Historical Events
The following events took place on . The list is arranged in chronological order.
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- The US Selective Service selects September 14 as the First Draft Lottery date.
- The first American saint, Elizabeth Ann Seton, is canonized by Pope Paul VI.
- Afghan President Nur Muhammad Taraki is assassinated upon the order of Hafizullah Amin, who becomes the new president.
- President-elect of Lebanon, Bachir Gemayel, is assassinated.
- Joe Kittinger becomes the first person to fly a gas balloon alone across the Atlantic Ocean.
- Penang Bridge, the longest bridge in Malaysia, connecting the island of Penang to the mainland, opens to traffic.
- The Golden Girls a television sitcom premieres on NBC
- The Toronto Blue Jays set a record for the most home runs in a single game, hitting 10 of them.
- The Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina declares the breakaway Croatian Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia to be illegal.
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- The Major League Baseball season is canceled because of a strike.
- Body Worlds opens in Tokyo, Japan
- Telecommunications companies MCI Communications and WorldCom complete their $37 billion merger to form MCI WorldCom.
- Kiribati, Nauru and Tonga join the United Nations.
- Microsoft releases Windows ME.
- 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.
- In a referendum, Estonia approves joining the European Union.
- Late-2000s financial crisis: The Northern Rock bank experiences the first bank run in the United Kingdom in 150 years.
- All 88 people on board Aeroflot Flight 821 are killed when the plane crashes on approach to Perm Airport.
- 20 people die in a flash flood in Utah.
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