September 14

Learn the most interesting events and historical facts that happened throughout history on September 14. From 1900 until now. September 14 is under the sign of Virgo. Famous birthdays on this day include Amy Winehouse (1983), Nas (rapper) (1973) and Hicham El Guerrouj (1974). Several movies were released around September 14 over the years, such as Ghost in the Shell in 1995 directed by Mamoru Oshii and Remember the Titans in 2000 directed by Boaz Yakin.
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Holidays

Eastern Orthodox Church - Exaltation of the Cross, which commemorates the discovery of the (allegedly) original Christian cross in 326 by Helena, mother of Constantine, as well as the recovery from the Persians by Heraclius in 628.
Formerly, in the Roman Catholic and Anglican churches, 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 Church - Triumph of the Cross (compare May 3, Finding of the Holy Cross).
In ancient Greece, the first day of the Eleusinian Mysteries, during which the sacred objects were brought from Eleusis to Athens.

Events

2018 Syrian Civil War: Residents in Idlib, the last Syrian opposition-held territory, demonstrate against President Bashar Assad's government. (ABC News)
2017 Iraqi Civil War: 2017 Nasiriyah attacks: Several members of ISIL stage multiple attacks on the outskirts of Nasiriyah in the southern Dhi Qar Governorate, killing at least 50 people and injuring 87 others. (BBC) (RT)
2016 2016 Davao City bombing: The death toll of the September 2 bombing rises to 15. (CNN)
2015 Five Saudi troops are killed following clashes with Houthi militants in the southern Najran region near the border with Yemen. (AFP via Yahoo!)
2014 Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant:: Australia sends combat aircraft and special forces to the Middle East to help in the fight against Islamic State. (The Australian)
2013 Syrian civil war:: The United States and Russia reach a deal on Syrian chemical weapons. (Washington Times)
2012 2012 Anti-Islam film protests:
2011 Taliban attack on Kabul:
2010 Three Colombian police officers were killed Monday during a suspected guerrilla attack near the Venezuelan border. (PLA)
2009 American actor Patrick Swayze (Dirty Dancing, Ghost) dies after a long battle with pancreatic cancer at age 57.
2008 (to September 16) The Ira & Larry Goldberg Coins & Collectibles Pre-Long Beach auction is held.
2007 The SELENE spacecraft launches. JAXA has called the mission, quotthe largest lunar mission since the Apollo program.quot
2006 U.S. Senate committee approves a bill to give more rights to "terrorism" detainees. The White House and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) agree that signing the bill into law would end a classified CIA interrogation program, which a recent Supreme Court ruling leaves on tenuous ground. (Chicago Sun-Times) (Wash. Times)
2005 The President of Pakistan, Pervez Musharraf, shakes hands with the Prime Minister of Israel, Ariel Sharon, the first time such an encounter has been made in public. (BBC)
2004 The China Times reports that the People's Republic of China has deployed heavily armed troops to guard the Three Gorges Dam from a possible terrorist attack. (BBC)
2003 Top American commander in Iraq Lieutenant General Ricardo Sanchez authorizes a wide range of new interrogation procedures, including deliberate humiliation, exploiting fear of dogs, sensory deprivation, sensory overload, and stress positions.
2002 Tim Montgomery of the United States broke the world record in the 100 meter dash at the IAAF Grand Prix Final, running 9.78 seconds to beat the former record of 9.79 set by Maurice Greene of the United States in 1999.
2001 US President George W Bush stands with firefighters and rescue workers at Ground Zero in New York.
2000 A tugboat puts a 4-foot gash in US Navy ship USS Detroit, spilling 113,000 litres of oil across Sandy Hook Bay, New Jersey, USA.
1999 Kiribati, Nauru, and Tonga join the United Nations.
1998 At the end of the day's stock market trading Microsoft stands as America's most valuable company, at US$261.1 billion. Microsoft and General Electric were both valued at over US$300 billion in July, but Microsoft survived a stock market plunge better, putting it on top.
1997 49th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards
1996 New York Met Todd Huntley sets record of 41 HRs by a catcher
1995 Body Worlds opens in Tokyo, Japan
1994 All 28 baseball owners vote to cancel rest of 1994 season
1992 1st subway car completed to be exported from US (to Taiwan)
1991 386 yards and scored 7 touchdowns as the Aztecs beat Pacific 55-34
1990 Ken Griffey, Sr and Jr, hit back-to-back HRs in 1st inning
1989 Calgary Flames become 1st NHL team to play in the USSR, win 4-2
1987 Les Miserables, opens at Rock Theatre, Vigzinhaz Budapest
1986 Bomb attack in Paris, 2 killed
1985 Susan Akin (Miss), 21, crowned 59th Miss America 1986
1984 1st MTV awards-Bette Midler and Dan Aykroyd host
1983 US House of Representatives votes, 416 to 0, in favor of a resolution condemning Russia for shooting down a Korean jetliner
1982 36 snow (Red Lodge, MT)
1981 Entertainment Tonight premieres on TV
1980 Charlie & Algernon opens at Helen Hayes Theater NYC for 17 performances
1978 Portugal government of Da Costa falls
1977 Christmas Tinto sentenced to 7 years in Robbeneiland South Africa
1975 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Southgate Golf Open
1974 Charles Kowal discovers Leda, 13th satellite of Jupiter.
1973 Israel shoots down 13 Syrian MIG-21s
1972 Waltons TV program premieres
1971 Cleveland Indians and Washingston Senators, play 20 innings
1970 Stevie Miracle marries Rita Wright, [Syreeta]
1969 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Wendell-West Golf Open
1968 1st broadcast of 60 Minutes on CBS-TV
1967 Melville Abrams Ball Field in Bronx named
1965 F-Troop premieres
1964 WCVE TV channel 23 in Richmond, VA (PBS) begins broadcasting
1963 Mary Ann Fischer, in Aberdeen, South Dakota, gives birth to America's first surviving quintuplets, four girls and a boy.
1961 Dmitri Shostakovitch becomes member of CP of the USSR
1960 Iraq, Iran, Kuwait, Saudi-Arabia and Venezuela form OPEC
1959 WQEX TV channel 16 in Pittsburgh, PA (PBS) begins broadcasting
1958 Jackie Pung wins LPGA Jackson Golf Open
1957 ''Have Gun, Will Travel'' premieres on CBS.
1956 First prefrontal lobotomy performed, Washington DC.
1955 Herb Score sets rookie record of 235 strikeouts (en route 245)
1954 Hurricane Edna (second of 1954) hits New York City, causing US$50 million damage.
1953 Comedians Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara marry
1950 Western allies rearm West Germany
1948 Ground breaking ceremony for UN world headquarters
1947 61st US Womens Tennis: A Louise Brough beats M O duPont (86 46 61)
1944 6,500 Dutch / Indonesian captives sent to Junyo Maru
1943 Comedians Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara marries
1942 German troops occupy train station Stalingrad-1
1941 The State of Vermont quotdeclares warquot on Germany, by defining the United States to be in quotarmed conflictquot in order to extend a wartime bonus to Vermonters in the service. Boston.com
1940 German bomb hits shelter in Chelsea; 100s die
1939 British fleet attacks German U-39 boat
1933 Schaduwproces-Rijksdagbrand opens in London
1932 Military coup in Chile under Arturo Alessandri
1930 Detroit Lions (as Portsmouth Spartans) play 1st NFL game, win 13-6
1929 49th US Mens Tennis: Bill Tilden beats Francis Hunter (36 63 46 62 64)
1927 An underwater earthquake in Japan kills over 100 people.
1926 Guido Companions birthplace as a museum opens
1924 Walter Johnson elected AL MVP
1923 Jack Dempsey KOs Luis Firpo in 2 for heavyweight boxing title
1917 Kerenski regime declares Russian Republic
1916 Christy Mathewson pitches and wins his final game.
1914 German staff-chief von Moltke replaces von Falkenhayn
1913 27th US Womens Tennis: Mary K Browne beats Dorothy Green (62 75)
1905 Albert Cuypstrat street market in Amsterdam inaugurated
1903 New York Giants Red Ames no-hits Saint Louis, 5-0 in a five inning game.
1901 US President William McKinley dies in Buffalo, New York, of gunshot wounds inflicted by an assassin eight days earlier.
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Famous Birthday

Amy Winehouse: British singer and songwriter, a...
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Hicham El Guerrouj: Moroccan athlete.
Morten Harket: Norwegian musician, best known as lead...
Dmitry Medvedev: Russian lawyer and politician 3rd...
Andrew Lincoln: British actor.
Sam Neill: North Ireland -- Actor (Jurassic Park,...
Ingo Swann: American artist and psychic, an...
Fernanda Vasconcellos
François Asselineau
Sean Preston Federline
Ayo (singer)
Tiziano Terzani: Italian writer, a journalist and...
Logan Henderson: American actor and musician (Big Time...
Michelle Stafford: American actress.
Mary Crosby: American actress and noted family, the...
Zoe Caldwell: Australia -- Actress (Prime of Miss Jean...
Ashley Roberts: American singer, dancer & actress...
Zico (rapper)
Gérard Larcher: French politician who has been President...
Costas Karamanlis: Greek politician, the leader of the...
Michelle Jenner
Lee Jong-suk: TV Actor.
Adam Lamberg: American actor.
Ashlyn Gere
Martin Fourcade: French biathlete, cross-country skier,...
Philippe Val: French journalist, singer, and comedian.
Carmen Kass: Estonian model and actress.
Michel Auclair: German actor of stage and film, making...
Renzo Piano: Italian Pritzker Prize-winning...
Aïda Touihri
Jean Lescure: French poet, translator and editor.
Lionel Nallet
Kate Millett: American writer and artist, radical...
Dan Cortese: American actor.
Jessica Brown Findlay
Martina Gedeck: Martina Gedeck is a German actress.
Aya Ueto: Japanese actress and singer (Z-1).
Pete Agnew
Michel Butor: French writer.
Kevin Lyttle
Mario Conde: Spanish lawyer and financier known as...
John Power: Irish baronet / whiskey manufacturer,...
Didier Geslain: French astrologer and data collector,...
Alain Juillet
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Jonathan Dassin
Laurent Fournier
Robert Florey
Nicol Williamson: Scottish actor, a brilliant performer on...
Olivier Bouygues
Melissa Leo: American actress and producer.
Faith Ford: Louisiana, United States -- Actress...
John Gilbert (broadcaster)
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Harve Presnell: American actor and singer with a rich...
Anthony Addabbo: Actor (Jason-Generations).
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Tony Becker: American actor.
Nana (singer)
Robert Solé
Yiannis Latsis: Greek shipping tycoon (Born 1910).
Miyavi : Japanese musician.
Kimberly Williams-Paisley: American actress director and producer.
Jean-Pierre Soulier: French physician, a hematologist who...
Jack Hawkins (actor)
Benoît Rivière: French Catholic clergyman, the Bishop of...
Silvia Navarro: Mexican actress.
Lucien Raimbourg: France Actor.
Pete Chilcutt: American basketball player: forward,...
Albert Palle: French writer, and winner of the 1959...
Marcel Niedergang: Evian Journalist.
Ben Cohen: British sportsman, an England rugby...
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Luis Horna
Steve Gaines: American musician.
Gabrielle Richens
Pietro Germi: Italian actor and director.
Alberto Korda: Cuban photographer (d. 2001).
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Paul Kossoff: English guitarist and songwriter (Free...
Agustin Calleri: Argentine tennis player.
Yves Peyraut
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Callum Keith Rennie: Canadian actor.
Dick Dale (singer)
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Corey Holcomb: Comedian.
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Christian Ferras: French violinist / conductor.
Juliet Prowse: Bombay, India -- Actress / dancer (Who...
Janet Gaynor: American actress who made 34 films from...
Vladimir Volkoff: French writer , philosopher and...
Julie Bovasso: Brooklyn, New York -- Actress (Willie &...
Beah Richards: American actress and playwright (d....
Charles Crichton: English director producer and...
Nikolai Cherkasov: Actor (Ivan the Terrible), dies at 63.
Mohammed Abdul Hakim Amer: Egyptian vice-PM, commits suicide at 47.
Rudolph Carnap: German philosopher / mathematician, dies...
Kornelis Posthumus: Chemist, dies at 70.
Barbara Jo Allen: Actress (Girl Rush, Melody Ranch), dies...
Pieter Y Adriani: Dutch tax lawyer, dies at 95.
Vera Vague [Barbara Jo Allen]: Actress (Follow the Leader), dies at 70.
Raymond Loucheur: Composer, dies at 80.
[Walter] Furry Lewis: Father of blues, dies at 88 of a heart...
Yasuji Kiyose: Composer, dies at 81.
John C Gardner: United States -- Writer (Life & Times of...
Louis Quinn: Actor (Unholy Rollers), dies at 73 of...
Ted Weiss: (Rep-NY, 1977-92), dies at 64.
David van Cup: Sculptor / painter, dies at 57.
Eiji Okada: Actor (Traffic Jam, Yakuza, Ugly...
Clive Beadon: Airman, dies at 77.
Joe Elsby Martin: Boxing coach, dies at 80.
JW Hearne: English cricketer (Born 1891).
President of the United States William McKinley dies after an assassination attempt on September 6: and is succeeded by Theodore Roosevelt.
Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza: Franco-Italian explorer (Born 1852).
Jose Echegaray y Eizaguirre: Spanish writer, Nobel Prize laureate...
ES Gosney: American eugenicist (Born 1855).
M Karagatsis: Greek author (Born 1908).
Damaso Perez Prado: Cuban musician (Born 1916).
William Loeb III: American newspaper publisher (Born...
Paul Joseph James Martin: Canadian politician (Born 1903).
Marika Krevata: Greek actress (Born 1910).
Maurice K Goddard: American state government official (Born...
Rose Ouellette: Canadian actress and comedian (Born...
Frances Newton: American convicted killer (Born 1965).
Esme Melville: Australian actress (Born 1918).
Stefan Iordache: Romanian actor (Born 1941).
Jody Powell: American press secretary to Jimmy Carter...
Fritz Busch: German musician, a violinist, pianist...
David Jones: American florist, garden designer and...
Jacques Martin: French television host and producer...
Tomas Masaryk: Czechoslovak politician, sociologist and...
Warren Hull: Gasport, New York -- Actor (Strike it...
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Wayne Morris: Actor (Kid Galahad), dies of heart...
Walter Herbert: German-born conductor and impresario (d....
Furry Lewis: American singer-songwriter and guitarist...
Darren Sutherland: Irish boxer (Born 1982).
Garrett Hardin: American ecologist author and academic...
Robert Savoie: Canadian operatic baritone (Born 1927).
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Jerzy Giedroyc: Polish writer and activist (Born 1906).
Norman Brooks: Canadian singer and actor (d. 2006).
Stelios Kazantzidis: Greek singer and guitarist (d. 2001).
Giannos Kranidiotis: Greek politician and diplomat (d. 1999).
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William Berenberg: American physician and academic (d....
Russell Lynes: American art historian, photographer,...
Keith Floyd: English chef and author (d. 2009).
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Josiah Royce: US philosopher (Conception of...
Reinhold Finsterbusch: Composer, dies at 76.
Pietro / Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza: 1st French Congo gov (1890-98), die.
Johan LE Dreyer: Danish astronomer (Catalog of Nebulae),...
Jean Emile Paul Cras: Composer, dies at 53.
Ossip Gabrilovich: Composer, dies at 58.
F C Weiskopf: Writer.
Marcel Delannoy: Composer, dies at 64.
Mary Howe: Composer, dies at 82.
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