Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/September 20
This is a list of selected September 20 anniversaries that appears on the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial, or on a day that is or soon will be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only 5–6 events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is not generally posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled September 20, 2012 featured article or the September 20, 2012 featured picture.
To report an error when this appears on the Main Page, see Main Page errors. Please remember that this list defers to the supporting articles, so it is best to achieve consensus and make any necessary changes there first.
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Bobby Riggs
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Battle of Alma
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Battle of Alma
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RMS Mauretania
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Pope Urban VI
Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
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| Prinsjesdag in Netherlands (2011); | refimprove |
| Feast Day of the Korean Martyrs (Roman Catholic Church) | needs more footnotes |
| 1378 – Papal Schism: Unhappy with Pope Urban VI, a group of cardinals started a rival papacy with the election of Antipope Clement VII, throwing the Roman Catholic Church into turmoil. | refimprove |
| 1596 – An expedition of twelve families led by Diego de Montemayor founded Monterrey in New Spain. | Tagged for cleanup |
| 1697 – The Treaty of Ryswick was signed by France, England, Spain, the Holy Roman Empire and the Dutch Republic, ending the Nine Years' War. | refimprove |
| 1973 – Billie Jean King defeated Bobby Riggs in straight sets before 30,492 spectators at the Astrodome in Houston, Texas, in an internationally televised tennis match dubbed the "The Battle of the Sexes". | Tagged with {{refimprove}} |
| 1854 – The Crimean War began with a Franco-British victory over Russian forces at the Battle of Alma near the River Alma in Crimea. | refimprove |
| 1870 – The Bersaglieri entered Rome through the Porta Pia, ending the temporal power of the Pope and completing the unification of Italy. | refimprove |
| 1906 – The ocean liner RMS Mauretania, the largest and fastest ship in the world at the time, was launched. | refimprove |
| 1979 – Jean-Bédel Bokassa, ruler of the Central African Republic, was ousted in a coup d'état backed by the French government. | refimprove |
| 2001 – During a televised address to a joint session of the United States Congress, U.S. President George W. Bush declared a "war on terror" against Al-Qaeda and other global terrorist groups. | original research |
Eligible
- 2008 – An explosive-laden truck detonated in front of the Marriott hotel in Islamabad, Pakistan, killing 54 people and injuring 266 others.
- 2009 - Tadhg Kennelly became the first person to win the top prizes in both Australian rules football and Gaelic football by winning the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final with Kerry.
- 1498 – A tsunami caused by the Meiō Nankaidō earthquake washed away the building housing the statue of the Great Buddha (pictured) at Kōtoku-in in Kamakura, Japan.
- 1848 – The American Association for the Advancement of Science, publisher of the journal Science, was founded.
- 1943 – World War II: Australian troops defeated Imperial Japanese forces at the Battle of Kaiapit in New Guinea.
- 1967 – Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard publicly announced the story of Xenu in a taped lecture sent to all Scientologists.
- 1971 – Hurricane Irene departed Nicaragua to become the first known tropical cyclone to successfully cross from the Atlantic Ocean into the Pacific.
More anniversaries: September 19 – September 20 – September 21
