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  • Pope Gregory XIII with the calendar that was to make his name

    Gregory Conquers Julius Caesar

    1752 Britain and the British Empire, including the American colonies, adopt the Gregorian Calendar after skipping 11 days between September 3 and September 13
  • 1922 Burning of Smyrna, the Asia Minor Catastrophe to Greeks: Ottoman army expels Greeks and other non-Turks from Asia Minor, destroying much of the port city of Smyrna (August 13 OS)
  • 1936 First prefrontal lobotomy in America performed by Walter Freeman and James W. Watts at George Washington University Hospital in Washington, D.C.
  • 1939 World's first practical helicopter, the VS-300, designed by Igor Sikorsky, takes a short tethered flight in Stratford, Connecticut [1]
  • 1949 India's Constituent Assembly adopts Hindi as an official language, celebrated today as Hindi Day
  • IBM 305 RAMAC at the U.S. Army Red River Arsenal; foreground: two 350 disk drives; background: 380 console and 305 processing unit

    IBM 305 RAMAC

    1956 IBM introduces the RAMAC 305, the first commercial computer with a hard drive featuring magnetic disk storage, which weighs over a ton
  • 1960 Iraq, Iran, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and Venezuela form the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)
  • 2020 Astronomers report a possible sign of life on Venus after detecting phosphine in the planet's atmosphere through a telescope [1]
  • 2021 One in 500 Americans has died of COVID-19 as the nation's known death toll reaches 663,913 (Johns Hopkins) [1]
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  • 1985 "The Golden Girls", starring Bea Arthur, Betty White, Rue McClanahan, and Estelle Getty, debuts on NBC
  • 1741 George Frideric Handel finishes his "Messiah" oratorio after working on it nonstop for 24 days
  • 1987 Cal Ripken Jr.'s record streak of 8,243 consecutive innings (908 games) is finally broken

Francis Scott Key pens the poem "Defence of Fort M'Henry," later known as "The Star-Spangled Banner," while witnessing the bombardment of Fort McHenry from a ship in Baltimore Harbor

September 14, 1814

  • Alexander von Humboldt

    1769 - 1859

  • Margaret Sanger

    1879 - 1966

  • Jacobo Árbenz

    1913 - 1971

  • Pope Leo XIV

    70 Years Old

  • Dmitry Medvedev

    60 Years Old

  • Ron DeSantis

    47 Years Old
More Birthdays on September 14

  • Sam Neill

    78 Years Old

  • Amy Winehouse

    1983 - 2011

Lord Kitchener: "Your Country Needs You" appears as the front cover design for London Opinion magazine

September 14, 1914

  • 1830 Princess Marianne of the Netherlands (20) marries her cousin Prince Albert of Prussia (20) (marriage dissolved 1849)
  • 1835 American leading transcendentalist Ralph Waldo Emerson (33) marries 2nd wife Lydia (Lidian) Jackson in Plymouth, Massachusetts.
  • 1838 Newly escaped slave Frederick Douglass marries free woman Anne Murray in New York
  • 1962 American actress Janet Leigh (35) divorces American actor Tony Curtis (37) after 10 years of marriage
  • 1984 Film director John Carpenter (36) and actress Adrienne Barbeau (39) divorce after 5 years of marriage
  • 2023 Rapper Jeezy files for divorce from TV personality Jeannie Mai Jenkins after two years of marriage [1]
More September 14 Weddings

  • Aaron Burr

    1756 - 1836

  • Arthur Wellesley

    1769 - 1852

  • William McKinley

    1843 - 1901

  • Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza

    1852 - 1905

  • Isadora Duncan

    1877 - 1927

  • Patrick Swayze

    1952 - 2009
More September 14 Deaths
  • Grace Kelly pictured at the height of her fame in Hollywood

    Fatal Legacy of a Beautiful Riviera

    Two famous American women – Grace Kelly and Isadora Duncan, both died after tragic motoring accidents in the same area on this day, though half a century apart. September 14, 1982
  • Rocker Kurt Cobain

    Weekly Quiz for September 9 - 15

    In 1776 US Congress officially adopted the name 'United States of America', what was the previous name? Which war saw the 1st use of tanks on the battlefield?
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  • Marcel Ravidat, second from left in beret, with his friends at the cave entrance in 1940

    Dog Unearths Cave of Antiquity

    September 12, 1940
  • The Stars and Stripes with the Star Spangled Banner words by Francis Scott Key

    Fiery Birth for Star Spangled Banner

    September 13, 1814
  • 64 years and still going strong – The Mousetrap at St Martin's Theatre in London's West End

    Agatha Christie, The World's Best-Selling Novelist

    September 15, 1890
  • Torture was the authorised method of extracting confessions during the Spanish Inquisition

    Mad Monk Burns 2,000 At The Stake

    September 16, 1498
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