# What happened on September 14 in history?

**Date:** September 14  
**Events recorded:** 57  
**Years spanned:** 81 – 2022  
**Full page:** https://thisday.info/events/september/14/

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## Featured Event

**2019** — Yemen's Houthi rebels claim responsibility for an attack on Saudi Arabian oil facilities.

[Read more on Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yemen)

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## Events on this date

- **81** — Domitian became Emperor of the Roman Empire upon the death of his brother Titus. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AD_81))
- **786** — "Night of the three Caliphs": Harun al-Rashid becomes the Abbasid caliph upon the death of his brother al-Hadi. Birth of Harun's son al-Ma'mun. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harun_al-Rashid))
- **919** — Battle of Islandbridge: High King Niall Glúndub is killed while leading an Irish coalition against the Vikings of Uí Ímair, led by King Sitric Cáech. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Islandbridge))
- **1115** — Roger of Salerno's Crusader army defeats a numerically superior Seljuk army in the battle of Sarmin ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_of_Salerno))
- **1180** — Genpei War: In the Battle of Ishibashiyama in Japan, the new military commander of the Minamoto clan, Minamoto no Yoritomo, is routed by Ōba Kagechika of the Taira clan. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genpei_War))
- **1226** — The first recorded instance of the Catholic practice of perpetual Eucharistic adoration formally begins in Avignon, France. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_Church))
- **1402** — Battle of Homildon Hill: An invading Scottish army under Murdoch Stewart, Duke of Albany and Archibald, Earl Douglas is decimated by a contingent of 500 English archers under the command of George, Earl of March and Henry Percy, 1st Earl of Northumberland. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Homildon_Hill))
- **1682** — Bishop Gore School, one of the oldest schools in Wales, is founded. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bishop_Gore_School))
- **1685** — Morean War: the Battle of Kalamata ends in a Venetian victory over the forces of the Ottoman Empire under the Kapudan Pasha. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morean_War))
- **1723** — Grand Master António Manoel de Vilhena lays down the first stone of Fort Manoel in Malta. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ant%C3%B3nio_Manoel_de_Vilhena))
- **1741** — George Frideric Handel completes his oratorio Messiah. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Frideric_Handel))
- **1752** — The British Empire adopts the Gregorian calendar, skipping eleven days (the previous day was September 2). ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adoption_of_the_Gregorian_calendar))
- **1763** — Seneca warriors defeat British forces at the Battle of Devil's Hole during Pontiac's War. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seneca_people))
- **1782** — American Revolutionary War: Review of the French troops under General Rochambeau by General George Washington at Verplanck's Point, New York. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Revolutionary_War))
- **1791** — The Papal States lose Avignon to Revolutionary France. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papal_States))
- **1808** — Finnish War: Russians defeat the Swedes at the Battle of Oravais. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finnish_War))
- **1812** — Napoleonic Wars: The French Grande Armée enters Moscow. The Fire of Moscow begins as soon as Russian troops leave the city. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleonic_Wars))
- **1814** — Battle of Baltimore: The poem Defence of Fort McHenry is written by Francis Scott Key. The poem is later used as the lyrics of The Star-Spangled Banner. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Baltimore))
- **1829** — The Ottoman Empire signs the Treaty of Adrianople with Russia, thus ending the Russo-Turkish War. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottoman_Empire))
- **1846** — Jang Bahadur and his brothers massacre about 40 members of the Nepalese palace court. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jung_Bahadur_Rana))
- **1862** — American Civil War: The Battle of South Mountain, part of the Maryland Campaign, is fought. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_War))
- **1901** — U.S. president William McKinley dies after being mortally wounded on September 6 by anarchist Leon Czolgosz and is succeeded by Vice President Theodore Roosevelt. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_McKinley))
- **1911** — Russian Premier Pyotr Stolypin is shot by Dmitry Bogrov while attending a performance of Rimsky-Korsakov's The Tale of Tsar Saltan at the Kiev Opera House, in the presence of Tsar Nicholas II. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyotr_Stolypin))
- **1914** — HMAS AE1, the Royal Australian Navy's first submarine, is lost at sea with all hands near East New Britain, Papua New Guinea. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMAS_AE1))
- **1917** — The Russian Empire is formally replaced by the Russian Republic. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Empire))
- **1936** — Raoul Villain, who assassinated the French Socialist Jean Jaurès, is himself killed by Spanish Republicans in Ibiza. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raoul_Villain))
- **1939** — World War II: The Estonian military boards the Polish submarine ORP Orzeł in Tallinn, sparking a diplomatic incident that the Soviet Union will later use to justify the annexation of Estonia. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II))
- **1940** — Ip massacre: The Hungarian Army, supported by local Hungarians, kill 158 Romanian civilians in Ip, Sălaj, a village in Northern Transylvania, an act of ethnic cleansing. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ip_massacre))
- **1943** — World War II: The Wehrmacht starts a three-day retaliatory operation targeting several Greek villages in the region of Viannos, whose death toll would eventually exceed 500 persons. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wehrmacht))
- **1944** — World War II: Maastricht becomes the first Dutch city to be liberated by allied forces. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maastricht))
- **1948** — The Indian Army captures the city of Aurangabad as part of Operation Polo. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Army))
- **1954** — In a top secret nuclear test, a Soviet Tu-4 bomber drops a 40 kiloton atomic weapon just north of Totskoye village. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Totskoye_nuclear_exercise))
- **1958** — The first two German post-war rockets, designed by the German engineer Ernst Mohr, reach the upper atmosphere. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohr_Rocket))
- **1960** — The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) is founded. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OPEC))
- **1960** — Congo Crisis: Mobutu Sese Seko seizes power in a military coup, suspending parliament and the constitution. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congo_Crisis))
- **1975** — The first American saint, Elizabeth Ann Seton, is canonized by Pope Paul VI. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Ann_Seton))
- **1979** — Afghan leader Nur Muhammad Taraki is assassinated upon the order of Hafizullah Amin, who becomes the new General Secretary of the People's Democratic Party. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_heads_of_state_of_Afghanistan))
- **1982** — President-elect of Lebanon Bachir Gemayel is assassinated. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bachir_Gemayel))
- **1984** — Joe Kittinger becomes the first person to fly a gas balloon alone across the Atlantic Ocean. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Kittinger))
- **1985** — Penang Bridge, the longest bridge in Malaysia, connecting the island of Penang to the mainland, opens to traffic. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penang_Bridge))
- **1989** — The Standard Gravure shooting where Joseph T. Wesbecker, a 47-year-old pressman, killed eight people and injured 12 people at his former workplace, Standard Gravure, before committing suicide. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_Gravure_shooting))
- **1992** — The Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina declares the breakaway Croatian Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia to be illegal. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bosnia_and_Herzegovina))
- **1993** — Lufthansa Flight 2904, an Airbus A320, crashes into an embankment after overshooting the runway at Okęcie International Airport (now Warsaw Chopin Airport), killing two people. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lufthansa_Flight_2904))
- **1994** — The rest of the Major League Baseball season is canceled because of a strike. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Major_League_Baseball))
- **1997** — Eighty-one killed as five bogies of the Ahmedabad–Howrah Express plunge into a river in Bilaspur district of Madhya Pradesh, India. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howrah%E2%80%93Ahmedabad_Superfast_Express))
- **1998** — Telecommunications companies MCI Communications and WorldCom complete their $37 billion merger to form MCI WorldCom. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MCI_Communications))
- **1999** — Kiribati, Nauru and Tonga join the United Nations. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiribati))
- **2000** — Microsoft releases Windows Me. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft))
- **2001** — Historic National Prayer Service held at Washington National Cathedral for victims of the September 11 attacks. A similar service is held in Canada on Parliament Hill, the largest vigil ever held in the nation's capital. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_National_Cathedral))
- **2002** — Total Linhas Aéreas Flight 5561 crashes near Paranapanema, Brazil, killing both pilots on board. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_Linhas_A%C3%A9reas_Flight_5561))
- **2003** — In a referendum, Estonia approves joining the European Union. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003_Estonian_European_Union_membership_referendum))
- **2003** — Bissau-Guinean President Kumba Ialá is ousted from power in a bloodless military coup led by General Veríssimo Correia Seabra. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kumba_Yala))
- **2007** — Prelude to the 2008 financial crisis: Northern Rock bank experiences the first bank run in the United Kingdom in 150 years. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_financial_crisis))
- **2008** — Aeroflot Flight 821, a Boeing 737-500, crashes into a section of the Trans-Siberian Railway while on approach to Perm International Airport, in Perm, Russia, killing all 88 people on board. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeroflot_Flight_821))
- **2015** — The first observation of gravitational waves is made, announced by the LIGO and Virgo collaborations on 11 February 2016. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_observation_of_gravitational_waves))
- **2019** — Yemen's Houthi rebels claim responsibility for an attack on Saudi Arabian oil facilities. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yemen))
- **2022** — Death of Queen Elizabeth II: The Queen's coffin is taken from Buckingham Palace, placed on a gun carriage of The King's Troop Royal Horse Artillery and moved in a procession to Westminster Hall for her lying in state over the next four days with the queue of mourners stretching for miles along the River Thames. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_and_state_funeral_of_Elizabeth_II))

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## Notable births on September 14

- **2000** — **Han** — South Korean rapper ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Han_(musician)))
- **1997** — **Benjamin Ingrosso** — Swedish singer and songwriter ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Ingrosso))
- **1997** — **Dominic Solanke** — English footballer ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominic_Solanke))
- **1996** — **Hugh Bernard** — English cricketer ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Bernard))
- **1996** — **Myles Wright** — English professional footballer ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myles_Wright))
- **1995** — **Jevon Carter** — American basketball player ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevon_Carter))
- **1995** — **Deshaun Watson** — American football player ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deshaun_Watson))
- **1994** — **Brahim Darri** — Dutch footballer ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brahim_Darri))
- **1994** — **Gary Harris** — American basketball player ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Harris))
- **1994** — **Daniel O'Shaughnessy** — Finnish footballer ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_O'Shaughnessy))

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## Notable deaths on September 14

- **2025** — **Jim Edgar** — American politician, 38th Governor of Illinois ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Edgar))
- **2025** — **Ricky Hatton** — British professional boxer (born 1978) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricky_Hatton))
- **2024** — **Jaber Mubarak Al-Sabah** — Kuwaiti royal and politician, 7th Prime Minister of Kuwait (born 1942) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaber_Al-Mubarak_Al-Hamad_Al-Sabah))
- **2024** — **Otis Davis** — American sprinter (born 1932) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otis_Davis))
- **2021** — **Norm Macdonald** — Canadian comedian and actor (born 1959) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norm_Macdonald))
- **2018** — **Ethel Johnson** — American professional wrestler (born 1935) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethel_Johnson_(wrestler)))
- **2018** — **Zienia Merton** — British actress (born 1945) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zienia_Merton))
- **2015** — **Davey Browne** — Australian boxer (born 1986) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davey_Browne))
- **2015** — **Fred DeLuca** — American businessman, co-founded Subway (born 1947) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_DeLuca))
- **2015** — **Martin Kearns** — English drummer (born 1977) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Kearns))

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