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Events

• 1916 (110 years ago) World War I: During the East African Campaign, colonial forces of the Belgian Congo (Force Publique) under the command of Charles Tombeur capture the town of Tabora after heavy fighting.
• 1918 (108 years ago) The battle of Megiddo begins in which British forces attack the right flank of the Ottoman army during World War I.
• 1939 (87 years ago) World War II: The Battle of Kępa Oksywska concludes, with Polish losses reaching roughly 14% of all the forces engaged.
• 1946 (80 years ago) The Council of Europe is founded following a speech by Winston Churchill at the University of Zurich.
• 1978 (48 years ago) The Solomon Islands join the United Nations.
• 2022 (4 years ago) A strong earthquake kills 2 and injures over 30 in Mexico's state of Michoacán.
• 2022 (4 years ago) The state funeral of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom is held at Westminster Abbey, London.
• 2023 (3 years ago) Azerbaijan launches a military offensive against the Republic of Artsakh in the Nagorno-Karabakh region; this leads to the flight of the Armenian population.

Births

• 86 (1940 years ago) Antoninus Pius, Roman emperor (died 161)
• 1551 (475 years ago) Henry III of France,
• 1802 (224 years ago) Lajos Kossuth, Hungarian journalist, lawyer, and politician, Governor-President of Hungary (died 1894)
• 1921 (105 years ago) Paulo Freire, Brazilian philosopher, theorist, and academic (died 1997)
• 1922 (104 years ago) Emil Zátopek, Czech runner (died 2000)
• 1926 (100 years ago) Masatoshi Koshiba, Japanese physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2020)
• 1948 (78 years ago) Jeremy Irons, English actor, winner of multiple accolades (Oscar, Tony, Emmy, Golden Globe)
• 1985 (41 years ago) Song Joong-ki, South Korean actor

Deaths

• 1710 (316 years ago) Ole Rømer, Danish astronomer and instrument maker (born 1644)
• 1843 (183 years ago) Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis, French mathematician, physicist, and engineer (born 1792)
• 1881 (145 years ago) James A. Garfield, American general, lawyer, and politician, and the 20th President of the United States (born 1831)
• 1935 (91 years ago) Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, Russian scientist and engineer (born 1857)
• 1985 (41 years ago) Italo Calvino, Italian novelist, short story writer, and journalist (born 1923)
• 2019 (7 years ago) Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, Tunisian soldier, politician, 2nd President of Tunisia (born 1936)
• 2020 (6 years ago) John Turner, Canadian politician, 17th Prime Minister of Canada (born 1929)
• 2026 Sandro Mazzola, Italian footballer (born 1942)

All 348 events, births and deaths of September 19