Historical Events on 19th September ◀ Aug September Oct ▶ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 All Events Birthdays Weddings Deaths Events 1 - 159 of 159 335 - Dalmatius is raised to the rank of Caesar by his uncle Constantine I. 1356 - English forces under The Black Prince defeat French at Battle of Poitiers and capture the French King during the Hundred Years War 1523 - Emperor Charles I & England sign anti-French covenant 1559 - 5 Spanish ships sinks in storm off Tampa, about 600 die 1580 - Treaty of Plessis-lez-Tours (Anjou/Dutch States-General) 1602 - Grave surrenders to earl Mauritius 1642 - Perpignan surrenders to French troops 1656 - Treaty of Labiau: Sweden gives Prussia, Brandenburg 1657 - Brandenburg & Poland sign Treaty of Wehlau 1668 - Polish king John II Kazimierz resigns/goes to France 1676 - Rebels under Nathaniel Bacon set Jamestown Va on fire 1755 - Great Britain & Russia sign military agreement 1777 - Battle of Freemans Farm (Bemis Heights) or 1st Battle of Saratoga 1778 - The Continental Congress passes the first budget of the United States. 1795 - Tula, leader of Curacao slave opposition, imprisoned First US President George WashingtonFirst US President George Washington 1796 - George Washingtons farewell address as president 1799 - English & Russian invasion army conquerors Receiver 1833 - Charles Darwin visits Guardia del Monte, Argentina 1838 - Ephraim Morris patents railroad brake 1848 - Hyperion, moon of Saturn, discovered by Bond (US) & Lassell (England) 1849 - 1st commercial laundry established, in Oaklan, California 1854 - Henry Meyer patents sleeping rail car 1862 - -20] Battle at Blackfords Ford Virginia 1862 - Battle at Iuka Mississippi (1,700 casualties) 1863 - Battle of Chickamauga GA (near Chattanooga) begins; Union retreat 1864 - 3rd Battle of Winchester Virginia (Opequon, 3rd Winchester) Naturalist Charles DarwinNaturalist Charles Darwin 1865 - Atlanta University forms 1870 - Siege of Paris by Prussian Forces begins (lasts until January 28 1871) 1876 - 1st carpet sweeper patented (Melville Bissell of Grand Rapids, Mich) 1876 - Talks begin to set up a football club in Ottawa 1879 - Thomas Ray becomes youngest to break a world track & field record pole-vaulting 11 2½ at age 17 years & 198 days 1879 - The Blackpool Illuminations are switched on for the first time. 1888 - Worlds 1st beauty contest (Spa Belgium) 1890 - Turkish frigate Ertogrul burns off of Japan, kills 540 1893 - New Zealand is first country to grant all women the right to vote 1901 - 11 baseball games canceled due to funeral of Pres William McKinley 1903 - King Leopold II denies Belgian cruelty in Congo 1904 - Gen Nogis assault on Port Arthur: 16,000 Japanese casualties 1908 - Gustav Mahlers 7th Symphony premieres in Prague 1910 - George Cohans Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford premieres in NYC 1911 - Red Tuesday-20,000 protest for universal rights 1912 - Pius X encyclical Singular quadam, against interconfess unions 1912 - Soccer team NAC (Noad Advendo Combination) forms in Breda 1914 - Brooklyns Ed Lafitte no-hits KC (Federal League), 6-2 1916 - First landing at Schiphol Airport, Netherlands (Farman F-22 of Soesterberg) 1916 - Belgian troops conquer Tabora, German East Africa 1921 - 41st US Mens Tennis: William T Tilden beats Wm M Johnston (6-1 6-3 6-1) 1922 - Queen Wilhelmina assumes Dutch throne with 119 word speech 1923 - Ernst Tollers Hinkemann, premieres in Leipzig 1925 - 45th US Mens Tennis: Wm T Tilden beats Wm M Johnston (4-6 11-9 6-3 4-6 6-3) 1926 - 80,000 demonstrate for democratic peace in Hague 1926 - The San Siro is inaugurated with a match between AC Milan and Inter. 1928 - Mickey Mouses screen debut (Steamboat Willie at Colony Theater NYC) 1929 - Latvia dictator A Woldemaras chased out 1931 - 14th PGA Championship: Tom Creavy at Wannamoisett CC Rumford RI 1931 - Japanese troops conquer Mukden, South Manchuria 1931 - Lefty Grove wins his 30th game of season over White Sox, 2-1 1933 - NY Giants clinch the pennant 1934 - Bruno Haptmann arrested for kidnapping Lindbergh baby 1939 - British Expeditionary Force reaches France 1939 - Lord Haw-Haw (William Joyce) becomes radio host of Reichsrundfunk Berlin 1939 - Wehrmacht (German regular army) murders 100 Jews in Lukov Poland 1940 - Nazi decree forbids gentile woman to work in Jewish homes 1940 - Witold Pilecki is voluntarily captured and sent to Auschwitz in order to smuggle out information and start a resistance. 1941 - 1st meeting of partisan leaders Tito & Draza Mihailovic in Yugoslavia 1941 - German army conquerors Kiev 1941 - Nazis force German Jews, 6 & over to wear Jewish stars 1943 - Fanny Whiteers-Koen breaks jumping world record 1943 - Liberator bombers sinks U-341 1944 - Luftwaffe bombs Eindhoven: 200 killed 1944 - Armistice between Finland and Soviet Union is signed. (End of the Continuation War). 1945 - Kim Il Sung arrives in harbor of Wonsan, Korea 1945 - Lord Haw Haw (William Joyce) sentenced to death in London Baseball Player Jackie RobinsonBaseball Player Jackie Robinson 1947 - Jackie Robinson is named 1947 Rookie of Year 1948 - 62nd US Womens Tennis: M Osborne duPont beats A L Brough (4-6 6-4 15-13) 1948 - 68th US Mens Tennis: Pancho Gonzales beats E Sturgess (6-2 6-3 14-12) 1948 - Richard A Gonzales wins US Tennis Open 1950 - European Payment Union forms in Paris 1950 - Great Three acknowledge Bond government as only German government 1950 - UN reject membership of Chinas People Republic 1951 - 1st broadcast of Search for Tomorrow on CBS-TV 1951 - Italian civil servants strike for pay increase 1952 - The United States bars Charlie Chaplin from re-entering the country after a trip to England. Comedian/Actor/Filmaker Charlie ChaplinComedian/Actor/Filmaker Charlie Chaplin 1953 - Hazel Flagg closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 190 perfs 1954 - Beverly Hanson wins LPGA Wichita Golf Open 1955 - Argentine president Juan Peron, resigns & flees 1955 - Cubs slugger Ernie Banks hits record 5th grand slam of season 1955 - Hurricane Hilda, kills 200 in Mexico 1956 - 1st international conference of black writers & artists meets (Sorbonne) 1957 - 1st underground nuclear explosion at Las Vegas Nevada 1957 - Dalida is the first artist to be awarded a gold record in France for 300,000 sales of Bambino. 1959 - Nikita Khrushchev is denied access to Disneyland 1960 - Chubby Checkers Twist reaches #1 First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Nikita KhrushchevFirst Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Nikita Khrushchev 1961 - Betty and Barney Hill claim that they saw a mysterious craft in the sky and that it tried to abduct them. 1962 - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR 1963 - Iota Phi Theta Fraternity, Inc. is founded at Morgan State University in Baltimore, Maryland. 1965 - Clifford Ann Creed wins LPGA Visalia Golf Open 1965 - Erhards CDU wins West German parliament elections 1966 - Mike Burke named Yankees pres 1967 - Nigeria begins offensive against Biafra 1968 - Denny McLains 31st win & Mickey Mantles 535th HR 1970 - Mary Tyler Moore show premieres 1971 - 1st NYC Womens Marathon won by Beth Bonner in 2:55:22 1971 - 2nd NYC Marathon won by Norman Higgins in 2:22:54 1972 - A parcel bomb sent to Israeli Embassy in London kills one diplomat. Actress Mary Tyler MooreActress Mary Tyler Moore 1973 - Carl XVI Gustaf, becomes King of Sweden 1973 - Frank Robinson homers in record 32nd ML park (Arlington Tx) 1973 - NL refuses to allow San Diego Padres move to Washington DC 1973 - Pirate Radio Free America (off Cape May NJ) forms 1973 - USSR performs underground nuclear test 1974 - -20] Hurricane Fifi hits coast of Honduras; about 5,000 die 1975 - Indonesia sends troops to Portuguese East Timor 1976 - Going Up opens at John Golden Theater NYC for 49 performances 1976 - Donna Caponi Young wins LPGA Portland Golf Classic 1979 - No Nukes Concert at Madison Square Garden includes Springsteen & Crosby, Stills & Nash 1980 - Titan II missile explosion (Damascus, AR) 1981 - Satellites China 10 & 11 launched into Earth orbit by B-1 rocket 1981 - Simon & Garfunkel reunite for a NYC Central Park concert 1982 - 34th Emmy Awards: Hill St Blue, Barney Miller, Alan Alda & Carol Kane win 1982 - New Orleans Saints 1st road shutout victory beating Chic Bears 10-0 1982 - Sandra Haynie/Kathy McMullen wins Portland Ping Team Golf Championship 1982 - Streetcars stop running on Market St after 122 years of service 1983 - David Slowinski on 2 CRAY-1 comps find 2^132049-1 prime # 1983 - St Kitts & Nevis declares independence from UK 1984 - Britain & China complete a proposed agreement to transfer Hong Kong to China by 1997 1985 - 12,000 die & 40,000 injured in Mexicos earthquake (8.1) 1986 - Captain EO with Michael Jackson premieres 1986 - Chicago White Sox Joe Crowley no-hits California Angels, 7-1 1986 - Dean Jones scores 210 v India at Madras 1986 - Fed health officials announce AZT will be available to AIDS patients 1987 - Kaye Lani Rae Rafko (Mich), 24, crowned 61st Miss America 1988 - Israel launches 1st satellite, for secret military reconnaissance 1988 - US Olympic diver Greg Louganis hits his head on diving board 1989 - Chase Manhattan Discovery Center at Brooklyn Botanic Garden opens 1989 - French DC-10 crashes near Niger, 171 die 1989 - Appeals court restores Americas Cup to US after NY Supreme Court gave it to NZ (NZ protested USs use of a catamaran) 1991 - Precious Bunny wins the 46th Little Brown Jug 1991 - Ötzi the Iceman, 3,300 BCE old mummy discovered by German tourists. 1992 - Sergei Boebka pole vaults world record (6.13m) 1992 - UN Security Council votes 12-0 (3 abstentions) to dump Yugoslavia MLB Legend Barry BondsMLB Legend Barry Bonds 1992 - Barry Bonds joins Willie Mays, Howard Johnson & Ron Gant as having (2) 30-HR/30-steal seasons 1993 - 45th Emmy Awards: seinfeld, Picket Fences & Ted Danson win 1993 - Actress Michele Phillips (Knots Landing) is robbed at gunpoint 1993 - Brandie Burton wins LPGA SAFECO Golf Classic 1993 - Kimberly Clarice Aiken, 18, Miss SC wins 67th Miss America 1993 - Parliamentary election in Poland 1993 - Tom Glavine wins 20 games in 3 straight years 1994 - 3,000 US militia lands on Haiti 1994 - Swedish government of Bildt resigns Comedian Jerry SeinfeldComedian Jerry Seinfeld 1995 - Andres Galarraga is 4th to hit 30 HRs for Rockies in 1995 1995 - Padres Ken Caminiti switch hits HRs in 3rd of 4 games 1995 - The Washington Post and The New York Times publish the Unabombers manifesto. 1996 - Skylight opens at Royale Theater NYC 1997 - Guelb El-Kebir massacre in Algeria; 53 killed. 2000 - Ken Griffey, Jr. pinch-hits his 400th home run. The first major leaguer to reach the mark as a pinch-hitter 2004 - 56th Emmy Awards: The Sopranos, Arrested Development, James Spader & Allison Janney win 2006 - The Thai military stages a coup in Bangkok. The Constitution is revoked and martial law is declared. MLB Pitching Legend Greg MadduxMLB Pitching Legend Greg Maddux 2008 - Greg Maddux pitches his 5,000th career inning against the San Francisco Giants 2012 - 9 people are killed and 20 wounded by a car bombing in Peshawar, Afghanistan
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