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The Unabomber / Siege of Paris / Charlie Chaplin
On This Day (September 19): Your quick daily trip back in time.
Fatih Taskiran
September 19, 2025 • Estimated Reading Time: 5 minutes
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🌟 Editor's Note
Good morning — It's Happy — Friday, September 19. Today, we're diving into the Siege of Paris, the exile of Charlie Chaplin, the Unabomber's manifesto, and much more.
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🚀 Time Machine
-1356 | English forces led by Edward, the Black Prince, defeated the French at the Battle of Poitiers and captured King John II of France during the Hundred Years' War. |
-1870 | Prussian forces begin the siege of Paris. (Until January 28, 1871) |
-1893 | New Zealand becomes the first nation to grant women the right to vote. |
-1952 | After visiting England, Charlie Chaplin was banned from reentering the United States. |
-1955 | Argentine President Juan Domingo Perón was deposed after a decade in power in a military coup. |
-1957 | Nevada Test Site (NTS), located 65 miles north of Las Vegas, detonates a 1.7-kiloton nuclear weapon, the first-ever underground nuclear explosion. |
-1985 | Mexico City gets hit by an 8.0 magnitude earthquake, killing 10,000 and displacing 250,000. |
-1995 | The New York Times and Washington Post published The Unabomber's manifesto to help identify the individual who sent homemade bombs through the mail for 17 years, killing innocent people. |
-2000 | Michael Chabon published his third novel, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, which won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction the following year. |
-2017 | Kansas City Royals' Alex Gordon hits home run #5,694, breaking the MLB record for the most home runs in a season. |
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📸 Snapshot
During a revolt in Venezuela, priest Luis Padilla gives the last rites to a dying soldier, 1962
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🗨️ Final Words
* Before his killing on the Gemonian stairs.
🏆 FlashQuiz
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