September 19
Today in America's Present Past
1650 | The Treaty of Hartford was signed, establishing a border between New Netherlands and New England, negotiated between Petrus Stuyvesant and Connecticut colony Governor Edward Hopkins.
1676 | Bacon Rebellion: Rebels under Nathaniel Bacon set Jamestown, Virginia, on fire.
1692 | Giles Corey was taken to an open field and pressed to death under heavy stones after refusing to recognize the authority of the Salem witch trials’ Court.
1714 | Politician Charles Humphreys was born.
1737 | Founder Charles Carroll was born.
1777 | War of Independence: The Battle of Saratoga begins.
1778 | Congress: Continental Congress passes the first budget.
1796 | POTUS: President Washington’s Farewell Address is published.
1824 | Inventor and entrepreneur William Sellers was born.
1838 | Ephraim Morris granted a patent for a railroad brake.
1863 | Civil War: The Battle of Chickamauga, Chattanooga, Georgia.
1865 | Atlanta University was founded.
1868 | Cleric William Sprague died.
1876 | The first carpet sweeper was patented by Melville Bissell from Grand Rapids, Michigan.
1881 | POTUS: Republican President Garfield was assassinated.
1907 | SCOTUS: Justice Lewis Powell was born.
1907 | Entrepreneur John Thomas was born.
1931 | Biologist and educator David Starr Jordan died.
1934 | Bruno Hauptmann was arrested for kidnapping the Lindbergh baby.
1942 | Publisher Condé Nast died.
1945 | Actress Shirley Temple wed John Agar.
1947 | Civil Rights: Baseball Pro Jackie Robinson was named “Rookie of the Year.”
1949 | Lawyer Barry Scheck was born.
1952 | TV: “Superman” debuted.
1952 | The United States barred Charlie Chaplin from re-entering the country after a trip to England.
1959 | U.S.S.R. Premier Nikita Khrushchev was denied access to Disneyland.
1959 | Musician Marshall Jefferson was born.
1960 | Chubby Checker’s “The Twist” hits #1 on Billboard Hot 100.
1964 | Country singer Trisha Yearwood was born.
1966 | Journalist Soledad O'Brien was born.
1967 | Baseball pitcher Jim Abbott was born in Flint, Michigan.
1968 | Inventor Chester F. Carlson died.
1970 | TV: “Mary Tyler Moore” debuted.
1973 | Pirate Radio Free America formed.
1974 | TV personality Jimmy Fallon was born.
1982 | Birth of the :-) Emoticon at Carnegie Mellon University.
1989 | TV: “Doogie Howser, M.D." debuted.
1990 | Film: “Goodfellas” debuted.
1995 | Unabomber’s Manifesto was published.
1995 | Entrepreneur Orville Redenbacher died.
2004 | Entrepreneur Ellis Marsalis Sr. died.
2015 | Author Jackie Collins died.