History of 20 September<\/p>\n
1921<\/strong> – KDKA in Pittsburgh, PA, started a daily radio newscast. It was one of the first in the U.S.<\/p>\n 1946<\/strong> – The first Cannes Film Festival premiered. The original premiere was delayed in 1939 due to World War II.<\/p>\n 1946<\/strong> – WNBT-TV in New York became the first station to promote a motion picture. Scenes from “The Jolson Story” were shown.<\/p>\n 1953<\/strong> – The TV show “Letter to Loretta” premiered. The name was changed to “The Loretta Young Show” on February 14, 1954.<\/p>\n 1953<\/strong> – Jimmy Stewart debuted on the radio western “The Six Shooter” on NBC.<\/p>\n 1955<\/strong> – “You’ll Never Be Rich” premiered on CBS-TV. The name was changed less than two months later to “The Phil Silvers Show.”<\/p>\n 1962<\/strong> – James Meredith, a black student, was blocked from enrolling at the University of Mississippi by Governor Ross R. Barnett. Meredith was later admitted.<\/p>\n 1963<\/strong> – U.S. President John F. Kennedy proposed a joint U.S.-Soviet expedition to the moon in a speech to the U.N. General Assembly.<\/p>\n 1967<\/strong> – The ocean liner Queen Elizabeth 2 (QE2) was launched. It went out of service on November 27, 2008.<\/p>\n 1977<\/strong> – The first of the “boat people” arrived in San Francisco from Southeast Asia under a new U.S. resettlement program.<\/p>\n 1982<\/strong> – U.S. President Ronald Reagan announced that the U.S., France, and Italy were going to send peacekeeping troops back to Beirut.<\/p>\n 1984<\/strong> – “The Cosby Show” premiered on NBC-TV.<\/p>\n 1988<\/strong> – The United Nations opened its 43rd General Assembly.<\/p>\n 1989<\/strong> – F.W. de Klerk was sworn in as president of South Africa.<\/p>\n 1991<\/strong> – U.N. weapons inspectors left for Iraq in a renewed search for Iraqi weapons of mass destruction.<\/p>\n 1992<\/strong> – French voters approved the Maastricht Treaty.<\/p>\n 1995<\/strong> – AT&T announced that it would be splitting into three companies. The three companies were AT&T, Lucent Technologies, and NCR Corp.<\/p>\n 1995<\/strong> – The U.S. House of Representatives voted to drop the national speed limit. This allowed the states to decide their own speed limits.<\/p>\n 2000<\/strong> \u2013 The United Kingdom’s MI6 Secret Intelligence Service building is attacked by individuals using a Russian-built RPG-22 anti-tank missile.<\/p>\n 2001<\/strong> \u2013 In an address to a joint session of Congress and the American people, U.S. President George W. Bush declares a “War on Terror”.<\/p>\n 2003<\/strong> \u2013 Civil unrest in the Maldives breaks out after a prisoner is killed by guards.<\/p>\n 2007<\/strong> \u2013 Between 15,000 and 20,000 protesters marched on Jena, Louisiana, in support of six black youths who had been convicted of assaulting a white classmate.<\/p>\n 2008<\/strong> \u2013 A dump truck full of explosives detonates in front of the Marriott hotel in Islamabad, Pakistan, killing 54 people and injuring 266 others.<\/p>\n 2011<\/strong> \u2013 The United States military ends its “Don’t ask, don’t tell” policy, allowing gay men and women to serve openly for the first time.<\/p>\n 2013<\/strong> – Apple released the iPhone 5s.<\/p>\n 2017<\/strong> \u2013 Hurricane Maria makes landfall in Puerto Rico as a powerful Category 4 hurricane, resulting in 2,975 deaths, US$90 billion in damage, and a major humanitarian crisis.<\/p>\n 2018<\/strong> \u2013 At least 161 people have died after a ferry capsized close to the pier on Ukara Island in Lake Victoria and part of Tanzania.<\/sup><\/p>\n History of 20 September 1921 – KDKA in Pittsburgh, PA, started a daily radio newscast. It was one of the first in the U.S. 1946 – The first Cannes Film Festival premiered. 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