September 14

Today in History
• 1180 - Minamoto no Yoritomo led force of 300 defeated at Battle of Ishibashiyama in Japan
• 1716 - 1st lighthouse in American colonies lit at Boston Harbor
• 1812 - Great Fire of Moscow begins as Napoleon approaches the city
• 1814 - Francis Scott Key pens the "The Star-Spangled Banner"
• 1847 - US Marines under General Scott enter Mexico City (halls of Montezuma)
• 1848 - Alexander Stewart opens the 1st US department store, “The Marble Palace”
• 1899 - Henry Bliss becomes 1st recorded US death from an auto accident
• 1901 - Theodore Roosevelt is sworn in as the youngest man to serve as US President


Holidays - Traditional and Obscure
• Are You Okay Day
• Death of Prophet Muhammed
• Gobstopper Day
• National Coloring Day
• National Eat A Hoagie Day
• National Food Is Medicine Day
• National School Pictures Day
• National Virginia Day

Birthdays
• 1543 - Claudio Aquaviva, Jesuit priest (5th Superior General of the Society of Jesus)
• 1769 - Alexander von Humboldt, German naturalist and explorer
• 1774 - Lord William Henry Cavendish Bentinck, statesman (Governor-General of India)
• 1835 - Y de Smit-Rog, oldest citizen of Netherlands (d. 1940 at 104)
• 1847 - William Edward Ayrton, English Physicist and Inventor
• 1879 - Margaret Sanger, American nurse, birth control proponent and feminist
• 1886 - Jan Masaryk, Czech statesman and Minister to London (1918-35)
• 1913 - Jacobo Árbenz, President of Guatemala (1951-54)