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Saturday, 13 September 2014
On this day... September 14:
On this day...
September 14
:
Feast of the Cross
(Christianity)
81
–
Domitian
became the last
Flavian emperor
of
Rome
, succeeding his brother
Titus
.
1752
– In adopting the
Gregorian calendar
under the terms of the
Calendar (New Style) Act 1750
, the
British Empire
skipped eleven days: (
September 2
was followed directly by
September 14
).
1901
–
Theodore Roosevelt
became
President of the United States
at age 42, the youngest person ever to do so, eight days after
William McKinley
was
fatally wounded
in
Buffalo, New York
.
1911
–
Prime Minister of Russia
Pyotr Stolypin
(pictured)
was mortally shot at the
Kiev Opera House
.
2003
–
Kumba Ialá
, the
President of Guinea-Bissau
, was deposed in a bloodless
coup
.
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