September 20, 1881 Chester A. Arthur is sworn in, at his residence located at 123 Lexington Avenue in Manhattan, New York City, as the 21st President of The United States following the death of President James Garfield. Image via Wikimedia Commons, public domain

“Parade of the G.A.R., 26th annual encampment, Washington, D.C.” – September 20, 1892 Photo by George Prince via Wikimedia Commons, public domain

On September 20, 1519 Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan and crew departed the coast of southern Spain on a journey that was expected to take a few months. About a year and a half later they eventually reached Guam in the Pacific which is now a Territory of The United States. Magellan later died in a battle in the Philippines and never completed the first circumnavigation which ended nearly three years after he and his crew set sail. The first circumnavigation was completed by Juan Sebastián Elcano and a small number of surviving crew members out of the nearly three hundred who originally departed Spain three years earlier. Image: Ferdinand Magellan via Wikimedia Commons, public domain

William J. Crumm was born on September 20, 1919 in New York City. He served from WWII until the Vietnam War when he made the ultimate sacrifice after his B-52 collided with another over the South China Sea. Image via Wikimedia Commons, public domain

Bill Russell, Red Auerbach and Bob Cousy of the Boston Celtics in 1956. Red Auerbach, who won 16 NBA titles as coach and executive of the Boston Celtics, was born on September 20, 1917 in Brooklyn, New York. Image via Wikimedia Commons, public domain

By September, 1973 the career of singer-songwriter Jim Croce was taking off with hits like “Bad, Bad Leroy Brown,” “Operator” and “You Don’t Mess Around With Jim.” On September 20 of that year Croce died tragically in an airplane crash, a few months before his number 1 hit single “Time in a Bottle” was released. Image via Wikimedia Commons, no known copyright, public domain in the US

On September 20, 1901, President Theodore Roosevelt held the first meeting with his cabinet. Image of Theodore Roosevelt with his cabinet in 1901 via Wikimedia Commons, public domain

On September 20, 1853 Elisha Otis began marketing his elevators, called “hoist machines” and featuring an automatic safety brake. He’s shown here, a year later, at England’s Crystal Palace, demonstrating the brake system by having an assistant sever the lifting rope. Image via Wikimedia Commons, public domain in the US

On September 20, 1820 Major General John F. Reynolds was born in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. In his youth Reynolds attended John Beck’s Academy for Boys in nearby Lititz, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. He was killed on the first day of battle at Gettysburg (in his home state) in 1863. Image: Captain & Brevet Major John F. Reynolds via Wikimedia Commons, public domain

Officer Ken Osmond (who played the role of Eddie Haskell in Leave It To Beaver ) sitting in a van and talking to a fellow officer. On September 20, 1980, Officer Osmond survived a shooting while in pursuit of a suspected car thief. Image of Osmond after surviving the shooting credit: Mike Meadows, Los Angeles Times, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0

Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs played “The Battle of The Sexes” tennis match on September 20, 1973. King was victorious with a score of 6-4, 6-3, 6-3. The two played before a crowd of 30,000 in the Houston Astrodome and 50 million Americans watched on the ABC network. Image via Wikimedia Commons, public domain in the US