SomeFacts | September 19

On this day - September 19

96 — Nerva, suspected of complicity of the death of Domitian, is ...

634 — Siege of Damascus: The Rashidun Arabs under Khalid ibn al-Walid ...

1356 — Battle of Poitiers: An English army under the command of ...

1410 — End of the Siege of Marienburg: The State of the Teutonic ...

1676 — Jamestown is burned to the ground by the forces of Nathaniel ...

1777 — American Revolutionary War: British forces win a tactically ...

1778 — The Continental Congress passes the first United States ...

1796 — George Washington's Farewell Address is printed across ...

1799 — French Revolutionary Wars: French-Dutch victory against the ...

1846 — Two French shepherd children, Mélanie Calvat and Maximin ...

1852 — Annibale de Gasparis discovers the asteroid Massalia from the ...

1862 — American Civil War: Union troops under William Rosecrans ...

1863 — American Civil War: The first day of the Battle of ...

1864 — American Civil War: Union troops under Philip Sheridan defeat ...

1868 — La Gloriosa begins in Spain.

1870 — Franco-Prussian War: The siege of Paris begins. The city held ...

1893 — In New Zealand, the Electoral Act of 1893 is consented to by ...

1902 — A stampede at Shiloh Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, ...

1916 — World War I: During the East African Campaign, colonial forces ...

1939 — World War II: The Battle of Kępa Oksywska concludes, with ...

1940 — World War II: Witold Pilecki is voluntarily captured and sent ...

1944 — World War II: The Moscow Armistice between Finland and the ...

1944 — World War II: The Battle of Hürtgen Forest begins. It will ...

1946 — The Council of Europe is founded following a speech by Winston ...

1950 — Korean War: An attack by North Korean forces was repelled at ...

1960 — Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and Pakistani President ...

1970 — Kostas Georgakis, a Greek student of geology, sets himself ...

1970 — Michael Eavis hosts the first Glastonbury Festival.

1976 — Two Imperial Iranian Air Force F-4 Phantom II jets fly out to ...

1976 — Turkish Airlines Flight 452 hits the Taurus Mountains, ...

1978 — The Solomon Islands join the United Nations.

1982 — Scott Fahlman posts the first documented emoticons :-) and :-( ...

1983 — Saint Kitts and Nevis gains its independence.

1985 — Tipper Gore and other political wives form the Parents Music ...

1985 — A strong earthquake kills thousands and destroys about 400 ...

1989 — A bomb destroys UTA Flight 772 in mid-air above the Tùnùrù ...

1991 — Ötzi the Iceman is discovered in the Alps on the border ...

1995 — The Washington Post and The New York Times publish the ...

1997 — The Guelb El-Kebir massacre in Algeria kills 53 people.

2006 — The Thai army stages a coup. The Constitution is revoked and ...

2008 — A Learjet 60 carrying musicians Travis Barker and Adam ...

2010 — The leaking oil well in the Deepwater Horizon oil spill is ...

2011 — Mariano Rivera of the New York Yankees surpasses Trevor ...

2016 — In the wake of a manhunt, the suspect in a series of bombings ...

2017 — The 2017 Puebla earthquake strikes Mexico, causing 370 deaths ...

2021 — The Cumbre Vieja volcano, on the island of La Palma in the ...

2022 — A strong earthquake kills 2 and injures over 30 in ...

2022 — The state funeral of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom ...

2023 — Azerbaijan launches a military offensive against the Republic ...