Today in History, English
Today in History, English


IDTimeCategoryEvent
107136September 19Event1881 – U.S. President James A. Garfield dies of wounds suffered in a July 2 shooting. Vice President Chester A. Arthur becomes President upon Garfield's death.
107137September 19Event1893 – Women's suffrage: In New Zealand, the Electoral Act of 1893 is consented to by the governor giving all women in New Zealand the right to vote.
107138September 19Event1916 – During the East African Campaign of World War I, colonial armed forces of the Belgian Congo (Force Publique) under the command of General Charles Tombeur captured the town of Tabora after heavy fighting.
107139September 19Event1934 – Bruno Hauptmann is arrested for the kidnapping and murder of Charles Lindbergh, Jr..
107140September 19Event1939 – World War II: The Battle of Kępa Oksywska concludes, with Polish losses reaching roughly 14% of all the forces engaged.
107141September 19Event1940 – Witold Pilecki is voluntarily captured and sent to Auschwitz in order to smuggle out information and start a resistance.
107142September 19Event1944 – Armistice between Finland and Soviet Union is signed. (End of the Continuation War).
107143September 19Event1944 – Battle of Hürtgen Forest between United States and Nazi Germany begins.
107144September 19Event1945 – Lord Haw-Haw (William Joyce) is sentenced to death in London.
107145September 19Event1946 – The Council of Europe is founded following a speech by Winston Churchill at the University of Zurich.
107146September 19Event1952 – The United States bars Charlie Chaplin from re-entering the country after a trip to England.
107147September 19Event1957 – First American underground nuclear bomb test (part of Operation Plumbbob).
107148September 19Event1959 – Nikita Khrushchev is barred from visiting Disneyland due to security concerns.
107149September 19Event1970 – The first Glastonbury Festival is held at Michael Eavis's farm in Glastonbury, United Kingdom.
107150September 19Event1970 – Kostas Georgakis, a Greek student of geology, sets himself ablaze in Matteotti Square in Genoa, Italy, as a protest against the dictatorial regime of Georgios Papadopoulos.
107151September 19Event1970 – The Mary Tyler Moore Show, an American sitcom, premiered on CBS
107152September 19Event1971 – Montagnard troops of South Vietnam revolt against the rule of Nguyễn Khánh, killing 70 ethnic Vietnamese soldiers.
107153September 19Event1972 – A parcel bomb sent to Israeli Embassy in London kills one diplomat.
107154September 19Event1973 – King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden has his investiture.
107155September 19Event1976 – Turkish Airlines Flight 452 hits the Taurus Mountains, outskirt of Karatepe, Osmaniye, Turkey, killing all 154 passengers and crew.
107156September 19Event1976 – Two Imperial Iranian Air Force F-4 Phantom II jets fly out to investigate an unidentified flying object when both independently lose instrumentation and communications as they approach, only to have them restored upon withdrawal.
107157September 19Event1978 – The Solomon Islands join the United Nations.
107158September 19Event1981 – Simon & Garfunkel reunite for a free concert in New York's Central Park.
107159September 19Event1982 – Scott Fahlman posts the first documented emoticons :-) and :-( on the Carnegie Mellon University bulletin board system.
107160September 19Event1983 – Saint Kitts and Nevis gains its independence.
107131September 19Event1864 – American Civil War: Third Battle of Winchester: Union troops under General Philip Sheridan defeat a Confederate force commanded by General Jubal Early. With over 50,000 troops engaged it was the largest battle fought in the Shenandoah Valley and wa
107132September 19Event1868 – Spanish revolution: La Gloriosa.
107133September 19Event1870 – Franco-Prussian War: The Siege of Paris begins, which will result on January 28, 1871 in the surrender of Paris and a decisive Prussian victory.
107134September 19Event1870 – Having invaded the Papal States a week earlier, the Italian Army lays siege to Rome, entering the city the next day, after which the Pope described himself as a Prisoner in the Vatican.
107135September 19Event1879 – The Blackpool Illuminations are switched on for the first time.

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