What are the important events that happened on September 19? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
September 19: Facts & Myths About This Day
September 19 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.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is September 6, 2024 – a Thursday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 1,726,704,000 seconds has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘dihectahexacontatrigon’ day.
Virgo is the zodiac 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.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,290 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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September 19 Historical Events
- 1846 –Two French shepherd children, Mélanie Calvat and Maximin Giraud, experience a Marian apparition on a mountaintop near La Salette, France, now known as Our Lady of La Salette.
- 1940 –Witold Pilecki is voluntarily captured and sent to Auschwitz in order to smuggle out information and start a resistance.
- 1944 –Armistice between Finland and Soviet Union is signed. (End of the Continuation War).
- 1944 –Battle of Hürtgen Forest between United States and Nazi Germany begins.
- 1952 –The United States bars Charlie Chaplin from re-entering the country after a trip to England.
- 1971 –Montagnard troops of South Vietnam revolt against the rule of Nguyen Khanh, killing 70 ethnic Vietnamese soldiers.
- 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.
- 1978 –The Solomon Islands join the United Nations.
- 1991 –Ötzi the Iceman is discovered by German tourists.
Who were born on September 19?
- 1927 –Nick Massi, American singer and guitarist (The Four Seasons) (d. 2000)
- 1945 –David Bromberg, American multi-instrumentalist, singer, and songwriter
- 1952 –Rhys Chatham, American musician, primarily trumpet and guitar, and composer
- 1970 –Dan Bylsma, American ice hockey player
- 1973 –Cristiano da Matta, Brazilian racing car driver
- 1973 –Nick Colgan, Irish footballer
- 1977 –Josef Fares, Swedish film director
- 1980 –Sara Quin, Canadian musician
- 1982 –Shaun Barker, English footballer
- 1984 –Danny Valencia, American baseball player
Who died on September 19?
- 690 –Theodore of Tarsus, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 602)
- 1967 –Zinaida Serebriakova, Russian painter (b. 1884)
- 1968 –Chester Carlson, American inventor (b. 1906)
- 1968 –Red Foley, American singer (b. 1910)
- 1985 –Italo Calvino, Italian writer (b. 1923)
- 1990 –Hermes Pan, American dancer and choreographer (b. 1910)
- 2002 –Duncan Hallas, prominent member of the Trotskyist movement in Great Britain. (b. 1925)
- 2006 –Roy Schuiten, Dutch cyclist (b. 1950)
- 2009 –Arthur Ferrante, American popular pianist (b. 1921)
- 2011 –Thomas Capano, attorney, criminal (b. 1949)
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