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Events on the 19th of September in history

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19 Sep 0335 Flavius Dalmatius is raised to the rank of Caesar by his uncle, emperor Constantine I.
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19 Sep 0634 Siege of Damascus: The Rashidun Arabs under Khalid ibn al-Walid capture Damascus from the Byzantine Empire.
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19 Sep 1356 Battle of Poitiers: An English army under the command of Edward, the Black Prince defeats a French army and captures the French king, John II.
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19 Sep 1356 English defeat French at Battle of Poitiers
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19 Sep 1523 Emperor Charles I and England sign anti-French covenant
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19 Sep 1559 5 Spanish ships sinks in storm off Tampa, about 600 die
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19 Sep 1580 Treaty of Plessis-lez-Tours (Anjou / Dutch States-General)
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19 Sep 1602 Grave surrenders to Earl Mauritius
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19 Sep 1642 Perpignan surrenders to French troops
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19 Sep 1656 Treaty of Labiau: Sweden gives Prussia, Brandenburg
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19 Sep 1657 Brandenburg and Poland sign Treaty of Wehlau
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19 Sep 1668 Polish King John II Kazimierz resigns / goes to France
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19 Sep 1676 Rebels under Nathaniel Bacon set Jamestown Va on fire
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19 Sep 1676 Jamestown is burned to the ground by the forces of Nathaniel Bacon during Bacon's Rebellion.
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19 Sep 1692 Giles Corey is pressed to death after refusing to plead in the Salem witch trials.
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19 Sep 1755 England and Russia sign military agreement
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19 Sep 1777 American Revolutionary War: British forces win a tactically expensive victory over the Continental Army in the First Battle of Saratoga.
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19 Sep 1777 Battle of Freeman's Farm (Bemis Heights) or 1st Battle of Saratoga
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19 Sep 1778 The Continental Congress passes the first United States federal budget.
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19 Sep 1795 Tula, leader of Curacao slave opposition, imprisoned
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19 Sep 1796 George Washington's Farewell Address is printed across America as an open letter to the public.
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19 Sep 1796 George Washington's farewell address as president
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19 Sep 1799 English and Russian invasion army conquerors Receiver
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19 Sep 1799 French Revolutionary Wars: French-Dutch victory against the Russians and British in the Battle of Bergen.
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19 Sep 1833 Charles Darwin visits Guardia del Monte, Argentina
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19 Sep 1838 Ephraim Morris patents railroad brake
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19 Sep 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.
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19 Sep 1846 Elizabeth Barrett & Robert Browning elopes
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19 Sep 1848 Hyperion, moon of Saturn, discovered by Bond (US) and Lassell (England)
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19 Sep 1848 Bond (US) & Lassell (England) independently discover Hyperion, moon of Saturn
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19 Sep 1849 1st commercial laundry established, in Oakland, California
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19 Sep 1854 Henry Meyer patents sleeping rail car
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19 Sep 1862 Battle at Iuka Mississippi (1,700 casualties)
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19 Sep 1862 American Civil War: Battle of Iuka: Union troops under General William Rosecrans defeat a Confederate force commanded by General Sterling Price.
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19 Sep 1862 Battle of Luka, Miss
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19 Sep 1863 American Civil War: The first day of the Battle of Chickamauga, in northwestern Georgia, the bloodiest two-day battle of the conflict, and the only significant Confederate victory in the war's Western Theater.
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19 Sep 1863 Battle of Chickamauga, Tenn (near Chattanooga) begins; Union retreat
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19 Sep 1864 3rd Battle of Winchester Virginia (Opequon, 3rd Winchester)
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19 Sep 1864 American Civil War: Third Battle of Winchester: Union troops under General Philip Sheridan defeat a Confederate force commanded by General Jubal Early. With over 50,000 troops engaged it was the largest battle fought in the Shenandoah Valley and was not only militarily decisive in that region of Virginia but also played a role in securing Abraham Lincoln's election in 1864.
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19 Sep 1864 3rd Battle of Winchester, Virginia
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19 Sep 1865 Atlanta University forms
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19 Sep 1868 Spanish revolution: La Gloriosa.
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19 Sep 1870 Siege of Paris begins
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19 Sep 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.
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19 Sep 1870 Having invaded the Papal States a week earlier, the Italian Army lays siege to Rome, entering the city the next day, after which the Pope described himself as a Prisoner in the Vatican.
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19 Sep 1873 Black Friday: Jay Cooke & Co fails, causing a securities panic
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19 Sep 1876 1st carpet sweeper patented (Melville Bissell of Grand Rapids, Michigan)
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19 Sep 1876 Talks begin to set up a football club in Ottawa
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19 Sep 1879 The Blackpool Illuminations are switched on for the first time.
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19 Sep 1879 Thomas Ray becomes youngest to break a world track & field record pole-vaulting 11' 2
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19 Sep 1881 U.S. President James A. Garfield dies of wounds suffered in a July 2 shooting. Vice President Chester A. Arthur, becomes President upon Garfield's death.
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19 Sep 1890 Turkish frigate "Ertogrul" burns off of Japan, kills 540
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19 Sep 1893 New Zealand is 1st country to grant all its women the right to vote
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19 Sep 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.
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19 Sep 1901 11 baseball games canceled due to funeral of President William McKinley
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19 Sep 1903 King Leopold II deny Belgian cruelty in Congo
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19 Sep 1911 Red Tuesday-20,000 protest for universal rights
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19 Sep 1912 Pius X encyclical Singular quadam, against interconfess unions
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19 Sep 1912 Soccer team NAC (Noad Advendo Combination) forms in Breda
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19 Sep 1914 Brooklyn's Ed Lafitte no-hits KC (Federal League), 6-2
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19 Sep 1916 1st landing on Schiphol (Farman F-22 of Soesterberg)
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19 Sep 1916 Belgian troops conquer Tabora, German East Africa
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19 Sep 1916 During the East African Campaign of World War I, colonial armed forces of the Belgian Congo (Force Publique) under the command of General Charles Tombeur captured the town of Tabora after heavy fighting.
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19 Sep 1923 Ernst Tollers "Hinkemann, " premieres in Leipzig
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19 Sep 1925 45th US Mens Tennis: Wm T Tilden beats Wm M Johnston (46 119 63 46 63)
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19 Sep 1926 80,000 demonstrate for democratic peace in Hague
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19 Sep 1928 Mickey Mouse's screen debut (Steamboat Willie at Colony Theater NYC)
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19 Sep 1929 Latvia Dictator A Woldemaras chased out
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19 Sep 1931 14th PGA Championship: Tom Creavy at Wannamoisett Country Club - Rumford, Rhode Island
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19 Sep 1931 Japanese troops conquer Mukden, South Manchuria
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19 Sep 1931 Lefty Grove wins his 30th game of season over White Sox, 2-1
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19 Sep 1933 New York Giants clinch the pennant
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19 Sep 1934 Bruno Hauptmann is arrested for the kidnapping and murder of Charles Lindbergh, Jr..
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19 Sep 1934 Bruno Hauptmann arrested for kidnapping the Linbergh baby
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19 Sep 1939 British Expeditionary Force reaches France
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19 Sep 1939 Lord Haw-Haw becomes radio host of Reichsrundfunk Berlin
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19 Sep 1939 Wehrmacht (German regular army) murders 100 Jews in Lukov Poland
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19 Sep 1939 World War II: The Battle of Kępa Oksywska concludes, with Polish losses reaching roughly 14% of all the forces engaged.
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19 Sep 1940 Witold Pilecki is voluntarily captured and sent to Auschwitz in order to smuggle out information and start a resistance.
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19 Sep 1940 Nazi decree forbids gentile women to work in Jewish homes
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19 Sep 1941 1st meeting of partizans Tito and Draza Mihailovic in Yugoslavia
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19 Sep 1941 German army conquerors Kiev
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19 Sep 1943 Fanny Whiteers-Koen breaks jumping world record
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19 Sep 1943 Liberator bombers sinks U-341
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19 Sep 1944 Finland and Russia agree to cease fire
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19 Sep 1944 Luftwaffe bombs Eindhoven: 200 killed
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19 Sep 1944 Armistice between Finland and Soviet Union is signed. (End of the Continuation War).
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19 Sep 1944 Battle of Hürtgen Forest between United States and Nazi Germany begins.
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19 Sep 1945 Kim Il Sung arrives in harbor of Wonsan, Korea
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19 Sep 1945 Lord Haw-Haw (William Joyce) is sentenced to death in London.
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19 Sep 1946 The Council of Europe is founded following a speech by Winston Churchill at the University of Zurich.
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19 Sep 1947 Jackie Robinson is named 1947 "Rookie of Year"
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19 Sep 1948 62nd US Womens Tennis: M Osborne duPont beats A L Brough (46 64 15-13)
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19 Sep 1948 68th US Mens Tennis: "Pancho" Gonzales beats E Sturgess (62 63 14-12)
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19 Sep 1948 Richard A Gonzales wins US Tennis Open
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19 Sep 1950 European Payment Union forms in Paris
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19 Sep 1950 Great Three acknowledge Bond government as only German government
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19 Sep 1951 1st broadcast of "Search for Tomorrow" on CBS-TV
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19 Sep 1951 Italian civil servants strike for pay increase
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19 Sep 1952 The United States bars Charlie Chaplin from re-entering the country after a trip to England.
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19 Sep 1953 "Hazel Flagg" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 190 performances
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19 Sep 1954 Beverly Hanson wins LPGA Wichita Golf Open
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19 Sep 1955 Cubs slugger Ernie Banks hits record 5th grand slam of season
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19 Sep 1955 Hurricane Hilda, kills 200 in Mexico
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19 Sep 1956 1st International conference of black writers and artists meets (Sorbonne)
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19 Sep 1957 First American underground nuclear bomb test (part of Operation Plumbbob).
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19 Sep 1957 1st underground nuclear explosion (Las Vegas Nevada)
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19 Sep 1959 Nikita Khrushchev is barred from visiting Disneyland due to security concerns.
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19 Sep 1959 Nikita Krushchev is denied access to Disneyland
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19 Sep 1965 Clifford Ann Creed wins LPGA Visalia Golf Open
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19 Sep 1965 Erhards CDU wins West German parliament elections
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19 Sep 1966 Mike Burke named Yankees President
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19 Sep 1967 Nigeria begins offensive against Biafra
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19 Sep 1968 Baby born on Golden Gate Bridge (those Marin County folk!)
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19 Sep 1970 "Mary Tyler Moore" show premieres
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19 Sep 1970 The first Glastonbury Festival is held at Michael Eavis's farm in Glastonbury, United Kingdom.
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19 Sep 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.
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19 Sep 1970 "Mary Tyler Moore" show premiers
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19 Sep 1971 2nd NYC Marathon won by Norman Higgins in 2:22:54
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19 Sep 1971 Montagnard troops of South Vietnam revolt against the rule of Nguyễn Khánh, killing 70 ethnic Vietnamese soldiers.
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19 Sep 1972 A parcel bomb sent to Israeli Embassy in London kills one diplomat.
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19 Sep 1973 Carl XVI Gustaf, becomes King of Sweden
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19 Sep 1973 Frank Robinson homers in record 32nd ML park (Arlington Tx)
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19 Sep 1973 Pirate Radio Free America (off Cape May NJ) forms
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19 Sep 1973 King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden has his investiture.
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19 Sep 1973 NL refuses to allow San Diego Padres move to Washington DC
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19 Sep 1973 Pirate Radio Free America (off Cape May NJ) goes on the air
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19 Sep 1975 Indonesia sends troops to Portuguese East Timor
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19 Sep 1976 "Going Up" opens at John Golden Theater NYC for 49 performances
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19 Sep 1976 Donna Caponi Young wins LPGA Portland Golf Classic
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19 Sep 1976 Turkish Airlines Flight 452 hits the Taurus Mountains, outskirt of Karatepe, Osmaniye, Turkey, killing all 154 passengers and crew.
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19 Sep 1976 Two Imperial Iranian Air Force F-4 Phantom II jets fly out to investigate an unidentified flying object when both independently lose instrumentation and communications as they approach, only to have them restored upon withdrawal.
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19 Sep 1978 The Solomon Islands join the United Nations.
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19 Sep 1979 No Nukes Concert at Madison Square Garden includes Springsteen and Crosby, Stills and Nash
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19 Sep 1980 Titan II missile explosion (Damascus, AR)
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19 Sep 1981 Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel perform a reunion concert in Central Park
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19 Sep 1981 Simon & Garfunkel reunite for a free concert in New York's Central Park.
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19 Sep 1981 Satellites China 10 & 11 launched into Earth orbit by B-1 rocket
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19 Sep 1981 Simon & Garfunkel reunite for a NYC Central Park concert
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19 Sep 1982 34th Emmy Awards: Hill St. Blue, Barney Miller, Alan Alda and Carol Kane
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19 Sep 1982 New Orleans Saints 1st road shutout victory beating Chicago Bears 10-0
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19 Sep 1982 Sandra Haynie / Kathy McMullen wins Portland Ping Team Golf Championship
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19 Sep 1982 Scott Fahlman posts the first documented emoticons :-) and :-( on the Carnegie Mellon University Bulletin Board System.
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19 Sep 1982 Streetcars stop running on Market St after 122 years of service
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19 Sep 1983 St. Kitts and Nevis declares independence from the UK
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19 Sep 1983 Saint Kitts and Nevis gains its independence.
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19 Sep 1983 St Christopher-Nevis gains independence from Britain (Nat'l Day)
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19 Sep 1984 Britain and China complete a proposed agreement to transfer Hong Kong to China by 1997
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19 Sep 1985 A strong earthquake kills thousands and destroys about 400 buildings in Mexico City.
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19 Sep 1985 Tipper Gore and other political wives form the Parents Music Resource Center as Frank Zappa and other musicians testify at U.S. Congressional hearings on obscenity in rock music.
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19 Sep 1985 9,500 die in Mexico's earthquake (6.9)
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19 Sep 1986 "Captain EO" with Michael Jackson premieres
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19 Sep 1986 Chicago White Sox Joe Crowley no-hits California Angels, 7-1
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19 Sep 1986 Dean Jones scores 210 vs. India at Madras
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19 Sep 1986 "Captain EO" with Michael Jackson permieres
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19 Sep 1986 Fed health officals announce AZT will be available to AIDS patients
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19 Sep 1987 Kaye Lani Rae Rafko (Mich), 24, crowned 61st Miss America
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19 Sep 1988 US Olympic diver Greg Louganis hits his head on diving board
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19 Sep 1988 Israel launches 1st satellite, for secret military reconnaissance
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19 Sep 1989 French DC-10 crashes near Niger, 171 die
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19 Sep 1989 A terrorist bomb explodes UTA Flight 772 in mid-air above the Tùnùrù Desert, Niger, killing 171.
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19 Sep 1989 Chase Manhattan Discovery Center at Brooklyn Botanic Garden opens
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19 Sep 1989 Appeals court restores America's Cup to US after NY Supreme Court gave it to New Zealand (NZ protested US's use of a catamaran)
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19 Sep 1991 Precious Bunny wins the 46th Little Brown Jug
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19 Sep 1991 Ötzi the Iceman is discovered by German tourists.
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19 Sep 1992 Barry Bonds joins Willie Mays, Howard Johnson and Ron Gant as having (2) 30-HR / 30-steal seasons
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19 Sep 1992 Sergei Boebka pole vaults world record (6.13m)
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19 Sep 1992 UN Security Council votes 12-0 (3 abstentions) to dump Yugoslavia
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19 Sep 1993 45th Emmy Awards: Seinfeld, Picket Fences and Ted Danson wins
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19 Sep 1993 Actress Michele Phillips (Knots Landing) is robbed at gunpoint
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19 Sep 1993 Brandie Burton wins LPGA SAFECO Golf Classic
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19 Sep 1993 Kimberly Clarice Aiken, 18, Miss SC wins 67th Miss America
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19 Sep 1993 Parliamentary election in Poland
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19 Sep 1993 Tom Glavine wins 20 games in 3 straight years
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19 Sep 1994 Swedish government of Bildt resigns
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19 Sep 1995 Andres Galarraga is 4th to hit 30 HRs for Rockies in 1995
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19 Sep 1995 Padres Ken Caminiti switch hits HRs in 3rd of 4 games
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19 Sep 1995 The Washington Post and The New York Times publish the Unabomber's manifesto.
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19 Sep 1996 "Skylight" opens at Royale Theater, New York City
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19 Sep 1997 Guelb El-Kebir massacre in Algeria where 53 people are killed.
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19 Sep 2006 The Thai military stages a coup in Bangkok. The Constitution is revoked and martial law is declared.
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19 Sep 2010 The leaking oil well in the Deepwater Horizon oil spill is sealed.
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19 Sep 2011 Mariano Rivera of the New York Yankees surpasses Trevor Hoffman to become Major League Baseball's all time saves leader with 602.
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19 Sep 2014 The Asian Games take place in Incheon, South Korea.
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