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What Happened on September 20th This Day in History

Year	Name
2019	Roughly four million people, mostly students, demonstrate across the world to address climate change.[36][37] Sixteen-year-old Greta Thunberg from Sweden leads the demonstration in New York City.[38][39]
2018	At least 161 people die after a ferry capsizes close to the pier on Ukara Island in Lake Victoria, Tanzania.
2017	Hurricane Maria makes landfall in Puerto Rico as a powerful Category 4 hurricane, resulting in 2,975 deaths, US$90 billion in damage, and a major humanitarian crisis.[33]
2011	The United States military ends its "don't ask, don't tell" policy, allowing gay men and women to serve openly for the first time.
2008	A dump truck full of explosives detonates in front of the Marriott hotel in Islamabad, Pakistan, killing 54 people and injuring 266 others.
2007	Between 15,000 and 20,000 protesters march on Jena, Louisiana, United States, in support of six black youths who had been convicted of assaulting a white classmate.
2003	Civil unrest in the Maldives breaks out after a prisoner is killed by guards.
2001	In an address to a joint session of Congress and the American people, U.S. President George W. Bush declares a "War on Terror".[27]
2000	The United Kingdom's MI6 Secret Intelligence Service building is attacked by individuals using a Russian-built RPG-22 anti-tank missile.
1990	South Ossetia declares its independence from Georgia.
1989	USAir Flight 5050 crashes into Bowery Bay during a rejected takeoff from LaGuardia Airport, killing two people.
1984	A suicide bomber in a car attacks the U.S. embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, killing twenty-two people.
1982	NFL season: American football players in the National Football League begin a 57-day strike.
1979	A French-supported coup d'état in the Central African Empire overthrows Emperor Bokassa I.
1977	Vietnam is admitted to the United Nations.
1973	Billie Jean King beats Bobby Riggs in the Battle of the Sexes tennis match at the Houston Astrodome.
1973	Singer Jim Croce, songwriter and musician Maury Muehleisen and four others die when their light aircraft crashes on takeoff at Natchitoches Regional Airport in Louisiana.
1971	Having weakened after making landfall in Nicaragua the previous day, Hurricane Irene regains enough strength to be renamed Hurricane Olivia, making it the first known hurricane to cross from the Atlantic Ocean into the Pacific.
1967	The Cunard Liner Queen Elizabeth 2 is launched in Clydebank, Scotland.
1965	Following the Battle of Burki, the Indian Army captures Dograi in during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965.
1962	James Meredith, an African American, is temporarily barred from entering the University of Mississippi.
1961	Greek general Konstantinos Dovas becomes Prime Minister of Greece.
1955	The Treaty on Relations between the USSR and the GDR is signed.
1946	The first Cannes Film Festival is held, having been delayed for seven years due to World War II.
1946	Six days after a referendum, King Christian X of Denmark annuls the declaration of independence of the Faroe Islands.
1942	The Holocaust in Ukraine: In the course of two days a German Einsatzgruppe murders at least 3,000 Jews in Letychiv.
1941	The Holocaust in Lithuania: Lithuanian Nazis and local police begin a mass execution of 403 Jews in Nemenčinė.
1920	Irish War of Independence: British police known as "Black and Tans" burn the town of Balbriggan and kill two local men in revenge for an IRA assassination.
1911	The White Star Line's RMS Olympic collides with the British warship HMS Hawke.[10]
1893	Charles Duryea and his brother road-test the first American-made gasoline-powered automobile.
1881	U.S. President Chester A. Arthur is sworn in upon the death of James A. Garfield the previous day.
1871	Bishop John Coleridge Patteson, first bishop of Melanesia, is martyred on Nukapu, now in the Solomon Islands.
1870	The Bersaglieri corps enter Rome through the Porta Pia, and complete the unification of Italy.
1863	American Civil War: The Battle of Chickamauga, in northwestern Georgia, ends in a Confederate victory.
1860	The future King Edward VII of the United Kingdom begins the first visit to North America by a Prince of Wales.
1857	The Indian Rebellion of 1857 ends with the recapture of Delhi by troops loyal to the East India Company.
1854	Crimean War: British and French troops defeat Russians at the Battle of Alma.
1835	The decade-long Ragamuffin War starts when rebels capture Porto Alegre in Brazil.
1792	French troops stop an allied invasion of France at the Battle of Valmy.
1737	The Walking Purchase concludes, which forces the cession of 1.2 million acres (4,860 km2) of Lenape-Delaware tribal land to the Pennsylvania Colony.
1697	The Treaty of Ryswick is signed by France, England, Spain, the Holy Roman Empire and the Dutch Republic, ending the Nine Years' War.
1602	The Spanish-held Dutch town of Grave capitulates to a besieging Dutch and English army under the command of Maurice of Orange.
1586	A number of conspirators in the Babington Plot are hanged, drawn and quartered.[4][5]
1519	Ferdinand Magellan sets sail from Sanlúcar de Barrameda with about 270 men on his expedition which ultimately culminates in the first circumnavigation of the globe.
1498	The Nankai tsunami washes away the building housing the Great Buddha at Kōtoku-in; it has been located outside ever since.
1378	Cardinal Robert of Geneva is elected as Pope Clement VII, beginning the Papal schism.
1260	The Great Prussian Uprising among the old Prussians begins against the Teutonic Knights.
1187	Saladin begins the Siege of Jerusalem.
1066	At the Battle of Fulford, Harald Hardrada defeats earls Morcar and Edwin.
1058	Agnes of Poitou and Andrew I of Hungary meet to negotiate about the border territory of Burgenland.

Famous People Born on September 20

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Year	Name
1990	John Tavares, Canadian ice hockey player
1951	Guy Lafleur, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2022) [53]
1967	Roger Anderson, American wrestler
1940	Tarō Asō, Japanese target shooter and politician, 92nd Prime Minister of Japan
1959	Joseph Alessi, American trombonist and educator
1982	Brian Fortuna, American dancer and choreographer
1985	Ian Desmond, American baseball player
1899	Leo Strauss, German-American political scientist, philosopher, and academic (d. 1973)
1977	Chris Mooney, American journalist and academic
1937	Garry Johnson, English general

Famous People Deaths On September 20

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Date	Name
2014	Anatoly Berezovoy, Russian colonel, pilot, and cosmonaut (b. 1942)
1906	Robert R. Hitt, American politician, 13th United States Assistant Secretary of State (b. 1834)
1460	Gilles Binchois, Flemish composer (b. 1400)
1639	Johannes Meursius, Dutch historian and scholar (b. 1579)
1927	George Nichols, American actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1864)
1884	Leopold Fitzinger, Austrian zoologist and author (b. 1802)
1533	Veit Stoss, German sculptor (b. c. 1447)
1590	Lodovico Agostini, Italian priest, composer, and scholar (b. 1534)
1328	Ibn Taymiyyah, Syrian theologian and scholar (b. 1263)
2005	Simon Wiesenthal, Austrian human rights activist, Holocaust survivor (b. 1908)