Today in History, September 14th

de bene esse: literally, of well-being, morally acceptable but subject to future validation or exception

A few of the great historical events that happened today in history, September 14th!

1321	Dante Alighieri dies of malaria just hours after finishing writing Paradiso.
1544	Henry VIII’s forces take Boulogne, France.
1773	Russian forces under Aleksandr Suvorov successfully storm a Turkish fort at Hirsov, Turkey.
1791	Louis XVI swears his allegiance to the French constitution.
1812	Napoleon Bonaparte’s invasion of Russia reaches its climax as his Grande Armee enters Moscow–only to find the enemy capital deserted and burning, set afire by the few Russians who remained.
1814	Francis Scott Key writes the words to the “Star Spangled Banner” as he waits aboard a British launch in the Chesapeake Bay for the outcome of the British assault on Fort McHenry during the War of 1812. Francis Scott Key
1847	U.S. forces under Gen. Winfield Scott capture Mexico City, virtually bringing the two-year Mexican War to a close.
1853	The Allies land at Eupatoria on the west coast of Crimea.
1862	At the battles of South Mountain and Crampton’s Gap, Maryland Union troops smash into the Confederates as they close in on what will become the Antietam battleground.
1901	Vice President Theodore Roosevelt is sworn in as the 26th President of the United States upon the death of William McKinley, who was shot eight days earlier.
1911	Russian Premier Piotr Stolypin is mortally wounded in an assassination attempt at the Kiev opera house.
1940	Congress passed the Selective Training and Service Act, providing for the first peacetime draft in U.S. history.
1943	German troops abandon the Salerno front in Italy..
1959	The Soviet space probe Luna 2 became the first man-made object to reach the moon as it crashed onto the lunar surface.
1960	Iraq, Iran, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia form OPEC.
1966	Operation Attleboro, designed as a training exercise for American troops, becomes a month-long struggle against the Viet Cong.
1975	Pope Paul VI declared Mother Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton the first U.S.-born saint.
1979	Nur Muhammad Taraki, president and former prime minister of Afghanistan, is assassinated in a coup in which prime minister Hafizullah Amin seizes power.
1982	Bachir Gemayel, president-elect of Lebanon, is killed along with 26 others in a bomb blast in Beirut.
1982	Princess Grace of Monaco, formerly actress Grace Kelly, died at age 52 of injuries suffered in a car crash. Princess Grace of Monaco
1984	Joe Kittinger, a former USAF fighter pilot during the Vietnam War, becomes the first person to pilot a gas balloon solo across the Atlantic Ocean.
1994	Major League Baseball players strike over a salary cap and other proposed changes, forcing the cancellation of the entire postseason and the World Series.