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OCTOBER 1: This Day in History

2016 BCE Origin of Era of Abraham
331 BCE Alexander the Great of Macedon defeats Persian army at Gaugamela.
1800 Spain cedes Louisiana to France.
1890 Yosemite Nstional Park established.
1908 Henry Ford introduces the Model T car (costs $825).
1924 Jimmy Earl Carter, D-39th President, born.
1937 Pullman Co. recognizes Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters.
1951 1st treaty signed by woman ambassador - Eugenie Anderson.
1955 "Honeymooners" premieres.
1958 Inauguration of NASA.
1968 "Night of the Living Dead" premieres in Pittsburgh.
1971 Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida, opens.
1989 Dallas Cowboy, Ed "Too Tall" Jones, records his 1,000th NFL tackle.
1989 Thousands of East Germans flee to West Germany.
1990 President Bush at the UN, condemns Iraq's takeover of Kuwait.

OCTOBER 5: This Day in History

1763 Jonathan Edwards, Puritan theologian, born.
1813 Tecumseh, American Indian leader, defeated.
1877 Chief Joseph of Nez Perce Indians surrendered.
1892 Last Dalton Gang robbery
1902 Ray Kroc, "Father of McDonald's" born.
1962 Beatles released first record, "Love Me Do."
1970 PBS became a network.
1976 UAW won three week strike at Ford Motor Co.
1986 Iran-Contra scandal revealed.
1989 The Dalai Lama won the Nobel Peace Prize.

October 6: This Day in History
1866 1st train robbery in the U.S.
1876 American Library Association organized in Philadelphia.
1889 Thomas Edison shows his 1st motion picture.
1890 Mormon Church outlaws polygamy.
1927 "Jazz Singer," 1st film with a sound trace, premieres
1939 Hitler announces he has no intention of war with Britain and France.
1949 Iva Toguri D'Aquino (Tokyo Rose) sentenced to 10 years and $10,000 fine.
1967 Haight-Ashbury hippies throw a funeral to mark the end of hippies.
1976 President Ford says there is "no Soviet dominationn in Eastern Europe."
1981 Anwar Sadat assassinated.
1989 Bette Davis, actress, dies.
1991 Elizabeth Taylor weds for the eighth time.
1996 Bob Dole and Bill Clinton meet for their first presidential debate.

OCTOBER 7: This Day in History

1765 The Stamp Act Congress convenes in New York.
1849 Edgar Allen Poe, poet/author, dies at 40.
1868 Cornell University opens.
1879 Leon Trotsky, Russian revolutionary leader/writer, born.
1931 Desmond Tutu, Anglican Archbishop of South Africa, born.
1938 Germany demands all Jewish passports stamped with the letter J.
1950 U.S. forces invade North Korea by crossing the 38th parallel
1955 Yo-Yo Ma, cellist, born.
1957 "American Bandstand" premieres.
1968 Motion Picture Association of America adopts film rating system.
1985 Lynette Woodward chosen as first woman on the Harlem Globetrotters.
1988 Robin Givens files for divorce after 8-month marriage to Mike Tyson.

OCTOBER 8: This Day in History

1775 Officers decide to bar slaves and free blacks from the Continental Army.
1869 Franklin Pierce, 14th President, dies.
1871 Great Fire kills 200, destroys much of Chicago including the orginal Emancipation Proclamation.
1890 Eddie Rickenbacker, aviator "Ace of Aces" (World War I), born.
1896 Dow Jones starts reporting an average of industrial stocks.
1906 Karl Nessler demonstrates 1st "permanent wave" for hair in London.
1918 Sgt. Alvin York single-handedly kills 25, captures 132 Germans (World War I).
1934 Bruno Hauptmann is indicted for the murder of Charles Lindbergh's baby.
1939 Germany annexes Western Poland.
1941 Jesse Jackson, clergyman/presidential candidate, born.
1943 Chevy Chase, comedian/actor, born.
1949 Sigourney Weaver, actress, born.
1971 John Lennon releases his megahit "Imagine."
1985 Leon Klinghoffer dies after hijackers of the Achille Lauro throw him off the boat.
1998 House of Representatives approve impeachment inquiry of President Clinton.
2003 Arnold Schwarzenegger elected governor of California.
2006 Marion Jones gives up 5 Olympic gold medals after admitting to use of performance-enhancing drugs.

October 11 is Eleanor Roosevelt Day.

OCTOBER 12: This Day in History
1492 Columbus reaches the New World.
1609 "Three Blind Mice" published in England.
1692 Salem Witch Trials ended.
1792 Columbus Day first celebrated.
1810 Oktoberfest gegins in Bavaria.
1850 First women's medical school opened.
1870 General Robert E. Lee dies.
1871 President Grant condemned the Ku Klux Klan.
1886 Hurricane killed 250 in Indianola, Texas.
1901 President Theodore Roosevelt changed name of "Executive Mansion" to "White House."
1932 Dick Gregory, comedian/activist, born.
1933 Alcatraz became a federal prison.
1978 Sid Vicious was charged with the murder of his girlfriend.
1992 Howard Stern radio gragram premiered.
1998 - Matthew Shepard died as resuylt of anti-gay attack.
2000 U.S.S. Cole attacked by terrorists, 17 killed.
2002 Terrorists killed 202 in attack in Bali.
Columbus Day

OCTOBER 13: This Day in History
54 Claudius, Roman Emperor, dies.
1792 Washington lays cornerstone of the Executive Mansion (White House).
1845 Texas ratifies a state constitution.
1853 Lillie Langtry, actress, born.
1920 Nipsey Russell, comedian, born.
1925 Lenny Bruce, comedian, born.
1925 Margaret Thatcher, British Prime Minister, born.
1959 Marie Osmond, singer/actress, born.
1963 "Beatlemania" is coined after the Beatles appear at the Palladium.
1970 Angela Davis, African-American activist, arrested.
1974 Ed Sullivan, TV host, died.
1987 First military use of trained dolphins (US Navy in Persian Gulf).
1989 Dow Jones down 190.58 points.

OCTOBER 14: This Day in History
1664 William Penn, English Quaker and founder of Pennsylvania, born.
1834 First black to obtain a U.S. patent, Henry Blair, for a corn planter.
1884 George Eastman patents paper-strip photographic film.
1890 Dwight D. Eisenhower, 34th President, born.
1894 e.e. cummings, poet, born.
1896 Lillian Gish, Actress, born.
1912 Bull Moose Teddy Roosevelt is shot while campaigning in Milwaukee.
1916 C. Everett Koop, surgeon general, born.
1940 Cliff Richards, rocker, born.
1959 Errol Flynn, actor, dies.
1977 Bing Crosby, singer/actor, dies.
1980 Bob Marley's last concert held.
1986 Concentration camp survivor Elie Wiesel wins Nobel Peace Prize.
1987 In Midland, Texas, one-year-old Jessica McClure falls down a well.
1990 Leonard Bernstein, composer, dies.
1996 Dow-Jones closes over 6,000 for the first time.

OCTOBER 15: This Day in History
1831 Helen Hunt Jackson, author of Ramona and Century of Dishonor, born.
1844 Friedrich Nietzsche, philosopher, born.
1878 Edison Electric Light Company incorporated.
1883 Supreme Court declares Civil Rights Act of 1875 unconstitutional.
1914 ASCAP (American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers) is founded.
1917 Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., historian/author, born.
1917 Mata Hari, Dutch dancer/German spy, executed by firing squad in Paris.
1924 Lee A. Iacocca, Chrysler CEO, born.
1941 Jews caught outside the Polish Ghetto walls could be put to death.
1946 Hermann Goering, Nazi leader, poisons himself in prison.
1949 Billy Graham begins his ministry.
1951 "I Love Lucy" debuts on CBS TV.
1953 Tito Jackson, singer, born.
1964 Cole Porter, composer, dies.
1969 Vietnam Moratorium Day; millions nationwide protest the war.
1974 National Guard mobilizes to restore order in Boston due to school busing.
1976 1st debate of major-ticket Vice Presidential nominees (Mondale [D)]and Dole [R].
1991 Clarence Thomas is confirmed as Supreme Court Justice, 52-48.

OCTOBER 19: This Day in History
1745 Jonathan Swift, writer, dies.
1781 American victory at Yorktown ended the American Revolution.
1812 Napoleon began retreat from Moscow.
1849 Elizabeth Blackwell became the first woman U.S. doctor.
1870 Four African-Americans elected to House of Reps.
1879 Thomas Edison demonstrated the electric light bulb.
1960 Martin Luther King, Jr., arrested at Atlanta sit-in.
1963 Beatles recorded "I Want to Hold Your Hand."
1967 Amy Carter Pres Carter's daughter/peace activist born.
1987 "Black Monday" - Dow-Jones down 508.32, 4 times previous record.
2000 Saddam Hussein's trial begins in Iraq.

OCTOBER 20: This Day in History
1803 U.S. Senate ratifies the Lousiana Purchase.
1818 U.S. and Britain agree to joint control of Oregon country.
1859 John Dewey, philosopher, educational theorist/writer, born.
1931 Mickey Mantele, New York Yankee home run slugger, born.
1944 30 blocks of Cleveland burn after a liquid gas factory explodes.
1944 U.S. forces under General Douglas MacArthur return to the Philippines.
1947 The House Un-American Activities Committee opens hearings into alleged Communist influence in Hollywood.
1953 Tom Petty, singer, born.
1963 South Africa begins trial of Nelson Mandela and 8 others on conspiracy.
1964 Herbert Hoover, 31st president of the U.S., dies in New York at 90.
1967 All white federal jury convicts 7 n murder of 3 civil rights workers in Mississippi.
1968 Jacqueline Kennedy marries Aristotle Onassis.
1973 OPEC oil embargo begins.
1973 Saturday Night Massacre - Watergate prosecutor Archibald Cox dismissed.
1977 3 members of rock group Lynyrd Skynyrd die in charter plane crash.
1987 Subway gunman Bernhard Goetz sentenced to 6 months in jail.
1990 3 members of 2 Live Crew acquitted on abscenity charges in Florida.
1990 Antiwar protest marches begin in 20 U.S. cities (US vs. Iraq).
1997 U.S. accuses Microsoft of violating pact forcing brower on computers.

OCTOBER 21: This Day in History

1520 Magellan entered the strait which bears his name.
1772 Samuel Taylor Coleridge, boet, born.
1831 Nat Turner and 19 associates hanged for slave uprising.
1917 Dizzy Gillespie, trumpeter, a creator of modern jazz, born.
1945 Women in France allowed to vote for the first time.
1950 Chinese forces occupy Tibet.
1956 Carrie Fisher, actress, born.
1959 Guggenheim Museumdesigned by Frank Lloyd Wright, opens in New York City.
1960 JFK and Nixon clashed in 4th and final presidential debate.
1987 Senate debate begins rejecting Robert Bork's Supreme Court namination.

OCTOBER 22: This Day in History
1746 Princeton University received its charter
1811 Franz Liszt composer/;pianist, born.
1836 Sam Houston inaugurated as 1st elected president of the Republic of Texas.
1845 Sarah Bernhardt, silent film actress, born.
1920 Timothy Leary, Harvard professor and LSD taker, born.
1938 1st Xerox copy made.
1942 Annette Funicello, actress Mickey Mouse Club, born.
1962 JFK imposes naval blockade on Cuba, beginning missile crisis.
1979 Deposed Shah of Iran arrives in New Yoirk for medical treatment that will lead to the Hostage Crisis.
U.S. national debt tops $1 trillion.

OCTOBER 26: This Day in History
1825 Erie Canal opened.
1879 Leon Trotsky, first President of the Soviet Union, born.
1881 The Shootout at OK Corral occurred in Tombstone, Arizona.
1911 Gospel singer Mahalia Jackson born.
1916 Margaret Sanger was arrested for obscentiy due to advocating birth control.
1946 Pat Sajak, TV host, born.
1947 Hillary Rodham Clinton, born.
1949 Minimum wage raised for 40 to 75 cents an hour.
1970 "Doonesbury" debuted.
1984 Baby Fae given baboon hear; she lived 21 days.

OCTOBER 27: This Day in History
1775 U.S. Navy established.
1787 Federalist letters start appearing in newspapers.
1795 Treaty of San Lorenzo (Pinckney) with Spain provides free navigation of Mississippi.

1810 U.S. annexes West Florida from Spain.
1858 Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President, born.
1871 Boss Tweed, Democratic leader of Tammany Hall, arrested after New York Times exposed his corruption.
1872 Emily Post, authority on social behavior, born.
1904 World's first subway, the IRT, opens in Yew York City; fare is set at one nickel.
1914 Dylan Thomas, poet, born.
1916 1st published reference to "jazz" appears in Variety Magazine.
1923 Ruby Dee, actress, born.
1925 Water skis patented by Fred Waller.
1932 Sylvia Plath, poet, born.
1938 DuPont announces it new synthetic fiber will be called nylon.
1939 John Cleese, comedian/actor, born.
1954 B. O. Davis, Jr., becomes first black general in the USAF.
1954 Walt Disney's 1st TV show, "Disneyland," premieres.
1969 Ralph Nader sets up a consumer organization known as Nader's Raiders.
1971 Republic of the Congo becomes Republic of Zaire.
1978 Begin and Sadat win the Nobel Peace Prize.
1979 Voluntary Euthanasia Society publishes how-to-do-it suicide guide.
1990 Xavier Cugat, bandleader, dies at 90.
1997 Dow-Jones drops 554 points to 7161.
Navy Day

OCTOBER 28: This Day in History
900 Alfred the Great, English monarch, dies.
1492 Christopher Columbus lands on Cuba.
1636 Harvard University established.
1793 Eli Whitney applies for a patent on the cotton gin.
1886 Statue of Liberty dedicated by President Grover Cleveland; it is celebrated by the first confetti (ticker tape) parade in NYC.
1904 St. Louis police try a new investigation method: fingerprints.
1914 Dr. Jonas Salk, created polio vaccine, born.
1919 Volstead Act passed by Congress, starts prohibition over President Wilson's veto.
1922 Benito Mussolini takes control of Italy's government.
1962 Khrushchev orders withdrawal of missiles from Cuba, ending crisis.
1965 Gateway Arch completed in St. Louis, Missouri.

OCTOBER 29: This Day in History

539 BCE Babylon falls to Cyrus the Great of Persia.

1618 Sir Walter Raleigh is executed in London.
1682 William Penn lands in what will become Pennsylvania.
1884 Bela Lugosi, horror actor, born.
1891 Fanny Brice, singing comedienne, born.
1897 Paul Joseph Goebbels, Nazi propagandist, born.
1929 "Black Tuesday," Stock Marchet crashes and triggers the Great Depression.
1942 Alaska Highway completed.
1945 1st fall point pen goes on sale, 57 years after it was patented.
1956 Chet Huntley and David Brinkley, NBC News, team up.
1960 Muhammad Ali's 1st professional fight, beats Tunney Hunsaker in 6.
1961 Randy Jackson, rocker, born.
1966 National Organization of Women founded.
1971 Winona Ryder, actress, born.
1998 John Glenn returns to space at age 79.

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