History Events on September 19

The Continental Congress passes the first United States federal budget.

#United_States_federal_budget

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.

#Parents_Music_Resource_Center

American Revolutionary War: British forces win a tactically expensive victory over the Continental Army in the First Battle of Saratoga.

#American_Revolutionary_War

A drone strike by the United States kills 30 civilian farmers in Afghanistan.

#Afghanistan

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.

#Marian_apparition

The leaking oil well in the Deepwater Horizon oil spill is sealed.

#Deepwater_Horizon_oil_spill

Mariano Rivera of the New York Yankees surpasses Trevor Hoffman to become Major League Baseball's all-time saves leader with 602.

#Mariano_Rivera

La Gloriosa begins in Spain.

#Glorious_Revolution_(Spain)

Siege of Damascus: The Rashidun Arabs under Khalid ibn al-Walid capture Damascus from the Byzantine Empire.

#Siege_of_Damascus_(634)

Battle of Poitiers: An English army under the command of Edward, the Black Prince defeats a French army and captures King John II.

#Battle_of_Poitiers

The Solomon Islands join the United Nations.

#Solomon_Islands

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.

#1976_Tehran_UFO_incident

The Council of Europe is founded following a speech by Winston Churchill at the University of Zurich.

#Council_of_Europe

Michael Eavis hosts the first Glastonbury Festival.

#Michael_Eavis

Scott Fahlman posts the first documented emoticons :-) and :-( on the Carnegie Mellon University bulletin board system.

#Scott_Fahlman

Turkish Airlines Flight 452 hits the Taurus Mountains, outskirt of Karatepe, Turkey, killing all 154 passengers and crew.

#Turkish_Airlines_Flight_452

George Washington's Farewell Address is printed across America as an open letter to the public.

#George_Washington's_Farewell_Address

A bomb destroys UTA Flight 772 in mid-air above the Tùnùrù Desert, Niger, killing all 170 passengers and crew.

#UTA_Flight_772

Saint Kitts and Nevis gains its independence.

#Saint_Kitts_and_Nevis

Franco-Prussian War: The siege of Paris begins. The city will hold out for over four months before surrendering.

#Franco-Prussian_War

World War II: Witold Pilecki is voluntarily captured and sent to Auschwitz to smuggle out information and start a resistance movement.

#Witold_Pilecki

World War II: The Moscow Armistice between Finland and the Soviet Union is signed.

#Moscow_Armistice

French Revolutionary Wars: French-Dutch victory against the Russians and British in the Battle of Bergen.

#French_Revolutionary_Wars

American Civil War: Union troops under William Rosecrans defeat a Confederate force commanded by Sterling Price.

#American_Civil_War

The United States bars Charlie Chaplin from re-entering the country after a trip to England.

#Charlie_Chaplin

A strong earthquake kills thousands and destroys about 400 buildings in Mexico City.

#1985_Mexico_City_earthquake

Annibale de Gasparis discovers the asteroid Massalia from the north dome of the Astronomical Observatory of Capodimonte.

#Annibale_de_Gasparis

World War I: During the East African Campaign, colonial forces of the Belgian Congo (Force Publique) under the command of Charles Tombeur capture the town of Tabora after heavy fighting.

#World_War_I

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.

#Battle_of_Chickamauga

In New Zealand, the Electoral Act of 1893 is consented to by the governor, giving all women in New Zealand the right to vote.

#Women's_suffrage_in_New_Zealand

Plumbbob Rainier becomes the first nuclear explosion to be entirely contained underground, producing no fallout.

#Operation_Plumbbob

The 2017 Puebla earthquake strikes Mexico, causing 370 deaths and over 6,000 injuries, as well as extensive damage.

#2017_Puebla_earthquake

World War II: The Battle of K?pa Oksywska concludes, with Polish losses reaching roughly 14% of all the forces engaged.

#World_War_II

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.

#Assassination_of_James_A._Garfield

Flavius Dalmatius is raised to the rank of Caesar by his uncle, Constantine the Great.

#Dalmatius

American Civil War: Union troops under Philip Sheridan defeat a Confederate force commanded by Jubal Early. With over 50,000 troops engaged, it was the largest battle fought in the Shenandoah Valley.

#Third_Battle_of_Winchester

Jamestown is burned to the ground by the forces of Nathaniel Bacon during Bacon's Rebellion.

#Bacon's_Rebellion

In the wake of a manhunt, the suspect in a series of bombings in New York and New Jersey is apprehended after a shootout with police.

#2016_New_York_and_New_Jersey_bombings

The Thai army stages a coup. The Constitution is revoked and martial law is declared.

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

The Washington Post and The New York Times publish the Unabomber's manifesto.

Ötzi the Iceman is discovered in the Alps on the border between Italy and Austria.

King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden has his investiture.

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.

World War II: The Battle of Hürtgen Forest begins. It will become the longest individual battle that the U.S. Army has ever fought.