September 14

September 14 is the 257th day of the year (258th in leap years). There are 108 days remaining.

Events

• 1752 - The British Empire adopts the Gregorian calendar, skipping eleven days (September 2 was followed directly by September 14 this year)
• 1812 - Russian army burns Moscow to prevent Napoleon from capturing it
• 1812 - Francis Scott Key writes The Star-Spangled Banner
• 1847 - Winfield Scott captures Mexico City
• 1886 - Typewriter ribbon patented

• 1901 - Theodore Roosevelt becomes President of the United States.
• 1917 - Republican government declared in Russia
• 1923 - Miguel Primo de Rivera[?] becomes dictator of Spain
• 1944 - United States Marines land on the island of Peleliu[?]
• 1948 - Groundbreaking for the United Nations headquarters in New York City
• 1959 - The Soviet probe Luna 2 crashes onto the Moon, becoming the first man-made object to reach it.
• 1960 - The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) is founded.
• 1964 - The opening of the third period of Second Vatican Council
• 1965 - The opening of the fourth and final period of Second Vatican Council
• 1984 - Joe Kittinger[?] becomes the first person to fly a hot air balloon solo across the Atlantic Ocean.
• 1975 - The first American saint, Elizabeth Ann Seton[?], is canonized by Pope John Paul II
• 2000 - Juan Antonio Samaranch leaves the presidence of the International Olympic Comitee (IOC)[?], after 20 years.

Births

• 1760 - Luigi Cherubini[?], composer
• 1769 - Alexander von Humboldt, naturalist and explorer
• 1849 - Ivan Pavlov, scientist (+ 1936)
• 1867 - Charles Gibson[?], artist (+ 1944)
• 1879 - Margaret Sanger, birth control advocate (+ 1966)
• 1899 - Hal Wallis[?], film producer (+ 1986)
• 1914 - Clayton Moore[?], actor (+ 1999)
• 1921 - Ruth Brooks Flippen[?], television writer (+ 1981)
• 1923 - Bud Palmer[?], sports reporter
• 1933 - Zoe Caldwell[?], actress
• 1933 - Harve Presnell[?], actor
• 1934 - Kate Millett[?], feminist writer
• 1936 - Walter Koenig[?], actor
• 1938 - Nicol Williamson[?], actor
• 1948 - Sam Neill, actor
• 1959 - Mary Frances[?], actress
• 1971 - Kimberly Williams[?], actress
• 1973 - Nas, rap music singer

Deaths

• 258 - Cyprian, early Christian writer
• 891 - Pope Stephen V
• 1321 - Dante Aligheri[?], author
• 1638 - John Harvard, clergyman, namesake of Harvard College
• 1851 - James Fenimore Cooper, author
• 1852 - Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, British general and Prime Minister
• 1899 - Henry Bliss[?], first automobile fatality
• 1901 - United States President William McKinley
• 1927 - Isadora Duncan, dancer
• 1936 - Irving Thalberg, film producer
• 1960 - Sir Arthur Percy Morris Fleming[?], radar pioneer
• 1966 - Gertrude Berg[?], actress
• 1982 - Bashir Gemayel, President of Lebanon
• 1982 - Princess Grace of Monaco
• 1984 - Janet Gaynor, Academy Award winning actress
• 1996 - Juliet Prowse[?], actress, dancer
• 2000 - Beah Richards[?], actress

Holidays

• Eastern Orthodox Church Exaltation of the Cross, which commemorates the discovery of the (allegedly) original Christian cross in 326 by Helen, mother of Constantine.
• In ancient Greece, the first day of the Eleusinian mysteries, during which the sacred objects were brought from Eleusis to Athens.

See Also: January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December