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- 0451 The Battle of Chalons, in North Eastern France. Flavius Aetius' victory over Attila the Hun in a day of combat, considered and believed to be the largest battle in the ancient world.
- 1519 Magellan starts first successful circumnavigation of the world
- 1565 Spaniards capture Fort Caroline Fla and massacre the French
- 1664 Maryland enacts first anti-amaglmation law to prevent widespread intermarriage of English women and black men
- 1777 Paoli massacre
- 1792 French defeat Prussians at Valmy
- 1797 US frigate Constitution (Old Ironsides) launched in Boston
- 1830 First National Black convention meets (Phila)
- 1848 The American Association for the Advancement of Science was created.
- 1850 Slave trade abolished in DC, but slavery allowed to continue
- 1854 British and French defeat Russians at Alma, in the Crimea
- 1859 Patent granted on the electric range
- 1860 First British royalty to visit US, Prince of Wales (King Edward VII)
- 1863 Civil War Battle of Chickamauga, near Chattanooga, Tenn, ends
- 1873 Panic sweeps NY Stock Exchange (railroad bond default/bank failure)
- 1877 Chase National Bank opens in NYC (later merges into Chase Manhattan)
- 1879 U. Grant comes to SF for elaborate extended visit
- 1881 Chester A Arthur sworn in as president
- 1884 6.2 mile Arlberg railroad tunnel completed in Austria
- 1884 Equal Rights Party nominates female candidates for Pres & VP
- 1899 In the Menderes Valley Turkey a 6.9 earthquake caused severe damage to buildings, bridges and railroad and telegraph lines in the Aydin-Denizli area.
- 1912 Official approval given for the establishment of a military Central Flying School
- 1943 HMCS ST CROIX (RCN),sunk by a new acoustic torpedoSE of Greenland by 2 torpedoes from German U.305.
- 1943 Rome is occupied by the Germans. The German Army now controls most of Italy.
- 1944 Death in action, while filming American troops on Peleliu, of Australian cameraman Damien Parer Parer made what has been considered Australia's most famous war film – Kokoda Front Line The film won an Academy Award and gave international exposure to the experiences of Australian soldiers in 1942 on the Kokoda Track
- 1951 First North Pole jet crossing
- 1954 First National People's Congress adopts Chinese constitution
- 1954 Roger Bannister awarded Britain's Silver Pears Trophy
- 1954 The first FORTRAN computer program run
- 1962 James Meredith is blocked from entering Miss U as its first black
- 1962 Visitor posting - Anne Christine Nee(Brosnan) McCargar born - USA
- 1964 Paramount theater (NYC) presented the Beatles and Steve and Eydie
- 1966 US Surveyor B launched toward Moon; crashed Sept 23
- 1967 Hurricane Beulah hits Texas-Mexican border, kills 38
- 1968 Mickey Mantle hits final career homer # 536
- 1969 Number one hit on UK music charts - Creedence Clearwater Revival - Bad Moon Rising
- 1970 Luna 16 lands on Moon's Mare Fecunditatis, drills core sample
- 1972 Police find cannabis growing on Paul and Linda McCartney's farm
- 1973 Billy Jean King beats Bobby Riggs in battle-of-sexes tennis match
- 1973 Jim Croce dies in a plane crash in Louisana.
- 1976 Playboy releases Jimmy Carter's interview that he lusts for women
- 1976 Sid Berstein offers $230 million charity concert for Beatle reunion
- 1977 Voyager 2 launched for fly-by of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune
- 1979 Visitor posting - Birth of Jennifer Michaela Stevens - USA
- 1979 Bloodless coup in Central African Rep overthrows Emperor Bokassa I
- 1980 Visitor posting - Melissa Lee Tuck was born in St. Josephs Medical Center in Tacoma, Wa - USA
- 1984 Visitor posting - The Cosby Show premiers and I am born. - USA
- 1984 Suicide car bomb attacks US Embassy annex in Beirut
- 1985 Curtis Strong is convicted for selling cocaine to pro baseball players
- 1985 Walt Disney World's 200-millionth guest
- 1990 Both Germanys ratify reunification
- 1990 Saddam Hussein demands US networks broadcast his message
- 1991 Visitor posting - Shailesh Hatte (B.Tech.) - India [email protected]
- 1991 Visitor posting - Shailesh Hatte (B.Tech.) Birthday - India
- 1997 RaiLink Southern Ontario takes over the operation of the former CN Hagersville subdivision between Nanticoke and Brantford including the Burford Spur. On December 15 the company took over the former CN Northern and Northwestern Spur.
- 1999 In Taiwan a 7.7 quake resulted in at least 2,297 people killed, 8,700 injured, 600,000 people left homeless and about 82,000 housing units damaged by the earthquake and larger aftershocks
- 2000 Terrorists launch a small missile at Britain's MI6 intelligence headquarters in London.
- 2007 Bear Stearns reports a 68% drop in quarterly income
- 2008 Visitor posting - Birth of Lucas Main
- 2009 Important Islamic date - Eid ul-Fitr: September 20, 2009
- 2010 Magna E-Car Systems announced today the grand opening of its latest facility, a new hybrid- and electric-vehicle system development center and state-of-the-art battery/materials testing facility in Auburn Hills, Michigan - USA
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