SEPTEMBER 19

Contents

Events

Births

Deaths

Holidays and observances

Religious feasts

References

External links

Events

★ 335 - Dalmatius is raised to the rank of Caesar by his uncle Constantine I.

★ 1356 - In the Battle of Poitiers, the English defeat the 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 is printed across America as an open letter to the public.

★ 1862 - American Civil War: Battle of Iuka - Union troops under General William Rosecrans defeat a Confederate force commanded by General Sterling Price.

★ 1863 - American Civil War: Battle of Chickamauga.

★ 1870 - Franco-Prussian War: the Siege of Paris begins, which will result on 28 January 1871 in the surrender of Paris and a decisive Prussian victory.

★ 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.

★ 1928 - Walt Disney releases "Steamboat Willie", the best known of the early short films to feature Mickey Mouse.

★ 1934 - Bruno Hauptmann is arrested for the kidnap and murder of Charles Lindbergh III.

★ 1942 - Holocaust in Brody, western Ukraine: About 2,500 Brody Jews are deported by German Gestapo to the extermination camp in Belzec.

★ 1944 - Armistice between Finland and Soviet Union signed. (End of the Continuation War).

★ 1945 - Lord Haw Haw (William Joyce) sentenced to death in London.

★ 1946 - The Council of Europe is founded following a speech given by Winston Churchill at the University of Zurich.

★ 1952 - The US bars Charlie Chaplin from reentering the country after a trip to England.

★ 1957 - First U.S. underground nuclear bomb test.

★ 1957 - Dalida is the first artist to be awarded a gold record in France for 300 000 sales of "Bambino".

★ 1959 - Nikita Khrushchev is barred from visiting Disneyland.

★ 1970 - The first Glastonbury Festival is held at Michael Eavis's farm in Glastonbury, UK.

★ 1972 - A parcel bomb sent to Israeli Embassy in London kills one diplomat.

★ 1973 - King Carl XVI Gustaf accedes to the throne of Sweden.

★ 1976 - A Turkish Boeing 727 hits a mountain in southern Turkey killing 155.

★ 1981 - Simon and Garfunkel reunite for a free concert in New York City's Central Park.

★ 1983 - Saint Kitts and Nevis gains its independence.

★ 1985 - A strong earthquake kills thousands and destroys about 400 buildings in Mexico City.

★ 1985 - Tipper 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.

★ 1988 - Greg Louganis suffers a head injury while qualifying for the Seoul Olympics; goes on to win two Gold medals.

★ 1989 - A terrorist bomb explodes UTA Flight 772 in mid-air above the Tùnùrù Desert, Niger, killing 171.

★ 1991 - Ötzi the Iceman is discovered by a couple of German tourists.

★ 1995 - The ''Washington Post'' and ''The New York Times'' publish the Unabomber's manifesto.

★ 1997 - Guelb El-Kebir massacre in Algeria; 53 killed.

★ 1998 - Cal Ripken Jr voluntarily took himself out of the Baltimore Orioles lineup to end his ML Record of consecutive games played.

★ 2001 - Commencement of U.S. combat activities in Afghanistan.

★ 2006 - The Thai military stages a coup in Bangkok. Constitution revoked; martial law declared.

Births

★ 86 - Antoninus Pius, Roman Emperor (d. 161)

★ 866 - Leo VI, Byzantine Emperor (d. 912)

★ 1377 - Duke Albert IV of Austria (d. 1404)

★ 1551 - King Henry III of France (d. 1589)

★ 1676 - Eberhard IV Ludwig, Duke of Württemberg (d. 1733)

★ 1714 - Charles Humphreys, American delegate to the Continental Congress (d. 1786)

★ 1737 - Charles Carroll of Carrollton, American signer of the Declaration of Independence and U.S. Senator (d. 1832)

★ 1749 - Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre, French mathematician (d. 1822)

★ 1754 - John Ross Key, commissioned officer in the Continental Army, judge, lawyer and the father of Francis Scott Key (d. 1821)

★ 1759 - William Kirby, English entomologist (d. 1850)

★ 1778 - Henry Peter Brougham, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain

★ 1796 - Hartley Coleridge, English poet (d. 1849)

★ 1799 - René Caillé, French explorer (d. 1838)

★ 1802 - Lajos Kossuth, Hungarian lawyer and Regent-President (d. 1894)

★ 1811 - Orson Pratt, American religious leader (d. 1881)

★ 1828 - Fridolin Anderwert, Swiss Federal Councilor (d. 1880)

★ 1882 - Christopher Stone, first disc jockey in the United Kingdom (d. 1965)

★ 1887 - Lovie Austin, American jazz pianist (d. 1972)

★ 1887 - Lynne Overman, American actor (d. 1943)

★ 1888 - J. W. Alexander, American mathematician (d. 1971)

★ 1889 - Sadie Delany, American physician and author (d. 1999)

★ 1898 - Giuseppe Saragat, president of the Italian Republic (d. 1988)

★ 1901 - Joe Pasternak, Hungarian-born film producer (d. 1991)

★ 1905 - Leon Jaworski, American Watergate scandal special prosecutor (d. 1982)

★ 1907 - Lewis Franklin Powell, Jr., American Supreme Court Justice (d. 1998)

★ 1908 - Mika Waltari, Finnish novelist (d. 1979)

★ 1909 - Ferry Porsche, Austrian automobile pioneer (d. 1998)

★ 1910 - Margaret Lindsay, American actress (d. 1981)

★ 1911 - Sir William Golding, English writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1993)

★ 1912 - Kurt Sanderling, German conductor

★ 1913 - Frances Farmer, American actress (d. 1970)

★ 1915 - Germán Valdés, Mexican actor, singer and comedian (d. 1973)

★ 1919 - Mary Midgley, American philosopher

★ 1919 - Alberic Schotte, Belgian cyclist (d. 2004)

★ 1920 - Roger Angell, American sports writer

★ 1921 - Paulo Freire, Brazilian educator & writer (d. 1997)

★ 1922 - Damon Knight, American writer (d. 2002)

★ 1922 - Emil Zátopek, Czech athlete (d. 2000)

★ 1926 - James Lipton, American actor, writer and host of Inside the Actors Studio

★ 1926 - Masatoshi Koshiba, Japanese physicist, Nobel Prize laureate

★ 1926 - Duke Snider, baseball player

★ 1927 - Rosemary Harris, English actress

★ 1927 - William Hickey, American actor (d. 1997)

★ 1928 - Adam West, American actor

★ 1930 - Antonio Margheriti, Italian filmmaker

★ 1931 - Brook Benton, American singer (d. 1988)

★ 1933 - David McCallum, Scottish actor

★ 1933 - Gilles Archambault, Québécois novelist

★ 1934 - Brian Epstein, English musical group manager (the Beatles) (d. 1967)

★ 1935 - Benjamin Hacker, American naval aviator (d. 2003)

★ 1935 - Nick Massi, American singer (The Four Seasons) (d. 2000)

★ 1936 - Al Oerter, American athlete

★ 1937 - Abner Haynes, American football player

★ 1940 - Paul Williams, American composer

★ 1940 - Ed Westfall, Canadian ice hockey player

★ 1940 - Bill Medley, American singer and songwriter (The Righteous Brothers)

★ 1941 - Mama Cass Elliot, American musician (d. 1974)

★ 1941 - Umberto Bossi, Italian politician

★ 1943 - Joe Morgan, baseball player

★ 1944 - Jean Succar Kuri, Lebanese-born Mexican businessman

★ 1944 - Anders Björck, Swedish politician

★ 1945 - Randolph Mantooth, American actor

★ 1945 - Freda Payne, American singer and actress

★ 1946 - Brian Henton, English racing driver

★ 1948 - Jeremy Irons, English actor

★ 1949 - Barry Scheck, American lawyer, co-founder Innocence Project

★ 1949 - Twiggy, English model

★ 1950 - Joan Lunden, American journalist and television host

★ 1951 - Daniel Lanois, Canadian record producer

★ 1952 - Nile Rodgers, American musician and composer

★ 1952 - Gunnar Hökmark, Swedish politician

★ 1952 - Bernard de Dryver, Belgian racing driver

★ 1955 - Charlie Reliford, baseball umpire

★ 1955 - Rex Smith, American singer and actor

★ 1955 - Richard Burmer, American composer, sound designer and electronic musician (d. 2006)

★ 1956 - Juan Manuel Fangio II, Argentine racing driver

★ 1958 - Lita Ford, English-born singer (The Runaways)

★ 1958 - Kevin Hooks, American actor and director

★ 1958 - Azumah Nelson, Ghanaian boxer

★ 1960 - Loïc Bigois, French engineer

★ 1962 - Cheri Oteri, American actress and comedian

★ 1963 - David Seaman, English footballer

★ 1963 - Jarvis Cocker, English musician

★ 1964 - Bob Papa, American sportscaster

★ 1964 - Trisha Yearwood, American singer

★ 1964 - Patrick Marber, British playwright

★ 1965 - Alexandra Vandernoot, Belgian actress

★ 1966 - Soledad O'Brien, American journalist

★ 1966 - Eric Robert Rudolph, American criminal

★ 1967 - Jim Abbott, baseball player

★ 1967 - Alexander Karelin, Russian wrestler

★ 1969 - Tapio Wilska, Finnish singer

★ 1969 - Alkinoos Ioannidis, Greek-Cypriot singer and composer

★ 1970 - Victor Williams, American actor

★ 1970 - Takanori Nishikawa, Japanese pop/rock singer

★ 1970 - Gilbert Dionne, National Hockey League player

★ 1970 - Dan Bylsma, National Hockey League player

★ 1973 - Nick Colgan, Irish footballer

★ 1973 - Cristiano Da Matta, Brazilian racing car driver

★ 1974 - Jimmy Fallon, American actor and comedian

★ 1974 - Victoria Silvstedt, Swedish model

★ 1976 - Raja Bell, American basketball player

★ 1976 - Alison Sweeney, American actress

★ 1976 - Jim Ward, American musician (At the Drive-In, Sparta)

★ 1976 - Jessica York, television personality

★ 1977 - Ryan Dusick, American drummer (Maroon 5)

★ 1978 - Michelle Alves, Brazilian supermodel

★ 1978 - Nick Johnson, baseball player

★ 1978 - Nigel Mitchell, Quizmania and Capital Disney presenter

★ 1978 - Jorge López Montaña, Spanish footballer

★ 1979 - Dannielle Brent, British actress

★ 1979 - Noémie Lenoir, French supermodel and actress

★ 1980 - Tegan and Sara, Canadian singer/songwriters

★ 1981 - Damiano Cunego, Italian cyclist

★ 1982 - Nicole Voss, American model

★ 1982 - Eleni Daniilidou, Greek tennis player

★ 1982 - Jordan Parise, American ice hockey player

★ 1983 - Joey Devine, American baseball player

★ 1983 - Charlie Haeger, American baseball player

★ 1984 - Kevin Zegers, Canadian actor

★ 1984 - Eamon Doyle, American pop singer

★ 1986 - Peter Vack, American voice actor

★ 1986 - Gerald Ciolek, German cyclist

★ 1987 - Danielle Panabaker, American actress

★ 1990 - Patrick Breeding, American singer (B5)

Deaths

★ 690 - Theodore of Tarsus, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 602)

★ 1339 - Emperor Go-Daigo of Japan (b. 1288)

★ 1356 - Killed at the Battle of Poitiers:

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★ Peter I, Duke of Bourbon (b. 1311)

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★ Walter VI of Brienne, Constable of France (born 1304)

★ 1668 - William Waller, English soldier

★ 1692 - Giles Corey, American farmer killed in the Salem Witch Trials

★ 1693 - Janez Vajkard Valvasor, Slovenian polymath (b. 1641)

★ 1710 - Ole Rømer, Danish astronomer (b. 1644)

★ 1843 - Gaspard-Gustave Coriolis, French scientist (b. 1792)

★ 1881 - James Garfield, 20th President of the United States (b. 1831)

★ 1893 - Alexander Tilloch Galt, Canadian politician, a father of Canadian Confederation (b. 1817)

★ 1905 - Thomas John Barnardo, Irish philanthropist (b. 1845)

★ 1924 - Alick Bannerman, Australian cricketer (b. 1854)

★ 1927 - Michael Peter Ancher, Danish painter (b. 1849)

★ 1935 - Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovsky, Russian rocket scientist (b. 1857)

★ 1936 - Vishnu Narayan Bhatkhande, Indian musician (b. 1860)

★ 1938 - Pauline Frederick, American actress (b. 1883)

★ 1942 - Condé Nast, American publisher (b. 1873)

★ 1949 - Will Cuppy, American humorist (b. 1884)

★ 1949 - George Shiels, Irish dramatist (b. 1886)

★ 1949 - Nikolaos Skalkottas, Greek composer (b. 1901)

★ 1955 - John D. Dingell, Sr., U.S. Congressman from Michigan (b. 1894)

★ 1967 - Zinaida Serebriakova, Russian painter (b. 1884)

★ 1967 - Monica Proietti, Canadian criminal (b. 1940)

★ 1968 - Chester Carlson, American inventor (b. 1906)

★ 1968 - Red Foley, American singer (b. 1910)

★ 1969 - Rex Ingram, American actor (b. 1895)

★ 1972 - Robert Casadesus, French pianist (b. 1899)

★ 1973 - Gram Parsons, American musician (b. 1946)

★ 1978 - Étienne Gilson, French philosopher and historian (b. 1884)

★ 1985 - Italo Calvino, Italian writer (b. 1923)

★ 1987 - Einar Gerhardsen, Prime Minister of Norway (b. 1897)

★ 1990 - Hermes Pan, American dancer and choreographer (b. 1910)

★ 1995 - Orville Redenbacher, American botanist and businessman (b. 1907)

★ 1997 - Rich Mullins, American singer (b. 1955)

★ 2000 - Anthony Robert Klitz, British artist (b. 1917)

★ 2002 - Robert Guéï, ruler of Côte d'Ivoire (b. 1941)

★ 2003 - Slim Dusty, Australian singer (b. 1927)

★ 2004 - Árpád Bogsch, Hungarian turned American international civil servant (b. 1919)

★ 2004 - Skeeter Davis, American singer (b. 1931)

★ 2004 - Ellis Marsalis, Sr., American businessman, musician, and activist

★ 2006 - Elizabeth Allen, American actress (b. 1929)

★ 2006 - Roy Schuiten, Dutch cyclist (b. 1950)

Holidays and observances

★ In ancient Greece, the sixth day of the Eleusinian Mysteries, when the procession to Eleusis began at Kerameikos in Athens.

★ RC Saints - Saint Januarius.

★ Also see September 19 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics).

★ Church of England - Theodore of Tarsus.

★ Chile - Armed Forces Day.

★ Japan - Respect for the Aged Day (traditional - beginning in 2003, the holiday is held on the third Monday of September.)

★ Saint Kitts and Nevis - Independence Day (from Great Britain, 1983).

★ International Talk Like a Pirate Day.

Religious feasts

★ Goeric of Metz - French bishop and saint ^[1]

References

1. Holweck, F. G. ''A Biographical Dictionary of the Saints''. St. Louis, MO: B. Herder Book Co. 1924.

External links

★ BBC: On This Day

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★ On This Day in Canada
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