September 14

September 14 is the 257th day of the year (258th in leap years). There are 108 days remaining.

Births:

• 1760: [Luigi Cherubini]?, Italian composer
• 1769: [Alexander von Humboldt]?, German naturalist and explorer
• 1849: [Ivan Pavlov]?, Russian scientist
• 1933: [Zoe Caldwell]?, US actress
• 1933: [Harve Presnell]?, US actor
• 1934: [Kate Millett]?, US feminist writer
• 1936: [Walter Koenig]?, US actor
• 1947: [Sam Neill]?, US actor
• 1959: [Mary Frances]?
• 1963: [Mary Ann Fischer]? gave birth to America's first surviving quintuplets?
• 1971: [Kimberly Williams]?, US actress

Deaths:

• 1638: [John Harvard]?, clergyman who left his library and estate to a local college, who became [Harvard College]?
• 1852: The Duke of Wellington (British general and Prime Minister)
• 1899: [Henry Bliss]? (first automobile fatality, New York City)
• 1901: US President William McKinley (assassinated)
• 1927: [Isadora Duncan]?, strangled by her scarf entangled in a wheel of her car.
• 1960: Sir [Arthur Percy Morris]? Fleming, radar pioneer
• 1982: [Bashir Gemayel]?, President of The Lebanon (bombing)
• 1982: [Princess Grace of Monaco]?, formerly actress [Grace Kelly]? (car accident)

Events:

• 1901: Theodore Roosevelt becomes president of the United States.
• 1959: The Soviet probe Luna 2 crashes onto the Moon; it is the first man-made object to reach it.
• 1960: The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) was founded. The core members were Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and Venezuela.
• 1984: [Joe Kittinger]? became the first person to fly a balloon solo across the Atlantic Ocean.

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