September
14
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.
Events
81 – Domitian
becomes Emperor of the Roman Empire upon the death of his brother
Titus.
786 – "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 – Battle of Ishibashiyama in Japan.
1607 – Flight of the Earls from Lough Swilly, Donegal, Ireland.
1682 – Bishop Gore School, one of the oldest schools in Wales,
is founded.
1741 – George Frideric Handel completes his oratorio Messiah
1752 – The British Empire adopts the Gregorian calendar, skipping
eleven days (the previous day was September 2).
1808 – Finnish War: Russians defeat the Swedes in the bloody
Battle of Oravais.
1812 – Napoleonic Wars: French grenadiers enter Moscow. The
Fire of Moscow begins as soon as Russian troops leave the city.
1814 – 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 – The Ottoman Empire signs the Treaty of Adrianople with
Russia, thus ending the Russo-Turkish War.
1846 – Jang Bahadur and his brothers massacre about 40 members
of the Nepalese palace court.
1847 – Mexican-American War: Winfield Scott captures Mexico
City.
1862 – American Civil War: The Battle of South Mountain, part
of the Maryland Campaign, is fought.
1901 – President of the United States William McKinley dies
after an assassination attempt on September 6, and is succeeded
by Theodore Roosevelt.
1917 – Russia is officially proclaimed a republic.
1923 – Miguel Primo de Rivera becomes dictator of Spain.
1939 – World War II: The Estonian military boards the Polish
submarine ORP Orzeł in Tallinn, sparking a diplomatic incident
that the Soviet Union will later use to justify the annexation
of Estonia.
1944 – World War II: Maastricht becomes the first Dutch city
to be liberated by allied forces.
1954 – 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 – The first two German post-war rockets, designed by the
German engineer Ernst Mohr, reach the upper atmosphere.
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.
1960 – Congo Crisis: With CIA help, Mobutu Sese Seko seizes
power in a military coup, suspending parliament and the constitution.
1969 – The US Selective Service selects September 14 as the
First Draft Lottery Date.
1975 – The first American saint, Elizabeth Ann Seton, is canonized
by Pope Paul VI.
1979 – Afghan President Nur Muhammad Taraki is assassinated
upon the order of Hafizullah Amin, who becomes the new president.
1982 – President-elect of Lebanon, Bachir Gemayel, is assassinated.
1984 – Joe Kittinger becomes the first person to fly a gas balloon
alone across the Atlantic Ocean.
1985 – Penang Bridge, the longest bridge in Malaysia, connecting
the island of Penang to the mainland, opens to traffic.
1987 – The Toronto Blue Jays set a record for the most home
runs in a single game, hitting 10 of them.
1992 – The Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina declares
the breakaway Croatian Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia to be illegal.
1994 – The Major League Baseball season is canceled because
of a strike.
1995 – Body Worlds opens in Tokyo, Japan
1998 – Telecommunications companies MCI Communications and WorldCom
complete their $37 billion merger to form MCI WorldCom.
1999 – Kiribati, Nauru and Tonga join the United Nations.
2000 – Microsoft releases Windows Me.
2001 – 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 – In a referendum, Estonia approves joining the European
Union.
2007 – Late-2000s financial crisis: The Northern Rock bank experiences
the first bank run in the United Kingdom in 150 years.
2008 – 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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