In a September 14but from 1982, the American actress and princess of Monaco, Grace Kellyhe dies after having suffered a traffic accident in the Principality the previous day.
Other ephemeris
1791.- King Louis XVI accepts the first written constitution of the history of France under pressure of the National Assembly that had promulgated it two years before.
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1812.- Napoleon Bonaparte’s army enters Moscow, a ghost city emptied of supplies and burned by the Russians themselves, which later causes the withdrawal of the French.
1822.- The French historian Jean-Francois Champollion, considered the father of Egyptology, decipher the hieroglyphic writing of the stone of Rosetta.
1829.- The Russian and Ottoman empires sign the Treaty of Edirne or Adrianopolis for which the war with a clause that granted to Greece independence against the Turks.
1886.- George K. Anderson Patenta The first inked tape for writing machines in Memphis (USA).
1901.- Theodore Roosevelt becomes the youngest president in the history of the United States after the murder of his predecessor, William McKinley.
1911.- Russian Prime Minister Piotr Stolypin is shot at the kyiv Opera Theater by the revolutionary Dmitri Bogrov and dies in four days.
1917.- The provisional government of Aleksandr Kérenski, which overthrew Nicolas II in Russia, formally proclaims the Republic as a form of state (Julian calendar).
1930.- The social democratic list is the most voted in the Federal elections of Germany, but the Nazi party rises 95 seats and becomes the second force of Parliament.
1954.– A Soviet military plane launches an atomic bomb in Orenburg, south of the Ural Montes, a nuclear trial to study the effects of radiation on human beings.
1955.- The American musician Little Richard records “Tutti Frutti”, one of the most emblematic songs of rock music.
1959.- The unmanned space probe “Luna 2” clashes against the lunar surface and becomes the first ship to reach the moon.
1960.- The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) is founded in Baghdad (Iraq).
1964.- Eduardo Frei is elected president of Chile.
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1969.- Spanish athlete Ángel Nieto wins the first of his 13 championships in the world of motorcycling.
1979.- The British film Quadrophenia, based on the rock opera and reference of the MOD movement, opens at the Toronto International Festival.
1996.- The first general elections held in Bosnia and Herzegovina after four years of civil war give victory to the Democratic Action Party.
1999.- Joaquín Sabina publishes his album ’19 days and 500 nights’.
2002.- Ramzi Binalsibh, outstanding member of Al Qaeda and alleged “brain” of the 11-S attacks in the USA, is arrested in Karachi (Pakistan).
2003.- Estonia approves in referendum his adhesion to the European Union.
2010.- France prohibits the Islamic burka in all public spaces and becomes the first European country that applies this measure.
2023.- NASA creates a specialized department to investigate UFOs, now called ‘unidentified aerial phenomena’.
Births
1580.- Francisco de Quevedo, Spanish writer of the Golden Age.
1769.- Alejandro von Humboldt, German naturalist.
1846.- Joaquín Costa, Spanish politician and jurist, central figure of regenerationism.
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1879.- Margaret Sanger, American feminist.
1920.- Mario Benedetti, Uruguayan writer.
1929.- Larry Collins, American writer.
1942.- Félix Pons, Spanish politician.
1948.- Mario Conde, Spanish financial.
1968.- ARA Malikian, Lebanese violinist of Armenian descent.
1972.- Catalina Joanna Zita Sofía de Habsburg Lorena, Archduquess of Austria.
1983.- Amy Winehouse, British singer.
1986.- Michelle Jenner, Spanish actress.
Deaths
1321.- Dante Alighieri, Italian poet.
1852.- Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington, British military.
1916.- José Echegaray, Spanish writer, Nobel Prize for Literature.
1927.- Isadora Duncan, American dancer and actress.
1979.- Pastora Empire, Dancer and Spanish singer.
1982.- Grace Kelly, American actress and princess of Monaco.
2005.- Robert Wise, American filmmaker.
2009.- Patrick Swayze, American actor.
2014.- Isidoro Álvarez, Spanish entrepreneur.
2020.- Yoshihide Suga, Japanese politician.
2022.- Irene Papas, Greek actress.
