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What happened in history on this day: September 14?
On September 14 in ...
- 1847 - US troops under General Scott enter Mexico City.
- 1848 - Alexander Stewart opens the first US department store.
- 1872 - Britain pays the US $15 million for damages during Civil War.
- 1886 - George K Anderson of Memphis, Tennessee, USA, patents typewriter ribbon.
- 1899 - Death of Henry Bliss in New York, USA; first automobile fatality.
- 1933 - Two billion board feet of lumber destroyed in Tillamook, Oregon fire.
- 1940 - US Congress passes first peace-time conscription bill (draft law).
- 1948 - Gerald Ford upsets Republican Bartel J Jonkman in Michigan 5th District Republican primary.
- 1948 - Groundbreaking ceremony for the United Nations world headquarters.
- 1954 - Hurricane Edna (second of 1954) hits New York City, causing US$50 million damage.
- 1956 - First prefrontal lobotomy performed, Washington DC.
- 1963 - Mary Ann Fischer, in Aberdeen, South Dakota, gives birth to America's first surviving quintuplets, four girls and a boy.
- 1964 - Walt Disney awarded the Medal of Freedom at the White House.
- 1973 - US President Richard Nixon signs into law a measure lifting pro football's blackout.
- 1975 - Mother Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton canonized as first US-born saint.
- 1982 - 36 inches of snow in Red Lodge, Montana.
- 1983 - US House of Representatives votes 416 to 0 in favor of a resolution condemning Russia for shooting down a Korean jetliner.
- 1984 - The first MTV Video Music Awards are held in Radio City Music Hall, New York City; Bette Midler and Dan Aykroyd host.
- 1991 - Carolyn Suzanne Sapp (Hawaii) crowned Miss America 1992.
- 1998 - At the end of the day's stock market trading Microsoft stands as America's most valuable company, at US$261.1 billion. Microsoft and General Electric were both valued at over US$300 billion in July, but Microsoft survived a stock market plunge better, putting it on top.
- 2000 - A tugboat puts a 4-foot gash in US Navy ship USS Detroit, spilling 113,000 litres of oil across Sandy Hook Bay, New Jersey, USA.
- 2000 - Microsoft launches the Windows Millenium Edition (Me) operating system. 400,000 copies of the retail upgrade copy are sold in the first month.
- 2001 - US President George W Bush stands with firefighters and rescue workers at Ground Zero in New York.
- 2001 - US President George W. Bush declares a state of national emergency exists by reason of terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon.
- 2003 - Top American commander in Iraq Lieutenant General Ricardo Sanchez authorizes a wide range of new interrogation procedures, including deliberate humiliation, exploiting fear of dogs, sensory deprivation, sensory overload, and stress positions.
- 2008 - A granite memorial stone to Felix Schlag, designer of the Jefferson 5-cent coin, is dedicated at his grave site in Oak Hill Cemetery in Owosso, Michigan.
- 2008 - (to September 16) The Ira & Larry Goldberg Coins & Collectibles Pre-Long Beach auction is held. Some highlights:
- 1796 Liberty Cap cent, MS-66 red and brown PCGS: US$690,000;
- 1933 Indian Head eagle, MS-65 NGC: US$450,000.
Births on September 14
- 1908 - Birth of Bernie Green in New York City, New York, USA; orchestra leader (Arthur Godfrey Show, Garry Moore Show).
- 1908 - Birth of Clayton Moore in Chicago, Illinois, USA; actor (The Lone Ranger).
- 1910 - Birth of Lehman Engel in Jackson, Mississippi, USA; conductor/composer (A Streetcar Named Desire).
- 1914 - Birth of Kay Medford in New York City, New York, USA; actress (Dean Martin Show, To Rome With Love).
- 1918 - Birth of Jack Somack in Chicago, Illinois, USA; actor (Ball Four, Stockard Channing Show).
- 1920 - Birth of Bud Palmer in Hollywood, California, USA; NBA player (New York Knicks)/sportscaster.
- 1925 - Birth of Robert Webber in Santa Ana, California, USA; actor ($, Nuts, Private Benjamin).
- 1933 - Birth of Harve Presnell in Modesto, California, USA; actor (Unsinkable Molly Brown).
- 1934 - Birth of Kate Millett in Saint Paul, Minnesota, YSA; feminist/author (Sexual Politics).
- 1938 - Birth of Walter Koenig in Chicago, Illinois, USA; actor (Checkov - Star Trek).
- 1944 - Birth of Joey Heatherton in Rockville Center, New York, USA; dancer/actress (Bluebeard).
- 1947 - Birth of Jon "Bowser" Bauman in Queens, New York, USA; singer (Sha Na Na).
- 1959 - Birth of Mary Crosby in Los Angeles, California, USA; actress (Kristin - Dallas, Ice Pirates).
- 1964 - Birth of Faith Ford in Louisiana, USA; actress (Another World, Corky - Murphy Brown).
Deaths on September 14
- 1836 - US Vice President Aaron Burr dies.
- 1899 - Death of Henry Bliss in New York, USA; first automobile fatality.
- 1901 - US President William McKinley dies in Buffalo, New York, of gunshot wounds inflicted by an assassin eight days earlier.
- 1912 - Heavyweight boxing champion Jack Johnson opens night club Cabaret de Champion in Chicago, Illinois. Upstairs, his wife Etta Duryea shoots and kills herself.
- 1970 - Death of Rudolf Carnap in Santa Monica, California, USA (born in Ronsdorf, Germany); philosopher, co-founded journal Erkenntnis, author (Der logische Aufbau der Welt (1928), Logische Syntax der Sprache (1934), Meaning and Necessity (1947), and Logical Foundations of Probability (1950)), taught at the University of Chicago.
- 1982 - Grace Patricia Kelly, American actress and Princess of Monaco, dies at age 52 in a car crash (born 1929).
- 1984 - Death of Richard Brautigan, American counter-culture author (suicide) (born 1935).
- 2005 - Death of Robert Wise, American film director (born 1914).
- 2009 - American actor Patrick Swayze (Dirty Dancing, Ghost) dies after a long battle with pancreatic cancer at age 57.
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