United States History: September 20

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1187 Saladin begins the Siege of Jerusalem.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Jerusalem_(1187)

Map of the Prussian clans in the 13th century.

1260 The Great Prussian Uprising among the old Prussians begins against the Teutonic Knights.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Prussian_Uprising#The_Great_Prussian_Uprising_.281260.E2.80.931274.29

1378 Cardinal Robert of Geneva, called by some the Butcher of Cesena, is elected as Avignon Pope Clement VII, beginning the Papal schism.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antipope_Clement_VII

1498 The 1498 Meio Nankaido earthquake generates a tsunami that washes away the building housing the statue of the Great Buddha at Kotoku-in in Kamakura, Kanagawa, Japan; since then the Buddha has sat in the open air.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1498_Mei%C5%8D_Nankaid%C5%8D_earthquake

Monument of Ferdinand Magellan in Punta Arenas in Chile. The statue looks towards the Strait of Magellan.

1519 Ferdinand Magellan sets sail from Sanlúcar de Barrameda with about 270 men on his expedition to circumnavigate the globe.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_Magellan#Departure_and_crossing_of_the_Atlantic

1565 Spaniards capture Fort Caroline Forida & massacre the French
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Caroline#Fort_Caroline_.281564.29

1596 Diego de Montemayor founds the city of Monterrey in New Spain.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diego_de_Montemayor

The area acquired (shaded)

1737 The finish of the Walking Purchase which forces the cession of 1.2 million acres (4,860 km²) of Lenape-Delaware tribal land to the Pennsylvania Colony.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walking_Purchase

1797 US frigate Constitution (Old Ironsides) launched in Boston
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Constitution

1842 The Synod of Southwestern Virginia was organized by six pastors who had left the Virginia Synod.
cyclopedia.lcms.org/display.asp?t1=V&word=VIRGINIASYNOD.SOUTHWESTERN

1848 The American Association for the Advancement of Science is created.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Association_for_the_Advancement_of_Science

1850 Slave trade abolished in DC, but slavery allowed to continue

The Coldstream Guards at the Alma, by Richard Caton Woodville

1854 Battle of Alma: British and French troops defeat Russians in the Crimea.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Alma

1857 The Indian Rebellion of 1857 ends with the recapture of Delhi by troops loyal to the East India Company.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Indian_Rebellion_of_1857

1860 The Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII of the United Kingdom) visits the United States.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Edward_VII#Early_adulthood

1863 American Civil War: The Battle of Chickamauga ends.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Chickamauga

1869 Concordia Publishing House began operations in Saint Louis, Missouri.
www.cph.org/default.aspx
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concordia_Publishing_House

1871 Bishop John Coleridge Patteson is martyred on the island of Nukapu, a Polynesian outlier island now in the Temotu Province of the Solomon Islands. He is the first bishop of Melanesia.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Coleridge_Patteson

A bank run on the Fourth National Bank, No. 20 Nassau Street, New York City, 1873. From Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, 4 October 1873.

1873 Panic sweeps NY Stock Exchange (railroad bond default/bank failure)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panic_of_1873

1877 Chase National Bank opens in NYC (later merges into Chase Manhattan)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chase_National_Bank#Chase_National_Bank

1881 Chester A. Arthur is inaugurated as the 21st President of the United States following the assassination of James Garfield.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chester_A._Arthur

1884 Equal Rights Party nominates female candidates for President & Vice Party
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equal_Rights_Party_(United_States)

Charles Duryea (left) with J.Frank Duryea

1893 Charles Duryea and his brother road-test the first American-made gasoline-powered automobile.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Duryea

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RMS_Mauretania_(1906)

1906 Cunard Line's RMS Mauretania is launched at the Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson shipyard in Newcastle upon Tyne, England.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RMS_Mauretania_(1906)

1909 The Parliament of the United Kingdom passes the South Africa Act 1909, creating the Union of South Africa from the British Colonies of the Cape of Good Hope, Natal, Orange River Colony, and the Transvaal Colony.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Africa_Act_1909

1910 The ocean liner SS France, later known as the "Versailles of the Atlantic", is launched.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_France_(1910)

Photographs documenting the damage to the Olympic (left) and the Hawke (right) following their collision

1911 White Star Line's RMS Olympic collides with British warship HMS Hawke.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RMS_Olympic#Hawke_collision

1930 Syro-Malankara Catholic Church is formed by Archbishop Mar Ivanios.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syro-Malankara_Catholic_Church

At this location approximately 7,500 Letichiv Jews were murdered by Nazis during World War II.

1942 Holocaust in Letychiv, Ukraine. In the course of two days the German SS murders at least 3,000 Jews.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letychiv#History




1949 Tennis player Pancho Gonzales turns professional.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pancho_Gonzales

1954 1st FORTRAN computer program run
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FORTRAN

1958 Martin Luther King Jr stabbed in chest by a deranged black woman in NYC
www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/The-Day-Martin-Luther-King-Jr-Was-Stabbed-in-Harlem-81964952.html

1959 Christ the Redeemer Lutheran Church, Havana, Cuba, was dedicated.

1962 James Meredith, an African-American, is temporarily barred from entering the University of Mississippi.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Meredith

1967 RMS Queen Elizabeth 2 is launched at John Brown & Company, Clydebank, Scotland. It is operated by the Cunard Line.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_Elizabeth_2

1967 Hurricane Beulah hits Texas-Mexican border, kills 38
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Beulah


1970 Syrian tanks roll into Jordan in response to continued fighting between Jordan and the fedayeen.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jordan#Under_King_Hussein

1971 Having weakened after making landfall in Nicaragua the previous day, Hurricane Irene regains enough strength to be renamed Hurricane Olivia, making it the first known hurricane to cross from the Atlantic Ocean into the Pacific.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Irene%E2%80%93Olivia

1973 Billie Jean King beats Bobby Riggs in The Battle of the Sexes tennis match at the Houston Astrodome in Houston, Texas.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Battle_of_the_Sexes_(tennis)

1977 The Socialist Republic of Viet Nam is admitted to the United Nations.

1982 The National Football League players begin a 57-day strike.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Football_League

1982 Leipzig (East Germany) Pastor Christian Führer began to organize prayer services for peace at the Saint Nicholas Church. These led to the Monday demonstrations of 1989–1990 that played a part in the collapse of the East German Communist regime and ultimately the reunification of Germany.

1987 The Louise T. Peter Center at Concordia Lutheran College (now Concordia University, Austin, Texas) was dedicated. The three-story music and communications facility featured a large performance hall and a video studio-soundstage, as well as classrooms and offices. The center was named for principal donor Louise T. Peter, granddaughter of Johann Kilian, pastor of the first German Wendish settlers in east Texas, a group that was instrumental in the beginnings of Lutheran higher education in Texas.

US Embassy 3 days after the bombing

1984 A suicide bomber in a car attacks the U.S. embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, killing twenty-two people.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983_United_States_embassy_bombing

2000 The British MI6 Secret Intelligence Service building is attacked by unapprehended forces using a Russian-built RPG-22 anti-tank missile.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secret_Intelligence_Service#After_the_Cold_War




2001 In an address to a joint session of Congress and the American people, U.S. President George W. Bush declares a "war on terror".
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_on_Terror




Satellite images, taken before and after the avalanche, shows the vast extent of the disaster. Debris and ice filled the Genaldon Valley from the Kolka Glacier Cirque to the Gates of Karmadon distance of about 18 km (11 mi).
2002 The Kolka-Karmadon rock/ice slide.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolka-Karmadon_rock_ice_slide

Talk show host Michael Baisden and Al Sharpton, at the front of the September 20, 2007 march in Jena, Louisiana

2007 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.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jena_Six

View of the hotel after the attack

2008 A dump truck full of explosives detonates in front of the Marriott hotel in Islamabad, Pakistan, killing 54 people and injuring 266 others.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamabad_Marriott_Hotel_bombing

2011 The United States ends its "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy, allowing gay men and women to serve openly for the first time.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_Ask,_Don%27t_Tell_Repeal_Act_of_2010

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Births~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

1599 Christian the Younger, German Protestant military leader (d. 1623)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_the_Younger_of_Brunswick

1608 Jean-Jacques Olier, French catholic priest, founder of The Sulpicians (d. 1657)

1800 Benjamin Franklin White, shape note "singing master", and compiler of the shape note tunebook known as The Sacred Harp (d 1879)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Franklin_White

1820 John F. Reynolds, American Civil War general (d 1863)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_F._Reynolds

1831 Kate Harrington, American teacher, writer and poet (d 1917)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Harrington_(Poet)

1844 William H. Illingworth, American photographer (d. 1893)

1878 Upton Sinclair, (d 1968) American author and one-time candidate for governor of California who wrote close to one hundred books in many genres. He achieved popularity in the first half of the twentieth century, acquiring particular fame for his classic muckraking novel, The Jungle (1906). It exposed conditions in the U.S. meat packing industry, causing a public uproar that contributed in part to the passage a few months later of the 1906 Pure Food and Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act. Time magazine called him "a man with every gift except humor and silence."

1880 Louise Peete, American murderer (d. 1947)
1884 Maxwell Perkins, American editor and publisher (d. 1947)

1885 Jelly Roll Morton, (d 1941) American ragtime and early jazz pianist, bandleader and composer.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jelly_Roll_Morton

1889 Charles Reidpath, American athlete (d. 1975)
1892 Roy Turk, American songwriter and lyricist (d. 1934)

1895 Paul W. Schelp was born in Emma, Missouri (d. 27 February 1972). He was a graduate of Concordia Seminary (Saint Louis) in 1919 and served in Brazil beginning in 1920 as a professor at Concordia Seminary (Porto Alegre). He taught all the subjects at the institution and served for a time as its president. Under the sponsorship of the American and British Bible Societies and with the help of a scholar of the Methodist Church he translated the Bible into the Portuguese language. For most of his ministry he also edited church periodicals, and he produced a Portuguese concordance to the Bible. The Saint Louis seminary honored him with a doctor of divinity degree in 1944.

1896 Elliott Nugent, Dover, Ohio (d 9 Aug 1980, New York City) American actor, writer, and film director. He successfully made the transition from silent film to sound. He directed The Cat and the Canary (1939), starring Bob Hope and Paulette Goddard. He also directed the Hope films Never Say Die (1939) and My Favorite Brunette (1947).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliot_Nugent

1897 Kermit Maynard (d 16 Jan 1971) American actor and stuntman. He appeared in 280 films between 1927 and 1962. He was a younger brother of actor Ken Maynard.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kermit_Maynard

1900 Joachim Jeremias, Lutheran New Testament scholar, was born in Dresden, Germany (d. 6 Sep 1979).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joachim_Jeremias

1911 Frank Denny De Vol (d 27 Oct 1999) American arranger, composer and actor.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_DeVol

1913 John Collins, American jazz guitarist (d. 2001)

1917Arnold Jacob "Red" Auerbach, (d 2006) American basketball coach Auerbach is remembered as a pioneer of modern basketball, redefining basketball as a game dominated by team play and defense and for introducing the fast break as a potent offensive weapon. He groomed many players who went on to be inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame. Additionally, Auerbach was vital in breaking down color barriers in the NBA. He made history by drafting the first African-American NBA player, Chuck Cooper in 1950, and introduced the first African-American starting five in 1964. Famous for his polarizing nature, he was well known for smoking a cigar when he thought a victory was assured, a habit that became, for many, "the ultimate symbol of victory" during his Boston tenure
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Auerbach

1917 Don Starr, American-born actor (d. 2005)

1917 Clarice Taylor, American actress (d. 2011)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarice_Taylor

1920 Jay Ward, American animated cartoonist (d. 1989)
1921 Chico Hamilton, American jazz drummer and bandleader
1922 William Kapell, American pianist (d. 1953)

1922 Frank G. Comstock, San Diego, California, American composer, arranger, conductor and trombonist.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Comstock

1924 James Galanos American fashion designer
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Galanos




1924 Gogi Grant, American singer
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gogi_Grant

1924 Albert Marre, American actor, director, and producer (d. 2012)
1925 Bobby Nunn, American singer (The Coasters) (d. 1986)
1926 Jackie Paris, American jazz singer and guitarist (d. 2004)
1927 Red Mitchell, American jazz bassist, composer, lyricist, and poet(d. 1992)
1928 Donald Hall, American poet and US Poet Laureate
1929 Anne Meara, American comic and actress
1930 Eddie Bo, American singer and pianist (d. 2009)
1933 Steve McCall, American jazz drummer (d. 1989)

1934 Sophia Loren, OMRI, born Sofia Villani Scicolone, Italian actress.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophia_Loren

1935 Jim Taylor, American football player
1938 Eric Gale, American jazz and session guitarist and record producer (d. 1994)

1938 Thomas Michael Tresh (d 15 Oct 2008) Major League Baseball infielder and outfielder who played for the New York Yankees (1961–69) and Detroit Tigers (1969). Tresh was a switch-hitter and threw right-handed. He was the son of catcher Mike Tresh.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Tresh

1939 Robert L. Gerry III, American businessman
1941 Dale Chihuly, American glass artist
1941 Jim Cullum, Jr., American jazz cornetist
1946 Pete Coors, American businessman
1947 Steve Gerber, American comics writer (d. 2008)
1947 Jude Devereaux, American romance novelist
1947 Billy Bang, American jazz violinist and composer (d. 2011)
1947 Chris Ortloff, former New York state Republican politician and admitted pedophile
1947 Bruce Pasternack, American CEO
1948 George R. R. Martin, American writer
1948 Chuck Panozzo, American musician (Styx)
1948 John Panozzo, American musician (Styx) (d. 1996)
1949 Anthony Denison, American actor
1954 Henry Samueli, American NHL team owner
1956 Gary Cole, American actor
1956 Debbi Morgan, American actress
1956 Steve Coleman, African American saxophone player, spontaneous composer, composer and band leader
1957 Rich DiSilvio, American new media developer & artist
1958 Arn Anderson, American wrestler
1960 Deborah Roberts, American journalist and TV reporter
1961 Lisa Bloom, American lawyer and television personality
1964 Randy Bradbury, American musician (Pennywise)
1965 Robert Rusler, American actor
1967 Martin Harrison, American football player
1967 Kristen Johnston, American actress
1967 Gunnar Nelson, American musician (Nelson)
1967 Matthew Nelson, American musician (Nelson)
1968 Van Jones, American attorney and activist
1968 Ben Shepherd, American bassist (Soundgarden)
1968 Darrell Russell, American race car driver (d. 2004)
1969 Victoria Dillard, American actress
1973 Ronald McKinnon, American football player
1974 Michael Waddington, American defense lawyer
1975 Moon Bloodgood, American actress
1975 Jason Robinson, American jazz saxophonist, electronic musician, and composer
1976 Jon Bernthal, American actor
1977 Chris Mooney, American writer
1978 Dante Hall, American football player
1978 T.J. Tucker, American baseball player
1980 Ryan Donowho, American actor
1981 Joanie Dodds, American model
1981 Jordan Tata, American baseball player
1982 Jason Bacashihua, American ice hockey player
1982 Sarah Glendening, American actress
1983 Ángel Sánchez, Puerto Rican baseball player
1986 Aldis Hodge, American actor
1987 Jack Lawless, American drummer
1987 Sarah Natochenny, American actress, film editor and fashion model
1990 Phillip Phillips, American Idol Season 11 winner
1991 Spencer Locke, American actress
1995 Sammi Hanratty, American actress

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Deaths~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

1586 John Ballard, English Jesuit priest and conspirator

1852 Philander Chase, American university founder (b. 1775)

1863 Jacob Grimm, German writer and folklorist (b. 1785)

1906 Robert R. Hitt, American politician (b. 1834)

1909 Will Lamartine Thompson(b 7 Nov 1847), American sacred music writer, died. Rebuffed in an ear­ly at­tempt to sell his songs to a com­mer­cial pub­lish­er, Thomp­son start­ed his own pub­lish­ing com­pa­ny. He lat­er ex­pand­ed, open­ing a store to sell pi­an­os, or­gans and sheet mu­sic. Both a lyr­i­cist and com­pos­er, he en­sured he would al­ways re­mem­ber words or mel­o­dies that came to him at odd times: No mat­ter where I am, at home or ho­tel, at the store or tra­vel­ing, if an idea or theme comes to me that I deem wor­thy of a song, I jot it down in verse. In this way I ne­ver lose it.

Thompson took ill dur­ing a tour of Eur­ope, and his fam­i­ly cut short its tra­vels to re­turn home. He died a few weeks lat­er. His works in­clude: New Cen­tu­ry Hymn­al (East Li­ver­pool, Ohio: Will L. Thomp­son & Com­pa­ny, 1904) and hymns: "Softly and Ten­der­ly Je­sus Is Call­ing," "Jesus Is All the World to Me"
www.hymntime.com/tch/bio/t/h/o/thompson_wl.htm
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_Lamartine_Thompson

1921 William J. Kirkpatrick (b 27 Feb 1838), American Methodist sacred music composer. Son of a school teach­er and mu­si­cian, Kirk­pat­rick grew up in a mu­sic­al at­mo­sphere. In 1854, he went to Phil­a­del­phia, Penn­syl­van­ia, to stu­dy mu­sic and learn a trade; he spent over three years as a car­pen­ter. But he was more in­ter­est­ed in mu­sic than me­chan­ics, de­vot­ing all his lei­sure time to its stu­dy. His am­bi­tion at the time was to be­come a vi­o­lin­ist.

In 1855, Kirk­pat­rick joined the Whar­ton Street Meth­od­ist Epis­co­pal Church in Phil­a­del­phia, and from then on de­vot­ed him­self most­ly to sac­red mu­sic, giv­ing his serv­ices to the choir and Sun­day school. As there were few church or­gans in that day, his vi­o­lin and cel­lo were in con­stant de­mand for choir re­hears­als, sing­ing so­ci­e­ties, and church pro­grams. Dur­ing this time he wrote a num­ber of un­pub­lished hymn tunes and an­thems.

Kirkpatrick stu­died vo­cal mu­sic un­der Pro­fess­or T. Bi­shop, then a lead­ing ora­tor­io and bal­lad sing­er. He be­came a mem­ber of the Har­mon­ia and Han­del and Hay­dn Sac­red Mu­sic So­ci­e­ties, where he heard the great­est sing­ers of the day and be­came fa­mil­iar with the prin­ci­pal chor­al works of the great com­pos­ers. Kirk­pat­rick’s first pub­lished com­po­si­tion was When the Spark of Life Is Wan­ing, which ap­peared around 1858 in the Mu­sic­al Pi­o­neer in New York. He went on to pub­lish about 50 hymn col­lect­ions. Among the many hymns that he contributed to, these are some of the most notable: “A Wonderful Savior is Jesus My Lord,” “Away in a Manger,” “I am Not Skilled to Understand,” “Jesus Saves! (We Have Heard the Joyful Sound),” “Lead Me to Calvary,” “My Faith has Found a Resting Place,” “'Tis So Sweet to Trust in Jesus,” “Blessed Be Thy Name,”
“Halleluiah! Amen!” “The Comforter Has Come,” “Give Me Thy Heart,” “Lord, I’m Coming Home,” “Redeemed,” “His Grace Aboundeth More,” “Singing I Go,” “O To Be Like Thee,” “He Hideth My Soul,” “We Have an Anchor,” “Stepping in the Light,” "The Lord is in His Holy Temple."
www.hymntime.com/tch/bio/k/i/r/kirkpatrick_wj.htm
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_J._Kirkpatrick

1927 George Nichols, American actor and film director (b. 1864)
1932 Wovoka, American Northern Paiute religious leader (b. 1856)
1933 Annie Besant, English suffragette (b. 1847)
1939 Paul Bruchési, French Canadian Catholic archbishop (b. 1855)
1945 William Buehler Seabrook, American occultist (b. 1884)
1945 Jack Thayer, RMS Titanic survivor (b. 1894)
1945 Eduard Wirths, Nazi physician (b. 1909)
1947 Fiorello La Guardia, American politician (b. 1882)
1957 Jean Sibelius, Finnish composer (b. 1865)
1958 Oscar O'Brien, Canadian catholic priest and folklorist (b. 1892)
1973 Jim Croce, American singer and songwriter (b. 1943)

1973 Glenn Strange (b 16 Aug 1899 ) American actor who mostly appeared in Western films, best remembered for playing Frankenstein's Monster in three Universal films during the 1940s and for his role as Sam Noonan, the popular bartender on CBS's Gunsmoke television series. Strange was of Irish and Cherokee descent and was a cousin of the Western film star and narrator Rex Allen.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenn_Strange

1984 Steve Goodman, American folk music singer-songwriter (b. 1948)

1987 Michael Stewart, American playwright (b. 1924)
1989 Richie Ginther, American race car driver (b. 1930)
1994 Jule Styne, American songwriter (b. 1905)
1996 Paul Weston, American arranger and conductor (b. 1912)
1997 Matt Christopher, American children's author. (b. 1917)
1997 Nick Traina, American singer (Link 80) (b. 1978)
1998 Muriel Humphrey Brown, American politician (b. 1912)
1999 Raisa Gorbachova, wife of Mikhail Gorbachev (b. 1932)
2003 Gordon Mitchell, American actor (b. 1923)
2004 Townsend Hoopes, American politician (b. 1922)
2005 Simon Wiesenthal, Austrian Nazi hunter (b. 1908)




2006 John W. Peterson, (b. 1921) American songwriter. Some of his more popular song titles include "It Took a Miracle", "Over the Sunset Mountains", "Heaven Came Down", "So Send I You", "Springs of Living Water", "Jesus is Coming Again", "Surely Goodness and Mercy" and "This is the day that the Lord hath made". His cantatas include Night of Miracles and Down From His Glory.


2010 Kenny McKinley, American football player (b. 1987)
2010 Leonard Skinner, American high school gym teacher; namesake of rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd (b. 1933)


Holidays and observances

Christian Feast Day:

Agapitus (Western Christianity)
Eustace (Western Christianity)
John Coleridge Patteson (Anglican Communion)
Korean Martyrs, including Andrew Kim Taegon and Laurent-Marie-Joseph Imbert


September 20 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Saints
Great-martyr Eustathius Placidas, his wife Theopistes, and their children Agapius and Theopistus, of Rome (118)
Martyr and Confessor Blessed Prince Michael and his counsellor Wonder-worker Theodore of Chernigov (1245)
Saint Oleg Romanovich, Prince of Bryansk (1280)
John the Confessor of Egypt, beheaded in Palestine, and with him 40 martyrs (310)
Saints Theodore and Euprepius, and two men named Anastasius (7th century), confessors and disciples of Saint Maximos the Confessor
Holy Martyrs Hypatius and Andrew, Confessors of the Holy Icons (8th century)
Saint Eustathius of Thessalonica, archbishop of Thessalonica (1194)
Martyr Hilarion of Crete, of St. Anne’s Skete from Mount Athos (1804)
Martyrs Artemidorus and Thallos
Saint Meletius of Cyprus, bishop
Saint John Kyr of Crete, monk (1031)
New Hiero-confessor Anatole (Kamensky), archbishop of Irkutsk (1925)



en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_20
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_20_(Eastern_Orthodox_liturgics)
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www.hymntime.com/tch/index.htm
www.lutheranhistory.org/history/tih0920.htm