Today in History - History - September 19th

2011Ashton Kutcher debuts on "Two and a Half Men", replacing Charlie Sheen

1974The KGB begin a large-scale operation to discredit Russian novelist Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and cut his communications with Soviet dissidents

1955Cubs slugger Ernie Banks hits record 5th grand slam of season

1976Donna Caponi Young wins LPGA Portland Golf Classic

1959Nikita Khrushchev is denied access to Disneyland

1947Jackie Robinson is named 1947 "Rookie of Year"

199345th Emmy Awards: seinfeld, Picket Fences & Ted Danson win

1968Denny McLain's 31st win & Mickey Mantle's 535th HR

1796George Washington's farewell address as president

1833Charles Darwin visits Guardia del Monte, Argentina

1749Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre, French mathematician and astronomer (The History of Astronomy), (d. 1822)

86Antoninus Pius, Lanuvium, 15th Roman emperor (138-161)

1948Jeremy Irons, Isle of Wight, England, actor (Reversal of Fortune, The Lion KIng)

1911William Golding, Cornwall England, novelist (Lord of the Flies-Nobel 1983), (d. 1993)

2009"500 Days of Summer" actress Zooey Deschanel (29) weds "Death Cab for Cutie" singer Ben Gibbard (33) in Seattle, Washington

1945Actress Shirley Temple (17) weds actor John Agar (24) in an Episcopal ceremony at Wilshire Methodist Church

1999Chinese martial artist Jet Li (36) weds actress Nina Li Chi (37) in Los Angeles

1964Author Peter Benchley (24) weds Winifred B. Wesson

1881James A Garfield, 20th President (1881), dies of gunshot wound at 49

1995Orville Redenbacher, American businessman (Orville Redenbacher's Gourmet Popcorn) dies aged 88