About September 19
September 19, 2025 is the 262nd day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 103 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.
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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 151 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On September 19
- 335 –Flavius 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 French army and captures the French king, John II.
- 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.
- 1778 –The Continental Congress passes the first budget of the United States.
- 1796 –George Washington’s farewell address is printed across America as an open letter to the public.
- 1863 –American Civil War: Battle of Chickamauga.
- 1881 –U.S. President James A. Garfield dies of wounds suffered in a July 2 shooting.
- 1940 –Witold Pilecki is voluntarily captured and sent to Auschwitz in order to smuggle out information and start a resistance.
- 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.
- 1972 –A parcel bomb sent to Israeli Embassy in London kills one diplomat.
- 1976 –Turkish Airlines Boeing 727 hits the Taurus Mountains, outskirt of Karatepe, Osmaniye, Turkey, killing all 155 passengers and crew.
- 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.
- 1978 –The Solomon Islands join the United Nations.
- 1983 –Saint Kitts and Nevis gains its independence.
- 1990 –Delhi University student Rajiv Goswami attempts Self Immolation during Anti-Reservation agitation in India. Though he survived, his Self Immolation inspired nearly 150 self immolation bids and indirectly led to the Resignation of V P Singh Govt.
- 1991 –Ötzi the Iceman is discovered by German tourists.
- 2006 –The Thai military stages a coup in Bangkok. The Constitution is revoked and martial law is declared.
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