SEPTEMBER 20
1962:African American student James Meredith is physically prohibited from entering the University of Mississippi by Gov. Ross Barnett, who defies federal court orders to admit the former Air Force serviceman.
1519: Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan sets out from Sanlúcar de Barrameda, Spain, in command of five ships, searching for a faster route to the "Spice Islands" of Indonesia. Although Magellan would die in the Philippines on April 27, 1521, the voyage's last surviving ship, the Vittoria, would arrive back in Spain on Sept. 6, 1522, under the command of Juan Sebastián Elcano; it would be the first ship to circumnavigate the globe.
1853: Elisha Graves Otis begins selling his first "hoist machine," an elevator with a automatic safety brake, at his Yonkers, N.Y., factory. The invention of the elevator would allow for the construction of skyscrapers and modern high-rise buildings.
1971:Hurricane Irene evolves into Hurricane Olivia: first hurricane from Atlantic to Pacific.
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