September 14 is the 257th day of the year 2012. There are 108 days remaining until the end of the year.
786 “Night of the three Caliphs”: Harun al-Rashid becomes the Abbasid caliph upon the death of his brother al-Hadi. Birth of Harun’s son al-Ma’mun.
1146 Noorudin Zengi, ruler of Syria dies.
1321 Dante Alighieri, Italian author dies.
1812 Napoleonic Wars: The French Grande Armée enters Moscow.
1829 The Ottoman Empire signs the Treaty of Adrianople with Russia, thus ending the Russo-Turkish War.
1829 The Ottoman Empire signs the Treaty of Adrianople with Russia, thus ending the Russo-Turkish War.
1847 Mexican-American War: Winfield Scott captures Mexico City.
1901 President of the United States William McKinley dies after an assassination attempt on September 6, and is succeeded by Theodore Roosevelt.
1917 Russia is officially proclaimed a republic.
1954 In a top secret nuclear test, a Soviet Tu-4 bomber drops a 40 kiloton atomic weapon just north of Totskoye village, exposing some 45,000 soldiers and 10,000 civilians to nuclear fallout.
1959 The Soviet probe Luna 2 crashes onto the Moon, becoming the first man-made object to reach it.
1960 The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) is founded.
1960 Congo Crisis: With CIA help, Mobutu Sese Seko seizes power in a military coup, suspending parliament and the constitution.
1979 Afghan President Nur Muhammad Taraki is assassinated upon the order of Hafizullah Amin, who becomes the new president.
1982 President-elect of Lebanon, Bachir Gemayel, is assassinated.
1984 Joe Kittinger becomes the first person to fly a gas balloon alone across the Atlantic Ocean.
1992 The Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina declares the breakaway Croatian Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia to be illegal.
2008- Mirwaz Umar elected chairman of APHC for the third successive time.
2011- Chief minister Omar Abdullah and his estranged wife Payal separate.
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