September 20

Tuesday 20, 2005:

The Opera Web Browser is rereleased as freeware.

Saturday 20, 2003:

2003 Maldives civil unrest: the death of prisoner Hassan Evan Naseem sparks a day of rioting in Malé.

Sunday 20, 1998:

Baseball: After playing 2,632 consecutive games for the Baltimore Orioles, Cal Ripken, Jr takes a day off.

Thursday 20, 1984:

A suicide bomber in a car attacks the U.S. embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, killing twelve people

Sunday 20, 1981:

A coup d'état in the Central African Republic overthrows President David Dacko.

Thursday 20, 1979:

A coup d'état in the Central African Empire overthrows Emperor Bokasa I

Thursday 20, 1973:

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

Thursday 20, 1962:

James Meredith, an African-American, is barred from entering the University of Mississippi.

Monday 20, 1954:

New Zealand's Special Committee on Moral Delinquency in Children and Adolescents reports just ten days after concluding hearings.

Friday 20, 1946:

The first Cannes Film Festival is held.

Monday 20, 1920:

Foundation of the Spanish Legion

Thursday 20, 1917:

Paraguay becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.

Sunday 20, 1891:

The first gasoline-powered car debuts in Springfield, Massachusetts, United States.

Tuesday 20, 1881:

Chester A. Arthur is inaugurated as the 21st President of the United States.

Tuesday 20, 1870:

Bersaglieri corps enters Rome through Porta Pia and completes the unification of Italy

Sunday 20, 1863:

American Civil War: The Battle of Chickamauga ends.

Thursday 20, 1860:

The Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII of the United Kingdom) visits the United States.

Wednesday 20, 1854:

Battle of Alma: British and French troops defeat Russians in the Crimea.

Friday 20, 1737:

Runner Edward Marshall completes his journey in the Walking Purchase forcing the cession of 1.2 million acres (4,860 km²) of Lenape-Delaware tribal land to the Pennsylvania Colony.

Friday 20, 1596:

Diego de Montemayor founded the city of Monterrey in New Spain.

Saturday 20, 1377:

Cardinal Robert of Geneva, called by some the Butcher of Cesena, is elected as Avignon Pope Clement VII, beginning the Papal schism.

Sunday 20, 1187:

Saladin begins the Siege of Jerusalem.

Wednesday 20, 451:

451- According to some sources, this was the date of the Battle of Chalons: Flavius Aetius' victory over Attila the Hun.

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