What Happened in September 2019

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• Sep 1 German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier asks for Polish forgiveness for WWII at 80 year commemoration in Pilsudski Square, Warsaw
• Sep 1 Houston Astros starter Justin Verlander strikes out 14 as he throws his third career no-hitter in a 2-0 decision against the Toronto Blue Jays
• Sep 1 Hurricane Dorian makes landfall on Elbow Cay in the Abaco islands, northern Bahamas as a category five storm with winds of 180mph (285km/h)
• Sep 1 Saudi-led coalition air strikes on Yemen city of Dhamar kills more than 100 people according to the Red Cross

• Sep 2 Diving boat catches fire at night killing 34 asleep on board off Santa Cruz Island, California
• Sep 2 Violence and looting directed at foreigners in Johannesburg results in five deaths and dozens arrested by South African police
• Sep 3 British PM Boris Johnson loses significant vote in parliament as MPs gain control of the timetable, orders whip withdrawn from 21 rebel Tory MPs
• Sep 3 Hurricane Dorian finally moves off Grand Bahama after stalling for more than a day bringing catastrophic devastation, killing at least 50 with over 2,000 people missing

• Sep 3 Walmart says it will stop selling handguns and some ammunition and ask customers not to openly carry firearms in response to El Paso shootings
• Sep 4 British rebel alliance of MPs vote to ban a no-deal Brexit and reject PM Boris Johnson's call for a snap election
• Sep 4 Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam withdraws controversial extradition bill to China after three months of massive protests

• Sep 5 Erramatti Mangamma becomes the world's oldest living mother after giving birth to twins, aged 74 in Hyderabad, India
• Sep 5 New theory the Loss Ness monster may be a giant eel after DNA study reveals no plesiosaur or sturgeon DNA found
• Sep 5 South African women march on parliament to protest violence against women after a month when 30 were killed by their spouses
• Sep 6 Sri Lankan cricket fast bowler Lasith Malinga takes 4 wickets in 4 balls and finishes with 5 for 6 as New Zealand all out for 88 in 37-run defeat in 3rd T-20 International in Pellekele

• Sep 7 Indian Space Agency loses contact with its Chandrayaan-2 moon lander just 2 km from landing on the Moon's surface

• Sep 8 Brazil's Supreme Court rules Marvel comic depicting two men kissing can be sold after mayor of Rio de Janeiro attempted to ban it
• Sep 8 Cargo ship Golden Ray catches fire and capsizes in St Simons Sound, off coast of Georgia, trapping four crew inside

• Sep 8 Typhoon Faxai makes landfall near Tokyo, Japan, with winds of up to 210km/h (130mph)

• Sep 9 Australia experiences its earliest and most severe start to the fire season after fighting dozens of bushfires in Queensland and New South Wales

• Sep 9 Nigerian government says it will repatriate 600 people from South Africa after two people killed in wave of xenophobic violence in Johannesburg

• Sep 9 Scientist reveal evidence of humans earliest milk consumption, 6,000 years ago from the dental plaque of teeth of prehistoric farmers from Britain

• Sep 10 Bolivian wildfires have destroyed two million hectares (almost five million acres), of forest and grassland since August according to College of Biologists in La Paz
• Sep 10 Iranian woman Sahar Khodayari dies after setting herself on fire during her trial, for entering a stadium disguised as a man in Tehran
• Sep 10 Malaysia's National Disaster Management Agency delivers half a million face masks to Sarawak state, after more than 930,000 hectares (about 2.3 million acres) burnt in Indonesia cause hazardous levels of air pollution

• Sep 10 US President Donald Trump fires his third national security adviser John Bolton
• Sep 11 Water detected for first time on planet outside out solar system, on exoplanet K2-18b 110 light-years away, in findings published in "Nature Astronomy"

• Sep 14 Drone attack on Abqaiq oil plant in Saudi Arabia takes out half of country's oil production and 5% of the world's. Yemen Houthi rebels claim responsibility.
• Sep 14 Former Welsh rugby union and league player Gareth Thomas reveals he is HIV positive

• Sep 15 Hong Kong police use water cannons and tear gas attempting to disperse thousands of protesters outside the British embassy, as protests continue in the city
• Sep 15 Norman Lear (97) becomes oldest person to win an Emmy Award, in the variety special category for ABC’s “Live in Front of a Studio Audience: All in the Family"

• Sep 15 UK PM Boris Johnson compares himself to Marvel Hulk character in newspaper interview "The madder Hulk gets, the stronger Hulk gets" about UK exiting the EU
• Sep 16 50,000 workers at General Motors go on strike in the US over pay and factory closings
• Sep 16 Guantánamo Bay is the world's most expensive prison at US$13 million per prisoner according to investigation by "The New York Times"
• Sep 16 Marvel actor Mark Ruffalo rebuffs UK PM Boris Johnson, who compared himself to Hulk, "Boris Johnson forgets that the Hulk only fights for the good of the whole"
• Sep 16 Personal data on every Ecuadorean citizen discovered online on unsecured cloud server
• Sep 16 Study puts prices on value of "thoughts and prayers", average Christian willing to pay US$4 for a prayer, average atheists would pay US$3 not to receive one, published in "Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences"
• Sep 17 Indonesia raises the female marriage age to 19, in line with males, to curb child marriages

• Sep 18 Boarding school fire kills at least 27 in Monrovia, Liberia
• Sep 18 Indian government proposes a ban on e-cigarettes

• Sep 18 Saudi Arabia's Defense Ministry says Iran was to blame for drone attack on Saudi oil facilities

• Sep 18 US White House bars California and other states from setting their own emission standards
• Sep 19 Likely US drone attack kills at least 30 and injures 28 in Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan
• Sep 19 North America has lost 3 billion birds (29%) since 1970 according to analysis published in "Science"
• Sep 19 Taliban suicide truck bombing kills 22 and injures 90 at a hospital in Zabul Province, southern Afghanistan
• Sep 19 Tropical Depression Imelda hits southeast Texas and Louisiana prompting widespread evacuations
• Sep 20 Australian PM Scott Morrison welcomed for week-long visit at the White House by US President Donald Trump
• Sep 20 Batman Day - 80th anniversary of the first Batman comic
• Sep 20 Rare Egyptian political protests take place against corruption in President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi's government in Tahrir Square, Cairo and elsewhere
• Sep 20 Researchers for SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) propose that aliens may have bugged earths co-orbitals (nearby orbiting rocks) in "The Astronomical Journal"
• Sep 20 Students from 185 countries stage the world's largest-ever protest on climate change culminating in Manhattan rally led by Greta Thunberg
• Sep 20 The MOSAiC expedition, the greatest Arctic research expedition ever, sets sail from Norway, aims to stay trapped in ice for a year to study climate change
• Sep 21 "Queer Eye" star Jonathan Van Ness reveals he is living with HIV and is a sexual abuse survivor, ahead of the publication of his autobiography

• Sep 21 Skies turn red over Jambi province, Indonesia, as worst illegal forest fires since 2015 burn more than 800,000 acres, creating respiratory problems for a million people

• Sep 22 Billy Porter becomes the first openly gay actor to win an Emmy for lead actor in a drama series for "Pose"

• Sep 22 US President Donald Trump admits he spoke to Ukrainian President about Joe Biden's son, after news a US intelligence officer made an official complaint about the call
• Sep 23 178 year old British travel company Thomas Cook goes into liquidation, stranding 600,000 travellers worldwide, prompting the largest postwar repatriation effort by the UK government
• Sep 23 Climate activist Greta Thunberg scolds world leaders "How Dare You" for not addressing climate change at the UN Climate Action Summit in New York
• Sep 23 Haitian Senator Jean-Marie Ralph Féthière opens fire hitting a journalist leaving parliament in Port-au-Prince
• Sep 23 Renewed violence in West Papua region, Indonesia, leaves 27 dead in capital Wamena after protesters set fire to buildings over racism claims
• Sep 23 US police officer fired after arresting two six-year-olds at a school on charges of misdemeanour battery in Florida
• Sep 24 5.8 magnitude earthquake in northern Pakistan kills at least 10 and injures 300

• Sep 24 Protests outside Indonesian parliament and elsewhere over proposed new laws banning sex before marriage, abortion and insulting the president

• Sep 24 UK Supreme Court rules the suspension of UK parliament for 5 weeks by Boris Johnson's Conservative government was unlawful
• Sep 25 Australia's Capital Territory becomes the 1st state in Australia to legalize recreational marijuana
• Sep 25 Bulgarian economist Kristalina Georgieva named as the new head of the IMF

• Sep 25 Hazzaa Al Mansoori becomes first Emirati in space and the first Arab astronaut to travel to the International Space Station, travelling on Russian Soyuz-MS 15 spacecraft
• Sep 25 Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige reported to have been asked to develop a Star Wars film by the Walt Disney Company
• Sep 25 Oaxaca becomes the second Mexican state to decriminalize abortion, during the first 12 weeks
• Sep 26 Abortion is decriminalized in New South Wales, the last remaining Australian state to do so
• Sep 26 US Income inequality widest for over 50 years, worst in California, Connecticut, Florida, Louisiana and New York, according to new census figures
• Sep 26 WHO announces 800,000 children in DR Congo will be vaccinated in nine days in worlds's largest measles epidemic that has taken over 3,500 lives

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• Sep 1 Tom Collins, Canadian ice skating promoter ('Champions On Ice'), dies from stroke complications at 88
• Sep 3 Peter Lindbergh, German fashion photographer and director, dies at 74
• Sep 4 Peter Ellis, New Zealand convicted child abuser, dies at 61
• Sep 5 Jimmy Johnson, American session guitarist and co-founder of the Muscle Shoals Sound Studio, dies at 76

• Sep 8 Camilo Sesto, Spanish singer (Perdóname, El Amor De Mi Vida), dies of kidney failure at 72
• Sep 8 Joseph P. Kolter, American politician (US Representatives from Pennsylvania, 1983-93), dies at 93
• Sep 9 Brian Barnes, English golfer (Ryder Cup 1969-79), dies of cancer at 74
• Sep 9 Robert Frank, Swiss-American photographer (The Americans), and filmmaker (Pull My Daisy; Candy Mountain), dies at 94
• Sep 10 Stefano Delle Chiaie, Italian neo-fascist terrorist (founder of Avanguardia Nazionale), dies at 82
• Sep 11 Anne Rivers Siddons, American writer (Peachtree Road; The House Next Door), dies at 83
• Sep 11 B. J. Habibie, 3rd President of Indonesia (1998-99) who liberalized Indonesia's press and political party laws, dies of heart failure at 83
• Sep 11 Daniel Johnston, American musician and visual artist ("Hi, How Are You"), dies of a suspected heart attack at 58

• Sep 13 Eddie Money [Mahoney], American rock singer-songwriter ("Two Tickets To Paradise"; 'Take Me Home Tonight"), dies of esophageal cancer at 70
• Sep 14 John Ralston, American College Football Hall of Fame linebacker, coach and executive (Cal, Stanford, Denver Broncos), dies at 92
• Sep 15 Mike Stefanik, American auto racer (9 NASCAR Modified Championships), dies in a plane crash at 61
• Sep 15 Phyllis Newman, American Tony Award-winning actress (Subways Are for Sleeping: Coming of Age), and singer, dies of lung disease at 86
• Sep 15 Ric Ocasek [Otcasek], American rock singer-songwriter (The Cars - "Best Friend's Girl"; "Shake It Up"; "You Are The Girl"), found dead at 75
• Sep 16 Peter Stormonth Darling, Scottish investment banker (Mercury Asset Management Group - largest fund-management in the UK), dies at 86
• Sep 16 Sander Vanocur, American journalist (NBC Weekend News), dies at 91 [1]
• Sep 16 Sir Donald Gosling, British entrepreneur (Central Car Parks; National Car Parks), yachtsman, and WWII Royal Navy veteran, dies at 90
• Sep 16 Vic Vogel, Hungarian-Canadian pianist, composer and bandleader, dies at 84
• Sep 17 Corrine "Cokie" Roberts, American journalist, pioneering newscaster (ABC; NPR; PBS), and author, dies of with metastatic breast cancer at 75
• Sep 17 Harold Mabern Jr., American post-bop jazz pianist and composer, dies at 83
• Sep 18 Fernando Ricksen, Dutch soccer midfielder (12 caps; Glasgow Rangers), dies of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis at 43
• Sep 19 Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, 2nd President of Tunisia (1987-2011). dies in exile at 83
• Sep 20 Howard Cassady, American College Football Hall of Fame halfback (Heisman Trophy 1955, Ohio State; NFL C'ship 1957, Detroit Lions), dies at 85
• Sep 20 Su Beng [Lim Tiau-hui], Taiwanese revolutionary, 'Father of Taiwanese Independence' (Taiwan’s 400-Year History), dies at 100
• Sep 21 Christopher Rouse, American Grammy Award-winning composer (Trombone Concerto - Pulitzer Prize for Music, 1993), and educator (Eastman School, 1981-2002; Juilliard, 1997-2017), dies of renal cancer at 70
• Sep 21 Shuping Wang, Chinese doctor who exposed China's HIV crisis, dies at 59
• Sep 23 Robert Hunter, American lyricist and singer-songwriter (Grateful Dead), dies at 78
• Sep 24 Jimmy Nelson, American ventriloquist (Nestles - Farfel the Dog), dies at 90
• Sep 25 Paul Badura-Skoda, Austrian pianist (Mozart interpretation), dies at 91

• Sep 26 Martin Wesley-Smith, Australian composer, dies at 74
• Sep 27 Bob Etsy, American songwriter, producer, and arranger, dies of metastatic cancer at 72
• Sep 28 José José 'The Prince of Song' [José Rómulo Sosa Ortiz], Mexican singer and actor, dies at 71
• Sep 29 Larry Willis, American jazz pianist and composer, dies of an aneurysm at 76