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What happened on September 19 in American history
September 19 is the 262nd day of the year (the 263rd in leap years). Patriot Compass has published 6 stories from September 19 spanning 1676 to 1995. Among them: in 1676, Bacon puts Jamestown to the torch; Berkeley has already fled; and in 1692, Corey dies under the stones, asking only for more weight.
1676Member story · 1776 Club
Bacon puts Jamestown to the torch; Berkeley has already fled
The governor's own capital burns rather than shelter him from the men he once called traitors.
1692Member story · 1776 Club
Corey dies under the stones, asking only for more weight
The eighty-year-old farmer refused to enter a plea, and Salem's sheriff answered with peine forte et dure.
1778
Congress puts a number on the war: the first federal budget passes in Philadelphia
Meeting in the same State House where they declared independence, delegates try to price out a revolution.
1796
Washington tells the country, in print: I am not running again
Claypoole's American Daily Advertiser carries the president's own letter announcing his retirement to every reader in Philadelphia and beyond.
1944
American troops push into the Hürtgen Forest, aiming for a village called Schmidt
Dense conifers and steep ravines await, ground the Germans have spent weeks fortifying with bunkers and mines.
1995Member story · 1776 Club
The Post runs the Unabomber's 35,000 words; Reno hopes a reader knows the voice
An eight-page insert, split with the New York Times, gambles that someone will recognize the writer before he mails another bomb.
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