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1356Sep 19In a landmark battle of the Hundred Years’ War, English Prince Edward, the Black Prince, defeated the French at Poitiers. Jean de Clermont, French marshal, died in battle.
1523Sep 19Emperor Charles V and England signed an anti-French covenant.
1559Sep 195 Spanish ships sank in a storm off Tampa. About 600 died.
1676Sep 19Rebels under Nathaniel Bacon set Jamestown, Va., on fire.
1692Sep 19Giles Corey was 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.
1783Sep 19Jacques Etienne Montgolfier launched a duck, a sheep and a rooster aboard a hot-air balloon at Versailles, France.
1788Sep 19Charles de Barentin became lord chancellor of France.
1796Sep 19President Washington’s farewell address was published. In it, America’s first chief executive advised, “Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.”
1841Sep 19The first railway to span a frontier was completed between Stousbourg and Basle, in Europe.
1846Sep 19Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning eloped.
1849Sep 19The 1st commercial laundry was established, in Oakland, California.
1854Sep 19Henry Meyer patented a sleeping rail car.
1863Sep 19In Georgia, the two-day Battle of Chickamauga began as Union troops under George Thomas clashed with Confederates under Nathan Bedford Forrest.
1864Sep 19Archibald Campbell Godwin, Confederate brig-general, died in battle.
1871Sep 19President Abraham Lincoln’s body was transferred to a partially completed permanent tomb at Springfield, Il
1876Sep 19The 1st carpet sweeper was patented by Melville Bissell of Grand Rapids, Mich.
1893Sep 19New Zealand became the first nation to grant women the right to vote.
1900Sep 19President Loubet of France pardoned Jewish army captain Alfred Dreyfus, twice court-martialed and wrongly convicted of spying for Germany.
1904Sep 19Gen. Nogi’s assault on Port Arthur: 16,000 Japanese casualties.
1907Sep 19US Supreme Court Justice Lewis F. Powell Jr. was born in Suffolk, Va.
1908Sep 19Gustav Mahler’s 7th Symphony, premiered in Prague.
1910Sep 19George Cohan’s “Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford,” premiered in NYC.
1911Sep 19William Golding (d.1993), novelist best known for Lord of the Flies, was born. He won the Nobel Prize in 1983.
1915Sep 19Elizabeth Stern, Canadian pathologist, was born. She first published a case report linking a specific virus to a specific cancer.
1916Sep 19The 1st landing on Schiphol, Farman F-22 of Soesterberg.
1918Sep 19Liza Nina Mary Frederica Lehmann, composer, died at 56.
1931Sep 19Japan invaded Manchuria and established a puppet state called Manchukuo, which lasted until the end of WWII. Nobosuke Kishi, later PM of Japan, oversaw the development of Japanese-occupied Manchuria in the 1930s.
1934Sep 19Brian Epstein, rock manager (Beatles), was born.
1939Sep 19The British Expeditionary Force reached France.
1941Sep 191st meeting of partisans Tito and Draza Mihailovic in Yugoslavia.
1943Sep 19Liberator bombers sank U-341.
1945Sep 19Nazi propagandist William Joyce, known as “Lord Haw-Haw,” was sentenced to death by a British court.
1950Sep 19The UN rejected membership of China’s People Republic.
1951Sep 19Italian civil servants struck for a pay increase.
1955Sep 19President Juan Peron of Argentina was ousted after a revolt by the army and navy.
1957Sep 19The United States conducted its first underground nuclear test, code-named “Rainier,” in the Nevada desert.
1967Sep 19Nigeria began an offensive against Biafra.
1972Sep 19A Black September letter bomb killed Ami Shehori (Shachori), Israeli attache at the embassy in London.
1982Sep 19In the 34th Emmy Awards the winners included Hill Street Blues, Barney Miller, Alan Alda & Carol Kane.
1984Sep 19Britain and China completed a draft agreement on transferring Hong Kong from British to Chinese rule by 1997.
1986Sep 19Federal health officials announced that the experimental drug AZT would be made available to thousands of AIDS patients.
1988Sep 19Israel succeeded in launching a test satellite, the Ofeq (“Horizon”) 1, over the Mediterranean Sea.
1991Sep 19Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir accused the United States of tilting toward the Arabs in its eagerness to organize a Mideast peace conference.
1992Sep 19Top finance officials of the seven largest industrial countries pledged in Washington, D.C., to cooperate closely to resolve the worst currency crisis in two decades.
1993Sep 19The NBC sitcom “Seinfeld” and the offbeat CBS drama “Picket Fences” each won three trophies at the 45th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards.
1995Sep 19The New York Times and The Washington Post published the Unabomber’s manifesto.
1996Sep 19American astronaut Shannon Lucid, on board the Russian Mir space station since March, eagerly greeted the crew of Atlantis hours after their arrival and docking.
1997Sep 19It was reported that the US trade deficit rose to $10.3 billion in July, a 25% jump over June.
2000Sep 19In Australia the Romanian women’s gymnastics team won the gold medal at the Sydney Olympics; Russia won the silver, China took the bronze, and the U.S. placed fourth.
2001Sep 19The parent companies of American Airlines and United Airlines both announced plans to lay off 20,000 employees.
2002Sep 19President Bush asked Congress for authority to “use all means,” including military force if necessary, to disarm and overthrow Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein if he did not quickly meet United Nations demands to abandon all weapons of mass destruction.
2003Sep 19In Chechnya rebel attacks and a mine blast have left 7 Russian servicemen dead in the past 24 hours in the Kremlin’s military campaign against Chechen separatists.
2004Sep 19“The Sopranos” won best drama series at the Emmy Awards while “Arrested Development” won best comedy series.
2005Sep 19Rescue teams searched for two Argentine men whose snowmobile plunged into a deep ice crevasse in Antarctica over the weekend, but hopes of pulling them out alive were fading.
2006Sep 19A Georgia judge struck down the state’s photo ID requirement to vote.
2007Sep 19In Cambodia Nuon Chea, the top surviving leader of the notorious Khmer Rouge, whose radical policies were responsible for the deaths of an estimated 1.7 million people, was charged with crimes against humanity and war crimes.
2008Sep 19Ken Cockrel Jr. was sworn in as the city’s new mayor, vaulted into office by a sex scandal that destroyed the reign of Kwame Kilpatrick and threw Detroit’s government into chaos for months.
2009Sep 19Russia said it will scrap a plan to deploy missiles near Poland since Washington has dumped a planned missile shield in Eastern Europe. It also harshly criticized Iran’s president for new comments denying the Holocaust.
2010Sep 19In Chicago Sami Samir Hassoun, a Lebanese immigrant and candy-store worker, shortly after midnight placed a backpack he believed contained a bomb near the Chicago Bulls baseball stadium. It was part of an FBI sting. In 2013 Hassoun (25) was sentenced to 23 years in prison.
2011Sep 19President Barack Obama laid out a $3 trillion plan to cut US deficits by raising taxes on the rich, but Republicans mocked it as a political stunt, signaling the proposal has little chance of becoming law.
2012Sep 19The US Congress presented Aung San Suu Kyi of Myanmar the Congressional Medal of Honor, which she was awarded in 2008 while still under house arrest for her peaceful struggle against military rule.
2013Sep 19Egyptian security forces backed by helicopters raided Kerdasa, a town on the outskirts of Cairo known to be an Islamist stronghold, exchanging fire with suspected militants who killed a senior police officer. 32 suspects were arrested in house-to-house raids.
2014Sep 19South Africa’s police said the nation has recorded about 17,000 murders in the year ending in March, reflecting a 5 percent increase over the previous year.
   

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