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Saturday September 13, 2014 This is the 256th day of the year, with 109 days remaining in 2014. Fact of the Day: houseplants Sir Hugh Platt wrote in 1652 about the possibility of cultivating plants indoors and then greenhouses and conservatories started to be built in England and elsewhere.
Holidays Rhodesia: Pioneer Day.
Belgium: Bruegel Feesteen, honoring the painter Pieter Bruegel the Elder.
Nicaragua: Battle of San Jacinto.
Events 122 - Building of Hadrian's Wall began.
1759 - The British achieved a dramatic victory when they scaled the cliffs over the city of Quebec, defeating French forces on the Plains of Abraham in the last of the French and Indian Wars (known as the Seven Years' War).
1788 - Constitutional Convention authorized the first national election for the first Wednesday in February 1789, and declared New York City the temporary national capital.
1847 - The Battle of Chapultepec, the last action of the war between the United States and Mexico, was waged. U.S. General Winfield Scott captured a fort overlooking Mexico City and then took the town by storm the next day.
1862 - Union troops in Frederick, Maryland, discovered General Robert E. Lee's attack plans for the invasion of Maryland wrapped around a pack of cigars.
1943 - Chiang Kai-shek became president of China.
1943 - Otto Skorzeny, Adolf Hitler's commando leader, kidnapped Fascist leader Benito Mussolini, rescuing him from the Italian resistance forces that held him in a villa in the Abruzzi Mountains.
1948 - Margaret Chase Smith (R-Maine) was elected to the U.S. Senate, becoming the first woman to serve in both houses of Congress.
1951 - In Korea, U.S. Army troops began their assault in Heartbreak Ridge. The month-long fight produced 3700 casualties.
1971 - The four-day revolt at the maximum-security Attica Correctional Facility near Buffalo, New York, came to end when 1,500 state police and National Guardsmen stormed the complex.
1976 - "The Muppet Show" premiered.
1979 - TV show "Benson" premiered.
1989 - Fay Vincent was named commissioner of Major League Baseball, succeeding the late A. Bartlett Giamatti.
1993 - Israel and Palestine signed their first major agreement during a ceremony in Washington, D.C. The historic agreement granted Palestine limited self-government in the Gaza Strip and in Jericho on the occupied West Bank.
2001 - Secretary of State Colin Powell named Osama bin Laden as the prime suspect in the terror attacks on the United States.
Births 1847 - Milton Hershey, American businessman, candy company founder.
1851 - Walter Reed, U.S. Army doctor, who discovered the cause of yellow fever.
1860 - John J. ("Blackjack") Pershing, General of the Armies of the United States; led the campaign against Pancho Villa in Mexico and commanded the American Expeditionary Force in France during World War I.
1876 - Sherwood Anderson, American short-story writer.
1903 - Claudette Colbert, French-born American film actress.
1911 - Roald Dahl, British children's book author.
1925 - Mel Torme, American jazz singer.
1971 - Stella Nina McCartney, British fashion designer, daughter of Paul McCartney and Linda McCartney.
Deaths 1598 - Philip II, King of Spain.
1803 - Commodore John Barry, called the "Father of the United States Navy."
1996 - Tupac Shakur, American rap musician and actor.
1998 - George C. Wallace, former Alabama governor who led the South's fight against federally ordered racial integration in the 1960s.
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