Historical Events
- 1752 Britain and the British Empire (including the American colonies) adopt the Gregorian calendar (no Sept 3 - Sept 13)
- 1936 1st prefrontal lobotomy in America performed by Walter Freeman and James W. Watts at George Washington University Hospital in Washington D.C.
- 1939 World’s 1st practical helicopter, the VS-300 designed by Igor Sikorsky takes (tethered) flight in Stratford, Connecticut
- 1949 India's Constituent Assembly adopts Hindi as an official language. Celebrated today as Hindi Day.
- 1956 IBM introduces the RAMAC 305, 1st commercial computer with a hard drive that uses magnetic disk storage, weighs over a ton
- 1960 Iraq, Iran, Kuwait, Saudi-Arabia and Venezuela form the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)
- 2020 Astronomers report possible sign of life on Venus, after detecting phosphine in planets's atmosphere by telescope [1]
- 2021 1 in 500 Americans have died of COVID-19 as the nation's known death toll reaches 663,913 (Johns Hopkins) [1]
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Sep 14 in Film & TV
- 1985 "The Golden Girls", starring Bea Arthur, Betty White, Rue McClanahan, and Estelle Getty, debuts on NBC
Sep 14 in Music
- 1741 George Frideric Handel finishes his "Messiah" oratorio after working on it non-stop for 23 days
Sep 14 in Sport
- 1987 Cal Ripken Jr.'s record streak of 8,243 consecutive innings (908 games) is finally broken
Did You Know?
Francis Scott Key pens the poem "Defence of Fort M'Henry", later known as "The Star-Spangled Banner" while witnessing the bombardment of Fort McHenry from a ship in Baltimore harbor
On September 14, 1814
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14 yr old Texan Ahmed Mohamed arrested at school when home-made clock assumed to be a bomb - Mark Zuckerberg and US President Barack Obama send supportive tweets
On September 14, 2015
Famous Weddings
- 1830 Princess Marianne of the Netherlands (20) marries her cousin Prince Albert of Prussia (20) (marriage dissolved 1849)
- 1835 American leading transcendentalist Ralph Waldo Emerson (33) marries 2nd wife Lydia (Lidian) Jackson in Plymouth, Massachusetts.
- 1838 Newly escaped slave Frederick Douglass marries free woman Anne Murray in New York
Famous Divorces
- 1962 American actress Janet Leigh (35) divorces American actor Tony Curtis (37) after 10 years of marriage
- 1984 Film director John Carpenter (36) and actress Adrienne Barbeau (39) divorce after 5 years of marriage
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Fatal Legacy of a Beautiful Riviera
Two famous American women – Grace Kelly and Isadora Duncan, both died after tragic motoring accidents in the same area on this day, though half a century apart.
September 14, 1982
Weekly Quiz for September 9-15
In 1776 US Congress officially adopted the name 'United States of America', what was the previous name? Which war saw the 1st use of tanks on the battlefield?
