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September 19

What happened on this day

Talk Like a Pirate Day31 years agoInvented by two friends in 1995 and spread worldwide by a 2002 Dave Barry column. Arr!
Ötzi the Iceman found35 years agoTwo hikers find a body in the melting ice of the Ötztal Alps in 1991; it turns out to be a man who died on the mountain some 5,300 years earlier.
NZ grants women the vote133 years agoNew Zealand becomes the first self-governing country to give women the right to vote in 1893.
First emoticon44 years agoScott Fahlman proposes :-) as a joke marker on a Carnegie Mellon message board in 1982, the first recorded use of the sideways smiley.
Mexico City earthquake41 years agoA magnitude 8.0 quake levels swathes of the capital in 1985, killing thousands; the volunteer rescue effort that followed reshaped Mexican civil society.

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