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September 19

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

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Table of contents

1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Holidays

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
• 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
• 1973 - King Carl XVI Gustaf accedes to the throne of Sweden
• 1976 - A Turkish Boeing 727 hits a mountain in southern Turkey killing 155
• 1982 - Scott Falman posts the first recorded instance of the emoticon :-) to an online bulletin board
• 1983 - Saint Kitts and Nevis gains independence
• 1989 - A terrorist bomb explodes a Union de Transportes Aùriens DC-10 Series 30 in mid-air above the Tùnùrù Desert, Niger killing 171
• 1995 - The Washington Post publishes the Unabomber's manifesto

Births

• 86 - Antoninus Pius, Roman Emperor (d. 161)
• 1828 - Fridolin Anderwert, Swiss Federal Councilor (d. 1880)
• 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 - Ferdinand Porsche, automobile pioneer (d. 1998)
• 1910 - Jesse Lasky Jr, screenwriter (d. 1988)
• 1911 - Sir William Golding, novelist (d. 1993)
• 1912 - Kurt Sanderling, conductor
• 1913 - Frances Farmer, actress (d. 1970)
• 1920 - Roger Angell, sports writer
• 1922 - Damon Knight, science fiction writer (d. 2002)
• 1926 - Edwin Donald Duke Snider, Baseball Hall of Famer
• 1928 - Adam West, actor
• 1928 - William Hickey, actor (d. 1997)
• 1930 - Antonio Margheriti, film maker
• 1931 - Brook Benton, singer (d. 1988)
• 1932 - Mike Royko, columnist (d. 1997)
• 1933 - David McCallum, actor
• 1934 - Brian Epstein, manager of the Beatles (d. 1967)
• 1936 - Al Oerter, Olympic Games gold medalist in track and field
• 1940 - Bill Medley, singer
• 1940 - Paul Williams, composer
• 1941 - Mama Cass Elliott, 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 - Kevin Hooks, actor, director
• 1958 - Lita Ford, singer
• 1958 - Azumah Nelson, Ghanian royal and world boxing champion
• 1964 - Trisha Yearwood, country music singer
• 1963 - David Seaman, English soccer goalkeeper
• 1974 - Jimmy Fallon, actor

Deaths

• 1710 - Ole Rømer, Danish astronomer (b. 1644)
• 1881 - James Garfield, 20th President of the United States
• 1927 - Isadora Duncan, considered mother of modern dance
• 1935 - Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovsky, rocket scientist, physicist
• 1968 - Red Foley, country music singer
• 1968 - Chester Carlson, inventor of xerography
• 1969 - Rex Ingram, actor
• 1972 - Robert Casadesus, pianist
• 1973 - Gram Parsons, country music/rock musician
• 1985 - Italo Calvino, writer
• 1990 - Hermes Pan, dancer, choreographer
• 1997 - Rich Mullins, singer

Holidays

• 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

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