September 19

The emperor Antoninus Pius was born near Lanuvium; his settled reign spanned the years when Ptolemy, Galen and the Greek orators of the Second Sophistic were at work.

The French Egyptologist Alexandre Moret, a student of ancient Egyptian kingship and religion, was born in Aix-les-Bains.

Pope Benedict XVI beatified Cardinal John Henry Newman, the Oxford scholar and convert theologian, at Cofton Park in Birmingham, England.

Hikers in the Otztal Alps came upon a body emerging from a melting glacier, later shown to be a naturally preserved man from about 3300 BCE whose remains opened a window onto Neolithic life.