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On 19 September 1870, Prussian armies and troops from allied German states closed the roads and railways into Paris. The siege lasted until the capitu...
On 19 September 2015, at Brighton Community Stadium, Japan beat South Africa 34–32 at the Rugby World Cup. Karne Hesketh’s try after the 80th minute c...
On 19 September 2010, Admiral Thad Allen, the federal response coordinator, announced that the Macondo 252 well was “effectively dead”. A relief well...
Paulo Freire was born on 19 September 1921 in Recife, in north-eastern Brazil. He died on 2 May 1997 in São Paulo. Between those dates he became one o...
On 19 September 1960, in Karachi, Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and Pakistani President Mohammad Ayub Khan signed the Indus Waters Treaty. Th...
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...
On 19 September 1796, George Washington’s farewell message appeared in David C. Claypoole’s Philadelphia newspaper, the American Daily Advertiser. It...
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...
On the morning of 19 September 1985, an earthquake with its epicentre near the Pacific coast, hundreds of kilometres from the capital, devastated part...
On 19 September 1983, the federation of Saint Kitts and Nevis became a sovereign state, ending associated status with the United Kingdom. The capital...
On 19 September 1970, farmer Michael Eavis opened the Pilton Pop, Blues & Folk Festival at Worthy Farm in Somerset. Glastonbury grew from that event....
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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