Historical Events on September 20

1187 Saladin begins the Siege of Jerusalem.

1519 Spanish expedition led by Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan sets off on the 1st successful circumnavigation of the globe (Magellan killed on route)

1620 Battle at Jassy: Turks beat king Sigismund III of Poland

1643 First Battle of Newbury (English civil war): King Charles I's forces beaten by a parliamentary army led by the Earl of Essex and Philip Stapleton

1746 Scotland's Bonnie Prince Charlie flees to France from Scotland

1777 Battle of Paoli; British forces under Major General Charles Grey attacks Brigadier General Anthony Wayne's encampment. Claims the British gave no quarter leads to engagement becoming known as the "Paoli Massacre"

1833 Charles Darwin arrives in Buenos Aires after travelling through the Argentine interior with guachos

1860 First British royalty to visit US, Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII)

1863 US Civil War Battle of Chickamauga, near Chattanooga, Tennessee ends with a Union withdrawal

1870 Mayor William Tweed accused of robbing NY treasury

1879 Ulysses S. Grant and family go to SF for elaborate extended visit

1881 Chester A. Arthur sworn in as 21st president

1904 Orville and Wilbur Wright fly a circle in their Flyer II

1913 US Open Men's Golf, The Country Club: 20-year old amateur Francis Ouimet wins his only Open title in an 18-hole playoff, 5 strokes ahead of Britons Harry Vardon & Ted Ray

1919 Legendary baseball slugger Babe Ruth ties Ned Williamson's MLB mark of 27 home runs with a 9th inning blast in Boston Red Sox 4-3 win against Chicago White Sox

1919 PGA Championship Men's Golf, Engineers CC: Defending champion Jim Barnes defeats Fred McLeod, 6 & 5 in the final

1922 St. Louis Cardinals future Baseball Hall of Fame infielder Rogers Hornsby ends hitting streak of 33 games

1926 Bugs Moran attempts to assassinate Al Capone in a drive-by shooting but fails

1931 MLB's Lou Gehrig's 4 RBIs break his old RBI mark of 175 en route to 184

1932 Mahatma Gandhi begins a hunger strike against the way Hindu untouchables are treated

1939 Joe Louis puts Bob Pastor down 5 times before an 11th round KO at Briggs Stadium, Detroit in his 8th heavyweight boxing title defence

1953 Cubs Ernie Banks hits his 1st major league HR

1954 Los Stravinsky's "In Memoriam Dylan Thomas," premieres in Angeles

1954 Roger Bannister awarded Britain's Silver Pears Trophy

1955 Willie Mays (Giants) homers off Vern Law (Pirates) in both ends of DH

1957 Leontyne Price makes her operatic stage debut singing Madame Lidoine in the US premiere of "Dialogues of the Carmelites" in San Francisco

1961 African-American student James Meredith is refused enrolment to the segregated University of Mississippi

1961 Roger Maris hits home run # 59 & barely misses # 60 in game 154 of the season. Yanks clinch pennant #26

1963 JFK proposes a joint US-Soviet voyage to the moon

1964 Günter Grass' play "Die Plebejern proben den Aufstand," premieres in Berlin

1967 British liner Queen Elizabeth II launched at Clydebank Scotland

1968 Mickey Mantle hits final career homer # 536

1969 58th Davis Cup: American pair Bob Lutz & Stan Smith clinch final 8-6, 6-1, 11-9 over Ilie Năstase & Ion Țiriac of Romania in Cleveland, OH; ends 5-0

1969 John Lennon privately announces to Paul and Ringo (George was not there) that he is leaving "The Beatles" at a London business meeting

1969 Ryder Cup Golf, Royal Birkdale GC: US, Great Britain tie, 16-16; great sporting gesture, America's Jack Nicklaus concedes missable 3-foot putt to Tony Jacklin at the 18th hole for the draw

1970 Jim Morrison found guilty of "open profanity and indecent exposure" after allegedly exposing himself at a concert in Miami in 1969

1972 Police find cannabis growing on Paul & Linda McCartney's farm

1973 Billie Jean King beats Bobby Riggs in battle-of-sexes tennis match

1975 David Bowie's "Fame," single goes #1 for 2 weeks

1975 Ryder Cup Golf, Laurel Valley GC: US beats Great Britain & Ireland, 21-11; Arnold Palmer non-playing American captain; Bernard Hunt GB & I skipper

1976 Playboy releases Jimmy Carter's interview which includes the quote “I’ve looked on a lot of women with lust."

1980 "Blizzard of Ozz", the debut solo album by English rock musician Ozzy Osbourne, is released in the United Kingdom

1980 George Brett goes 0-for-4 dropping his avg below .400 for good

1984 "The Cosby Show" premieres on NBC-TV starring Bill Cosby and Phylicia Rashad

1987 39th Emmy Awards: LA Law, Bruce Willis & Sharon Gless win

1987 Chicago running back Walter Payton scores his NFL record 107th rushing touchdown in the Bears' 20-3 victory over Tampa Bay

1987 French driver Alain Prost wins Portuguese Grand Prix at Estoril; his record 28th Formula 1 victory

1987 Roger Miller's musical "Big River", based on Mark Twain's 1884 novel "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn", closes at Eugene O'Neill Theater, NYC, after 1005 performances and 3 Tony Awards

1988 American diver Greg Louganis wins the 3m springboard gold medal at the Seoul Olympics after famously hitting his head on the board the previous day

1988 Boston Red Sox Wade Boggs is 1st player to get 200 hits for 6 consecutive seasons

1989 Musical "Miss Saigon," premieres in London, created by Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil

1996 Paramount Pictures releases cult revenge comedy "The First Wives Club" starring Bette Midler, Goldie Hawn and Diane Keaton, and directed by Hugh Wilson

1998 Federation Cup Women's Tennis, Geneva, Switzerland: Conchita Martínez & Arantxa Sánchez Vicario beat Martina Hingis & Patty Schnyder of Switzerland 6-0, 6-2 in doubles decider to clinch Spain's 5th title, 3-2

1999 TV crime procedural "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" created by Dick Wolf, starring Mariska Hargitay and Christopher Meloni premieres on NBC