SomeFacts | September 20

On this day - September 20

1058 — Agnes of Poitou and Andrew I of Hungary meet to negotiate ...

1066 — At the Battle of Fulford, Harald Hardrada defeats earls Morcar ...

1187 — Saladin begins the Siege of Jerusalem.

1260 — The Great Prussian Uprising among the old Prussians begins ...

1378 — Cardinal Robert of Geneva is elected as Pope Clement VII, ...

1498 — The Nankai tsunami washes away the building housing the Great ...

1519 — Ferdinand Magellan sets sail from Sanlúcar de Barrameda with ...

1586 — A number of conspirators in the Babington Plot are hanged, ...

1602 — The Spanish-held Dutch town of Grave capitulates to a ...

1697 — The Treaty of Ryswick is signed by France, England, Spain, the ...

1737 — The Walking Purchase concludes, which forces the cession of ...

1792 — French troops stop an allied invasion of France at the Battle ...

1835 — The decade-long Ragamuffin War starts when rebels capture ...

1848 — The American Association for the Advancement of Science is ...

1854 — Crimean War: British and French troops defeat Russians at the ...

1857 — The Indian Rebellion of 1857 ends with the recapture of Delhi ...

1860 — The future King Edward VII of the United Kingdom begins the ...

1863 — American Civil War: The Battle of Chickamauga, in northwestern ...

1870 — The Bersaglieri corps enter Rome through the Porta Pia, and ...

1871 — Bishop John Coleridge Patteson, first bishop of Melanesia, is ...

1881 — U.S. President Chester A. Arthur is sworn in upon the death of ...

1893 — Charles Duryea and his brother road-test the first ...

1911 — The White Star Line's RMS Olympic collides with the ...

1920 — Irish War of Independence: British police known as "Black ...

1941 — The Holocaust in Lithuania: Lithuanian Nazis and local police ...

1946 — Six days after a referendum, King Christian X of Denmark ...

1946 — The first Cannes Film Festival is held, having been delayed ...

1954 — The Moomin comics, created by Tove Jansson and Lars Jansson, ...

1955 — The Treaty on Relations between the USSR and the GDR is signed.

1961 — Greek general Konstantinos Dovas becomes Prime Minister of ...

1962 — James Meredith, an African American, is temporarily barred ...

1965 — Following the Battle of Burki, the Indian Army captures Dograi ...

1967 — The Cunard Liner Queen Elizabeth 2 is launched in Clydebank, ...

1971 — Having weakened after making landfall in Nicaragua the ...

1973 — Singer Jim Croce, songwriter and musician Maury Muehleisen and ...

1973 — Billie Jean King beats Bobby Riggs in the Battle of the Sexes ...

1977 — Vietnam is admitted to the United Nations.

1979 — A French-supported coup d'état in the Central African ...

1982 — NFL season: American football players in the National Football ...

1984 — A suicide bomber in a car attacks the U.S. embassy in Beirut, ...

1989 — USAir Flight 5050 crashes into Bowery Bay during a rejected ...

1990 — South Ossetia declares its independence from Georgia.

2000 — The United Kingdom's MI6 Secret Intelligence Service ...

2001 — In an address to a joint session of Congress and the American ...

2003 — Civil unrest in the Maldives breaks out after a prisoner is ...

2007 — Between 15,000 and 20,000 protesters march on Jena, Louisiana, ...

2008 — A dump truck full of explosives detonates in front of the ...

2011 — The United States military ends its "don't ask, ...

2017 — Hurricane Maria makes landfall in Puerto Rico as a powerful ...

2018 — At least 161 people die after a ferry capsizes close to the ...

2019 — Roughly four million people, mostly students, demonstrate ...