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September 14

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197

Treaty of Adrianople

197 years ago

Born this day

1955

Leo XIV

Turns 71

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1818th

Diadumenian

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AD 208 · 1818 yrs

Diadumenian

Diadumenian ( dy-AD-uu-MEE-nee-ən; Latin: Marcus Opellius Antoninus Diadumenianus; 14 September 208 – June 218) was the son of the Roman emperor Macrinus and served as his co-ruler for a brief time in 218.

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RoyaltyDied aged 9

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1486 · 540 yrs

Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa

Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim (German:; 14 September 1486 – 18 February 1535) was a German Renaissance polymath, physician, legal scholar, alchemist, soldier, knight, theologian, and occult writer.

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ScienceDied aged 48

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1580 · 446 yrs

Francisco Quevedo

Francisco Gómez de Quevedo y Santibáñez Villegas, Knight of the Order of Santiago (Spanish pronunciation:; 14 September 1580 – 8 September 1645), was a Spanish nobleman, politician and writer of the Baroque era.

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LiteratureDied aged 64

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1583 · 443 yrs

Albrecht von Wallenstein

Albrecht Wenzel Eusebius von Wallenstein, Duke of Friedland (24 September 1583 – 25 February 1634), also von Waldstein (Czech: Albrecht Václav Eusebius z Valdštejna), was a Bohemian military leader, statesman and a major figure of the Thirty Years' War, fighting on the Catholic side as supreme commander of the armies…

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MilitaryDied aged 50

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1769 · 257 yrs

Alexander von Humboldt

Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt (14 September 1769 – 6 May 1859) was a German polymath, geographer, naturalist, explorer, and proponent of Romantic philosophy and science. He was the younger brother of the Prussian minister, philosopher, and linguist Wilhelm von Humboldt (1767–1835).

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ScienceDied aged 89

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1791 · 235 yrs

Franz Bopp

Franz Bopp (German:; 14 September 1791 – 23 October 1867) was a German linguist known for extensive and pioneering comparative work on Indo-European languages.

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ScholarshipDied aged 76

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1817 · 209 yrs

Theodor Storm

Hans Theodor Woldsen Storm (German pronunciation:; 14 September 1817 – 4 July 1888), commonly known as Theodor Storm, was a German-Frisian writer and poet. He is considered to be one of the most important figures of German realism.

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LiteratureDied aged 70

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1864 · 162 yrs

Robert Cecil

Edgar Algernon Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, (14 September 1864 – 24 November 1958), known as Lord Robert Cecil from 1868 to 1923, was a British lawyer, politician and diplomat.

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PoliticsDied aged 94

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1879 · 147 yrs

Margaret Sanger

Margaret Sanger (née Higgins; September 14, 1879 – September 6, 1966) was an American birth control activist, sex educator, writer, and nurse. She opened the first birth control clinic in the United States, founded Planned Parenthood, and was instrumental in the development of the first birth control pill.

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1913 · 113 yrs

Jacobo Árbenz

Juan Jacobo Árbenz Guzmán (Spanish:; 14 September 1913 – 27 January 1971) was a Guatemalan military officer and politician who served as the 25th president of Guatemala. He was Minister of National Defense from 1944 to 1950, before he became the second democratically elected President of Guatemala, from 1951 to 1954.

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1920 · 106 yrs

Lawrence Klein

Lawrence Robert Klein (September 14, 1920 – October 20, 2013) was an American economist.

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1937 · 89 yrs

Renzo Piano

Renzo Piano (Italian:; born 14 September 1937) is an Italian architect.

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ArtAge 89

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Famous deaths20

1523 · 503 yrs

Adrian VI

Pope Adrian VI (Latin: Hadrianus VI; Italian: Adriano VI; German: Hadrian VI.; Dutch: Adrianus/Adriaan VI), born Adriaan Florensz Boeyens (2 March 1459 – 14 September 1523), was head of the Catholic Church and leader of the Papal States from 9 January 1522 until his death on 14 September 1523.

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ReligionDied aged 64

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1712 · 314 yrs

Giovanni Domenico Cassini

Giovanni Domenico Cassini (8-11 June 1625 – 14 September 1712) was an Italian-French mathematician, astronomer, astrologer and engineer. Cassini was born in Perinaldo, near Imperia, at that time in the County of Nice, part of the Savoyard state.

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ScienceDied aged 87

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1836 · 190 yrs

Aaron Burr

Aaron Burr Jr. (February 6, 1756 – September 14, 1836) was an American politician, businessman, and lawyer who served as the third vice president of the United States from 1801 to 1805, during Thomas Jefferson's first presidential term.

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PoliticsDied aged 80

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1851 · 175 yrs

James Fenimore Cooper

James Fenimore Cooper (September 15, 1789 – September 14, 1851) was an American writer of the first half of the 19th century, whose historical romances depicting colonial and indigenous characters from the 17th to the 19th centuries brought him fame and fortune.

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LiteratureDied aged 61

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1852 · 174 yrs

Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington

Field Marshal Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington (né Wesley; 1 May 1769 – 14 September 1852), was a British Army officer and statesman. A leading figure in early-19th-century British politics, Wellesley served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and as Commander-in-Chief of the Forces.

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PoliticsDied aged 83

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1901 · 125 yrs

William McKinley

William McKinley (January 29, 1843 – September 14, 1901) was the 25th president of the United States, serving from 1897 until his assassination in 1901. A member of the Republican Party, he led a realignment that made Republicans largely dominant in the industrial states and nationwide for decades.

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PoliticsDied aged 58

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1916 · 110 yrs

José Echegaray

José Echegaray y Eizaguirre (Spanish pronunciation:; 19 April 1832 – 14 September 1916) was a Spanish civil engineer, mathematician, politician, and one of the leading dramatists of the last quarter of the 19th century.

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LiteratureDied aged 84

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1926 · 100 yrs

Rudolf Christoph Eucken

Rudolf Christoph Eucken (German:; 5 January 1846 – 15 September 1926) was a German philosopher.

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PhilosophyDied aged 80

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1927 · 99 yrs

Isadora Duncan

Angela Isadora Duncan (May 26, 1877, or May 27, 1878 – September 14, 1927) was an American-born dancer and choreographer, who was a pioneer of modern contemporary dance and performed to great acclaim throughout Europe and the United States.

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1937 · 89 yrs

Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk

Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk (7 March 1850 – 14 September 1937) was a Czechoslovak statesman, political activist and philosopher who served as the first president of Czechoslovakia from 1918 to 1935. He is regarded as the founding father of Czechoslovakia.

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PoliticsDied aged 87

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1964 · 62 yrs

Vasily Grossman

Vasily Semyonovich Grossman (Russian: Васи́лий Семёнович Гро́ссман; 12 December 1905 – 14 September 1964) was a Soviet writer and journalist.

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1966 · 60 yrs

Cemal Gürsel

Cemal Gürsel (13 October 1895 – 14 September 1966) was a Turkish military officer and politician who was the president of Turkey from 1960 to 1966 after taking power in a coup d'état.

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Events5

1829 · 197 yrs

Treaty of Adrianople

The Treaty of Adrianople (also called the Treaty of Edirne) concluded the Russo-Turkish War of 1828–29, between Imperial Russia and the Ottoman Empire. The terms favored Russia, which gained access to the mouths of the Danube and new territory on the Black Sea.

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Politics

1944 · 82 yrs

Battle of Hürtgen Forest

The Battle of Hürtgen Forest (German: Schlacht im Hürtgenwald) was a series of battles fought from 19 September to 16 December 1944, between American and German forces on the Western Front during World War II, in the Hürtgen Forest, a 140 km2 (54 mi2) area about 5 km (3.1 mi) east of the Belgian–German border.

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War

1944 · 82 yrs

Baltic Offensive

The Baltic offensive, also known as the Baltic strategic offensive, was the military campaign between the northern Fronts of the Red Army and the German Army Group North in the Baltic States during the autumn of 1944.

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War

2014 · 12 yrs

2014 Swedish general election

General elections were held in Sweden on 14 September 2014 to elect all 349 seats in the Riksdag, alongside elections for the 21 county councils, and 290 municipal assemblies.

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Politics

2019 · 7 yrs

2019 Abqaiq-Khurais attack

On 14 September 2019, drones were used to attack oil processing facilities at Abqaiq and Khurais in eastern Saudi Arabia. The facilities were operated by Saudi Aramco, the country's state-owned oil company.

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