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September 20

Great Buddha of Kamakura

1498 – A tsunami caused by the Meiō earthquake washed away the building housing the statue of the Great Buddha (pictured) at Kōtoku-in in Kamakura, Japan; the statue has since stood in the open air.
1792 – The French Army achieved its first major victory of the War of the First Coalition at the Battle of Valmy.
1967 – L. Ron Hubbard, the founder of Scientology, announced the story of Xenu in a taped lecture sent to all Scientologists.
1997 – Hurricane Erika, the strongest and longest-lasting hurricane of the 1997 Atlantic hurricane season, dissipated after causing flooding and power outages throughout Puerto Rico.

Susanna Rubinstein (b. 1847)
Edith Rogers (b. 1894)
Davidson Nicol (d. 1994)
Victor Henry Anderson (d. 2001)

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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) Or so it was dated.[reply]

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