Today's Historical Memo - September 19th.

September 19th dates documented in history.

GENERAL INTEREST: Five Spanish ships sinks in storm off Tampa, about 600 die,1559.

PRESIDENTIAL: George Washington's farewell address as president, 1796

CIVIL WAR: Union forces defeat Rebels at the Battle of Iuka, 1862

SPORT: Thomas Ray becomes youngest to break a world track & field record pole-vaulting 11' 2½" at age 17 years and 198 days, 1879

PRESIDENTIAL: President James Garfield dies, 1881

PAGEANT: World's 1st beauty contest (Spa Belgium), 1888

VOTING RIGHT: New Zealand is first country to grant all women the right to vote, 1893

WORLD WAR I: British offensive begins in Palestine, 1918

WORLD WAR II: Germans bombard Leningrad. German army conquerors Kiev, 1941

GENERAL INTEREST: UN reject membership of China's People Republic, 1950

DISASTER: Hurricane Hilda kills 200 in Mexico, 1955

GENERAL INTEREST: Nevada is site of first-ever underground nuclear explosion, 1957

COLD WAR: Khrushchev barred from visiting Disneyland, 1959

VIETNAM WAR: Pressure mounts against continued U.S. involvement in Vietnam, 1966

GENERAL INTEREST: Nixon cancels draft calls for November and December, 1969

GENERAL INTEREST: 12,000 die & 40,000 injured in Mexico's earthquake (8.1), 1985

DISASTER: French DC-10 crashes near Niger, 171 die, 1989

HOLLYWOOD: Goodfellas opens, 1990

MEDIA: The Washington Post and The New York Times publish the Unabomber's manifesto, 1995

LITERARY: Michael Chabon's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel debuts, 2000

AWARDS: 56th Emmy Awards: The Sopranos, Arrested , 2004

POLITICS: Scotland votes No to independence from United Kingdom, 2014

BIRTHDAY:Blog visitor Stella Asemota was born.

Do you know any other September 19th Dates that are important but not documented?.