September 14

September 14 is the 257th day of the year (258th in leap years). There are 108 days remaining.

Table of contents

1 Events
2 Births
3 Deaths
4 Holidays

Events

1752 - The British Empire adopts the Gregorian calendar, skipping eleven days (September 2 was followed directly by September 14 this year)
1812 - Russian army burns Moscow to prevent Napoleon from capturing it
1812 - Francis Scott Key writes The Star-Spangled Banner
1847 - Winfield Scott captures Mexico City
1886 - Typewriter ribbon patented
1901 - Theodore Roosevelt becomes President of the United States.
1917 - Republican government declared in Russia
1923 - Miguel Primo de Rivera becomes dictator of Spain
1944 - United States Marines land on the island of Peleliu
1948 - Groundbreaking for the United Nations headquarters in New York City
1959 - The Soviet probe Luna 2 crashes onto the Moon, becoming the first man-made object to reach it.
1960 - The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) is founded.
1964 - The opening of the third period of Second Vatican Council
1965 - The opening of the fourth and final period of Second Vatican Council
1984 - Joe Kittinger becomes the first person to fly a hot air balloon solo across the Atlantic Ocean.
1975 - The first Americann saint, Elizabeth Ann Seton, is canonized by Pope Paul VI
2000 - Juan Antonio Samaranch leaves the presidency of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), after 20 years.
2003 - Sweden rejects adopting the Euro in a referendum. (Results.)
2003 - Estonia approves joining the European Union in a referendum.

Eastern Orthodox Church Exaltation of the Cross, which commemorates the discovery of the (allegedly) original Christian cross in 326 by Helena, mother of Constantine.
In ancient Greece, the first day of the Eleusinian mysteries, during which the sacred objects were brought from Eleusis to Athens.