September 19


September 19 is the 262nd day of the year (263rd in leap years). There are
103 days remaining.

Events

   * 1356 - In Battle of Poitiers English defeat French
   * 1777 - First Battle of Saratoga/Battle of Freeman's Farm/Battle of
     Bemis Heights
   * 1778 - The Continental Congress passes the first budget of the United
     States
   * 1796 - George Washington's Farewell Address
   * 1862 - Battle of Iuka, Mississippi - Union troops under General William
     Rosecrans defeat a Confederate force commanded by General Sterling
     Price
   * 1863 - Battle of Chickamauga
   * 1893 - New Zealand grants women the right to vote
   * 1900 - Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid commit their first robbery
     together
   * 1934 - Bruno Hauptmann arrested for killing Charles Lindbergh Junior
   * 1944 - Armistice between Finland and Soviet Union signed. (End of the
     Continuation War)
   * 1945 - Lord Haw Haw (William Joyce) sentenced to death in London
   * 1952 - The US bars Charlie Chaplin from reentering the country after a
     trip to England
   * 1955 - Juan Peron is deposed in Argentina
   * 1957 - First American underground nuclear bomb test
   * 1959 - Nikita Khrushchev is barred from visiting Disneyland
   * 1982 - Scott Falman posts the first recorded instance of the emoticon
     :-) to an online bulletin board
   * 1983 - Saint Kitts and Nevis gains independence
   * 1995 - The Washington Post publishes the Unabomber's manifesto

Births

   * ΚΚ86 - Antoninus Pius, Roman Emperor
   * 1828 - Fridolin Anderwert, Swiss Federal Councilor (+ 1880)
   * 1901 - Joe Pasternak, film producer (+ 1991)
   * 1904 - Doctor Bergen Evans, television host (+ 1978)
   * 1905 - Leon Jaworski, Watergate scandal special prosecutor
   * 1908 - Mika Waltari, novelist (+ 1979)
   * 1909 - Ferdinand Porsche, automobile pioneer (+ 1998)
   * 1910 - Jesse Lasky Jr., screenwriter (+ 1988)
   * 1911 - Sir William Golding, novelist (+ 1993)
   * 1913 - Frances Farmer, actress (+ 1970)
   * 1920 - Roger Angell, sports writer
   * 1922 - Damon Knight, science fiction writer (+ 2002)
   * 1926 - Edwin Donald Duke Snider, Baseball Hall of Famer
   * 1928 - Adam West, actor
   * 1928 - William Hickey, actor (+ 1997)
   * 1930 - Antonio Margheriti, film maker
   * 1931 - Brook Benton, singer (+ 1988)
   * 1932 - Mike Royko, columnist
   * 1933 - David McCallum, actor
   * 1934 - Brian Epstein, manager of the Beatles (+ 1967)
   * 1936 - Al Oerter, Olympic Games gold medalist in track and field
   * 1940 - Bill Medley, singer
   * 1940 - Paul Williams, composer
   * 1941 - Mama Cass Elliott, musician (+ 1974)
   * 1943 - Joe Morgan, Baseball Hall of Famer
   * 1945 - Freda Payne, singer
   * 1945 - Randolph Mantooth, actor
   * 1948 - Jeremy Irons, actor
   * 1949 - Twiggy Lawson, fashion model
   * 1950 - Joan Lunden, journalist, television host
   * 1952 - Nile Rodgers, musician, composer
   * 1956 - Rex Smith, actor
   * 1958 - Kevin Hooks, actor, director
   * 1958 - Lita Ford, singer
   * 1958 - Azumah Nelson, Ghanian royal and world boxing champion
   * 1964 - Trisha Yearwood, country music singer
   * 1974 - Jimmy Fallon, actor

Deaths

   * 1881 - James Garfield, 20th President of the United States
   * 1927 - Isadora Duncan, considered mother of modern dance
   * 1935 - Konstantin Eduardovitch Tsiolkovsky, rocket scientist, physicist
   * 1968 - Red Foley, country music singer
   * 1968 - Chester Carlson, inventor of xerography
   * 1969 - Rex Ingram, actor
   * 1973 - Gram Parsons, country music/rock musician
   * 1985 - Italo Calvino, writer
   * 1990 - Hermes Pan, dancer, choreographer
   * 1997 - Rich Mullins, singer

Holidays

   * In ancient Greece, the sixth day of the Eleusinian mysteries, when the
     procession to Eleusis began at the Kerameikos in Athens.
   * Saint Kitts and Nevis - National Day
   * Chile -Day of the Glories of the Army