Today in History....September 19

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1955, Joe Gringo's next to oldest brother, #3 of 6, was born.

1777, during the Revolutionary War, American soldiers won the first Battle of Saratoga

1783, Jacques Etienne Montgolfier launched a duck, a sheep and a rooster aboard a hot-air balloon at Versailles in France

1796, President Washington's farewell address was published. In it, the nation's first chief executive wrote, "reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle."

1881, the 20th president of the United States, James A. Garfield, died 2 1/2 months after being shot by Charles Guiteau; Chester Alan Arthur became president

1934, Bruno Hauptmann was arrested in New York and charged with the kidnap-murder of Charles A. Lindbergh Jr.

1945, Nazi propagandist William Joyce, known as "Lord Haw-Haw," was sentenced to death by a British court
1955, President Juan Peron of Argentina was ousted after a revolt by the army and navy

1959, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev reacted angrily during a visit to Los Angeles upon being told that, for security reasons, he wouldn't be allowed to visit Disneyland

1960, Cuban leader Fidel Castro, in New York to visit the United Nations, angrily checked out of the Shelburne Hotel in a dispute with the management

1996, American astronaut Shannon Lucid, on board the Russian Mir space station since March, eagerly greeted the crew of Atlantis hours after their arrival and docking

2001, the Pentagon ordered dozens of advanced aircraft to the Persian Gulf region as the hour of military retaliation for deadly terrorist attacks on Sept. 11 drew closer.

2005, North Korea pledged to drop its nuclear weapons development and rejoin international arms treaties, but its leaders quickly backpedaled

ALSO: In a statement aired on a pan-Arab TV station, Al-Qaida deputy Ayman al-Zawahri said his terror network had carried out the July 7 London bombings that killed 52 people