Historical Events In September - 14
Tuesday, 03 December 2024
1981 Yasuji Kiyose, composer, dies at 81 on this day in history.
1982 Cindy Nicholas of Canada makes her 19th swim of the English Channel on September - 14.
1982 On September - 14 trevor Baxter sets skateboard high jump record of 5' 5.7"
1982 Bashir Gemayel, falangist Lebanon's president-elect, killed by a bomb on September - 14.
1983 US House of Representatives votes, 416 to 0, in favor of a resolution condemning Russia for shooting down a Korean jetliner on this day in history.
1984 Janet Gaynor, actress (Sunrise), dies at 77 from a traffic accident on September - 14.
1985 On September - 14 eli Hosen is born
1988 On September - 14 louis Quinn, actor (Unholy Rollers), dies at 73 of cancer
1989 On September - 14 calgary Flames become first NHL team to play in USSR, win 4-2
1989 On this day in history edwin McLeod, cricketer (one Test for NZ), dies
1990 Wime de Craene, Flemish chansonnier/composer, dies on this day in history.
1991 Carolyn Suzanne Sapp (Hawaii) crowned Miss America 1992 on September - 14.
1991 On September - 14 julie Bovasso, actress (Saturday Night Fever), dies at 61 of cancer
1992 On September - 14 uN troops land in Somalia, Africa, to stabalise the country and provide aid
1992 On September - 14 david Jones, actor, commits suicide (had terminal cancer) at 76
1996 York - Durham Heritage Railway commences operation over the former CN line between Uxbridge and Stouffville, Ont on September - 14.
2005 On this day in history september 16 - Largest UN World Summit in history, held in New York City.
2007 The SELENE spacecraft launches. JAXA has called the mission, "the largest lunar mission since the Apollo program." on this day in history.
2007 Viktor Zubkov is approved as the new Prime Minister of Russia after a vote in the Duma on September - 14.
2012 On September - 14 21 people are killed after a ferry sank in Indonesia
2014 On this day in history the United States defeats Serbia 129-92 to win the 2014 FIBA Basketball World Cup
2017 Fire at a religious school in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, kills 23 on this day in history.
2017 On this day in history bodleian Library reveals earliest evidence of the zero symbol in 3rd or 4th Century Bakhshali (Pakistan) manuscript, through carbon dating
2017 On this day in history two Islamic State terrorist attacks in Dhiqar province, Southern Iraq, kill at least 60
2017 On September - 14 selena Gomez reveals she had a kidney transplant, because of lupus, donated by her friend Francia Rais
2017 19 people die when a boat capsizes on Yamun River in Uttar Pradesh, India on September - 14.
2018 Hurricane Florence makes landfall near Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina, as a category 1 hurricane on September - 14.
2018 On this day in history former Trump campaign chair Paul Manafort pleads guilty to conspiracy charges and agrees to cooperative with Government investigatuions
2019 2019 Abqaiq–Khurais attack: Two Saudi Aramco oil refineries in Abqaiq and Khurais, Saudi Arabia, are attacked by drones, resulting in fires. Houthi militants claim responsibility, saying that they used ten drones for the attack. Aramco's oil exports and production are disrupted by five million barrels a day, close to half of the entire Saudi Arabian oil exports on this day in history.
2020 On September - 14 the Royal Astronomical Society announces the detection of phosphine in Venus' atmosphere, which is known to be a strong predictor for the presence of microbial life.
2020 On September - 14 the first discovery of the perfectly preserved remains of a cave bear, believed to be 22,000 to 39,500 years old (Late Pleistocene), is made in Lyakhovsky Islands, Siberia in the thawing permafrost.
2021 North Korea demonstrates two short-range ballistic missiles that land just outside Japan's territorial waters; and then only hours later South Korea demonstrates its first submarine-launched ballistic missile on September - 14.
2021 The inaugural season of the UEFA Europa Conference League, the third tier of European club football, kicks off with Israeli club Maccabi Tel Aviv winning 4–1 against Armenian club FC Alashkert on September - 14.
2023 On September - 14 the European Central Bank (ECB) raises eurozone interest rates to an all-time high of 4%, amid ongoing inflationary pressures across the continent.