Events
of the day
NAB
: All India Flag Day for the Blind
All
India Flag Day for the Blind - Every 14th
September becomes a day of celebration
and expression of talent and joy. Performances
become a way to reach to people's heart
and start a new way of looking at world.
81
β Domitian becomes Emperor of the Roman
Empire upon the death of his brother Titus.
786 β "Night of the three Caliphs":
Harun al-Rashid becomes the Abbasid caliph
upon the death of his brother al-Hadi.
Birth of Harun's son al-Ma'mun.
1180 β Battle of Ishibashiyama in Japan.
1607 β Flight of the Earls from Lough
Swilly, Donegal, Ireland.
1682 β Bishop Gore School, one of the
oldest schools in Wales, is founded.
1741 β George Frideric Handel completes
his oratorio Messiah
1752 β The British Empire adopts the Gregorian
calendar, skipping eleven days (the previous
day was September 2).
1808 β Finnish War: Russians defeat the
Swedes in the bloody Battle of Oravais.
1812 β Napoleonic Wars: French grenadiers
enter Moscow. The Fire of Moscow begins
as soon as Russian troops leave the city.
1814 β The poem Defence of Fort McHenry
is written by Francis Scott Key. The poem
is later used as the lyrics of The Star-Spangled
Banner.
1829 β The Ottoman Empire signs the Treaty
of Adrianople with Russia, thus ending
the Russo-Turkish War.
1846 β Jang Bahadur and his brothers massacre
about 40 members of the Nepalese palace
court.
1847 β Mexican-American War: Winfield
Scott captures Mexico City.
1862 β American Civil War: The Battle
of South Mountain, part of the Maryland
Campaign, is fought.
1901 β President of the United States
William McKinley dies after an assassination
attempt on September 6, and is succeeded
by Theodore Roosevelt.
1917 β Russia is officially proclaimed
a republic.
1923 β Miguel Primo de Rivera becomes
dictator of Spain.
1939 β World War II: The Estonian military
boards the Polish submarine ORP OrzeΕ
in Tallinn, sparking a diplomatic incident
that the Soviet Union will later use to
justify the annexation of Estonia.
1944 β World War II: Maastricht becomes
the first Dutch city to be liberated by
allied forces.
1954 β In a top secret nuclear test, a
Soviet Tu-4 bomber drops a 40 kiloton
atomic weapon just north of Totskoye village,
exposing some 45,000 soldiers and 10,000
civilians to nuclear fallout.
1958 β The first two German post-war rockets,
designed by the German engineer Ernst
Mohr, reach the upper atmosphere.
1959 β The Soviet probe Luna 2 crashes
onto the Moon, becoming the first man-made
object to reach it.
1960 β The Organization of Petroleum Exporting
Countries (OPEC) is founded.
1960 β Congo Crisis: With CIA help, Mobutu
Sese Seko seizes power in a military coup,
suspending parliament and the constitution.
1969 β The US Selective Service selects
September 14 as the First Draft Lottery
Date.
1975 β The first American saint, Elizabeth
Ann Seton, is canonized by Pope Paul VI.
1979 β Afghan President Nur Muhammad Taraki
is assassinated upon the order of Hafizullah
Amin, who becomes the new president.
1982 β President-elect of Lebanon, Bachir
Gemayel, is assassinated.
1984 β Joe Kittinger becomes the first
person to fly a gas balloon alone across
the Atlantic Ocean.
1985 β Penang Bridge, the longest bridge
in Malaysia, connecting the island of
Penang to the mainland, opens to traffic.
1987 β The Toronto Blue Jays set a record
for the most home runs in a single game,
hitting 10 of them.
1992 β The Constitutional Court of Bosnia
and Herzegovina declares the breakaway
Croatian Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia to
be illegal.
1994 β The Major League Baseball season
is canceled because of a strike.
1995 β Body Worlds opens in Tokyo, Japan
1998 β Telecommunications companies MCI
Communications and WorldCom complete their
$37 billion merger to form MCI WorldCom.
1999 β Kiribati, Nauru and Tonga join
the United Nations.
2000 β Microsoft releases Windows Me.
2001 β Historic National Prayer Service
held at Washington National Cathedral
for victims of the September 11 attacks.
A similar service is held in Canada on
Parliament Hill, the largest vigil ever
held in the nation's capital.
2003 β In a referendum, Estonia approves
joining the European Union.
2007 β Late-2000s financial crisis: The
Northern Rock bank experiences the first
bank run in the United Kingdom in 150
years.
2008 β All 88 people on board Aeroflot
Flight 821 are killed when the plane crashes
on approach to Perm Airport.
Holidays
and observances
Christian
Feast Day:
Aelia Flaccilla (Eastern Orthodox Church)
Crescentius of Rome
Maternus of Cologne
Notburga
September 14 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Feast of the Cross (Christianity)
Formerly, the Wednesday, Friday and Saturday
following 14 September were observed as
one of the four sets of Ember days. In
the Irish calendar they were known as
Quarter tense. (Roman Catholic and Anglican
Churches)
14 September, Hindi Day, India
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