66 years since India and Pakistan signed the Indus Waters Treaty
On 19 September 1960, in Karachi, Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and Pakistani President Mohammad Ayub Khan signed the Indus Waters Treaty. Th...
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69 years since Rainier, the first fully contained underground nuclear explosion
On 19 September 1957 the United States detonated the Rainier device in a tunnel cut into Rainier Mesa at the Nevada test site. The estimated yield was...
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230 years since the publication of George Washington’s Farewell Address
On 19 September 1796, George Washington’s farewell message appeared in David C. Claypoole’s Philadelphia newspaper, the American Daily Advertiser. It...
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670 years since the Battle of Poitiers, where the King of France was captured
On 19 September 1356, south of Poitiers, the Anglo-Gascon army led by Edward of Woodstock defeated the forces of King John II of France. The date rema...
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41 years since the earthquake that devastated Mexico City in 1985
On the morning of 19 September 1985, an earthquake with its epicentre near the Pacific coast, hundreds of kilometres from the capital, devastated part...
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43 years since the independence of Saint Kitts and Nevis
On 19 September 1983, the federation of Saint Kitts and Nevis became a sovereign state, ending associated status with the United Kingdom. The capital...
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56 years since the first Glastonbury Festival
On 19 September 1970, farmer Michael Eavis opened the Pilton Pop, Blues & Folk Festival at Worthy Farm in Somerset. Glastonbury grew from that event....
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80 years since Winston Churchill’s speech on European unity
On 19 September 1946, Winston Churchill spoke at the University of Zurich about a Europe leaving war with ruined cities and millions dead or displaced...
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44 years since the proposal of :-) and :-( for online communication
On 19 September 1982, at 11:44, Scott E. Fahlman proposed on a Carnegie Mellon University electronic forum the sequences :-) and :-( as markers of ton...
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35 years since the discovery of Ötzi the Iceman
On 19 September 1991, German hikers Helmut and Erika Simon saw, near the Tisenjoch pass in the Ötztal Alps, the upper part of a body protruding from t...
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133 years since New Zealand granted women the right to vote
On 19 September 1893, Governor Lord Glasgow signed the Electoral Act. New Zealand became the first self-governing country in which women could vote in...
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Sol Campbell turns 52: the England defender who played for Tottenham and Arsenal
Sulzeer Jeremiah Campbell was born in east London, in Newham, on 18 September 1974. At 52, his career remains that of a Premier League and England cen...
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