September 19 - Events

Events

• 335 – Dalmatius is raised to the rank of Caesar by his uncle Constantine I.
• 1356 – Battle of Poitiers: an English army under the command of Edward, the Black Prince defeats a Frencharmy and captures the French king, John II.
• 1676 – Jamestown is burned to the ground by the forces of Nathaniel Bacon during Bacon's Rebellion.
• 1692 – Giles Corey is pressed to death after refusing toplead 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 firstbudget 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 January 28,1871 in the surrender of Paris and a decisive Prussian victory.
• 1870 – Having invaded the Papal States a week earlier, the Italian Army lays siege toRome, entering the city the next day, after which the Pope described himself as aPrisoner in the Vatican.
• 1881 – U.S. President James A. Garfield dies of wounds suffered in a July 2 shooting.
• 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.
• 1934 – Bruno Hauptmann is arrested for the kidnap and murder of Charles Lindbergh Jr..
• 1940 – Witold Pilecki is voluntarily captured and sent to Auschwitz in order to smuggle out information and start a resistance.
• 1944 – Armistice between Finland and Soviet Union is signed. (End of the Continuation War).
• 1945 – Lord Haw Haw (William Joyce) is sentenced to death in London.
• 1946 – The Council of Europe is founded following a speech by Winston Churchill at theUniversity of Zurich.
• 1952 – The United States bars Charlie Chaplin from re-entering the country after a trip to England.
• 1957 – First American underground nuclear bomb test.
• 1959 – Nikita Khrushchev is barred from visiting Disneyland.
• 1961 – Betty and Barney Hill claim that they saw a mysterious craft in the sky and that it tried to abduct them.
• 1970 – The first Glastonbury Festival is held at Michael Eavis's farm in Glastonbury,United Kingdom.
• 1970 – Kostas 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.
• 1971 – Montagnard troops of South Vietnam revolt against the rule of Nguyen Khanh, killing 70 ethnic Vietnamese soldiers.
• 1972 – A parcel bomb sent to Israeli Embassy in London kills one diplomat.
• 1973 – King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden has his investiture.
• 1976 – Turkish Airlines Boeing 727 hits the Taurus Mountains, outskirt of Karatepe,Osmaniye, Turkey, killing all 155 passengers and crew.
• 1978 – The Solomon Islands join the United Nations.
• 1982 – Scott Fahlman posts the first documented emoticons :-) and :-( on the Carnegie Mellon University Bulletin Board System.
• 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 asFrank Zappa and other musicians testify at U.S. Congressional hearings on obscenity inrock music.
• 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 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.
• 2006 – The Thai military stages a coup in Bangkok. The Constitution is revoked andmartial law is declared.