September 19

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 - New Zealand grants women 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
• 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
• 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 Sinder[?], 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

See Also: January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December - more historical anniversaries