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September 20 is the 263rd day of the year (264th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 102 days remain until the end of the year. Events. Pre-1600
1985 - Death of Paul Flory, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1910) 2003 - Death of Edward Teller, Hungarian-born physicist (b. 1908) September 10: 1749 - Death of Émilie du Châtelet, French mathematician and physicist (b. 1706) 1846 - Elias Howe is granted a patent for the sewing machine.
September 20. Great Buddha of Kamakura. 1498 – A tsunami caused by the Meiō earthquake washed away the building housing the statue of the Great Buddha (pictured) at Kōtoku-in in Kamakura, Japan; the statue has since stood in the open air. 1792 – The French Army achieved its first major victory of the War of the First Coalition at the ...
September 1. Illuminated Guru Granth Sahib folio. 1145 – The main altar of Lund Cathedral, then the Catholic cathedral of all the Nordic countries, was dedicated to Saint Lawrence and the Virgin Mary. 1604 – The Guru Granth Sahib (folio depicted), the religious text of Sikhism, was installed in the Golden Temple in Amritsar.
In 2019, it had 20 million unique visitors each month. The same year, journalist Taylor Lorenz of The Atlantic described a Famous Birthdays page as a "status symbol" or "badge of honor" for internet personalities, noting its teenage and Generation Z demographic [8] and Lorenz for The New York Times calling it a "a milestone in any influencer ...
Signature. Stephen Robert Irwin (22 February 1962 – 4 September 2006), known as " The Crocodile Hunter ", was an Australian zookeeper, conservationist, television personality, wildlife educator, and environmentalist . Irwin grew up around crocodiles and other types of reptiles and was educated regarding them by his father, Bob.
Explosion and fire at Jose Cuervo tequila factory kill five, Mexican officials say
September 14. September 14 is the 257th day of the year (258th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 108 days remain until the end of the year.