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This day in history: 14 September

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474 historical events, births and deaths are listed for 14 September.
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2022: Death of Queen Elizabeth II: The Queen's coffin is taken from Buckingham Palace, placed on a gun carriage of The King's Troop Royal Horse Artillery and moved in a procession to Westminster Hall for her lying in state over the next four days

Holidays and observances

Christian feast day: Aelia Flaccilla (Eastern Orthodox Church)

Christian feast day: Albert of Vercelli

Christian feast day: Cormac mac Cuilennáin (or of Cashel)

Christian feast day: Crescentius of Rome

Christian feast day: Feast of the Cross (Christianity) Elevation of the Holy Cross (Eastern Orthodox)

Christian feast day: Gabriel-Taurin Dufresse (one of the Martyr Saints of China)

Christian feast day: Lord of Miracles of Buga

Christian feast day: Maternus of Cologne

Christian feast day: Notburga

Christian feast day: September 14 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Engineer's Day (Romania)

Hindi Day (Hindi-speaking states of India)

Events

2022Death of Queen Elizabeth II: The Queen's coffin is taken from Buckingham Palace, placed on a gun carriage of The King's Troop Royal Horse Artillery and moved in a procession to Westminster Hall for her lying in state over the next four days

2019Yemen's Houthi rebels claim responsibility for an attack on Saudi Arabian oil facilities.

2015The first observation of gravitational waves is made, announced by the LIGO and Virgo collaborations on 11 February 2016.

2008Aeroflot Flight 821, a Boeing 737-500, crashes into a section of the Trans-Siberian Railway while on approach to Perm International Airport, in Perm, Russia, killing all 88 people on board.

2007Prelude to the 2008 financial crisis: Northern Rock bank experiences the first bank run in the United Kingdom in 150 years.

2003Bissau-Guinean President Kumba Ialá is ousted from power in a bloodless military coup led by General Veríssimo Correia Seabra.

2003In a referendum, Estonia approves joining the European Union.

2002Total Linhas Aéreas Flight 5561 crashes near Paranapanema, Brazil, killing both pilots on board.

2001Historic National Prayer Service held at Washington National Cathedral for victims of the September 11 attacks. A similar service is held in Canada on Parliament Hill, the largest vigil ever held in the nation's capital.

2000Microsoft releases Windows Me.

1999Kiribati, Nauru and Tonga join the United Nations.

1998Telecommunications companies MCI Communications and WorldCom complete their $37 billion merger to form MCI WorldCom.

1997Eighty-one killed as five bogies of the Ahmedabad–Howrah Express plunge into a river in Bilaspur district of Madhya Pradesh, India.

1994The rest of the Major League Baseball season is canceled because of a strike.

1993Lufthansa Flight 2904, an Airbus A320, crashes into an embankment after overshooting the runway at Okęcie International Airport (now Warsaw Chopin Airport), killing two people.

1992The Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina declares the breakaway Croatian Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia to be illegal.

1989The Standard Gravure shooting where Joseph T. Wesbecker, a 47-year-old pressman, killed eight people and injured 12 people at his former workplace, Standard Gravure, before committing suicide.

1985Penang Bridge, the longest bridge in Malaysia, connecting the island of Penang to the mainland, opens to traffic.

1984Joe Kittinger becomes the first person to fly a gas balloon alone across the Atlantic Ocean.

1982President-elect of Lebanon Bachir Gemayel is assassinated.

1979Afghan leader Nur Muhammad Taraki is assassinated upon the order of Hafizullah Amin, who becomes the new General Secretary of the People's Democratic Party.

1975The first American saint, Elizabeth Ann Seton, is canonized by Pope Paul VI.

1960Congo Crisis: Mobutu Sese Seko seizes power in a military coup, suspending parliament and the constitution.

1960The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) is founded.

1958The first two German post-war rockets, designed by the German engineer Ernst Mohr, reach the upper atmosphere.

1954In a top secret nuclear test, a Soviet Tu-4 bomber drops a 40 kiloton atomic weapon just north of Totskoye village.

1948The Indian Army captures the city of Aurangabad as part of Operation Polo.

1944World War II: Maastricht becomes the first Dutch city to be liberated by allied forces.

1943World War II: The Wehrmacht starts a three-day retaliatory operation targeting several Greek villages in the region of Viannos, whose death toll would eventually exceed 500 persons.

1940Ip massacre: The Hungarian Army, supported by local Hungarians, kill 158 Romanian civilians in Ip, Sălaj, a village in Northern Transylvania, an act of ethnic cleansing.

1939World War II: The Estonian military boards the Polish submarine ORP Orzeł in Tallinn, sparking a diplomatic incident that the Soviet Union will later use to justify the annexation of Estonia.

1936Raoul Villain, who assassinated the French Socialist Jean Jaurès, is himself killed by Spanish Republicans in Ibiza.

1917The Russian Empire is formally replaced by the Russian Republic.

1914HMAS AE1, the Royal Australian Navy's first submarine, is lost at sea with all hands near East New Britain, Papua New Guinea.

1911Russian Premier Pyotr Stolypin is shot by Dmitry Bogrov while attending a performance of Rimsky-Korsakov's The Tale of Tsar Saltan at the Kiev Opera House, in the presence of Tsar Nicholas II.

1901U.S. president William McKinley dies after being mortally wounded on September 6 by anarchist Leon Czolgosz and is succeeded by Vice President Theodore Roosevelt.

1862American Civil War: The Battle of South Mountain, part of the Maryland Campaign, is fought.

1846Jang Bahadur and his brothers massacre about 40 members of the Nepalese palace court.

1829The Ottoman Empire signs the Treaty of Adrianople with Russia, thus ending the Russo-Turkish War.

1814Battle of Baltimore: The poem Defence of Fort McHenry is written by Francis Scott Key. The poem is later used as the lyrics of The Star-Spangled Banner.

Born on this day

2000Han, South Korean rapper

1997Benjamin Ingrosso, Swedish singer and songwriter

1997Dominic Solanke, English footballer

1996Hugh Bernard, English cricketer

1996Myles Wright, English professional footballer

1995Deshaun Watson, American football player

1995Jevon Carter, American basketball player

1994Brahim Darri, Dutch footballer

1994Daniel O'Shaughnessy, Finnish footballer

1994Gary Harris, American basketball player

1994Krasimir Stanoev, Bulgarian footballer

1993Brandon Brown, American race car driver

1992Cassie Sharpe, Canadian freestyle skier

1992Connor Fields, American cyclist

1992Zico, South Korean rapper

1991Dee Milliner, American football player

1991Nana, South Korean singer, actress and model

1991Shayne Topp, American actor and Smosh cast member

1990Belinda Hocking, Australian backstroke swimmer

1990Cecilie Pedersen, Norwegian footballer

1990Douglas Costa, Brazilian footballer

1990Petar Filipović, German-born Croatian footballer

1989Alex Killorn, Canadian ice hockey player

1989Jesse James, American actor

1989Jimmy Butler, American basketball player

1989Jonathon Simmons, American basketball player

1989Lee Jong-suk, South Korean actor and model

1989Miriam Zetter, Mexican ten-pin bowler

1989Tony Finau, American golfer

1988Diogo Salomão, Portuguese footballer

1988Martin Fourcade, French biathlete

1987Michael Crabtree, American football player

1987Tinchy Stryder, Ghanaian-English rapper and producer

1986Ai Takahashi, Japanese singer and actress

1986Alan Sheehan, Irish footballer

1986Barış Özbek, German-Turkish footballer

1986David Desharnais, Canadian ice hockey player

1986Jonathan Monaghan, American director, producer, and screenwriter

1986Reggie Williams, American basketball player

1986Steven Naismith, Scottish footballer

Died on this day

2026Bob Mackie, American fashion designer (born 1939)

2026Luděk Mikloško, Czech footballer (born 1961)

2026Peter Max, German-American artist (born 1937)

2025Jim Edgar, American politician, 38th Governor of Illinois (born 1946)

2025Ricky Hatton, British professional boxer (born 1978)

2024Jaber Mubarak Al-Sabah, Kuwaiti royal and politician, 7th Prime Minister of Kuwait (born 1942)

2024Otis Davis, American sprinter (born 1932)

2021Norm Macdonald, Canadian comedian and actor (born 1959)

2018Ethel Johnson, American professional wrestler (born 1935)

2018Zienia Merton, British actress (born 1945)

2015Corneliu Vadim Tudor, Romanian journalist and politician (born 1949)

2015Davey Browne, Australian boxer (born 1986)

2015Fred DeLuca, American businessman, co-founded Subway (born 1947)

2015Martin Kearns, English drummer (born 1977)

2014E. Jennifer Monaghan, English-American historian, author, and academic (born 1933)

2014Peter Gutteridge, New Zealand singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1961)

2014Tony Auth, American illustrator (born 1942)

2013Faith Leech, Australian swimmer (born 1941)

2013Maksym Bilyi, Ukrainian footballer (born 1989)

2013Osama El-Baz, Egyptian soldier and diplomat (born 1931)

2012Eduardo Castro Luque, Mexican businessman and politician (born 1963)

2012Jacques Antoine, French game show producer, created The Crystal Maze and Fort Boyard (born 1924)

2012Kan Yuet-keung, Hong Kong banker, lawyer, and politician (born 1913)

2012Winston Rekert, Canadian actor and director (born 1949)

2011Malcolm Wallop, American politician (born 1933)

2009Henry Gibson, American actor (born 1935)

2009Jody Powell, American diplomat, White House Press Secretary (born 1943)

2009Keith Floyd, English chef and author (born 1943)

2009Patrick Swayze, American actor, singer, and dancer (born 1952)

2008Hyman Golden, American businessman, co-founded Snapple (born 1923)

Quote of the day

“Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.”

attributed to the Buddha

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