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Here are some interesting facts ih history happened on 20 September.

1. Magellan starts 1st succesSFul circumnavigation of the world
2. Paoli massacre
3. US frigate Constitution (Old Ironsides) launched in Boston
4. Slave trade abolished in DC but slavery allowed to continue
5. British & French defeat Russians at Alma in the Crimea
6. Patent granted on the electric range
7. Civil War Battle of Chickamauga near Chattanooga Tenn ended
8. US Grants come to SF for elaborate extended visit
9. Equal Rights Party nominates female candidates for Pres & VP
10. Yanks set team record 12 errors in a double header
11. German rocket engineers begin work in US
12. 1st North Pole jet crossing
13. 1st FORTRAN computer program run
14. After 84 1/3 innings Bill Fischer gives up a base on balls
15. Roger Maris hits home run # 59 & barely misses # 60 in game 154 of the season Yanks clinch pennant #26
16. Mickey Mantle hits final career homer # 536
17. Luna 16 lands on Moon's Mare Fecunditatis drills core sample
18. Billy Jean King beats Bobby Riggs in battle-of-sexes tennis match
19. Plaque dedicated in Thurmon Munson's memory at Yankee Stadium
20. WDW's 200-millonth guest

These famous people were born on 20 September.

1. 0086 - Antoninus Pius, Roman Emperor
2. 0357 - Alexander III the Great, king of Macedonia, emperor
3. 1833 - Ernesto Teodoro Moneta, Italian journalist (Nobel Peace Prize 1907)
4. 1878 - Upton Sinclair, novelist (Jungle)
5. 1885 - Ferdinand (Jelly Roll) Morton, jazz pianist, composer, singer
6. 1920 - Alexander Thereat
7. 1924 - James Galanos
8. 1927 - Rachael Roberts
9. 1929 - Anne Meara, in NYC
10. 1934 - Sophia Loren, Rome (Desire Under the Elms, Black Orchid)
11. 1938 - Tom Tresh, NY Yankee
12. 1959 - Allanah Currie, (Thompson Twins')