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20 September, 2007
Jose Mourinho, Chelsea FC manager sensationally leaves Stamford Bridge due to mutual consent. Jose Mourinho is said to have left due to pressure from Roman Abramovich
20 September, 2003
A referendum is held in Latvia to decide the countrys accession to the European Union. Maldives civil unrest: the death of prisoner Hassan Evan Naseem sparks a day of rioting in Malé.
20 September, 2002
Kolka-Karmadon rock/ice slide started.
20 September, 2001
In an address to a joint session of Congress and the American People president George W. Bush declares "war on terror".
20 September, 2000
The British MI6 Secret Intelligence Service building was attacked by a Russian-built Mark 22 anti-tank missile
20 September, 1998
Major League Baseball: Cal Ripken, Jr of the Baltimore Orioles takes a day off after playing a record 2,632 consecutive games.
20 September, 1992
National Football League: Brett Favre, quarterback of the Green Bay Packers, begins his most consecutive starts streak for a quarterback in the NFL.
20 September, 1990
South Ossetia declares its independence from Georgia.
20 September, 1984
A suicide bomber in a car attacks the U.S. embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, killing twenty-two people. The popular American sitcoms The Cosby Show and Whos The Boss? premiere on NBC and ABC respectively.
20 September, 1979
Lee Iacocca is elected president of the Chrysler Corporation. A coup détat in the Central African Empire overthrows Emperor Bokasa I. The Punjab wing of the Unity Centre of Communist Revolutionaries of India (Marxist-Leninist) formally splits and constitutes a parallel UCCRI(ML). Assassination of French left-wing militant Pierre Goldman.
20 September, 1977
The Socialist Republic of Vietnam is admitted to the United Nations
20 September, 1973
Billie Jean King beats Bobby Riggs in battle-of-sexes tennis match at the Houston Astrodome in Houston, Texas.
20 September, 1970
Syrian tanks roll into Jordan in response to continued fighting between Jordan and the fedayeen. The Jordanians knock out 30 of the Syrian tanks.
20 September, 1969
John Lennon leaves The Beatles but does not make a public announcement
20 September, 1967
The RMS Queen Elizabeth 2 is launched at John Brown & Company, Clydebank, Scotland. It is operated by the Cunard Line.
20 September, 1962
James Meredith, an African-American, is barred from entering the University of Mississippi.
20 September, 1959
Brion Gysin makes his first cut-up in the Beat Hotel in Paris.
20 September, 1954
New Zealands Special Committee on Moral Delinquency in Children and Adolescents reports just ten days after concluding hearings.
20 September, 1946
The first Cannes Film Festival is held.
20 September, 1942
Holocaust in Letychiv, Ukraine. In the course of two days German SS murders at least 3.000 Jews
20 September, 1940
Genevieve Grotjan completes the decryption of the Japanese Purple code.
20 September, 1939
A German Messerschmitt Bf 109 is shot down by Fairey Battle gunner Sgt. F. Letchard during a patrol near Aachen. This is the RAFs first aerial victory of the Second World War.
20 September, 1930
Syro-Malankara Catholic Church was formed by Archbishop Mar Ivanios
20 September, 1920
Foundation of the Spanish Legion.
20 September, 1917
Paraguay becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
20 September, 1906
Cunard Lines RMS Mauretania is launched at the Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson shipyard in Newcastle, England.
20 September, 1891
The first gasoline-powered car debuts in Springfield, Massachusetts, United States.
20 September, 1881
Chester A. Arthur is inaugurated as the 21st President of the United States.
20 September, 1879
Cliftonville Football Club, the oldest club in Ireland, is founded by John McCredy McAlery.
20 September, 1871
Bishop John Coleridge Patteson martyred on the island of Nukapu a Polynesian outlier island now in the Temotu province of the Solomon Islands. He was the first bishop of Melanesia.
20 September, 1870
Bersaglieri corps enters Rome through Porta Pia and completes the unification of Italy; see capture of Rome.
20 September, 1863
American Civil War: The Battle of Chickamauga ends.
20 September, 1860
The Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII of the United Kingdom) visits the United States.
20 September, 1857
The Indian Mutiny ends with the recapture of Delhi by troops loyal to the East India Company.
20 September, 1854
Battle of Alma: British and French troops defeat Russians in the Crimea.
20 September, 1835
Farroupilhas Revolution begins in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.
20 September, 1792
French troops stop allied invasion of France, during the War of the First Coalition at Valmy.
20 September, 1737
Runner Edward Marshall completes his journey in the Walking Purchase forcing the cession of 1.2 million acres (4,860 km²) of Lenape-Delaware tribal land to the Pennsylvania Colony.
20 September, 1633
Galileo Galilei is tried before the Inquisition for teaching that the Earth orbits the Sun.
20 September, 1596
Diego de Montemayor founded the city of Monterrey in New Spain.
20 September, 1519
Ferdinand Magellan - set sail from Sanlúcar de Barrameda with about 270 men on his expedition to circumnavigate the globe.
20 September, 1378
Cardinal Robert of Geneva, called by some the Butcher of Cesena, is elected as Avignon Pope Clement VII, beginning the Papal schism.
20 September, 1187
Saladin begins the Siege of Jerusalem.
20 September, 451
According to some sources, this was the date of the Battle of Chalons: Flavius Aetius victory over Attila the Hun.

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