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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 sufferage: 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 arrested for killing 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
- 1982 - Scott Falman posts the first recorded instance of the emoticon :-) to an online bulletin board
- 1983 - Saint Kitts and Nevis gains independence
- 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)
- 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)
- 1943 - Joe Morgan, Baseball Hall of Famer
- 1945 - Freda Payne, singer
- 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
- 1974 - Jimmy Fallon, actor
Deaths
- 1881 - James Garfield, 20th President of the United States
- 1927 - Isadora Duncan, considered mother of modern dance
- 1935 - Konstantin Eduardovitch Tsiolkovsky, rocket scientist, physicist
- 1968 - Red Foley, country music singer
- 1968 - Chester Carlson, inventor of xerography
- 1969 - Rex Ingram, actor
- 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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