Notable Historical Events on September 19th
September 19th Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
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 Freeman's 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 |
1796 |
George Washington's 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 Blackford's 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) |
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 |
World's 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 Nogi's assault on Port Arthur: 16,000 Japanese casualties |
1908 |
Gustav Mahler's 7th Symphony premieres in Prague |
1910 |
George Cohan's "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 |
Brooklyn's 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 Men's 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 Men's 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 Mouse's 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 |
1947 |
Jackie Robinson is named 1947 "Rookie of Year" |
1948 |
62nd US Women's Tennis: M Osborne duPont beats A L Brough (4-6 6-4 15-13) |
1948 |
68th US Men's 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 China's 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. |
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 |
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 McLain's 31st win & Mickey Mantle's 535th HR |
1970 |
"Mary Tyler Moore" show premieres |
1971 |
1st NYC Women's 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. |
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 |
1974 |
The KGB begin a large-scale operation to discredit Russian novelist Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and cut his communications with Soviet dissidents |
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 comp's 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 Mexico's 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 America's Cup to US after NY Supreme Court gave it to NZ (NZ protested US's use of a catamaran) |
1989 |
"Doogie Howser, M.D.", starring Neil Patrick Harris as a teenage physician, debuts on ABC |
1990 |
"Goodfellas", starring Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci, and Ray Liotta, is released |
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 |
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 |
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 Unabomber's 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. |
2008 |
Greg Maddux pitches his 5,000th career inning against the San Francisco Giants |
2011 |
Ashton Kutcher debuts on "Two and a Half Men", replacing Charlie Sheen |
2012 |
9 people are killed and 20 wounded by a car bombing in Peshawar, Afghanistan |
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