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
- 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.
- 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.
- 1862 –American Civil War: Battle of Iuka – Union troops under General William Rosecrans defeat a Confederate force commanded by General Sterling Price.
- 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.
- 1934 –Bruno Hauptmann is arrested for the kidnap and murder of Charles Lindbergh Jr.
- 1944 –Battle of Hürtgen Forest between United States and Nazi Germany begins.
- 1945 –Lord Haw Haw (William Joyce) is sentenced to death in London.
- 1952 –The United States bars Charlie Chaplin from re-entering the country after a trip to England.
- 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.
- 1976 –Turkish Airlines Boeing 727 hits the Taurus Mountains, outskirt of Karatepe, Osmaniye, Turkey, killing all 155 passengers and crew.
- 1981 –Simon & Garfunkel reunite for a free concert in New York’s Central Park.
- 1982 –Scott Fahlman posts the first documented emoticons :-) and :-( on the Carnegie Mellon University Bulletin Board System.
- 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.
- 1995 –The Washington Post and The New York Times publish the Unabomber’s manifesto.
- 1997 –Guelb El-Kebir massacre in Algeria; 53 killed.
- 2010 –The leaking oil well in the Deepwater Horizon oil spill is sealed.
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