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.
• 1146 - Zengi dies (b. 1087). Ruler of Syria
• 1164 - Emperor Sutoku of Japan dies (b. 1119)
• 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)
• 1435 - John, Duke of Bedford dies (b. 1389). Regent of England.
• 1523 - Pope Adrian VI dies (b. 1459)
• 1538 - Henry III of Nassau-Breda dies (b. 1483). German nobleman.
• 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)
• 1759 - Louis-Joseph de Montcalm dies (b. 1712). French military commander.
• 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.
• 1807 - George Townshend, 1st Marquess Townshend dies (b. 1724). British field marshal
• 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.
• 1829 - Ottoman Empire signs the Treaty of Adrianople with Russia, thus ending the Russo-Turkish War
• 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 - Mexican-American War: 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 - 25 th President of the United States William McKinley (b. 1843) dies in Buffalo, N.Y. after an assassination attempt. Vice President Theodore Roosevelt becomes 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.
• 1910 - Huo Yuan Jia dies. Chinese martial artist, founder of the martial arts school Jing Wu Men in Shanghai
• 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.
• 1914 - Kay Medford was born (d. 1980). American actress.
• 1916 - José Echegaray y Eizaguirre dies. Spanish engineer, playwright and politician. 1904 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate
• 1917 - Republican government declared in Russia.
• 1917 - Fundação da cidade de Presidente Prudente (S. Paulo - Brasil)
• 1920 - Mario Benedetti was born. Uruguayan writer
• 1920 - Lawrence Klein was born. American economist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1920 - Alberto Calderón was born (d. 1998). Argentinean mathematician.
• 1921 - Dario Vittori was born (d. 2001) Argentinean actor.
• 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). First President of Czechoslovakia
• 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 - Wayne Morris dies (b. 1914). American actor.
• 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.
• 1960 - Callum Keith Rennie was born. Canadian actor
• 1961 - Jorge Basgall dies. Argentine poet.
• 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 - Ben Garant was born. American actor.
• 1970 - Francesco Casagrande was born. Italian cyclist
• 1970 - Rudolf Carnap dies (b. 1891). German philosoper.
• 1971 - Kimberly Williams was born. American actress
• 1971 - Mateus Nunes (Caco Velho) dies. Brazilian singer and composer.
• 1972 - David Bell was born. Baseball player
• 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"
• 1981 - Furry Lewis dies (b. 1899). American blues guitarist.
• 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.
• 1982 - Christian Ferras dies (b. 1933). French violinist.
• 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.
• 1985 - Paolo Gregoletto was born. American Bassist (Trivium)
• 1985 - Aya Ueto was born. Japanese actress idol and singer
• 1986 - Ai Takahashi was born. Japanese singer (Morning Musume)
• 1986 - Alan Sheehan was born. Irish football player
• 1987 - ITV Schools was broadcast on Channel 4 for the very first time.
• 1989 - Dámaso Pérez Prado dies (b. 1916). Cuban musician.
• 1989 - Jesse James was born. American actor
• 1990 - Ken Griffey, Jr. and his father, Ken Griffey, Sr. become the first father-son duo to hit back-to-back home runs.
• 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.
• 1991 - Julie Bovasso dies (b. 1930). American actor and writer.
• 1992 - Paul Joseph James Martin dies (b. 1903). Canadian politician.
• 1994 - The Major League Baseball season is canceled due to strike.
• 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.
• 1999 - Charles Crichton dies (b. 1910). English film director.
• 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.
• 2001 - U.S. President George W. Bush visits the site of the World Trade Center in New York three days after the terrorist attacks that destroyed the Twin Towers. Standing on top of the rubble, Bush responds to a fireman's shouts by saying, "I can hear you, the rest of the world hears you, and the people . . . and the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon."
• 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
• 2005 - William Berenberg dies (b. 1915). American physician.
• 2005 - Robert Wise dies (b. 1914). American filmmaker.
• 2005 - Vladimir Volkoff dies (b. 1932). French writer.
• 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.