19 September

The 19t o September is the 262nt day o the year (263rd in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 103 days bidin.

 Events 
 1863 - American Ceevil War: The Battle o Chickamauga stairts.
 1881 - James A. Garfield, 20t Preses o the Unitit States, dees efter bein shot on 2 Julie. Chester A. Arthur becomes Preses.
 1893 - Weemen in New Zealand is gien the richt tae vote.
 1945 - Post-Warld War II: In the American occupation zone, the creation o the states o Greater Hesse, Wurttemberg-Baden an Bavarie is propaled.
 1946 - The Cooncil o Europe is creatit.
 1973 - Carl XVI Gustaf o Swaden haes his investitur as King.
 1975 - TV comedy Fawlty Towers is shawn on BBC Two for the first time.
 1978 - The Solomon Islands jyne the Unitit Naitions.
 1983 - Saunt Kitts an Nevis gains unthirldom frae the Unitit Kinrick.
 1985 - A strang yirdquauk hits Mexico, killin 1000s.
 1991 - Otzi the Iceman is found naurhan the Austrick-Italy border.
 2006 - A military coup in Thailand remuives Thaksin Shinawatra frae pouer.
 2008 - The Scots Gaelic telly channel BBC Alba is launched.
 2014 - Alex Salmond propales his demission as First Meenister o Scotland efter the "Aye" campaign's defeat in the Scots unthirldom referendum, 2014.
 2015 - Rugby union Warld Cup in Ingland: Japan scores a surprise 34-32 win ower twa-time champions Sooth Africae.
 2017 - Hurricane Maria sweeps across the eastren Caribbean, incluidin the isle o Dominica.
 2017 - 2017 Puebla yirdquauk: A major yirdquauk, the seicont in twa weeks, occurs in Central Mexico, on the 32nt anniversary o the 1985 yirdquauk, killin at least 220 fowk.

 Births 
 86 - Antoninus Pius, Roman Emperor (d. 161)
 866 - Leo VI the Wise, Byzantine Emperor (d. 912)
 1551 - King Henry III o Fraunce (d. 1589)
 1721 - William Robertson, Scots historian (d. 1793)
 1737 - Charles Carroll of Carrollton, American politeecian (d. 1832)
 1802 - Lajos Kossuth, Hungarian national hero (d. 1894)
 1806 - William Dyce, Scots airtist (d. 1864)
 1888 - Walter Elliot, Scots politeecian (d. 1958)
 1898 - Harold Plenderleith, Scots conservator an airchaeologist (d. 1997)
 1898 - Giuseppe Saragat, Preses o Italy (d. 1988)
 1911 - William Golding, Inglis writer (d. 1993)
 1922 - Emil Zatopek, Czech athlete (d. 2000)
 1926 - James Lipton, American actor an writer
 1926 - Masatoshi Koshiba, Japanese pheesicist
 1928 - Adam West, American actor (d. 2017)
 1933 - David McCallum, Scots actor
 1944 - Edmund Joensen, umwhile Prime meenister o the Faroe Islands
 1947 - Quinton Young, Scots fitbawer
 1948 - Jeremy Irons, Inglis actor
 1949 - Twiggy, Inglis model
 1951 - Ian Hudghton, Scots politeecian
 1952 - Jackie McNamara Sr., Scots fitbawer
 1954 - Mark Drakeford, Welsh politeecian, First Meenister o Wales
 1957 - George McCluskey, Scots fitbawer
 1963 - David Seaman, Inglis fitbawer
 1967 - Aleksandr Karelin, Roushie wrestler
 1982 - Eleni Daniilidou, Greek tennis player
 1985 - Song Joong-ki, Sooth Korean actor, model an telly host
 1986 - David McKenna, Scots fitbawer
 1987 - Danielle Panabaker, American actress
 1990 - Kieran Trippier, Inglis fitbawer
 1996 - Chris Cadden, Scots fitbawer
 1996 - Nicky Cadden, Scots fitbawer

 Daiths 
 1859 - John Pringle Nichol, Scots eddicator, phrenologist, astronomer an economist (b. 1804)
 1881 - James A. Garfield, 20t Preses o the Unitit States (b. 1831)
 1935 - Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, Roushie rocket scientist (b. 1857)
 1985 - Italo Calvino, Italian jurnalist an writer (b. 1923)
 1987 - Einar Gerhardsen, Prime meenister o Norawa (b. 1897)
 2013 - Hiroshi Yamauchi, Japanese businessman (Nintendo) (b. 1927)
 2019 - Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, Preses o Tunisie (b. 1936)

 Halidays 
 Naitional Day o Saunt Kitts an Nevis
 Armed Forces Day (Chile)
 Internaitional Talk Like a Pirate Day

Category:Days o the year