TODAY IN HISTORY

TODAY IS TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

On this day in history:

1356 - The Battle of Poitiers was fought between England and France. Edward “the Black Prince” captured France’s King John.

1891 - The Merchant of Venice was performed for the first time at Manchester.

1893 - In New Zealand, the Electoral Act 1893 was consented to giving all women in New Zealand the right to vote.

1919 - The Great Ocean Road project in Victoria is officially launched.

1942 - The first advertisement to announce Little Golden Books appeared in Publishers Weekly.

1955 - Argentina President Juan Peron was ousted after a revolt by the army and navy.

1959 - Nikita Khruschev was not allowed to visit Disneyland due to security reasons. Khrushchev reacted angrily.

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

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

1988 - Israel successfully launched the Horizon-I test satellite.

1990 - Iraq began confiscating foreign assets of countries that were imposing sanctions against the Iraqi government.

1992 - The UN Security Council recommended suspending Yugoslavia because of its role in the Bosnian civil war.

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

1996 - The government of Guatemala and leftist rebels signed a peace treaty to end their long war.

2002 - In Ivory Coast, around 750 rebel soldiers attempted to overthrow the government.

2006 – The Thai military stages a coup in Bangkok. The Constitution is revoked and martial law is declared.

2010 – The leaking oil well in the Deepwater Horizon oil spill is sealed.

2016 – In the wake of a manhunt, the suspect in a series of bombings in New York and New Jersey is apprehended after a shootout with police.