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What happened in history on this day: September 20?
On September 20 in ...
- 1786 - Continental Congress passes ordinance for establishing a Mint and regulating value and alloy of coinage.
- 1850 - Slave trade abolished in District of Columbia, but slavery allowed to continue.
- 1860 - First British royalty to visit US, Prince of Wales (King Edward VII).
- 1863 - Civil War Battle of Chickamauga, near Chattanooga, Tennessee, ends.
- 1873 - Panic on New York Stock Exchange as railroad bonds default and bank failures lead to ten-day New York bank holiday.
- 1877 - Chase National Bank opens in New York City (later merges into Chase Manhattan).
- 1884 - Equal Rights Party nominates female candidates for US President and Vice President.
- 1916 - Friedrik Johannes Hugo von Engelken becomes US Mint director.
- 1945 - German rocket engineers begin work in US.
- 1950 - In Murray, Kentucky, USA, several buildings are struck by falling meteorites.
- 1954 - First FORTRAN (FORmula TRANslation) computer program is run.
- 1962 - James Meredith is blocked from entering Mississippi University as its first black.
- 1966 - US Surveyor B launched toward Moon; crashes September 23.
- 1967 - Hurricane Beulah hits Texas-Mexican border, kills 38.
- 1977 - Voyager 2 launched for fly-by of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune.
- 1984 - Hezbollah car-bombs the U.S. embassy annex in Beirut, Lebanon, killing 22 people.
- 1991 - (to September 21) In Sandy, Utah several patients are held hostage and a nurse is killed in the Alta View Hospital hostage incident.
- 2006 - In the USA, the CW Television Network (a merger of The WB and UPN) officially begins operations.
- 2007 - The Native American $1 Coin Act is signed into law.
Births on September 20
- 1902 - Birth of Kermit Maynard in Vevey, Indiana, USA; cowboy actor (Saturday Roundup).
- 1911 - Birth of Frank Devol in Moundsville, West Virginia, USA; orchestra leader (I'm Dickens He's Fenster).
- 1922 - Birth of Frank Comstock in San Diego, California, USA; orchestra leader (Jimmie Rodgers Show).
- 1924 - Birth of James Galanos in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA; fashion designer (Coty Hall of Fame-1959).
- 1927 - Birth of Clarice Taylor in Virginia, USA; actress (Nurse Bailey - Nurse).
- 1929 - Birth of Anne Meara in Brooklyn, New York, USA; comedian/actress (Stiller and Meara, Archie Bunker's Place).
- 1933 - Birth of Bob Banas in New York City, New York, USA; choreographer (Malibu U, Jonathan Winters Show).
- 1950 - Birth of Debi Morgan in Dunn, North Carolina, USA; actress (Angie - All My Children, Cry Uncle).
- 1951 - Birth of JoAnna Cameron in Colorado, USA; actress (I Love My Wife, Isis).
- 1954 - Birth of Brinke Stevens [Charlene Brinkman] in California, USA; actress (Slumber Party Massacre).
- 1957 - Birth of Fran Drescher in New York City; actress (Cadillac Man).
Deaths on September 20
- 1924 - Death of Edward D. Putnam, first curator of American Numismatic Association.
- 2016 - Death of Curtis Hanson, American film director and screenwriter (born 1945).
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