1847 - Battle of Chapaltuec - U.S. Army Lieut. William Walker, of Mississippi and the class of 1841, was first to scale the fortifications at the Battle of Chapultepec in the Mexican War

http://www.library.georgetown.edu/dept/speccoll/guvict.htm

1928 - The Rev. Edward C. Phillips, Director of the Astronomical Observatory of Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., has been appointed to the office of Provincial of the Jesuit Province of Maryland-New York.

http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/nytimes/96373050.html?did=96373050&FMT=ABS&FMTS=AI&date=Sep+13%2C+1928&author=&pub=New+York+Times++(1857-Current+file)&desc=REV.+E.C.+PHILLIPS+IN+HIGH+JESUIT+POST

1980 - Georgetown University has received from Kuwait a $1 million gift, one of the largest grants ever made by an Arab government to an American educational institution.

http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/nytimes/114134985.html?did=114134985&FMT=ABS&FMTS=AI&date=Sep+14%2C+1980&author=&pub=New+York+Times++(1857-Current+file)&desc=Kuwait+Endows+Chair+At+Georgetown+Center+With+a+%241+Million+Gift