Today in History
19 September
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James A. Garfield
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| 1356 English defeat French at Battle of Poitiers | ||
| 1523 Emperor Charles I & England sign anti-French covenant |
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| 1551 Henry III, duke of Anjou/king of Poland/France (1573/4-89) was born | ||
| 1559 5 Spanish ships sinks in storm off Tampa, about 600 die | ||
| 1580 Treaty of Plessis-lez-Tours (Anjou/Dutch States-General) | ||
| 1602 Grave surrenders to earl Mauritius | ||
| 1642 Perpignan surrenders to French troops | ||
| 1656 Treaty of Labiau: Sweden gives Prussia, Brandenburg | ||
| 1657 Brandenburg & Poland sign Treaty of Wehlau | ||
| 1668 Polish king John II Kazimierz resigns/goes to France | ||
| 1676 Rebels under Nathaniel Bacon set Jamestown Va on fire | ||
| 1705 Henri-Jacques de Croes, Flemish composer/band master was born | ||
| 1755 England & Russia sign military agreement | Perpignan |
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| 1777 During the Revolutionary War, American soldiers won the first Battle of Saratoga | ||
| 1795 Tula, leader of Curacao slave opposition, imprisoned | ||
| 1796 George Washington's farewell address as president | ||
| 1799 English & Russian invasion army conquerors Receiver | ||
| 1833 Charles Darwin visits Guardia del Monte, Argentina | ||
| 1838 Ephraim Morris patents railroad brake | ||
| 1846 Elizabeth Barrett & Robert Browning elopes | ||
| 1854 Henry Meyer patents sleeping rail car | ||
| 1870 In the Franco-Prussian War, the Prussians began a siege of Paris. | ||
| 1876 The first carpet sweeper was patented by inventor Melville Bissell, of Grand Rapids, Michigan, who later formed his own company. | ||
| 1881 The 20th president of the United States, James A. Garfield, died of wounds inflicted by an assassin. |
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| 1888 The world's first beauty contest took place at Spa in Belgium. The first prize was awarded to Bertha Soucaret, an 18-year-old Creole from Guadeloupe. | ||
| 1898 Giuseppe Saragat, president of Italy (1964-71) was born | ||
| 1903 King Leopold II deny Belgian cruelty in Congo | ||
| 1906 Addressing the annual dinner of The Associated Press in New York, Mark Twain said there were ''only two forces that can carry light to all the corners of the globe ... the sun in the heavens and The Associated Press down here.'' | ||
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| 1912 Pius X encyclical Singular quadam, against interconfess unions | ||
| 1916 Belgian troops conquer Tabora, German East Africa | ||
| 1931 Japanese troops conquer Mukden, South Manchuria | ||
| 1934 Bruno Hauptmann was arrested in New York and charged with the kidnap-murder of the Lindbergh infant. | ||
| 1939 British Expeditionary Force reaches France | ||
| 1939 Lord Haw-Haw becomes radio host of Reichsrundfunk Berlin | ||
| 1940 Nazi decree forbids gentile woman to work in Jewish homes | ||
| 1941 German army conquerors Kiev | ||
| 1943 Liberator bombers sinks U-341 | ||
| 1944 Finland & Russia agree to cease fire | ||
| 1944 Luftwaffe bombs Eindhoven: 200 killed | ||
| 1945 Kim Il Sung arrives in harbor of Wonsan, Korea | ||
| 1945 Lord Haw Haw (William Joyce) sentenced to death in London | ||
| 1950 Great Three acknowledge Bond govt as only German govt | ||
| 1951 Italian civil servants strike for pay increase | ||
| 1955 President Juan Peron of Argentina was ousted after a revolt by the army and navy. | ||
| 1955 Hurricane Hilda, kills 200 in Mexico | ||
| 1957 The United States conducted its first underground nuclear test, in the Nevada desert. | ||
| 1959 Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev reacted angrily during a visit to Los Angeles upon being told that, for security reasons, he wouldn't be allowed to visit Disneyland. | ||
| 1967 Nigeria begins offensive against Biafra | ||
| 1970 ''The Mary Tyler Moore Show'' debuted on CBS | ||
| 1973 Carl XVI Gustaf, becomes King of Sweden | ||
| 1975 Indonesia sends troops to Portuguese East Timor | ||
| 1980 Titan II missile explosion (Damascus, AR) | ||
| 1981 Satellites China 10 & 11 launched into Earth orbit by B-1 rocket | ||
| 1983 The Caribbean islands of St. Kitts and Nevis became an independent state | ||
| 1985 The Mexico City area was struck by the first of two devastating quakes that claimed some 6,000 lives | ||
| 1989 French DC-10 crashes near Niger, 171 die | ||
| 1994 Thousands of U.S. troops swept ashore in Haiti to launch an intervention aimed at restoring democracy. | ||
| 1994 Swedish govt of Bildt resigns | ||
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