On This Day:
Saturday September 20, 2014 This is the 263rd day of the year, with 102 days remaining in 2014. Fact of the Day: Greenland Greenland is attached to North America and is simply the unsubmerged part of a continental mass (continental island).
Holidays Jewish Fast of Gedalya.
Malta: Independence Day.
Events 480 B.C.E. - Themistocles and a Greek fleet scored a decisive naval victory over Xerxes' Persian force near Salamis.
1519 - Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan set out from Spain on a voyage to find a western passage to the Spice Islands of Indonesia. Though he was killed, one of his ships successfully circumnavigated the globe by September 1522.
1565 - Pedro Menendez of Spain defeated the French at Fort Caroline, in Florida, the first European battle on U.S. soil.
1792 - French defeated the Prussians at the Battle of Valmy.
1850 - The slave trade was abolished in the District of Columbia. In 1863, President Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation freed Washington's 3,000 slaves.
1870 - Victor Emmanuel II, the first king of modern Italy, annexed Rome from the French during the Franco-Prussian War.
1873 - "Black Friday," occurred; it was the first time the New York Stock Exchange was forced to close because of a banking crisis.
1884 - The Equal Rights Party was formed and nominated Belva Ann Bennett Lockwood for president.
1939 - Cannes Film Festival debuted in France.
1952 - Scientists confirmed that DNA holds hereditary data.
1957 - "The Thin Man" debuted on TV.
1962 - Black student James Meredith was blocked from enrolling at the University of Mississippi by Governor Ross R. Barnett, but later admitted.
1965 - Seven U.S. planes were downed in one day over Vietnam.
1973 - Billie Jean King defeated Bobby Riggs in the nationally televised "Battle of the Sexes" tennis match, in three straight sets.
1974 - Gail A. Cobb, a member of the Metropolitan Police Force of Washington, D.C., became the first female police officer to be killed in the line of duty. She was murdered by a robbery suspect.
1977 - "Lou Grant" premiered on TV.
1989 - F.W. de Klerk was sworn in as president of South Africa.
Births 357 B.C.E. - Alexander III (Alexander the Great), emperor and king of Macedonia.
1842 - Lord James Dewar, British chemist and physician who invented the vacuum flask and cordite (smokeless powder).
1878 - Upton Sinclair, American author and political/social reformer.
1884 - Maxwell Perkins, American publisher.
1885 - Ferdinand La menthe (Jelly Roll Morton), American jazz pianist, composer, and singer.
1917 - Red (Arnold) Auerbach, pro basketball coach with most NBA championships, second winningest record.
1928 - Dr. Joyce Brothers, American author and psychiatrist.
1929 - Anne Meara, American comedienne and actress.
1934 - Sophia Loren (Sofia Scicolone), Italian-born award-winning actress.
Deaths 1947 - Former New York City Mayor Fiorello La Guardia.
1973 - Jim Croce, American singer-songwriter, in an airplane crash.
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