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This Day in History Highlights 1968 Abridged List
On September 19 events include Garfield's death in 1881 and Saratoga's first victory in 1777. Other notes cover Barrett Browning eloping in 1846, Versailles fall in 1870, Steamboat Willie in 1928, Hauptmann arrest in 1934, Peron ouster in 1955, Algerian exile in 1960, Khrushchev meeting Kennedy in 1960, and a 1965 Vietnam protest resignation.
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Associated Press
James Garfield
Saratoga
Elizabeth Barrett
London
Paris
Robert Browning
Versailles
Walt Disney
Mickey Mouse
Bruno Richard Hauptmann
New York
Col
Charles Lindbergh
Juan Peron
Argentina
Algerian National Liberation Front
Cairo
Soviet Union
John F. Kennedy
Nikita Khrushchev
Moscow
Vietnam
U.S