About September 19
September 19, 2024 is the 263rd day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 103 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.
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Virgo is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Sapphire is the modern birthstone for this month. Agate is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 132 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On September 19
- 1676 –Jamestown is burned to the ground by the forces of Nathaniel Bacon during Bacon’s Rebellion.
- 1777 –American Revolutionary War: British forces win a tactically expensive victory over the Continental Army in the First Battle of Saratoga.
- 1846 –Two French shepherd children, Mélanie Calvat and Maximin Giraud, experience a Marian apparition on a mountaintop near La Salette, France, now known as Our Lady of La Salette.
- 1881 –U.S. President James A. Garfield dies of wounds suffered in a July 2 shooting.
- 1939 –World War II: The Battle of Kępa Oksywska concludes, with Polish losses reaching roughly 14% of all the forces engaged.
- 1944 –Armistice between Finland and Soviet Union is signed. (End of the Continuation War).
- 1944 –Battle of Hürtgen Forest between United States and Nazi Germany begins.
- 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 the University of Zurich.
- 1946 –The first Cannes Film Festival is held, having been delayed seven years due to World War II.
- 1952 –The United States bars Charlie Chaplin from re-entering the country after a trip to England.
- 1970 –The first Glastonbury Festival is held at Michael Eavis’s farm in Glastonbury, United Kingdom.
- 1973 –King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden has his investiture.
- 1976 –Two Imperial Iranian Air Force F-4 Phantom II jets fly out to investigate an unidentified flying object when both independently lose instrumentation and communications as they approach, only to have them restored upon withdrawal.
- 1981 –Simon & Garfunkel reunite for a free concert in New York’s Central Park.
- 1983 –Saint Kitts and Nevis gains its independence.
- 1985 –Tipper Gore and other political wives form the Parents Music Resource Center as Frank Zappa and other musicians testify at U.S. Congressional hearings on obscenity in rock music.
- 1991 –Ötzi the Iceman is discovered by German tourists.
- 1997 –Guelb El-Kebir massacre in Algeria; 53 killed.
- 2006 –The Thai military stages a coup in Bangkok. The Constitution is revoked and martial law is declared.
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