WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 2007

Today is Wednesday, September 19, the 261st day of 2007. There are 104 days left in the year.

1356 _ English defeat French at the Battle of Poitiers

1873 _ Black Friday: Jay Cooke & Co fails, causing a securities panic

1928 _ Mickey Mouse's screen debut (Steamboat Willie at Colony Theater in New York City)

1940 _ Nazi decree forbids gentile women to work in Jewish homes

1957 _ The first underground nuclear explosion (Las Vegas, Nevada)

1959 _ Nikita Krushchev is denied access to Disneyland

1973 _ Pirate Radio Free America (off Cape May, N.J.) goes on the air

1981 _ Satellites China 10 & 11 launched into Earth orbit by B-1 rocket

1981 _ Simon & Garfunkel reunite for a NYC Central Park concert

1985 _ 9,500 die in Mexico's earthquake (6.9)

1986 _ Fed health officials announce AZT will be available to AIDS patients

1988 _ Israel launches the first satellite, for secret military reconnaissance