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Year | Name |
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2022 | The state funeral of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom is held at Westminster Abbey, London. |
2021 | The Cumbre Vieja volcano, on the island of La Palma in the Canary Islands, erupts. The eruption lasts for almost three months, ending on December 13. |
2019 | A drone strike by the United States kills 30 civilian farmers in Afghanistan. |
2017 | The 2017 Puebla earthquake strikes Mexico, causing 370 deaths and over 6,000 injuries, as well as extensive damage. |
2016 | In the wake of a manhunt, the suspect in a series of bombings in New York and New Jersey is apprehended after a shootout with police. |
2011 | Mariano Rivera of the New York Yankees surpasses Trevor Hoffman to become Major League Baseball's all-time career saves leader with 602. |
2010 | The leaking oil well in the Deepwater Horizon oil spill is sealed. |
2006 | The Thai army stages a coup. The Constitution is revoked and martial law is declared. |
1997 | The Guelb El-Kebir massacre in Algeria kills 53 people. |
1995 | The Washington Post and The New York Times publish the Unabomber manifesto. |
1991 | Ötzi the Iceman is discovered in the Alps on the border between Italy and Austria. |
1989 | A bomb destroys UTA Flight 772 in mid-air above the Tùnùrù Desert, Niger, killing all 170 passengers and crew. |
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, John Denver, and other musicians testify at U.S. Congressional hearings on obscenity in rock music. |
1983 | Saint Kitts and Nevis gains its independence. |
1982 | Scott Fahlman posts the first documented emoticons :-) and :-( on the Carnegie Mellon University bulletin board system. |
1978 | The Solomon Islands join the United Nations. |
1976 | Turkish Airlines Flight 452 hits the Taurus Mountains, outskirt of Karatepe, Turkey, killing all 154 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. |
1970 | Michael Eavis hosts the first Glastonbury Festival. |
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. |
1957 | Plumbbob Rainier becomes the first nuclear explosion to be entirely contained underground, producing no fallout. |
1950 | Korean War: An attack by North Korean forces was repelled at the Battle of Nam River. |
1946 | The Council of Europe is founded following a speech by Winston Churchill at the University of Zurich. |
1944 | World War II: The Battle of Hürtgen Forest begins. It will become the longest individual battle that the U.S. Army has ever fought. |
1944 | World War II: The Moscow Armistice between Finland and the Soviet Union is signed, which officially ended the Continuation War. |
1940 | World War II: Witold Pilecki is voluntarily captured and sent to Auschwitz concentration camp to gather and smuggle out information for the resistance movement.[9] |
1939 | World War II: The Battle of Kępa Oksywska concludes, with Polish losses reaching roughly 14% of all the forces engaged. |
1916 | World War I: During the East African Campaign, colonial forces of the Belgian Congo (Force Publique) under the command of Charles Tombeur capture the town of Tabora after heavy fighting. |
1893 | In New Zealand, the Electoral Act of 1893 is consented to by the governor, giving all women in New Zealand the right to vote. |
1870 | Franco-Prussian War: The siege of Paris begins. The city held out for over four months before surrendering. |
1868 | La Gloriosa begins in Spain. |
1864 | American Civil War: Union troops under Philip Sheridan defeat a Confederate force commanded by Jubal Early. With over 50,000 troops engaged, it was the largest battle fought in the Shenandoah Valley. |
1863 | American Civil War: The first day of the Battle of Chickamauga, in northwestern Georgia, the bloodiest two-day battle of the conflict, and the only significant Confederate victory in the war's Western Theater. |
1862 | American Civil War: Union troops under William Rosecrans defeat a Confederate force commanded by Sterling Price. |
1852 | Annibale de Gasparis discovers the asteroid Massalia from the north dome of the Astronomical Observatory of Capodimonte. |
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. |
1799 | French Revolutionary Wars: French-Dutch victory against the Russians and British in the Battle of Bergen. |
1796 | George Washington's Farewell Address is printed across America as an open letter to the public. |
1778 | The Continental Congress passes the first United States federal budget. |
1777 | American Revolutionary War: British forces win a tactically expensive victory over the Continental Army in the First Battle of Saratoga. |
1676 | Jamestown is burned to the ground by the forces of Nathaniel Bacon during Bacon's Rebellion. |
1410 | End of the Siege of Marienburg: The State of the Teutonic Order repulses the joint Polish—Lithuanian forces.[4] |
1356 | Battle of Poitiers: An English army under the command of Edward the Black Prince defeats a French army and captures King John II. |
634 | Siege of Damascus: The Rashidun Arabs under Khalid ibn al-Walid capture Damascus from the Byzantine Empire. |
85 | Nerva, suspected of complicity of the death of Domitian, is declared emperor by Senate. The Senate then annuls laws passed by Domitian and orders his statues to be destroyed. |
Here is a random list who born on September 19. For full list please click on the link above.
Year | Name |
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1803 | Maria Anna of Savoy (d. 1884) |
1941 | Mariangela Melato, Italian actress (d. 2013) |
1950 | Joan Lunden, American television journalist, anchor, and author |
1982 | Jordan Parise, American ice hockey player |
1918 | Pablita Velarde, Santa Clara Pueblo (Native American) painter (d. 2006) |
1947 | Brian Hill, American basketball player and coach |
1662 | Jean-Paul Bignon, French priest and man of letters (d. 1743) |
1969 | Jacek Frąckiewicz, Polish footballer |
1964 | Daniel Wincott, British political scientist |
1928 | Adam West, American actor and businessman (d. 2017) |
Here is a list of some famous peope who died on September 19. For full list please click on the link above.
Date | Name |
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643 | Goeric of Metz, Frankish bishop and saint |
1924 | Alick Bannerman, Australian cricketer and coach (b. 1854) |
1843 | Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis, French mathematician, physicist, and engineer (b. 1792) |
1893 | Alexander Tilloch Galt, English-Canadian politician, 1st Canadian Minister of Finance (b. 1817) |
1985 | Italo Calvino, Italian novelist, short story writer, and journalist (b. 1923) |
2019 | Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, Tunisian soldier, politician, 2nd President of Tunisia (b. 1936) |
1998 | Patricia Hayes, English actress (b. 1909) |
2011 | Thomas Capano, American lawyer and politician (b. 1949) |
1868 | William Sprague, American minister and politician (b. 1809) |
1990 | Ian Moir, Australian rugby league player (b. 1932) |