Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/September 19
This is a list of selected September 19 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article, featured list or picture of the day.
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Federation of Saint Kitts and Nevis
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Theodore Kaczynski, the Unabomber
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FBI's sketch of the Unabomber
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Statue of Our Lady of Salette
Ineligible
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| Armed Forces Day in Chile; | refimprove |
| 1692 – Salem witch trials: As Giles Corey was being crushed to death for refusing to enter a plea to charges of witchcraft, his last words were reportedly, "More weight!" | refimprove section |
| 1796 – George Washington's Farewell Address was published in many American newspapers, warning citizens, among others, about the dangers of political factionalism and to avoid permanent alliances with foreign powers. | unreferenced section |
| 1946 – The first Cannes Film Festival was held in Cannes, France, after a seven-year delay due to World War II. | date not in article, 1946 Cannes Film Festival says it started on Sept 20 |
1982 – :-) and :-( were first proposed by Scott Fahlman for use as emoticons.
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Eligible
- 634 – Arab–Byzantine wars: Rashidun Arabs under Khalid ibn al-Walid captured Damascus from the Byzantine Empire.
- 1676 – During Bacon's Rebellion, Virginia settlers led by Nathaniel Bacon burned the colonial capital of Jamestown to the ground.
- 1777 – American Revolutionary War: British troops engaged American forces at the first Battle of Saratoga in New York.
- 1863 – The Battle of Chickamauga began in northwestern Georgia and would end in the most significant Union defeat in the Western Theater of the American Civil War.
- 1893 – New Zealand became the first country to introduce universal suffrage, following the women's suffrage movement led by Kate Sheppard.
- 1944 – Finland and the Soviet Union signed the Moscow Armistice to end the Continuation War.
- 1961 – American couple Betty and Barney Hill claimed to have been kidnapped by a UFO in rural New Hampshire in one of the first widely publicized claims of alien abduction.
- 1970 – The first Glastonbury Festival, the largest greenfield festival in the world, was held at Michael Eavis's farm in Glastonbury, England.
- 1970 – Greek student Kostas Georgakis set himself on fire in Genoa, Italy, as a protest against the Greek military junta of Georgios Papadopoulos.
- 1991 – Ötzi, a well-preserved natural mummy of a man from about 3300 BC, was discovered by two German tourists.
- 2006 – The Royal Thai Army overthrew the elected government of Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra while he was in New York City for a meeting of the United Nations General Assembly.
September 19: Independence Day in Saint Kitts and Nevis (1983); International Talk Like a Pirate Day
- 1356 – Hundred Years' War: English forces led by Edward the Black Prince decisively won the Battle of Poitiers and captured King Jean II of France.
- 1846 – Two French shepherd children, Mélanie Calvat and Maximin Giraud, reported experiencing a Marian apparition on a mountaintop near La Salette, France, now known as Our Lady of La Salette.
- 1940 – Polish resistance member Witold Pilecki (pictured) allowed himself to be captured by German forces and sent to the Auschwitz concentration camp in order to gather intelligence.
- 1985 – An 8.1 ML earthquake struck Mexico City, killing at least 9,000 people and leaving up to 100,000 homeless.
- 1995 – The manifesto of "Unabomber" Ted Kaczynski was published in The Washington Post and The New York Times, almost three months after it was submitted.