TODAY’S HISTORY LESSON – SEPT 19
1356 English forces under The Black Prince defeat French at Battle of Poitiers and capture the French King during the Hundred Years War
1692 Giles Corey is pressed to death for standing mute and refusing to answer charges of witchcraft brought against him. He is the only person in America to have suffered this punishment.
1783 The first hot-air balloon is sent aloft in Versailles, France with animal passengers including a sheep, rooster and a duck.
1893 New Zealand becomes the first nation to grant women the right to vote.
1900 President Emile Loubet of France pardons Jewish army captain Alfred Dreyfus, twice court-martialed and wrongly convicted of spying for Germany.
1928 Mickey Mouse’s screen debut (Steamboat Willie at Colony Theater NYC)
1934 Bruno Hauptmann was arrested for the Lindbergh baby kidnap-murder.
1948 Moscow announces it will withdrawal soldiers from Korea by the end of the year.
1952 Charlie Chaplin has been refused entry to return to his home in Hollywood until he has been investigated
1955 Argentina’s President Juan Peron is overthrown by rebels.
1956 Eight African-American students were turned away from Sturgis High School in Sturgis Kentucky. When they arrived at the school, the principal read them an order from the Union County School Board refusing to them entry
1957 First underground nuclear test takes place in Nevada.
1972 Dr Ami Sachori a diplomat at the Israeli embassy in London has been killed by a parcel bomb, the parcel bomb was 1 of 8 addressed to the embassy but the the other 7 were detected before they could cause harm.
1973 Pirate Radio Free America (off Cape May NJ) goes on the air
1982 The first documented emoticons, 🙂 and :-(, posted on Carnegie Mellon University Bulletin Board System by Scott Fahlman.
1985 Parents Music Resource Center formed by Tipper Gore (wife of then-Senator Al Gore) and other political wives lobby for Parental Advisory stickers on music packaging.
1985 The Mexico City area was struck by the first of two devastating earthquakes that claimed thousands of lives. The second earthquake hit 36 hours later.
1995 The New York times and the Washington Post have published the Unabombers 35,000 word manifesto as in June he said he would kill again if they did not publish his manifesto, and the deadline is Sunday.
1995 The U.S. Senate passed a welfare overhaul bill.
2002 In Ivory Coast, around 750 rebel soldiers attempted to overthrow the government. U.S. troops landed on September 25th to help move foreigners, including Americans, to safer areas.
2005 Former Tyco CEO L. Dennis Kozlowski was sentenced in New York to up to 25 years in prison for 22 counts of grand larceny for $150 million in unauthorized bonuses and misappropriating more than $400 million of Tyco funds.
2006 Military coup in Bangkok, revokes Thailand’s constitution and establishes martial law.
2010 Oil rig Deepwater Horizon is declared sealed after a 5-month long spill in the Gulf of Mexico
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