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, 28,778,400 minutes 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
- 1777 –American Revolutionary War: British forces win a tactically expensive victory over the Continental Army in the First Battle of Saratoga.
- 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.
- 1944 –Armistice between Finland and Soviet Union is signed. (End of the Continuation War).
- 1957 –First American underground nuclear bomb test (part of Operation Plumbbob).
- 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.
- 1970 –The first Glastonbury Festival is held at Michael Eavis’s farm in Glastonbury, United Kingdom.
- 1976 –Turkish Airlines Boeing 727 hits the Taurus Mountains, outskirt of Karatepe, Osmaniye, Turkey, killing all 155 passengers and crew.
- 1989 –A terrorist bomb explodes UTA Flight 772 in mid-air above the Tùnùrù Desert, Niger, killing 171.
- 1995 –The Washington Post and The New York Times publish the Unabomber’s manifesto.
Who were born on September 19?
- 1796 –Hartley Coleridge, English poet (d. 1849)
- 1909 –Ferry Porsche, Austrian automobile pioneer (d. 1998)
- 1926 –Masatoshi Koshiba, Japanese physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1951 –Daniel Lanois, Canadian record producer
- 1973 –Nick Colgan, Irish footballer
- 1976 –Jan Hlaváč, Czech ice hockey player
- 1979 –Hermione Granger, Brightest Witch
- 1983 –Matt Wiman, American mixed martial artist
- 1986 –Gerald Ciolek, German cyclist
- 1993 –Kshitij Patil, Indian Dancer
Who died on September 19?
- 1668 –William Waller, English soldier
- 1692 –Giles Corey, American farmer killed in the Salem Witch Trials
- 1944 –Guy Gibson, British aviator, awarded Victoria Cross (b. 1918)
- 1985 –Italo Calvino, Italian writer (b. 1923)
- 1987 –Einar Gerhardsen, Prime Minister of Norway (b. 1897)
- 1997 –Jack May, American voice actor (b. 1922)
- 2002 –Robert Guéï, ruler of Côte d'Ivoire (b. 1941)
- 2006 –Roy Schuiten, Dutch cyclist (b. 1950)
- 2009 –Arthur Ferrante, American popular pianist (b. 1921)
- 2009 –Roc Raida, Turntablist (b. 1972)
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