TODAY IN HISTORY, SEPTEMBER 20TH

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 20th!

1378	The election of Robert of Geneva as anti-pope by discontented cardinals creates a great schism in the Catholic church.
1519	Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan set out from Spain on a voyage to find a western passage to the Spice Islands in Indonesia.
1561	Queen Elizabeth of England signs a treaty at Hamptan Court with French Huguenot leader Louis de Bourbon, the Prince of Conde. The English will occupy Le Harve in return for aiding Bourbon against the Catholics of France.
1565	Pedro Menendez of Spain wipes out the French at Fort Caroline, in Florida. Pedro Menendez
1604	After a two-year siege, the Spanish retake Ostend, the Netherlands, from the Dutch.
1784	Packet and Daily, the first daily publication in America, appears on the streets.
1806	Explorers Meriwether Lewis and William Clark pass the French village of La Charette, the first white settlement they have seen in more than two years.
1830	The National Negro Convention convenes in Philadelphia with the purpose of abolishing slavery.
1850	The slave trade is abolished in the District of Columbia.
1853	The Allies defeat the Russians at the battle of Alma on the Crimean Peninsula.
1863	Union troops under George Thomas prevent the Union defeat at Chickamauga from becoming a rout, earning him the nickname “the Rock of Chickamauga.”
1870	Italian troops took control of the Papal States, leading to the unification of Italy.
1873	Panic swept the New York Stock Exchange in the wake of railroad bond defaults and bank failures.
1881	Chester A. Arthur was sworn in as the 21st president of the United States, succeeding James A. Garfield, who had been assassinated.
1934	Bruno Hauptmann arrested for the kidnapping and murder of the Lindbergh baby. Bruno Hauptmann
1952	Scientists confirm that DNA holds hereditary data.
1971	Hurricane Irene becomes the first hurricane known to cross from the Atlantic to Pacific, where it is renamed Hurricane Olivia.
1973	In a pro tennis bout dubbed “The Battle of the Sexes,” Billie Jean King beats Bobby Riggs at the Houston Astrodome in Texas.
1977	The first wave of Southeast Asian “boat people” arrived in San Francisco under a U.S. resettlement program.
1984	A suicide car bomber attacked the U.S. Embassy annex in north Beirut, killing a dozen people.
1985	Australia introduces a capital gains tax.
1990	South Ossetia declares its independence from George in the former Soviet Union.
1998	After playing in a record 2,632 consecutive games over 16 seasons, Cal Ripken Jr. of the Baltimore Orioles sat out a game against the New York Yankees.