Sept 20
622 Prophet Muhammad arrives in Yathrib (Medina)
1498 A huge tsunami hit Japan on this day, killing up to 31,000 people. It was not the first, nor the last, nor the most deadly. Nor was it the work of an angry god
1519 Spanish expedition led by Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan sets off on the first successful circumnavigation of the globe (Magellan is killed en route)
1604 Siege of Ostend ends after Dutch and English forces surrender the city, allowing Ambrosio Spinola's Spanish army to recapture the devastated city and end one of the bloodiest sieges in history that caused an estimated 100,000 casualties
1870 Rome is captured by the Italian army after Pope Pius IX surrenders to King Victor Emmanuel II, unifying Italy and ending the 1,116-year reign of the Papal States
1904 Orville and Wilbur Wright fly a circle in their Flyer II
1969 Virtual cartoon band The Archies' single "Sugar, Sugar" hits #1
1973 Billie Jean King defeats Bobby Riggs in the Battle of the Sexes tennis match
1984 Sitcom "The Cosby Show," starring Bill Cosby and Phylicia Rashad, premieres on NBC-TV
1990 East Germany and West Germany both ratify the reunification plan
2001 In an address to a joint session of Congress and the American people, US President George W. Bush declares a "war on terror"
2019 Students from 185 countries stage the world's largest-ever protest on climate change, culminating in a Manhattan rally led by Greta Thunberg
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