September 20th

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The September 20 is the 263rd day of the Gregorian calendar (the 264th in leap years ), thus remain 102 days by year end.

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events

Politics and world events

1604: Floor plan of Ostend
1792: The Valmy cannonade
1863: The Battle of Chickamauga
The unification of Italy (1815-1870)
1955: GDR postage stamp from the series on the five-year plan
2003: Referendum in Latvia

business

1839: The start of the Oude Lijn

science and technology

  • 1898: Alberto Santos Dumont ascends in Paris with his first built airship . After driving up to a height of 400 meters there is a crash landing.
Orville Wright in Flyer II over Huffman Prairie (Dayton, Ohio)

Culture

1914: Reims Cathedral bombarded

religion

1918: Padre Pio

society

  • 1973: The telephone numbers 110 and 112 are introduced as emergency numbers in West Germany .

Disasters

  • 1908: The barque Star of Bengal collides with rocks off Coronation Island on the northwest coast of Prince of Wales Island and sinks. 110 passengers and crew members die.
  • 2018: About 50 meters from the pier in Ukara , the Nyerere ferry, completely overloaded with more than 400 people, capsizes on Lake Victoria in Tanzania . 224 dead are rescued, at least 40 people can be saved.

Minor accidents are listed in the sub-articles of Disaster .

Sports

  • 1879: The oldest Irish football club, Cliftonville FC, comes into being in Belfast when a businessman looks for prospects for the Cliftonville Association Football Club in the local newspaper .
  • 1896: The world's first motorcycle race is held on the Paris- Nantes- Paris route by eight participants .
  • 2019: The ninth Rugby Union World Cup begins in Japan.

Entries of track and field world records can be found under the respective discipline under track and field .

Born

Before the 18th century

18th century

19th century

1801-1850

1851-1900

20th century

1901-1925

1926-1950

1951-1975

1976-2000

21st century

Died

Before the 15th century

15th and 16th centuries

17th and 18th centuries

19th century

20th century

1901-1950

1951-1975

1976-2000

21st century

Holidays and memorial days

  • Legal holidays
    • World Children's Day (see above) has been a public holiday in Thuringia since 2019.

Individual evidence

  1. http://landesrecht.thueringen.de/jportal/?quelle=jlink&query=FeiertG+TH+%C2%A7+2&psml=bsthueprod.psml&max=true

The list of days of remembrance and action contains further entries .


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