September 20: Banned Books Week begins (2015)
Great Buddha, Kamakura, Japan
- 1260 – The second of two major Prussian uprisings by the Prussian tribe of Balts began against the Teutonic Knights.
- 1498 – A tsunami caused by the Meiō Nankaidō earthquake washed away the building housing the statue of the Great Buddha (pictured) at Kōtoku-in in Kamakura, Japan.
- 1906 – The ocean liner RMS Mauretania, the largest and fastest ship in the world at the time, was launched.
- 1977 – A series of celestial phenomena of unknown nature was observed in the western Soviet Union, Finland and Denmark.
- 2008 – An explosive-laden truck detonated in front of the Marriott hotel in Islamabad, Pakistan, killing 54 people and injuring 266 others.
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