September 20

Today in History
• 1565 - Spaniards capture Fort Caroline Florida and massacre the French
• 1664 - Maryland passes 1st anti-amalgamation law to stop intermarriage
• 1674 - 2nd West Indies Company forms
• 1814 - "Star Spangled Banner" published as a song, lyrics by Francis Scott Key
• 1830 - 1st Negro Convention of Free Men agree to boycott slave-produced goods
• 1839 - 1st railroad in Netherland opens (Amsterdam-Haarlem)
• 1881 - Chester A. Arthur sworn in as 21st president
• 1904 - Orville and Wilbur Wright fly a circle in their Flyer II


Holidays - Traditional and Obscure
• German World Children's Day
• International NFT Day
• National Care For Kids Day
• National Fried Rice Day
• National Pepperoni Pizza Day
• National Punch Day
• National Queso Day
• National String Cheese Day

Birthdays
• 1744 - Thomas Grosvenor, American Revolutionary War hero
• 1833 - Ernesto Teodoro Moneta, Italian journalist, soldier and pacifist
• 1852 - Édouard Empain, Belgian railway builder (Paris Metro)
• 1853 - Rama V [Chulalongkorn], King of Thailand (1868-1910)
• 1883 - Maria Baers, social worker and founder of the Christian Workers' Women's Movement
• 1893 - Hans Scharoun, German architect (Berlin Philharmonic)
• 1900 - Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco, military leader and 26th President of Brazil
• 1925 - Rama VIII [Ananda Mahidol], King of Siam (1935-46)