TODAY IN HISTORY, SEPTEMBER 19TH

de bene esse: literally, of well-being, morally acceptable but subject to future validation or exception



On this day in history, 19th September...

1551 - Birth of Henry II of France at the Château de Fontainebleau.
1555 - Burnings of Protestant martyrs, Robert Glover and Cornelius Bungey, at Coventry.
1560 - Baptism of Thomas Cavendish, explorer, navigator and privateer, at St Martin's Church, Trimley St Martin, Suffolk. Cavendish is known for his imitation of Sir Francis Drake's circumnavigation of the globe, which he undertook in 1586, and for being the first Englishman to explore the island of St Helena, in the mid-Atlantic.
1580 - Death of Katherine Bertie (née Willoughby and previous married name Brandon) after a long illness. She was buried in Spilsby church, Lincolnshire.

Also ~ great historical events that happened today in history, September 19th!

1692	Giles Corey is pressed to death for standing mute and refusing to answer charges of witchcraft brought against him. Giles Corey
1777	American soldiers won the first Battle of Saratoga during the Revolutionary War.
1783	The first hot-air balloon is sent aloft in Versailles, France with animal passengers including a sheep, rooster and a duck.
1788	Charles de Barentin becomes lord chancellor of France.
1841	The first railway to span a frontier is completed between Stousbourg and Basle, in Europe.
1863	In Georgia, the two-day Battle of Chickamauga begins as Union troops under George Thomas clash with Confederates under Nathan Bedford Forrest.
1881	President James A. Garfield died of wounds inflicted by an assassin more than two months earlier.
1893	New Zealand becomes the first nation to grant women the right to vote.
1900	President Loubet of France pardons Jewish army captain Alfred Dreyfus, twice court-martialed and wrongly convicted of spying for Germany. Alfred Dreyfus
1918	American troops of the Allied North Russia Expeditionary Force receive their baptism of fire near the town of Seltso against Soviet forces.
1934	Bruno Hauptmann was arrested in New York and charged with the kidnap-murder of the Lindbergh baby.
1948	Moscow announces it will withdrawal soldiers from Korea by the end of the year.
1955	Argentina’s President Juan Peron is overthrown by rebels.
1955	President Juan Peron of Argentina was ousted after a revolt by the military.
1957	The United States conducted its first underground nuclear test, in the Nevada desert.
1970	First Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Artis (originally called the Pilton Festival) held near Pliton, Somerset, England.
1970	“The Mary Tyler Moore Show” debuted on CBS.
1973	Carl XVI Gustaf invested as King of Sweden, following the death of his grandfather King Gustaf VI Adolf.
1982	The first documented emoticons,  and  , posted on Carnegie Mellon University Bulletin Board System by Scott Fahlman.
1985	An earthquake kills thousands in Mexico City.
1985	Parents Music Resource Center formed by Tipper Gore (wife of then-Senator Al Gore) and other political wives to lobby for Parental Advisory stickers on music packaging.
1985	The Mexico City area was struck by the first of two devastating earthquakes that claimed some 6,000 lives.
1991	German hikers near the Austria-Italy border discover the naturally preserved mummy of a man from about 3,300 BC; Europe’s oldest natural human mummy, he is dubbed Otzi the Iceman because his lower half was encased in ice.
1994	U.S. troops entered Haiti to enforce the return of exiled President Jean-Bertrand Aristide.