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What happened in history on this day: September 14?
On September 14 in ...
- 891 - Stephen V ends his reign as Catholic Pope.
- 1716 - First lighthouse in US lit (Boston Harbor).
- 1752 - England and colonies adopt Gregorian calendar, previous 11 calendar days disappear. People riot thinking the government stole 11 days of their lives.
- 1759 - Louis Montcalm French general (Plains of Abraham), dies at age 47.
- 1812 - French forces under Napoleon Bonaparte enter Moscow, Russia.
- 1836 - US Vice President Aaron Burr dies.
- 1847 - US troops under General Scott enter Mexico City.
- 1848 - Alexander Stewart opens the first US department store.
- 1849 - Birth of Ivan Pavlov in Russia; physiologist/pioneer in psychology (Pavlov's dog).
- 1852 - Arthur Wellesley, General/Duke of Wellington, dies at age 83.
- 1856 - Battle of San Jacinto, Nicaragua defeats invaders.
- 1857 - British troops enter breaches of Delhi walls, with 60 officers and 1100 men killed or wounded.
- 1864 - Birth of Lord Cecil of Chelwood, United Kingdom; helped form League of Nations (Nobel Prize 1937).
- 1867 - Birth of Charles Dana Gibson; illustrator, drew "Gibson Girl".
- 1872 - Britain pays the US $15 million for damages during Civil War.
- 1879 - Birth of Margaret Sanger; feminist/nurse/birth control proponent.
- 1882 - Cairo, Egypt, with 10,000 garrison capitulates to 1500 British heavy cavalry.
- 1886 - Birth of Jan Garrique Masaryk in Prague, Austro-Hungarian Empire; statesman, US minister to London (1918-35).
- 1886 - George K Anderson of Memphis, Tennessee, USA, patents typewriter ribbon.
- 1887 - Birth of Karl Taylor Compton; physicist/atomic bomb scientist.
- 1887 - Birth of Stanley "Midnight Assassin" Ketchel; heavyweight boxing champion (1908-10).
- 1899 - Birth of Hal Wallis; movie producer (The Maltese Falcon, Barefoot in the Park).
- 1899 - Death of Henry Bliss in New York, USA; first automobile fatality.
- 1901 - US President William McKinley dies in Buffalo, New York, of gunshot wounds inflicted by an assassin eight days earlier.
- 1904 - Birth of Richard Mohaupt in Breslau, Germany; composer (Bucolica).
- 1905 - RAC Tourist Trophy is first run on the Isle of Man.
- 1907 - Birth of A Cecil Snyder; Chief Justice of Puerto Rico.
- 1907 - Birth of Cecil Brown; news correspondent (CBS).
- 1908 - Birth of Bernie Green in New York City, New York, USA; orchestra leader (Arthur Godfrey Show, Garry Moore Show).
- 1908 - Birth of Clayton Moore in Chicago, Illinois, USA; actor (The Lone Ranger).
- 1910 - Birth of Lehman Engel in Jackson, Mississippi, USA; conductor/composer (A Streetcar Named Desire).
- 1910 - Birth of Rolf Liebermann in Zürich, Switzerland; composer (Leonore).
- 1911 - Piotr Stolypin, Russia's Prime Minister, is assassinated by Mordka Bogrov.
- 1912 - Heavyweight boxing champion Jack Johnson opens night club Cabaret de Champion in Chicago, Illinois. Upstairs, his wife Etta Duryea shoots and kills herself.
- 1913 - Birth of Jacobo Arbenz; president of Guatemala (1951-54); overthrown by US Central Intelligence Agency.
- 1914 - Birth of Kay Medford in New York City, New York, USA; actress (Dean Martin Show, To Rome With Love).
- 1916 - Birth of Eric Bentley in England; critic/writer (In Search of Theater).
- 1917 - Provisional government of Russia established, Republic proclaimed.
- 1918 - Birth of Jack Somack in Chicago, Illinois, USA; actor (Ball Four, Stockard Channing Show).
- 1920 - Birth of Bud Palmer in Hollywood, California, USA; NBA player (New York Knicks)/sportscaster.
- 1921 - Birth of Hughes Rudd; TV newscaster (CBS).
- 1923 - Miguel Primo de Rivera becomes dictator of Spain.
- 1923 - Before a crowd of 90,000 at the Polo Grounds, boxer Jack Dempsey defeats Argentinian Luis Firpo in the 2nd round.
- 1924 - Birth of Jerry Coleman; second baseman/sportscaster (New York Yankees).
- 1925 - Birth of Robert Webber in Santa Ana, California, USA; actor ($, Nuts, Private Benjamin).
- 1927 - Isadora Duncan dies as her scarf became entangled in her car's wheel.
- 1928 - Birth of Albert Shanker; American labor leader (American Federation of Teachers).
- 1930 - Portsmouth Spartans play first NFL game, win 13-6.
- 1930 - National Socialists gain 107 seats in German election.
- 1933 - Two billion board feet of lumber destroyed in Tillamook, Oregon fire.
- 1933 - Birth of Harve Presnell in Modesto, California, USA; actor (Unsinkable Molly Brown).
- 1933 - Birth of Zoe Caldwell in Australia; actress (Prime of Miss Jean Brodie).
- 1934 - Birth of Kate Millett in Saint Paul, Minnesota, YSA; feminist/author (Sexual Politics).
- 1938 - Birth of Nicol Williamson in Scotland; actor (Excalibur, Robin and Marian).
- 1938 - Birth of Walter Koenig in Chicago, Illinois, USA; actor (Checkov - Star Trek).
- 1938 - Graf Zeppelin II, world's largest airship, makes maiden flight.
- 1939 - (1015 hours) Polish mayor Skupien surrenders Gydnia city to German General Magnus Eberhardt.
- 1939 - German troops complete the encirclement of Warsaw, Poland.
- 1939 - The Soviet Union calls for one million new recruits for the Red Army.
- 1940 - US Congress passes first peace-time conscription bill (draft law).
- 1942 - New York Yankees clinch pennant #13.
- 1943 - New York Yankees clinch pennant #14.
- 1944 - Birth of Joey Heatherton in Rockville Center, New York, USA; dancer/actress (Bluebeard).
- 1947 - Birth of Jon "Bowser" Bauman in Queens, New York, USA; singer (Sha Na Na).
- 1947 - Birth of Wolfgang Schwartz in Austria; figure skater (Olympic-gold-1968).
- 1948 - Gerald Ford upsets Republican Bartel J Jonkman in Michigan 5th District Republican primary.
- 1948 - Groundbreaking ceremony for the United Nations world headquarters.
- 1948 - Milton Berle starts his TV career on Texaco Star Theater.
- 1951 - New York Giants' Bob Niemans homers on his first two at bats.
- 1952 - Birth of Margit Schumann in the German Democratic Republic; luge (Olympic-gold-1976).
- 1954 - Hurricane Edna (second of 1954) hits New York City, causing US$50 million damage.
- 1956 - First prefrontal lobotomy performed, Washington DC.
- 1956 - Birth of Joe Penny in London, England; actor (Gangster Wars, Riptide, Jake and the Fatman).
- 1957 - United Nations resolution deplores and condemns USSR invasion of Hungary.
- 1958 - German engineer Ernst Mohr's two rockets - the first German post-war rockets - reach the upper atmosphere.
- 1959 - The Soviet probe Luna 2 crashes onto the Moon, becoming the first man-made object to reach the Moon.
- 1959 - Birth of Mary Crosby in Los Angeles, California, USA; actress (Kristin - Dallas, Ice Pirates).
- 1959 - Birth of Morten Harket; rocker (Aha - "Take on Me").
- 1960 - Birth of Anthony Addabbo; actor (Jason - Generations).
- 1962 - CBS airs the last (until next January) The Twilight Zone TV show.
- 1963 - Birth of Antonia Real in Spain; 400m freestyle (Olympic-1976).
- 1963 - Mary Ann Fischer, in Aberdeen, South Dakota, gives birth to America's first surviving quintuplets, four girls and a boy.
- 1964 - CBS airs the last East Side / West Side TV show. A total of 26 episodes aired.
- 1964 - Birth of Faith Ford in Louisiana, USA; actress (Another World, Corky - Murphy Brown).
- 1964 - CBS airs the last The Danny Thomas Show TV show.
- 1964 - Walt Disney awarded the Medal of Freedom at the White House.
- 1965 - ABC-TV debuts F-Troop TV show, a military satire set in the Old West.
- 1965 - NBC premieres the TV show My Mother The Car, starring Jerry Van Dyke.
- 1966 - ABC premieres the ABC Stage '67 60-minute anthology TV show.
- 1966 - Gertrude Berg, actress (Molly Goldberg - The Goldbergs), dies at age 66.
- 1967 - Plymouth introduces the 1968 Road Runner automobile.
- 1967 - The NBC TV network airs the first Ironside 60-minute crime drama TV show in the USA.
- 1968 - Detroit Tigers' Denny McLain's 30th victory of the season.
- 1968 - CBS-TV premieres The Archies TV show as a Saturday morning cartoon musical series. A band on screen, the vocals are all overdubbed by one man, Ron Dante.
- 1969 - The NBC TV network airs the first The Wonderful World of Disney show, featuring Wild Geese Calling.
- 1969 - The NBC TV network airs the first The Bill Cosby Show 30-minute comedy TV show in the USA.
- 1969 - The NBC TV network airs the first The Bold Ones 60-minute TV show in the USA.
- 1970 - Death of Rudolf Carnap in Santa Monica, California, USA (born in Ronsdorf, Germany); philosopher, co-founded journal Erkenntnis, author (Der logische Aufbau der Welt (1928), Logische Syntax der Sprache (1934), Meaning and Necessity (1947), and Logical Foundations of Probability (1950)), taught at the University of Chicago.
- 1971 - NBC resumes airing The Red Skelton Show 30-minute variety TV show.
- 1971 - Cleveland Indians and Washington Senators play 20 innings.
- 1972 - CBS debuts family drama The Waltons on TV.
- 1973 - Indianapolis is awarded a WHA franchise.
- 1973 - US President Richard Nixon signs into law a measure lifting pro football's blackout.
- 1974 - Charles Kowal discovers Leda, 13th satellite of Jupiter.
- 1974 - Death of Barbara Jo Allen at age 68; writer/comedienne (radio character Vera Vague, regular spots on Bob Hope's Pepsodent radio programs, appeared in some 60 films, hosted TV show Follow the Leader).
- 1974 - Warren Hull, actor (Strike it Rich, Who in the World), dies at age 71.
- 1975 - Mother Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton canonized as first US-born saint.
- 1978 - ABC-TV airs the first show of the TV series Mork and Mindy, starring Robin Williams as Mork.
- 1979 - Theodore Coombs completes 5,193 mile roller skate from Los Angeles to New York City and back to Yates Center, Kansas.
- 1979 - Death of Nur Muhammad Taraki, President of Afghanistan (born 1917).
- 1981 - Margaret Thatcher appoints Cecil Parkinson as Chairman of the Conservative Party.
- 1981 - Birth of Ashley Roberts; singer (The Pussycat Dolls).
- 1981 - Entertainment Tonight premieres in syndication.
- 1981 - In Sweden, Prime Minister Thorbjörn Fälldin announces a currency devaluation of 10 percent, price freezes, and a planned reduction in sales tax.
- 1982 - Lebanese President-elect Bachir Gemayel is assassinated in Beirut.
- 1982 - 36 inches of snow in Red Lodge, Montana.
- 1982 - Cindy Nicholas of Canada makes her 19th swim of the English Channel.
- 1982 - Grace Patricia Kelly, American actress and Princess of Monaco, dies at age 52 in a car crash (born 1929).
- 1982 - Trevor Baxter sets skateboard high jump record of 5 feet 5.7 inches.
- 1983 - US House of Representatives votes 416 to 0 in favor of a resolution condemning Russia for shooting down a Korean jetliner.
- 1984 - The first MTV Video Music Awards are held in Radio City Music Hall, New York City; Bette Midler and Dan Aykroyd host.
- 1984 - Death of Richard Brautigan, American counter-culture author (suicide) (born 1935).
- 1985 - The CBS TV network begins airing the animated weekly show The Wuzzles.
- 1985 - The NBC TV network begins airing the animated weekly TV show Disney's Adventures of the Gummi Bears.
- 1985 - The NBC TV network begins airing the Disney show The Golden Girls.
- 1986 - At Royals Stadium, Kansas City Royals' rookie outfieder Bo Jackson hits his first major league home run. The 475-foot hit by the NFL running back is the longest homer ever hit in the ballpark.
- 1986 - Saskatchewan Roughriders and Hamilton Tiger-Cats play first Canadian Football League regular-season overtime game.
- 1987 - The Toronto Blue Jays beat the Baltimore Orioles 18-3; the Blue Jays set a major league record of ten home runs; Orioles' player Cal Ripken Junior sets record consecutive-innings streak of 8,243, spanning 904 games.
- 1988 - NBC debuts Unsolved Mysteries, hosted by Robert Stack.
- 1989 - Calgary Flames become first NHL team to play in USSR, win 4-2.
- 1989 - Agreement of cooperation between Leningrad oblast (Russia) and NordlandCounty (Norway) is signed in Leningrad, by the chairmen Lev Kojkolainen and Sigbjørn Eriksen.
- 1989 - Death of Perez Prado at age 72 of a stroke; Cuban mambo singer ("Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White" (1955), "Patricia", "Mambo No. 5", "Mambo No. 8").
- 1991 - The NBC TV network debuts the series Nurses.
- 1991 - Carolyn Suzanne Sapp (Hawaii) crowned Miss America 1992.
- 1991 - Julie Bovasso, actress (Saturday Night Fever), dies at age 61 of cancer.
- 1993 - The Fox TV network first airs the show Bakersfield P.D..
- 1994 - Due to the Major League Baseball players' strike, owners vote to cancel remainder of the season including the World Series.
- 1995 - Near the coast of Guerrero, Mexico, a magnitude 7.5 earthquake occurs. Three people killed, 100 injured, 900 homeless. Felt strongly along the Pacific coast of Mexico from Michoacan to Chiapas.
- 1998 - The GSPC is formed in Algeria, splitting off from the GIA over its policy of massacring civilians.
- 1998 - At the end of the day's stock market trading Microsoft stands as America's most valuable company, at US$261.1 billion. Microsoft and General Electric were both valued at over US$300 billion in July, but Microsoft survived a stock market plunge better, putting it on top.
- 1999 - Kiribati, Nauru and Tonga join the United Nations.
- 2000 - A tugboat puts a 4-foot gash in US Navy ship USS Detroit, spilling 113,000 litres of oil across Sandy Hook Bay, New Jersey, USA.
- 2000 - Microsoft launches the Windows Millenium Edition (Me) operating system. 400,000 copies of the retail upgrade copy are sold in the first month.
- 2001 - In Japan, Nintendo launches the GameCube video game system. It features 405 MHz "Gekko" processor based on a 256-bit IBM Power PC, and 43 MB RAM. Size is 6 x 6 x 4.3 inches; price is 25,000 yen. Code name during development was Dolphin. 133,719 units sell in the first week.
- 2001 - US President George W Bush stands with firefighters and rescue workers at Ground Zero in New York.
- 2001 - US President George W. Bush declares a state of national emergency exists by reason of terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon.
- 2002 - The ABC TV network begins airing the show Fillmore on ABC Kids.
- 2002 - Death of LaWanda Page at age 81 due to complications from diabetes; actress (Aunt Esther - Sanford and Son, Amen, Martin).
- 2003 - In Sweden, a Nationwide referendum is held asking citizens if the country should join the European Monetary Union, and abandon the krona currency in favor of the euro. The vote is 56.1 percent no, 41.8 percent yes.
- 2003 - Top American commander in Iraq Lieutenant General Ricardo Sanchez authorizes a wide range of new interrogation procedures, including deliberate humiliation, exploiting fear of dogs, sensory deprivation, sensory overload, and stress positions.
- 2004 - Microsoft releases the Fable video game for the Xbox in the US.
- 2004 - Electronic Arts releases The Sims 2 game for Windows computers in the US. One million copies are sold in the first ten days.
- 2005 - (to September 16) The largest United Nations World Summit in history is held in New York City.
- 2005 - Death of Robert Wise, American film director (born 1914).
- 2007 - Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency launches their first space probe to the Moon, the KAGUYA (SELENE) spacecraft. Its mission is to study surface composition
- 2007 - Viktor Zubkov is approved as the new Prime Minister of Russia after a vote in the Duma.
- 2007 - The British government makes a public statement that the Bank of England will provide emergency funding to Scotland's Northern Rock. This begins a bank run by depositors.
- 2008 - Aeroflot Flight 821 crashes near the city of Perm, Russia, killing all 88 on board.
- 2009 - American actor Patrick Swayze (Dirty Dancing, Ghost) dies after a long battle with pancreatic cancer at age 57.
- 2015 - Gravitational waves are detected for the first time, by LIGO.
- 2019 - Two Saudi Aramco oil refineries in Abqaiq and Khurais, Saudi Arabia, are attacked by drones, resulting in fires. Houthi militants claim responsibility, saying that they used ten drones for the attack.
- 2020 - The Royal Astronomical Society announces the detection of phosphine in Venus' atmosphere, which is known to be a strong predictor for the presence of microbial life.
- 2020 - The first discovery of the perfectly preserved remains of a cave bear, believed to be 22,000 to 39,500 years old (Late Pleistocene), is made in Lyakhovsky Islands, Siberia in the thawing permafrost.
- 2021 - North Korea demonstrates two short-range ballistic missiles that land just outside Japan's territorial waters; and then only hours later South Korea demonstrates its first submarine-launched ballistic missile.
- 2021 - The inaugural season of the UEFA Europa Conference League, the third tier of European club football, kicks off with Israeli club Maccabi Tel Aviv winning 4-1 against Armenian club FC Alashkert.
- 2022 - Death of Irene Papas at age 96; Greek actor (The Guns of Navarone, Zorba the Greek, Captain Corelli's Mandolin).
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