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September 20
1519 - Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan set out from Spain on a voyage to find a western passage to the Spice Islands in Indonesia. (Magellan was killed enroute, but one of his ships eventually circled the world.)
1870 - Victor Emmanuel II, the first modern king of Italy, seized the Papal States from the French.
1873 - Panic swept the New York Stock Exchange in the wake of railroad bond defaults and bank failures.
1881 - Chester A. Arthur was sworn in as the 21st president of the United States, succeeding James A. Garfield, who had been assassinated.
1958 - Martin Luther King Jr. was seriously wounded during a book signing at a New York City department store when he was stabbed in the chest by Izola Curry. (Curry was later found mentally incompetent; she died at a Queens, New York nursing home in 2015 at age 98.)
1963 - President John F. Kennedy proposed a joint U.S.-Soviet expedition to the moon.
1967 - The Cunard liner RMS Queen Elizabeth 2 was christened by Britain's Queen Elizabeth II in Clydebank, Scotland.
1977 - The first wave of Southeast Asian "boat people" arrived in San Francisco under a U.S. resettlement program.
1984 - The family sitcoms "The Cosby Show" and "Who's the Boss?" premiered on NBC and ABC, respectively.
1984 - A suicide car bomber attacked the U.S. Embassy annex in north Beirut, killing a dozen people.
1995 - In a move that stunned Wall Street, AT&T Corporation announced it was splitting into three companies.
2000 - Independent Counsel Robert Ray announced the end of the Whitewater investigation, saying there was insufficient evidence to charge President Bill Clinton and his wife, Hillary.
2001 - President George W. Bush addressed the nation and a joint session of Congress about terrorism. He also named Tom Ridge as the head of the new Office of Homeland Security.
2005 - Holocaust survivor and Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal died at age 96.
2011 - Repeal of the U.S. military's 18-year-old "Don't ask, don't tell' compromise took effect, allowing gay and lesbian service members to serve openly.
2015 - Pope Francis met with Fidel Castro after urging tens of thousands of Cubans to serve one another and not an ideology during a Mass in Havana’s Plaza of the Revolution.
2015 - The CEO of Volkswagen apologized and VW customers said they felt duped after the Environmental Protection Agency revealed that the German automaker had skirted clean air rules by rigging emissions tests for about 500,000 diesel cars.
2015 - At the Emmys, the HBO series “Game of Thrones” won a record 12 awards; Viola Davis became the first Black woman to win an Emmy for best drama series actress for “How to Get Away with Murder.”
2017 - Hurricane Maria, the strongest hurricane to hit Puerto Rico in more than 80 years, struck the island, wiping out as much as 75 percent of the power distribution lines and causing an island-wide blackout.
2019 - President Donald Trump angrily defended himself against a complaint from an intelligence official over his contacts with the president of Ukraine; he said the complaint came from a “partisan whistleblower,” even though Trump also said he didn’t know who had made it.
2019 - Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau acknowledged that he had let down his supporters, and all Canadians of color, by appearing years earlier in brownface and blackface.
2019 - Three Mile Island in Pennsylvania, the 1979 site of the nation's worst commercial nuclear power accident, was shut down by its owner after producing electricity for 45 years.
Birthdays
25 - Sammi Hanratty (actress)
31 - Mallory Everton (comedian)
31 - Malachi Kirby (actor)
34 - Aldis Hodge (actor)
36 - Marissa Jade (reality star)
38 - Sexy Star (professional wrestler)
39 - Crystle Stewart (actress)
42 - Charlie Weber (actor)
44 - Jon Bernthal (actor)
45 - Moon Bloodgood (actress/model)
48 - Enuka Okuma (actress)
53 - Kristen Johnston (actress)
60 - Deborah Roberts (journalist)
64 - Gary Cole (actor)
65 - Betsy Brantley (actor)
69 - Debbi Morgan (actress)
69 - Guy LaFleur (hockey player)
71 - Tony Denison (actor)
72 - George RR Martin (author)
86 - Sophia Loren (actress)
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Today in Sports History - September 20
1927 - Babe Ruth of the New York Yankees hit his 60th home run of the season, breaking his own single-season record of 59 that he had set in 1921.
1933 - The Pittsburgh Pirates (now Steelers), play their first NFL game, losing 23-2.
1955 - Ernie Banks of the Chicago Cubs set a major league record with his fifth grand slam of the year.
1968 - Denny McClain of the Detroit Tigers became the first pitcher in 37 years to record 31 wins in a season.
1968 - Mickey Mantle of the New York Yankees hits the 536th and final home run of his career.
1973 - Willie Mays announced his retirement from baseball.
1973 - Billie Jean King defeats Bobby Riggs in straight sets (6-4, 6-3, 6-3) in a $100,000 "Battle of the Sexes" tennis match at the Astrodome in Houston.
1981 - Running back Marcus Allen of USC rushed for 274 yards and two touchdowns in a 21-0 win over Indiana.
1982 - The NFL Players Association announced that a strike would begin at the completion of the Packers-Giants game on Monday night.
1984 - Pete Rose of the Cincinnati Reds recorded his 100th hit of the season, the 22nd consecutive season he had recorded at least 100 hits in a season.
1987 - Walter Payton of the Chicago Bears scored his 107th career touchdown, breaking Jim Brown's record.
1998 - Baltimore Orioles shortstop Cal Ripken Jr. sat out a game, ending his record consecutive games played streak at 2,632.
2013 - Alex Rodriguez of the New York Yankees sets a new major league record with his 24th career grand slam home run.
2019 - Antonio Brown was released by the New England Patriots after a second woman accused him of sexual misconduct; he had played just one game since being signed by the Patriots.
1519 - Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan set out from Spain on a voyage to find a western passage to the Spice Islands in Indonesia. (Magellan was killed enroute, but one of his ships eventually circled the world.)
1870 - Victor Emmanuel II, the first modern king of Italy, seized the Papal States from the French.
1873 - Panic swept the New York Stock Exchange in the wake of railroad bond defaults and bank failures.
1881 - Chester A. Arthur was sworn in as the 21st president of the United States, succeeding James A. Garfield, who had been assassinated.
1958 - Martin Luther King Jr. was seriously wounded during a book signing at a New York City department store when he was stabbed in the chest by Izola Curry. (Curry was later found mentally incompetent; she died at a Queens, New York nursing home in 2015 at age 98.)
1963 - President John F. Kennedy proposed a joint U.S.-Soviet expedition to the moon.
1967 - The Cunard liner RMS Queen Elizabeth 2 was christened by Britain's Queen Elizabeth II in Clydebank, Scotland.
1977 - The first wave of Southeast Asian "boat people" arrived in San Francisco under a U.S. resettlement program.
1984 - The family sitcoms "The Cosby Show" and "Who's the Boss?" premiered on NBC and ABC, respectively.
1984 - A suicide car bomber attacked the U.S. Embassy annex in north Beirut, killing a dozen people.
1995 - In a move that stunned Wall Street, AT&T Corporation announced it was splitting into three companies.
2000 - Independent Counsel Robert Ray announced the end of the Whitewater investigation, saying there was insufficient evidence to charge President Bill Clinton and his wife, Hillary.
2001 - President George W. Bush addressed the nation and a joint session of Congress about terrorism. He also named Tom Ridge as the head of the new Office of Homeland Security.
2005 - Holocaust survivor and Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal died at age 96.
2011 - Repeal of the U.S. military's 18-year-old "Don't ask, don't tell' compromise took effect, allowing gay and lesbian service members to serve openly.
2015 - Pope Francis met with Fidel Castro after urging tens of thousands of Cubans to serve one another and not an ideology during a Mass in Havana’s Plaza of the Revolution.
2015 - The CEO of Volkswagen apologized and VW customers said they felt duped after the Environmental Protection Agency revealed that the German automaker had skirted clean air rules by rigging emissions tests for about 500,000 diesel cars.
2015 - At the Emmys, the HBO series “Game of Thrones” won a record 12 awards; Viola Davis became the first Black woman to win an Emmy for best drama series actress for “How to Get Away with Murder.”
2017 - Hurricane Maria, the strongest hurricane to hit Puerto Rico in more than 80 years, struck the island, wiping out as much as 75 percent of the power distribution lines and causing an island-wide blackout.
2019 - President Donald Trump angrily defended himself against a complaint from an intelligence official over his contacts with the president of Ukraine; he said the complaint came from a “partisan whistleblower,” even though Trump also said he didn’t know who had made it.
2019 - Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau acknowledged that he had let down his supporters, and all Canadians of color, by appearing years earlier in brownface and blackface.
2019 - Three Mile Island in Pennsylvania, the 1979 site of the nation's worst commercial nuclear power accident, was shut down by its owner after producing electricity for 45 years.
Birthdays
25 - Sammi Hanratty (actress)
31 - Mallory Everton (comedian)
31 - Malachi Kirby (actor)
34 - Aldis Hodge (actor)
36 - Marissa Jade (reality star)
38 - Sexy Star (professional wrestler)
39 - Crystle Stewart (actress)
42 - Charlie Weber (actor)
44 - Jon Bernthal (actor)
45 - Moon Bloodgood (actress/model)
48 - Enuka Okuma (actress)
53 - Kristen Johnston (actress)
60 - Deborah Roberts (journalist)
64 - Gary Cole (actor)
65 - Betsy Brantley (actor)
69 - Debbi Morgan (actress)
69 - Guy LaFleur (hockey player)
71 - Tony Denison (actor)
72 - George RR Martin (author)
86 - Sophia Loren (actress)
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Today in Sports History - September 20
1927 - Babe Ruth of the New York Yankees hit his 60th home run of the season, breaking his own single-season record of 59 that he had set in 1921.
1933 - The Pittsburgh Pirates (now Steelers), play their first NFL game, losing 23-2.
1955 - Ernie Banks of the Chicago Cubs set a major league record with his fifth grand slam of the year.
1968 - Denny McClain of the Detroit Tigers became the first pitcher in 37 years to record 31 wins in a season.
1968 - Mickey Mantle of the New York Yankees hits the 536th and final home run of his career.
1973 - Willie Mays announced his retirement from baseball.
1973 - Billie Jean King defeats Bobby Riggs in straight sets (6-4, 6-3, 6-3) in a $100,000 "Battle of the Sexes" tennis match at the Astrodome in Houston.
1981 - Running back Marcus Allen of USC rushed for 274 yards and two touchdowns in a 21-0 win over Indiana.
1982 - The NFL Players Association announced that a strike would begin at the completion of the Packers-Giants game on Monday night.
1984 - Pete Rose of the Cincinnati Reds recorded his 100th hit of the season, the 22nd consecutive season he had recorded at least 100 hits in a season.
1987 - Walter Payton of the Chicago Bears scored his 107th career touchdown, breaking Jim Brown's record.
1998 - Baltimore Orioles shortstop Cal Ripken Jr. sat out a game, ending his record consecutive games played streak at 2,632.
2013 - Alex Rodriguez of the New York Yankees sets a new major league record with his 24th career grand slam home run.
2019 - Antonio Brown was released by the New England Patriots after a second woman accused him of sexual misconduct; he had played just one game since being signed by the Patriots.