September 19

September 19 is the 262nd day of the year (263rd in leap years). There are 103 days remaining.

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Events

• 1356 – In Battle of Poitiers English defeat French
• 1692 – Giles Corey is pressed to death after refusing to plead in the Salem witch trials.
• 1777 – First Battle of Saratoga/Battle of Freeman's Farm/Battle of Bemis Heights
• 1778 – The Continental Congress passes the first budget of the United States
• 1796 – George Washington's Farewell Address
• 1862 – Battle of Iuka, Mississippi – Union troops under General William Rosecrans defeat a Confederate force commanded by General Sterling Price
• 1863 – Battle of Chickamauga
• 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.
• 1900 – Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid commit their first robbery together
• 1934 – Bruno Hauptmann is arrested for the murder of Charles Lindbergh Junior.
• 1944 – Armistice between Finland and Soviet Union signed. (End of the Continuation War)
• 1945 – Lord Haw Haw (William Joyce) sentenced to death in London
• 1946 – The Council of Europe was founded following a speech given by Winston Churchill at the University of Zurich.
• 1952 – The US bars Charlie Chaplin from reentering the country after a trip to England
• 1955 – Juan Peron is deposed in Argentina
• 1957 – First American underground nuclear bomb test
• 1959 – Nikita Khrushchev is barred from visiting Disneyland
• 1972 – Parcel bomb sent to Israeli Embassy in London kills one diplomat.
• 1973 – King Carl XVI Gustaf accedes to the throne of Sweden
• 1976 – A Turkish Boeing 727 hits a mountain in southern Turkey killing 155
• 1978 – Newspaper boy Carl Bridgewater is shot dead after disturbing burglars at a farm. His murder trial is quite a famous case in British legal history.
• 1982 – Scott Fahlman posts the first recorded instance of the emoticon :-) to an online bulletin board
• 1983 – Saint Kitts and Nevis gains independence
• 1985 – A strong earthquake hits Mexico City, killing thousands and demolishing about 400 buildings
• 1985  – Tipper Gore, and the rest of the political wives formed the Parents Music Resource Center.
• 1989 – A terrorist bomb explodes a Union de Transportes Aùriens DC-10 Series 30 in mid-air above the Tùnùrù Desert, Niger killing 171
• 1989  – Hurricane Hugo landfalls in South Carolina
• 1991 – Ötzi the Iceman was discovered by a couple of German tourists.
• 1994 – The pilot episode of the hit medical drama ER airs in the United States, on NBC. The episode was written by Michael Crichton, the show's creator.
• 1995 – The Washington Post publishes the Unabomber's manifesto.
• 1997 – Guelb El-Kebir massacre in Algeria; 53 killed.

Births

• 86 – Antoninus Pius, Roman Emperor (d. 161)
• 866 – Emperor Leo VI of the Byzantine Empire (d. 912)
• 1377 – Duke Albert IV of Austria
• 1551 – King Henry III of France (d. 1589)
• 1737 – Charles Carroll of Carrollton, Declaration of Independence Signer, US Senator (d. 1832)
• 1759 – William Kirby, English entomologist (d. 1850)
• 1778 – Henry Peter Brougham, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain
• 1811 – Orson Pratt, American religious leader (d. 1881)
• 1828 – Fridolin Anderwert, Swiss Federal Councilor (d. 1880)
• 1894 – John D. Dingell, U.S. Congressman from Michigan (d. 1955)
• 1901 – Joe Pasternak, film producer (d. 1991)
• 1904 – Doctor Bergen Evans, television host (d. 1978)
• 1905 – Leon Jaworski, Watergate scandal special prosecutor (d. 1982)
• 1908 – Mika Waltari, novelist (d. 1979)
• 1909 – Ferry Porsche, automobile pioneer (d. 1998)
• 1910 – Jesse Lasky Jr., screenwriter (d. 1988)
• 1911 – Sir William Golding, English novelist (d. 1993)
• 1912 – Kurt Sanderling, conductor
• 1913 – Frances Farmer, actress (d. 1970)
• 1919 – Mary Midgley, philosopher
• 1920 – Roger Angell, sports writer
• 1922 – Damon Knight, science fiction writer (d. 2002)
• 1922  – Dana Zátopková, athlete
• 1922  – Emil Zátopek, athlete (d. 2000)
• 1926 – Edwin Donald Duke Snider, Baseball Hall of Famer
• 1928 – William Hickey, actor (d. 1997)
• 1928  – Adam West, actor
• 1930 – Antonio Margheriti, film maker
• 1931 – Brook Benton, singer (d. 1988)
• 1931  – Lillian Kuzniakowski, dancer-Royal Winnipeg Ballet
• 1932 – Mike Royko, columnist (d. 1997)
• 1933 – David McCallum, actor
• 1934 – Brian Epstein, manager of the Beatles (d. 1967)
• 1935 – Benjamin Hacker, Naval Aviator (d. 2003)
• 1936 – Al Oerter, Olympic Games gold medalist in track and field
• 1937 – Abner Haynes, American football player
• 1940 – Bill Medley, singer
• 1940  – Paul Williams, composer
• 1941 – Mama Cass Elliot, musician (d. 1974)
• 1942 – Freda Payne, singer, actress
• 1943 – Joe Morgan, Baseball Hall of Famer
• 1945 – Randolph Mantooth, actor
• 1947 – Steve Bartlett – former U.S. Congressman and Mayor of Dallas, Texas
• 1948 – Jeremy Irons, actor
• 1949 – Twiggy Lawson, fashion model
• 1950 – Joan Lunden, journalist, television host
• 1952 – Nile Rodgers, musician, composer
• 1956 – Rex Smith, actor
• 1958 – Lita Ford, singer
• 1958  – Kevin Hooks, actor, director
• 1958  – Azumah Nelson, Ghanian royal and world boxing champion
• 1963 – David Seaman, English soccer goalkeeper
• 1964 – Trisha Yearwood, country music singer
• 1974 – Jimmy Fallon, actor, comedian (Saturday Night Live)
• 1974  – Victoria Silvstedt, Playboy Playmate

Deaths

• 690 – Theodore of Tarsus, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 602)
• 1692 – Giles Cory, farmer killed in Salem Witch Trials
• 1710 – Ole Rømer, Danish astronomer (b. 1644)
• 1881 – James Garfield, 20th President of the United States
• 1927 – Michael Peter Ancher, Danish painter (b. 1849)
• 1935 – Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovsky, rocket scientist
• 1938 – Pauline Frederick, stage actress (b. 1883)
• 1942 – Condé Nast, publisher (b. 1873)
• 1949 – Will Cuppy, humorist (b. 1884)
• 1968 – Red Foley, country music singer
• 1968  – Chester Carlson, inventor
• 1969 – Rex Ingram, actor
• 1972 – Robert Casadesus, French pianist (b. 1899)
• 1973 – Gram Parsons, musician
• 1985 – Italo Calvino, Italian writer (b. 1923)
• 1990 – Hermes Pan, dancer, choreographer
• 1997 – Rich Mullins, singer
• 2003 – Slim Dusty, Australian country singer
• 2004 – Skeeter Davis, American country singer (b. 1931)

Holidays and observances

• In ancient Greece, the sixth day of the Eleusinian Mysteries, when the procession to Eleusis began at the Kerameikos in Athens.
• Saint Kitts and Nevis – National Day
• Chile – Day of the Glories of the Army
• International Talk Like a Pirate Day

External links

• BBC: On This Day

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