How Many Days Until September 14?

This day in history: September 14

1. 1979

   Afghan president Nur Muhammad Taraki was overthrown and later killed on the orders of Hafizullah Amin, who succeeded him.

2. 1989

   Typhoon Sarah dissipated after causing extensive damage along an erratic path across the Western Pacific, killing 71 in Taiwan, the Philippines, and the Gotō Islands.

3. 1992

   The Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina declared the breakaway Croatian Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia to be unconstitutional.

4. 2003

   President Kumba Ialá of Guinea-Bissau was deposed in a bloodless military coup.

5. 2007

   Late-2000s financial crisis: The Northern Rock bank received a liquidity support facility from the Bank of England, sparking a bank run—the United Kingdom's first in 150 years.

6. 2015

   Physicists of the LIGO and Virgo projects first observed gravitational waves, the existence of which was predicted by Henri Poincaré in 1905.

7. 2019

   Drone attacks on major processing facilities at Abqaiq and Khurais forced Saudi Arabia to cut more than half of its oil production.

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