Wikipedia: September 19

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

Events

1356 - In Battle of Poitiers English defeat French
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
1828 - Fridolin Anderwert, Swiss Federal Councilor († 1880)
1901 - Joe Pasternak, film producer († 1991)
1904 - Doctor Bergen Evans, television host († 1978)
1905 - Leon Jaworski, Watergate scandal special prosecutor
1908 - Mika Waltari, novelist († 1979)
1909 - Ferdinand Porsche, automobile pioneer (+ 1998)
1910 - Jesse Lasky Jr, screenwriter († 1988)
1911 - Sir William Golding, novelist († 1993)
1912 - Kurt Sanderling, conductor
1913 - Frances Farmer, actress († 1970)
1920 - Roger Angell, sports writer
1922 - Damon Knight, science fiction writer (†2002)
1926 - Edwin Donald Duke Snider, Baseball Hall of Famer
1928 - Adam West, actor
1928 - William Hickey, actor (†1997)
1930 - Antonio Margheriti, film maker
1931 - Brook Benton, singer (†1988)
1932 - Mike Royko, columnist
1933 - David McCallum, actor
1934 - Brian Epstein, manager of the Beatles († 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 († 1974)
1942 - Freda Payne, singer, actress
1943 - Joe Morgan, Baseball Hall of Famer
1945 - Randolph Mantooth, actor
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

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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