September 20 Historical Events
The following events took place on September 20. The list is arranged in chronological order.
Found 49 events. Showing 31 - 49.
- 1961Greek general Konstantinos Dovas becomes Prime Minister of Greece.
- 1962James Meredith, an African American, is temporarily barred from entering the University of Mississippi.
- 1967RMS Queen Elizabeth 2 is launched at John Brown & Company, Clydebank, Scotland. It is operated by the Cunard Line.
- 1970Syrian tanks roll into Jordan in response to continued fighting between Jordan and the fedayeen.
- 1971Having weakened after making landfall in Nicaragua the previous day, Hurricane Irene regains enough strength to be renamed Hurricane Olivia, making it the first known hurricane to cross from the Atlantic Ocean into the Pacific.
- 1973Billie Jean King beats Bobby Riggs in the Battle of the Sexes tennis match at the Houston Astrodome.
- 1977The Socialist Republic of Vietnam is admitted to the United Nations.
- 1979A coup d'état in the Central African Empire overthrows Emperor Bokasa I.
- 1982The National Football League players begin a 57-day strike.
- 1984A suicide bomber in a car attacks the U.S. embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, killing twenty-two people.
- 1985Capital gains tax is introduced in Australia, one of a number of tax reforms by the Hawke/Keating government.
- 1990South Ossetia declares its independence from Georgia.
- 2000The United Kingdom’s MI6 Secret Intelligence Service building is attacked by individuals using a Russian-built RPG-22 anti-tank missile. The perpetrators remain unidentified.
- 2001In an address to a joint session of Congress and the American people, U.S. President George W. Bush declares a “War on Terror”.
- 2002The Kolka-Karmadon rock/ice slide.
- 2003Maldives civil unrest: the death of prisoner Hassan Evan Naseem sparks a day of rioting in Malé.
- 2007Between 15,000 and 20,000 protesters marched on Jena, Louisiana, in support of six black youths who had been convicted of assaulting a white classmate.
- 2008A dump truck full of explosives detonates in front of the Marriott hotel in Islamabad, Pakistan, killing 54 people and injuring 266 others.
- 2011The United States military ends its “don't ask, don't tell” policy, allowing gay men and women to serve openly for the first time.
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