What Happened on this Date in History
September 19
1881 – President Garfield dies after assassination attempt 80 days earlier
1893 – New Zealand first country to grant women’s suffrage
1941 – Germans bombard Leningrad
1955 – Juan Peron deposed as leader of Argentina by military coup
1957 – First-ever underground nuclear explosion takes place in Nevada
1959 – Khrushchev barred from Disneyland
1969 – Nixon ends draft
1995 – Unabomber manifest published