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Thursday, 18 September 2014
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 of
Jamestown
to the ground.
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
(statue picture)
.
1893
– New Zealand
became the first country
to introduce
universal suffrage
, following the
women's suffrage
movement led by
Kate Sheppard
.
1944
– Finland and the Soviet Union signed the
Moscow Armistice
to end the
Continuation War
.
1970
– Greek student
Kostas Georgakis
set himself on fire
in
Genoa
, Italy, as a protest against the
Greek military junta
of
Georgios Papadopoulos
.
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