What happend on 20th September

19.09
21.09
2005

The Opera Web Browser is rereleased as freeware.

2003

2003 Maldives civil unrest: the death of prisoner Hassan Evan Naseem sparks a day of rioting in Malé.

2003

A referendum is held in Latvia to decide the country's accession to the European Union

1998

Baseball: After playing 2,632 consecutive games for the Baltimore Orioles, Cal Ripken, Jr takes a day off.

1984

A suicide bomber in a car attacks the U.S. embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, killing twelve people

1981

A coup d'état in the Central African Republic overthrows President David Dacko.

1979

The Punjab wing of the Unity Centre of Communist Revolutionaries of India (Marxist-Leninist) formally splits and constitutes a parallel UCCRI(ML).

1979

Lee Iacocca is elected president of the Chrysler Corporation.

1979

A coup d'état in the Central African Empire overthrows Emperor Bokasa I

1973

Billie Jean King beats Bobby Riggs in battle-of-sexes tennis match.