About September 19
September 19, 2023 is the 262nd day of the year 2023 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 103 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.
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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 144 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.
- 1796 –George Washington’s farewell address is printed across America as an open letter to the public.
- 1799 –French Revolutionary Wars: French-Dutch victory against the Russians and British in the Battle of Bergen.
- 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.
- 1881 –U.S. President James A. Garfield dies of wounds suffered in a July 2 shooting.
- 1893 –Women’s suffrage: in New Zealand, the Electoral Act of 1893 is consented to by the governor giving all women in New Zealand the right to vote.
- 1934 –Bruno Hauptmann is arrested for the kidnap and murder of Charles Lindbergh Jr.
- 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.
- 1957 –First American underground nuclear bomb test (part of Operation Plumbbob).
- 1959 –Nikita Khrushchev is barred from visiting Disneyland due to security concerns.
- 1961 –Betty and Barney Hill claim that they saw a mysterious craft in the sky and that it tried to abduct them.
- 1973 –King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden has his investiture.
- 1985 –A strong earthquake kills thousands and destroys about 400 buildings in Mexico City.
- 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.
- 2006 –The Thai military stages a coup in Bangkok. The Constitution is revoked and martial law is declared.
- 2010 –The leaking oil well in the Deepwater Horizon oil spill is sealed.
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