Major Events
- 622 Prophet Muhammad arrives in Yathrib (Medina)
- 1519 Spanish expedition led by Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan sets off on the first successful circumnavigation of the globe (Magellan is killed en route)
- 1604 Siege of Ostend ends after Dutch and English forces surrender the city, allowing Ambrosio Spinola’s Spanish army to recapture the devastated city and end one of the bloodiest sieges in history that caused an estimated 100,000 casualties
- 1854 Battle of the Alma: British, French, and Ottoman alliance defeats the Russian Empire in the first major battle of the Crimean War
- 1870 Rome is captured by the Italian army after Pope Pius IX surrenders to King Victor Emmanuel II, unifying Italy and ending the 1,116-year reign of the Papal States
- 1990 East Germany and West Germany both ratify the reunification plan
- 2001 In an address to a joint session of Congress and the American people, US President George W. Bush declares a “war on terror”
- 2019 Students from 185 countries stage the world’s largest-ever protest on climate change, culminating in a Manhattan rally led by Greta Thunberg
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- 1969 Virtual cartoon band The Archies’ single “Sugar, Sugar” hits #1
Sep 20 in Sport
Did You Know?
Maryland passes the first anti-amalgamation law to stop the intermarriage of English women and Black men
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