This Week in History

SEPTEMBER 19

Kristin O’Grady-Franchock was born.

Joan Ward George was born.

Linda Gallagher-Lomanto was born.

Ed Murray was born.

Timmy Rayder was born.

1881 – President James Garfield died of a gunshot wound inflicted by a disappointed office-

seeker the previous July 2.

1957 – The United States conducted its first underground nuclear test in the Nevada desert.

September 20

Melissa Taylor was born.

Jen Walls was born.

1973 – Billie Jean King beat Bobby Riggs in a battle of the sexes tennis match.

1998 – Baltimore Oriole shortstop Cal Ripken, Jr., sat out a game, ending his consecutive

game playing streak. Ripken played 2,632 consecutive games over 16 seasons.

September 21

Virginia Dobles was born.

Lynn Iudica was born.

Alanna Hogan was born.

Megan Rochelle was born.

1938 – A hurricane struck New York and New England with extensive damage and more than 600 deaths.

1996 – John F. Kennedy, Jr. married Carolyn Bessette.

September 22

Craig Carey was born.

Anna Murphy was born.

Eileen Bartholomeo was born.

1862 – President Abraham Lincoln issued the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, proposing to free all slaves of rebel states as of Jan. 1, 1863.

September 23

Al Bags was born.

Kathy Moriarty-Courtney was born.

John McCabe was born.

1806 – After a three-year journey to the Pacific Northwest, the Lewis and Clark expedition returned to St. Louis.

September 24

Barbara Serena was born.

Jay Youngberg was born.

Karen Mulvihill was born.

1957 – The Brooklyn Dodgers played their last game at Ebbets Field.

1996 – The United States and the world’s other major nuclear powers signed a treaty to end all testing and development of nuclear weapons.

September 25

Marilyn Raphael was born.

1981 – Sandra Day O’Connor was sworn in as the first female justice on the Supreme Court.