Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/September 19

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 * 1356 – Hundred Years' War: English forces led by Edward the Black Prince decisively won the Battle of Poitiers and captured John II of France.
 * 1777 – American Revolutionary War: British troops engaged American forces at the first Battle of Saratoga in New York.
 * 1863 – American Civil War: The Battle of Chickamauga began in northwestern Georgia and would end in the most significant Union defeat in the Western Theater.
 * 1893 – New Zealand became the first country to introduce universal suffrage following the women's suffrage movement led by Kate Sheppard.
 * 1944 – World War II: Finland, the Soviet Union, and the United Kingdom signed the Moscow Armistice to end the Continuation War.
 * 1950 – Korean War: A North Korean attack was repelled by Allied forces at the Battle of Nam River.
 * 1970 – Greek student Kostas Georgakis set himself on fire in Genoa, Italy, as a protest against the military junta of Georgios Papadopoulos.
 * 1985 – An earthquake registering Mw 8.0 struck Mexico City, killing at least 9,000 people and leaving up to 100,000 homeless.
 * 1991 – Ötzi, a well-preserved natural mummy of a man dating from about 3300 BC, was discovered by two German tourists in the Alps.
 * 2011 – Mariano Rivera surpassed Trevor Hoffman to become Major League Baseball's all-time career leader in saves.
 * 2023 – Chinese authorities cancelled a run of performances of The Mongol Khan, the first Mongolian play to be performed internationally, forty minutes before its planned premiere in Hohhot.


 * Born/died: | Theodore of Tarsus |d|690| Leo VI the Wise |b|866| Alfonso Litta |b|1608| William Robertson |b|1721|William Kirby |b|1759| Mabel Vernon |b|1883| Alexander Tilloch Galt |d|1893| Masaoka Shiki |d|1902| Guy Gibson |d|1944| Kate Adie |b|1945| Ashot Nadanian |b|1972 Danny Valencia |b|1984| Silvana Imam |b|1986| Damayanti Joshi |d|2004 |Jackie Collins |d|2015

September 19: Ganesh Chaturthi (Hinduism, 2023); International Talk Like a Pirate Day


 * 1692 – Salem witch trials: Giles Corey was crushed to death for refusing to enter a plea to charges of witchcraft, reportedly asking officials for "more weight".
 * 1846 – Near La Salette-Fallavaux in southeastern France, shepherd children Mélanie Calvat and Maximin Giraud reported a Marian apparition, now known as Our Lady of La Salette (statue pictured).
 * 1940 – World War II: Polish resistance leader Witold Pilecki allowed himself to be captured by German forces and sent to Auschwitz to gather intelligence.
 * 1970 – The first Glastonbury Festival was held at Michael Eavis's farm in Glastonbury, England.
 * 1995 – Industrial Society and Its Future, the manifesto of American domestic terrorist Ted Kaczynski, was published in The Washington Post almost three months after it was submitted.