Vero - Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/September 19

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  Federation of Saint Kitts and Nevis
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  Women's suffrage
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  Kate Sheppard
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  Statue of Our Lady of La Salette
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  Witold Pilecki
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  Damage from the Mexico City earthquake

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Blurb	Reason
Armed Forces Day in Chile;	refimprove
Respect for the Aged Day in Japan (2016);	stub
Independence Day in Saint Kitts and Nevis (1983);	lots of CN tags (7) especially in one section
634 – Arab–Byzantine wars: Rashidun Arabs under Khalid ibn al-Walid captured Damascus from the Byzantine Empire.	all dates disputed
1777 – American Revolutionary War: British troops engaged American forces at the first Battle of Saratoga in New York.	Yellow "lead has info uncited in the article" banner
1796 – George Washington's Farewell Address was published in many American newspapers, warning citizens, among others, about the dangers of political factionalism and to avoid permanent alliances with foreign powers.	many paragraphs without citations but is it like a plot summary?
1961 – American couple Barney and Betty Hill claimed to have been kidnapped by a UFO in rural New Hampshire in one of the first widely publicized claims of alien abduction.	unreferenced section
1982 – :-) and :-( were first proposed by Scott Fahlman for use as emoticons.	refimprove section
2006 – The Royal Thai Army overthrew the elected government of Thai prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra while he was in New York City for a meeting of the United Nations General Assembly.	Lots of unsourced paragraphs
Alexander Tilloch Galt |d|1893|	Too much uncited
Kate Adie |b|1945|	Orange "lead too short" banner

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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.
• 1692 – Salem witch trials: Giles Corey was crushed to death for refusing to enter a plea to charges of witchcraft, reportedly asking the sheriff for "more weight" during his execution.
• 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).
• 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.
• 1940 – World War II: Polish resistance leader Witold Pilecki allowed himself to be captured by German forces and sent to Auschwitz to gather intelligence.
• 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 – 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.
• 2011 – Mariano Rivera surpassed Trevor Hoffman to become Major League Baseball's all-time career leader in saves.

• Born/died: | Theodore of Tarsus |d|690| Leo VI the Wise |b|866| William Waller |d|1668| William Robertson |b|1721| Mabel Vernon |b|1883| Masaoka Shiki |d|1902| Paterson Clarence Hughes |b|1917| Adam West |b|1928| Guy Gibson |d|1944| Jeremy Irons |b|1948| Mark Drakeford |b|1954| Judith Kanakuze |b|1959| Ashot Nadanian |b|1972| Danny Valencia |b|1984| Wu Zhonghua |d|1992| Silvana Imam |b|1986| Rudolf Peierls |d|1995| Damayanti Joshi |d|2004|

September 19: International Talk Like a Pirate Day Template:Main page image/OTD

• 1893 – New Zealand became the first country to introduce universal suffrage following the women's suffrage movement led by Kate Sheppard (pictured).
• 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 M_w 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.
• 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.