WHAT HAPPENED ON 19. SEPTEMBER
Want to find out what all happened on 19. September

Witold Pilecki is voluntarily captured and sent to Auschwitz in order to smuggle out information and start a resistance. (19. September 1940)

Armistice between Finland and Soviet Union is signed. (End of the Continuation War). (19. September 1944)

Battle of Hürtgen Forest between United States and Nazi Germany begins. (19. September 1944)

Lord Haw-Haw (William Joyce) is sentenced to death in London. (19. September 1945)

The Council of Europe is founded following a speech by Winston Churchill at the University of Zurich. (19. September 1946)

The United States bars Charlie Chaplin from re-entering the country after a trip to England. (19. September 1952)

First American underground nuclear bomb test (part of Operation Plumbbob). (19. September 1957)

Nikita Khrushchev is barred from visiting Disneyland due to security concerns. (19. September 1959)

The first Glastonbury Festival is held at Michael Eavis's farm in Glastonbury, United Kingdom. (19. September 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. (19. September 1970)

Montagnard troops of South Vietnam revolt against the rule of Nguyen Khanh, killing 70 ethnic Vietnamese soldiers. (19. September 1971)

A parcel bomb sent to Israeli Embassy in London kills one diplomat. (19. September 1972)

King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden has his investiture. (19. September 1973)

Turkish Airlines Flight 452 hits the Taurus Mountains, outskirt of Karatepe, Osmaniye, Turkey, killing all 154 passengers and crew. (19. September 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. (19. September 1976)

The Solomon Islands join the United Nations. (19. September 1978)

Simon & Garfunkel reunite for a free concert in New York's Central Park. (19. September 1981)

Scott Fahlman posts the first documented emoticons :-) and :-( on the Carnegie Mellon University Bulletin Board System. (19. September 1982)

Saint Kitts and Nevis gains its independence. (19. September 1983)

A strong earthquake kills thousands and destroys about 400 buildings in Mexico City. (19. September 1985)