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.
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Federation of Saint Kitts and Nevis
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Theodore Kaczynski, the Unabomber
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FBI's sketch of the Unabomber
Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
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| Respect for the Aged Day in Japan (2011); | stub |
| 1356 – Hundred Years' War: English forces led by Edward the Black Prince decisively won the Battle of Poitiers and captured King Jean II of France. | refimprove section |
| 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. | need more footnotes |
| 1893 – New Zealand became the first country to introduce universal suffrage, following the women's suffrage movement led by Kate Sheppard. | tagged sources |
| 1944 – Finland and the Soviet Union signed the Moscow Armistice to end the Continuation War. | not neutral |
| 1964 – An armed revolt by Montagnards serving in the Army of the Republic of Vietnam against the rule of Nguyen Khanh led to the deaths of 70 ethnic Vietnamese soldiers. | multiple issues |
| 1982 – ":-)" and ":-(" were first proposed by Scott Fahlman for use as emoticons. | Tagged for cleanup |
| 1995 – The Manifesto of "Unabomber" Ted Kaczynski (police sketch pictured) was published in The Washington Post and The New York Times, almost three months after it was submitted. | outdated |
| 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. | Tagged for cleanup |
Eligible
- 1777 – American Revolutionary War: British troops engaged American forces at the first Battle of Saratoga in New York.
- 1970 – The first Glastonbury Festival was held at Michael Eavis's farm in Glastonbury, England.
- 1991 – Ötzi the Iceman, a well-preserved natural mummy of a man from about 3300 BC, was discovered by two German tourists.
September 19: Armed Forces Day in Chile; Independence Day in Saint Kitts and Nevis (1983); International Talk Like a Pirate Day
- 1863 – The Battle of Chickamauga began in northwestern Georgia and would end in the most significant Union defeat in the Western Theater of the American Civil War.
- 1940 – Polish resistance member Witold Pilecki (pictured) allowed himself to be captured by German forces and sent to the Auschwitz concentration camp in order to gather intelligence.
- 1946 – The first Cannes Film Festival was held in Cannes, France, after a seven-year delay due to World War II.
- 1970 – Greek student Kostas Georgakis set himself on fire in Genoa, Italy, as a protest against the Greek military junta of Georgios Papadopoulos.
- 1985 – An 8.1 ML earthquake struck Mexico City, killing at least nine thousand people and leaving up to 100,000 homeless.