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09-20-2010, 04:12 AM
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This Date in History - September 20th
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* 451 The Battle of Chalons takes place in North Eastern France. Flavius Aetius's victory over Attila the Hun in a day of combat, is considered to be the largest battle in the ancient world.
* 1187 Saladin begins the Siege of Jerusalem.
* 1378 Cardinal Robert of Geneva, called by some the Butcher of Cesena, is elected as Avignon Pope Clement VII, beginning the Papal schism.
* 1519 Ferdinand Magellan sets sail from Sanlϊcar de Barrameda with about 270 men on his expedition to circumnavigate the globe.
* 1596 Diego de Montemayor founded the city of Monterrey in New Spain.
* 1633 Galileo Galilei is tried before the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith for teaching that the Earth orbits the Sun.
* 1697 The Treaty of Rijswijk is signed by France, England, Spain, the Holy Roman Empire and the Dutch Republic ending the Nine Years' War (168897).
* 1737 The finish of the Walking Purchase which forces the cession of 1.2 million acres (4,860 km²) of Lenape-Delaware tribal land to the Pennsylvania Colony.
* 1792 French troops stop allied invasion of France, during the War of the First Coalition at Valmy.
* 1835 Farroupilha's Revolution begins in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.
* 1848 The American Association for the Advancement of Science is created.
* 1854 Battle of Alma: British and French troops defeat Russians in the Crimea.
* 1857 The Indian Rebellion of 1857 ends with the recapture of Delhi by troops loyal to the East India Company.
* 1860 The Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII of the United Kingdom) visits the United States.
* 1863 American Civil War: The Battle of Chickamauga ends.
* 1870 Bersaglieri corps enter Rome through the Porta Pia and completes the unification of Italy; see capture of Rome.
* 1871 Bishop John Coleridge Patteson martyred on the island of Nukapu, a Polynesian outlier island now in the Temotu Province of the Solomon Islands. He is the first bishop of Melanesia.
* 1881 Chester A. Arthur is inaugurated as the 21st President of the United States following the assassination of James Garfield.
* 1891 The first gasoline-powered car debuts in Springfield, Massachusetts, United States.
* 1906 Cunard Line's RMS Mauretania is launched at the Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson shipyard in Newcastle upon Tyne, England.
* 1920 Foundation of the Spanish Legion.
* 1930 Syro-Malankara Catholic Church is formed by Archbishop Mar Ivanios.
* 1942 Holocaust in Letychiv, Ukraine. In the course of two days German SS murders at least 3,000 Jews.
* 1946 The first Cannes Film Festival is held.
* 1954 New Zealand's Special Committee on Moral Delinquency in Children and Adolescents reports just ten days after concluding hearings.
* 1962 James Meredith, an African-American, is temporarily barred from entering the University of Mississippi.
* 1967 The RMS Queen Elizabeth 2 is launched at John Brown & Company, Clydebank, Scotland. It is operated by the Cunard Line.
* 1970 Syrian tanks roll into Jordan in response to continued fighting between Jordan and the fedayeen.
* 1973 Billie Jean King beats Bobby Riggs in The Battle of the Sexes tennis match at the Houston Astrodome in Houston, Texas.
* 1977 The Socialist Republic of Vietnam is admitted to the United Nations.
* 1979 Lee Iacocca is elected president of the Chrysler Corporation.
* 1979 A coup d'ιtat in the Central African Empire overthrows Emperor Bokasa I.
* 1982 The National Football League players begin a 57-day strike.
* 1984 A suicide bomber in a car attacks the U.S. embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, killing twenty-two people.
* 1990 South Ossetia declares its independence from Georgia.
* 2000 The British MI6 Secret Intelligence Service building is attacked by a Russian-built Mark 22 anti-tank missile.
* 2001 In an address to a joint session of Congress and the American people, U.S. President George W. Bush declares a "war on terror".
* 2002 The Kolka-Karmadon rock/ice slide started.
* 2003 Maldives civil unrest: the death of prisoner Hassan Evan Naseem sparks a day of rioting in Malι.
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This Date in History - September 20th
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* 451 The Battle of Chalons takes place in North Eastern France. Flavius Aetius's victory over Attila the Hun in a day of combat, is considered to be the largest battle in the ancient world.
* 1187 Saladin begins the Siege of Jerusalem.
* 1378 Cardinal Robert of Geneva, called by some the Butcher of Cesena, is elected as Avignon Pope Clement VII, beginning the Papal schism.
* 1519 Ferdinand Magellan sets sail from Sanlϊcar de Barrameda with about 270 men on his expedition to circumnavigate the globe.
* 1596 Diego de Montemayor founded the city of Monterrey in New Spain.
* 1633 Galileo Galilei is tried before the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith for teaching that the Earth orbits the Sun.
* 1697 The Treaty of Rijswijk is signed by France, England, Spain, the Holy Roman Empire and the Dutch Republic ending the Nine Years' War (168897).
* 1737 The finish of the Walking Purchase which forces the cession of 1.2 million acres (4,860 km²) of Lenape-Delaware tribal land to the Pennsylvania Colony.
* 1792 French troops stop allied invasion of France, during the War of the First Coalition at Valmy.
* 1835 Farroupilha's Revolution begins in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.
* 1848 The American Association for the Advancement of Science is created.
* 1854 Battle of Alma: British and French troops defeat Russians in the Crimea.
* 1857 The Indian Rebellion of 1857 ends with the recapture of Delhi by troops loyal to the East India Company.
* 1860 The Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII of the United Kingdom) visits the United States.
* 1863 American Civil War: The Battle of Chickamauga ends.
* 1870 Bersaglieri corps enter Rome through the Porta Pia and completes the unification of Italy; see capture of Rome.
* 1871 Bishop John Coleridge Patteson martyred on the island of Nukapu, a Polynesian outlier island now in the Temotu Province of the Solomon Islands. He is the first bishop of Melanesia.
* 1881 Chester A. Arthur is inaugurated as the 21st President of the United States following the assassination of James Garfield.
* 1891 The first gasoline-powered car debuts in Springfield, Massachusetts, United States.
* 1906 Cunard Line's RMS Mauretania is launched at the Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson shipyard in Newcastle upon Tyne, England.
* 1920 Foundation of the Spanish Legion.
* 1930 Syro-Malankara Catholic Church is formed by Archbishop Mar Ivanios.
* 1942 Holocaust in Letychiv, Ukraine. In the course of two days German SS murders at least 3,000 Jews.
* 1946 The first Cannes Film Festival is held.
* 1954 New Zealand's Special Committee on Moral Delinquency in Children and Adolescents reports just ten days after concluding hearings.
* 1962 James Meredith, an African-American, is temporarily barred from entering the University of Mississippi.
* 1967 The RMS Queen Elizabeth 2 is launched at John Brown & Company, Clydebank, Scotland. It is operated by the Cunard Line.
* 1970 Syrian tanks roll into Jordan in response to continued fighting between Jordan and the fedayeen.
* 1973 Billie Jean King beats Bobby Riggs in The Battle of the Sexes tennis match at the Houston Astrodome in Houston, Texas.
* 1977 The Socialist Republic of Vietnam is admitted to the United Nations.
* 1979 Lee Iacocca is elected president of the Chrysler Corporation.
* 1979 A coup d'ιtat in the Central African Empire overthrows Emperor Bokasa I.
* 1982 The National Football League players begin a 57-day strike.
* 1984 A suicide bomber in a car attacks the U.S. embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, killing twenty-two people.
* 1990 South Ossetia declares its independence from Georgia.
* 2000 The British MI6 Secret Intelligence Service building is attacked by a Russian-built Mark 22 anti-tank missile.
* 2001 In an address to a joint session of Congress and the American people, U.S. President George W. Bush declares a "war on terror".
* 2002 The Kolka-Karmadon rock/ice slide started.
* 2003 Maldives civil unrest: the death of prisoner Hassan Evan Naseem sparks a day of rioting in Malι.
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