Today in History

September 19

1881 - US President James A. Garfield dies of wounds inflicted by an assassin.

1941 - Germans take Kiev in the Soviet Union.

1944 - Soviet Union and Finland sign a peace treaty in Moscow, ending a three-year war.

1955 - Argentina’s President Juan Peron is ousted after revolts by army and navy.

1984 - A bomb kills 14 at US Embassy in Beirut, Lebanon.

1989 - A French airliner blows

up over Niger, killing 171 people.

2006 - Heavily-armed troops backed by tanks took control of the Thai prime minister’s office in Bangkok.

2011 - At least 26 Pakistani Shiite pilgrims traveling to Iran are killed by gunmen in Mastung, Quetta.

2016 - Vladimir Putin’s party wins parliamentary majority in Russia.