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