September 19, 2004 (Sunday)
- The former General Secretary of the Communist Party of China, Jiang Zemin, resigns from his last official post, the Chairman of the Central Military Commission, and is replaced by Hu Jintao. (CNN) (IOL) (The Australian)
- Two Palestinian women, who the Israeli government alleges intended to carry out suicide bomb attacks, voluntarily surrender to Israeli authorities. (INN) (Melbourne Herald Sun)
- Iran rejects a unanimous United Nations International Atomic Energy Agency resolution calling on Iran to freeze its uranium enrichment activities. Iran threatens to prevent UN inspections of its nuclear program. (Reuters) Archived 2005-04-08 at the Wayback Machine
- The George E. Trelease Memorial Baseball Park at Western New England College in Springfield, Massachusetts, is dedicated. (Western New England College Athletics)
- The Parliament of Turkey adjourns without passing an important reform of its penal code—intended to prepare the country for membership in the European Union—due to a dispute over a controversial proposal (opposed by the EU) to criminalize adultery. (ABC News) (Bloomberg)