^B{^#!16!19 September^N! Feast day of St Januarius of Benevento, St Peleus and his Companions, St Emily de Rodat, St Mary of Cerevellon, St Goericus or Abbo, St Theodore of Canterbury, St Susanna of Eleutheropolis, and St Sequanus or Seine.
^B{1356^B} Led by Edward, the Black Prince, the English defeated the French at the Battle of Poitiers in the Hundred Years' War. ^B{1783^B} The Montgolfier brothers sent up the first balloon with live creatures aboard; passengers included a sheep, a rooster, and a duck. ^B{1876^B} The US inventor Melville Bissell patented the first carpet sweeper. ^B{1893^B} New Zealand became the first country to grant its female citizens the right to vote. ^B{1945^B} William Joyce (Lord Haw-Haw) was sentenced to hang for treason. ^B{1960^B} A new dance craze began when Chubby Checker's 'The Twist' entered the US charts. ^B{1960^B} The new Traffic Wardens issued the first 344 parking tickets in London, UK. ^B{1989^B} The New York Supreme Court reversed an earlier decision to award the America's Cup to New Zealand, allowing the San Diego Yacht Club to retain the award.
^B{^I{^#!14!Born ^N}Lajos Kossuth, Hungarian statesman, ^B{1802^B}; George Cadbury, English chocolate manufacturer and social reformer, ^B{1839^B}; William Golding, English novelist, ^B{1911^B}; Jeremy Irons, English actor, ^B{1948^B}; Rosemary Casals, US tennis player, ^B{1948^B}; Twiggy (Lesley Hornby), English model and actress, ^B{1949^B}.
^B{^I{^#!14!Died ^N}Meyer Amschel Rothschild, German banker, ^B{1812^B}; James Garfield, 20th US president, ^B{1881^B}; Thomas John Barnardo, British philanthropist, ^B{1905^B}; David Low, British cartoonist, ^B{1963^B}; Chester Carlson, US inventor of the xerography photocopying process, ^B{1968^B}; Roy Kinnear, English comedy actor, ^B{1988^B}.
