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

  • 1676
    Jamestown is burned to the ground by the forces of Nathaniel Bacon during Bacon’s Rebellion.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 1870
    Having invaded the Papal States a week earlier, the Italian Army lays siege to Rome, entering the city the next day, after which the Pope described himself as a Prisoner in the Vatican.
  • 1881
    U.S. President James A. Garfield dies of wounds suffered in a July 2 shooting.
  • 1934
    Bruno Hauptmann is arrested for the kidnap and murder of Charles Lindbergh Jr.
  • 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.
  • 1961
    Betty and Barney Hill claim that they saw a mysterious craft in the sky and that it tried to abduct them.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 1991
    Ötzi the Iceman is discovered by German tourists.
  • 1995
    The Washington Post and The New York Times publish the Unabomber’s manifesto.
  • 2010
    The leaking oil well in the Deepwater Horizon oil spill is sealed.

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