Talk:September 20
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- 1378 - Papal Schism: Unhappy with Pope Urban VI (pictured), a group of cardinals started a rival papacy with the election of Antipope Clement VII, throwing the Roman Catholic Church into turmoil.
- 1854 - The Crimean War began with a Franco-British victory over Russian forces in the Battle of Alma.
- 1870 - The Bersaglieri entered Rome, ending the temporal power of the Pope and completing the unification of Italy.
- 1906 - The ocean liner RMS Mauretania, the largest and fastest ship in the world at the time, was launched in Newcastle, England.
- 1973 - Billie Jean King defeated Bobby Riggs in straight sets before 30,492 spectators at the Astrodome in Houston, Texas in an internationally televised tennis match dubbed the "Battle of the Sexes".
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The first compiled Fortran program could NOT have run in 1954. The compiler was not delivered until 1957! See Fortran. Rwwww 08:16, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
