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Events

• 1682 (344 years ago) Bishop Gore School, one of the oldest schools in Wales, is founded.
• 1723 (303 years ago) Grand Master António Manoel de Vilhena lays down the first stone of Fort Manoel in Malta.
• 1939 (87 years ago) World War II: The Estonian military boards the Polish submarine ORP Orzeł in Tallinn, sparking a diplomatic incident that the Soviet Union will later use to justify the annexation of Estonia.
• 1940 (86 years ago) Ip massacre: The Hungarian Army, supported by local Hungarians, kill 158 Romanian civilians in Ip, Sălaj, a village in Northern Transylvania, an act of ethnic cleansing.
• 1992 (34 years ago) The Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina declares the breakaway Croatian Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia to be illegal.
• 1999 (27 years ago) Kiribati, Nauru and Tonga join the United Nations.
• 2003 (23 years ago) In a referendum, Estonia approves joining the European Union.
• 2019 (7 years ago) Yemen's Houthi rebels claim responsibility for an attack on Saudi Arabian oil facilities.

Births

• 1580 (446 years ago) Francisco de Quevedo, Spanish poet and politician (died 1645)
• 1769 (257 years ago) Alexander von Humboldt, German geographer and explorer (died 1859)
• 1791 (235 years ago) Franz Bopp, German linguist and academic (died 1867)
• 1879 (147 years ago) Margaret Sanger, American nurse and activist (died 1966)
• 1937 (89 years ago) Renzo Piano, Italian architect and engineer, designed The Shard and The New York Times Building
• 1947 (79 years ago) Sam Neill, New Zealand actor (died 2026)
• 1955 (71 years ago) Pope Leo XIV,
• 1983 (43 years ago) Amy Winehouse, British singer-songwriter, musician, and businesswoman (died 2011)

Deaths

• 407 (1619 years ago) John Chrysostom, Byzantine archbishop and saint (born 347)
• 1321 (705 years ago) Dante Alighieri, Italian writer (born 1265)
• 1851 (175 years ago) James Fenimore Cooper, American novelist, short story writer, and historian (born 1789)
• 1852 (174 years ago) Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, Irish-English field marshal and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (born 1769)
• 1901 (125 years ago) William McKinley, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 25th President of the United States (born 1843)
• 1927 (99 years ago) Isadora Duncan, American-Russian dancer and choreographer (born 1877)
• 1937 (89 years ago) Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, Czech sociologist and politician, 1st President of Czechoslovakia (born 1850)
• 1982 (44 years ago) Grace Kelly, American-Monegasque actress; Princess of Monaco (born 1929)

All 474 events, births and deaths of September 14