September 19

Last updated March 21, 2019

September 19 in recent years

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2014 (Friday)

2013 (Thursday)

2012 (Wednesday)

2011 (Monday)

2010 (Sunday)

2009 (Saturday)

September 19 is the 262nd day of the year(263rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar.There are 103 days remaining until the end of the year.

A leap year is a calendar year containing one additional day added to keep the calendar year synchronized with the astronomical or seasonal year. Because seasons and astronomical events do not repeat in a whole number of days, calendars that have the same number of days in each year drift over time with respect to the event that the year is supposed to track. By inserting an additional day or month into the year, the drift can be corrected. A year that is not a leap year is called a common year.

The Gregorian calendar is the most widely used civil calendar in the world. It is named after Pope Gregory XIII, who introduced it in October 1582. The calendar spaces leap years to make the average year 365.2425 days long, approximating the 365.2422-day tropical year that is determined by the Earth's revolution around the Sun. The rule for leap years is:

Every year that is exactly divisible by four is a leap year, except for years that are exactly divisible by 100, but these centurial years are leap years if they are exactly divisible by 400. For example, the years 1700, 1800, and 1900 are not leap years, but the year 2000 is.

Events

335 – Flavius Dalmatius is raised to the rank of Caesar by his uncle, Constantine the Great.
634 – Siege of Damascus: The Rashidun Arabs under Khalid ibn al-Walid capture Damascus from the Byzantine Empire.
1356 – Battle of Poitiers: An English army under the command of Edward, the Black Prince defeats a French army and captures King John II.
1676 – Jamestown is burned to the ground by the forces of Nathaniel Bacon during Bacon's Rebellion.
1777 – American Revolutionary War: British forces win a tactically expensive victory over the Continental Army in the First Battle of Saratoga.
1778 – The Continental Congress passes the first United States federal budget.
1796 – George Washington's Farewell Address is printed across America as an open letter to the public.
1799 – French Revolutionary Wars: French-Dutch victory against the Russians and British in the Battle of Bergen.
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.
1852 – Annibale de Gasparis discovers the asteroid Massalia from the north dome of the Astronomical Observatory of Capodimonte.
1862 – American Civil War: Union troops under William Rosecrans defeat a Confederate force commanded by Sterling Price.
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.
1864 – American Civil War: Union troops under Philip Sheridan defeat a Confederate force commanded by Jubal Early. With over 50,000 troops engaged, it was the largest battle fought in the Shenandoah Valley.
1868 – La Gloriosa begins in Spain.
1870 – Franco-Prussian War: The siege of Paris begins. The city will hold out for over four months before surrendering.
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.
1893 – In New Zealand, the Electoral Act of 1893 is consented to by the governor, giving all women in New Zealand the right to vote.
1916 – World War I: During the East African Campaign, colonial forces of the Belgian Congo (Force Publique) under the command of Charles Tombeur capture the town of Tabora after heavy fighting.
1939 – World War II: The Battle of Kępa Oksywska concludes, with Polish losses reaching roughly 14% of all the forces engaged.
1940 – World War II: Witold Pilecki is voluntarily captured and sent to Auschwitz to smuggle out information and start a resistance movement.
1944 – World War II: The Battle of Hürtgen Forest begins. It will become the longest individual battle that the U.S. Army has ever fought.
1944 – World War II: The Moscow Armistice between Finland and the Soviet Union is signed.
1948 – Israeli-Palestinian conflict: Folke Bernadotte, United Nations Peace Envoy, is assassinated in Jerusalem.^[1]
1946 – The Council of Europe is founded following a speech by Winston Churchill at the University of Zurich.
1952 – The United States bars Charlie Chaplin from re-entering the country after a trip to England.
1957 – Plumbbob Rainier becomes the first nuclear explosion to be entirely contained underground, producing no fallout.
1970 – Michael Eavis hosts the first Glastonbury Festival.
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.
1973 – King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden has his investiture.
1976 – Turkish Airlines Flight 452 hits the Taurus Mountains, outskirt of Karatepe, Turkey, killing all 154 passengers and crew.
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.
1978 – The Solomon Islands join the United Nations.
1982 – Scott Fahlman posts the first documented emoticons :-) and :-( on the Carnegie Mellon University bulletin board system.
1983 – Saint Kitts and Nevis gains its independence.
1985 – A strong earthquake kills thousands and destroys about 400 buildings in Mexico City.
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.
1989 – A bomb destroys UTA Flight 772 in mid-air above the Tùnùrù Desert, Niger, killing all 170 passengers and crew.
1991 – Ötzi the Iceman is discovered in the Alps on the border between Italy and Austria.
1995 –The Washington Post and The New York Times publish the Unabomber's manifesto.
1997 – The Guelb El-Kebir massacre in Algeria kills 53 people.
2006 – The Thai army stages a coup. The Constitution is revoked and martial law is declared.
2010 – The leaking oil well in the Deepwater Horizon oil spill is sealed.
2011 – Mariano Rivera of the New York Yankees surpasses Trevor Hoffman to become Major League Baseball's all time saves leader with 602.
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.
2017 – The 2017 Puebla earthquake strikes Mexico, causing 370 deaths and over 6,000 injuries, as well as extensive damage.

Year 335 (CCCXXXV) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Constantius and Albinus. The denomination 335 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

Flavius Dalmatius, also known as Dalmatius Caesar, was a Caesar (335–337) of the Roman Empire, and member of the Constantinian dynasty.

Constantine the Great, also known as Constantine I, was a Roman Emperor who ruled between 306 and 337 AD. Born in Naissus, in Dacia Ripensis, town now known as Niš, he was the son of Flavius Valerius Constantius, a Roman Army officer. His mother was Empress Helena. His father became Caesar, the deputy emperor in the west, in 293 AD. Constantine was sent east, where he rose through the ranks to become a military tribune under Emperors Diocletian and Galerius. In 305, Constantius was raised to the rank of Augustus, senior western emperor, and Constantine was recalled west to campaign under his father in Britannia (Britain). Constantine was acclaimed as emperor by the army at Eboracum after his father's death in 306 AD. He emerged victorious in a series of civil wars against Emperors Maxentius and Licinius to become sole ruler of both west and east by 324 AD.

Births

AD 86 – Antoninus Pius, Roman emperor (d. 161)
866 – Leo VI the Wise, Byzantine emperor (d. 912)
931 – Mu Zong, emperor of the Liao Dynasty (d. 969)
1377 – Albert IV, Duke of Austria (d. 1404)
1426 – Maria of Cleves, French noble (d. 1487)
1477 – Ferrante d'Este, Ferrarese nobleman and condottiero (d. 1540)
1551 – Henry III of France (d. 1589)
1560 – Thomas Cavendish, English naval explorer, led the third expedition to circumnavigate the globe (d. 1592)
1608 – Alfonso Litta, Roman Catholic cardinal and archbishop (d. 1679)
1638 – Isaac Milles, English minister (d. 1720)
1662 – Jean-Paul Bignon, French priest and man of letters (d. 1743)
1721 – William Robertson, Scottish historian (d. 1793)
1749 – Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre, French mathematician and astronomer (d. 1822)
1754 – John Ross Key, American lieutenant, lawyer, and judge (d. 1821)
1759 – William Kirby, English priest and entomologist (d. 1850)
1774 – Giuseppe Caspar Mezzofanti, Italian cardinal and linguist (d. 1849)
1778 – Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux, Scottish lawyer and politician, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain (d. 1868)
1796 – Hartley Coleridge, English poet and author (d. 1849)
1802 – Lajos Kossuth, Hungarian journalist, lawyer, and politician, Governor-President of Hungary (d. 1894)
1803 – Maria Anna of Savoy (d. 1884)
1811 – Orson Pratt, American mathematician and religious leader (d. 1881)
1824 – William Sellers, American engineer, inventor, and businessperson (d. 1824)
1828 – Fridolin Anderwert, Swiss judge and politician, President of the Swiss National Council (d. 1880)
1856 – Arthur Morgan, Australian politician, 16th Premier of Queensland (d. 1916)
1865 – Frank Eugene, American-German photographer (d. 1936)
1867 – Arthur Rackham, English illustrator (d. 1939)
1869 – Ben Turpin, American comedian and actor (d. 1940)
1871 – Frederick Ruple, Swiss-American painter (d. 1938)
1882 – Christopher Stone, English radio host (d. 1965)
1883 – Mabel Vernon, American educator and activist (d. 1975)
1887 – Lovie Austin, American pianist, composer, and bandleader (d. 1972)
1887 – Lynne Overman, American actor and singer (d. 1943)
1888 – James Waddell Alexander II, American mathematician and topologist (d. 1971)
1888 – Porter Hall, American actor (d. 1953)
1889 – Sarah Louise Delany, American physician and author (d. 1999)
1894 – Rachel Field, American author and poet (d. 1942)
1898 – Giuseppe Saragat, Italian lawyer and politician, 5th President of Italy (d. 1988)
1900 – Ricardo Cortez, American actor (d. 1977)
1905 – Leon Jaworski, American lawyer, co-founded Fulbright & Jaworski (d. 1982)
1907 – Lewis F. Powell, Jr., American lawyer and jurist (d. 1998)
1908 – Paul Bénichou, French historian, author, and critic (d. 2001)
1908 – Robert Lecourt, French lawyer, judge, and politician, Lord Chancellor of France (d. 2004)
1908 – Tatsuo Shimabuku, Japanese martial artist, founded Isshin-ryū (d. 1975)
1909 – Ferdinand Porsche, Austrian engineer and businessman (d. 1998)
1910 – Margaret Lindsay, American actress (d. 1981)
1910 – Arturo M. Tolentino, Filipino diplomat and politician (d. 2004)
1911 – William Golding, British novelist, playwright, and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1993)
1912 – Reuben David, Indian veterinarian and zoo founder (d. 1989)
1912 – Kurt Sanderling, Polish-German conductor (d. 2011)
1913 – Frances Farmer, American actress (d. 1970)
1913 – Helen Ward, American singer (d. 1998)
1915 – Germán Valdés, Mexican actor, singer, and producer (d. 1973)
1918 – Pablita Velarde, Santa Clara Pueblo (Native American) painter (d. 2006)
1919 – Roger Grenier, French journalist and author (d. 2017)
1919 – Amalia Hernández, Mexican choreographer and dancer (d. 2000)
1920 – Roger Angell, American journalist and author
1921 – Paulo Freire, Brazilian philosopher, theorist, and academic (d. 1997)
1921 – Billy Ward, American R&B singer-songwriter (d. 2002)
1922 – Damon Knight, American author and critic (d. 2002)
1922 – Willie Pep, American boxer and referee (d. 2006)
1922 – Emil Zátopek, Czech runner (d. 2000)
1924 – Vern Benson, American baseball player, coach, and manager (d. 2014)
1924 – Don Harron, Canadian actor and screenwriter (d. 2015)
1925 – Pete Murray, English radio and television host
1925 – W. Reece Smith, Jr., American lawyer and academic (d. 2013)
1926 – Masatoshi Koshiba, Japanese physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
1926 – James Lipton, American actor, producer, and screenwriter
1926 – Duke Snider, American baseball player and sportscaster (d. 2011)
1927 – Helen Carter, American singer (d. 1998)
1927 – Rosemary Harris, English actress
1927 – William Hickey, American actor (d. 1997)
1927 – Nick Massi, American singer and bass player (The Four Seasons) (d. 2000)
1928 – Adam West, American actor and businessman (d. 2017)
1929 – Marge Roukema, American educator and politician (d. 2014)
1930 – Muhal Richard Abrams, American pianist, composer, and educator (d. 2017)
1930 – Bettye Lane, American photographer and journalist (d. 2012)
1930 – Antonio Margheriti, Italian director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2002)
1931 – Brook Benton, American pop/R&B/rock & roll singer-songwriter (d. 1988)
1931 – Derek Gardner, English engineer (d. 2011)
1932 – Mike Royko, American journalist and author (d. 1997)
1932 – Stefanie Zweig, German journalist and author (d. 2014)
1933 – Gilles Archambault, Canadian journalist and author
1933 – David McCallum, Scottish actor
1934 – Brian Epstein, English talent manager (d. 1967)
1934 – Austin Mitchell, English academic and politician
1935 – Benjamin Thurman Hacker, American admiral (d. 2003)
1936 – Martin Fay, Irish fiddler (d. 2012)
1936 – Milan Marcetta, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2014)
1936 – Al Oerter, American discus thrower (d. 2007)
1937 – Abner Haynes, American football player
1939 – Bruce Bastin, English musicologist and author
1939 – Louise Botting, English journalist and author
1939 – Carl Schultz, Hungarian-Australian director, producer, and screenwriter
1939 – Moshe Weinberg, Israeli wrestling coach (d. 1972)
1940 – Bill Medley, American singer-songwriter
1940 – Zandra Rhodes, English fashion designer, founded the Fashion and Textile Museum
1940 – Sylvia Tyson, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist
1940 – Ed Westfall, Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaster
1940 – Paul Williams, American singer-songwriter and actor
1941 – Umberto Bossi, Italian politician
1941 – Cass Elliot, American singer (d. 1974)
1941 – Jim Fox, English pentathlete
1941 – Mariangela Melato, Italian actress (d. 2013)
1942 – Freda Payne, American singer and actress
1943 – André Boudrias, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
1943 – Joe Morgan, American baseball player and sportscaster
1943 – Indrek Toome, Estonian businessman and politician
1944 – Anders Björck, Swedish politician, 25th Swedish Minister of Defence
1944 – Edmund Joensen, Faroese politician, 9th Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands
1944 – İsmet Özel, Turkish poet and scholar
1945 – Kate Adie, English journalist and author
1945 – David Bromberg, American multi-instrumentalist, singer, and songwriter
1945 – Randolph Mantooth, American actor
1946 – Gerald Brisco, American wrestler
1946 – Brian Henton, English race car driver
1947 – Henry Bromell, American novelist and screenwriter (d. 2013)
1947 – Thomas H. Cook, American author and academic
1947 – Lol Creme, English musician, songwriter, and music video director
1947 – Brian Hill, American basketball player and coach
1947 – Tanith Lee, English author (d. 2015)
1948 – Mykhaylo Fomenko, Ukrainian footballer and manager
1948 – Jeremy Irons, English actor
1949 – Twiggy, English model, actress, and singer
1949 – Ringo Mendoza, Mexican wrestler
1949 – Barry Scheck, American lawyer, co-founded the Innocence Project
1950 – Joan Lunden, American television journalist, anchor, and author
1950 – Michael Proctor, English physicist, mathematician, and academic
1951 – Daniel Lanois, Canadian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
1952 – Rhys Chatham, American trumpet player, guitarist, and composer
1952 – Bernard de Dryver, Belgian race car driver
1952 – Henry Kaiser, American guitarist and composer
1952 – Nile Rodgers, American guitarist, songwriter, and producer
1952 – George Warrington, American businessman (d. 2007)
1953 – Wayne Clark, Australian cricketer
1953 – Sarana VerLin, American singer-songwriter and violinist
1954 – Adam Phillips, Welsh psychotherapist and author
1954 – Eleni Vitali, Greek singer-songwriter
1955 – Richard Burmer, American composer and engineer (d. 2006)
1955 – Rex Smith, American actor and singer
1957 – Chris Roupas, American basketball player
1958 – Lita Ford, English-American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1958 – Kevin Hooks, American actor, director, and producer
1960 – Mario Batali, American chef and author
1960 – Loïc Bigois, French aerodynamicist and engineer
1960 – Yolanda Saldívar, American murderer
1961 – Artur Ekert, Polish-English physicist and academic
1962 – Cheri Oteri, American actress, comedian, and screenwriter
1962 – Ken Rosenthal, American sportscaster
1963 – Jarvis Cocker, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
1963 – David Seaman, English footballer
1963 – Urmas Tartes, Estonian biologist and photographer
1964 – Patrick Marber, English actor, director, and screenwriter
1964 – Daniel Wincott, British political scientist
1964 – Trisha Yearwood, American singer-songwriter and actress
1965 – Andrew Leeds, Australian rugby player and coach
1965 – Tim Scott, American politician
1965 – Sunita Williams, American captain, pilot, and astronaut
1966 – Soledad O'Brien, American journalist and producer
1966 – Yoshihiro Takayama, Japanese wrestler and mixed martial artist
1967 – Jim Abbott, American baseball player
1967 – Aleksandr Karelin, Russian wrestler and politician
1968 – Jimmy Bower, American drummer and songwriter
1968 – Monica Crowley, American talk show host and author
1969 – Candy Dulfer, Dutch saxophonist
1969 – Jacek Frąckiewicz, Polish footballer
1969 – Alkinoos Ioannidis, Cypriot singer-songwriter and guitarist
1969 – Michael Symon, American chef and author
1969 – Kostya Tszyu, Russian-Australian boxer
1969 – Tapio Wilska, Finnish singer-songwriter
1970 – Dan Bylsma, American ice hockey player and coach
1970 – Gilbert Dionne, Canadian ice hockey player
1970 – Antoine Hey, German footballer and manager
1970 – Victor Williams, American actor
1971 – Sanaa Lathan, American actress
1971 – Mike Sadlo, German footballer and manager
1972 – Matt Cockbain, Australian rugby player and coach
1972 – Ryan Girdler, Australian rugby league player
1972 – N. K. Jemisin, American writer
1972 – Ashot Nadanian, Armenian chess player and coach
1973 – Nick Colgan, Irish footballer and coach
1973 – Cristiano da Matta, Brazilian race car driver
1973 – David Zepeda, Mexican actor, model and singer
1973 – Javier Duarte, Mexican politician
1974 – Jimmy Fallon, American comedian and talk show host
1975 – Marcus Dunstan, American director and screenwriter
1976 – Raja Bell, American basketball player
1976 – Jay Electronica, American rapper and producer
1976 – Jan Hlaváč, Czech ice hockey player
1976 – Alison Sweeney, American actress and television host
1976 – Sergey Tsinkevich, Belarusian footballer and referee
1977 – Poon Yiu Cheuk, Hong Kong footballer and coach
1977 – Aakash Chopra, Indian cricketer
1977 – Ryan Dusick, American musician (Maroon 5) and record producer
1977 – Tommaso Rocchi, Italian footballer
1977 – Mike Smith, American baseball player
1977 – Emil Sutovsky, Israeli chess player
1978 – Nick Johnson, American baseball player
1978 – Jorge López Montaña, Spanish footballer
1978 – Nigel Mitchell, English radio and television host
1980 – James Ellison, English motorcycle racer
1980 – Sara Quin, Canadian singer-songwriter and musician
1980 – Tegan Quin, Canadian singer-songwriter and musician
1980 – Dimitri Yachvili, French rugby player
1981 – Damiano Cunego, Italian cyclist
1981 – Rick DiPietro, American ice hockey player
1981 – Rika Fujiwara, Japanese tennis player
1982 – Shaun Barker, English footballer
1982 – Eduardo Carvalho, Portuguese footballer
1982 – Eleni Daniilidou, Greek tennis player
1982 – Jordan Parise, American ice hockey player
1983 – Joey Devine, American baseball player
1983 – Charlie Haeger, American baseball player
1984 – Eva Marie, American wrestler
1984 – Ángel Reyna, Mexican footballer
1984 – Danny Valencia, American baseball player
1984 – Kevin Zegers, Canadian actor
1985 – Gio González, American baseball player
1985 – Alun Wyn Jones, Welsh rugby player
1985 – Chase Rice, American singer-songwriter
1985 – Renee Young, Canadian journalist
1985 – Song Joong-ki, South Korean actor
1986 – Leon Best, English footballer
1986 – Ryan Succop, American football player
1986 – Peter Vack, American actor
1987 – Carlos Quintero, Colombian footballer
1987 – Danielle Panabaker, American actress
1988 – Kenny Britt, American football player
1989 – Tyreke Evans, American basketball player
1989 – George Springer, American baseball player
1990 – Saki Fukuda, Japanese actress and singer
1990 – Savvas Gentsoglou, Greek footballer
1990 – Evgeny Novikov, Russian race car driver
1990 – Kieran Trippier, English footballer
1992 – Jiro Kuroshio, Japanese wrestler
1992 – Diego Antonio Reyes, Mexican footballer
1994 – Alex Etel, English actor
1996 – Dejounte Murray, American basketball player
1996 – Ugly God, American rapper

AD 86 (LXXXVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Augustus and Petronianus. The denomination AD 86 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

Antoninus Pius, also known as Antoninus, was Roman emperor from 138 to 161. He was one of the Five Good Emperors in the Nerva–Antonine dynasty and the Aurelii.

Year 866 (DCCCLXVI) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar.

Deaths

643 – Goeric of Metz, Frankish bishop and saint
656 – Pope Martin I
690 – Theodore of Tarsus, English archbishop and saint (b. 602)
961 – Helena Lekapene, Byzantine empress
979 – Gotofredo I, archbishop of Milan^[2]
1123 – Emperor Taizu of Jin (b. 1068)
1147 – Igor II of Kiev
1339 – Emperor Go-Daigo of Japan (b. 1288)
1356 – Peter I, Duke of Bourbon (b. 1311)
1356 – Walter VI, Count of Brienne (b. 1304)
1580 – Catherine Brandon, Duchess of Suffolk, English noblewoman (b. 1519)
1589 – Jean-Antoine de Baïf, French poet (b. 1532)
1605 – Edward Lewknor, English politician (b. 1542)
1668 – William Waller, English general and politician (b. 1597)
1692 – Giles Corey, American farmer and accused wizard (b. c. 1612)
1710 – Ole Rømer, Danish astronomer and instrument maker (b. 1644)
1812 – Mayer Amschel Rothschild, German banker (b. 1744)
1843 – Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis, French mathematician, physicist, and engineer (b. 1792)
1863 – Hans Christian Heg, Norwegian-American colonel and politician (b. 1829)
1868 – William Sprague, American minister and politician (b. 1809)
1873 – Robert Mackenzie, English-Australian politician, 3rd Premier of Queensland (b. 1811)
1881 – James A. Garfield, American general, lawyer, and politician, and the 20th President of the United States (b. 1831)
1893 – Alexander Tilloch Galt, English-Canadian politician, 1st Canadian Minister of Finance (b. 1817)
1902 – Masaoka Shiki, Japanese poet, author, and critic (b. 1867)
1905 – Thomas John Barnardo, Irish-English philanthropist (b. 1845)
1906 – Maria Georgina Grey, English educator, founded the Girls' Day School Trust (b. 1816)
1924 – Alick Bannerman, Australian cricketer and coach (b. 1854)
1927 – Michael Ancher, Danish painter (b. 1849)
1935 – Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, Russian scientist and engineer (b. 1857)
1936 – Vishnu Narayan Bhatkhande, Indian singer and musicologist (b. 1860)
1942 – Condé Montrose Nast, American publisher, founded Condé Nast Publications (b. 1873)
1944 – Guy Gibson, Indian-English commander, Victoria Cross recipient (b. 1918)
1949 – George Shiels, Irish-Canadian playwright (b. 1886)
1949 – Nikos Skalkottas, Greek violinist and composer (b. 1901)
1955 – John D. Dingell, Sr., American journalist and politician (b. 1894)
1965 – Lionel Terray, French mountaineer (b. 1921)
1967 – Zinaida Serebriakova, Ukrainian-French painter (b. 1884)
1968 – Chester Carlson, American physicist and lawyer (b. 1906)
1968 – Red Foley, American singer-songwriter and actor (b. 1910)
1972 – Robert Casadesus, French pianist and composer (b. 1899)
1973 – Gram Parsons, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1946)
1975 – Pamela Brown, English actress (b. 1917)
1978 – Étienne Gilson, French historian and philosopher (b. 1884)
1985 – Italo Calvino, Italian novelist, short story writer, and journalist (b. 1923)
1987 – Einar Gerhardsen, Norwegian civil servant and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Norway (b. 1897)
1989 – Willie Steele, American long jumper (b. 1923)
1990 – Hermes Pan, American dancer and choreographer (b. 1910)
1992 – Jacques Pic, French chef (b. 1932)
1995 – Orville Redenbacher, American businessman, founded his own eponymous brand (b. 1907)
1998 – Patricia Hayes, English actress (b. 1909)
2000 – Ann Doran, American actress (b. 1911)
2001 – Rhys Jones, Welsh-Australian archaeologist and academic (b. 1941)
2002 – Robert Guéï, Ivorian politician, 3rd President of Côte d'Ivoire (b. 1941)
2003 – Slim Dusty, Australian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (b. 1927)
2004 – Eddie Adams, American photographer and journalist (b. 1933)
2004 – Skeeter Davis, American singer-songwriter (b. 1931)
2004 – Damayanti Joshi, Indian dancer and choreographer (b. 1928)
2004 – Ellis Marsalis, Sr., American businessman and activist (b. 1908)
2006 – Elizabeth Allen, American actress (b. 1929)
2006 – Danny Flores, American singer-songwriter and saxophonist (b. 1929)
2006 – Martha Holmes, American photographer and journalist (b. 1923)
2006 – Roy Schuiten, Dutch cyclist and manager (b. 1950)
2008 – Earl Palmer, American rhythm and blues drummer (b. 1924)^[3]
2009 – Milton Meltzer, American historian and author (b. 1915)
2009 – Eduard Zimmermann, German journalist (b. 1929)
2011 – Thomas Capano, American lawyer and politician (b. 1949)
2011 – Dolores Hope, American singer (b. 1909)
2011 – George Cadle Price, 1st Prime Minister of Belize (b. 1919)
2012 – Rino Ferrario, Italian footballer (b. 1926)
2012 – Cecil Gordon, American race car driver (b. 1941)
2012 – Bettye Lane, American photographer and journalist (b. 1930)
2012 – Itamar Singer, Romanian-Israeli historian and author (b. 1946)
2013 – Robert Barnard, English author and critic (b. 1936)
2013 – John Reger, American football player (b. 1931)
2013 – William Ungar, Polish-American author and philanthropist, founded the National Envelope Corporation (b. 1913)
2013 – John D. Vanderhoof, American banker and politician, 37th Governor of Colorado (b. 1922)
2013 – Hiroshi Yamauchi, Japanese businessman (b. 1927)
2014 – Audrey Long, American actress (b. 1922)
2015 – Jackie Collins, English novelist (b. 1937)
2015 – Todd Ewen, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1966)
2015 – Masajuro Shiokawa, Japanese economist and politician, 63rd Japanese Minister of Finance (b. 1921)
2018 – Denis Norden, English actor, screenwriter, and television host (b. 1922)
2018 – Arthur Mitchell, American ballet dancer & choreographer (b.1934) ^[4]
2018 – Bernard Bunny Carr, Irish TV presenter (b.1927) ^[5]

Year 643 (DCXLIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar. The denomination 643 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

Goeric of Metz, also known as Abbo I of Metz, Goericus of Metz, and Gury of Metz, was a bishop of Metz. He is venerated as a saint in the Eastern Orthodox and Roman Catholic Churches.

Year 656 (DCLVI) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar. The denomination 656 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

Holidays and observances

Yom Kippur Day of atonement (2018)
Christian feast day:
Western Christianity is the Latin Church, and Protestantism, together with the offshoots of these such as independent Catholicism and Restorationist churches taken together. The large majority of the world's 2.4 billion Christians are Western Christians. The original and still major part, the Latin Church, developed under the bishop of Rome in the former Western Roman Empire in Antiquity. Out of the Latin Church emerged a wide variety of independent Protestant denominations, including Lutheranism and Anglicanism, starting from the Protestant Reformation in the 16th century, as did Independent Catholicism in the 19th century. Thus, the term "Western Christianity" does not describe a single communion or religious denomination, but is applied to distinguish all these denominations collectively from Eastern Christianity.
The Feast of San Gennaro is an Italian-American festival. Originally a one-day religious commemoration, the festival was first celebrated in the United States in September 1926, when immigrants from Naples congregated along Mulberry Street in the Little Italy section of Manhattan in New York City to continue the tradition they had followed in Italy to celebrate Saint Januarius, the Patron Saint of Naples. His feast day is September 19 in the liturgical calendar of the Roman Catholic Church.
Our Lady of La Salette is a Marian apparition reported by two children, Maximin Giraud and Mélanie Calvat to have occurred at La Salette-Fallavaux, France, in 1846.
Armed Forces Day (Chile)
Day of the First Public Appearance of the Slovak National Council
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The calendar of saints is a traditional Christian method of organizing a liturgical year by associating each day with one or more saints and referring to the day as the feast day or feast of said saint. The word "feast" in this context does not mean "a large meal, typically a celebratory one", but instead "an annual religious celebration, a day dedicated to a particular saint".

Saint Alonso de Orozco Mena was a Spanish Roman Catholic priest from the Augustinian order. He was well known across Spain for his preaching abilities and for an austere and humble life.

Januarius, also known as Januarius I of Benevento, was Bishop of Benevento and is a martyr and saint of the Roman Catholic and the Eastern Orthodox Churches. While no contemporary sources on his life are preserved, later sources and legends claim that he died during the Great Persecution which ended with Diocletian's retirement in 305.

References

↑ "The Assassination of Count Bernadotte". www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org. Retrieved 2018-10-29.
↑ Irene Scaravelli (2002). "Gotofredo". Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani. vol. 58. Retrieved 16 December 2017.
↑ Perrone, Pierre (22 September 2008). "Earl Palmer Obituary". The Guardian .
↑ "Arthur Mitchell, pioneering black ballet dancer, dies at 84". The Associated Press. 2018-09-18. Retrieved 2018-09-22.
↑ "Bunny Carr: Gentle, funny and changed how Ireland communicates". The Irish Times/Life & Style. 2018-09-20. Retrieved 2018-09-22.

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[1] "The Assassination of Count Bernadotte". www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org. Retrieved 2018-10-29.

[gotofredo-2] Irene Scaravelli (2002). "Gotofredo". Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani. vol. 58. Retrieved 16 December 2017.

[Guardian-3] Perrone, Pierre (22 September 2008). "Earl Palmer Obituary". The Guardian .

[4] "Arthur Mitchell, pioneering black ballet dancer, dies at 84". The Associated Press. 2018-09-18. Retrieved 2018-09-22.

[5] "Bunny Carr: Gentle, funny and changed how Ireland communicates". The Irish Times/Life & Style. 2018-09-20. Retrieved 2018-09-22.

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