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1901 : McKinley died from his injuries


On September 14, 1901, U.S. President William McKinley died of infection after having been shot by an anarchist at an exhibition in Buffalo, New York. McKinley was known to favor big business. His presidency was also marked by the beginning of American colonialism : Cuba, Puerto Rico, Guam, the Philippines and an intervention in the Boxer Rebellion in China.

1944 : Operation Stalemate


On September 14, 1944, the Americans launched Operation Stalemate on the island of Peleliu in the Palau Islands, east of the Philippines. The island had been occupied by the Japanese since the end of World War I and the Americans had little reliable information about it. The purpose of the operation was to provide support to General MacArthur who was about to invade the Philippines. The operation was a disaster. 9000 U.S. soldiers were killed. The island was finally taken with flamethrowers and bombs. But it was of no use to Americans for MacArthur did not need any support to invade the Philippines.

1954 : Nuclear tests in Totskoye, Russia


On September 14, 1954, a nuclear bomb, twice the size of that of Hiroshima, was launched near the village of Totskoye in Russia, where exercises were performed with the army. The purpose of the exercise was to take a hostile area after a nuclear attack. In order to get as close as possible to a real situation, 45,000 soldiers and 10,000 civilians were exposed to radiation without any protection. Most of them died within days, months or years.

1982 : Grace Kelly dies


On September 14, 1982, former movie star and Princess of Monaco Grace Kelly died of the injuries she received the day before in a car accident in the hills above Monaco. Grace Kelly was returning from the family estate of Roc Agel, above La Turbie, with her youngest daughter, when she lost control of her vehicle in a hairpin bend on the road to Cap d'Ail.

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Compleanni : 14 Settembre

John Gould, Ornitologo inglese (1804)
Cecil of Chelwood, Diplomatico inglese, Nobel per la Pace (1864)
Hal B. Wallis, Produttore americano (1898)
Jack Hawkins, Attore inglese (1910)
Gaston Defferre, Uomo politico francese (1910)
Michel Auclair, Attore francese (1922)
Michel Butor, Scrittore francese (1926)
Larry Collins, Scrittore americano (1929)
Ferid Murad, Medico americano, Premio Nobel per la Fisiologia e Medicina (1936)
Sam Neill, Attore della Nuova Zelanda (1947)
Nathalie Roussel, Attrice francese (1956)
Tony Becker, Attore americano (1963)
Faith Ford, Attrice americana (1964)
Michelle Stafford, Attrice americana (1965)
Dmitry Medvedev, Terzo presidente della Russia (1965)
Francesco Casagrande, Ciclista italiano (1970)
Jeff Loomis, Musicista americano (Nevermore) (1971)
Andrew Lincoln, Attore inglese (1973)
Hicham El Guerrouj, Atleta marocchino (1974)
Ayọ, Cantante tedesca (1980)
Amy Winehouse, Cantante inglese (1983)
Martin Fourcade, Biathleta francese (1988)
Jesse James, Attore americano (1989)

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Sutoku, Imperatore del Giappone (1164)
Dante Alighieri, Poeta italiano (1321)
Dom Pierre Pérignon, Monaco benedettino, produttore di vino champa (1715)
Nicolas Lancret, Pittore francese (1743)
James Fenimore Cooper, Scrittore americano (1851)
Arthur Wellesley, Duc de Wellington, Feldmaresciallo e primo ministro (1852)
William McKinley, 25o presidente degli Stati Uniti (1901)
José Echegaray, Scrittore spagnolo, premio Nobel per la letteratura (1916)
Isadora Duncan, Ballerina americana (1927)
Irving Thalberg, Produttore americano (1936)
Bachir Gemayel, Uomo politico libanese (1982)
John Gardner, Scrittore americano (1982)
Grace Kelly, Attrice americana e Principessa di Monaco (1982)
Charles Crichton, Regista inglese (1999)
Robert Wise, Regista americano (2005)
Jacques Martin, Presentatore televisiva francese (2007)
Patrick Swayze, Ballerino e attore americano (2009)
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