On this day... September 19:

On this day...

September 19:  International Talk Like a Pirate Day 1676 – During Bacon's Rebellion, Virginia settlers led by Nathaniel Bacon burned the colonial capital ofJamestown to the ground. 1846 – Two French shepherd children, Mélanie Calvatand Maximin Giraud, reported experiencing a Marian apparition on a mountaintop near La Salette, France, now known as Our Lady of La Salette (statue picture). 1893 – New Zealand became the first country to introduceuniversal suffrage, following the women's suffrage movement led byKate Sheppard. 1944 – Finland and the Soviet Union signed the Moscow Armisticeto end the Continuation War. 1970 – Greek student Kostas Georgakis set himself on fire inGenoa, Italy, as a protest against the Greek military junta ofGeorgios Papadopoulos.