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
- 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.
- 1692 –Giles Corey is pressed to death after refusing to plead in the Salem witch trials.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1939 –World War II: The Battle of Kępa Oksywska concludes, with Polish losses reaching roughly 14% of all the forces engaged.
- 1944 –Battle of Hürtgen Forest between United States and Nazi Germany begins.
- 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 –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.
- 1970 –The first Glastonbury Festival is held at Michael Eavis’s farm in Glastonbury, United Kingdom.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
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