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Francis Scott Key
Death of James Wolfe, by Benjamin West
Yitzhak Rabin, Bill Clinton, and Yasser Arafat at the signing of the Oslo Peace Accords
RAMAC
Phineas Gage
Elizabeth McCombs
John Calvin
Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
|---|---|
| 509 BC – The Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus on the Capitoline Hill, the most important temple in Ancient Rome, was dedicated. | unreferenced section |
| 533 – Belisarius and his legions defeated Gelimer and the Vandals at the Battle of Ad Decimum near Carthage, and began the "Reconquest of the West" under Eastern Roman Emperor Justinian I. | needs more footnotes |
| 1229 – Ögedei Khan, the third son of Genghis Khan, was proclaimed Khagan of the Mongol Empire. | unreferenced section |
| 1437 – A Portuguese expeditionary force led by Henry the Navigator began an ultimately unsuccessful siege of Tangiers. | unreferenced section |
| 1808 – Finnish War: Swedish forces under Lieutenant General Georg Carl von Döbeln defeated the Russians at the Battle of Jutas. | Georg: refimprove; Jutas: stub |
| 1847 – Mexican–American War: Six teenagers known as Los Niños Héroes fought to their death defending the military academy at Castillo de Chapultepec in Mexico City during the Battle of Chapultepec. | unreferenced section |
| 1882 – The British Army overwhelmingly defeated the forces of the Ahmed ‘Urabi to end the Anglo-Egyptian War. | refimprove section |
| 1956 – IBM unveiled the 305 RAMAC (Random Access Method of Accounting and Control), the first commercial computer that used magnetic disk storage. | refimprove section |
| 1971 – Following a failed coup attempt, Mao Zedong's second-in-command Lin Biao died in a plane crash while attempting to flee the People's Republic of China. | single source section |
| 1987 – A radioactive item was scavenged from an abandoned hospital in Goiânia, Brazil, leading to the deaths of four and serious contamination in 249 others. | refimprove section |
| 1993 – After rounds of secret negotiations in Norway, PLO leader Yasser Arafat and Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin formally signed the Oslo Peace Accords. | refimprove section |
| 2006 – Kimveer Gill shot 19 people for unknown reasons, killing one, at Dawson College in Montreal. | refimprove section |
Eligible
- 1541 – After three years of exile, John Calvin returned to Geneva to reform the church under a body of doctrine that came to be known as Calvinism.
- 1759 – Seven Years' War: British forces defeated the French at the Battle of the Plains of Abraham near Quebec City, New France, though General James Wolfe was mortally wounded.
- 1848 – An explosion drove an iron rod through the head of railroad foreman Phineas Gage, making him an important early case of personality change after brain injury.
- 1964 – South Vietnamese Generals Lâm Văn Phát and Dương Văn Đức staged a coup attempt after junta leader Nguyễn Khánh demoted them.
- 1988 – Hurricane Gilbert reached a minimum pressure of 888 mb (26.22 inHg) with sustained flight-level winds of 185 mph (295 km/h), making it the most intense Atlantic hurricane on record at the time.
- 2007 – The United Nations General Assembly adopted the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, setting out the individual and collective rights of indigenous peoples, as well as their rights to culture, identity, language, employment, health, education and other issues.
- 2008 – Five bomb blasts took place within a span of a few minutes in Delhi, India, in a terrorist attack in a series committed by the Indian Mujahideen.
- Born/died this day: Michel de Montaigne (d. 1592) · Hezqeyas (d. 1813) · Petros Voulgaris (b. 1883) · Marguerite LeHand (b. 1896) · Lili Elbe (d. 1931) · Mary Brewster Hazelton (d. 1953)
Notes
- Hurricane Iniki appears on September 11, so Hurricane Gilbert should not appear in the same year
- Battle of North Point appears on September 12, so Battle of Baltimore/Francis Scott Key should not appear in the same year
September 13: Mid-Autumn Festival (traditional Chinese, 2019); Feast day of Saint John Chrysostom (Western Christianity); Friday the 13th
Mount Kenya
- 1814 – War of 1812: Fort McHenry in Baltimore's Inner Harbor was attacked by British forces during the Battle of Baltimore, inspiring Francis Scott Key to write "Defence of Fort McHenry", which was later used as the lyrics to the United States' national anthem.
- 1899 – An expedition led by Halford Mackinder made the first ascent of Mount Kenya (pictured), the second-highest mountain in Africa.
- 1959 – Soviet spacecraft Luna 2 impacted the Moon, becoming the first spacecraft to reach another celestial body.
- 1985 – Super Mario Bros., one of the best-selling and most influential video games of all time, was first released for the Nintendo Entertainment System in Japan.
Kavad I (d. 531) · Clara Schumann (b. 1819) · Fiona Apple (b. 1977)
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