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9/19/2014
« on: September 19, 2014, 12:00:02 AM »

What's up cigar enthusiasts?!  Join in this cigar talk with the rest of us and learn something along the way.  Be warned, you will catch hell if you post something everyone doesn't agree with.  And heaven forbid if you should make a grammatical error, you'll be berated with GFYs!  So don't have thin skin and welcome aboard!

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Re: 9/19/2014
« Reply #1 on: September 19, 2014, 12:06:20 AM »

Good morning everyone!
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Re: 9/19/2014
« Reply #2 on: September 19, 2014, 01:25:58 AM »

Good morning guys
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Re: 9/19/2014
« Reply #3 on: September 19, 2014, 02:09:57 AM »

Today is Friday, September 19, the 262nd day of 2014. There are 103 days left in the year.
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Re: 9/19/2014
« Reply #4 on: September 19, 2014, 02:10:53 AM »

Today's Highlight in History:

On September 19, 1777, the first Battle of Saratoga was fought during the Revolutionary War; although British forces succeeded in driving out the American troops, the Americans prevailed in a second battle the following month.
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Re: 9/19/2014
« Reply #5 on: September 19, 2014, 02:11:19 AM »

On this date:
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Re: 9/19/2014
« Reply #6 on: September 19, 2014, 02:11:37 AM »

In 1796, President George Washington's farewell address was published.
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Re: 9/19/2014
« Reply #7 on: September 19, 2014, 02:12:07 AM »

In 1881, the 20th president of the United States, James A. Garfield, died 2½ months after being shot by Charles Guiteau; Chester Alan Arthur became president.
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Re: 9/19/2014
« Reply #8 on: September 19, 2014, 02:13:22 AM »

In 1934, Bruno Hauptmann was arrested in New York and charged with the kidnap-murder of Charles A. Lindbergh Jr.
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Re: 9/19/2014
« Reply #9 on: September 19, 2014, 02:13:48 AM »

In 1945, Nazi radio propagandist William Joyce, known as "Lord Haw-Haw," was convicted of treason and sentenced to death by a British court.
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Re: 9/19/2014
« Reply #10 on: September 19, 2014, 02:15:24 AM »

1957, the United States conducted its first contained underground nuclear test, code-named "Rainier," in the Nevada desert.
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Re: 9/19/2014
« Reply #11 on: September 19, 2014, 02:16:20 AM »

1959, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev, visiting Los Angeles, reacted angrily upon being told that, for security reasons, he wouldn't get to visit Disneyland.
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Re: 9/19/2014
« Reply #12 on: September 19, 2014, 02:17:07 AM »

In 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; Castro ended up staying at the Hotel Theresa in Harlem.
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Re: 9/19/2014
« Reply #13 on: September 19, 2014, 02:17:36 AM »

In 1964, the family TV show "Flipper," about a dolphin adopted by a Florida family, premiered on NBC
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Re: 9/19/2014
« Reply #14 on: September 19, 2014, 02:17:58 AM »

In 1970, the situation comedy "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" debuted on CBS-TV.
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