Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/September 20
This is a list of selected September 20 anniversaries that appear in 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 will soon 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 four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article, featured list or picture of the day.
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Images
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Bobby Riggs
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Battle of Alma
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Battle of Alma
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Satellite image of Hurricane Irene–Olivia
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Pope Urban VI
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RMS Mauretania
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Great Buddha, Kamakura, Japan
Ineligible
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Prinsjesdag in the Netherlands (2011); | refimprove |
Feast day of the Korean Martyrs (Roman Catholic Church) | multiple issues |
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. | unreferenced section |
1596 – An expedition of twelve families led by Diego de Montemayor founded Monterrey in New Spain. | Texpansion |
1848 – The American Association for the Advancement of Science, publisher of the journal Science, was founded. | refimprove section, external links |
1854 – The Crimean War began with a Franco-British victory over Russian forces at the Battle of the 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 section |
1946 – The first Cannes Film Festival was held in Cannes, France, after a seven-year delay due to World War II. | refimprove section |
1979 – Jean-Bédel Bokassa, ruler of the Central African Republic, was ousted in a coup d'état backed by the French government. | refimprove section, unreferenced section |
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. | multiple issues |
Eligible
- 1066 – King Harald III of Norway and Tostig Godwinson, his English ally, fought and defeated the Northern Earls Edwin and Morcar in the Battle of Fulford near York, England.
- 1498 – A tsunami caused by the Nankai earthquake washed away the building housing the statue of the Great Buddha at Kōtoku-in in Kamakura, Japan.
- 1643 – The First Battle of Newbury, one of the most crucial battles of the First English Civil War, was fought in Berkshire, with the Parliamentarians able to pass the Royalist force to successfully retreat to London.
- 1792 – The French Army achieved its first major victory in the War of the First Coalition at the Battle of Valmy.
- 1906 – The ocean liner RMS Mauretania, the largest and fastest ship in the world at the time, was launched.
- 1943 – World War II: Australian troops defeated Imperial Japanese forces at the Battle of Kaiapit in New Guinea.
- 1967 – Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard announced the story of Xenu in a taped lecture sent to all Scientologists.
- 1971 – Hurricane Irene moved west from Nicaragua, and crossed from the Atlantic Ocean into the Pacific, the first actively tracked tropical cyclone to do so.
- 1977 – A series of celestial phenomena of unknown nature was observed in the western Soviet Union, Finland and Denmark.
- 1984 – The Cosby Show, which became one of three U.S. television shows to have the highest ratings five years in a row, premiered with its pilot episode.
- 2008 – An explosive-laden truck detonated in front of the Marriott hotel in Islamabad, Pakistan, killing 54 people and injuring 266 others.
- 2011 – The United States ended its "don't ask, don't tell" policy, allowing gays and lesbians to openly serve in the military.
- Born/died this day: Herbert Putnam (b. 1861) · John Patteson (d. 1871) · Éva Gauthier (b. 1885) · Edith Rogers (b. 1894) · Rose Francine Rogombé (b. 1942)
Notes
- Harald III is featured on September 25, so Battle of Fulford should not appear in the same year.
- 1260 – The second of two major uprisings by the Old Prussians, a Baltic tribe, began against the Teutonic Knights.
- 1697 – The first of a series of treaties comprising the Peace of Ryswick was signed between France and the Grand Alliance, ending the Nine Years' War.
- 1944 – Second World War: Allied forces captured San Marino from the German Army.
- 1973 – Billie Jean King defeated Bobby Riggs (both pictured) in straight sets at the Astrodome in Houston, Texas, in an internationally televised tennis match dubbed the "Battle of the Sexes".
- 2000 – The Real Irish Republican Army carried out a rocket launcher attack on the headquarters of MI6 in Vauxhall, London, but the building suffered little damage and there were no casualties.
Maurice Benyovszky (b. 1746) · Jacob Grimm (d. 1863) · Tereska Torrès (d. 2012)