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well, yesterday really... The site has't updated for today yet

Sept. 18, 2004

On this date in:

1759
The French formally surrendered Quebec to the British.

1793
President George Washington laid the cornerstone of the U.S. Capitol.

1810
Chile declared its independence from Spain.

1851
The first edition of The New York Times was published.

1927
The Columbia Phonograph Broadcasting System (later CBS) debuted with a network of 16 radio stations.

1940
''You Can't Go Home Again'' by Thomas Wolfe was published by Harper and Bros.

1947
The National Security Act, which unified the Army, Navy and newly formed Air Force into a national military establishment, went into effect.

1961
United Nations Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold was killed in a plane crash in northern Rhodesia.

1970
Rock musician Jimi Hendrix died in London at age 27.

1975
Newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst was captured by the FBI in San Francisco, 19 months after being kidnapped by the Symbionese Liberation Army.

1994
Tennis player Vitas Gerulaitis, 40, was found dead of accidental carbon monoxide poisoning.

1997
Coopers & Lybrand and Price Waterhouse agreed to merge to create the world's biggest accounting firm.

1997
Media mogul Ted Turner pledged $1 billion to the United Nations.

1998
The House Judiciary Committee voted to release a videotape of President Bill Clinton's Aug. 17 grand jury testimony.

1999
Sammy Sosa of the Chicago Cubs became the first player in major league baseball history to hit 60 home runs in a season twice.

2003
Hurricane Isabel plowed into North Carolina's Outer Banks with 100-mph winds and pushed its way up the Eastern Seaboard; the storm was later blamed for 40 deaths.

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Oh, and Happy Birthday Tony Soprano!

Actor James Gandolfini (''The Sopranos'') turns 43 years old today.

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Sep 19 1692

80-year-old farmer Giles Cory is pressed under stones in Salem, Massachusetts because he refused to enter a plea for the charge of witchcraft. More and more weight was stacked upon Cory, until his death two days later. According to one eyewitness account: "in pressing, his tongue being pressed out of his mouth, the sheriff with his cane forced it in again."

Sep 19 1931

Adolf Hitler's 23-year-old half niece, Geli Raubal, is found dead in her uncle's Munich apartment from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the chest. Some allege that she and Adolf had a sexual relationship, which involved Geli pissing on him. Hitler conveniently happens to be out of town at the time of the shooting.

Sep 19 1934

Bruno Hauptmann is arrested for the kidnap-murder of the Lindbergh baby. We aren't sure if he did it, but he did have $11,000 of the ransom money. They fry him two years later.

Sep 19 1959

In a Cold War setback, Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev is annoyed to learn that he will not be permitted to visit Disneyland, due to concerns for his personal safety.

Sep 19 1961

Betty and Barney Hill are picked up near Indian Head, New Hampshire and anally probed by five beings in a flying saucer. The couple later describes the craft as being "banana-like, with pointed tips and windows."

Sep 19 1995

The New York Times and the Washington Post publish the Unabomber's rambling, 35,000-word anti-technology screed, "Industrial Society And Its Future." In exchange, he promises to halt his bombing campaign.

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Sept. 19, 2004

On this date:

1777
American soldiers won the first Battle of Saratoga.

1796
President Washington's farewell address was published.

1881
The 20th president of the United States, James A. Garfield, died of wounds inflicted by an assassin.

1934
Bruno Hauptmann was arrested in New York and charged with the kidnap-murder of the Lindbergh infant.

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.

1957
The United States conducted its first underground nuclear test, in the Nevada desert.

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.

1984
Britain and China completed a draft agreement on transferring Hong Kong from British to Chinese rule by 1997.

1985
The Mexico City area was struck by the first of two devastating quakes that claimed some 6,000 lives.

1994
U.S. troops peacefully entered Haiti to enforce the return of exiled President Jean-Bertrand Aristide.

1999
German voters handed Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder's governing Social Democrats a humiliating defeat in elections in the eastern state of Saxony, giving it just 11 percent of the votes.

2003
Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein's defense minister, Sultan Hashim Ahmad, surrendered to U.S. forces.

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Hawley are you doing the "Tabloid edition"?

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probably

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Everything Hawley posts is "Tabloid edition".

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you have too many flaming points

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you have too many posts

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right back at ya

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Originally posted by Hawley Griffin
Sep 19 1692

80-year-old farmer Giles Cory is pressed under stones in Salem, Massachusetts because he refused to enter a plea for the charge of witchcraft. More and more weight was stacked upon Cory, until his death two days later. According to one eyewitness account: "in pressing, his tongue being pressed out of his mouth, the sheriff with his cane forced it in again."

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