14 September History
- 1146 - Zangi of the Near East is murdered. The Sultan Nur ad-Din, his son, pursues the conquest of Edessa.
- 1321 - Dante Alighieri dies of malaria just hours after finishing writing Paradiso.
- 1544 - Henry VIII's forces take Boulogne, France.
- 1773 - Russian forces under Aleksandr Suvorov successfully storm a Turkish fort at Hirsov, Turkey.
- 1791 - Louis XVI swears his allegiance to the French constitution.
- 1812 - Napoleon Bonaparte's invasion of Russia reaches its climax as his Grande Armee enters Moscow–only to find the enemy capital deserted and burning, set afire by the few Russians who remained.
- 1814 - Francis Scott Key writes the words to the "Star Spangled Banner" as he waits aboard a British launch in the Chesapeake Bay for the outcome of the British assault on Fort McHenry during the War of 1812.
- 1847 - U.S. forces under Gen. Winfield Scott capture Mexico City, bringing the two-year Mexican War to a close.
- 1853 - The Allies land at Eupatoria on the west coast of Crimea.
- 1862 - At the battles of South Mountain and Crampton's Gap, Maryland Union troops smash into the Confederates as they close in on what will become the Antietam battleground.
- 1901 - Vice President Theodore Roosevelt is sworn in as the 26th President of the United States upon the death of William McKinley, who was shot eight days earlier.
- 1911 - Russian Premier Piotr Stolypin is mortally wounded in an assassination attempt at the Kiev opera house.
- 1943 - German troops abandon the Salerno front in Italy..
- 1960 - Iraq, Iran, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia form OPEC.
- 1966 - Operation Attleboro, designed as a training exercise for American troops, becomes a month-long struggle against the Viet Cong.
- 1975 - Mother Elizabeth Ann Seton becomes the first native-born American saint in the Roman Catholic Church.
14 September Birthdays
- 1769 - Baron Freidrich von Humbolt, German naturalist and explorer who made the first isothermic and isobaric maps.
- 1849 - Ivan Pavlov, Russian physiologist who studied dogs' responsiveness.
- 1860 - Hamlin Garland, author who wrote about the Midwest in novles such as A Son of the Middle Border and The Book of the American Indian.
- 1864 - Lord Robert Cecil, one of the founders of the League of Nations and its president from 1923 to 1945.
- 1867 - Charles Dana Gibson, illustrator, creator of the 'Gibson Girl.'
- 1879 - Margaret Sanger, birth-control advocate and founder of Planned Parenthood.
- 1898 - Hal B. Wallis, film producer (The Maltese Falcon, Casablanca).
- 1921 - Constance Baker Motley, first African-American woman to be appointed a federal judge.
- 1930 - Allan Bloom, writer (The Closing of the American Mind).
- 1934 - Kate Millet, feminist writer, author of Sexual Politics.