Browse events, births, deaths and holidays on September 19 throughout history.
Azerbaijan, officially the Republic of Azerbaijan, is a transcontinental landlocked country at the boundary of Western Asia and Eastern Europe. It is a part of the South Caucasus …
Azerbaijan launches a military offensive against the Republic of Artsakh in the Nagorno-Karabakh region; this leads to…
Elizabeth II, Queen of the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth realms, died on 8 September 2022 at Balmoral Castle in Scotland, at the age of 96. Elizabeth's reign of 70 years a…
The state funeral of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom is held at Westminster Abbey, London.
On 19 September 2022, a moment magnitude 7.6–7.7 earthquake struck between the Mexican states of Michoacán and Colima at 13:05:06 local time. The earthquake had a depth of 26.9 km…
A strong earthquake kills 2 and injures over 30 in Mexico's state of Michoacán.
The Cumbre Vieja is an active volcanic ridge on the island of La Palma in the Canary Islands, Spain. The spine of Cumbre Vieja trends in an approximate north–south direction, comp…
The Cumbre Vieja volcano, on the island of La Palma in the Canary Islands, erupts. The eruption lasts for almost three…
The 2017 Puebla earthquake, also known as 19S, struck at 13:14 CDT on 19 September 2017 with an estimated magnitude of 7.1 Mw and strong shaking for about 20 seconds. Its epicente…
The 2017 Puebla earthquake strikes Mexico, causing 370 deaths and over 6,000 injuries, as well as extensive damage.
On September 17–19, 2016, a series of three constructed bombs exploded, and several unexploded devices were discovered in the New York metropolitan area followed by a subsequent s…
In the wake of a manhunt, the suspect in a series of bombings in New York and New Jersey is apprehended after a…
Mariano Rivera is a Panamanian-American former professional baseball player who was a pitcher for 19 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the New York Yankees, from 1995 to …
Mariano Rivera of the New York Yankees surpasses Trevor Hoffman to become Major League Baseball's all-time career…
The Deepwater Horizon oil spill was an environmental disaster beginning 20 April 2010 off the coast of the United States in the Gulf of Mexico, on the BP-operated Macondo Prospect…
The leaking oil well in the Deepwater Horizon oil spill is sealed.
The Learjet 60 is a mid-size cabin, medium-range business jet aircraft manufactured by Bombardier Aerospace in Wichita, Kansas. Powered by two Pratt & Whitney Canada PW305A engine…
A Learjet 60 carrying musicians Travis Barker and Adam "DJ AM" Goldstein crashes during a rejected takeoff from…
The 2006 Thai coup d'état took place on 19 September 2006, when the Royal Thai Army staged a coup d'état against the elected caretaker government of Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawa…
The Thai army stages a coup. The Constitution is revoked and martial law is declared.
The Guelb El-Kebir massacre took place in the village of Guelb el-Kebir, near Beni Slimane, in the Algerian province of Medea, on 20 September 1997. 53 people were killed by attac…
The Guelb El-Kebir massacre in Algeria kills 53 people.
Industrial Society and Its Future, also known as the Unabomber Manifesto, is a 1995 essay by Ted Kaczynski arguing that the Industrial Revolution began a harmful process of natura…
The Washington Post and The New York Times publish the Unabomber Manifesto.
Ötzi (German: [œtsi]; c. 3275 BC – c. 3230 BC, also called The Iceman, Similaun man, or Tyrolean Iceman, is the natural mummy of a man who lived during the 4th millennium BC. Ötzi…
Ötzi the Iceman is discovered in the Alps on the border between Italy and Austria.
UTA Flight 772 was a scheduled international passenger flight of the French airline Union de Transports Aériens (UTA) operating from Brazzaville in the People's Republic of the Co…
A bomb destroys UTA Flight 772 in mid-air above the Tùnùrù Desert, Niger, killing all 170 passengers and crew.
The 1985 Mexico City earthquake struck in the early morning of 19 September at 07:17:50 (CST) with a moment magnitude of 8.0 and a maximal Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent). The …
A strong earthquake kills thousands and destroys about 400 buildings in Mexico City.
Mary Elizabeth "Tipper" Gore is an American social issues advocate who was the second lady of the United States from 1993 to 2001. She was married to Al Gore, the 45th vice presid…
Tipper Gore and other political wives form the Parents Music Resource Center as Frank Zappa, John Denver, and other…
Saint Kitts and Nevis (SKN), officially the Federation of Saint Christopher and Nevis or the Federation of Saint Kitts and Nevis, is an island country located in the Caribbean con…
Saint Kitts and Nevis gains its independence.
Scott Elliott Fahlman is an American computer scientist and Professor Emeritus at Carnegie Mellon University's Language Technologies Institute and Computer Science Department. He …
Scott Fahlman posts the first documented emoticons :-) and :-( on the Carnegie Mellon University bulletin board system.
Solomon Islands, also known simply as the Solomons, is an archipelagic country consisting of six major islands and over 1,000 smaller islands in Melanesia, Oceania, to the north-e…
The Solomon Islands join the United Nations.
Turkish Airlines Flight 452 was a scheduled domestic passenger flight operated by a Boeing 727-2F2 of Turkish Airlines that crashed near Isparta on 19 September 1976 while en rout…
Turkish Airlines Flight 452 hits the Taurus Mountains, outskirt of Karatepe, Turkey, killing all 154 passengers and…