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This Day In History: September 23
1779
American Revolution: John Paul Jones in the Bonhomme Richard captures the British ship Serapis in the most famous battle of the war. It was during this battle that he declared "I have not yet begun to fight."
1780
American Revolution: Benedict Arnold's plot to betray West Point is revealed by British Major John André. Andre was later hanged as a spy.
1806
Lewis and Clark expedition: The famed explorers returns to St. Louis after exploring the American West. Their work established a route to the Pacific.
1845
First baseball team: The New York Knickerbocker Club is organized.
1846
Neptune discovered: The planet is discovered by German astronomer J.G. Galle. Its existence had been predicted the previous year by English astronomer John Couch Adams and French astronomer Le Verrier.
1908
Merkle's Boner: Bottom of the 9th of the deciding game of the National League pennant race; score 1-1. The New York Giants hit to center field, bringing in the winning run. Fred Merkle, who had been on 1st, heads for the dugout without advancing to 2nd, causing the play to be invalidated. The game was declared a tie and a playoff game was played and won by the opposing Chicago Cubs.
1912
First Keystone Kops film: Mack Sennett's short Cohen Collects a Debt is released featuring the famous slapstick police troop.
1926
Jack Dempsey loses the world heavyweight boxing title to Gene Tunney on a decision. He had held the title since 1919.
1949
Russia enters the atomic age: Russia announces that it has exploded its first atom bomb.
1952
Checkers speech: Richard Nixon gives his famous speech explaining an $18,000 campaign fund. He claimed the only personal gift he received was a dog named Checkers - which he refused to give up. An outpouring of public sympathy kept him on the ticket for vice-president.
1952
First undefeated boxer to win the world heavyweight championship: Rocky Marciano KO's Jersey Joe Walcott in the 13th round.
1962
The Jetsons cartoon debuts on ABC.
1962
The New York Philharmonic Hall opens.
1966
Vietnam War: U.S. begins using aerial defoliants south of the demilitarized zone.
1972
Ferdinand Marcos declares martial law in the Philippines.
1986
The rose is voted the official flower of the U.S. by Congress.
1992
First woman to play in one of the four major pro sports leagues: Manon Rheaume plays goalie for the NHL Tampa Bay Lightning in an exhibition game against the St. Louis Blues. They lost (4-6).
1993
Youngest girl to fly across the U.S.: 11-year-old Vicki Van Meter lands in San Diego, after her 3-day flight from Maine.
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| September 22, 2008, 20:57 |
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This Day In History: September 24
1493
Columbus: The explorer sets sail on his second voyage to the "New World," on which he brought the first cattle and discovered the Virgin Islands.
1789
Federal Judiciary Act is passed by Congress. It established the six-member U.S. Supreme Court and the office of Attorney General.
1794
Whiskey Rebellion: Pres. Washington orders a 15,000-man militia to suppress an uprising of western Pennsylvania farmers. They were protesting an excise duty placed on stills and spirits distilled in the U.S.
1852
First flight of a dirigible: Henri Giffard of Paris flies his hydrogen-filled 3-horsepower steam-powered craft.
1869
Black Friday: Stock market panic due to crashing gold prices caused by an attempt to corner the market by Gould and Fisk.
1895
First around-the-world bicycle trip by a woman: Annie Londonberry arrives back in Boston. She had departed in June of 1894.
1929
First blind airplane flight: James H. Doolittle takes off and lands using only instruments.
1951
Famous sex-change operation: George Jorgensen, an American, becomes Christine. It was performed in Denmark under the supervision of Dr. Christian Hamburger.
1954
First hydrogen bomb fatality: A Japanese fisherman dies after having been exposed to fallout from a U.S. H-bomb on March 1.
1955
First U.S. Vice President to temporarily assume the Presidency: Nixon takes charges after Pres. Eisenhower suffers a heart attack.
1956
First transatlantic telephone cable goes into operation, between Newfoundland and Scotland.
1957
Civil Rights: Pres. Eisenhower orders federal troops to enforce the court order allowing blacks to enter Central High School, Little Rock, Arkansas.
1960
First nuclear-powered aircraft carrier: The USS Enterprise is launched at Newport, Virginia.
1961
Bullwinkle gets his own show when NBC debuts The Bullwinkle Show, a spinoff of Rocky and His Friends.
1964
The Munsters debuts on CBS.
1968
60 Minutes debuts on CBS, featuring Harry Reasoner and Mike Wallace.
1992
The Sci-Fi Channel debuts. Its first show was Star Wars.
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| September 23, 2008, 23:34 |
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This Day In History: September 25
1513
First European to discover the Pacific Ocean: Spanish explorer Vasco Nunez de Balboa.
1690
First American newspaper: Publick Occurrences Foreign and Domestick by Benjamin Harris of Boston is published. It was suppressed after one issue by the Royal Governor.
1789
Bill of Rights is submitted to the states for ratification.
1890
Yosemite National Park established by Congress.
1951
Junction transistor is patented by Dr. Shockley of Bell Laboratories.
1954
Elvis Presley: The King makes his first appearance on the Grand Ole Opry. An Opry official suggested he go back to driving trucks.
1965
The Beatles cartoon debuts on ABC.
1975
Rocky Horror Picture Show: The cult classic, starring Susan Sarandon, Barry Bostwick, Tim Curry, and Meat Loaf, premiers in the US.
1981
First woman to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court: Sandra Day O'Connor is sworn in.
1987
Beauty and the Beast debuts on CBS.
1992
Mars Observer: The $980 million spacecraft is launched. NASA lost contact with it three days before it was scheduled to arrive at Mars in August of 1993.
1992
Magic Johnson quits Pres. Bush's National Commission on AIDS because of lack of support.
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| September 24, 2008, 23:20 |
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This Day In History: September 26
1580
Sir Francis Drake - Circumnavigation of the globe: The English navigator arrives in England after completing his voyage. He had begun in December of 1577.
1789
First U.S. postmaster general is appointed, Samuel Osgood.
1789
First chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court is confirmed, John Jay.
1887
First disc record player is patented, by Emile Berliner.
1914
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is established by Congress.
1933
The Pierpont Bunch: The group, soon to be John Dillinger's gang, breaks out of prison. Dillinger had bribed authorities and smuggled guns in for them.
1955
The Adventures of Robin Hood debuts on CBS.
1957
West Side Story by Leonard Berstein opens.
1960
First televised U.S. presidential candidate debate: 75 million viewers tuned in to watch Kennedy and Nixon square off. Kennedy's style helped him win the election.
1961
U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency is established.
1962
The Beverly Hillbillies debuts on CBS. Hated by the critics, it quickly became #1 breaking many records.
1969
The Brady Bunch debuts on ABC.
1969
The last Beatles album: Abbey Road is released.
1983
First non-U.S. yacht to win the America's Cup: The Australia II defeats the U.S. yacht Liberty four races to three.
1990
Cop Rock debuts on ABC, featuring not only singing cops, but singing murderers, crack dealers, and juries.
1990
A new rating NC-17 (No Children), to apply to adult films, is announced by the Motion Picture Association of America.
1993
First person to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel twice: John David Munday makes the 176-foot drop for the second time; he had also done it in 1985.
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| September 25, 2008, 22:28 |
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This Day In History: September 27
1732
First issue of the Rhode Island Gazette, published by James Franklin, Benjamin's brother. It was the first newspaper in Rhode Island.
1785
John Fitch displays a model and drawing of his steamboat to the American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia.
1912
First blues song published in the U.S., Memphis Blues by W.C. Handy.
1937
First Santa Claus training school: Santa Claus School of Albion, New York opens.
1922
First 3-D movie: Power of Love premiers. The viewer wore glasses with one red and one blue lens.
1954
The Tonight Show debuts on NBC with host Steve Allen.
1964
Warren Commission Report: The report is issued; it concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in the assassination of Pres. John F. Kennedy.
1992
Tenor Luciano Pavarotti is caught lip-syncing during a live BBC radio performance.
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| September 26, 2008, 21:19 |
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This Day In History: September 28
1542
First Europeans to reach the Pacific coast: Portuguese explorer Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo lands at San Diego Bay.
1850
Flogging abolished: The U.S. abolishes flogging in the Navy and Merchant Marine.
1904
"You can't do that on Fifth Ave," a New York City policeman tells a woman as she is arrested for smoking a cigarette in an open automobile.
1920
Black Sox Scandal: Eight members of the Chicago White Sox are indicted for accepting bribes to throw the World Series. They were banned from baseball even though they were eventually acquitted.
1951
The Day the Earth Stood Still: The science-fiction classic is released. "Klaatu barada nikto."
1955
First World Series game televised in color: Between the New York Yankees and the Brooklyn Dodgers.
1968
First North American Soccer League championship: The Atlanta chiefs defeat the San Diego Toros.
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| September 27, 2008, 22:31 |
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This Day In History: September 29
1829
Scotland Yard: The Greater London's Metropolitan Police - now known as Scotland Yard - go on patrol.
1879
Ute War: The week-long Battle of Mill Creek in northwestern Colorado between the Ute Indians and the U.S. soldiers begins. The Utes were fighting to preserve their reservation.
1892
First U.S. football night game: Mansfield State Normal School ties Wyoming Seminary (0-0).
1953
Make Room for Daddy debuts on ABC, starring Danny Thomas. It ran for 18 years.
1977
First woman to judge a heavyweight boxing championship: Eva Shain referees the Muhammad Ali vs. Earnie Shavers fight at Madison Square Garden.
1980
Jimmy's World: The Washington Post publishes a story by Janet Cooke about an eight-year-old heroin addict, for which she would win a Pulitzer prize. It was later revealed that she made the story up.
1982
Tylenol murders: The first of seven Chicago-area residents die from cyanide-laced Tylenol capsules. The killer has never been caught.
1987
thirtysomething debuts on ABC, showing us the everyday lives of baby-boomers.
1988
Discovery launched: The space shuttle takes off, ending the 32-month U.S. absence from space since the Challenger disaster.
1992
Dr. Benjamin Spock recommends that people should not drink cow's milk.
1992
Magic Johnson comes out of retirement to play for the Los Angeles Lakers after retiring less than a year earlier. He retired again for good before the season started.
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| September 28, 2008, 21:41 |
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This Day In History: September 30
1846
First successful tooth extraction using anesthesia: Performed by Dr. William Morton using ether.
1882
First U.S. hydroelectric power plant: A single dynamo, powering 180 ten-candle-power lights, opens on the Fox River near Appleton, Wisconsin.
1906
New York Central Railroad starts using electric trains.
1911
First movie stuntman is hired, Lt. H.H. Arnold as a stand-in for The Military Scout.
1936
First around-the-world airplane passenger race: Three reporters depart from Lakehurst, New Jersey. Using only commercial flying routes, Herbert Roslyn Ekins was the first to return on October 19th.
1951
The Red Skelton Show debuts on NBC.
1958
The Rifleman debuts on ABC, with Chuck Connors as Lucas McCain.
1960
The Flintstones: The stone-age cartoon debuts - "Yaba, Daba, Dooo!"
1960
The 2,343rd and final episode of Howdy Doody, so that's Clarabell's big surprise.
1970
The New American Bible is published in its entirety. It was the first Bible translated directly into English from the original text under the supervision of the Roman Catholic Church.
1981
U.S. national debt reaches $1 trillion.
1982
Cheers debuts on NBC.
1992
Largest U.S. naval base in Asia closes: Subic Bay in the Philippines.
1993
Earthquake strikes India: The worst earthquake since the 1930s strikes central India, killing more than 20,000 people.
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| September 29, 2008, 23:12 |
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This Day In History: October 1
1832
Telegraph: Samuel F.B. Morse sets sail from Havre to America. It was on this trip that he conceived the idea for his greatest invention.
1869
First postcards are issued, in Vienna, Austria.
1873
America's First trained nurse: Linda Ann Judson Richards, having graduated from the Training School of the New England Hospital for Women and Children a month earlier, begins working at Bellevue Hospital, New York City.
1903
First World Series game: Boston of the American League won the series against Pittsburgh of the National League five games to three.
1908
Model T: Henry Ford's $850 automobile is introduced. It was capable of 40 mph and was available in "any color you choose as long as it's black."
1910
Los Angeles Times building is bombed: Twenty-one people were killed.
1919
Barney Google comic strip is first published in syndication.
1947
First supersonic flight: American WWII flying ace, George Schwartz "Wheaties" Welch, puts his XP-86 Sabre into a dive from 35,000 ft. achieving supersonic speed. Chuck Yeager would break the sound barrier two weeks later during level flight.
1955
First TV Spinoff: The Honeymooners series debuts. It started as a series of sketches on DuMont's Cavalcade of Stars.
1956
The Tonight Show gets a new host: Ernie Kovacs.
1958
NASA: The National Aeronautics and Space Administration officially begins operating.
1961
Mr. Ed debuts.
1961
Baseball: Roger Maris hits his 61st home run for the season, breaking Babe Ruth's 1927 record.
1961
CBN: Pat Robertson's The Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN) goes on the air. CBN was the first Christian television network established in the United States. It used the call letters WYAH-TV, taken from the Hebrew name of God, Yahweh, which means "The One who causes (everything) to be."
1962
The Tonight Show gets a new host, Johnny Carson. His first guests were Groucho Marx, Joan Crawford, Mel Brooks, Tony Bennett and Rudy Vallee.
1962
First black University of Mississippi student: James Meredith enters after 3,000 troops were used to put down riots.
1975
Thrilla in Manila: Muhammad Ali fights Joe Frazier for the 3rd time.
1979
Panama Canal Commission is established; its purpose is to maintain and operate the Panama Canal.
1979
U.S. International Development Cooperation Agency is established.
1987
Mikhail Gorbachev becomes president of the Soviet Union.
1992
Ross Perot: The Texas billionaire re-enters the presidential race. He had dropped out of 2½ months earlier, during which time he spent $10,000,000 maintaining his campaign organization and creating new advertisements.
1992
USS Saratoga mistakenly fires two missiles at a Turkish ship killing the captain and four crew members.
1992
The Cartoon Network debuts.
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| September 30, 2008, 23:07 |
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This Day In History: October 2
1889
First Pan-American Conference, in Washington D.C.
1942
The Queen Mary rams and sinks a British cruiser, killing 338 aboard the cruiser.
1950
Peanuts: Charles Schulz' comic strip featuring Charlie Brown, Snoopy and pals debuts.
1955
Alfred Hitchcock Presents debuts on CBS.
1959
The Twilight Zone debuts on CBS, starring Rod Serling as its narrator and host.
1961
Ben Casey debuts on ABC.
1967
First black U.S. Supreme Court Justice: Thurgood Marshall is sworn in.
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| October 1, 2008, 22:57 |
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This Day In History: October 3
1789
First national Thanksgiving Day: (as declared by presidential proclamation) Pres. George Washington declares November 26th as a day of general thanksgiving for the adoption of the constitution. This was also the first national U.S. holiday.
1859
First International Cricket tournament held in the U.S., Hoboken, Jersey, with the English team beating the Americans.
1863
Thanksgiving: Pres. Lincoln declares the last Thursday in November to be a national Thanksgiving Day. This was observed yearly (except 1865 and 1869) through 1938. Pres. F.D. Roosevelt declared Thanksgiving as the next to last Thursday in November for 1939-41, and the 4th Thursday in November starting in 1942.
1899
Vacuum cleaner is patented.
1913
First U.S. federal income tax under the 16th Amendment is signed into law by Congress, 1% for incomes greater than $4,000.
1922
First woman U.S. Senator: Rebecca Latimer Felton of Georgia is appointed. She served until November 22.
1950
Beulah debuts on ABC. It was the first TV dramatic series with a Black star - Ethel Waters as Beulah.
1952
Great Britain explodes their first atom bomb: At the Monte Bello islands northwest of Australia.
1954
Father Knows Best debuts on CBS, starring Robert Young.
1955
Captain Kangaroo debuts on CBS starring Bob Keeshan as the Captain. It became network TV's longest-running children's show.
1955
The Mickey Mouse Club: The Disney TV show debuts on ABC, featuring the Mousketeers.
1960
The Andy Griffith Show debuts on CBS.
1961
The Dick Van Dyke Show debuts on CBS.
1961
The Dick Van Dyke Show debuts on CBS.
1974
First black major-league baseball manager: Frank Robinson signs with the Cleveland Indians.
1984
First FBI agent charged with espionage, Richard W. Miller is arrested for passing a classified document to the Soviets. In 1986 he was convicted and given a life sentence.
1985
First launch of the fourth space shuttle, Atlantis.
1986
L.A. Law debuts on NBC.
1989
Gen. Manuel Noriega suppresses an attempted overthrow by rebel officers in the Panama Defense Forces.
1990
Reunification of East and West Germany.
1992
Irish singer Sinead O'Connor rips up a picture of Pope John Paul II on Saturday Night Live.
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| October 2, 2008, 22:09 |
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1871 - The Great Fire of Chicago broke out destroying about 17,450 buildings. About 250 people were killed and 90,000 were left homeless.
1871 - Peshtigo, WI, was destroyed by a forest fire. Over 1,100 people were killed by the fire that eventually burned across 6 counties.
1895 - The Berliner Gramophone Company was founded in Philadelphia, PA.
1904 - "Little Johnny Jones" opened in Hartford, CT.
1915 - During World War I, the Battle of Loos concluded.
1918 - U.S. Corporal Alvin C. York almost single-handedly killed 25 German soldiers and captured 132 in the Argonne Forest in France. York had originally tried to avoid being drafted as a conscientious objector. After this event his was promoted to sergeant and was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor.
1919 - The first transcontinental air race in the U.S. began.
1934 - Bruno Hauptmann was indicted for the murder of the infant son of Charles A. Lindbergh.
1935 - "The O’Neills" debuted on CBS radio.
1938 - The cover of "The Saturday Evening Post" portrayed Norman Rockwell.
1944 - "The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet" debuted on CBS radio.
1945 - U.S. President Truman announced that only Britain and Canada would be given the secret to the atomic bomb.
1950 - U.N. forces crossed into North Korea from South Korea.
1952 - "The Complete Book of Etiquette" was published for the first time.
1956 - Donald James Larsen (New York Yankees) pitched the first perfect game in the history of the World Series.
1957 - Jack Soble, a confessed Soviet spy, was sentenced to seven years in prison for espionage.
1957 - The Brooklyn Baseball Club announced that it had accepted a deal to move the Dodgers to Los Angeles.
1966 - The U.S. Government declares that LSD is dangerous and an illegal substance.
1970 - Soviet author Alexander Solzhenitsyn won the Nobel Prize for literature.
1979 - "Sugar Babies" opened at the Mark Hellinger Theatre on Broadway.
1981 - U.S. President Reagan greeted former Presidents Carter, Ford and Nixon to the White House. The group was preparing to leave for Egypt to attend the funeral of Anwar Sadat.
1982 - In Poland, all labor organizations, including Solidarity, were banned.
1991 - A slave burial site was found by construction workers in lower Manhattan. The "Negro Burial Ground" had been closed in 1790. Over a dozen skeletons were found.
1993 - The U.S. government issued a report absolving the FBI of any wrongdoing in its final assault in Waco, TX, on the Branch Davidian compound. The fire that ended the siege killed as many as 85 people.
1996 - Pope John Paul II underwent a successful operation to remove his inflamed appendix.
1998 - Taliban forces attacked Iranian border posts. Iran said that three border posts were destroyed before the Taliban forces were forced to retreat. The Taliban of Afghanistan denied the event occurred.
1998 - Canada and Netherlands were voted into the U.N. Security Council.
2001 - Tom Ridge, former Governor of Pennsylvania, was sworn in as director of the new U.S. department of Homeland Security.
2001 - Rush Limbaugh announced to his listeners that he was totally deaf in his left ear and had only partial hearing in his right ear. The condition had happened in a three month period.
2001 - Two Russian cosmonauts made the first spacewalk to be conducted outside of the international space station without a shuttle present.
2002 - A federal judge approved U.S. President George W. Bush's request to reopen West Coast ports, to end a caustic 10-day labor lockout. The lockout was costing the U.S. economy an estimated $1 billion to $2 billion a day.
2003 - China announced that it would have a human crew orbit the Earth briefly on October 15.
2003 - Vietnam and the United States reached a tentative agreement that would allow the first commercial flights between the two countries since the end of the Vietnam War.
2003 - It was announced that Vivendi Universal and General Electric Co. had reached an agreement to merge. The name for the combined company was NBC Universal.
2003 - Siegfried Fischbacher and his manager announced that the "Siegfried and Roy" show at the Mirage was canceled permanently. It was also said that if Roy Horn survived, after a tiger attack on October 3, the duo would continue to work together.
2004 - The first-ever direct presidential elections were held in Afghanistan.
2004 - At Alderson Federal Prison Camp, WV, Martha Stewart began her five-month prison sentence. The sentence was imposed for Stewart lying about a stock sale.
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This Day In History: October 10
1845
U.S. Naval Academy opens at Annapolis, Maryland.
1934
Buckwheat selected: 3-year-old Billie Thomas appears at an open audition for the Little Rascals and is selected by producer Hal Roach.
1952
The Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet debuts on ABC. It became TV's longest running situation comedy (ended 1966).
1953
Winky Dink and You debuts on CBS, an interactive TV show in which the audience helps Winky Dink by writing on the screen.
1973
Vice-Pres. Spiro T. Agnew resigns: He also pleads no contest to income tax evasion charges and is fined $10,000 and put on three years' probation.
1978
First U.S. coin to honor a woman: The Susan B. Anthony dollar is authorized.
1981
Eddie Murphy does Buckwheat: Murphy debuts his interpretation of the Little Rascals star.
1989
Russian UFO's: The Soviet press agency Tass reports that alien creatures had landed a spacecraft in Voronezh, Russia.
E03-13-1997
Phoenix Lights: Thousands of people witness lights over Arizona and Nevada in a space of about 300 miles. Many believe these were UFOs, while others claim they were flares dropped by the USAF.
1991
Anita Hill testifies that Supreme Court nominee Clearance Thomas had sexually harassed her while he was her boss.
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| October 9, 2008, 20:32 |
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This Day in History: October 11
1868
Edison applies for his first patent, for an electrical vote recorder.
1919
First airline in-flight meal: A cold boxed lunch is offered on Handley Page Transport flights.
1950
Color TV: CBS is issued a license by the FCC to begin color TV broadcasting.
1968
Apollo 7 launched, provided first live TV transmissions from space.
1978
Sex Pistols: Sid Vicious' girlfriend "nauseating Nancy" Spungen is stabbed to death at her and Sid's New York hotel room. Sid died of a heroin overdose before he could be tried.
1983
Telephone: The last hand-crank magneto telephone call is made (Bryant Pond Telephone Company in Bryant Pond, Maine).
1983
Just say no: Nancy Reagan introduces her anti-drug philosophy.
1984
First U.S. woman to walk in space: Dr. Kathryn Sullivan aboard the space shuttle Challenger.
2001
President Bush on War: We learned some very important lessons in Vietnam. Perhaps the most important lesson that I learned is that you cannot fight a guerrilla war with conventional forces.
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| October 11, 2008, 00:05 |
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This Day In History: October 12
1492
Columbus reaches one of the Bahama Islands, naming it San Salvador.
1788
John Fitch's steamboat makes the trip from Philadelphia to Burlington in 3 hours, 10 minutes.
1861
First ironclad steamer of the U.S. Navy: The St. Louis is launched.
1901
First non-religious record: Three Blind Mice is recorded.
1933
John Dillinger is freed from prison: The Pierpont Bunch rescues him, killing a sheriff in the process. They then formed the famous Dillinger Gang.
1949
First woman U.S. ambassador: Eugenie Moore Anderson is nominated by Pres. Truman as ambassador to Denmark. She was sworn in on the 28th.
1960
Cold War: At a United Nations conference, Premier of the Soviet Union Nikita Khrushchev takes off his shoe and pounds a conference table. (Note: Although commonly believed and reported, there is much debate as to whether he pounded the table with his shoe)
1969
Paul McCartney dead?: A Detroit disc jockey and his radio audience determine from "clues" found in Beatles' songs and album covers that Paul had died in an car accident in 1966. They were wrong of course.
1973
Gerald Rudolph Ford becomes the first U.S. Vice President appointed under the 25th Amendment. He was appointed the position after the resignation of V.P. Spiro Agnew.
1992
First pig-to-human liver transplant: Cedars-Sinai Medical Center performs the operation on a 26-year-old woman. She died shortly thereafter.
1992
Is anyone out there?: NASA, using two giant radio-telescopes in California and Puerto Rico, begins scanning the skies for signs of alien life.
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| October 11, 2008, 21:38 |
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This Day In History: October 13
1775
U.S. Navy: Congress establishes the service by authorizing the construction of two warships and appointing a Marine Committee in response to the news that the British fleet was coming.
1792
White House: The Cornerstone is laid by Pres. George Washington. He is the only president to never have lived there.
1807
Sodium discovered: English scientist Humphry Davy obtains atomic element 11 by electrolyzing caustic soda.
1812
War of 1812 - Battle of Queenstown Heights: 1,000 U.S. troops are injured or killed just north of Niagara Falls in battle against the British.
1843
B'nai B'rith (Sons of the Covenant): The first Jewish fraternal society in the U.S. is formed by Henry Jones and 11 other Jewish men in New York City.
1860
First aerial photograph of the U.S.: James Wallace Black takes a photograph of Boston from a balloon tethered 1,200 feet above the city.
1903
First World Series: Boston of the American League defeats Pittsburgh of the National League five games to three.
1943
World War II: Italy declares war on Germany.
1947
Kukla, Fran and Ollie debuts locally on Chicago's WBKB-TV. Fran Allison and the Kuklapolitan Players were picked up by NBC the following year.
1967
First official game of the American Basketball Association (ABA): The Oakland Oaks defeat the Anaheim Amigos (134-129).
1972
Air crash victims eat their dead: A flight containing members of the Uruguayan Old Christians Rugby team crashes in the Andes. They would have to resort to cannibalism to survive the 70 days until their rescue.
1972
Worst commercial air disaster in history: A Soviet jet crashes in Moscow killing all 176 persons aboard.
1974
Longest NFL punt return: Dennis Morgan of the Dallas Cowboys ties the record with a 98-yard return against the St. Louis Cardinals. He was the third person to do so.
1976
A 3,300-year-old mummy is identified as King Tut's grandmother, Queen Tiy (1397-1360 BC).
1988
Shroud of Turin: Once believed to be Christ's burial cloth, it is announced that carbon dating had determined it to be a fake created no earlier than the 13th century.
1992
Domestic partnership: California passes an ordinance giving legal recognition to unmarried couples, including those of the same sex.
1992
Record around-the-world flight by a commercial aircraft: An Air France Concorde makes the flight in 33 hours, 1 minute.
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1656
Massachusetts enacts a fine for harboring Quakers. Quakers entering the jurisdiction after punishment would lose one ear. For the second offense they would lose the other ear, and for the third offense their tongue would be bored through with a hot iron.
1912
Pres. Roosevelt shot: The president is shot in chest by John Schrank in Milwaukee. Despite the wound, he insisted on delivering his speech before being taken to the hospital.
1947
First level supersonic flight: Charles E. Yeager reaches Mach 1.015 at during level flight at 42,000 feet.
1950
The Adventures of Ellery Queen debuts on DuMont.
1962
Cuban Missile Crisis: The U.S. Air Force photographs Soviet missiles and a Soviet nuclear missile construction site in Cuba.
1964
Martin Luther King, Jr.: The black civil-rights leader is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
1968
First TV broadcast from space, from Apollo 7.
1972
Kung Fu The TV series debuts on ABC, starring David Carradine as Cain, alias Grasshopper.
1992
World's most prolific serial killer: Andrei Chikatilo, a Russia school teacher, is convicted of dismembering and cannibalizing 52 women and children over a 12-year period. He was executed in 1994. Another man had already been mistakenly executed for these crimes.
1994
First woman to walk around the world: 27-year-old Briton Ffyona Campbell completes her 11-year journey when she arrived in John O'Groat's Scotland.
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1783
First manned balloon flight: Jean Pilatre de Rozier makes his historic flight. His balloon was tethered to the ground.
1860
Abraham Lincoln: An 11-year-old girl writes the future president, suggesting he should grow a beard.
1881
First U.S. fishing journal: The American Angler is published.
1892
1.8 million acres of Crow Indian reservation in Montana is opened up for settlement by proclamation of Pres. Harrison. The Indians received 50¢ an acre for their land.
1900
Boston's Symphony Hall opens.
1914
Clayton Antitrust Act: The law - further restricted monopolies and provided labor unions more bargaining power - is passed by Congress.
1924
Statue of Liberty: The 151-foot high gift from the French people is proclaimed a national monument.
1933
20th Amendment: It goes into effect. Called the "Lame Duck Amendment," it specified that the President's and Vice-President's terms were to begin on January 20.
1951
I Love Lucy: The TV show debuts on CBS.
1954
The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin debuts on ABC.
1956
Civil Rights: A Louisiana statute goes into effect making it illegal for black and white players to compete or practice together in both amateur and professional sports.
1966
U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT): The transportation agency is established by Congress.
1972
Water Pollution Control Act: Congress passes the act over Pres. Nixon's veto.
1992
George Bush: The president mutters "I hope a lot of them lose," after a comment about female candidates running for the Senate.
1994
Longest time between the birth of surviving twins: Timothy Keys is born more than 3-months premature. His twin sister, Celeste, wasn't born until 95 days later.
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1701
Yale University: A charter is granted for a collegiate school in New Haven, Connecticut. It later became Yale University.
1859
Civil War: John Brown captures the U.S. arsenal near Harper's Ferry. Two of his sons were killed in the battle and he was later captured by Col. Robert E. Lee and hanged.
1920
First license for a commercial radio station is applied for, KDKA in Pittsburgh.
1925
Evolution: Textbooks containing evolution theory are banned by the Texas State Text Book Board.
1928
Frosted light bulbs: A patent is awarded for the first practical electric light bulb frosted on the inside.
1941
World War II: Tojo Hideki becomes prime minister of Japan. He was executed in 1948 for war crimes committed during the war.
1955
Ann Landers: The column gets a new writer - Esther Pauline Friedman. Her twin sister writes the Dear Abby column.
1962
Gilligan's Island: The pilot for the show about seven castaways is aired. The pilot cast differed from the series with Kit Smythe as Ginger, John Gabriel as the Professor and Nancy McCarthy as Bunny. Gilligan's first name, according to press releases for the show, was Willy. However, it was never used in any of the actual episodes.
1985
Penn & Teller: The magicians "magically" produce 500 live cockroaches and let them loose on The David Letterman Show.
1987
Jessica McClure: The 18-month-old baby is rescued from a 22-foot-deep shaft she had fallen into 58½ hours earlier.
1992
Topless woman found in a Where's Waldo puzzle: The popular children's puzzle was reported to show a topless female sunbather baring her breasts.
1997
Lost in Space: The fictional Jupiter II is launched from Alpha Control, as per the TV show.
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1916
First sex-shocker movie: A Daughter of the Gods opens in New York City.
1931
Al Capone: The public enemy #1 is convicted of tax evasion. He was sentenced to 11 years in prison. He was released from Alcatraz in 1939.
1960
A contestant from the TV quiz show 21 is arrested on perjury charges after he told a grand jury that he had not been given answers prior to the show.
1966
Hollywood Squares: The NBC game show debuts, with its host Peter Marshall.
1973
Arab Oil Embargo: Eleven Arab states declare an oil embargo on the U.S. It wasn't lifted until March.
1989
The opening of the World Series in San Francisco is interrupted by earthquake measuring 7.1 on the Richter scale. An Oakland freeway collapsed killing 42 people. In all the damage was $10 billion with 67 people killed.
1966
Hollywood Squares: The NBC game show debuts, with its host Peter Marshall.
1973
Arab Oil Embargo: Eleven Arab states declare an oil embargo on the U.S. It wasn't lifted until March.
1989
The opening of the World Series in San Francisco is interrupted by earthquake measuring 7.1 on the Richter scale. An Oakland freeway collapsed killing 42 people. In all the damage was $10 billion with 67 people killed.
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1648
First American labor organization: The Shoomakers of Boston are granted permission to organize.
1842
First telegraph cable: Samuel F.B. Morse lays a test cable in New York Harbor. It was destroyed the following day by a ship's anchor.
1867
Alaska: The U.S. takes possession of the territory after purchasing it from the Russians in March for about 2¢ an acre.
1873
Football: Representatives from Columbia, Rutgers, Princeton, and Yale universities meet in New York City to form the first set of rules for American football.
1898
Spanish-American War: The U.S. takes possession of the Puerto Rico from Spain as a result of the war.
1926
First reigning queen to visit the U.S.: Queen Marie of Rumania arrives in New York City for a one month visit.
1943
Perry Mason: Erle Stanley Gardner's characters debut on CBS radio, starring John Larkin as the famous detective.
1945
Nuremberg trials: 24 former Nazi leaders are indicted in Berlin for crimes against humanity. Trials were held the following month in Nuremberg, in which 12 were sentenced to death.
1955
Antiproton: The atomic subparticle is discovered by scientists at the University of California.
1959
First pictures of the far side of the Moon: The Soviet Lunik 3 transmits its pictures, taken on the 7th, back to Earth.
1963
First Cat in Space: Félix is sent into space in a capsule on top of a French Véronique AG1 rocket. Félix traveled 120 miles into space and then descended back to Earth by parachute and was recovered.
1968
The Beatles: John Lennon and Yoko Ono are arrested at Ringo's London flat for drug possession. They vowed that the drugs had been planted by the police.
1969
Cyclamates banned: The artificial sweetener is banned by the Department of Health, Education and Welfare.
1977
Reggie Jackson ties Babe Ruth's record by hitting three home runs in a World Series game.
1992
The Canadian flag is flown upside down by U.S. Marines during the opening of game two of the World Series. Then, the Canadian national anthem was improperly sung.
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1752
Ben Franklin Flies a Kite: Franklin describes his famous experiment, proving that lighting and electricity are related, in Pennsylvania Gazette.
1781
American Revolution: Cornwallis surrenders to Gen. Washington at Yorktown, ending the last major battle of the War.
1790
First battle fought by U.S. troops: 400 troops from the newly formed Union attack 150 Indians northwest of Ohio, and are forced into retreat.
1860
Abraham Lincoln: The future presidents responds to an 11-year-old girl's letter, saying it would be silly to start growing a beard; but he does so anyway.
1904
New York City mounted police: The famous horse patrol begins service.
1911
First airplane flight across the U.S. from East to West: Robert Grant Fowler departs Los Angeles, arriving in Jacksonville, Florida on February 8th.
1919
First Distinguished Service Medal awarded to a woman: Salvation Army commander Evangeline Booth is awarded the honor.
1936
First around-the-world airplane passenger race: Herbert Roslyn Ekins - after using only commercial flying routes - returns to Lakehurst, New Jersey. He and two other reporters had begun the race on September 30th.
1952
Atlantic Crossing: Frenchman, Alain Bombard, begins his solo voyage across the Atlantic Ocean in a 15-foot long boat with almost no provisions. He survived by eating raw fish and plankton, although he still lost 55 pounds. He completed his journey on December 23. He just wanted to prove that it could be done.
1965
Ku Klux Klan: The House Committee on Un-American Activities begins public hearings on the Ku Klux Klan. This was the first public investigation by the committee which didn't concern communism.
1976
New U.S. Copyright law: Pres. Ford signs into law the first major revision since 1909. It extended the copyright to 50 years after the author's death and made provisions for photocopying and television broadcasting.
1982
John DeLorean: The auto manufacturer is arrested for possession of 59 pounds of cocaine with intent to distribute. He plead not guilty and was later acquitted.
1983
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day: The first federal annual holiday honoring a Black American is created when the U.S. Senate votes to set aside the third Monday in January to honor the birth (January 15, 1929) of the civil-rights leader.
1987
Largest one-day stock market crash in history: After a drop of 508 points, Pres. Reagan announces "There is nothing wrong with the economy!"
1987
Subway Vigilante: Bernhard Goetz is fined $5,000 and sentenced to six months in jail for carrying an unlicensed concealed weapon. He had been acquitted of the shooting of four black youths in a New York Subway (1984).
1987
U.S. attacks Iran: Four U.S. destroyers attack two Iranian oil rigs in retaliation for attacks on shipping vessels in the Persian Gulf.
1993
The Program: After several teenagers are injured and one killed while imitating a scene showing kids lying in the middle of a road as cars pass by, Disney announces it will cut the scene from the movie.
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1708
St. Paul's Cathedral: The construction of Christopher Wren's building in London is completed.
1910
Baseball: First use of a cork-centered baseball in a World Series game.
1922
First life saved by a parachute: Lt. Harold Harris.
1928
A chicken in every pot: The slogan is first used by the Republican Party.
1944
World War II: General MacArthur fulfills his promise by returning to the Philippines.
1947
The House Un-American Activities Committee begins investigating Communist activity in the entertainment industry.
1954
Peter Pan musical opens, starring Mary Martin.
1960
First automated U.S. Post Office: Project Turnkey opens in Providence, Rhode Island. It was designed to handle 2,000,000 pieces of mail a day.
1962
Monster Mash: The graveyard smash, by Bobby "Boris" Pickett, reaches #1.
1964
Ku Klux Klan: Seven members are convicted for the murder of three civil rights workers in Mississippi.
1967
Bigfoot: The legendary creature is filmed by hunters Roger Patterson and Bob Gimlin.
1973
Watergate: Attorney General Elliot Richardson resigns and Pres. Nixon fires Special Watergate Prosecutor Archibald Cox and Deputy Attorney General William B. Ruckelshaus. The public and government outcry called for Nixon's impeachment.
1976
Part of Jill's right breast and nipple are shown on the Angels in Chains episode of Charlie's Angels.
1982
World's worst soccer tragedy: 340 fans are crushed to death in a staircase at a game in Moscow.
1991
Oakland fire: Thousands of homes in Oakland Hills, California are destroyed by fire.
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1805
Battle of Trafalgar: The British Royal Navy defeats the Spanish and French fleets ending Napoleon's threat of invading England.
1879
Incandescent lamp: Thomas A. Edison succeeds in making his electric light. He had tried almost 6,000 materials and spent more than $40,000 developing it. It operated for 40 hours.
1915
First transatlantic transmission of speech: AT&T transmits from Arlington, Virginia to Paris.
1925
Photoelectric cell: The device is publicly demonstrated for the first time by its creators Westinghouse Electric, showing its ability to automatically open doors and count the number of times a light beam was interrupted.
1942
World War II: U.S. Navy pilot Rickenbacker's plane goes down in the South Pacific. He and two of his crew drifted on a raft for three weeks before they were rescued.
1954
First James Bond movie: A live TV-broadcast of Ian Fleming's Casino Royale. It starred Barry Nelson, making him the first 007.
1972
My Ding-a-Ling: Chuck Berry's audience participation song hits #1. It was his biggest hit.
1992
Madonna's $50 book Sex hits the bookstores, complete with compact disc.
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1975
First pictures transmitted from another planet: The Soviet Venera 9 transmits pictures from Venus.
1962
Cuban Missile Crisis: Pres. Kennedy announces the presence of offensive Soviet missile buildup in Cuba.
1946
Xerox: Chester Carlson of New York invents his copying method. He approached IBM with his invention, but they turned it down.
1923
World record for an hour's typing: Albert Tangora of New Jersey averages 147 words per minute. (source: Guinness Book of World Records)
1883
Metropolitan Opera House opens in New York.
1844
The end of the world: According to the religious followers of William Miller who supposedly gave away their earthly possessions in preparation for the event.
1836
First president of Texas: Sam Houston is sworn in.
1797
First parachute jump: André-Jacques Garnerin in Paris.
1746
Princeton University: College of New Jersey is founded. It was later renamed Princeton. Princeton was the first to use the word "campus" (c 1774).
2134 B.C.
Earliest Record of a Solar Eclipse: The Chinese make records of the celestial event.
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1992
Woman detained for "unusually large buttocks": She was attempting to smuggle 1½ pounds of surgically implanted heroin through a Columbian airport.
1992
Publisher's Clearing House announces it had "accidently" discarded thousands of sweepstakes entries after claims it had thrown away entries which did not purchase magazines.
1992
First criminal prosecution for cheating on a college entrance exam. A Maryland man is sentenced to six months in jail for paying another man $200 to take the exam for him.
1992
First Japanese Emperor to visit China: Emperor Akihito.
1992
AIDS: The director of the French national blood transfusion center is convicted of knowingly distributing AIDS-infected blood, resulting in 256 deaths and hundreds of new cases of the disease.
1987
Robert Bork: Pres. Reagan's nomination of Bork to the Supreme Court is rejected by the Senate.
1947
Ronald Reagan, president of the Screen Actors Guild, testifies before the House Un-American Activities Committee.
1934
First successful stratospheric flight through clouds: Jean Felix Piccard and his wife in a balloon reaching an altitude of 11 miles.
1932
The Linit Bath Club Review debuts on radio. It was Fred Allen's first radio show.
1924
First U.S. national radio network broadcast received on the West Coast: A speech by Pres. Coolidge.
1850
First national Women's Rights Convention.
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1945
United Nations is founded with 50 countries signing its charter.
1940
Fair Labor Standards Act goes into effect, establishing the 40-hour work week in the U.S.
1931
George Washington Bridge opens, connecting New York and New Jersey.
1929
Black Thursday: Stock Market panic due to declining stock prices; the stock market crash was just around the corner.
1929
Fleischmann Hour debuts on NBC radio featuring Rudy Vallee and his Connecticut Yankees.
1901
First person to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel and survive: 43-year-old Anna Edson Taylor.
1897
First multi-paneled comic strip: Richard Felton Outcault's Yellow Kid in the New York Journal.
1861
First U.S. transcontinental telegraph message is sent, from San Francisco to Washington D.C.
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1992
Ross Perot: The presidential candidate states that he had dropped out the race because of threats to disrupt his daughter's wedding.
1983
U.S. invades Grenada: It claimed U.S. medical students were in danger.
1972
First female FBI agents graduate from the FBI training course.
1960
First mass produced electronic wristwatch: Bulova's Accutron goes on sale.
1940
First black U.S. army brigadier general: Benjamin Oliver Davis is appointed.
1929
First president's cabinet member convicted of a crime: Warren Harding's Secretary of the Interior, Albert Bacon Fall, is convicted of accepting a $100,000 bribe. He was sentenced to one year in prison and fined $100,000.
1926
U.S. Supreme Court rules that the president has the authority to remove executive officers from their positions.
1870
First U.S. trademark is awarded, to the Averill Chemical Paint Co. of New York.
1867
First U.S. rabbinical school: Maimonides College of Philadelphia is founded.
1854
Charge of the Light Brigade: Lord Alfred Tennyson's poem was inspired by this Crimean War battle.
1850
Southern Rights Association is established. Its purpose was to end slavery.
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1993
Pepsi Syringe Hoax: A 25-year-old Pennsylvania man is sentenced to a year in prison. He was the first person charged after the previous summer's dozens of false tampering reports. He admitted to placing the syringe in the can and then telling an emergency room nurse it had touched his tongue.
1984
Baby Fae, a 12-day-old infant, receives the heart of a seven-month-old baboon. She survived for 20 days.
1981
The Bureau of Engraving and Printing begins selling uncut sheets of U.S. currency.
1981
David Copperfield: The magician makes a 7-ton Learjet disappear on live national TV.
1975
First Egyptian president to visit the U.S., Anwar el-Sadat.
1971
First American to qualify for the world chess championship: 28-year-old Bobby Fischer; he went on to win.
1965
The Beatles are awarded the Member of the Order of the British Empire at Buckingham Palace.
1964
The Rolling Stones appear on the Ed Sullivan Show.
1881
Shootout at the O.K. Corral: Marshal Wyatt Earp, his brothers Virgil and Morgan, and Doc Holliday in Tombstone, Arizona, kill three cowboys he had branded as outlaws.
1863
Red Cross: Delegates from fourteen nations meet to examine Swiss philanthropist Henri Dunant's plans for an international organization to help the wounded in time of war.
1825
First major man-made U.S. waterway: The Erie Canal, connecting Lake Erie and the Hudson River, opens.
1749
Slavery: Importation and use of negro slaves permitted in Georgia.
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1972
Pennsylvania Avenue Development Corporation: The agency is established to develop Pennsylvania Ave.
1972
Consumer Product Safety Commission: The agency is established.
1970
LSD: The psychedelic chemical is declared a Schedule I drug by the DEA.
1954
Disneyland: The TV series debuts on ABC.
1927
First sound news film: It is released by Fox Movie-Tone News.
1904
World's first underground and underwater subway: New York City opens the first section of its subway system.
1810
U.S. acquires West Florida: Pres. Madison issues a proclamation claiming it to be part of the Louisiana Purchase of 1803.
1787
Federalist papers: The series of 85 papers in defense of the Constitution begin appearing in a New York newspaper. They were written by Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison.
1492
Columbus discovers Cuba: Believing it to be Asia he named it Juanna.
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1993
Cheeky education: The president of Columbia's largest university, National University, "moons" his audience in response to being interrupted by students during a speech.
1977
First Mother-In-Law Day: It is now celebrated on the 3rd Sunday in October.
1962
Cuban Missile Crisis: Soviet leader Nikita Krushchev announces that the Cuban missile bases would be dismantled.
1949
First woman U.S. ambassador: Eugenie Moore Anderson is sworn in by Pres. Truman as ambassador to Denmark.
1929
First child born in an airplane: In a transport plane over Miami, Florida.
1927
First scheduled international passenger flight: Pan Am begins flying a route from Key West to Havana.
1922
Benito Mussolini: He leads the Fascist Party on a march against Rome, overthrowing the Facta government. He then became prime minister.
1919
Volstead Act: Passed by Congress over Pres. Woodrow Wilson's veto. It set maximum alcohol content in non-intoxicating beverages to ½ of 1%
1913
Krazy Kat: George Herriman's comic strip premiers.
1904
Fingerprinting: St. Louis, Missouri becomes the first U.S. police department to adopt fingerprinting.
1897
Thomas Edison: The American inventor announces his new process for recovering iron in low grade ore.
1893
The Pathetic: Tchaikovsky's masterpiece 6th symphony is performed for the first time, nine days before his death.
1890
Fingerprinting: Nature magazine published the first article to advocate the use of fingerprinting.
1886
Statue of Liberty: The 151-foot high gift from the French people is dedicated.
1795
First U.S. extradition treaty with a foreign country: The Jay Treaty - signed with Great Britain in 1794 - is signed by Pres Washington.
1793
Cotton gin is invented by Eli Whitney.
1636
Harvard University: The oldest college in America is founded.
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This Day in History: October 28
1746 - an earthquake demolished Lima and Callao in Peru.
1914 - American George Eastman announced the invention of a color photographic process to be marketed by his Eastman Kodak Company.
1958 - the state opening of the British Parliament was televised for the first time.
1961 - while working in a record shop in Liverpool, Brian Epstein was asked for My Bonnie by The Beatles. He discovered the record was only released in Germany and set out to see the group himself. The rest is history.
1971 - the House of Commons voted by a majority of 112 in favor of Britain joining the European Common Market.
1998 - a superbly preserved granite sphinx with the head of Cleopatra's father was winched up by divers in Alexandra Harbour, Egypt after 1,600 years in the sea.
2002 - American diplomat Laurence Foley was assassinated in front of his house in Amman, Jordan.
2005 - Lewis Libby, vice-president Dick Cheney's chief of staff is indicted in the Valerie Plame case. Libby resigns the next day.
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1992
Blind woman "sees": After 20 years of blindness, she was able to see dots of light with the aid of electrodes implanted in her brain.
1978
First $275,000 slot machine payoff: James Schelich lines up five 7s on the bottom row of a progressive slot machine in Los Vegas.
1975
First black president of the Girl Scouts: Dr. Gloria Dean Scott is elected. She served for three years.
1966
National Organization for Women: NOW is organized; their goal is true equality for women in America.
1964
The world's largest sapphire is stolen: The Star of India measuring 563.35 carats and 2.5 inches in diameter, is stolen along with 22 other gems from the American Museum of Natural History. It was eventually recovered.
1945
First U.S. made ball-point pen: It goes on sale at Gimbel's department store. A bargain at $12.50 each, they sold nearly 10,000 the first day.
1945
First Medal of Freedom awarded to a woman: Anna Rosenberg, a member of the Advisory Board of the Office of War Mobilization and Reconversion, is awarded the honor.
1929
Black Tuesday: Stock Market Crash, marking the end of the Roaring '20s and the start of the great depression.
1923
The Charleston: The new dance makes its debut when Runnin' Wild opens on Broadway.
1863
Red Cross: Delegates from fourteen nations, led by Swiss philanthropist Henri Dunant, approve plans for an international organization to help the wounded in time of war.
1833
First college fraternity house: The Kappa Alpha Society of Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts is founded. They opened the first frat house in 1839.
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1988
Presidential candidate Michael Dukakis admits to being a "liberal." Bush had been trying to pin the "L" word on him for months.
1974
Rumble in the Jungle: Muhammad Ali beats George Foreman in Zaire for the heavyweight boxing championship.
1943
Gus Bodar scores a goal 15 seconds into his first NHL game.
1938
War of the Worlds: Orson Welles panics the nation with his realistic CBS radio broadcast.
1925
First person on TV, a 15-year-old boy working in the London lab inventor John L. Baird.
1888
First welterweight boxing championship: Won by Paddy Duffy.
1768
First Methodist church in America is dedicated, the Wesley Chapel in New York City. (Source: An Almanac of the Christian Church)
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1968
Bombing of North Korea is stopped by Pres. Johnson.
1950
First black to play in a regular-season NBA game, Earl Lloyd with the Washington Capitols against the Rochester Royals. They lost 78-70.
1941
Mt. Rushmore: The memorial is completed. Work had begun in 1927 by sculpture Gutzon Borglum who died in March leaving his son to complete the task.
1864
Nevada becomes the 36th state.
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1979
Chrysler: The U.S. government announces a $1.5 billion loan guarantee plan to aid the failing auto manufacturer.
1963
First maneuverable unmanned satellite: The Soviets announce the successful launching and operation of their Polyot I.
1963
First U.S. Christmas stamps: The stamps, depicting a Christmas tree in front of the White House, go on sale.
1957
World's longest suspension bridge opens, a five-mile bridge between the upper and lower peninsulas of Michigan.
1952
First hydrogen bomb explosion: By the U.S at Eniwetok Atoll in the South Pacific. The force was ten times that of an atom bomb.
1950
Presidential assassination attempt: Two members of the Puerto Rican nationalist movement attempt to kill Pres. Truman by shooting their way into Blair House.
1944
Harvey by Mary Coyle Chase opens in New York, featuring a giant imaginary rabbit.
1913
First Army-Notre Dame football game: Little known Notre Dame uses the forward pass to win.
1911
First air raid: Italy uses a monoplane to drop a 4½-pound bomb on the Turks.
1911
Chevrolet: Louis Chevrolet and William Durant form their automobile company.
1895
First automobile association is formed, the American Motor League, in Detroit.
1890
First state constitution to place restrictions on a black's right to vote is adopted by Mississippi.
1861
Civil War: Gen. George McClellan is named commander in chief of the U.S. army by Pres. Lincoln.
1848
First medical school exclusively for women opens, Boston Female Medical School founded by Samuel Gregory. It merged with the Boston University School of Medicine (1874) to become one of the first co-ed medical schools in the world.
1835
Second Seminole War: The war begins when Seminole Indians in Florida attack. They were protesting their forced removal to the West.
1765
The Stamp Act goes into effect, requiring revenue stamps to be placed on commercial and legal documents, pamphlets, newspapers, almanacs, playing cards and dice. It was repealed in 1766.
1512
Michelangelo: The Italian artist unveils his masterpiece on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican. He had begun working on it in 1508.
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Re: This Day In History
This Day In History: November 2
1992
Magic Johnson: The basketball legend retires from the sport for a second time; this time for good.
1988
First Internet Worm: Released by a Cornell graduate student, Robert Morris, Jr.
1983
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day: The first federal annual holiday honoring a black American is created when Pres. Reagan signs the legislation to set aside the third Monday in January to honor the birth (January 15, 1929) of the civil-rights leader.
1962
Cuban Missile Crisis: Pres. Kennedy announces that the Soviet missile bases in Cuba were being dismantled.
1954
First woman lieutenant governor: Consuelo Northrop Bailey of Vermont is elected.
1948
Pres. Truman beats Thomas Dewey in the presidential election, regardless of what the newspapers said.
1947
Howard Hughes' Spruce Goose: The billionaire flies his 200-ton craft for its first and only flight. It was the world's largest plane.
1896
First automobile insurance is sold, by General Accident Co. in Britain.
1889
North Dakota becomes the 39th State and South Dakota becomes the 40th.
1867
Harper's Bazaar (Bazaar) founded, a magazine for women.
1835
Discovery of secondary currents in electricity is announced by Joseph Henry.
1800
First president to move into the White House, John Adams.
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Re: This Day In History
This Day In History: November 3
1992
Your vote counts: A Randolph, New York man wins the election for town judge. No one ran for the position, so he wrote himself in and won by one vote, his, the only vote cast.
1988
Geraldo Rivera is hit by a chair during a scuffle while taping an upcoming episode called Teen Hatemongers.
1987
World's loudest snorer: Mark Thompson Hebbard (Canada) is recorded snoring at 90 dB. (source: Guinness Book of World Records)
1978
Diff'rent Strokes debuts on NBC.
1957
First animal in orbit: A dog named Laika aboard the Soviet Sputnik II. Although he survived the launch and orbiting, he died before the mission was completed.
1783
Congress disbands the Army.
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