World Record On September19

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634 – Arab–Byzantine wars: Rashidun Arabs under Khalid ibn al-Walid captured Damascus from the Byzantine Empire.

1777 – American Revolutionary War: British troops engaged American forces at the first Battle of Saratoga in New York.

1846 – Two French shepherd children, Mélanie Calvat and Maximin Giraud, reported experiencing a Marian apparition on a mountaintop near La Salette, France, now known as Our Lady of La Salette (statue pictured).

1970 – Greek student Kostas Georgakis set himself on fire in Genoa, Italy, as a protest against the Greek military junta of Georgios Papadopoulos.

1991 – Ötzi, a well-preserved natural mummy of a man from about 3300 BC, was discovered by two German tourists.

UCJ, UNILORIN.