What happened on September 14? There are more than 329 events that were made this day in history. Here are the important historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
Interesting Facts & Myths About September 14
September 14 is the 258th day of the year 2024. There are 108 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday. This day falls under the 37th week of the year 2024.
On this day in London, Kentucky 40743 sunrise occured at 07:16 AM and sunset occured at 07:46 PM (local time).
The zodiac sign of a person born on this day is Virgo. The modern birthstone for this month is Sapphire while the mystical birthstone is Agate.
According to the Chinese calendar, there are 137 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year (January 29, 2025).
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Historical Events For September 14
- 81Domitian becomes Emperor of the Roman Empire upon the death of his brother Titus.
- 786“Night of the three Caliphs”: Harun al-Rashid becomes the Abbasid caliph upon the death of his brother al-Hadi. Birth of Harun’s son al-Ma'mun.
- 1180Battle of Ishibashiyama in Japan.
- 1607Flight of the Earls from Lough Swilly, Donegal, Ireland.
- 1682Bishop Gore School, one of the oldest schools in Wales, is founded.
- 1741George Frideric Handel completes his oratorio Messiah
- 1752The British Empire adopts the Gregorian calendar, skipping eleven days (the previous day was September 2).
- 1808Finnish War: Russians defeat the Swedes in the bloody Battle of Oravais.
- 1812Napoleonic Wars: French grenadiers enter Moscow. The Fire of Moscow begins as soon as Russian troops leave the city.
- 1814The poem Defence of Fort McHenry is written by Francis Scott Key. The poem is later used as the lyrics of The Star-Spangled Banner.
- 1829The Ottoman Empire signs the Treaty of Adrianople with Russia, thus ending the Russo-Turkish War.
- 1846Jang Bahadur and his brothers massacre about 40 members of the Nepalese palace court.
- 1847Mexican-American War: Winfield Scott captures Mexico City.
- 1862American Civil War: The Battle of South Mountain, part of the Maryland Campaign, is fought.
- 1901President of the United States William McKinley dies after an assassination attempt on September 6, and is succeeded by Theodore Roosevelt.
- 1917Russia is officially proclaimed a republic.
- 1923Miguel Primo de Rivera becomes dictator of Spain.
- 1939World War II: The Estonian military boards the Polish submarine ship ORP in Tallinn, sparking a diplomatic incident that the Soviet Union will later use to justify the annexation of Estonia.
- 1944World War II: Maastricht becomes the first Dutch city to be liberated by allied forces.
- 1954In a top secret nuclear test, a Soviet Tu-4 bomber drops a 40 kiloton atomic weapon just north of Totskoye village, exposing some 45,000 soldiers and 10,000 civilians to nuclear fallout.
- 1958The first two German post-war rockets, designed by the German engineer Ernst Mohr, reach the upper atmosphere.
- 1959The Soviet probe Luna 2 crashes onto the Moon, becoming the first man-made object to reach it.
- 1960Congo Crisis: With CIA help, Mobutu Sese Seko seizes power in a military coup, suspending parliament and the constitution.
- 1960The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) is founded.
- 1969The US Selective Service selects September 14 as the First Draft Lottery Date.
- 1975The first American saint, Elizabeth Ann Seton, is canonized by Pope Paul VI.
- 1979Afghan President Nur Muhammad Taraki is assassinated upon the order of Hafizullah Amin, who becomes the new president.
- 1982President-elect of Lebanon, Bachir Gemayel, is assassinated.
- 1984Joe Kittinger becomes the first person to fly a gas balloon alone across the Atlantic Ocean.
- 1985Penang Bridge, the longest bridge in Malaysia, connecting the island of Penang to the mainland, opens to traffic.
- 1987The Toronto Blue Jays set a record for the most home runs in a single game, hitting 10 of them.
- 1992The Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina declares the breakaway Croatian Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia to be illegal.
- 1994The Major League Baseball season is canceled because of a strike.
- 1995Body Worlds opens in Tokyo, Japan
- 1998Telecommunications companies MCI Communications and WorldCom complete their $37 billion merger to form MCI WorldCom.
- 1999Kiribati, Nauru and Tonga join the United Nations.
- 2000Microsoft releases Windows Me.
- 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.
- 2003In a referendum, Estonia approves joining the European Union.
- 2007Late-2000s financial crisis: The Northern Rock bank experiences the first bank run in the United Kingdom in 150 years.
- 2008All 88 people on board Aeroflot Flight 821 are killed when the plane crashes on approach to Perm Airport.
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Who Were Born On September 14?
- 1384Ephraim of Nea Makri, Greek Orthodox saint (d. 1426)
- 1388Claudius Clavus, Danish geographer (d. 15th c.)
- 1486Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa, German alchemist (d. 1535)
- 1543Claudio Aquaviva, Italian Jesuit (d. 1615)
- 1547Johan van Oldenbarnevelt, Dutch statesman (d. 1619)
- 1580Francisco de Quevedo, Spanish writer (d. 1645)
- 1656Thomas Baker, British antiquarian (d. 1746)
- 1713Johann Kies, German mathematician (d. 1781)
- 1721Eliphalet Dyer, American statesman and judge (d. 1807)
- 1737Michael Haydn, Austrian composer (d. 1806)
- 1760Luigi Cherubini, Italian composer (d. 1842)
- 1769Alexander von Humboldt, German naturalist and explorer (d. 1859)
- 1774Lord William Bentinck, British soldier, Governor General of India (d. 1839)
- 1791Franz Bopp, German linguist (d. 1867)
- 1804John Gould, British ornithologist (d. 1881)
- 1804Louis Desiré Maigret, French Catholic prelate (d. 1882)
- 1837Nikolai Bugaev, Russian mathematician (d. 1903)
- 1847Fanny Holland, English singer and comic actress (d. 1931)
- 1850Anton Mahnič, Slovenian Roman Catholic bishop, author and theologian (d. 1920)
- 1860Hamlin Garland, American writer (d. 1940)
- 1864Robert Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, British diplomat, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1958)
- 1867Charles Dana Gibson, American artist (d. 1944)
- 1868Théodore Botrel, was a French singer-songwriter, poet and playwright(d. 1925)
- 1869Kid Nichols, American baseball player (d. 1953)
- 1872John Olof Dahlgren, American recipient of the Medal of Honor (d. 1963)
- 1878Ion Dragoumis, Greek diplomat, writer and revolutionary (d. 1920)
- 1879Margaret Sanger, American birth control advocate (d. 1966)
- 1880Archie Hahn, American athlete (d. 1955)
- 1880Metropolitan Benjamin (Fedchenkov), Orthodox missionary and writer (d. 1961)
- 1885Vittorio Gui, Italian conductor (d. 1975)
- 1886Jan Masaryk, Czech foreign minister and diplomat (d. 1948)
- 1887Paul Kochanski, Polish violinist (d. 1934)
- 1889María Capovilla, previous oldest living person (d. 2006)
- 1891Ivan Matveyevich Vinogradov, Russian mathematician (d. 1983)
- 1898Ernest Nash, German-born archaeologist (d. 1974)
- 1898Hal B. Wallis, American film producer (d. 1986)
- 1898Lawrence Gellert, American ethnomusicologist (disappeared 1979)
- 1902Alice Tully, American music promoter and philanthropist (d. 1993)
- 1902Giorgos Papasideris Greek musician (d. 1977)
- 1909Peter Scott, British naturalist and explorer (d. 1989)
- 1909Stuff Smith, American jazz violinist (d. 1967)
- 1910Jack Hawkins, British actor (d. 1973)
- 1910Lehman Engel, American composer and conductor (d. 1982)
- 1910Rolf Liebermann, Swiss composer (d. 1999)
- 1910Yiannis Latsis, Greek shipping tycoon (d. 2003)
- 1913Annalisa Ericson, Swedish actress (d. 2011)
- 1913Jacobo Arbenz, President of Guatemala (d. 1971)
- 1914Clayton Moore, American actor (d. 1999)
- 1914Kay Medford, American actress (d. 1980)
- 1914Lída Baarová, Czech actress (d. 2000)
- 1914Mae Boren Axton, American songwriter (d. 1997)
- 1914Robert McCloskey, American author (d. 2003)
- 1916Eric Bentley, British-born American critic and playwright
- 1916John Heyer, Australian documentary filmmaker (d. 2001)
- 1917Dame Phyllis Frost, Australian welfare worker and philanthropist (d. 2004)
- 1917Rudolf Baumgartner, Swiss conductor and violinist (d. 2002)
- 1918Cachao López, Cuban musician (d. 2008)
- 1918Georges Berger, Belgian racing driver (d. 1967)
- 1919Deryck Cooke, British musicologist (d. 1976)
- 1919Gil Langley, Australian cricketer, footballer and politician (d. 2001)
- 1920Alberto Calderón, Argentine mathematician (d. 1998)
- 1920Lawrence Klein, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1920Mario Benedetti, Uruguayan writer (d. 2009)
- 1921A. Jean de Grandpré, Canadian businessman and chief executive officer (Bell Canada)
- 1921Dario Vittori, Argentinian actor (d. 2001)
- 1922Michel Auclair, French actor (d. 1988)
- 1923Nicholas Georgiadis, Greek painter, stage and costume designer (d. 2001)
- 1924Abioseh Nicol, Sierra Leonean diplomat and author (d. 1994)
- 1926Michel Butor, French novelist
- 1926Richard Ellsasser, American concert organist, composer, and conductor (d. 1972)
- 1927Jim Fanning, American baseball player and manager
- 1927Martin Caidin, American aviation writer (d. 1997)
- 1928Angus Ogilvy, British businessman, husband of Princess Alexandra (d. 2004)
- 1928Jay Cameron, American jazz reed player
- 1929Larry Collins, American writer (d. 2005)
- 1929Maurice Vachon, French Canadian professional wrestler
- 1930Allan Bloom, American academic (d. 1992)
- 1930Romola Costantino, Australian pianist, film critic (d. 1988)
- 1932Harry Sinden, American National Hockey League executive
- 1932John Tembo, Malawian politician
- 1933Harve Presnell, American actor (d. 2009)
- 1933Zoe Caldwell, Australian stage actress
- 1934Don Walser, American country music singer and yodeller (d. 2006)
- 1934Kate Millett, American feminist writer
- 1934Sarah Kofman, French philosopher
- 1935Amanda Barrie, British actress
- 1935Fujio Akatsuka, Japanese cartoonist (d. 2008)
- 1936Ferid Murad, American physician and pharmacologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- 1936Harry Danielsen, Norwegian politician
- 1936Terence Donovan, British photographer and film director (d. 1996)
- 1936Walter Koenig, American actor
- 1937Renzo Piano, Italian architect
- 1938Nicol Williamson, Scottish-born actor
- 1939DeWitt Weaver, Professional golfer
- 1940Jacques Godin, Canadian film and television actor
- 1940Larry Brown, American basketball player and coach
- 1941Alberto Naranjo, Venezuelan musician
- 1941Alex St. Clair, American musician (d. 2006)
- 1942Bernard MacLaverty, Northern Irish writer
- 1942Oliver Lake, American jazz saxophonist, flutist, composer and poet
- 1943Irwin Goodman, Finnish rock and folk singer
- 1944Günter Netzer, German footballer
- 1944Joey Heatherton, American actress and singer
- 1945Martin Tyler, British sports broadcaster
- 1946Jim Angle, American television reporter
- 1946Pete Agnew, bassist for the Scottish rock band Nazareth
- 1947Jon “Bowzer” Bauman, American singer (Sha Na Na)
- 1947Sam Neill, New Zealand actor
- 1948Marc Reisner, American writer (d. 2000)
- 1949Ed King, American guitarist (Lynyrd Skynyrd)
- 1949Eikichi Yazawa, Japanese singer
- 1949Steve Gaines, American guitarist (Lynyrd Skynyrd) (d. 1977)
- 1949Tommy Seebach, Danish musician (d. 2003)
- 1950Masami Kuwashima, Japanese race car driver
- 1950Michael Nifong, American attorney
- 1950Paul Kossoff, British guitarist (Free) (d. 1976)
- 1953Judy Playfair, Australian swimmer
- 1953Tom Cora, American cellist and composer (d. 1998)
- 1954Barry Cowsill, American musician (The Cowsills) (d. 2005)
- 1955Geraldine Brooks, Australian-American writer
- 1955Steve Berlin, American saxophonist, keyboardist and record producer
- 1955William Jackson (Scottish composer), Scottish harpist and composer
- 1956Kostas Karamanlis, Greek prime-minister
- 1956Lefteris Zagoritis, Greek politician
- 1956Nathalie Roussel, French actress
- 1956Ray Wilkins, English former footballer
- 1957Kepler Wessels, former Australian and South African cricketer
- 1957Tim Wallach, American baseball player
- 1958Arlindo Cruz, Brazilian musician, composer and singer
- 1958Beth Nielsen Chapman, American singer-songwriter
- 1959John Berry (singer), American country music artist
- 1959Mary Crosby, American actress
- 1959Morten Harket, Norwegian singer (a-ha)
- 1960Callum Keith Rennie, Canadian actor
- 1960Melissa Leo, American actress
- 1961Freeman Mbowe, Tanzanian politician and businessman
- 1961Martina Gedeck, German actress
- 1961Wendy Thomas, namesake of the eponymous restaurant (Wendy’s)
- 1962Tom Kurvers, American ice hockey player
- 1963Robin Singh, Indian cricketer
- 1963Tony Becker, American actor
- 1964Faith Ford, American actress
- 1965Dmitry Medvedev, President of Russia
- 1965Michelle Stafford, American actress
- 1967Ariel (DJ), Argentine, UK Based DJ and record producer
- 1967Ashlyn Gere, American pornographic actress
- 1967Dan Cortese, American actor
- 1967Jens Lien, Norwegian film director
- 1967John Power (musician), English singer-songwriter and musician
- 1969Konstantinos Koukodimos, Greek long jumper and politician
- 1970Ben Garant, American actor
- 1970Craig Montoya, American musician (Everclear)
- 1970Francesco Casagrande, Italian cyclist
- 1970Mark Webber (guitarist), English musician Pulp
- 1971Andre Matos, Brazilian musician
- 1971Christopher McCulloch, American television writer and voice actor
- 1971Jeff Loomis, American guitarist (Nevermore)
- 1971Kimberly Williams, American actress
- 1972David Bell, American baseball player
- 1973Andrew Lincoln, British actor
- 1973Linvoy Primus, English footballer
- 1973Mike Ward, Canadian comedian
- 1973Nas, American rapper
- 1973Terrell Fletcher, American football player
- 1973Tony Bui, Vietnamese film director
- 1974Chad Bradford, American baseball player
- 1974Hicham El Guerrouj, Moroccan athlete
- 1974Mattias Marklund, Swedish guitarist
- 1976Agustín Calleri, Argentine tennis player
- 1977Thomas Leeb, Austrian musician
- 1978Ben Cohen, English rugby union footballer
- 1978Carmen Kass, Estonian model
- 1978Danielle Peck, country music singer
- 1978Silvia Navarro, Mexican actress
- 1979Ivica Olić, Croatian football player
- 1979Jesse Marunde, American strongman/athlete (d. 2007)
- 1980Ayọ, German singer
- 1981Ashley Roberts, American singer, dancer & actress (Pussycat Dolls)
- 1981Katie Lee, American television presenter
- 1981Miyavi, Japanese musician
- 1982Hiroki Narimiya, Japanese actor
- 1982Lethal Bizzle, English rapper
- 1982Petr Průcha, Czech ice hockey player
- 1982SoShy, French singer-songwriter
- 1983Amy Winehouse, English singer (d. 2011)
- 1983Frostee Rucker, American football player
- 1983Josh Outman, American baseball player
- 1984Adam Lamberg, American actor
- 1985Aya Ueto, Japanese actress and singer
- 1985Delmon Young, American baseball player
- 1985Paolo Gregoletto, American bassist (Trivium)
- 1985Trevis Smith, American football player and convicted sex offender
- 1986Ai Takahashi, Japanese singer, former leader of Japanese girl group Morning Musume
- 1986Alan Sheehan, Irish footballer
- 1986Andrew James Trauth, American actor
- 1986Tinchy Stryder, British rapper
- 1987Michael Crabtree, American football player
- 1988Diogo Salomão, Portuguese footballer
- 1988Kirsten Haglund, American beauty pageant contestant
- 1988Martin Fourcade, French biathlete
- 1989Jesse James, American actor
- 1989Logan Henderson, American actor and musician (Big Time Rush)
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Who Died On September 14?
- 23Drusus Julius Caesar, son of the Emperor Tiberius, poisoned (b. 13 BC)
- 258Cyprian, Bishop of Carthage
- 407Saint John Chrysostom, Early Church Father
- 585Emperor Bidatsu of Japan (b. 538)
- 775Constantine V, Byzantine Emperor (b. 718)
- 786Al-Hadi, Abbasid caliph (b. 764)
- 891Pope Stephen V
- 1146Zengi, ruler of Syria (b. 1087)
- 1164Emperor Sutoku of Japan (b. 1119)
- 1214Albert Avogadro, Italian patriarch of Jerusalem (b. 1149)
- 1321Dante Alighieri, Italian author (b. 1265)
- 1404Albert IV, Duke of Austria (b. 1377)
- 1435John, Duke of Bedford, regent of England (b. 1389)
- 1523Pope Adrian VI (b. 1459)
- 1538Henry III of Nassau-Breda, German nobleman (b. 1483)
- 1605Jan Tarnowski, Archbishop of Kraków (b. 1550)
- 1638John Harvard, American clergyman (b. 1607)
- 1646Robert Devereux, 3rd Earl of Essex, English Civil War general (b. 1591)
- 1712Giovanni Domenico Cassini, Italian-born astronomer (b. 1625)
- 1715Dom Pierre Pérignon, French monk, champagne pioneer (b. 1638)
- 1743Nicolas Lancret, French painter (b. 1690)
- 1749Richard Temple, 1st Viscount Cobham, English soldier and politician (b. 1675)
- 1759Louis-Joseph de Montcalm, French military commander (b. 1712)
- 1807George Townshend, 1st Marquess Townshend, British field marshal (b. 1724)
- 1836Aaron Burr, Vice President of the United States (b. 1756)
- 1851James Fenimore Cooper, American author (b. 1789)
- 1852Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, British general and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1769)
- 1852Augustus Pugin, English architect (b. 1812)
- 1879Bernhard von Cotta, German geologist (b. 1808)
- 1898William Seward Burroughs I, American inventor (b. 1857)
- 1901William McKinley, 25th President of the United States (b. 1843)
- 1905Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza, Franco-Italian explorer (b. 1852)
- 1916José Echegaray y Eizaguirre, Spanish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1832)
- 1927Isadora Duncan, American dancer (b. 1877)
- 1931Tom Roberts, Australian artist (b. 1856)
- 1936Irving Thalberg, American film producer (b. 1899)
- 1936Ossip Gabrilowitsch, Russian-American pianist and conductor (b. 1878)
- 1937Tomáš Masaryk, Czech politician (b. 1850)
- 1942E.S. Gosney, American eugenicist (b. 1855)
- 1951Fritz Busch, German conductor (b. 1890)
- 1952Sir John McPhee, Australian politician, Premier of Tasmania (b. 1874)
- 1959Wayne Morris, American actor (b. 1914)
- 1960M. Karagatsis, Greek author (b. 1908)
- 1965J.W. Hearne, English cricketer (b. 1891)
- 1966Gertrude Berg, American actress (b. 1899)
- 1966Nikolay Cherkasov, Soviet actor (b. 1903)
- 1974Warren Hull, American actor (b. 1903)
- 1975Walter Herbert, German conductor and impresario (b. 1902)
- 1981Furry Lewis, American blues guitarist (b. 1899)
- 1981William Loeb III, American newspaper publisher (b. 1905)
- 1982Bachir Gemayel, Lebanese politician (b. 1947)
- 1982Christian Ferras, French violinist (b. 1933)
- 1982Grace Kelly, American actress, Princess of Monaco (b. 1929)
- 1982John Gardner, American novelist (b. 1933)
- 1984Janet Gaynor, American actress (b. 1906)
- 1989Dámaso Pérez Prado, Cuban musician (b. 1916)
- 1991Julie Bovasso, American actor and writer (b. 1930)
- 1991Russell Lynes, American art historian and magazine editor (b. 1910)
- 1992Paul Joseph James Martin, Canadian politician (b. 1903)
- 1994Marika Krevata, Greek actress (b. 1910)
- 1995Maurice K. Goddard, American state government official (b. 1912)
- 1996Juliet Prowse, British actress and dancer (b. 1937)
- 1996Rose Ouellette, Canadian actress and comedian (b. 1903)
- 1999Charles Crichton, English film director (b. 1910)
- 1999Giannos Kranidiotis, Greek diplomat and politician (d. 1947)
- 2000Beah Richards, American actress (b. 1920)
- 2000Jerzy Giedroyc, Polish writer and activist (b. 1906)
- 2001Stelios Kazantzidis, Greek singer (b. 1931)
- 2003Garrett Hardin, American ecologist (b. 1915)
- 2003John Serry, Sr., American musician, (b. 1915)
- 2003Yetunde Price, American sibling of Venus and Serena Williams (b. 1972)
- 2005Frances Newton, American convicted killer (b. 1965)
- 2005Robert Wise, American filmmaker (b. 1914)
- 2005Vladimir Volkoff, French writer (b. 1932)
- 2005William Berenberg, American physician (b. 1915)
- 2006Esme Melville, Australian actress (b. 1918)
- 2006Mickey Hargitay, Hungarian actor and bodybuilder (b. 1926)
- 2006Norman Brooks, Canadian singer (b. 1928)
- 2007Jacques Martin, French television host and producer (b. 1933)
- 2007Robert Savoie, Canadian operatic baritone (b. 1927)
- 2008Ştefan Iordache, Romanian actor (b. 1941)
- 2009Darren Sutherland, Irish boxer (b. 1982)
- 2009Henry Gibson, American actor (b. 1935)
- 2009Jody Powell, American press secretary to Jimmy Carter (b. 1943)
- 2009Keith Floyd, British TV chef (b. 1943)
- 2009Patrick Swayze, American actor, dancer, and songwriter (b. 1952)
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