Wednesday, September 19, 2012

September 19th in History



1356 - Battle of Poitiers: an English army under the command of Edward, the Black Prince defeats a French army and captures the French King, John II.


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.

1870 - Franco-Prussian War: the Siege of Paris begins, which will result on January 28, 1871 in the surrender of Paris and a decisive Prussian victory.


1944 - Armistice between Finland and Soviet Union is signed. (End of the Continuation War).

1944 - Battle of Hürtgen Forest between United States and Nazi Germany begins.


1946 - The Council of Europe is founded following a speech by Winston Churchill at the University of Zurich.

1973 - King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden has his investiture.

1983 - Saint Kitts and Nevis gains its independence.

Famous Birthdays: 

86    - Antoninus Pius, Roman Emperor


1377 - Albert IV, Duke of Austria

1551 - King Henry III of France

1803 - Maria Anna of Savoy, Empress of Austria and Queen of Hungary and Bohemia

1898 - Giuseppe Saragat, President of Italy


1927 - Rosemary Harris, actress

1944 - Edmund Joensen, 9th Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands

1964 - Trisha Yearwood, singer

1982 - Shaun Barker, footballer











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