14th September anniversaries

• Birth
  • 1909
  • "Birth of Peter Scott, British conservationist and artist who founded the World Wildlife Fund (now called the World Wide Fund for Nature)"
• event
  • 1741
  • Great Britain
  • Having started work on August 22nd 1741 Handel completed the Messiah. more
  • 1759
  • Great Britain
  • "One of the earliest educational board games A Journey Through Europe or The Play of Geography went on sale, invented by John Jefferys and published by Carington Bowles." more
  • 1814
  • United States
  • "Francis Scott Key completed the poem Defence of Fort McHenry, later set to music as The Star Spangled Banner. " more
  • 1948
  • The groundbreaking ceremony took place for the United Nations world headquarters in New York.
  • 1958
  • Two rockets designed by the German engineer Ernst Mohr successfully reached the upper atmosphere.
  • 1959
  • Soviet space probe Luna 2 became the first spacecraft to land on the Moon
  • 1984
  • South African Prime Minister P.W. Botha became the first State President
  • 1996
  • Bosnia held its first nationwide elections since the end of the civil war
• Death
  • 407
  • Turkey
  • "St John Chrysostom died in exile. Patriarch of Constantinople, theologian and preacher, revered in East and West." more
  • 891
  • Italy
  • Death of Pope Stephen V more
  • 1523
  • Netherlands
  • Death of Pope Adrian VI more
  • 1715
  • France
  • "Death of Dom Pérignon, the French monk who may (or may not) have invented champagne." more
  • 1851
  • United States
  • "Death of James Fenimore Cooper, novelist who wrote stories about seafaring and, famously, The Last of the Mohicans" more
  • 1852
  • Great Britain
  • "Death of the Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, victor at Waterloo and British Prime Minister."
  • 1927
  • United States
  • "Death of Isadora Duncan, American dancer." more
  • 1982
  • United States
  • Death of Princess Grace of Monaco more