148 years since the birth of Upton Sinclair, author of The Jungle
Upton Beall Sinclair Jr. was born on 20 September 1878 in Baltimore. He wrote dozens of books — novels, investigations, plays — and ran for office in...
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172 years since the Battle of the Alma, the Crimean War’s first major land clash
On 20 September 1854, on the heights south of the River Alma, British, French and Ottoman armies drove back Russian forces commanded by Prince Alexand...
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Jon Bernthal turns 50: from theatre to The Walking Dead and The Punisher
Jon Bernthal turns 50. Born in Washington, D.C., on 20 September 1976, he also studied at the Moscow Art Theatre School. Back in the United States he...
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80 years since the first Cannes Film Festival opened
On 20 September 1946 Cannes opened the first fully held edition of its international film festival. An edition had been prepared in 1939 as an alterna...
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507 years since Magellan’s expedition left Sanlúcar, beginning the first voyage around the world
On 20 September 1519 five ships left Sanlúcar de Barrameda for the Atlantic. The expedition had left Seville on 10 August and come down the Guadalquiv...
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243 years since the Montgolfier brothers’ demonstration flight with a sheep, a duck and a rooster
On 19 September 1783, in the forecourt of the Palace of Versailles, Joseph-Michel and Jacques-Étienne Montgolfier sent aloft a hot-air balloon carryin...
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15 years since Mariano Rivera set the MLB record with his 602nd save
On 19 September 2011, at Yankee Stadium, Mariano Rivera finished the ninth inning against the Minnesota Twins without allowing a runner to reach base....
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37 years since the bombing of UTA Flight 772, commemorated in the Ténéré Desert
On 19 September 1989 a UTA DC-10 bound for Paris broke up over the Ténéré Desert in Niger. The aircraft had left Brazzaville, with a stop in N'Djamena...
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53 years since the death of Gram Parsons, an advocate of “Cosmic American Music”
Gram Parsons died on 19 September 1973, aged 26, at Joshua Tree, California, from the toxic effects of drug use, according to biographical accounts. T...
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92 years since the birth of Brian Epstein, the manager who helped drive the Beatles’ rise
Brian Epstein was born in Liverpool on 19 September 1934 into a family of retailers. At the NEMS record shop, customer demand for the local scene brou...
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163 years since the Battle of Chickamauga began, one of the American Civil War’s fiercest clashes
On 19–20 September 1863, in the woods by Chickamauga Creek in north-western Georgia, the Army of the Cumberland met Braxton Bragg’s Confederate forces...
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Four years since the state funeral of Queen Elizabeth II
On 19 September 2022, Westminster Abbey hosted the state funeral of Queen Elizabeth II. 19 September 2026 marks four years since that day. The Queen h...
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