - Exaltation of the Cross, which commemorates the discovery of the (allegedly) original Christian cross in 326 by Helena, mother of Constantine, as well as the recovery from the Persians by Heraclius in 628.
Formerly, in the RC and Anglican churches, the Wednesday, Friday and Saturday following Sept. 14 were observed as one of the four sets of Ember days. In the Irish calendar they were known as Quarter tense.