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;# Notable events in history (Sept-Oct)
;# Today in History dates provided by Robert Heckendorn at
;# Hewlett-Packard in Fort Collins, Colorado.
;# Any corrections or additions may be sent to robert@fc.hp.com
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;# Additional dates provided from ProLine's today file
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;# Converted to calentool format by Larry Virden (lwv27%cas.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.Edu)
;# and further edited and merged by Bill Randle (billr@saab.cna.tek.com).
;# All dates in this file are New Style unless otherwise noted.
;# Some duplicates may exist where I haven't been able to verify which
;# one is correct.
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00000901 A coup in Libya brought Moammar Gadhafi to power. (1969)%s19690901
00000901 Aaron Burr aquitted of charges of plotting to set up an empire. (1807)%s18070901
00000901 California Constitutional Convention held in Monterey. (1849)%s18490901
00000901 Germany invades Poland, beginning World War II (1939)%s19390901
00000901 Joshua A. Norton proclaims himself Emperor Norton I (1859)%s18590901
00000901 Miss Emma Nutt becomes the first women telephone operator in America. Until now, all operators were men. (1878)%s18780901
00000901 Montrose defeats the Covenanters at Tippermuir in Scotland (1644)%s16440901
00000901 Peace treaty signed with the Zulus by Britain (1879)%s18790901
00000902 Alabama Gov. George Wallace prevented the integration of Tuskegee High School by surrounding it with state troopers (1963)%s19630902
00000902 Great Britain adopts the Gregorian Calendar (1752)%s17520902
00000902 Japan signs unconditional surrender aboard US battleship "Missouri" (1945)%s19450902
00000902 The great London fire destroyed around two thirds of London (1666)%s16660902
00000902 US Treasury Department established by Congress. (1789)%s17890902
00000902 V.P. Theodore Roosevelt offered the advice, "Speak softly and carry a big stick," in a speech at the Minnesota State Fair (1901)%s19010902
00000903 Allied forces invade Italy in World War II (1943)%s19430903
00000903 England and the United States sign the treaty of Paris declaring US independence and ending the Revolutionary War (1783)%s17830903
00000903 England declares war on Germany. (1939)%s19390903
00000903 Motorists in Sweden began driving on the right rather than the left (1967)%s19670903
00000903 Pope John Paul I was officially installed as the 264th supreme pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church (1978)%s19780903
00000903 Richard the Lionhearted was crowned king of England (1189)%s11890903
00000904 Apache leader Geronomino surrenders (1896)%s18960904
00000904 Ford Motor Co. began selling its ill-fated Edsel. (1957)%s19570904
00000904 George Eastman patents 1st rollfilm camera & registers "Kodak". (1888)%s18880904
00000904 Los Angeles founded in the Valley of Smokes (Indian Name) (1781)%s17810904
00000904 Nine blacks denied entry into Central High School in Arkansas. (1957)%s19570904
00000905 11 Israeli athletes and 5 Arab guerrillas who had taken them hostage were killed in a shoot-out at the summer Olympics in Munich (1972)%s19720905
00000905 1st gasoline pump is delivered to a gasoline dealer. (1885)%s18850905
00000905 Battle of Virginia Capes, where the French Fleet defeats the British rescue fleet, trapping Cornwallis at Yorktown (1781)%s17810905
00000905 First Continental Congress convened (Philadelphia, 1774)%s17740905
00000905 Iva Toguri D'Aquino, Japanese-American suspected of being Tokyo Rose, was arrested in Yokohama (1945)%s19450905
00000905 Kennedy orders resumption of underground nuclear tests (1961)%s19610905
00000905 President Gerald Ford escaped an attempt on his life by Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme in Sacramento, California (1975)%s19750905
00000905 Russia's Peter the Great imposed a tax on beards. (1698)%s16980905
00000905 Sam Houston was elected president of the Republic of Texas (1836)%s18360905
00000905 The first battle of the Marne began in World War I (1914)%s19140905
00000905 The nation's first Labor day parade was held in New York (1882)%s18820905
00000906 Word is received that Perry has reached the North Pole and died (1909)%s19090906
00000907 Desmond Tutu was installed as the first black to lead the Anglican Church in South Africa (1986)%s19860907
00000907 Fire storms surround the Old Faithful Lodge complex in Yellowstone National Park as massive fires continue to burn out of control in Western forest lands. The Lodge survives. (1988)%s19880907
00000907 German begins its blitz on London and will continue bombing every night for two more months (1940)%s19400907
00000907 The Boxer Rebellion in China ends (1901)%s19010907
00000908 1st US Air Mail service begins. (1920)%s19200908
00000908 1st permanent settlement in US founded at St Augustine, Florida (1565)%s15650908
00000908 Feast of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary, instituted (695)%s06950908
00000908 Gerald R. Ford pardons former President Richard M. Nixon (1974)%s19740908
00000908 Harvard College is established with the help of 800 pounds from Rev. John Harvard (1636)%s16360908
00000908 Lincoln makes a speech about when you can fool people. (1858)%s18580908
00000908 a small English fleet takes New Amsterdam and names it New York (1664)%s16640908
00000909 27 year old Abe Lincoln received license to practice law (1836)%s18360909
00000909 Alfred Dreyfus went on trial a second time for disclosing French secrets (1899)%s18990909
00000909 California becomes the 31st state (1850)%s18500909
00000909 Continental Congress decrees that United Colonies be called United States (1776)%s17760909
00000909 Ed Greer, a Hughes Aircraft electronics engineer, goes to lunch and never returns. A party is held in his honor every year celebrating his escape from the corporate world. (1981)%s19810909
00000910 Elias Howe receives patent for his sewing machine. (1846)%s18460910
00000910 Ellis Island opens as a park honoring the immigrants (1990)%s19900910
00000910 John Smith elected president of the Jamestown colony council. (1608)%s16080910
00000910 Lincoln Highway opens as 1st paved coast-to-coast highway. (1913)%s19130910
00000910 Mormons, embittered by religious persecution, attack and kill Gentile wagon train in what was to become known as the Mountain Meadows Massacre. (1857)%s18570910
00000910 Swanson sells it's first "TV Dinner". (1953)%s19530910
00000911 1st commercially successful electric bus line opens, in Hollywood. (1910)%s19100911
00000911 Alexander Hamilton was appointed the 1st U.S. sec. of the Treasury. (1789)%s17890911
00000911 Aloha Tower dedicated (in Honolulu). (1926)%s19260911
00000911 Americans defeated at Brandywine, Pennsylvania by General Howe (1777)%s17770911
00000911 Chinese and Indian forces engage in heavy fighting on the border of Sikkim in the Himalayas (1967)%s19670911
00000911 Hungary, under pressure from refugees, suspends treaty with East Germany and lets thousands of "vacationing" East Germans across the border into West Germany (1989)%s19890911
00000911 Sebastopol is taken by Allies after capitulation of the Russian forces. (1855)%s18550911
00000911 U.S. captures British flotilla on Lake Champlain (1814)%s18140911
00000912 Canyonlands National Park is established (1964)%s19640912
00000912 Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia is deposed by military coup (1974)%s19740912
00000912 English explorer Henry Hudson sailed into the river that now bears his name (1609)%s16090912
00000912 German paratroopers rescue Mussolini from captivity in Rome (1943)%s19430912
00000912 Germany annexes Sudentenland (1938)%s19380912
00000912 Joseph Cicippio, acting comptroller at the American University in Beirut, is kidnapped in Lebanon (1986)%s19860912
00000912 Steven Biko, black student leader, dies whilst in the custody of the South African security services (1977)%s19770912
00000913 136.4 degrees F (el Azizia, Libya, 1922)%s19220913
00000913 British defeat the French at Abraham near Quebec City (1788)%s17880913
00000913 Building of Hadrian's Wall began (122)%s01220913
00000913 Chiang Kai-Shek becomes president of China (1943)%s19430913
00000913 In the Caribbean hurricane Gilbert grows to a category 5 hurricane with 175 mph sustained winds and the lowest recorded barometric pressure ever recorded in the Western Hemisphere, 26.22 inches of mercury. (1988)%s19880913
00000913 New York City becomes the capitol of the United States. (1788)%s17880913
00000913 first lobotomy performed (1848)%s18480913
00000914 1st lighthouse in US is lit (in Boston Harbor). (1716)%s17160914
00000914 Benjamin Franklin sent to France as American minister (1778)%s17780914
00000914 Francis Scott Key writes words to "Star Spangled Banner" (1814)%s18140914
00000914 General Winfield Scott and his U.S. forces take control of Mexico City (1847)%s18470914
00000914 Salem, Massachusetts, founded (1629)%s16290914
00000914 Selective Service Act establishes first peacetime draft (1940)%s19400914
00000914 While in New York, Henry Bliss becomes 1st automobile fatality (1899)%s18990914
00000914 the typewriter ribbon is patented. (1886)%s18860914
00000915 1789, The U.S. Government adopts the "Great Seal of the United States", taking it from Congress and placing it in the custody of the Secretary of State 
00000915 Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatamala, Honduras & Nicaragua all gain their independence (1821)%s18210915
00000915 Four children were killed when a bomb went off during services at a black Baptist church in Alabama (1963)%s19630915
00000915 New York is taken by General Howe (1776)%s17760915
00000915 Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev begins 13 day tour of U.S. (1959)%s19590915
00000915 The Nuremberg Laws deprived German Jews of their citizenship and made the swastika the official symbol of Nazi Germany (1935)%s19350915
00000915 The U.S. Foreign Affairs Department becomes the U.S. State Department (1789)%s17890915
00000915 The bank rate in Germany exceeds 90% (1923)%s19230915
00000915 tanks were used in battle for the first time, at Flers in the Somme Offensive, by the British Machine Gun Corps (1916)%s19160915
00000916 After two false starts, 149 Pilgrims set forth from England aboard the Mayflower (1620)%s16200916
00000916 Great Seal of the United States is used for 1st time. (1782)%s17820916
00000916 Patent is issued for the typesetting machine. (1857)%s18570916
00000916 The Massachusetts village of Shawmut changed its name to Boston. (1630)%s16300916
00000916 the American Legion is incorporated. (1919)%s19190916
00000917 Battle of Antietam (1862)%s18620917
00000917 Jay Cooke & Co. fails, causing a securities panic (1873)%s18730917
00000917 The American Kennel club was founded (1884)%s18840917
00000917 US Constitution is adopted. (1787)%s17870917
00000917 Vanessa Williams became the first black to be crowned Miss America. (1983)%s19830917
00000918 "The New York Times" goes on sale, at 2 cents a copy. (1851)%s18510918
00000918 Chile gains it's independence. (1810)%s18100918
00000918 Newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst was captured in San Francisco by the FBI, nineteen months after she was kidnapped (1975)%s19750918
00000918 Nikita Khrushchev says, "Those who wait for that (Russia rejecting communism) must wait until a shrimp learns to whistle." (1955)%s19550918
00000918 Pres. George Washington laid the cornerstone of the U.S. Capitol. (1793)%s17930918
00000918 The French formally surrendered Quebec to the British. (1759)%s17590918
00000919 1st commercial laundry established, in Oakland, California. (1849)%s18490919
00000919 A 7.8 magnitude earthquake off the west coast of Mexico does extensive damage to Mexico City (1985)%s19850919
00000919 Bruno Hauptmann was arrested in New York and charged with the kidnap-murder of the Lindbergh infant (1934)%s19340919
00000919 President Lincoln's body was removed to go to its permanent resting place in Springfield, Illinois (1871)%s18710919
00000920 Black student, James Meredith, was blocked from enrolling at the University of Mississippi; he was later admitted (1962)%s19620920
00000920 Equal Rights Party nominates Belva Lockwood for President (1884)%s18840920
00000920 First meeting of American Association for the Advancement of Science (1848)%s18480920
00000920 First meeting of National Research Council (1916)%s19160920
00000920 Magellan leaves Spain on first circumnavigation (1519)%s15190920
00000920 Patent granted on the electric range. (1859)%s18590920
00000920 US frigate "Constitution" (Old Ironsides) launched in Boston. (1797)%s17970920
00000921 1st auto manufacturer opens -- Duryea Motor Wagon Company. (1895)%s18950921
00000921 Johann Ostermeyer patents his invention, the flashbulb. (1930)%s19300921
00000921 Stonehenge was auctioned off to C. H. E. Chubb, of Salisbury for 6,600 pounds. (1915)%s19150921
00000921 US Helicopters attack Iranian ship laying mines in the Persian Gulf (1987)%s19870921
00000921 the nuclear submarine "Nautilus" is commissioned. (1954)%s19540921
00000922 Allied Forces form independent nation West Germany (1953)%s19530922
00000922 First Soviet atomic bomb explodes (1949)%s19490922
00000922 General Idi Amin gives Uganda's 8000 Asians 48 hours to leave the country (1972)%s19720922
00000922 Joseph Smith, founder of the The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the Mormons), receives the plates from which the Book of Mormon was translated (1827)%s18270922
00000922 Patent is granted for the Ice Cream Cone. (1903)%s19030922
00000922 President Lincoln issues the Emancipation Proclamation (1863)%s18630922
00000922 Special prosecutor Leon Jeworski subpoenas President Nixon (1974)%s19740922
00000922 The Mustang Ranch, a famous Nevada brothel, is shutdown by the IRS for past due taxes. A motion to have the government run the lucrative business fails for some reason. :-) (1990)%s19900922
00000922 Two men and seven women were executed for witchcraft in Salem, Massachusetts. One was pressed to death for standing mute while the others were hung. (1692)%s16920922
00000923 Harvard College held its first commencement. (1642)%s16420923
00000923 John Andre reveals Benedict Arnold's plot to betray West Point. (1780)%s17800923
00000923 Naval engagement between 'Bonhomme Richard' and 'HMS Serepis'. (1779)%s17790923
00000923 Phillippine President Ferdinand Marcos declares martial law (1972)%s19720923
00000923 Truman announces that the Soviets have set off their first atomic bomb within the last few weeks (1949)%s19490923
00000923 V.P. Nixon denies campaign fund fraud with his "Checkers" speech. (1952)%s19520923
00000924 1st atomic powered aircraft carrier, the "Enterprise", is launched. (1960)%s19600924
00000924 1st round-the-world trip by a woman on a bicycle (took 15 months). (1895)%s18950924
00000924 1st round-the-world trip by yacht (Cornelius Vanderbilt). (1853)%s18530924
00000924 Barbara Harris, is elected the first woman bishop in the Episcopal Church (1988)%s19880924
00000924 Black Friday: Thousands of business are ruined after Jay Gould and James Fisk try to corner the Gold market (1869)%s18690924
00000924 Congress creates the Post Office. (1789)%s17890924
00000924 Congress passes the First Judiciary Act which provides for an Attorney General and a Supreme Court (1789)%s17890924
00000924 Patricia Hearst is sentenced to seven years in prison (she will serve only 22 months before being released under presidential order from President Carter) (1976)%s19760924
00000924 President Eisenhower suffers a heart attack after during a vacation in Denver (1955)%s19550924
00000924 The USS Enterprise, the first nuclear powered aircraft carrier, is launched in Newport News, Va. (1960)%s19600924
00000924 The trail of the Chicago Eight (later seven) begins (1969)%s19690924
00000924 Wilford Woodruff, president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints issues a declaration affirming that the Church no longer teaches nor performs plural marriage. (1890)%s18900924
00000925 Columbus sailed on his second voyage to America. (1493)%s14930925
00000925 King Harold defeats Tostig at Stamford Bridge (1066)%s10660925
00000925 Pres. Harrison signed a measure establishing Sequoia National Park. (1890)%s18900925
00000925 Sandra Day O'Connor becomes first woman on U.S. Supreme Court (1981)%s19810925
00000925 The first session of the first Congress of the United States met in New York and voted 10 amendments to the constitution (the Bill of Rights) (1789)%s17890925
00000925 Transatlantic telephone service begins (1956)%s19560925
00000925 Twelfth amendment (Presidential elections) is passed (1804)%s18040925
00000925 Vasco Nunez de Balboa is the 1st European to sail the Pacific Ocean. (1513)%s15130925
00000926 Sir Francis Drake arrives with ships full of plunder from Spain (1580)%s15800926
00000926 Thomas Jefferson was appointed America's first secretary of State. (1789)%s17890926
00000926 United Nations troops in the Korean War recaptured the South Korean capitol of Seoul from the North Koreans (1950)%s19500926
00000926 two dragons are said to have fought at "Sharpfight Meadow" at Little Conrad in Suffolk (1449)%s14490926
00000927 Democratic National Committee voted to admit women. (1919)%s19190927
00000927 First passenger conveyed by locomotive (England, 1825)%s18250927
00000927 King Constantine I of Greece abdicates (1922)%s19220927
00000927 Royal Albert Docks lighted by twenty-six electric lamps (1880)%s18800927
00000927 The Royal navy sinks the Bismarck off the Brest Coast (1941)%s19410927
00000927 The ocean liner Queen Elizabeth was launched at Glasgow. (1938)%s19380927
00000927 William Howe occupies Philadelphia (1777)%s17770927
00000928 "God save the King" sung for the first time following the defeat of English forces by Jacobites (1745)%s17450928
00000928 American forces backed by a French fleet begin their siege of Yorktown Heights, Virgina (1781)%s17810928
00000928 Betty Ford, First Lady, undergoes a mastectomy at Bethesda Naval Hospital (1974)%s19740928
00000928 Germany and the Soviet Union agree on how to partition Poland (1939)%s19390928
00000928 Greek soldier runs over 26 miles to report Persian defeat at Marathon, then dies (490 BC)
00000928 Portuguese navigator Juan Rodriguez Cabrilo sails into the bay on which San diego is now located (1542)%s15420928
00000928 The U.N. Security Council unanimously adopts a resolution the Iraq and Iran should cease hostilities (1980)%s19800928
00000928 William the Conqueror invades England (1066)%s10660928
00000928 flogging is abolished as a form of punishment in the U.S. Navy (1850)%s18500928
00000929 Cyanide laced Tylenol capsules killed seven in Chicago. (1982)%s19820929
00000929 David Belasco, impressario, opens his first theater (1902)%s19020929
00000929 Parliament of one day, King Richard II is deposed (1399)%s13990929
00000929 The London Police, remodeled by Sir Robert Peel, begin duty (1829)%s18290929
00000929 The U.S. War Department establishes a regular army of several hundred soldiers (1789)%s17890929
00000929 U.S. and Itay sign armistice treaty on a ship off the coast of Malta (1943)%s19430929
00000930 Franklin D. Roosevelt dedicates Boulder Dam (1935)%s19350930
00000930 Mikhail Gorbachev retires President Andrei Gromyko from the Politburo and fires other old guard leaders in a Kremlin shakeup (1989)%s19890930
00000930 New York City fluoridates its water to the protest of many (1965)%s19650930
00000930 The Berlin Airlift ends (1949)%s19490930
00000930 The Siege of Yorktown, Virginia, begins (1781)%s17810930
00000930 The first U. S. hydroelectric power plant was opened in Appleton Wisconson. A single dynamo of 180 lights each of ten candle power was erected. (1882)%s18820930
00000930 The first execution in the English American Colonies takes place as John Billington is hanged (1630)%s16300930
00000930 The first tooth is extracted under anesthesia in Charleston, Mass (1846)%s18460930
00000930 The verdicts of the Nuremberg trials are announced, finding 22 top Nazi leaders guilty of war crimes (1946)%s19460930
00001001 1st postcards are issued in Vienna. (1869)%s18691001
00001001 General Franco is appointed Spain's chief of state by Spanish rebels (1936)%s19361001
00001001 Henry Ford introduces the Model T car. (1908)%s19081001
00001001 Henry Huntington buys the Los Angeles Railway. (1898)%s18981001
00001001 Nigeria gains it's independence. (1960)%s19601001
00001001 Spain sells Louisiana to France in a secret treaty (1800)%s18001001
00001001 Special delivery mail service began in the United States. (1885)%s18851001
00001001 The Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, signed by the U. S., Britain and U. S. S. R. comes into effect (1963)%s19631001
00001001 Troops dispatched to arrest Brigham Young for lewdly cohabitating with 16 young women (1871)%s18711001
00001001 Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida opens. (1971)%s19711001
00001001 Yosemite becomes a National Park. (1896)%s18961001
00001002 Darwin returns to England aboard the HMS Beagle. (1836)%s18361002
00001002 Ferdinand Foch, believed to be the leader responsible for Allies winning World War I (1851)%s18511002
00001002 German army began Operation Typhoon (all-out drive against Moscow). (1941)%s19411002
00001002 Guinea gains it's independence. (1958)%s19581002
00001002 Hans Lippershey offers the Dutch government a new invention -- the telescope (1608)%s16081002
00001002 Rome and its provinces are formally made part of Italy and Rome is declared the capital (1870)%s18701002
00001002 This is the first day for the new united Germany (reunification day) (1990)%s19901002
00001002 Thurgood Marshall sworn as first black Supreme Court Justice (1967)%s19671002
00001003 A national flag day was held for the Belgian Relief Fund in England (this was probably the world's first flag day) (1914)%s19141003
00001003 Federal Income Tax is signed into law (at 1%). (1913)%s19131003
00001003 Lincoln designates the last Thursday in November as Thanksgiving Day (1863)%s18631003
00001003 Serbo-Croat-Slovene Kingdom becomes the country of Yugoslavia (1929)%s19291003
00001003 The first British atomic bomb test (1952)%s19521003
00001003 Washington proclaims the 1st national Thanksgiving Day on Nov 26 (1789)%s17891003
00001004 Crimean war begins (1853)%s18531004
00001004 George Washington is defeated at Germantown, Pennsylvania (1777)%s17771004
00001004 The bill establishing Dinosaur National Monument is signed (1915)%s19151004
00001005 Former PTL evangelist Jim Bakker was convicted of using his television show to defraud followers of $3.7 million (1989)%s19891005
00001005 The ABM early warning system, Thule Greenland, detects the moonrise as a large Russian missile contingent headed for the US (1960)%s19601005
00001005 The Revolutionary Calendar is adopted in France. This day becomes 14 Vendemiaire (grape harvest) Year II. Months were named for seasonal characteristics and years from the beginning of the revolution. (1793)%s17931005
00001005 part of a fuel core of an experimental breeder reactor near Detroit melts down (1966)%s19661005
00001006 Antioch College is the first public school to admit both men and women (1853)%s18531006
00001006 Israel is attacked by the forces of Egypt and Syria, 4th Israeli war begins (1973)%s19731006
00001006 LSD is made an illegal drug (1966)%s19661006
00001006 Pope John Paul II became the 1st pontiff to visit the White House. (1979)%s19791006
00001006 the Mormons abolish polygamy by general conference declaration that the president of the church's declaration of Sep 24 is "authoritative and binding" (1890)%s18901006
00001007 Foundation of German Democratic Republic (1949)%s19491007
00001007 Granite Railway (1st chartered railway in US) begins operations (1826)%s18261007
00001007 Maryland Governor Marvin Mandel sent to prison on fraud charges (1977)%s19771007
00001007 Mother Teresa of Calcutta awarded the Nobel Peace Prize (1979)%s19791007
00001007 Police stop the car of Senator Wilbur Mills, stripper Fanne Fox jumps into fountain (1974)%s19741007
00001007 The Windscale nuclear pile north of Liverpool, England catches fire and burns for several days releasing radiation. 39 cancer deaths attributed to the leak. (1957)%s19571007
00001008 Dow Jones starts reporting an average of industrial stocks. (1896)%s18961008
00001008 First VisiCalc prototype (1978)%s19781008
00001008 Great Chicago Fire (1871)%s18711008
00001008 Mohammed, the prophet of Islam makes public entrance to Medina marking the beginning of the Moslem era (622)%s06221008
00001008 The Equal Rights Amendment ratification deadline is extended (1978)%s19781008
00001008 The Great Fire destroys over 4 square miles of Chicago. (1871)%s18711008
00001009 First two-way telephone conversation (1876)%s18761009
00001009 James Watt forced to resign as Secretary of the Interior (1983)%s19831009
00001009 Leif Ericson discovers "Vinland" (possibly New England) (1000)%s10001009
00001009 Mission Delores founded. (1776)%s17761009
00001009 The Collegiate School of Connecticut (later Yale Univ.) was chartered in New Haven (1701)%s17011009
00001009 The Washington Monument opened. (1888)%s18881009
00001009 The first generator at Boulder (later Hoover) Dam began transmitting electricity to Los Angeles (1936)%s19361009
00001010 Spiro T. Agnew resigns as Vice-President due to income tax fraud (1973)%s19731010
00001010 the Manchu Dynasty is overthrown in China. (1911)%s19111010
00001011 Daughters of the American Revolution founded. (1890)%s18901011
00001011 The Gang of Four are arrested in Peking (1976)%s19761011
00001011 The first steam-powered ferry was put into operation between New York City and Hoboken, New Jersey (1811)%s18111011
00001011 The second Vatican Eccumenical Council opens in Rome (1962)%s19621011
00001012 American naval forces defeat the Japanese at the Battle of Cape Esperance (1942)%s19421012
00001012 Columbus lands in Bahamas (1492)%s14921012
00001012 John Dillinger, bank robber, escapes Allen County, Ohio jail with the help of his gang and killed the Sheriff (1933)%s19331012
00001012 Khrushchev pounds his desk with shoe during a speech to the UN (1960)%s19601012
00001012 President Nixon nominated Gerald Ford of Michigan to succeed Spiro Agnew as vice-president (1973)%s19731012
00001013 Dolly Parton's band uniform number 39 was retired by the Sevier County High School. She played the snare drum. (1977)%s19771013
00001013 George Washington lays the cornerstone for the Executive Mansion, later to be called the White House (1792)%s17921013
00001013 Italy declares war on Germany (1943)%s19431013
00001013 The Jewish organization B'nai B'rith was founded in New York. (1843)%s18431013
00001013 The stockmarket falls 190 points in a minor crash (1989)%s19891013
00001014 1st declaration of colonial rights in America. (1774)%s17741014
00001014 Battle of Hastings, in which William the Conqueror wins England (1066)%s10661014
00001014 British Computer Society founded (1957)%s19571014
00001014 Martin Luther King Jr. was named winner of the Nobel Peace Prize. (1964)%s19641014
00001014 President Ford escaped injury when his limousine was hit broadside by a car in Hartford, Conn (1975)%s19751014
00001015 First draft card burned (1965)%s19651015
00001015 Florence Nightingale is solicited to organize nurses in Crimea (1854)%s18541015
00001015 Grace Bedell writes to Lincoln, tells him to grow a beard. (1860)%s18601015
00001015 The first swarm of killer bees to be found in the U. S. is destroyed in Texas. (1990)%s19901015
00001016 China's first atomic bomb is exploded (1964)%s19641016
00001016 Polish Cardinal Karol Wojtyla elected Pope and takes the name John Paul II (1978)%s19781016
00001016 a hotel in Boston becomes the 1st to have indoor plumbing. (1869)%s18691016
00001016 body washed ashore in Syria is identified as Leon Klinghoffer, slain in hijacking of Achille Lauro (1985)%s19851016
00001017 A earthquake measured at 6.9-7.1 on the Richter scale hits San Francisco at 5:04 pm killing nearly 300 people and doing billions of dollars in damage. (1989)%s19891017
00001017 Al Capone, mobster, convicted of income tax evasion (1931)%s19311017
00001017 Albert Einstein, physicist, arrives in the United States as a refugee from Nazi Germany (1933)%s19331017
00001017 Columbus sights the isle of San Salvador. (1492)%s14921017
00001017 Juan Peron, dictator, stages coup and gains control of Argentina (1945)%s19451017
00001017 Knickerbocker Engine Co. Number 5 organized. (1850)%s18501017
00001017 Mother Teresa of India was awarded the Nobel peace prize (1979)%s19791017
00001017 President Carter signed a bill restoring citizenship to Confederate President Jefferson Davis (1978)%s19781017
00001017 a fuel loading error at the Saint-Laurent reactor in France leads to a partial meltdown (1969)%s19691017
00001017 first Ann Landers column is printed (1955)%s19551017
00001018 1st commercial long-distance phone line opens (Chicago - New York) (1892)%s18921018
00001018 Boston Shoemakers form first American labor organization (1648)%s16481018
00001018 British Broadcasting Corporation established. (1922)%s19221018
00001018 The American flag was raised in Puerto Rico shortly before Spain formally gave control to the U.S. (1898)%s18981018
00001018 The Burma Road is reopened by the Britsh (1940)%s19401018
00001018 The Mason-Dixon line was established. (1767)%s17671018
00001018 The last lottery is held in England (1826)%s18261018
00001018 The raid on Harper's Ferry is led by John Brown (1859)%s18591018
00001018 U.S. Olympic Committee suspended two black athletes for giving a "black power" salute during a victory ceremony in Mexico City (1968)%s19681018
00001018 the United States take possession of Alaska. (1869)%s18691018
00001019 American ships attack two off-shore platforms used by the Iranians to attack shipping in the Persian Gulf (1987)%s19871019
00001019 General Cornwallis and 7000 of his men surrender at Yorktown (1781)%s17811019
00001019 Mao Tse-tung establishes the People's Republic of China (1949)%s19491019
00001019 Napoleon's defeated army begins long retreat from Moscow (1812)%s18121019
00001019 The League of Nations imposes sanctions against Italy for its invasion of Abyssinia (1935)%s19351019
00001019 The stock market crashed as the Dow Jones Industrial Average plunged 508 points, its worst one-day decline (1987)%s19871019
00001020 "Saturday Night Massacre", Watergate Special Prosecutor, Archibald Cox, dismissed by president Nixon. Attorney General Elliot Richardson and Assistant Attorney General Ruckelshaus resign. (1973)%s19731020
00001020 Battle of Sekigahara, which established the Tokugawa clan as rulers of Japan (SHOGUN) until 1865 (1600)%s16001020
00001020 Dr Lee DeForest gives a demonstration of his radio tube. (1906)%s19061020
00001020 OPEC oil embargo begins (1973)%s19731020
00001020 Spain gives Florida to the United States. (1820)%s18201020
00001020 The Senate voted to convict U.S. District Judge Alcee Hastings of eight articles of impeachment and remove him from office (1989)%s19891020
00001020 The reading room of the British Museum was first lighted with electricity (1879)%s18791020
00001021 Battle of Trefalgar, where Nelson established British naval supremacy for the next century (1805)%s18051021
00001021 Edison makes the first practical incandescent lamp (1879)%s18791021
00001021 Edward Austin Tracy, an American living in Beirut, was kidnapped in Lebanon (1986)%s19861021
00001021 Guggenheim Museum opens (1959)%s19591021
00001022 Chester Carlson invents xerography (1938)%s19381022
00001022 John F Kennedy announces USSR has missile bases in Cuba (1962)%s19621022
00001022 Princeton is chartered (1746)%s17461022
00001022 The Great Disappointment. The Millerites, a popular religous sect of the era, predict the second coming will happen on this day and are very disappointed (1844)%s18441022
00001022 The Surgeon General releases his first report on AIDS (1986)%s19861022
00001022 US National debt topped $1 TRILLION (nothing to celebrate). (1981)%s19811022
00001022 the Israeli destroyer Eilat is sunk by Egyptian missiles (1967)%s19671022
00001023 A suicide truck-bomber crashed into the U.S. compound in Beirut, killing 241 U.S. marines and sailors (1983)%s19831023
00001023 Battle of Leyte Gulf begins (1944)%s19441023
00001023 Confederate Sterling Price is defeated in the last Civil War action west of the Mississippi (1864)%s18641023
00001023 First Parliament of Great Britain meets (1707)%s17071023
00001023 The battle of Edgehill was fought in English Civil War (1642)%s16421023
00001023 The first meeting of the United Nations General Assembly (1946)%s19461023
00001023 the ill-fated revolt in Communist Hungary starts, later crushed by Soviet tanks (1956)%s19561023
00001024 Cuban blockade of Russian shipping begins (1962)%s19621024
00001024 The 40-hour workweek went into effect under the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (1940)%s19401024
00001024 To repay a loan on her Texas Ranch, Mrs Anna Taylor goes over Niagara Falls in a barrel and is the first person to survive the attempt (1901)%s19011024
00001024 end of Thirty Years War (1648)%s16481024
00001024 fictitious person John Doe officially put to death to end the use of the name to hide the names of real or imagined witnesses in English courts (1852)%s18521024
00001025 Adlai Stevenson presents photographic evidence of Russian missile bases in Cuba (1962)%s19621025
00001025 Battle of Agincourt, where the Welsh longbow defeats the armored knight (1415)%s14151025
00001025 Charge of the Light Brigade took place in the Battle of Balaklava in the Crimean War (1854)%s18541025
00001025 Erie Canal opens for business in New York. (1825)%s18251025
00001025 The UN removes Taiwan and admits the People's Republic of China (1971)%s19711025
00001025 U.S. Marines and Rangers invaded Grenada. (1983)%s19831025
00001026 An investor who suffered heavy stock market losses shot and killed a Miami brokerage manager, wounded another then committed suicide (1987)%s19871026
00001026 Erie Canal opens (1825)%s18251026
00001026 International Atomic Energy Agency established. (1956)%s19561026
00001026 Shootout at the OK corral, in Tombstone, Arizona. (1881)%s18811026
00001026 Telegraph service inaugurated in US (end of Pony Express). (1861)%s18611026
00001026 The first appearance of Asiatic Cholera in England, at Sutherland (1831)%s18311026
00001026 UN's World Health Organization declares smallpox eradicated (1978)%s19781026
00001026 United Nations Charter goes into effect. (1945)%s19451026
00001027 Captain James Cook, discovered the Sandwich Islands. (1728)%s17281027
00001027 Du Pont announces that it has coined the term Nylon (1938)%s19381027
00001027 Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minsiter Menachem Begin were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. (1978)%s19781027
00001027 New York City's Boss Tweed arrested on fraud charges (1871)%s18711027
00001027 New York opens 1st section of it's subway system. (1904)%s19041027
00001027 RH Macy & Co. opens 1st store, on 6th Avenue, New York City. (1858)%s18581027
00001028 Columbus discovers Cuba (1492)%s14921028
00001028 Constantine's army defeats forces of Maxentius at Mulvian Bridge (312)%s03121028
00001028 Eli Whitney gets a patent for the Cotton Gin.
00001028 German rocket engineers begin work in USSR (1946)%s19461028
00001028 Harvard University was founded in Massachusetts (1636)%s16361028
00001028 St. Louis Police try a new investigation method - fingerprints. (1904)%s19041028
00001028 Statue of Liberty was dedicated on Bedloe's Island (1886)%s18861028
00001028 Volstead Act passed by Congress, starting Prohibition. (1919)%s19191028
00001028 the Gateway Arch (630 feet high) completed in St. Louis, Missouri. (1965)%s19651028
00001029 "Black Tuesday", the Stock Market crash. (1929)%s19291029
00001029 1st College Fraternity founded. (1833)%s18331029
00001029 International Committee of the Red Cross founded. (1863)%s18631029
00001029 Reform riots in Bristol (1831)%s18311029
00001029 Turkey is proclaimed to have a republican government. (1923)%s19231029
00001030 Helena, capital of Montana, founded. (1864)%s18641030
00001030 The U.S. government announced the end of shoe rationing. (1945)%s19451030
00001030 U.S. Navy born, authorized by the Second Continental Congress (1775)%s17751030
00001031 Brooklyn, NY ends streetcar service. (1956)%s19561031
00001031 Luther nails 95 Theses to door of Castle Church, Wittenberg (1517)%s15171031
00001031 Nevada becomes the 36th state (1864)%s18641031
00001031 President Lyndon B. Johnson ordered a halt to U.S. bombing of North Vietnam, hoping his action would lead to peace talks (1968)%s19681031
00001031 The French and English channel tunnel teams meet by using a 2 inch probe. The tunnels are off by only 20 inches. (1990)%s19901031
