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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