Millions of people evacuate their homes as Hurricane Floyd moves across the Atlantic Ocean on September 14, 1999.

With players on strike since mid-August, Major League Baseball on September 14, 1994, cancels its playoffs and World Series.

On September 14, 1988, labor leader Dolores Huerta is severely beaten by a police officer while at a peaceful protest for farm workers in San Fransisco.

On September 14, 1982, Princess Grace of Monaco—the American-born former film star Grace Kelly, whose movie credits include The Country Girl and Rear Window—dies at the age of 52 from injuries suffered after her car plunged off a mountain road near Monte Carlo.

Two famous American women – Grace Kelly and Isadora Duncan, both died after tragic motoring accidents in the same area on this day, though half a century apart.

Elizabeth Ann Seton is canonized by Pope Paul VI at the Vatican in Rome, becoming one of the first American-born Catholic saints.

On September 14, 1964, the Kellogg’s Company begins selling the Pop-Tart.

Writer John Steinbeck was presented the U.

A Soviet rocket crashes into the moon’s surface, becoming the first man-made object sent from earth to reach the lunar surface.

On September 14, 1927, dancer Isadora Duncan is strangled in Nice, France, when the enormous silk scarf she is wearing gets tangled in the rear hubcaps of her open car.