53 years since Billie Jean King won the Battle of the Sexes
On 20 September 1973, at the Houston Astrodome, Billie Jean King beat Bobby Riggs in three sets: 6–4, 6–3, 6–3. The match, sold as the Battle of the S...
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Sanaa Lathan turns 55: from Love & Basketball to Broadway
Sanaa McCoy Lathan was born in New York on 19 September 1971. On 19 September 2026 she turns 55. Her parents, producer Stan Lathan and actor Eleanor M...
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Trisha Yearwood turns 62: from a country number one to the Grand Ole Opry
Trisha Yearwood was born on 19 September 1964 in Monticello, Georgia. On 19 September 2026 she turns 62. Her voice marked country music from the early...
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85 years since the birth of Cass Elliot, a voice of the Mamas & the Papas
Ellen Naomi Cohen was born on 19 September 1941 in Baltimore. She became Cass Elliot. 19 September 2026 marks 85 years since the birth of a voice that...
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Jimmy Fallon turns 52: from Saturday Night Live to The Tonight Show
Jimmy Fallon was born on 19 September 1974 in Brooklyn and grew up in Saugerties, New York. Impressions took him from comedy clubs into the Saturday N...
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15 years since Mariano Rivera set the MLB record with his 602nd save
On 19 September 2011, at Yankee Stadium, Mariano Rivera finished the ninth inning against the Minnesota Twins without allowing a runner to reach base....
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53 years since the death of Gram Parsons, an advocate of “Cosmic American Music”
Gram Parsons died on 19 September 1973, aged 26, at Joshua Tree, California, from the toxic effects of drug use, according to biographical accounts. T...
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163 years since the Battle of Chickamauga began, one of the American Civil War’s fiercest clashes
On 19–20 September 1863, in the woods by Chickamauga Creek in north-western Georgia, the Army of the Cumberland met Braxton Bragg’s Confederate forces...
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31 years since publication of the document that helped identify the Unabomber attacker
On 19 September 1995, The Washington Post published, as a special supplement, a text of about 35,000 words sent by the person then known as the Unabom...
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98 years since the birth of Adam West, the actor who turned Batman into a pop phenomenon
William West Anderson was born on 19 September 1928 in Walla Walla, Washington. Under the stage name Adam West he became, in the 1960s, the face of a...
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74 years since the birth of Nile Rodgers, the guitarist connecting disco, funk and pop
Nile Rodgers was born on 19 September 1952. On 19 September 2026 the American guitarist, songwriter and producer turns 74. His career links late-1970s...
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61 years since the birth of astronaut Sunita Williams, a veteran of three space missions
Former NASA astronaut Sunita “Suni” Williams turns 61 on 19 September 2026. She was born in Euclid, Ohio, grew up in Needham, Massachusetts, graduated...
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