Events
September
19
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– Flavius Dalmatius is raised to the rank
of Caesar by his uncle Constantine I.
1356 – Battle of Poitiers: an English
army under the command of Edward, the
Black Prince defeats a French army and
captures the French king, John II.
1676 – Jamestown is burned to the ground
by the forces of Nathaniel Bacon during
Bacon's Rebellion.
1692 – Giles Corey is pressed to death
after refusing to plead in the Salem witch
trials.
1777 – American Revolutionary War: British
forces win a tactically expensive victory
over the Continental Army in the First
Battle of Saratoga.
1778 – The Continental Congress passes
the first budget of the United States.
1796 – George Washington's farewell address
is printed across America as an open letter
to the public.
1799 – French Revolutionary Wars: French-Dutch
victory against the Russians and British
in the Battle of Bergen.
1846 – Two French shepherd children, Mélanie
Calvat and Maximin Giraud, experience
a Marian apparition on a mountaintop near
La Salette, France, now known as Our Lady
of La Salette.
1862 – American Civil War: Battle of Iuka
– Union troops under General William Rosecrans
defeat a Confederate force commanded by
General Sterling Price.
1863 – American Civil War: Battle of Chickamauga.
1870 – Franco-Prussian War: the Siege
of Paris begins, which will result on
January 28, 1871 in the surrender of Paris
and a decisive Prussian victory.
1870 – Having invaded the Papal States
a week earlier, the Italian Army lays
siege to Rome, entering the city the next
day, after which the Pope described himself
as a Prisoner in the Vatican.
1881 – U.S. President James A. Garfield
dies of wounds suffered in a July 2 shooting.
1893 – Women's suffrage: in New Zealand,
the Electoral Act of 1893 is consented
to by the governor giving all women in
New Zealand the right to vote.
1934 – Bruno Hauptmann is arrested for
the kidnap and murder of Charles Lindbergh
Jr..
1939 – World War II: The Battle of Kępa
Oksywska concludes, with Polish losses
reaching roughly 14% of all the forces
engaged.
1940 – Witold Pilecki is voluntarily captured
and sent to Auschwitz in order to smuggle
out information and start a resistance.
1944 – Armistice between Finland and Soviet
Union is signed. (End of the Continuation
War).
1944 – Battle of Hürtgen Forest between
United States and Nazi Germany begins.
1945 – Lord Haw Haw (William Joyce) is
sentenced to death in London.
1946 – The Council of Europe is founded
following a speech by Winston Churchill
at the University of Zurich.
1946 – The first Cannes Film Festival
is held, having been delayed seven years
due to World War II.
1952 – The United States bars Charlie
Chaplin from re-entering the country after
a trip to England.
1957 – First American underground nuclear
bomb test (part of Operation Plumbbob).
1959 – Nikita Khrushchev is barred from
visiting Disneyland due to security concerns.
1961 – Betty and Barney Hill claim that
they saw a mysterious craft in the sky
and that it tried to abduct them.
1970 – The first Glastonbury Festival
is held at Michael Eavis's farm in Glastonbury,
United Kingdom.
1970 – Kostas Georgakis, a Greek student
of Geology, sets himself ablaze in Matteotti
Square in Genoa, Italy as a protest against
the dictatorial regime of Georgios Papadopoulos.
1971 – Montagnard troops of South Vietnam
revolt against the rule of Nguyen Khanh,
killing 70 ethnic Vietnamese soldiers.
1972 – A parcel bomb sent to Israeli Embassy
in London kills one diplomat.
1973 – King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden
has his investiture.
1976 – Turkish Airlines Boeing 727 hits
the Taurus Mountains, outskirt of Karatepe,
Osmaniye, Turkey, killing all 155 passengers
and crew.
1976 – Two Imperial Iranian Air Force
F-4 Phantom II jets fly out to investigate
an unidentified flying object when both
independently lose instrumentation and
communications as they approach, only
to have them restored upon withdrawal.
1978 – The Solomon Islands join the United
Nations.
1981 – Simon & Garfunkel reunite for
a free concert in New York's Central Park.
1982 – Scott Fahlman posts the first documented
emoticons :-) and :-( on the Carnegie
Mellon University Bulletin Board System.
1983 – Saint Kitts and Nevis gains its
independence.
1985 – A strong earthquake kills thousands
and destroys about 400 buildings in Mexico
City.
1985 – Tipper Gore and other political
wives form the Parents Music Resource
Center as Frank Zappa and other musicians
testify at U.S. Congressional hearings
on obscenity in rock music.
1989 – A terrorist bomb explodes UTA Flight
772 in mid-air above the Tùnùrù Desert,
Niger, killing 171.
1990 – Delhi University student Rajiv
Goswami attempts Self Immolation during
Anti-Reservation agitation in India. Though
he survived, his Self Immolation inspired
nearly 150 self immolation bids and indirectly
led to the Resignation of V P Singh Govt.
1991 – Ötzi the Iceman is discovered by
German tourists.
1995 – The Washington Post and The New
York Times publish the Unabomber's manifesto.
1997 – Guelb El-Kebir massacre in Algeria;
53 killed.
2006 – The Thai military stages a coup
in Bangkok. The Constitution is revoked
and martial law is declared.
2010 – The leaking oil well in the Deepwater
Horizon oil spill is sealed.
Holidays
and observances
Armed
Forces Day (Chile)
Christian Feast Day:
Goeric of Metz
Januarius (Western Christianity)
Theodore of Tarsus (Church of England)
Trophimus, Sabbatius, and Dorymedon
September 19 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Day of the First Public Appearance of
the Slovak National Council (Slovakia)
Independence Day, celebrates the independence
of Saint Kitts and Nevis from the United
Kingdom in 1983.
International Talk Like a Pirate Day
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