September 19
\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
September 19 is the 262nd day of the year (263rd in
leap years). There are 103 days remaining.
\n
Events
\n*1356 - In Battle of Poitiers English defeat French\n*1692 - Giles Corey is pressed to death after refusing to plead in the Salem witch trials.\n*1777 - First Battle of Saratoga/Battle of Freeman's Farm/Battle of Bemis Heights\n*1778 - The Continental Congress passes the first budget of the United States\n*1796 - George Washington's Farewell Address\n*1862 - Battle of Iuka, Mississippi - Union troops under General William Rosecrans defeat a Confederate force commanded by General Sterling Price\n*1863 - Battle of Chickamauga\n*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. \n*1900 - Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid commit their first robbery together\n*1934 - Bruno Hauptmann is arrested for the murder of Charles Lindbergh Junior.\n*1944 - Armistice between Finland and Soviet Union signed. (End of the Continuation War)\n*1945 - Lord Haw Haw (William Joyce) sentenced to death in London\n*1952 - The US bars Charlie Chaplin from reentering the country after a trip to England\n*1955 - Juan Peron is deposed in Argentina\n*1957 - First American underground nuclear bomb test\n*1959 - Nikita Khrushchev is barred from visiting Disneyland\n*1973 - King Carl XVI Gustaf accedes to the throne of Sweden\n*1976 - A Turkish Boeing 727 hits a mountain in southern Turkey killing 155\n*1982 - Scott Falman posts the first recorded instance of the emoticon :-) to an online bulletin board\n*1983 - Saint Kitts and Nevis gains independence\n*1989 - A terrorist bomb explodes a Union de Transportes Aùriens DC-10 Series 30 in mid-air above the Tùnùrù Desert, Niger killing 171\n*1995 - The Washington Post publishes the Unabomber's manifesto
Births
\n*86 - Antoninus Pius, Roman Emperor (d. 161)\n*1828 - Fridolin Anderwert, Swiss Federal Councilor (d. 1880)\n*1901 - Joe Pasternak, film producer (d. 1991)\n*1904 - Doctor Bergen Evans, television host (d. 1978)\n*1905 - Leon Jaworski, Watergate scandal special prosecutor (d. 1982)\n*1908 - Mika Waltari, novelist (d. 1979)\n*1909 - Ferry Porsche, automobile pioneer (d. 1998)\n*1910 - Jesse Lasky Jr, screenwriter (d. 1988)\n*1911 - Sir William Golding, novelist (d. 1993)\n*1912 - Kurt Sanderling, conductor\n*1913 - Frances Farmer, actress (d. 1970)\n*1919 - Mary Midgley, philosopher\n*1920 - Roger Angell, sports writer\n*1922 - Damon Knight, science fiction writer (d. 2002)\n*1922 - Emil Zátopek, athlete (d. 2000)\n*1922 - Dana Zátopková, athlete\n*1926 - Edwin Donald Duke Snider, Baseball Hall of Famer\n*1928 - Adam West, actor\n*1928 - William Hickey, actor (d. 1997)\n*1930 - Antonio Margheriti, film maker\n*1931 - Brook Benton, singer (d. 1988)\n*1932 - Mike Royko, columnist (d. 1997)\n*1933 - David McCallum, actor\n*1934 - Brian Epstein, manager of the Beatles (d. 1967)\n*1935 - Benjamin T. Hacker RAdm. USN, Naval Aviator (d. 2003)\n*1936 - Al Oerter, Olympic Games gold medalist in track and field\n*1940 - Bill Medley, singer\n*1940 - Paul Williams, composer\n*1941 - Mama Cass Elliott, musician (d. 1974)\n*1942 - Freda Payne, singer, actress\n*1943 - Joe Morgan, Baseball Hall of Famer\n*1945 - Randolph Mantooth, actor\n*1947 - Steve Bartlett - former U.S. Congressman and Mayor of Dallas, Texas\n*1948 - Jeremy Irons, actor\n*1949 - Twiggy Lawson, fashion model\n*1950 - Joan Lunden, journalist, television host\n*1952 - Nile Rodgers, musician, composer\n*1956 - Rex Smith, actor\n*1958 - Kevin Hooks, actor, director\n*1958 - Lita Ford, singer\n*1958 - Azumah Nelson, Ghanian royal and world boxing champion\n*1964 - Trisha Yearwood, country music singer\n*1963 - David Seaman, English soccer goalkeeper\n*1974 - Jimmy Fallon, actor, comedian (Saturday Night Live)
Deaths
\n*1710 - Ole Rømer, Danish astronomer (b. 1644)\n*1881 - James Garfield, 20th President of the United States\n*1927 - Isadora Duncan, considered mother of modern dance \n*1935 - Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovsky, rocket scientist, physicist\n*1968 - Red Foley, country music singer\n*1968 - Chester Carlson, inventor of xerography\n*1969 - Rex Ingram, actor\n*1972 - Robert Casadesus, pianist\n*1973 - Gram Parsons, country music/rock musician\n*1985 - Italo Calvino, writer\n*1990 - Hermes Pan, dancer, choreographer\n*1997 - Rich Mullins, singer
Holidays
\n*In ancient Greece, the sixth day of the Eleusinian mysteries, when the procession to Eleusis began at the Kerameikos in Athens.\n*Saint Kitts and Nevis - National Day\n*Chile - Day of the Glories of the Army\n*International Talk Like a Pirate Day\n----\nSeptember 18 · September 20 · August 19 · October 19 · more historical anniversaries
