September 19: International Talk Like a Pirate Day; Independence Day in Saint Kitts and Nevis (1983)
Witold Pilecki
- 1356 – Hundred Years' War: English forces led by Edward the Black Prince decisively won the Battle of Poitiers and captured King Jean II of France.
- 1846 – Two French shepherd children, Mélanie Calvat and Maximin Giraud, reported experiencing a Marian apparition on a mountaintop near La Salette, France, now known as Our Lady of La Salette.
- 1940 – Polish resistance member Witold Pilecki (pictured) allowed himself to be captured by German forces and sent to the Auschwitz concentration camp in order to gather intelligence.
- 1985 – An 8.1 ML earthquake struck Mexico City, killing at least 9,000 people and leaving up to 100,000 homeless.
- 1995 – The manifesto of "Unabomber" Ted Kaczynski was published in The Washington Post and The New York Times, almost three months after it was submitted.
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