Historical Events on September 19
Historical events for the 19th of September. See what famous, interesting and notable events happened throughout history on September 19.
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Caesar Dalmatius

Dalmatius is raised to the rank of Caesar by his uncle Constantine I

Muslim forces led by Khalid ibn al-Walid capture Damascus, 1st major city of Eastern Roman Empire taken by the Rashidun Caliphate

Battle of Poitiers

English forces under Edward the Black Prince defeat French at the Battle of Poitiers and capture the French King John II during the Hundred Years' War

Emperor Charles I & England sign anti-French covenant

Five Spanish ships sink in storm off Tampa, about 600 die

Perpignan surrenders to French troops

First inn opens in New France, a pastry shop and hostelry in Québec owned by Jacques Boisdon [1]

Treaty of Harford signed establishing border between New Netherlands and New England, negotiated between Petrus Stuyvesant and Connecticut colony Governor Edward Hopkins

Treaty of Labiau: Sweden gives Prussia, Brandenburg

Brandenburg & Poland sign Treaty of Wehlau

Rebels under Nathaniel Bacon set Jamestown, Virginia, on fire

Great Britain & Russia sign military agreement

Battle of Freeman's Farm (Bemis Heights) or 1st Battle of Saratoga

The Continental Congress passes the first budget of the United States

Tula, leader of Curacao slave opposition, imprisoned

Washington's Farewell Address

George Washington's farewell address as US President is published

Ephraim Morris granted US patent for a railroad brake

Hyperion, moon of Saturn - the first non-round moon - discovered by William Cranch Bond, his son George Phillips Bond and William Lassell

1st commercial laundry established, in Oakland, California

Henry Meyer patents sleeping rail car

-20] Battle at Blackford's Ford, Virginia

1862 Battle at Iuka Mississippi (1,700 casualties)

Battle of Chickamauga

Battle of Chickamauga, GA (near Chattanooga) begins; Union forces retreat after a couple days of fighting

Third Battle of Winchester, Virginia [Opequon], large bloody battle with the Union army defeating Confederate force with over 9,000 casualties

Atlanta University founded

Siege of Paris by Prussian Forces begins (lasts until January 28 1871)

1st carpet sweeper patented (Melville Bissell of Grand Rapids, Mich)

1876 Talks begin to set up a football club in Ottawa

The Blackpool Illuminations are switched on for the first time.

1879 Thomas Ray becomes youngest to break a world track & field record pole-vaulting 11' 2½" at age 17 years & 198 days

One of first known modern beauty contests held in Spa, Belgium

Turkish frigate "Ertogrul" burns off of Japan, kills 540

The First Country to Grant Women the Vote

New Zealand becomes the first country to grant all women the right to vote

Beginning of the Bombay plague epidemic when Dr.Acacio Gabriel Viegas detects the first case in Mandvi. Goes on to spread and kill 12 million in India.

11 baseball games canceled due to funeral of President William McKinley

Leopold Denies Cruelty

King Leopold II denies Belgian cruelty in Congo

Gen Nogi's assault on Port Arthur: 16,000 Japanese casualties

Mahler's 7th Symphony

Gustav Mahler's 7th Symphony premieres in Prague, Austria-Hungary (now Czech Republic)

Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford

George M. Cohan's musical "Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford" premieres in NYC

Red Tuesday; 20,000 Spanish protest for universal rights

Pius X encyclical Singular quadam, against interconfess unions

1912 Soccer team NAC (Noad Advendo Combination) forms in Breda

1912 The wattle is declared Australia's national flower and incorporated into the Commonwealth Coat of Arms

Brooklyn Tip-Tops' Ed Lafitte no-hits Kansas City Packers (Federal League), 6-2

Belgian troops conquer Tabora, German East Africa

1916 First landing at Schiphol Airport, Netherlands (Farman F-22 of Soesterberg)

Ernst Tollers "Hinkemann," premieres in Leipzig

80,000 demonstrate for democratic peace in Hague

1926 The San Siro is inaugurated with a match between AC Milan and Inter.

Latvia dictator A Woldemaras chased out

Japanese troops conquer Mukden, South Manchuria

1931 Lefty Grove wins his 30th game of season over White Sox, 2-1

NY Giants clinch the pennant

Bruno Haptmann arrested for kidnapping Lindbergh baby

Seven convicts take Folsom Prison Warden Clarence Larkin hostage in escape attempt, the warden, a guard, and 2 inmates are killed in ensuing stand-off; 5 remaining prisoners convicted of murder and executed by newly introduced gas chamber in California

British Expeditionary Force reaches France

Lord Haw-Haw

Lord Haw-Haw (William Joyce) becomes radio host of Reichsrundfunk Berlin

1939 Wehrmacht (German regular army) murders 100 Jews in Lukov Poland

Nazi decree forbids gentile woman to work in Jewish homes

Pilecki Volunteers for Auschwitz

Witold Pilecki is voluntarily captured and sent to Auschwitz in order to smuggle out information and start a resistance

Tito Meets Draža

First meeting of partisan leaders Josip Broz Tito and Draža Mihailović in Yugoslavia

1941 German army conquers Kiev

1941 Nazis force German Jews, 6 & over to wear Jewish stars

Fanny Whiteers-Koen breaks jumping world record

1943 Liberator bombers sinks U-341

Armistice between Finland and Soviet Union is signed. (End of the Continuation War)

1944 Luftwaffe bombs Eindhoven: 200 killed

Kim Il-sung Returns from Exile

Kim Il-sung arrives in the harbor of Wonsan, Korea, after 26 years in exile in the Soviet Union

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

Robinson Rookie of the Year

Jackie Robinson is named 1947 "Rookie of the Year"

"Late Spring", Japanese film directed by Yasujirō Ozu, starring Chishū Ryū, Setsuko Hara and Haruko Sugimura, is released in Japan

European Payment Union forms in Paris

1950 Great Three (England, US, and France) acknowledge Bonn Government as the only German government

1950 UN reject membership of China's People Republic

1st broadcast of "Search for Tomorrow" on CBS-TV

1951 Italian civil servants strike for pay increase

Adventures of Superman

"Adventures of Superman" TV series starring George Reeves premieres in syndication in the US

Charlie Chaplin Banned

The United States bars Charlie Chaplin from re-entering the country after a trip to England

Revolución Libertadora

An army and navy revolt forces Argentine President Juan Perón to resign and flee to Paraguay

Baseball Record

Cubs slugger Ernie Banks hits record 5th grand slam of season

1955 Hurricane Hilda, kills 200 in Mexico

1st international conference of black writers & artists meets (Sorbonne)

1st underground nuclear explosion at Las Vegas Nevada

1957 Dalida is the 1st artist to be awarded a gold record in France for 300,000 sales of "Bambino"

Film & TV History

Nikita Khrushchev is denied access to Disneyland

Event of Interest

"LIFE" magazine celebrates artist Anna Mary "Grandma" Moses' 100th birthday by putting her on their cover

The Twist Dance Craze

Chubby Checker's "The Twist" hits #1 on the Billboard Hot 100

Betty and Barney Hill claim that they saw a mysterious craft in the sky and that it tried to abduct them.

USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR

Iota Phi Theta Fraternity, Inc. is founded at Morgan State University in Baltimore, Maryland.

Erhards CDU wins West German parliament elections

Mike Burke named Yankees pres

Sports History

MLB Detroit Tigers pitcher Denny McLain's 31st win of the season, despite Mickey Mantle's 535th career home run, at Tiger Stadium in Detroit

1968 Nigerian federal army begins the "final offensive" against the secessionist state of Biafra during the Nigerian Civil War

UCLA fires professor Angela Davis for being a communist; termination was overturned in court and she was later fired for using inflammatory language

The Mary Tyler Moore Show

"The Mary Tyler Moore Show" premieres on CBS

A parcel bomb sent to Israeli Embassy in London kills a diplomat

Carl XVI Gustaf, becomes King of Sweden

Baseball Record

Frank Robinson, Angels OF, homers in record 32nd major league ballpark - Arlington Stadium (Arlington, Texas), against the Rangers

1973 NL refuses to allow San Diego Padres move to Washington, D.C.

1973 Pirate Radio Free America (off Cape May NJ) forms

1973 USSR performs underground nuclear test

Event of Interest

The KGB begin a large-scale operation to discredit Russian novelist Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and cut his communications with Soviet dissidents

Fawlty Towers

"Fawlty Towers" starring John Cleese, Prunella Scales and Andrew Sachs premieres on BBC2 in the UK

1975 Indonesia sends troops to Portuguese East Timor

New York concert promoter Sid Bernstein offers $230 million to charity for a Beatles reunion; they politely decline

Music Concert

5-day MUSE (Musicians United for Safe Energy) "No Nukes" concert against nuclear power opens at Madison Square Garden, NYC; performers include: Jackson Browne; Bonnie Raitt; Crosby, Stills & Nash; Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band; James Taylor; Carly Simon; Gil Scott-Heron, and the Doobie Brothers

"Ordinary People" film directed by Robert Redford and starring Donald Sutherland, Mary Tyler Moore and Judd Hirsch premieres (Academy Award - Best Picture, 1981)

1980 US Titan II Inter-Continental Ballistic Missile explodes in its storage silo near Damascus, Arkansas; 1 person killed and over 20 injured, but safety features prevented thermonuclear detonation

Satellites China 10 & 11 launched into Earth orbit by B-1 rocket

1981 Simon & Garfunkel reunite for a concert in Central Park, NYC,

Emmy Awards

34th Emmy Awards: Hill St Blue, Barney Miller, Alan Alda & Carol Kane win

1982 New Orleans Saints 1st road shutout victory beating Chicago Bears 10-0

1982 Streetcars stop running on Market St, San Francisco after 122 years of service

David Slowinski on 2 CRAY-1 comp's find 2^132049-1 prime #

1983 St Kitts & Nevis declares independence from the United Kingdom

Britain & China complete a proposed agreement to transfer Hong Kong to China by 1997

8.1 earthquake in Mexico City kills an estimated 10,000 and leaves 250,000 homeless

Captain EO

3-D short film "Captain EO" with Michael Jackson premieres at Disney theme parks

1986 Australian cricketer Dean Jones scores 210 v India at Madras

1986 Chicago White Sox Joe Crowley no-hits California Angels, 7-1

1986 US Federal health officials announce AZT will be available to AIDS patients

Olympic Games

American diver Greg Louganis smashes his head on diving board during the 3m springboard preliminaries at the Seoul Olympics; recovers to qualify for the final which he wins the following day

1988 Australian swimmer Duncan Armstrong sets world record 1:47.25 to win the 200m freestyle gold medal at the Seoul Olympics; beats Anders Holmertz of Sweden by 0.64

New Jersey

Bon Jovi release their 4th album "New Jersey" - most top ten hits of any rock/glam metal album (5)

1988 British swimmer Adrian Moorehouse wins 100m breaststroke gold medal in 1:02.04 at the Seoul Olympics; edges Károly Güttler of Hungary by 0.01

1988 Israel launches 1st satellite, for secret military reconnaissance

1988 US women's all-round gymnastics team is controversially penalised 0.5 after compulsory round at the Seoul Olympics; substitute an alternate athlete on uneven bars medal podium; Americans finish 4th just 0.3 behind East Germany

Doogie Howser, M.D.

"Doogie Howser, M.D.", starring Neil Patrick Harris as a teenage physician, debuts on ABC

Janet Jackson's Rhythm Nation 1814

"Janet Jackson's Rhythm Nation 1814" 4th studio album by Janet Jackson is released (Grammy Award Best Long Form Music Video 1990, Billboard Album of the Year 1990)

1989 Appeals court restores America's Cup to US after NY Supreme Court gave it to NZ (NZ protested US's use of a catamaran)

1989 Chase Manhattan Discovery Center at Brooklyn Botanic Garden opens

1989 French DC-10 crashes near Niger, 171 die

Goodfellas

American gangster film "Goodfellas", directed by Martin Scorsese, starring Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci, and Ray Liotta, premieres

Colt Precious Bunny wins the 46th Little Brown Jug at Delaware, Ohio

1991 Ötzi the Iceman, 3,300 BCE old mummy discovered by German tourists in Italian alps - oldest surviving corpse from Europe

Sports History

Barry Bonds joins Willie Mays, Howard Johnson & Ron Gant as having (2) 30-HR/30-steal MLB seasons

1992 Demolition begins of JFK Stadium in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; built in 1926 as Sesquicentennial Stadium, also known as Municipal Stadium, it hosted the 1926 Tunney-Dempsey fight, 41 Army-Navy football games, The Beatles; The Rolling Stones; victory rallies for The NHL Flyers and MLB Phillies; and the US portion of Live-Aid

1992 Sergei Boebka pole vaults world record (6.13m)

1992 UN Security Council votes 12-0 (3 abstentions) to dump Yugoslavia

Emmy Awards

45th Emmy Awards: Seinfeld, Picket Fences & Ted Danson win

1993 Actress Michele Phillips (Knots Landing) is robbed at gunpoint

1993 Parliamentary election in Poland

1993 San Diego Chargers' kicker John Carney boots 6 field goals in an 18-17 win over Houston to set a new NFL record with 29 consecutive field goals made

Sports History

Tom Glavine wins 20 games in 3 straight years

3,000 US militia lands on Haiti

ER

Hospital based drama series "ER" premieres on NBC, created by novelist and filmmaker Michael Crichton, starring George Clooney, Anthony Edwards and Noah Wyle

1994 Swedish government of Bildt resigns

1994 Volcanic eruption destroys the town of Rabaul on New Britain, Papua New Guinea

Colorado Rockies Andres Galarraga becomes 4th team member to hit 30 HRs in the sesaon

1995 MLB San Diego Padres Ken Caminiti switch hits HRs in 3rd of 4 games

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

Music History

David Hare's play "Skylight" opens at Royale Theater NYC, starring Michael Gambon

Guelb El-Kebir massacre in Algeria; 53 killed.

Baseball Record

Ken Griffey Jr. pinch-hits his 400th home run becoming the first major league player to reach the mark as a pinch-hitter

Emmy Awards

56th Emmy Awards: The Sopranos, Arrested Development, James Spader and Allison Janney win

Sports History

NFL Oakland Raider wide receiver Jerry Rice ends NFL streak of 274 consecutive games with a reception in a 13-10 victory over Buffalo Bills [1]

How I Met Your Mother

TV sitcom "How I Met Your Mother" premieres, starring Josh Radnor, Neil Patrick Harris, Cobie Smulders, Jason Segel and Alyson Hannigan

Thai military stages a coup in Bangkok. The Constitution is revoked and martial law is declared.

Cricket History

MS Dhoni named Captain of Indian Cricket team for the 1st time for the ICC World Twenty20

Sports History

Greg Maddux pitches his 5,000th career inning against the San Francisco Giants

Sports History

Thierry Henry scores his first goal for Barcelona in a 3–0 Champions League group stage win over Lyon

9 people are killed and 20 wounded by a car bombing in Peshawar, Afghanistan

Cheek To Cheek

Columbia Records releases "Cheek To Cheek", a duet album of jazz standards by singers Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga; debuts at #1 on Billboard 200, Jazz Albums, and Traditional Jazz Albums charts.

Japan beats South Africa 34-32 in Brighton, England in the biggest upset in Rugby World Cup history

Emmy Awards

68th Emmy Awards: hosted by Jimmy Kimmel, "Game of Thrones", Julia Dreyfus, Rami Malek win

2016 Aid convoy into Urum al-Kubra, Syria attacked by air strikes, UN denounces as a war crime

7.1 earthquake south east of Mexico City kills over 300

2017 New MLB record for most home runs in a season, no. 5,694 hit by Alex Gordon of the Kansas City Royals

Korean joint summit in Pyongyang agrees to limit North Korea's weapons programme and to South Korea economic cooperation

Likely US drone attack kills at least 30 and injures 28 in Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan

2019 North America has lost 3 billion birds (29%) since 1970 according to analysis published in "Science"

2019 Taliban suicide truck bombing kills 22 and injures 90 at a hospital in Zabul Province, southern Afghanistan

2019 Tropical Depression Imelda hits southeast Texas and Louisiana prompting widespread evacuations

US President Donald Trump vows to swear in a new Supreme Court judge, despite the election being only 45 days away

73rd Emmy Awards: "The Crown" Best Drama, "Ted Lasso" Best Comedy, "Mare of Easttown" Best Limited Series

2021 Body of travelogue blogger Gabby Petito found at Bridger-Teton National Forest, Wyoming

2021 Cumbre Vieja volcano erupts on the Spanish island of La Palma, its first eruption since 1971

2021 US apologizes for an Afghan airstrike that killed 10 civilians, including seven children

Banks in Lebanon close for three days after a series of hold-ups by people trying to obtain their own money, frozen amid the country's economic crisis [1]

2022 Magnitude 7.6 earthquake strikes western Mexico on exact anniversary of two previous temblors in 1985 and 2017, killing at least two people, [1]

2022 Nigerian authorities says over 300 people have died and 100,000 have been displaced by the worse floods in many years [1]

2022 Scientists discover site of the Amazon's tallest tree, an angelim vermelho at 88.5 meters (290 feet) tall and 9.9 meters (32 feet) wide, Iratapuru River Nature Reserve, northern Brazil, [1]