Vero - Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/September 20

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  Bobby Riggs
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  Battle of Alma
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  Battle of Alma
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  Pope Urban VI
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  RMS Mauretania
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  RMS Mauretania
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  Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs
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  Satellite image of Hurricane Irene
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  L. Ron Hubbard
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  Great Buddha of Kamakura

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Blurb	Reason
Prinsjesdag in the Netherlands (2011);	refimprove
Feast day of the Korean Martyrs (Roman Catholic Church)	multiple issues
1378 – Papal Schism: Unhappy with [[Pope Urban VI|Pope Template:Nowrap]], a group of cardinals started a rival papacy with the election of [[Avignon Pope Clement VII|Antipope Template:Nowrap]], throwing the Roman Catholic Church into turmoil.	unreferenced section
1596 – An expedition of twelve families led by Diego de Montemayor founded Monterrey in New Spain.	Texpansion
1848 – The American Association for the Advancement of Science, publisher of the journal Science, was founded.	refimprove section
1854 – The Crimean War began with a Franco-British victory over Russian forces at the Battle of the Alma near the River Alma in Crimea.	refimprove
1906 – The ocean liner RMS Mauretania, the largest and fastest ship in the world at the time, was launched in Tyneside, England.	Template:Tl x 15 as of 19-9-21
1946 – The first Cannes Film Festival was held in Cannes, France, after a seven-year delay due to World Template:Nowrap.	refimprove section
1979 – Jean-Bédel Bokassa, ruler of the Central African Republic, was ousted in a coup d'état backed by the French government.	refimprove section, unreferenced section
2001 – During a televised address to a joint session of the United States Congress, U.S. president George W. Bush declared a "war on terror" against Al-Qaeda and other global terrorist groups.	multiple issues
2022 – In the BBC series Cunk on Earth, historian Ashley Jackson comforted a distraught Philomena Cunk by talking about ABBA.	Datae not cited in article, possibly not moderately or significant historical event
Jim Croce |d|1973|	Many uncited sections

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• 1260 – The second of two major uprisings by the Old Prussians, a Baltic tribe, began against the Teutonic Knights.
• 1498 – A tsunami caused by the Meiō earthquake washed away the building housing the statue of the Great Buddha (pictured) at Kōtoku-in in Kamakura, Japan; the statue has since stood in the open air.
• 1643 – First English Civil War: The First Battle of Newbury was fought in Berkshire; Parliamentarian forces were allowed to pass Royalist troops to retreat the next morning.
• 1792 – The French Army achieved its first major victory of the War of the First Coalition at the Battle of Valmy.
• 1943 – World War II: Australian troops led by Gordon Grimsley King defeated Imperial Japanese forces at the Battle of Kaiapit in New Guinea.
• 1944 – Second World War: Allied forces captured San Marino from the German Army.
• 1967 – Sweden, Norway, and Denmark submit the Greek case alleging human rights violations by the Greek junta.
• 1967 – L. Ron Hubbard, the founder of Scientology, announced the story of Xenu in a taped lecture sent to all Scientologists.
• 1971 – Hurricane Irene (satellite image pictured) moved into the Pacific Ocean from the Atlantic, making it the first actively tracked tropical cyclone to do so.
• 1973 – Billie Jean King defeated Bobby Riggs in straight sets at the Astrodome in Houston, Texas, in an internationally televised tennis match dubbed the "Battle of the Sexes".
• 1977 – A series of celestial phenomena of disputed nature was observed in the western Soviet Union, Finland and Denmark.
• 1984 – The Cosby Show, which became one of three U.S. television shows to have the highest ratings five years in a row, premiered with its pilot episode.
• 1997 – Hurricane Erika, the strongest and longest-lasting hurricane of the 1997 Atlantic hurricane season, dissipated after causing flooding and power outages throughout Puerto Rico.
• 2000 – The Real Irish Republican Army carried out a rocket-launcher attack on the MI6 headquarters in London, with no casualties and minimal damage recorded.
• 2008 – An explosive-laden truck detonated in front of the Marriott hotel in Islamabad, Pakistan, killing 54 people and injuring 266 others.
• 2011 – The United States military ended its "don't ask, don't tell" policy, consequently allowing gay and lesbian people to serve openly.
• Born/died this day: | Maurice Benyovszky |b|1746| Susanna Rubinstein |b|1847| Herbert Putnam |b|1861| George Robey |d|1869| John Patteson |d|1871| Enrico Mizzi |b|1885| Éva Gauthier |b|1885| Edith Rogers |b|1894| Dennis Viollet |b|1933| Tarō Asō |b|1940| Gary Cole |b|1956| Masashi Hamauzu |b|1971| Richard Cresswell |b|1977| Peter Prevc |b|1992| Erich Hartmann |d|1993| Davidson Nicol |d|1994| Victor Henry Anderson |d|2001|

Notes

• Harald III is featured on September 25, so Battle of Fulford should not appear in the same year.

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• 1066 – Harald III of Norway and his English ally Tostig Godwinson defeated the northern earls Edwin and Morcar at the Battle of Fulford near York.
• 1697 – The first of a series of treaties comprising the Peace of Ryswick was signed between France and the Grand Alliance, ending the Nine Years' War.
• 1870 – The Bersaglieri entered Rome through the Porta Pia, ending the temporal power of the Pope and completing the unification of Italy.
• 1920 – Irish War of Independence: British auxiliary police officers known as Black and Tans went on a rampage in Balbriggan, burning more than fifty homes and businesses and killing two people.
• 1988 – British prime minister Margaret Thatcher (pictured) gave a landmark speech at the Belfry of Bruges, Belgium, against federalism in the European Economic Community.