Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/September 19
This is a list of selected September 19 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article, featured list or picture of the day.
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Federation of Saint Kitts and Nevis -
Theodore Kaczynski, the Unabomber -
FBI's sketch of the Unabomber
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Women's suffrage -
Kate Sheppard -
Statue of Our Lady of La Salette -
Witold Pilecki -
Damage from the Mexico City earthquake
Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
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| Armed Forces Day in Chile; | refimprove |
| Respect for the Aged Day in Japan (2016); | stub |
| Independence Day in Saint Kitts and Nevis (1983); | lots of CN tags (7) especially in one section |
| 634 – Arab–Byzantine wars: Rashidun Arabs under Khalid ibn al-Walid captured Damascus from the Byzantine Empire. | all dates disputed |
| 1796 – George Washington's Farewell Address was published in many American newspapers, warning citizens, among others, about the dangers of political factionalism and to avoid permanent alliances with foreign powers. | many paragraphs without citations but is it like a plot summary? |
| 1961 – American couple Barney and Betty Hill claimed to have been kidnapped by a UFO in rural New Hampshire in one of the first widely publicized claims of alien abduction. | unreferenced section |
| 1970 – Greek student Kostas Georgakis set himself on fire in Genoa, Italy, as a protest against the military junta of Georgios Papadopoulos. | Lead too short |
1982 – :-) and :-( were first proposed by Scott Fahlman for use as emoticons.
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refimprove section |
| 2006 – The Royal Thai Army overthrew the elected government of Thai prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra while he was in New York City for a meeting of the United Nations General Assembly. | Lots of unsourced paragraphs |
Eligible
- 1692 – Salem witch trials: As Giles Corey was being crushed to death for refusing to enter a plea to charges of witchcraft, he reportedly kept telling officials, "More weight!"
- 1777 – American Revolutionary War: British troops engaged American forces at the first Battle of Saratoga in New York.
- 1863 – American Civil War: The Battle of Chickamauga began in northwestern Georgia and would end in the most significant Union defeat in the Western Theater.
- 1846 – French shepherd children Mélanie Calvat and Maximin Giraud reported a Marian apparition, now known as Our Lady of La Salette (statue pictured), near La Salette-Fallavaux.
- 1893 – New Zealand became the first country to introduce universal suffrage following the women's suffrage movement led by Kate Sheppard.
- 1940 – World War II: Polish resistance leader Witold Pilecki allowed himself to be captured by German forces and sent to Auschwitz to gather intelligence.
- 1970 – The first Glastonbury Festival, the largest greenfield festival in the world, was held at Michael Eavis's farm in Glastonbury, England.
- 1991 – Ötzi, a well-preserved natural mummy of a man dating from about 3300 BC, was discovered by two German tourists in the Alps.
- 1995 – The manifesto of Ted Kaczynski, also known as the Unabomber, was published in The Washington Post almost three months after it was submitted.
- Born/died: | Theodore of Tarsus |d|690| Alfonso Litta |b|1608| William Robertson |b|1721|William Kirby |b|1759| Alexander Tilloch Galt |d|1893| Masaoka Shiki |d|1902| Guy Gibson |d|1944| Kate Adie |b|1945| Danny Valencia |b|1984| Silvana Imam |b|1986| Damayanti Joshi |d|2004 |Jackie Collins |d|2015
September 19: International Talk Like a Pirate Day
- 1356 – Hundred Years' War: English forces led by Edward the Black Prince (pictured) decisively won the Battle of Poitiers and captured John II of France.
- 1944 – World War II: Finland, the Soviet Union, and the United Kingdom signed the Moscow Armistice to end the Continuation War.
- 1950 – Korean War: A North Korean attack was repelled by Allied forces at the Battle of Nam River.
- 1985 – An earthquake registering Mw 8.0 struck Mexico City, killing at least 9,000 people and leaving up to 100,000 homeless.
- 2011 – Mariano Rivera surpassed Trevor Hoffman to become Major League Baseball's all-time career leader in saves.
- Leo VI the Wise (b. 866)
- Mabel Vernon (b. 1883)
- Ashot Nadanian (b. 1972)