September 14 in history — What Happened Today in History

Eighty-one killed as five bogies of the Ahmedabad–Howrah Express plunge into a river in Bilaspur district of Madhya Pradesh, India.

The rest of the Major League Baseball season is canceled because of a strike.

Lufthansa Flight 2904, an Airbus A320, crashes into an embankment after overshooting the runway at Okęcie International Airport (now Warsaw Chopin Airport), killing two people.

The Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina declares the breakaway Croatian Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia to be illegal.

The Standard Gravure shooting where Joseph T. Wesbecker, a 47-year-old pressman, killed eight people and injured 12 people at his former workplace, Standard Gravure, before committing suicide.

Penang Bridge, the longest bridge in Malaysia, connecting the island of Penang to the mainland, opens to traffic.

Joe Kittinger becomes the first person to fly a gas balloon alone across the Atlantic Ocean.

President-elect of Lebanon Bachir Gemayel is assassinated.

Afghan leader Nur Muhammad Taraki is assassinated upon the order of Hafizullah Amin, who becomes the new General Secretary of the People's Democratic Party.

The first American saint, Elizabeth Ann Seton, is canonized by Pope Paul VI.

The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) is founded.

Congo Crisis: Mobutu Sese Seko seizes power in a military coup, suspending parliament and the constitution.

The first two German post-war rockets, designed by the German engineer Ernst Mohr, reach the upper atmosphere.

In a top secret nuclear test, a Soviet Tu-4 bomber drops a 40 kiloton atomic weapon just north of Totskoye village.

The Indian Army captures the city of Aurangabad as part of Operation Polo.

World War II: Maastricht becomes the first Dutch city to be liberated by allied forces.

World War II: The Wehrmacht starts a three-day retaliatory operation targeting several Greek villages in the region of Viannos, whose death toll would eventually exceed 500 persons.

Ip massacre: The Hungarian Army, supported by local Hungarians, kill 158 Romanian civilians in Ip, Sălaj, a village in Northern Transylvania, an act of ethnic cleansing.

World War II: The Estonian military boards the Polish submarine ORP Orzeł in Tallinn, sparking a diplomatic incident that the Soviet Union will later use to justify the annexation of Estonia.

Raoul Villain, who assassinated the French Socialist Jean Jaurès, is himself killed by Spanish Republicans in Ibiza.

The Russian Empire is formally replaced by the Russian Republic.

HMAS AE1, the Royal Australian Navy's first submarine, is lost at sea with all hands near East New Britain, Papua New Guinea.

Russian Premier Pyotr Stolypin is shot by Dmitry Bogrov while attending a performance of Rimsky-Korsakov's The Tale of Tsar Saltan at the Kiev Opera House, in the presence of Tsar Nicholas II.

U.S. president William McKinley dies after being mortally wounded on September 6 by anarchist Leon Czolgosz and is succeeded by Vice President Theodore Roosevelt.

American Civil War: The Battle of South Mountain, part of the Maryland Campaign, is fought.

Jang Bahadur and his brothers massacre about 40 members of the Nepalese palace court.

The Ottoman Empire signs the Treaty of Adrianople with Russia, thus ending the Russo-Turkish War.

Battle of Baltimore: The poem Defence of Fort McHenry is written by Francis Scott Key. The poem is later used as the lyrics of The Star-Spangled Banner.

Connor Fields, American cyclist

Cassie Sharpe, Canadian freestyle skier

Zico, South Korean rapper

Dee Milliner, American football player

Nana, South Korean singer, actress and model

Shayne Topp, American actor and Smosh cast member

Douglas Costa, Brazilian footballer

Petar Filipović, German-born Croatian footballer

Belinda Hocking, Australian backstroke swimmer

Cecilie Pedersen, Norwegian footballer

Jimmy Butler, American basketball player

Tony Finau, American golfer

Jesse James, American actor

Fred DeLuca, American businessman, co-founded Subway (born 1947)

Martin Kearns, English drummer (born 1977)

Corneliu Vadim Tudor, Romanian journalist and politician (born 1949)

Tony Auth, American illustrator (born 1942)

Peter Gutteridge, New Zealand singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1961)

E. Jennifer Monaghan, English-American historian, author, and academic (born 1933)

Maksym Bilyi, Ukrainian footballer (born 1989)

Osama El-Baz, Egyptian soldier and diplomat (born 1931)

Faith Leech, Australian swimmer (born 1941)

Jacques Antoine, French game show producer, created The Crystal Maze and Fort Boyard (born 1924)

Eduardo Castro Luque, Mexican businessman and politician (born 1963)

Winston Rekert, Canadian actor and director (born 1949)

Kan Yuet-keung, Hong Kong banker, lawyer, and politician (born 1913)