The White Star Line’s RMS Olympic collides with the British warship HMS Hawke. The RMS Olympic, the lead ship of the White Star Line’s celebrated…
Tag: 20 September
20 September 1586
A number of conspirators in the Babington Plot are hanged, drawn and quartered The Babington Plot was a conspiracy in 1586 to assassinate Queen Elizabeth…
20 September 2017
Hurricane Maria makes landfall in Puerto Rico as a powerful Category 4 hurricane, resulting in 2,975 deaths, US$90 billion in damage, and a major humanitarian…
20 September 2019
Roughly four million people, mostly students, demonstrate across the world to address climate change. Sixteen-year-old Greta Thunberg from Sweden leads the demonstration in New York…
20 September 2000
The United Kingdom’s MI6 Secret Intelligence Service building is attacked by individuals using a Russian-built RPG-22 anti-tank missile.
20 September 2011
The United States military ends its “Don’t ask, don’t tell” policy, allowing gay men and women to serve openly for the first time.
20 September 1984
A suicide bomber in a car attacks the U.S. embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, killing twenty-two people. [rdp-wiki-embed url=’https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1984_United_States_embassy_annex_bombing_in_Beirut’]
20 September 1967
RMS Queen Elizabeth 2 is launched Clydebank, Scotland. The following day, Wednesday, September 20, 1967, a ship that would play a very important part in…
20 September 1854
British and French troops defeat Russians in Crimea in the Battle of Alma. Battle of Alma, victory by the British and the French in the…
20 September 1066
The Viking Harald Hardrada defeats the earls, Morcar and Edwin in the Battle of Fulford.