Events on September 19 45
Year 335
Flavius Dalmatius is raised to the rank of Caesar by his uncle, emperor Constantine I.
Year 634
Siege of Damascus: The Rashidun Arabs under Khalid ibn al-Walid capture Damascus from the Byzantine Empire.
Year 1356
Battle of Poitiers: An English army under the command of Edward, the Black Prince defeats a French army and captures the French king, John II.
Year 1676
Jamestown is burned to the ground by the forces of Nathaniel Bacon during Bacon's Rebellion.
Year 1777
American Revolutionary War: British forces win a tactically expensive victory over the Continental Army in the First Battle of Saratoga.
Year 1796
George Washington's Farewell Address is printed across America as an open letter to the public.
Year 1799
French Revolutionary Wars: French-Dutch victory against the Russians and British in the Battle of Bergen.
Year 1846
Two French shepherd children, Mélanie Calvat and Maximin Giraud, experience a Marian apparition on a mountaintop near La Salette, France, now known as Our Lady of La Salette.
Year 1862
American Civil War: Battle of Iuka: Union troops under General William Rosecrans defeat a Confederate force commanded by General Sterling Price.
Year 1863
American Civil War: The first day of the Battle of Chickamauga, in northwestern Georgia, the bloodiest two-day battle of the conflict, and the only significant Confederate victory in the war's Western Theater.
Year 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 was not only militarily decisive in that region of Virginia, but also played a role in securing Abraham Lincoln's election in 1864.
Year 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.
Year 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.
Year 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.
Year 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.
Year 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.
Year 1939
World War II: The Battle of Kępa Oksywska concludes, with Polish losses reaching roughly 14% of all the forces engaged.
Year 1940
World War II: Witold Pilecki is voluntarily captured and sent to Auschwitz to smuggle out information and start a resistance.
Year 1944
World War II: Battle of Hürtgen Forest between United States and Nazi Germany begins.
Year 1944
Armistice between Finland and Soviet Union is signed, marking the end of the Continuation War.
Year 1946
The Council of Europe is founded following a speech by Winston Churchill at the University of Zurich.
Year 1952
The United States bars Charlie Chaplin from re-entering the country after a trip to England.
Year 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.
Year 1971
Montagnard troops of South Vietnam revolt against the rule of Nguyễn Khánh, killing 70 ethnic Vietnamese soldiers.
Year 1976
Turkish Airlines Flight 452 hits the Taurus Mountains, outskirt of Karatepe, Osmaniye, Turkey, killing all 154 passengers and crew.
Year 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.
Year 1982
Scott Fahlman posts the first documented emoticons :-) and :-( on the Carnegie Mellon University bulletin board system.
Year 1985
A strong earthquake kills thousands and destroys about 400 buildings in Mexico City.
Year 1985
Tipper Gore and other political wives form the Parents Music Resource Center as Frank Zappa and other musicians testify at U.S. Congressional hearings on obscenity in rock music.
Year 1989
A terrorist bomb explodes UTA Flight 772 in mid-air above the Tùnùrù Desert, Niger, killing 171.
Year 2006
The Thai military stages a coup in Bangkok. The Constitution is revoked and martial law is declared.
Year 2011
Mariano Rivera of the New York Yankees surpasses Trevor Hoffman to become Major League Baseball's all time saves leader with 602.
Year 2016
In the wake of a manhunt, the suspect in a series of bombings in New York and New Jersey is apprehended after a shootout with police.
Year 2017
On the 32nd anniversary of the 1985 Mexico City earthquake, a powerful earthquake struck Mexico resulting in 370 deaths and over 6,000 injuries, as well as extensive damage.