Events
of the day
1058
– Agnes de Poitou and Andrew I of Hungary
meet to negotiate about the border-zone
in present-day Burgenland.
1187 – Saladin begins the Siege of Jerusalem.
1260 – the Great Prussian Uprising among
the old Prussians begins against the Teutonic
Knights.
1378 – Cardinal Robert of Geneva, called
by some the Butcher of Cesena, is elected
as Avignon Pope Clement VII, beginning the
Papal schism.
1498 – The 1498 Meiō Nankaidō earthquake
generates a tsunami that washes away the
building housing the statue of the Great
Buddha at KĹŤtoku-in in Kamakura, Kanagawa,
Japan; since then the Buddha has sat in
the open air.
1519 – Ferdinand Magellan sets sail from
SanlĂşcar de Barrameda with about 270 men
on his expedition to circumnavigate the
globe.
1596 – Diego de Montemayor founds the city
of Monterrey in New Spain.
1697 – The Treaty of Rijswijk is signed
by France, England, Spain, the Holy Roman
Empire and the Dutch Republic ending the
Nine Years' War (1688–97).
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 – Ragamuffin rebels capture Porto Alegre,
then capital of the Brazilian imperial province
of Rio Grande do Sul, triggering the start
of ten-year-long Farroupilha Revolution.
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 complete the unification
of Italy.
1871 – Bishop John Coleridge Patteson is
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.
1893 – Charles Duryea and his brother road-test
the first American-made gasoline-powered
automobile.
1906 – Cunard Line's RMS Mauretania is launched
at the Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson
shipyard in Newcastle upon Tyne, England.
1909 – The Parliament of the United Kingdom
passes the South Africa Act 1909, creating
the Union of South Africa from the British
Colonies of the Cape of Good Hope, Natal,
Orange River Colony, and the Transvaal Colony.
1910 – The ocean liner SS France, later
known as the "Versailles of the Atlantic",
is launched.
1911 – White Star Line's RMS Olympic collides
with British warship HMS Hawke.
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 the German SS murders
at least 3,000 Jews.
1961 – Greek general Konstantinos Dovas
becomes Prime Minister of Greece.
1962 – James Meredith, an African-American,
is temporarily barred from entering the
University of Mississippi.
1967 – 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.
1971 – Having weakened after making landfall
in Nicaragua the previous day, Hurricane
Irene regains enough strength to be renamed
Hurricane Olivia, making it the first known
hurricane to cross from the Atlantic Ocean
into the Pacific.
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 – A coup d'état 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 unapprehended
forces using a Russian-built RPG-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.
2003 – Maldives civil unrest: the death
of prisoner Hassan Evan Naseem sparks a
day of rioting in Malé.
2007 – Between 15,000 and 20,000 protesters
marched on Jena, Louisiana, in support of
six black youths who had been convicted
of assaulting a white classmate.
2008 – A dump truck full of explosives detonates
in front of the Marriott hotel in Islamabad,
Pakistan, killing 54 people and injuring
266 others.
2011 – The United States ends its "Don't
Ask, Don't Tell" policy, allowing gay
men and women to serve openly for the first
time.
Holidays
and observances
Christian
Feast Day:
Agapitus (Western Christianity)
Eustace (Western Christianity)
John Coleridge Patteson (Anglican Communion)
Korean Martyrs, including Andrew Kim Taegon
and Laurent-Marie-Joseph Imbert
September 20 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Farroupilha Revolution (Brazilian state
of Rio Grande do Sul)
Independence Day of South Ossetia (not fully
recognized)
National Youth Day (Thailand)
The seventh day of the Eleusinian Mysteries,
when the secret rites in the Telesterion
began. (ancient Greece)
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