107136 | September 19 | Event | 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. |
107137 | September 19 | Event | 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. |
107138 | September 19 | Event | 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. |
107139 | September 19 | Event | 1934 – Bruno Hauptmann is arrested for the kidnapping and murder of Charles Lindbergh, Jr.. |
107140 | September 19 | Event | 1939 – World War II: The Battle of Kępa Oksywska concludes, with Polish losses reaching roughly 14% of all the forces engaged. |
107141 | September 19 | Event | 1940 – Witold Pilecki is voluntarily captured and sent to Auschwitz in order to smuggle out information and start a resistance. |
107142 | September 19 | Event | 1944 – Armistice between Finland and Soviet Union is signed. (End of the Continuation War). |
107143 | September 19 | Event | 1944 – Battle of Hürtgen Forest between United States and Nazi Germany begins. |
107144 | September 19 | Event | 1945 – Lord Haw-Haw (William Joyce) is sentenced to death in London. |
107145 | September 19 | Event | 1946 – The Council of Europe is founded following a speech by Winston Churchill at the University of Zurich. |
107146 | September 19 | Event | 1952 – The United States bars Charlie Chaplin from re-entering the country after a trip to England. |
107147 | September 19 | Event | 1957 – First American underground nuclear bomb test (part of Operation Plumbbob). |
107148 | September 19 | Event | 1959 – Nikita Khrushchev is barred from visiting Disneyland due to security concerns. |
107149 | September 19 | Event | 1970 – The first Glastonbury Festival is held at Michael Eavis's farm in Glastonbury, United Kingdom. |
107150 | September 19 | Event | 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. |
107151 | September 19 | Event | 1970 – The Mary Tyler Moore Show, an American sitcom, premiered on CBS |
107152 | September 19 | Event | 1971 – Montagnard troops of South Vietnam revolt against the rule of Nguyễn Khánh, killing 70 ethnic Vietnamese soldiers. |
107153 | September 19 | Event | 1972 – A parcel bomb sent to Israeli Embassy in London kills one diplomat. |
107154 | September 19 | Event | 1973 – King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden has his investiture. |
107155 | September 19 | Event | 1976 – Turkish Airlines Flight 452 hits the Taurus Mountains, outskirt of Karatepe, Osmaniye, Turkey, killing all 154 passengers and crew. |
107156 | September 19 | Event | 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. |
107157 | September 19 | Event | 1978 – The Solomon Islands join the United Nations. |
107158 | September 19 | Event | 1981 – Simon & Garfunkel reunite for a free concert in New York's Central Park. |
107159 | September 19 | Event | 1982 – Scott Fahlman posts the first documented emoticons :-) and :-( on the Carnegie Mellon University bulletin board system. |
107160 | September 19 | Event | 1983 – Saint Kitts and Nevis gains its independence. |
107131 | September 19 | Event | 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 wa |
107132 | September 19 | Event | 1868 – Spanish revolution: La Gloriosa. |
107133 | September 19 | Event | 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. |
107134 | September 19 | Event | 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. |
107135 | September 19 | Event | 1879 – The Blackpool Illuminations are switched on for the first time. |