History for September 19 - On-This-Day.com
Adam West 1928, Mike Royko 1932, Bill Medley (Righteous Brothers) 1940
"Mama" Cass Elliott (The Mamas and Papas) 1943, Joan Lunden 1951, Jim Abbott 1967
1777 - The Battle of Saratoga was won by American soldiers during the Revolutionary War.
1876 - Melville R. Bissell patented the carpet sweeper.
1955 - Argentina President Juan Peron was ousted after a revolt by the army and navy.
1957 - The U.S. conducted its first underground nuclear test. The test took place in the Nevada desert.
1959 - Nikita Khruschev was not allowed to visit Disneyland due to security reasons. Khrushchev reacted angrily.
1970 - "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" premiered on CBS-TV.
1982 - Scott Fahlman became the first person to use :-) in an online message.
1994 - U.S. troops entered Haiti peacefully to enforce the return of exiled President Jean-Bertrand Aristide.
1995 - The U.S. Senate passed a welfare overhaul bill.
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