86 years since Witold Pilecki deliberately entered a roundup for his Auschwitz mission
On 19 September 1940, Witold Pilecki allowed himself to be caught in a German roundup in Warsaw’s Żoliborz dis...
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156 years since the Siege of Paris began during the Franco-Prussian War
On 19 September 1870, Prussian armies and troops from allied German states closed the roads and railways into...
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11 years since the “Brighton Miracle”, Japan’s Rugby World Cup victory over South Africa
On 19 September 2015, at Brighton Community Stadium, Japan beat South Africa 34–32 at the Rugby World Cup. Kar...
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16 years since the Macondo well was declared “effectively dead” after the Deepwater Horizon disaster
On 19 September 2010, Admiral Thad Allen, the federal response coordinator, announced that the Macondo 252 wel...
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105 years since the birth of Paulo Freire, one of the 20th century’s most influential educators
Paulo Freire was born on 19 September 1921 in Recife, in north-eastern Brazil. He died on 2 May 1997 in São Pa...
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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...
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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 N...
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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 newsp...
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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...
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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 kilo...
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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 stat...
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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 Some...
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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 ruin...
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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...
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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, th...
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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-govern...
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