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It happened one 14 September
1901 : McKinley died from his injuriesOn September 14, 1901, U.S. President William McKinley died of infection after having been shot by an anarchist at an exhibition in Buffalo, New York. McKinley was known to favor big business. His presidency was also marked by the beginning of American colonialism : Cuba, Puerto Rico, Guam, the Philippines and an intervention in the Boxer Rebellion in China. |
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1944 : Operation StalemateOn September 14, 1944, the Americans launched Operation Stalemate on the island of Peleliu in the Palau Islands, east of the Philippines. The island had been occupied by the Japanese since the end of World War I and the Americans had little reliable information about it. The purpose of the operation was to provide support to General MacArthur who was about to invade the Philippines. The operation was a disaster. 9000 U.S. soldiers were killed. The island was finally taken with flamethrowers and bombs. But it was of no use to Americans for MacArthur did not need any support to invade the Philippines. |
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1954 : Nuclear tests in Totskoye, RussiaOn September 14, 1954, a nuclear bomb, twice the size of that of Hiroshima, was launched near the village of Totskoye in Russia, where exercises were performed with the army. The purpose of the exercise was to take a hostile area after a nuclear attack. In order to get as close as possible to a real situation, 45,000 soldiers and 10,000 civilians were exposed to radiation without any protection. Most of them died within days, months or years. |
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1982 : Grace Kelly diesOn September 14, 1982, former movie star and Princess of Monaco Grace Kelly died of the injuries she received the day before in a car accident in the hills above Monaco. Grace Kelly was returning from the family estate of Roc Agel, above La Turbie, with her youngest daughter, when she lost control of her vehicle in a hairpin bend on the road to Cap d'Ail. |
Quote of the day : 14 September
| Isadora Duncan What one has not experienced, one will never understand in print. |
Birthdays : 14 September
| John Gould, English ornithologist (1804) | |
| Cecil of Chelwood, English diplomat, Nobel Peace Prize (1864) | |
| Hal B. Wallis, American producer (1898) | |
| Gaston Defferre, French politician (1910) | |
| Jack Hawkins, English actor (1910) | |
| Michel Auclair, French actor (1922) | |
| Michel Butor, French writer (1926) | |
| Larry Collins, American writer (1929) | |
| Ferid Murad, American physician, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1936) | |
| Sam Neill, New Zealand actor (1947) | |
| Nathalie Roussel, French actress (1956) | |
| Tony Becker, American actor (1963) | |
| Faith Ford, American actor (1964) | |
| Dmitry Medvedev, 3rd President of Russia (1965) | |
| Michelle Stafford, American actress (1965) | |
| Francesco Casagrande, Italian cyclist (1970) | |
| Jeff Loomis, American musician (Nevermore) (1971) | |
| Andrew Lincoln, English actor (1973) | |
| Hicham El Guerrouj, Moroccan athlete (1974) | |
| Ayọ, German singer (1980) | |
| Amy Winehouse, English singer (1983) | |
| Martin Fourcade, French biathlete (1988) | |
| Jesse James, American actor (1989) |
They left us one 14 September
| Sutoku, Emperor of Japan (1164) | |
| Dante Alighieri, Italian poet (1321) | |
| Dom Pierre Pérignon, Benedictine monk, Champagne wine producer (1715) | |
| Nicolas Lancret, French painter (1743) | |
| James Fenimore Cooper, American writer (1851) | |
| Arthur Wellesley, Duc de Wellington, English field marshal and prime minister (1852) | |
| William McKinley, 25th President of the United States (1901) | |
| José Echegaray, Spanish writer, Nobel Prize in Literature (1916) | |
| Isadora Duncan, American dancer (1927) | |
| Irving Thalberg, American producer (1936) | |
| Bachir Gemayel, Lebanese politician (1982) | |
| John Gardner, American writer (1982) | |
| Grace Kelly, American actress and Princess of Monaco (1982) | |
| Charles Crichton, English director (1999) | |
| Robert Wise, American director (2005) | |
| Jacques Martin, French TV presenter (2007) | |
| Patrick Swayze, American actor and dancer (2009) |
Tip of the Day : 14 September
Take care of your cactusCactus are easy to maintain but require some care. They hate the dust and must be cleaned with a soft brush, passing lightly between the spines. The cactus needs to be watered, especially when temperatures are high. It also needs to be repotted every four years. To manipulate them, use garden gloves : needles can transmit diseases. If the cactus is affected by cochineal insects, you can pass a cotton swab dipped in alcohol on the affected areas. |
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