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Events on September 19

• 1188 Lübeck receives a guarantee of its rights and territory through the Barbarossa Charter issued by Emperor Frederick I.
• 1783 In Paris, the first "crewed" hot-air balloon takes off. Its crew consists of a ram, a duck and a rooster.
• 1921 The AVUS is inaugurated in Berlin.
• 1941 The police ordinance of 1 September of the year comes into force. All Jews in the German Reich are forced to wear the Star of David. From then on, changing their place of residence also requires a permit for them.
• 1945 In the American occupation zone in Germany, the military government announces the establishment of Greater Hesse, Württemberg-Baden and Bavaria by Proclamation No. 2.
• 1950 The Adenauer Decree is intended to keep the administration of the Federal Republic free of constitutional enemies. Members of anti-constitutional organizations are dismissed from public service.
• 1982 The computer scientist Scott E. Fahlman proposes using the character sequence :-) for jokes in email correspondence. The emoticons imitating a smiley soon spread throughout the ARPANET.
• 1986 Amid strong public interest in the Federal Republic of Germany, an agreement on the first German-German city partnership with Eisenhüttenstadt is signed in Saarlouis.
• 1991 The glacier mummy Ötzi is found in the Ötztal Alps.
• 1996 The science-fiction film Independence Day by Roland Emmerich opens in German cinemas.
• 2018 During the clearance of Hambach Forest, the 27-year-old documentary filmmaker and journalist Steffen Meyn falls from a treehouse and is killed.
• 2022 The British Queen Elizabeth II is ceremoniously laid to rest with a state funeral.

Born on September 19

• 1891 Willy Birgel, German actor
• 1911 William Golding, British author and Nobel laureate (Lord of the Flies)
• 1920 Rudi von der Dovenmühle, German schlager composer
• 1921 Paulo Freire, Brazilian pedagogue
• 1930 Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenförde, German public and administrative law scholar and legal philosopher, judge of the Federal Constitutional Court
• 1940 Karin Baal, German actress
• 1941 Cass Elliot, American singer (The Mamas & the Papas)
• 1961 Reinhard Grindel, German sports official and politician
• 1961 Susanne Holst, German television presenter
• 1991 Linda Teodosiu, German singer

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „19. September“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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