On this day in History - Sep. 19

• 0086 - Antoninus Pius was born (d. 0161). 15th Roman Emperor (0138-0161)
• 0335 - Dalmatius is raised to the rank of Caesar by his uncle Constantine I.
• 0690 - Theodore of Tarsus dies (b. 0602). Archbishop of Canterbury
• 0866 - Emperor Leo VI of the Byzantine Empire was born (d. 0912).
• 1339 - Emperor Go-Daigo dies (b. 1288). Emperor of Japan
• 1356 - In the Battle of Poitiers English defeat French.
• 1356 - Killed at the Battle of Poitiers: Peter I, Duke of Bourbon (b. 1311), Walter VI of Brienne (b. 1304), Constable of France
• 1377 - Duke Albert IV of Austria was born (d. 1404).
• 1551 - King Henry III of France was born (d. 1589).
• 1668 - William Waller dies. English soldier
• 1676 - Eberhard IV Ludwig, Duke of Württemberg was born (d. 1733).
• 1692 - Giles Corey an American farmer is pressed to death after refusing to plead in the Salem witch trials.
• 1693 - Janez Vajkard Valvasor dies (b. 1641). Slovenian polymath.
• 1710 - Ole Rømer dies (b. 1644). Danish astronomer.
• 1714 - Charles Humphreys was born (d. 1786). American delegate to the Continental Congress
• 1737 - Charles Carroll of Carrollton was born (d. 1832). American signer of the Declaration of Independence and U.S. Senator.
• 1749 - Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre was born (d. 1822). French mathematician.
• 1754 - John Ross Key was born (d. 1821). Commissioned officer in the Continental Army, judge, lawyer and the father of Francis Scott Key (d. 1821)
• 1759 - William Kirby was born (d. 1850). English entomologist.
• 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
• 1778 - Henry Peter Brougham was born. Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain
• 1796 - George Washington makes his farewell address.
• 1796 - Hartley Coleridge was born (d. 1849). English poet.
• 1799 - René Caillé was born (d. 1838). French explorer
• 1802 - Lajos Kossuth was born (d. 1894). Hungarian lawyer and Regent-President.
• 1806 - William Dyce was born. Scottish painter.
• 1811 - Orson Pratt was born (d. 1881). American religious leader
• 1828 - Fridolin Anderwert was born (d. 1880). Swiss Federal Councilor.
• 1839 - George Cadbury was born in Edgbaston (d. 1922). English social reformer and chocolate producer.
• 1843 - Gustave-Gaspard Coriolis dies. French mathematicien and engineer
• 1846 - Cândido de Figueiredo was born. Portuguese lexicographer.
• 1853 - D. Miguel II de Bragança was born in Heubach. Austrian colonel and son of the King of Portugal D. Miguel.
• 1862 - American Civil War: Battle of Iuka - Union troops under General William Rosecrans defeat a Confederate force commanded by General Sterling Price
• 1863 - American Civil War: Battle of Chickamauga
• 1870 - Franco-Prussian War: the Siege of Paris begins, which will result on 28 January 1871 in the surrender of Paris and a decisive Prussian victory.
• 1871 - Luís Augusto Rebelo da Silva dies. Portuguese politician and historian.
• 1881 - James Garfield dies of gunshot wound at 49 (b. 1831). 20th President of the United States.
• 1882 - Christopher Stone was born (d. 1965). First disc jockey in the United Kingdom
• 1883 - Ernesto de Albuquerque was born in Lisbon. Film director, cinematographer.
• 1886 - Eduard von Steinle dies (b. 1810). German painter.
• 1887 - Lovie Austin was born (d. 1972). American jazz pianist.
• 1887 - Lynne Overman was born (d. 1943). American actor.
• 1888 - J. W. Alexander was born (d. 1971). American mathematician.
• 1889 - Sadie Delany was born (d. 1999). American physician and author.
• 1889 - D. Luís dies. King of Portugal (1861 - 1889).
• 1893 - Women's suffrage: In New Zealand, the Electoral Act of 1893 is consented to by the governor giving all women in New Zealand the right to vote, beginning with the 1893 New Zealand general election.
• 1893 - Alexander Tilloch Galt dies (b. 1817). Canadian politician, a father of Canadian Confederation.
• 1894 - John D. Dingell was born (d. 1955). U.S. Congressman from Michigan.
• 1896 - José de Azeredo Perdigão was born. Portuguese lawyer.
• 1898 - Giuseppe Saragat was born (d. 1988). President of the Italian Republic
• 1899 - Auguste Scheurer-Kestner dies (b. 1833). French chemist, industrialist and politician.
• 1900 - Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid commit their first robbery together.
• 1901 - Joe Pasternak was born (d. 1991). Russian-born film producer.
• 1901 - Ludwig von Bertalanffy was born († 1972) . Austrian biologist .
• 1902 - Émile Zola dies. Franch writer.
• 1905 - Leon Jaworski was born (d. 1982). American Watergate scandal special prosecutor.
• 1907 - Lewis Franklin Powell, Jr. was born (d. 1998). American Supreme Court Justice.
• 1908 - Mika Waltari was born (d. 1979). Finnish novelist.
• 1908 - Gustav Mahler's 7th Symphony, premiered in Prague.
• 1908 - José Manuel Cayetano Marroquín Ricaurte dies. President of Colombia (1900-1904)
• 1909 - Ferry Porsche was born (d. 1998). Austrian automobile pioneer.
• 1910 - Margaret Lindsay was born (d. 1981). American actress.
• 1911 - Sir William Golding was born (d. 1993). English novelist (Lord of the Flies). Nobel Prize in Literature in 1983
• 1912 - Kurt Sanderling was born. German conductor.
• 1913 - Frances Farmer was born (d. 1970). American actress.
• 1914 - Lupicínio Rodrigues was born in Porto Alegre (RS) († 1974). Brazilian composer.
• 1915 - Germán Valdés was born (d. 1973). Mexican actor, singer and comedian.
• 1919 - Alberic Schotte was born (d. 2004). Belgian cyclist.
• 1919 - Mary Midgley was born. American philosopher.
• 1920 - Roger Angell was born. American sports writer.
• 1921 - Paulo Freire was born († 1997) . Brazilian educator.
• 1921 - 41st U.S. Mens Tennis: William T Tilden beats Wm M Johnston (6-1, 6-3, 6-1)
• 1922 - Damon Knight was born (d. 2002). American writer.
• 1922 - Emil Zátopek was born (d. 2000). Czech athlete.
• 1925 - 45th U.S. Mens Tennis: Wm T Tilden beats Wm M Johnston (4-6, 11-9, 6-3, 4-6, 6-3)
• 1926 - Duke Snider was born. Baseball player.
• 1926 - James Lipton was born. American actor, writer and host of Inside the Actors Studio
• 1926 - Masatoshi Koshiba was born. Japanese physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1927 - Rosemary Harris was born. English actress.
• 1927 - William Hickey was born (d. 1997). American actor.
• 1927 - Michael Peter Ancher dies (b. 1849). Danish painter.
• 1928 - Adam West was born. American actor.
• 1930 - Antonio Margheriti was born. Italian filmmaker
• 1931 - Brook Benton was born (d. 1988). American singer.
• 1931 - Jean-Claude Carrière was born. French screenwriter and actor.
• 1933 - David McCallum was born. Scottish actor.
• 1933 - Gilles Archambault was born. Québécois novelist.
• 1934 - Brian Epstein was born (d. 1967). English musical group manager (the Beatles).
• 1934 - Maria Dilnah was born in Araraquara, São Paulo. Brazilian actress.
• 1934 - Bruno Hauptmann is arrested for the murder of Charles Lindbergh Junior.
• 1935 - Benjamin Hacker was born (d. 2003). American naval aviator.
• 1935 - Nick Massi was born (d. 2000). American singer (The Four Seasons)
• 1935 - Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovsky dies (b. 1857). Russian rocket scientist.
• 1936 - Martha Rocha was born in Salvador. Brazilian model and singer. Miss Brasil 1954.
• 1936 - Al Oerter was born. American athlete.
• 1936 - José Carmona Gomes Cravinho was born. Portuguese statesman, politician.
• 1936 - Vishnu Narayan Bhatkhande dies (b. 1860). Indian musician.
• 1937 - Abner Haynes was born. American football player.
• 1938 - Pauline Frederick dies (b. 1883). American actress.
• 1940 - Paul Williams was born. American composer.
• 1940 - Ed Westfall was born. Canadian ice hockey player
• 1940 - Bill Medley was born. American singer and songwriter (The Righteous Brothers)
• 1941 - Mama Cass Elliot was born (d. 1974). American musician.
• 1941 - Umberto Bossi was born. Italian politician
• 1942 - Holocaust in Brody, western Ukraine: About 2,500 Brody Jews are deported by German Gestapo to the extermination camp in Belzec.
• 1942 - Freda Payne was born. American singer and actress.
• 1942 - Condé Nast dies (b. 1873). American publisher.
• 1943 - Joe Morgan was born. Baseball player.
• 1944 - Armistice between Finland and Soviet Union signed. (End of the Continuation War)
• 1944 - Jean Succar Kuri was born. Lebanese-born Mexican businessman
• 1944 - Anders Björck was born. Swedish politician
• 1945 - Lord Haw Haw (William Joyce) sentenced to death in London
• 1945 - Randolph Mantooth was born. American actor.
• 1945 - Freda Payne was born. American singer and actress
• 1946 - The Council of Europe is founded following a speech given by Winston Churchill at the University of Zurich.
• 1948 - Jeremy Irons was born. English actor.
• 1948 - Rosemary Casals was born. American tennis player.
• 1948 - 62nd U.S. Womens Tennis: M Osborne du Pont beats A L Brough (4-6, 6-4, 15-13)
• 1948 - 68th U.S. Mens Tennis: "Pancho" Gonzales beats E Sturgess (6-2 6-3 14-12)
• 1949 - Twiggy Lawson was born. English model.
• 1949 - Will Cuppy dies (b. 1884). American humorist.
• 1949 - George Shiels dies (b. 1886). Irish dramatist.
• 1949 - Nikolaos Skalkottas dies (b. 1901). Greek composer.
• 1949 - La aviadora británica Richarda Morrow Tait se convierte en la primera mujer que da la vuelta al mundo piloteando su propio avión.
• 1950 - Joan Lunden was born. American journalist and television host
• 1952 - Nile Rodgers was born. American musician and composer
• 1952 - The US bars Charlie Chaplin from reentering the country after a trip to England
• 1955 - Juan Perón is deposed in Argentina
• 1955 - John D. Dingell, Sr. dies (b. 1894). U.S. Congressman from Michigan.
• 1955 - Charlie Reliford was born. Baseball umpire
• 1955 - Rex Smith was born. American singer and actor
• 1956 - Juan Manuel Fangio II was born. Argentine racing driver
• 1957 - First U.S. underground nuclear bomb test
• 1957 - Dalida is the first artist to be awarded a gold record in France for 300 000 sales of "Bambino".
• 1958 - Lita Ford was born. English singer
• 1958 - Kevin Hooks was born American actor and director
• 1958 - Azumah Nelson was born. Ghanian boxer.
• 1959 - Nikita Khrushchev is barred from visiting Disneyland.
• 1961 - Bia Seidl was born. Brazilian actress.
• 1963 - Moisés Gomes was born. Brazilian ilustrator
• 1963 - David Seaman was born. English footballer
• 1963 - Jarvis Cocker was born. English musician
• 1964 - Bob Papa was born. American sportscaster
• 1964 - Patrick Marber was born. British playwright
• 1964 - Trisha Yearwood was born. American singer
• 1965 - Alexandra Vandernoot was born. Belgian actress
• 1965 - Debbye Turner was born. Miss America 1990
• 1965 - Cheri Oteri was born. American actress and comedian
• 1966 - Soledad O'Brien was born. American journalist
• 1966 - Eric Robert Rudolph was born. American criminal
• 1967 - Jim Abbott was born. Baseball player
• 1967 - Alexander Karelin was born. Russian wrestler.
• 1967 - Zinaida Serebryakova dies (b. 1884). Russian painter.
• 1967 - Monica Proietti dies (b. 1940). Canadian criminal.
• 1968 - Red Foley dies (b. 1910). American singer.
• 1968 - Chester Carlson dies (b. 1906). American inventor (photocopying).
• 1969 - Tapio Wilska was born. Finnish singer
• 1969 - Rex Ingram dies (b. 1895). American actor.
• 1970 - The first Glastonbury Festival is held at Michael Eavis's farm in Glastonbury, UK.
• 1970 - Grateful Dead at Fillmore East.
• 1970 - Victor Williams was born. American actor
• 1970 - Yuka Imai was born. Japanese seiyu (voice actress)
• 1970 - Takanori Nishikawa was born. Japanese pop/rock star
• 1970 - Gilbert Dionne, National Hockey League player
• 1972 - A parcel bomb sent to Israeli Embassy in London kills one diplomat.
• 1972 - Michael Brent Donnelly is born in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
• 1972 - Robert Casadesus dies (b. 1899). French pianist.
• 1973 - King Carl XVI Gustaf accedes to the throne of Sweden
• 1973 - Nick Colgan was born. Irish football player .
• 1973 - José Azevedo was born. Portuguese cyclist.
• 1973 - Cristiano Da Matta was born. Brazilian racing car driver
• 1973 - Gram Parsons dies (b. 1946). American musician.
• 1974 - Jimmy Fallon was born. American actor and comedian
• 1974 - Victoria Silvstedt was born. Swedish model. Playmate, Dec, 1996.
• 1975 - José Batista Pinheiro de Azevedo substitui Vasco dos Santos Gonçalves no cargo de primeiro-ministro de Portugal
• 1975 - Indonesia sends troops to Portuguese East Timor
• 1976 - A Turkish Boeing 727 hits a mountain in southern Turkey killing 155
• 1976 - Raja Bell was born. American basketball player
• 1977 - Ryan Dusick was born. American drummer (Maroon 5)
• 1978 - Michelle Alves was born. Brazilian supermodel
• 1978 - Nick Johnson was born. Baseball player
• 1978 - Newspaper boy Carl Bridgewater is shot dead after disturbing burglars at a farm, leading to famous murder trial.
• 1978 - Ilhas Salomão são admitidas como Estado-Membro da ONU
• 1978 - Étienne Gilson dies (b. 1884). French philosopher.
• 1979 - Dannielle Brent was born. British actress.
• 1980 - Tegan and Sara Quin were born. Canadian singer/songwriters
• 1981 - Damiano Cunego was born. Italian cyclist
• 1981 - Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel reunite for a free concert in New York City's Central Park.
• 1982 - Scott Fahlman posts the first recorded instance of the emoticon :-) to an online bulletin board.
• 1982 - Fim das visitas a Sete Quedas (Brasil)
• 1982 - 34th Emmy Awards: Hill St. Blue, Barney Miller, Alan Alda and Carol Kane
• 1982 - Nicole Voss was born. American model.
• 1983 - Saint Kitts and Nevis gains its independence.
• 1983 - Joey Devine was born. Baseball player
• 1985 - A strong earthquake hits Mexico City and other parts of Mexico, killing thousands and demolishing about 400 buildings.
• 1985 - Tipper Gore and other political wives form the Parents Music Resource Center.
• 1985 - Frank Zappa and other musicians testify at Congressional hearings on obscenity in rock music.
• 1985 - Italo Calvino dies (b. 1923). Italian writer.
• 1987 - Kaye Lani Rae Rafko (Mich), 24, crowned 61st Miss America
• 1987 - Danielle Panabaker was born. American actress
• 1987 - Einar Gerhardsen dies (b. 1897). Prime Minister of Norway
• 1988 - Greg Louganis suffers a head injury while qualifying for the Seoul Olympics; goes on to win two Gold medals.
• 1989 - A terrorist bomb explodes a Union de Transportes Aùriens (UTA Flight 772) NigerDC-10 Series 30 in mid-air above the Tùnùrù Desert, Niger, killing 171
• 1989 - Hurricane Hugo makes landfall in the U.S. state of South Carolina.
• 1990 - Patrick Breeding was born.Musician of the boy band B5
• 1990 - Morte de Kodama Kyoishi, aos 94 anos, um dos símbolos da imigração japonesa no Brasil.
• 1990 - Hermes Pan dies (b. 1958). American dancer and choreographer.
• 1991 - Ötzi the Iceman is discovered by a couple of German tourists.
• 1993 - 45th Emmy Awards: Seinfeld, Picket Fences and Ted Danson wins
• 1993 - Kimberly Clarice Aiken, 18, Miss South Carolina wins 67th Miss America
• 1993 - Parliamentary election in Poland.
• 1994 - The pilot episode of the hit medical drama ER airs in the United States, on NBC.
• 1994 - Francesco Moschino dies. Italian stylist.
• 1995 - The Washington Post and the New York Times publish the Unabomber's manifesto.
• 1995 - Freitas do Amaral, Portuguese politician and diplomat is elected as Freitas do Amaral é eleito presidente da Assembleia-geral da ONU.
• 1995 - Orville Redenbacher dies (b. 1907). American botanist and businessman.
• 1997 - Guelb El-Kebir massacre in Algeria; 53 killed.
• 1997 - Rich Mullins dies (b. 1941). Ruler of Côte d'Ivoire.
• 1998 - Cal Ripken Jr voluntarily took himself out of the Baltimore Orioles lineup to end his ML Record of consecutive games played.
• 2000 - Anthony Robert Klitz dies (b. 1917). British artist.
• 2001 - Commencement of combatant activities in Afghanistan (the date designated by U.S. President George W. Bush in Executive Order 13239 of December 12, 2001).
• 2002 - Arnoldo Alemán is deposed from the Presidency of Nicarágua
• 2002 - Robert Guéï dies (b. 1941). Ruler of Côte d'Ivoire.
• 2003 - Musician Elliott Smith plays his final concert at Redfest in Salt Lake City, Utah, only weeks before his suicide.
• 2003 - Slim Dusty dies (b. 1927). Australian singer.
• 2004 - Skeeter Davis dies (b. 1931). American singer.
• 2004 - Ellis Marsalis, Sr. dies. American businessman, musician, and activist .
• 2004 - Árpád Bogsch dies (b. 1919). Hungarian turned American international civil servant.
• 2006 - The Thai military stages a coup in Bangkok. Constitution revoked; martial law declared.
• 2006 - Elizabeth Allen dies (b. 1929). American actress
• 2006 - Roy Schuiten dies (b. 1950). Dutch cyclist
• 2006 - Chuck Rio dies (b. 1929). American singer and saxophonist (The Champs)
• In ancient Greece, the sixth day of the Eleusinian Mysteries, when the procession to Eleusis began at the Kerameikos in Athens.
• Church of England - Theodore of Tarsus
• Saint Kitts and Nevis - Independence Day (from Great Britain, 1983)
• Chile - Day of the Glories of the Army
• International Talk Like a Pirate Day
• Japan - Respect for the Aged Day (beginning in 2003, Respect for the Aged Day is held on the third Monday of September)
• Womens Suffrage Day - New Zealand