It is Tuesday 9/19/2017
THIS DAY IN HISTORY
Lead Story
- 1957 Nevada is site of first-ever underground nuclear explosion
American Revolution
- 1777 Arnold and Gates argue at First Battle of Saratoga
Automotive
- 1973 Death of country-rock pioneer leads inspires car crime
Civil War
- 1862 Union forces defeat Rebels at the Battle of Iuka
Cold War
- 1959 Khrushchev barred from visiting Disneyland
Crime
- 1995 Newspaper publishes Unabomber manifesto
Disaster
- 1985 Earthquake shakes Mexico City
General Interest
- 1881 President Garfield succumbs to shooting wounds
- 1893 New Zealand first in women’s vote
- 1955 Peron deposed in Argentina
- 1994 U.S. forces land in Haiti
- 1995 Unabomber manifesto published
Hollywood
- 1990 Goodfellas opens
Literary
- 2000 Michael Chabon’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel debuts
Music
- 1985 The U.S. Senate convenes the PMRC hearings on Capitol Hill
Old West
- 1827 Jim Bowie stabs a Louisiana banker with his famous knife
Presidential
- 1881 President James Garfield dies
Sports
- 1988 Louganis wins gold in springboard
Vietnam War
- 1966 Pressure mounts against continued U.S. involvement in Vietnam
- 1969 Nixon cancels draft calls for November and December
World War I
- 1918 British offensive begins in Palestine
World War II
- 1941 Germans bombard Leningrad
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