Tuesday, September 20, 2011
Saturday, September 20, 2008
Thursday, September 20, 2007
American cyclist Floyd Landis is officially stripped of his win in the 2006 Tour de France and banned from competition for two years after an arbitration panel finds him guilty of doping during the 2006 Tour. He has 30 days to appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport.
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Friday, September 20, 2002
Friday, September 20, 1996
Sunday, September 20, 1992
Friday, September 20, 1991
The Order of the
Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence of
German tongue (Orden der Schwestern der Perpetuellen Indulgenz deutscher Zunge, O.S.P.I.) is founded in
Heidelberg by Erzmutter (Archmother) Johanna Indulgentia Tara Maria Benedicta O.S.P.I.
AFL Grand Final: Hawthorn Hawks defeat West Coast Eagles by 53 points at Waverley Park, the final score 20.19.139 – 13.8.86.
Armenia declares independence from the Soviet Union.
Wednesday, September 20, 1989
F. W. de Klerk is sworn in as the seventh and last State President of apartheid South Africa.
Friday, September 20, 1985
Thursday, September 20, 1984
Hezbollah car-bombs the U.S. Embassy annex in Beirut, killing 22 people.
Sunday, September 20, 1981
The Brazilian river boat "Sobral Santos" capsizes in the Amazon River, Óbidos, Brazil, killing at least 300.
Thursday, September 20, 1979
French paratroopers help David Dacko to overthrow Bokassa in the Central African Republic.
Wednesday, September 20, 1978
General Rahimuddin Khan assumes the post of Martial Law Governor of Balochistan.
PSA Flight 182, a Boeing 727, collides with a small private airplane and crashes in San Diego, California 144 are killed.
Giuseppe Verdi's opera "
Otello" makes its first appearance on
Live from the Met, in a complete production of the opera starring
Jon Vickers. This is the first complete television broadcast of the opera in the U.S. since the historic 1948 one.
Tuesday, September 20, 1977
Petrozavodsk phenomenon was observed in the Soviet Union and some northern European countries.
Monday, September 20, 1976
The Seychelles join the United Nations.
Orlando Letelier is assassinated in Washington, D.C. by agents of Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet.
Saturday, September 20, 1975
Thursday, September 20, 1973
Saturday, September 20, 1969
The very last Warner Bros. cartoon of the original theatrical Looney Tunes series is released: "Injun Trouble".
Friday, September 20, 1968
"
Hawaii 5-O" debuts on
CBS and eventually becomes the longest-running crime show in television history until "Law Order" overtakes it in 2003.
Sunday, September 20, 1964
At the autumnal equinox, the Order of Bards, Ovates and Druids (OBOD) is founded in England.
Thursday, September 20, 1951
Monday, September 20, 1948
Establishment of the city
Rabwah.
Thursday, September 20, 1945
Wednesday, September 20, 1944
Sunday, September 20, 1931
With a gun literally pointed to his head the Chinese commander of Kirin province announces the annexation of that territory to Japan.
Saturday, September 20, 1930
Monday, September 20, 1926
Twelve blue cars full of gangsters open fire at the Hawthorne Inn,
Al Capone's
Chicago headquarters. Only one of Capone's men is wounded.
Monday, September 20, 1920
The first soldier joins the Spanish Legion.
Monday, September 20, 1897
Tuesday, September 20, 1881
U.S. President Chester A. Arthur is sworn in.
Friday, September 20, 1878
"
The Hindu", an Indian newspaper, is founded.
Tuesday, September 20, 1870
With "Bersaglieri" soldiers entering Rome at Porta Pia, the unification of Italy is completed, ending the last remnant of the Papal States.
Sunday, September 20, 1857
India British forces recapture
Delhi,ref name=CBH/ compelling the surrender of
Bahadur Shah II, the last Mughal emperor.
Wednesday, September 20, 1854
Crimean War ndash Alma: The French–British alliance wins the first battle of the war.
Sunday, September 20, 1835
Monday, September 20, 1819
Tuesday, September 20, 1803
Thursday, September 20, 1792
Battle of Valmy: The French revolutionary army defeats Prussians under the Duke of Brunswick, after a 7-hour artillery duel.
Tuesday, September 20, 1746
Bonnie Prince Charlie flees to the Isle of Skye from Arisaig, after the unsuccessful Jacobite rising of 1745, marked by the Prince's Cairn on the banks of Loch nan Uamh
Friday, September 20, 1737
October ndash The first national stage in
Sweden opens when the play "Den Svenska Sprätthöken" is performed in the native language, by the first native actors, on the stage of
Bollhuset in
Stockholm.
Friday, September 20, 1697
The
Treaty of Ryswick signed by
France and the Grand Alliance to end both the
Nine Years\\\' War and
King William\\'s War. The conflict having been inconclusive, the treaty is proposed because the combatants have exhausted their national treasuries.
Louis XIV recognises
William III as King of England Scotland and both sides return territories they have taken in battle. In North America, the treaty returns Port Royal (
Nova Scotia) to
France. In practice, the treaty is little more than a truce it does not resolve any of the fundamental colonial problems and the peace lasts only five years.
The Treaty of Ryswick signed by France and the Grand Alliance to end both the Nine Years' War and King William's War. The conflict having been inconclusive, the treaty is proposed because the combatants have exhausted their national treasuries. Louis XIV recognises William III as King of England Scotland and both sides return territories they have taken in battle. In North America, the treaty returns Port Royal (Nova Scotia) to France. In practice, the treaty is little more than a truce it does not resolve any of the fundamental colonial problems and the peace lasts only five years.
Sunday, September 20, 1643
First English Civil War ndash First Battle of Newbury: Royalists withdraw to end further bloodshed.
Monday, September 20, 1604
Ostend is captured by Spanish forces under Ambrogio Spinola after a 3-year siege.
Saturday, September 20, 1603
Friday, September 20, 1596
Thursday, September 10, 1562 (Julianian calendar)
Saturday, September 10, 1519 (Julianian calendar)
Wednesday, September 11, 1437 (Julianian calendar)
Sunday, September 12, 1378 (Julianian calendar)
Unhappy with Pope Urban's critical attitude towards them, the majority of the cardinals meet at Fondi and elect Clement VII as antipope and establish a rival papal court at Avignon. This split within the Catholic Church becomes known as the Western Schism.
Wednesday, September 13, 1217 (Julianian calendar)
Sunday, September 13, 1187 (Julianian calendar)
King Jayavarman VII of Ankor Vat defeats the Cham conquerors.
October 2 ndash Siege of Jerusalem: Saladin captures Jerusalem.
Ghorin Muhammed conquers
Punjab.
Monday, September 14, 1058 (Julianian calendar)
Pope Nicholas II is elected pope in December and installed in the following year.
Agnes de Poitou and Andrew I of Hungary met to negotiate about the border-zone in present-day Burgenland.
Saturday, September 17, 634 (Julianian calendar)
The Xianbei/Tibetan state of Tuyuhun is invaded by Tang Dynasty China during Emperor Taizong's caign against Tuyuhun, led by commander Li Jing, resulting in the assassination of their leader (Busabuo Khan Murong Fuyun) in 635 and the dissolving of their state in 672.