September 14 Historical Events
The following events took place on September 14. The list is arranged in chronological order.
Found 49 events. Showing 31 - 49.
- 1969The US Selective Service selects September 14 as the First Draft Lottery date.
- 1975The first American saint, Elizabeth Ann Seton, is canonized by Pope Paul VI.
- 1979Afghan President Nur Muhammad Taraki is assassinated upon the order of Hafizullah Amin, who becomes the new president.
- 1982President-elect of Lebanon, Bachir Gemayel, is assassinated.
- 1984Joe Kittinger becomes the first person to fly a gas balloon alone across the Atlantic Ocean.
- 1985Penang Bridge, the longest bridge in Malaysia, connecting the island of Penang to the mainland, opens to traffic.
- 1985The Golden Girls a television sitcom premieres on NBC
- 1987The Toronto Blue Jays set a record for the most home runs in a single game, hitting 10 of them.
- 1992The Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina declares the breakaway Croatian Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia to be illegal.
- 1994The Major League Baseball season is canceled because of a strike.
- 1995Body Worlds opens in Tokyo, Japan
- 1998Telecommunications companies MCI Communications and WorldCom complete their $37 billion merger to form MCI WorldCom.
- 1999Kiribati, Nauru and Tonga join the United Nations.
- 2000Microsoft releases Windows ME.
- 2001Historic 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.
- 2003In a referendum, Estonia approves joining the European Union.
- 2007Late-2000s financial crisis: The Northern Rock bank experiences the first bank run in the United Kingdom in 150 years.
- 2008All 88 people on board Aeroflot Flight 821 are killed when the plane crashes on approach to Perm Airport.
- 201520 people die in a flash flood in Utah.
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