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| 100 years anniversary | ||||
| 19 Sep 1925 | 45th US Mens Tennis: Wm T Tilden beats Wm M Johnston (46 119 63 46 63) | |||
| 19 Sep 1925 | Pete Murray, English radio and television host | |||
| 19 Sep 1925 | W. Reece Smith, Jr., American lawyer and academic (d. 2013) | |||
| 19 Sep 1925 | WW2 | While serving aboard USS Arizona in California, United States, Joseph Rochefort received orders to report to the Chief of Naval Operations in Washington DC, United States for a new assignment. | ||
| 19 Sep 1925 |
death Francis Darwin Died 19 Sep 1925 at age 77 (born 16 Aug 1848). English botanist who was the third son of Charles Darwin, and published the results of his collaboration with his father in the publication of The Movement of Plants (1880). |
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| 19 Sep 1925 |
death Georg August Schweinfurth Died 19 Sep 1925 at age 88 (born 29 Dec 1836). German botanist who travelled in the interior of East Africa (from 1868) and studied the inhabitants together with the flora and fauna of the region. During this journey, in Mar 1870, he discovered the River Welle (Uele), explored the upper Nile basin, and charted the western feeders of the White Nile. He wrote about the cannibalistic practices of the Mangbettu, and his discovery of the pygmy Akka confirmed the existence of dwarf races in tropical Africa (The Heart of Africa, 1873). During 1875-88, he lived in Cairo, where he founded the Royal Geographical Society of Egypt. He made historical, geological, ethnographical and botanical investigations ranging from there to the Arabian desert. |
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| 75 years anniversary | ||||
| 19 Sep 1950 | Rudy Ramos: Lawton, Oklahoma -- Actor (Wind-High Chaparral) | |||
| 19 Sep 1950 | European Payment Union forms in Paris | |||
| 19 Sep 1950 | Great Three acknowledge Bond government as only German government | |||
| 19 Sep 1950 | Joan Lunden, American journalist and author | |||
| 19 Sep 1950 | Michael Proctor, English physicist, mathematician, and academic | |||
| 19 Sep 1950 | Joan Lunden Fair Oaks Calif, news host (Good Morning America) | |||
| 19 Sep 1950 | Rudy Ramos Lawton Okla, actor (Wind-High Chaparral) | |||
| 50 years anniversary | ||||
| 19 Sep 1975 | Indonesia sends troops to Portuguese East Timor | |||
| 19 Sep 1975 | Marcus Dunstan, American director and screenwriter | |||
| 19 Sep 1975 | Gina Trapani, American blogger, founded Lifehacker | |||
| 19 Sep 1975 | Pamela Brown, English actress (b. 1917) | |||
| 25 years anniversary | ||||
| 19 Sep 2000 | Pastor Coronel, Paraguayan politician (b. 1919) | |||
| 19 Sep 2000 | Anthony Robert Klitz, English painter (b. 1917) | |||
| 20 years anniversary | ||||
| 19 Sep 2005 | Research published by Guinness World Records showed that Status Quo have had more hit singles than any other band in UK chart history. The band had scored 61 chart successes, dating from Pictures of Matchstick Men in 1968 to You'll Come Around in 2004. Queen came second with 52 hits, with the Rolling Stones and UB40 with 51 hits each. | |||
| 15 years anniversary | ||||
| 19 Sep 2010 | The leaking oil well in the Deepwater Horizon oil spill is sealed. | |||
| 19 Sep 2010 | John Lennon's son Julian told the press that he has ended his long-running feud with his half-brother Sean and his step-mother Yoko Ono, which started after the former Beatle was murdered in December, 1980. The trio battled in court for a share of the singer's estate, but Julian now said "Things are good between us. Whenever I'm in New York, we all get together." | |||
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