September 20

[[pl:20 wrze%B6nia]] September 20 is the 263rd day of the year (264th in leap years). There are 102 days remaining.

Events

451 - Atilla, king of the Huns, invades Gaul, but is defeated by Aetius with the help of Roman Foederati in the Battle of Chalons
1519 - Ferdinand Magellan begins his voyage around the world
1565 - Spaniards capture French Fort Caroline, near present-day Jacksonville, Florida
1792 - Battle of Valmy - France defeats Prussia
1797 - The USS Constitution is launched in Boston, Massachusetts
1850 - Slave trading is abolished in the District of Columbia
1854 - Battle of Alma - British and French troops defeat Russians in the Crimea
1860 - The Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII of the United Kingdom) visits the United States
1863 - Battle of Chickamauga ends
1870 - Bersaglieri corps enters Rome at Porta Pia and completes the unification of Italy
1881 - Chester A. Arthur sworn in as President of the United States
1946 - First Cannes Film Festival
1954 - First FORTRAN program runs
1962 - James Meredith, an African-American, is barred from entering the University of Mississippi
1973 - Billy Jean King beats Bobby Riggs in battle-of-sexes tennis match
1979 - Lee Iacocca elected president of the Chrysler Corporation
1979 - Coup in Central African Empire overthrows Emperor Bokasa I
1984 - Suicide bomber in a car attacks the United States embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, killing twelve people
2000 - After playing 2,632 consecutive games for the Baltimore Orioles, baseball player Cal Ripken, Jr takes a day off.

In ancient Greece, the seventh day of the Eleusinian mysteries, when the secret rites in the Telesterion began.