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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HMAS AE1
Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
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| Feast of the Cross (Christianity) | unreferenced section |
| 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. | 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). | unreferenced section |
| 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 |
| 1926 – The Locarno Treaties establishing post-First World War territorial settlements were formally ratified by the signatory nations and came into effect. | refimprove section |
| 1946 – Residents of the Faroe Islands narrowly approved a referendum on independence from Denmark. | refimprove section |
| 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. | refimprove section |
| 1959 – The Soviet spacecraft Luna 2 crashed onto and became the first man-made object to reach the Moon. | multiple issues |
| 1975 – Elizabeth Ann Seton became the first native-born citizen of the United States to be canonized. | refimprove section |
| 1992 – The Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina declared the breakaway Croatian Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia to be illegal. | unreferenced section |
Eligible
- 1763 – About 300 Seneca warriors during Pontiac's Rebellion attacked a British Army detachment, killing 81 soldiers.
- 1911 – Prime Minister of Russia Pyotr Stolypin was shot and mortally wounded at the Kiev Opera House.
- 1914 – HMAS AE1, the Royal Australian Navy's first submarine, was lost at sea; its wreck has never been found.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1979 – Afghan President Nur Muhammad Taraki was assassinated upon the order of Hafizullah Amin, who became the new president.
- 2003 – Kumba Ialá, the President of Guinea-Bissau, was deposed in a bloodless coup.
- 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.
- 2015 – Physicists of the LIGO and Virgo projects first observed gravitational waves, the existence of which was predicted by Henri Poincaré in 1905.
Notes
- Big Stick ideology appears on September 2 and Assassination of William McKinley appears on September 6, so Roosevelt should not appear in the same year.
- 81 – Domitian, the last Flavian emperor of Rome, was confirmed by the Senate to succeed his brother Titus.
- 1723 – António Manoel de Vilhena, Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller, laid the first stone of Fort Manoel (pictured) in Malta.
- 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.
- 2008 – All 88 people aboard Aeroflot Flight 821 died when the aircraft crashed on approach to Perm International Airport in Perm Krai, Russia.