History Events on September 14

The Indian Army captures the city of Aurangabad as part of Operation Polo.

#Indian_Army

Domitian becomes Emperor of the Roman Empire upon the death of his brother Titus.

#Domitian

World War II: Maastricht becomes the first Dutch city to be liberated by allied forces.

#Maastricht

The first observation of gravitational waves was made, announced by the LIGO and Virgo collaborations on 11 February 2016.

#First_observation_of_gravitational_waves

World War II: The Wehrmacht starts a three-day retaliatory operation targeting several Greek villages in the region of Viannos, whose death toll would eventually exceed 500 persons.

#Wehrmacht

Flight of the Earls from Lough Swilly, Donegal, Ireland.

#Flight_of_the_Earls

The Ottoman Empire signs the Treaty of Adrianople with Russia, thus ending the Russo-Turkish War.

#Ottoman_Empire

The Russian Empire is formally replaced by the Russian Republic.

#Russian_Empire

Afghan President Nur Muhammad Taraki is assassinated upon the order of Hafizullah Amin, who becomes the new president.

#President_of_Afghanistan

The Papal States lose Avignon to Revolutionary France.

#Papal_States

President-elect of Lebanon Bachir Gemayel is assassinated.

#Bachir_Gemayel

Kiribati, Nauru and Tonga join the United Nations.

#Kiribati

In a referendum, Estonia approves joining the European Union.

#Estonia

American Revolutionary War: Review of the French troops under General Rochambeau by General George Washington at Verplanck's Point, New York.

#American_Revolutionary_War

The British Empire adopts the Gregorian calendar, skipping eleven days (the previous day was September 2).

#British_Empire

Grand Master António Manoel de Vilhena lays down the first stone of Fort Manoel in Malta.

#António_Manoel_de_Vilhena

HMAS AE1, the Royal Australian Navy's first submarine, was lost at sea with all hands near East New Britain, Papua New Guinea.

#HMAS_AE1

American Civil War: The Battle of South Mountain, part of the Maryland Campaign, is fought.

#American_Civil_War

Emperor Heraclius enters Constantinople in triumph after his victory over the Persian Empire.

#Heraclius

Ip massacre: The Hungarian Army, supported by local Hungarians, kill 158 Romanian civilians in Ip, S?laj, a village in Northern Transylvania, an act of ethnic cleansing.

#Ip_massacre

The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) is founded.

#OPEC

Genpei War: Battle of Ishibashiyama in Japan.

#Genpei_War

Historic National Prayer Service held at Washington National Cathedral for victims of the September 11 attacks. A similar service is held in Canada on Parliament Hill, the largest vigil ever held in the nation's capital.

#Washington_National_Cathedral

Yemen's Houthi rebels claim responsibility for an attack on Saudi Arabian oil facilities.

#Yemen

Financial crisis of 2007-2008: The Northern Rock bank experiences the first bank run in the United Kingdom in 150 years.

#Financial_crisis_of_2007-2008

Bishop Gore School, one of the oldest schools in Wales, is founded.

#Bishop_Gore_School

Battle of Baltimore: The poem Defence of Fort McHenry is written by Francis Scott Key. The poem is later used as the lyrics of The Star-Spangled Banner.

#Battle_of_Baltimore

Penang Bridge, the longest bridge in Malaysia, connecting the island of Penang to the mainland, opens to traffic.

#Penang_Bridge

Lufthansa Flight 2904, an Airbus A320, crashes into an embankment after overshooting the runway at Ok?cie International Airport (now Warsaw Chopin Airport), killing two people.

#Lufthansa_Flight_2904

The first American saint, Elizabeth Ann Seton, is canonized by Pope Paul VI.

#Elizabeth_Ann_Seton

Napoleonic Wars: The French Grande Armée enters Moscow. The Fire of Moscow begins as soon as Russian troops leave the city.

#Napoleonic_Wars

World War II: The Estonian military boards the Polish submarine ORP Orze? in Tallinn, sparking a diplomatic incident that the Soviet Union will later use to justify the annexation of Estonia.

#ORP_Orze?_(1938)

The Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina declares the breakaway Croatian Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia to be illegal.

#Bosnia_and_Herzegovina

George Frideric Handel completes his oratorio Messiah.

#George_Frideric_Handel

U.S. President William McKinley dies after being mortally wounded on September 6 by anarchist Leon Czolgosz and is succeeded by Vice President Theodore Roosevelt.

#William_McKinley

Microsoft releases Windows ME.

#Microsoft

"Night of the three Caliphs": Harun al-Rashid becomes the Abbasid caliph upon the death of his brother al-Hadi. Birth of Harun's son al-Ma'mun.

#Harun_al-Rashid

Raoul Villain, who assassinated the French Socialist Jean Jaures, is himself killed by Spanish Republicans in Ibiza

#Raoul_Villain

Finnish War: Russians defeat the Swedes at the Battle of Oravais.

#Finnish_War

Congo Crisis: With CIA help, Mobutu Sese Seko seizes power in a military coup, suspending parliament and the constitution.

#Congo_Crisis

Telecommunications companies MCI Communications and WorldCom complete their $37 billion merger to form MCI WorldCom.

Eighty-one killed as five bogies of the Ahmedabad-Howrah Express plunge into a river in Bilaspur district of Madhya Pradesh, India.

The Major League Baseball season is canceled because of a strike.

Joe Kittinger becomes the first person to fly a gas balloon alone across the Atlantic Ocean.

The US Selective Service selects September 14 as the First Draft Lottery date.

The Soviet probe Luna 2 crashes onto the Moon, becoming the first man-made object to reach it.

The first two German post-war rockets, designed by the German engineer Ernst Mohr, reach the upper atmosphere.

In a top secret nuclear test, a Soviet Tu-4 bomber drops a 40 kiloton atomic weapon just north of Totskoye village.

Jang Bahadur and his brothers massacre about 40 members of the Nepalese palace court.

Seneca warriors defeat British forces at the Battle of Devil's Hole during Pontiac's War.

Battle of Homildon Hill results in an English victory over Scotland.

Battle of Islandbridge: High King Niall Glúndub is killed while leading an Irish coalition against the Vikings of Uí Ímair, led by King Sitric Cáech.