What are some important events that happened on September 19 1991?
September 19, 1991, two German tourists discovered a frozen, naturally mummified body in a glacier of the Otztal Alps. This discovery, made completely by accident, has contributed more to our understanding of Copper Age humans than any made previously. Oetzi the Iceman, as the mummy came to be known, was initially thought to be the corpse of someone lost in the recent past, as this is does occur when the Alps glaciers recede. The couple who made the discovery, Helmut and Erika Simon, went back to their hotel and told the innkeeper, who called the local authorities. Assuming they had another lost climber on their hands, they handled the mummy roughly, causing damage to his clothing and accidently drilling a hole in his hip bone with a small jackhammer. Once freed from the ice, the mummy was placed in a coffin and taken to a nearby morgue. It didn’t take long for Austrian and Italian authorities to discover that the mummy was much older than originally thought. They estimated that the Ic
