{"id":144476,"date":"2025-09-15T08:05:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T08:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/144476\/"},"modified":"2025-09-15T08:05:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T08:05:10","slug":"on-this-day-sept-14-ussr-lands-luna-2-probe-on-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/144476\/","title":{"rendered":"On This Day, Sept. 14: USSR lands Luna 2 probe on moon"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sept. 14 (UPI) — On this date in history:<\/p>\n

In 1901, U.S. President William McKinley died of wounds inflicted by an assassin eight days earlier. He was succeeded by Vice President Theodore Roosevelt.\n<\/p>\n

In 1920, the first live radio dance music was broadcast, carried by a Detroit station and featuring Paul Specht and his orchestra.<\/p>\n

In 1959, the Soviet probe Luna 2 — known informally as Lunik 2 — became the first Earth-launched space vehicle to land<\/a> on the moon.<\/p>\n

In 1960, the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries was founded.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tOPEC ministers meet in Moscow on December 23, 2008. File Photo by Anatoli Zhdanov\/UPI\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

In 1975, Pope Paul VI canonized Elizabeth Ann Seton, the first American-born saint<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In 1982, Princess Grace of Monaco — American film actress Grace Kelly — was killed<\/a> when her car plunged off a mountain road by the Cote D’Azur. She was 52.<\/p>\n

In 1991, the South African government, ANC, Inkatha Freedom Party and 20 other anti-apartheid groups signed a peace accord<\/a> to end black factional violence.\n<\/p>\n

In 1996, Bosnians elected a three-person collective<\/a> presidency: one Muslim, one Serb and one Croat.<\/p>\n

In 2001, U.S. President George W. Bush proclaimed this to be a day of national mourning<\/a> and remembrance for those killed in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. The FBI identified the hijackers and said several had taken flying lessons in Florida.<\/p>\n

In 2003, authorities said an estimated 124 people were dead or missing<\/a> after South Korea was struck by the most powerful typhoon to hit the country in a century.<\/p>\n

In 2005, Delta Air Lines and Northwest Airlines, the third and fourth largest U.S. air carriers, filed for bankruptcy<\/a> as the industry reeled under record high jet fuel costs.<\/p>\n

In 2008, the U.S. brokerage firm Merrill Lynch agreed to sell itself<\/a> to Bank of America for $50 billion and Lehman Brothers declared bankruptcy after it failed to find a buyer.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tFile Photo by Laura Cavanaugh\/UPI\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

In 2010, U.S. hiker Sarah Shourd, imprisoned in Iran on charges of espionage for more than a year after she and two male companions were accused of illegally crossing into Iranian territory, was released on $500,000 bail<\/a>. The men — Shane Bauer, her fiance, and Josh Fattal — were freed just over a year later.\n<\/p>\n

In 2023, the U.S. Justice Department indicted Hunter Biden, the son of President Joe Biden, on felony gun charges<\/a>. He was the first child of a sitting president to be charged by the department.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tFile Photo by Yuri Gripas\/UPI\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sept. 14 (UPI) — On this date in history: In 1901, U.S. President William McKinley died of wounds…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":144477,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[64,63,128,285,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-144476","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-science","11":"tag-space","12":"tag-top-stories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144476\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}