September 20: Eid al-Ghadeer in Iran and Iraq (2016)
RMS Mauretania
- 1066 – King Harald III of Norway and Tostig Godwinson, his English ally, fought and defeated the Northern Earls Edwin and Morcar in the Battle of Fulford near York, England.
- 1792 – The French Army achieved its first major victory in the War of the First Coalition at the Battle of Valmy.
- 1906 – The ocean liner RMS Mauretania (pictured), the largest and fastest ship in the world at the time, was launched.
- 1971 – Hurricane Irene moved west from Nicaragua, and crossed from the Atlantic Ocean into the Pacific, the first known tropical cyclone to do so.
- 2001 – During a televised address to a joint session of the United States Congress, U.S. President George W. Bush declared a "war on terror" against Al-Qaeda and other global terrorist groups.
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