September 19......

September 19 is the 262nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (263rd in leap years). There are 103 days remaining.

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 was won by American soldiers during the Revolutionary War..

● 1778 - The Continental Congress passes the first budget of the United States.

● 1796 - President George Washington's farewell address was published. In it, America's first chief executive advised, ''Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.''

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

● 1863 - American Civil War: Battle of Chickamauga.

● 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, beginning with the 1893 New Zealand general election.

● 1900 - Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid commit their first robbery together.

● 1906 - Addressing the annual dinner of The Associated Press in New York, Mark Twain said there were ''only two forces that can carry light to all the corners of the globe ... the sun in the heavens and The Associated Press down here.''

● 1928 - Walt Disney releases Steamboat Willie, the most well-known of the early short films to feature Mickey Mouse.

● 1934 - Bruno Hauptmann was arrested in New York and charged with the kidnap-murder of Charles Lindbergh Junior.

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

● 1945 - Nazi propagandist William Joyce, known as Lord Haw-Haw, was sentenced to death by a British court in London.

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

● 1952 - The United States bars film legend Charlie Chaplin from reentering the country after a trip to England until he is investigated by the Immigration Services.

● 1955 - President Juan Peron of Argentina was ousted after a revolt by the military.

● 1957 - The United States conducted its first underground nuclear test, in the Nevada desert.

● 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 Mary Tyler Moore Show'' debuted on CBS.

● 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 - Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel reunite for a free concert in New York City's Central Park.

● 1983 - Saint Kitts and Nevis gains its independence.

● 1985 - The Mexico City area was struck by the first of two devastating earthquakes that claimed some 6,000 lives, demolished about 400 buildings and devastated three states along the Pacific coast.

● 1985 - Tipper Gore and other political wives form the Parents Music Resource Center.

● 1985 - Frank Zappa and other musicians testify at Congressional hearings on obscenity in rock music.

● 1986 - Two dead in Midlands rail crash; Two passenger trains crash in Staffordshire, killing two people and injuring almost a hundred more.

● 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.

● 1994 - United States troops entered Haiti to enforce the return of exiled President Jean-Bertrand Aristide.

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

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

● 1997 - Six dead in Southall train disaster; An Intercity 125 ploughs into a freight train in west London, killing six and injuring more than 150.

● 2001 - Commencement of combatant activities in Afghanistan (the date designated by U.S. President George W. Bush in Executive Order 13239 of September 12, 2001).

● 2001 - The Pentagon ordered combat aircraft to the Persian Gulf in response to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

● 2002 - President George W. Bush asked Congress for authority to ''use all means,'' including military force if necessary, to disarm and overthrow Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein if he did not quickly meet United Nations demands to abandon all weapons of mass destruction.

● 2003 - Washington D.C. swept by hurricane; Hurricane Isabel hits the east coast of the United States and sweeps through the capital.

● 2004 - Hu Jintao became the undisputed leader of China with the departure of former President Jiang Zemin from his top military post.

● 2005 - Al-Qaida deputy Ayman al-Zawahri said his terror network had carried out the July 7 London bombings that killed 52 people.

● 2005 - Former Tyco CEO L. Dennis Kozlowski was sentenced in New York to up to 25 years in prison for looting the company of hundreds of millions of dollars;Tyco's former finance chief, Mark Swartz, received the same sentence.

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)

● 1730 - Augustin Pajou, French sculptor and decorator (d. 1809)

● 1737 - Charles Carroll of Carrollton, American patriot leader; signer of the Declaration of Independence and United States 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

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

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

● 1839 - George Cadbury, English social reformer and chocolate manufacturer (d. 1922)

● 1851 - William Hesketh Lever, English entrepreneur; built the Lever Brothers firm (d. 1925)

● 1878 - Charles Mauguin, French mineralogist and crystallographer (d. 1958)

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

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

● 1901 - Joe Pasternak, Russian-born film producer (d. 1991)

● 1904 - Bergen Evans, English lexicographer and educator (d. 1978)

● 1905 - Leon Jaworski, American lawyer; Watergate scandal special prosecutor (d. 1982)

● 1907 - Lewis Franklin Powell, Jr. American Supreme Court Justice (1972 -1987) (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 (1983), author of the novel "Lord of the Flies" (d. 1993)

● 1912 - Kurt Sanderling, German conductor

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

● 1915 - Elizabeth Stern, Canadian-born American pathologist (d. 1980)

● 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)

● 1921 - Billy Ward, R&B musician

● 1922 - Damon Knight, American Science Fiction writer (d. 2002)

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

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

● 1926 - Duke Snider, baseball player and Hall of Fame member

● 1927 - Harold Brown, Former defense secretary

● 1928 - William Hickey, American actor (d. 1997)

● 1928 - Adam West, American actor

● 1930 - Antonio Margheriti, Italian filmmaker

● 1930 - Rosemary Harris, Actress

● 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)

● 1940 - Sylvia Tyson, Singer

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

● 1941 - Umberto Bossi, Italian politician

● 1942 - Freda Payne, American singer and actress

● 1943 - Joe Morgan, baseball player, sportscaster and Hall of Fame member

● 1945 - Randolph Mantooth, American actor (''Emergency'')

● 1945 - Freda Payne, American R&B singer and actress

● 1945 - David Bromberg, Rock singer

● 1946 - Brian Henton, English racing driver

● 1947 - Lol Crème, Rock musician (10cc)

● 1948 - Jeremy Irons, English actor

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

● 1949 - Twiggy Lawson, English model and actress (original skinny model)

● 1950 - Joan Lunden, American journalist and television host

● 1951 - Daniel Lanois, Canadian record producer

● 1952 - Nile Rodgers, American musician and composer

● 1952 - Scott Colomby, Actor

● 1955 - Charlie Reliford, baseball umpire

● 1955 - Rex Smith, American singer and actor

● 1956 - Juan Manuel Fangio II, Argentine racing driver

● 1957 - Dan Hampton, Football hall-of-famer

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

● 1958 - Kevin Hooks, American actor and director

● 1958 - Azumah Nelson, Ghanian boxer

● 1959 - Carolyn McCormick, Actress

● 1963 - David Seaman, English footballer

● 1963 - Jarvis Cocker, English musician

● 1963 - Jeff Bates, Country singer

● 1964 - Bob Papa, American sportscaster

● 1964 - Trisha Yearwood, American singer

● 1964 - Patrick Marber, British playwright

● 1965 - Alexandra Vandernoot, Belgian actress

● 1965 - Cheri Oteri, American actress and comedian (''Saturday Night Live'')

● 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 - Espraronza Griffin, R&B singer

● 1970 - Victor Williams, American actor

● 1970 - Yuka Imai, Japanese seiyu (voice actress)

● 1970 - Takanori Nishikawa, Japanese pop/rock star

● 1970 - Gilbert Dionne, National Hockey League player

● 1971 - Sanaa Lathan, Actress

● 1973 - Nick Colgan, Irish footballer

● 1973 - Cristiano Da Matta, Brazilian racing car driver

● 1973 - A. Jay Popoff, Rock singer (Lit)

● 1974 - Jimmy Fallon, American actor and comedian (''Saturday Night Live'')

● 1974 - Victoria Silvstedt, Swedish model

● 1976 - Raja Bell, American basketball player

● 1976 - Carter Oosterhouse, TV personality (''Trading Spaces'')

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

● 1978 - Michelle Alves, Brazilian supermodel

● 1978 - Nick Johnson, Baseball player

● 1979 - Dannielle Brent, British actress

● 1980 - Tegan and Sara Quin, Canadian singer/songwriters

● 1981 - Damiano Cunego, Italian cyclist

● 1983 - Joey Devine, baseball player

● 1984 - Eamon, Rapper

● 1984 - Kevin Zegers, Actor

● 1987 - Danielle Panabaker, American actress

● 1990 - Patrick Breeding, of the boy band 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:

● Peter I, Duke of Bourbon (b. 1311)

● 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, died of wounds inflicted by an assassin. (b. 1831)

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

● 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 Serebryakova, 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)

● 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

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)

● International Talk Like a Pirate Day

● 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)

● Womens Suffrage Day - New Zealand


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Additional facts taken from:

The BBC Take on the day

On this day in the New York Times