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
- 335 –Flavius Dalmatius is raised to the rank of Caesar by his uncle Constantine I.
- 1676 –Jamestown is burned to the ground by the forces of Nathaniel Bacon during Bacon’s Rebellion.
- 1777 –American Revolutionary War: British forces win a tactically expensive victory over the Continental Army in the First Battle of Saratoga.
- 1778 –The Continental Congress passes the first budget of the United States.
- 1799 –French Revolutionary Wars: French-Dutch victory against the Russians and British in the Battle of Bergen.
- 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.
- 1939 –World War II: The Battle of Kępa Oksywska concludes, with Polish losses reaching roughly 14% of all the forces engaged.
- 1944 –Battle of Hürtgen Forest between United States and Nazi Germany begins.
- 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.
- 1972 –A parcel bomb sent to Israeli Embassy in London kills one diplomat.
- 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.
- 1976 –Two Imperial Iranian Air Force F-4 Phantom II jets fly out to investigate an unidentified flying object when both independently lose instrumentation and communications as they approach, only to have them restored upon withdrawal.
- 1981 –Simon & Garfunkel reunite for a free concert in New York’s Central Park.
- 1985 –Tipper Gore and other political wives form the Parents Music Resource Center as Frank Zappa and other musicians testify at U.S. Congressional hearings on obscenity in rock music.
- 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.
- 2006 –The Thai military stages a coup in Bangkok. The Constitution is revoked and martial law is declared.
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