This day in history.....

October 13th


1775: The Continental Congress authorizes construction and administration of the first American naval force.


1792: In Washington, D.C., the cornerstone of the White House is laid.


1843: B'nai B'rith, the oldest secular Jewish organization in the United States, is founded in New York City.


1923: Ankara becomes the capital of modern Turkey, succeeding the Ottoman capital of Constantinople (modern Istanbul).


1943: Italy, switching allegiances, declares war on Germany.


1964: The Voskhod 1, the first spacecraft to carry a multi-person crew, returns to earth.:banana:
 
1843: B'nai B'rith, the oldest secular Jewish organization in the United States, is founded in New York City.
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Secular. Jewish. Can you say oxymoron. I knew that you could. :lol:
 
October 14th


1066: Harold II Godwinson, last Anglo-Saxon king of England, falls in the Battle of Hastings against William I's Norman forces at Hastings, Sussex, England.


1912: Theodore Roosevelt, the presidential candidate for the Progressive Party, is shot at close range by a would-be assassinator.


1947: American pilot Chuck Yeager flies faster than the speed of sound in the experimental X-1 aircraft built by the Bell Aircraft Company.


1964: American clergyman Martin Luther King, Jr., wins the Nobel Peace Prize.


1968: Apollo 7 astronauts give a tour of the inside of the spacecraft and show views through the windows in the first live telecast from space.


1979: Over 100,000 supporters march on Washington, D.C., in the first national gay rights march.


2003: On the brink of their first World Series since 1945, the Chicago Cubs blow a 3-0 eighth-inning lead after a fan interferes with a catchable fly ball.
 
October 15th



1914: The U.S. House of Representatives approves the Clayton Antitrust Act.


1917: Dutch courtesan Mata Hari is executed by the French after being suspected of spying for Germany.


1928: The Graf Zeppelin makes the first commercial transatlantic flight.


1945: Pierre Laval, prime minister of Nazi-occupied Vichy France, is executed by a firing squad for treason against France.


1946: Hermann Wilhelm Göring, the second most powerful leader of Nazi Germany, poisons himself hours before his scheduled execution for war crimes during World War II.
Learn more about Göring.

1964: Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev is deposed.
 
October 16th


1701: The Collegiate School of America, later Yale University, is founded by Congregationalists who are unhappy with the more liberal Harvard.


1793: Marie-Antoinette, queen consort of Louis XVI of France, is guillotined in Paris for treason.


1859: Planning to free Virginian slaves by armed force, American abolitionist John Brown seizes a federal arsenal in Harpers Ferry, Virginia.


1916: In New York City, Fania Mindell, Ethel Byrne, and Margaret Sanger open the first birth control clinic.


1946: In Nürnberg, Germany, ten high-ranking Nazi officials are executed by hanging for their war crimes during World War II.
Learn more about the Nürnberg trials.

1984: Dr. Leonard L. Bailey performs the first transplant of a baboon heart into a human at Loma Linda University Medical Center in California. :eek5:
 
October 17th


1604: King James I writes his Counterblast to Tobacco, condemning the increasingly popular habit of smoking, in Britain.


1777: The Battles of Saratoga end.


1931: Al Capone is jailed for tax evasion.


1933: German-born physicist Albert Einstein emigrates to the United States.


1973: The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) suspends oil exports to nations that supported Israel in the Arab-Israeli War of 1973. Oil prices rise dramatically.


1989: An earthquake measuring 7.1 on the Richter scale strikes San Francisco, California.
 
October 19th


1453: The port of Bordeaux, France, finally surrenders to the forces of King Charles VII of France; the Hundred Years' War ends this same year.


1781: The Siege of Yorktown—the last major battle of the Revolutionary War—ends as General Charles Cornwallis surrenders to American and French forces at Yorktown, Virginia.


1935: The League of Nations imposes economic sanctions against fascist Italy for its invasion of Ethiopia.


1960: The U.S. Treasury Department declared a trade embargo, halting commerce with communist Cuba, in an attempt to oust revolutionary leader Fidel Castro.
 
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1960: The U.S. Treasury Department declared a trade embargo, halting commerce with communist Cuba, in an attempt to oust revolutionary leader Fidel Castro.
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How's that working out anyway? I guess we showed them. :grinno:
 
October 23rd


1864: The Battle of Westport is fought in Kansas City, Missouri.


1906: Woman suffragists demonstrate in the outer lobby of the British House of Commons. Ten of the demonstrators are charged the following day and sent to prison.


1924: The first radio network broadcast to the Pacific Coast allows listeners in California, Oregon, and Washington to hear U.S. President Calvin Coolidge dedicate the Chamber of Commerce building in Washington, D.C.


1956: In Budapest, Hungarian students and workers demonstrate against Soviet domination and Communist rule.
 
October 24th


1861: Western Union completes the first transcontinental telegraph line.


1901: Anna Edson Taylor goes over Niagara Falls in a wooden barrel, initiating a stunt tradition.


1934: Mohandas Gandhi resigns as leader of the Indian nationalist Congress Party, disillusioned by its use of civil disobedience as a political expedient rather than a fundamental principle.


1945: The United Nations (UN) formally comes into existence.
 
Oct. 25th


1415: During the Hundred Years' War between England and France, King Henry V of England leads his forces to victory at the Battle of Agincourt.


1810: King George III celebrates his 50th anniversary as monarch of Great Britain.


1854: Lord James Cardigan leads a charge of light cavalry over open terrain against well-defended Russian artillery at Balaclava during the Crimean War.

1929: Secretary of the Interior Albert B. Fall is found guilty of accepting a bribe; he is the first cabinet member to be convicted of a crime committed while in office.

1960: The Accutron, the world's first electronic wristwatch, goes on sale.


1971: The People's Republic of China joins the United Nations, replacing the nationalist government of Taiwan.
 
October 29th


1618: Sir Walter Raleigh, English adventurer, writer, and favorite courtier of Queen Elizabeth I, is beheaded in England under a sentence brought against him fifteen years earlier by King James I.


1923: The Turkish nationalist leader Mustafa Kemal Pasha (later known as Atatürk) is elected president of Turkey.


1929: The stock market crashes, heralding the onset of the Great Depression.


1991: The American space probe Galileo takes the first close-up photograph of an asteroid in space.
 
October 30th


1831: Escaped slave Nat Turner is apprehended in Southampton County, Virginia, several weeks after leading the bloodiest slave uprising in American history.


1938: Orson Welles stirs nationwide panic with his "War of the Worlds" radio dramatization.


1961: Soviet leader Nikita Khrushev orders the de-Stalinization of the USSR.


1972: U.S. President Richard Nixon approves legislation to increase Social Security spending by $5.3 billion.
 
November 2nd


1889: North Dakota and South Dakota are admitted to the Union.

1920: Warren G. Harding is elected the 29th president of the United States.


1947: Howard Hughes test-flies the "spruce goose," a two-hundred-ton plywood airplane with a wing span longer than a football field.


1948: Democratic incumbent Harry S. Truman defeats New York governor Thomas E. Dewey in the U.S. presidential elections.


1948: Margaret Chase Smith is elected to the U.S. Senate.
 
November 5th


1370: Kazimierz III the Great, king of Poland (1333-1370) and last of the Piast dynasty, dies at age 60.


1605: English conspirator Guy Fawkes is arrested in an attempt to blow up the British Parliament.


1895: American inventor George B. Selden patents the gasoline-powered automobile.


1912: Woodrow Wilson is elected the 28th president of the United States.


1940: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt is elected to a third term in office.
 
November 7th


1307: The legendary Swiss archer William Tell is said to have shot Hermann Gessler, the Austrian governor of Tyrol, on this day.

1837: In Alton, Illinois, abolitionist printer Elijah P. Lovejoy is shot to death by a mob while trying to protect his printing shop.

1917: The Bolshevik-led Congress of Soviets comes to power in Russia.


1944: Franklin D. Roosevelt is reelected to a record fourth term as president of the United States.


1989: In New York, former Manhattan borough president David Dinkins becomes the city's first African-American mayor.


1989: In Virginia, Lieutenant Governor Douglas Wilder becomes the first elected African-American state governor in American history.
 
November 8th


1793: Originally constructed as a royal residence in the early 13th century, the Louvre opens as a museum in Paris.


1837: Mount Holyoke Seminary opens in Holyoke, Massachusetts. It is the first college in America established specifically for women.


1864: U.S. president Abraham Lincoln is reelected.


1923: In what becomes known as the Beer Hall putsch (revolt), Adolf Hitler and general Erich Ludendorff march on a Munich beer hall in an attempt to start a revolution.


1932: Franklin D. Roosevelt becomes the 32nd president of the United States.


1942: British and U.S. forces invade Nazi-occupied North Africa.
 
November 9th


1918: German Kaiser Wilhelm is deposed.


1923: In Munich, armed policeman and troops loyal to Germany's democratic government crush the Beer Hall putsch (revolt), Hitler's first attempt at seizing control of the German government.


1938: In Germany, Nazis set synagogues on fire, smash the windows of Jewish shops, and arrest thousands of Jews in a single night that comes to be known as Kristallnacht, or the Night of Broken Glass.


1965: New York and much of the northeast coast of North America suffer the largest power failure in history, leaving thirty million people in the dark.


1989: German citizens begin to demolish the Berlin Wall, which has separated East Germany from West Germany since 1961.
 
November 10th



1620: Pilgrim emigrants sign the Mayflower Compact, giving themselves the power to govern their planned settlement in New England.


1887: Four labor activists accused of murdering eight Chicago police officers at the Haymarket Square Riot are executed by hanging in Illinois.


1917: Liliuokalani, first Hawaiian queen and last reigning sovereign of Hawaii (1891-1895), dies in Honolulu, Hawaii, at age 79.


1918: World War I ends.


1921: Exactly three years after the end of World War I, the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier is dedicated at Arlington Cemetery in Virginia, during a ceremony presided over by President Warren G. Harding.


1965: Rhodesia, the African country later known as Zimbabwe, declares its independence from Britain.
 
November 12th


HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME!:beardbng: :hippy: :hump: :cake: :toast:


1799: American astronomer Andrew Ellicott Douglass witnesses the first meteor shower on record, the Leonids meteor shower, from a ship off the Florida Keys.

1948: An international war crimes tribunal in Tokyo passes death sentences on seven Japanese military and government officials, including General Tojo Hideki, who served as premier of Japan from 1941 to 1944.


1971: U.S. President Richard Nixon proclaims the end of the U.S. offensive role in the Vietnam War and withdraws 45,000 troops.


1980: Voyager I comes within 78,000 miles of Saturn.
 
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