WHAT HAPPENED ON 20. SEPTEMBER
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Bishop John Coleridge Patteson is martyred on the island of Nukapu, a Polynesian outlier island now in the Temotu Province of the Solomon Islands. He is the first bishop of Melanesia. (20. September 1871)

Chester A. Arthur is inaugurated as the 21st President of the United States following the assassination of James Garfield. (20. September 1881)

Charles Duryea and his brother road-test the first American-made gasoline-powered automobile. (20. September 1893)

Cunard Line's RMS Mauretania is launched at the Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson shipyard in Newcastle upon Tyne, England. (20. September 1906)

The Parliament of the United Kingdom passes the South Africa Act 1909, creating the Union of South Africa from the British Colonies of the Cape of Good Hope, Natal, Orange River Colony, and the Transvaal Colony. (20. September 1909)

The ocean liner SS France, later known as the "Versailles of the Atlantic", is launched. (20. September 1910)

White Star Line's RMS Olympic collides with British warship HMS Hawke. (20. September 1911)

Foundation of the Spanish Legion. (20. September 1920)

Syro-Malankara Catholic Church is formed by Archbishop Mar Ivanios. (20. September 1930)

Holocaust in Letychiv, Ukraine. In the course of two days the German SS murders at least 3,000 Jews. (20. September 1942)

The first Cannes Film Festival is held, having been delayed seven years due to World War II. (20. September 1946)

Greek general Konstantinos Dovas becomes Prime Minister of Greece. (20. September 1961)

James Meredith, an African-American, is temporarily barred from entering the University of Mississippi. (20. September 1962)

RMS Queen Elizabeth 2 is launched at John Brown & Company, Clydebank, Scotland. It is operated by the Cunard Line. (20. September 1967)

Syrian tanks roll into Jordan in response to continued fighting between Jordan and the fedayeen. (20. September 1970)

Having weakened after making landfall in Nicaragua the previous day, Hurricane Irene regains enough strength to be renamed Hurricane Olivia, making it the first known hurricane to cross from the Atlantic Ocean into the Pacific. (20. September 1971)

Billie Jean King beats Bobby Riggs in The Battle of the Sexes tennis match at the Houston Astrodome in Houston, Texas. (20. September 1973)

The Socialist Republic of Vietnam is admitted to the United Nations. (20. September 1977)

A coup d'état in the Central African Empire overthrows Emperor Bokasa I. (20. September 1979)

The National Football League players begin a 57-day strike. (20. September 1982)