What happened on September 19? There are more than 318 events that were made this day in history. Here are the important historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
Interesting Facts & Myths About September 19
September 19 is the 263rd day of the year 2024. There are 103 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday. This day falls under the 38th week of the year 2024.
On this day in Phoenix, Arizona 85026 sunrise will occur at 06:14 AM and sunset will occur at 06:30 PM (local time).
The zodiac sign of a person born on this day is Virgo. The modern birthstone for this month is Sapphire while the mystical birthstone is Agate.
According to the Chinese calendar, there are 132 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year (January 29, 2025).
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Historical Events For September 19
- 335Flavius Dalmatius is raised to the rank of Caesar by his uncle Constantine I.
- 1356Battle of Poitiers: an English army under the command of Edward, the Black Prince defeats a French army and captures the French king, John II.
- 1676Jamestown is burned to the ground by the forces of Nathaniel Bacon during Bacon’s Rebellion.
- 1692Giles Corey is pressed to death after refusing to plead in the Salem witch trials.
- 1777American Revolutionary War: British forces win a tactically expensive victory over the Continental Army in the First Battle of Saratoga.
- 1778The Continental Congress passes the first budget of the United States.
- 1796George Washington’s farewell address is printed across America as an open letter to the public.
- 1799French Revolutionary Wars: French-Dutch victory against the Russians and British in the Battle of Bergen.
- 1846Two French shepherd children, Mélanie Calvat and Maximin Giraud, experience a Marian apparition on a mountaintop near La Salette, France, now known as Our Lady of La Salette.
- 1862American Civil War: Battle of Iuka – Union troops under General William Rosecrans defeat a Confederate force commanded by General Sterling Price.
- 1863American Civil War: Battle of Chickamauga.
- 1870Franco-Prussian War: the Siege of Paris begins, which will result on January 28, 1871 in the surrender of Paris and a decisive Prussian victory.
- 1870Having invaded the Papal States a week earlier, the Italian Army lays siege to Rome, entering the city the next day, after which the Pope described himself as a Prisoner in the Vatican.
- 1881U.S. President James A. Garfield dies of wounds suffered in a July 2 shooting.
- 1893Women’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.
- 1934Bruno Hauptmann is arrested for the kidnap and murder of Charles Lindbergh Jr.
- 1939World War II: The Battle of Kępa Oksywska concludes, with Polish losses reaching roughly 14% of all the forces engaged.
- 1940Witold Pilecki is voluntarily captured and sent to Auschwitz in order to smuggle out information and start a resistance.
- 1944Armistice between Finland and Soviet Union is signed. (End of the Continuation War).
- 1944Battle of Hürtgen Forest between United States and Nazi Germany begins.
- 1945Lord Haw Haw (William Joyce) is sentenced to death in London.
- 1946The Council of Europe is founded following a speech by Winston Churchill at the University of Zurich.
- 1946The first Cannes Film Festival is held, having been delayed seven years due to World War II.
- 1952The United States bars Charlie Chaplin from re-entering the country after a trip to England.
- 1957First American underground nuclear bomb test (part of Operation Plumbbob).
- 1959Nikita Khrushchev is barred from visiting Disneyland due to security concerns.
- 1961Betty and Barney Hill claim that they saw a mysterious craft in the sky and that it tried to abduct them.
- 1970Kostas Georgakis, a Greek student of Geology, sets himself ablaze in Matteotti Square in Genoa, Italy as a protest against the dictatorial regime of Georgios Papadopoulos.
- 1970The first Glastonbury Festival is held at Michael Eavis’s farm in Glastonbury, United Kingdom.
- 1971Montagnard troops of South Vietnam revolt against the rule of Nguyen Khanh, killing 70 ethnic Vietnamese soldiers.
- 1972A parcel bomb sent to Israeli Embassy in London kills one diplomat.
- 1973King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden has his investiture.
- 1976Turkish Airlines Boeing 727 hits the Taurus Mountains, outskirt of Karatepe, Osmaniye, Turkey, killing all 155 passengers and crew.
- 1976Two Imperial Iranian Air Force F-4 Phantom II jets fly out to investigate an unidentified flying object when both independently lose instrumentation and communications as they approach, only to have them restored upon withdrawal.
- 1978The Solomon Islands join the United Nations.
- 1981Simon & Garfunkel reunite for a free concert in New York’s Central Park.
- 1982Scott Fahlman posts the first documented emoticons :-) and :-( on the Carnegie Mellon University Bulletin Board System.
- 1983Saint Kitts and Nevis gains its independence.
- 1985A strong earthquake kills thousands and destroys about 400 buildings in Mexico City.
- 1985Tipper Gore and other political wives form the Parents Music Resource Center as Frank Zappa and other musicians testify at U.S. Congressional hearings on obscenity in rock music.
- 1989A terrorist bomb explodes UTA Flight 772 in mid-air above the Tùnùrù Desert, Niger, killing 171.
- 1990Delhi University student Rajiv Goswami attempts Self Immolation during Anti-Reservation agitation in India. Though he survived, his Self Immolation inspired nearly 150 self immolation bids and indirectly led to the Resignation of V P Singh Govt.
- 1991Ötzi the Iceman is discovered by German tourists.
- 1995The Washington Post and The New York Times publish the Unabomber’s manifesto.
- 1997Guelb El-Kebir massacre in Algeria; 53 killed.
- 2006The Thai military stages a coup in Bangkok. The Constitution is revoked and martial law is declared.
- 2010The leaking oil well in the Deepwater Horizon oil spill is sealed.
Who Were Born On September 19?
- 86Antoninus Pius, Roman Emperor (d. 161)
- 866Leo VI, Byzantine Emperor (d. 912)
- 1377Albert IV, Duke of Austria (d. 1404)
- 1551King Henry III of France (d. 1589)
- 1749Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre, French mathematician (d. 1822)
- 1754John Ross Key, commissioned officer in the Continental Army, judge, lawyer and the father of Francis Scott Key (d. 1821)
- 1759William Kirby, English entomologist (d. 1850)
- 1774Giuseppe Caspar Mezzofanti, Italian hyperpolyglot (d. 1849)
- 1778Henry Peter Brougham, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain (d. 1868)
- 1796Hartley Coleridge, English poet (d. 1849)
- 1799René Caillé, French explorer (d. 1838)
- 1802Lajos Kossuth, Hungarian lawyer and Regent-President (d. 1894)
- 1803Maria Anna of Savoy, Empress of Austria and queen of Hungary and Bohemia (d. 1884)
- 1811Orson Pratt, American religious leader (d. 1881)
- 1828Fridolin Anderwert, Swiss Federal Councilor (d. 1880)
- 1864Ragna Wettergreen, Norwegian actress (d. 1958)
- 1882Christopher Stone, first disc jockey in the United Kingdom (d. 1965)
- 1887Lovie Austin, American jazz pianist (d. 1972)
- 1887Lynne Overman, American actor (d. 1943)
- 1888J. W. Alexander, American mathematician (d. 1971)
- 1888Porter Hall, American actor d. 1953
- 1889Sarah Louise “Sadie” Delany, American physician and author (d. 1999)
- 1898Giuseppe Saragat, President of the Italian Republic (d. 1988)
- 1900Ricardo Cortez, American actor (d. 1977)
- 1901Joe Pasternak, Hungarian-born film producer (d. 1991)
- 1905Leon Jaworski, American Watergate scandal special prosecutor (d. 1982)
- 1907Lewis Franklin Powell, Jr., American Supreme Court Justice (d. 1998)
- 1908Alberto Socarras, Cuban-American flautist (d. 1987)
- 1908Mika Waltari, Finnish novelist (d. 1979)
- 1908Robert Lecourt, French politician and president of the European Court of Justice (d. 2004)
- 1908Tatsuo Shimabuku, founder of Isshinryu Karate (d. 1975)
- 1909Ferry Porsche, Austrian automobile pioneer (d. 1998)
- 1910Jack Dunham, American animator and television producer (d. 2009)
- 1910Margaret Lindsay, American actress (d. 1981)
- 1911Sir William Golding, English writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1993)
- 1912Kurt Sanderling, German conductor (d. 2011)
- 1913Frances Farmer, American actress (d. 1970)
- 1913Helen Ward (jazz singer), American jazz singer(d. 1998)
- 1913Maria Tănase, Romanian traditional and folk singer(d. 1963)
- 1915Clyde Moody, bluegrass musician (d. 1989)
- 1915Germán Valdés, Mexican actor, singer and comedian (d. 1973)
- 1919Roger Grenier, French Writer and animator
- 1920Roger Angell, American sports writer
- 1921Paulo Freire, Brazilian educator & writer (d. 1997)
- 1922Damon Knight, American writer (d. 2002)
- 1922Emil Zátopek, Czech athlete (d. 2000)
- 1926Duke Snider, American baseball player (d. 2011)
- 1926James Lipton, American actor, writer and host of Inside the Actors Studio
- 1926Masatoshi Koshiba, Japanese physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1927Helen Carter, American singer, member of the Carter Family (d. 1998)
- 1927Nick Massi, American singer and guitarist (The Four Seasons) (d. 2000)
- 1927Rosemary Harris, English actress
- 1927William Hickey, American actor (d. 1997)
- 1928Adam West, American actor
- 1930Antonio Margheriti, Italian filmmaker (d. 2002)
- 1930Muhal Richard Abrams, American educator, administrator, composer, arranger, clarinetist, cellist, and jazz pianist
- 1931Brook Benton, American singer (d. 1988)
- 1931Derek Gardner, British Formula 1 car designer (d. 2011)
- 1933David McCallum, Scottish actor
- 1933Gilles Archambault, Canadian novelist
- 1934Brian Epstein, English musical group manager (The Beatles) (d. 1967)
- 1935Benjamin Hacker, American naval aviator (d. 2003)
- 1936Al Oerter, American athlete (d. 2007)
- 1937Abner Haynes, American football player
- 1939Bruce Bastin, folklorist, a leading expert on the Piedmont Blues
- 1940Anna Karen, South African–born British actress
- 1940Bill Medley, American singer and songwriter (The Righteous Brothers)
- 1940Ed Westfall, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1940Paul Williams, American composer
- 1940Sylvia Tyson, Canadian musician, singer-songwriter, & broadcaster
- 1941“Mama” Cass Elliot, American musician (d. 1974)
- 1941Umberto Bossi, Italian politician
- 1942Freda Payne, American singer and actress
- 1943André Boudrias, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1943Joe Morgan, American baseball player
- 1944Anders Björck, Swedish politician
- 1944Jean Succar Kuri, Lebanese-born Mexican businessman
- 1945David Bromberg, American multi-instrumentalist, singer, and songwriter
- 1945Randolph Mantooth, American actor
- 1946Brian Henton, English racing driver
- 1947Brian Hill, American basketball head coach
- 1947Gerd Schwidrowski, German footballer
- 1947Lol Creme, English musician (10cc, Godley & Creme)
- 1948Jeremy Irons, English actor
- 1948Mihai Timofti, Moldovan director, actor and musician
- 1949Barry Scheck, American lawyer, co-founder Innocence Project
- 1949Ernie Sabella, American actor
- 1949Sally Potter, English film director and screenwriter
- 1949Twiggy, English model
- 1950Joan Lunden, American journalist and television host
- 1951Daniel Lanois, Canadian record producer
- 1952Bernard de Dryver, Belgian racing driver
- 1952Gunnar Hökmark, Swedish politician
- 1952Henry Kaiser (musician), American guitarist and composer
- 1952Nile Rodgers, American musician and composer
- 1952Rhys Chatham, American musician, primarily trumpet and guitar, and composer
- 1953Sarana VerLin, violinist, singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist
- 1954Michael Wolff, American jazz pianist, composer, producer, actor, and jazz educator
- 1955Rex Smith, American singer and actor
- 1955Richard Burmer, American composer and musician (d. 2006)
- 1956Charlie Reliford, American baseball umpire
- 1956Juan Manuel Fangio II, Argentine racing driver
- 1957Chris Roupas, Greek-American professional basketball player
- 1958Azumah Nelson, Ghanaian boxer
- 1958Kevin Hooks, American actor and director
- 1958Lita Ford, American singer
- 1958Lucky Ali, Indian singer, Composer and Actor
- 1960Loïc Bigois, French engineer
- 1960Mario Batali, American chef and restaurateur
- 1962Cheri Oteri, American actress and comedian
- 1962Ken Rosenthal, American sportswriter
- 1963David Seaman, English footballer
- 1963Jarvis Cocker, English musician (Pulp)
- 1964Bob Papa, American sportscaster
- 1964Kim Richards, American child actress
- 1964Patrick Marber, British playwright
- 1964Trisha Yearwood, American singer
- 1965Alexandra Vandernoot, Belgian actress
- 1965Helen Duval, Dutch adult movie actress
- 1965Sabine Paturel, French singer
- 1966Eric Robert Rudolph, American criminal
- 1966Soledad O'Brien, American journalist
- 1966Yoshihiro Takayama, Japanese professional wrestler
- 1967Alexander Karelin, Russian wrestler
- 1967Jim Abbott, American baseball player
- 1967Stéphane Crête, Canadian actor
- 1968Jimmy Bower, American drummer (Down),(Crowbar)
- 1968Monica Crowley, American author and commentator
- 1969Alkinoos Ioannidis, Greek-Cypriot singer and composer
- 1969Cuong Vu, jazz trumpeter and vocalist
- 1969Kostya Tszyu, Russian/Australian boxer
- 1969Tapio Wilska, Finnish singer
- 1970Dan Bylsma, American ice hockey player
- 1970Gilbert Dionne, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1970Takanori Nishikawa, Japanese pop/rock singer
- 1970Victor Williams, American actor
- 1971Sanaa Lathan, American actress
- 1972Ashot Nadanian, Armenian chess player, theoretician and coach
- 1972Matt Cockbain, Australian rugby player
- 1973Cristiano da Matta, Brazilian racing car driver
- 1973Jeremy Lindsay Taylor, Australian actor
- 1973Nick Colgan, Irish footballer
- 1974Jimmy Fallon, American actor and comedian
- 1974Victoria Silvstedt, Swedish model
- 1976Alison Sweeney, American actress
- 1976Jan Hlaváč, Czech ice hockey player
- 1976Jessica York, American television personality
- 1976Jim Ward, American musician (At the Drive-In, Sparta)
- 1976Raja Bell, American basketball player
- 1977Akash Chopra, Indian cricketer
- 1977Danny Forster, American television host and producer and architect
- 1977Emil Sutovsky, Israeli chess Grandmaster
- 1977Fung Ka Ki, Hong Kong footballer
- 1977Josef Fares, Swedish film director
- 1977Kyle Cease, American actor and comedian
- 1977Maria Rita, Brazilian singer
- 1977Mike Smith, American baseball pitcher
- 1977Poon Yiu Cheuk, Hong Kong footballer
- 1977Scott Orlinger, American wrestler
- 1977Tasha Danvers, British Olympic bronze medalist
- 1977Tommaso Rocchi, Italian footballer
- 1977Wu Jiaduo, Chinese table tennis player
- 1978Amil, American rapper, singer, and songwriter
- 1978Jorge López Montaña, Spanish footballer
- 1978Michelle Alves, Brazilian model
- 1978Nick Johnson, American baseball player
- 1978Nigel Mitchell, British broadcaster
- 1978Ramin Karimloo, Iranian/Canadian musical theater actor
- 1979Dannielle Brent, English actress
- 1979Hermione Granger, Brightest Witch
- 1979Joel Houston, Australian musician and songwriter
- 1979Noémie Lenoir, French model and actress
- 1980Amber Lancaster, American model and actress
- 1980Dimitri Yachvili, French rugby player
- 1980Sara Quin, Canadian musician
- 1980Tegan Quin, Canadian musician
- 1981Damiano Cunego, Italian cyclist
- 1981Rick DiPietro, American ice hockey player
- 1982Columbus Short, American actor and choreographer
- 1982Eduardo, Portuguese footballer
- 1982Eleni Daniilidou, Greek tennis player
- 1982Jordan Parise, American ice hockey player
- 1982Shaun Barker, English footballer
- 1983Charlie Haeger, American baseball player
- 1983Eamon, American pop singer
- 1983Joey Devine, American baseball player
- 1983Matt Wiman, American mixed martial artist
- 1984Amber Rayne, American pornographic actress
- 1984Danny Valencia, American baseball player
- 1984Kevin Zegers, Canadian actor
- 1985Alun-Wyn Jones, Welsh rugby player
- 1985Gio Gonzalez, American baseball player
- 1986Gerald Ciolek, German cyclist
- 1986Ken Gushi, Japanese racing driver
- 1986Mandy Musgrave, American actress
- 1986Peter Vack, American voice actor
- 1986Ryan Succop, American football player
- 1987Danielle Panabaker, American actress
- 1987Kenny Britt, American football player
- 1988Faye Reagan, American pornographic actress
- 1989Tyreke Evans, Basketball player
- 1990Evgeny Novikov, Russian rally driver
- 1990Saki Fukuda, Japanese actress
- 1991Demelza Reveley, Australian model
- 1993Kshitij Patil, Indian Dancer
- 1994Alex Etel, English actor
- 1997Zac Alatabi, Savior of all Man Kind
- 2001Taylor Geare, American actress
- 2002Jason and Kristopher Simmons, American identical twin actors
Who Died On September 19?
- 690Theodore of Tarsus, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 602)
- 1339Emperor Go-Daigo of Japan (b. 1288)
- 1356Killed at the Battle of Poitiers: Peter I, Duke of Bourbon (b. 1311)
- 1356Killed at the Battle of Poitiers: Walter VI of Brienne, Constable of France (b. 1304)
- 1668William Waller, English soldier
- 1692Giles Corey, American farmer killed in the Salem Witch Trials
- 1693Janez Vajkard Valvasor, Slovenian polymath (b. 1641)
- 1710Ole Rømer, Danish astronomer (b. 1644)
- 1812Mayer Amschel Rothschild, (b. 1744)
- 1843Gaspard-Gustave Coriolis, French scientist (b. 1792)
- 1868William Sprague, American minister and politician (b. 1809)
- 1881James Garfield, 20th President of the United States (b. 1831)
- 1893Alexander Tilloch Galt, Canadian politician, a father of Canadian Confederation (b. 1817)
- 1905Thomas John Barnardo, Irish philanthropist (b. 1845)
- 1906Maria Georgina Grey, British writer and founder of the Girls’ Day School Trust (b. 1816)
- 1924Alick Bannerman, Australian cricketer (b. 1854)
- 1927Michael Peter Ancher, Danish painter (b. 1849)
- 1935Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovsky, Russian rocket scientist (b. 1857)
- 1936Vishnu Narayan Bhatkhande, Indian musician (b. 1860)
- 1938Pauline Frederick, American actress (b. 1883)
- 1942Condé Nast, American publisher (b. 1873)
- 1944Guy Gibson, British aviator, awarded Victoria Cross (b. 1918)
- 1949George Shiels, Irish dramatist (b. 1886)
- 1949Nikos Skalkottas, Greek composer (b. 1901)
- 1949Will Cuppy, American humorist (b. 1884)
- 1955John D. Dingell, Sr., U.S. Congressman from Michigan (b. 1894)
- 1965Lionel Terray, French mountaineer (b. 1921)
- 1967Monica Proietti, Canadian criminal (b. 1940)
- 1967Zinaida Serebriakova, Russian painter (b. 1884)
- 1968Chester Carlson, American inventor (b. 1906)
- 1968Red Foley, American singer (b. 1910)
- 1969Rex Ingram, American actor (b. 1895)
- 1972Robert Casadesus, French pianist (b. 1899)
- 1973Gram Parsons, American musician (b. 1946)
- 1978Étienne Gilson, French philosopher and historian (b. 1884)
- 1985Italo Calvino, Italian writer (b. 1923)
- 1987Einar Gerhardsen, Prime Minister of Norway (b. 1897)
- 1989Willie Steele, American Olympic gold medalist (b. 1923)
- 1990Hermes Pan, American dancer and choreographer (b. 1910)
- 1995Orville Redenbacher, American botanist and businessman (b. 1907)
- 1997Jack May, American voice actor (b. 1922)
- 1997Rich Mullins, American singer (b. 1955)
- 2000Anthony Robert Klitz, British artist (b. 1917)
- 2001Rhys Jones, Welsh-Australian archeologist (b. 1941)
- 2002Duncan Hallas, prominent member of the Trotskyist movement in Great Britain. (b. 1925)
- 2002Robert Guéï, ruler of Côte d'Ivoire (b. 1941)
- 2003Slim Dusty, Australian singer (b. 1927)
- 2004Árpád Bogsch, Hungarian-born American civil servant (b. 1919)
- 2004Damayanti Joshi, Indian classical dancer of Kathak style (b. 1928)
- 2004Eddie Adams, American photographer (b. 1933)
- 2004Ellis Marsalis, Sr., American businessman, musician, and activist (b. 1908)
- 2004Skeeter Davis, American singer (b. 1931)
- 2006Chuck Rio, American singer and saxophonist (The Champs) (b. 1929)
- 2006Elizabeth Allen, American actress (b. 1929)
- 2006Hugh Kawharu, New Zealander Ngāti Whātua Māori chief (b. 1927)
- 2006Martha Holmes, American photographer (b. 1923)
- 2006Roy Schuiten, Dutch cyclist (b. 1950)
- 2009Arthur Ferrante, American popular pianist (b. 1921)
- 2009Eduard Zimmermann, German broadcaster (b. 1929)
- 2009Roc Raida, Turntablist (b. 1972)
- 2011Johnny Răducanu, Romanian jazz pianist (b. 1931)
- 2011Thomas Capano, attorney, criminal (b. 1949)
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