Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/September 14
This is a list of selected September 14 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article or picture of the day.
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| Blurb | Reason |
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| 786 – Harun al-Rashid became the Abbasid caliph upon the death of his brother al-Hadi. | refimprove |
| 1607 – Flight of the Earls: Hugh O'Neill, 2nd Earl of Tyrone, Rory O'Donnell, 1st Earl of Tyrconnell, and their families and followers departed Ireland for Spain. | Tagged with {{refimprove}} |
| 1752 – In adopting the Gregorian calendar under the terms of the Calendar (New Style) Act 1750, the British Empire skipped eleven days (September 2 was followed directly by September 14). | refimprove |
| 1812 – French invasion of Russia: Following the Battle of Borodino seven days earlier, Napoleon and his Grande Armée captured Moscow, only to find the city deserted and burning. | needs more footnotes |
| 1911 – Prime Minister of Russia Pyotr Stolypin was mortally shot at the Kiev Opera House. | unreferenced section |
| 1927 – In a freak automobile accident, dancer Isadora Duncan was strangled to death in Nice, France, by her scarf after it got caught on the wheel of a car in which she was a passenger. | unreferenced section |
| 1959 – The Soviet spacecraft Luna 2 crashed onto and became the first man-made object to reach the Moon. | tagged with {{Refimprove}} |
| 1960 – At a conference held in Baghdad, the governments of Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and Venezuela founded OPEC to help unify and coordinate their petroleum policies. | refimprove section |
| 1975 – Elizabeth Ann Seton became the first native-born citizen of the United States to be canonized. | refimprove |
Eligible
- 1901 – Theodore Roosevelt became President of the United States at age 42, the youngest person ever to do so, eight days after William McKinley was fatally wounded in Buffalo, New York.
- 1982 – President-elect of Lebanon Bachir Gemayel was assassinated when a bomb exploded in the Beirut headquarters of the Phalange.
- 2003 – Kumba Ialá, the President of Guinea-Bissau, was deposed in a bloodless coup.
September 14: Feast of the Cross (Christianity)
- 1946 – Residents of the Faroe Islands narrowly approved a referendum on independence from Denmark.
- 1954 – In a top secret nuclear test, a Soviet Tu-4 bomber dropped a 40-kiloton atomic weapon just north of Totskoye village, exposing some 45,000 soldiers and 10,000 civilians to nuclear fallout.
- 1979 – Afghan President Nur Muhammad Taraki (pictured) was assassinated upon the order of Hafizullah Amin, who became the new president.
- 1992 – The Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina declared the breakaway Croatian Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia to be illegal.
- 2007 – Late-2000s financial crisis: The Northern Rock bank received a liquidity support facility from the Bank of England, sparking a bank run—the United Kingdom's first in 150 years.