October 2014
10/1
1961 - Roger Maris of the New York Yankees hit his 61st home run of the season
1903 - The visiting Pittsburgh Pirates beat the Boston Americans 7-3 in the first WorldSeries game.
1908 - Henry Ford introduced the Model T automobile to the market
1971 - Walt Disney World opened in Orlando, Fla.
1982 - Sony began selling the first commercial compact disc player
10/2
1967 - Thurgood Marshall was sworn in as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court
1869 – Gandhi was born
1950 - The comic strip "Peanuts" was first published.
2000 - The International Space Station got its first residents
1959 - "The Twilight Zone" debuted on CBS.
10/3
1990 - West Germany and East Germany ended 45 years of postwar division.
1873 - Emily Postwas born.
1863 - President Abraham Lincoln declared the last Thursday in November ThanksgivingDay.
1955 - "Captain Kangaroo" premiered on CBS and "The Mickey Mouse Club" premieredon ABC.
1974 - The Cleveland Indians hired Frank Robinson
10/4
1957 - The Space Age began as the Soviet Union launched Sputnik
1822 - Rutherford B. Hayes, the 19th president of the United States, was born.
1895 - The first U.S. Open golf tournament was held.
1957 - Jimmy Hoffa was elected president of the Teamsters Union.
1970 - Rock singer Janis Joplin, 27, was found dead of an overdose.
10/6
2010 - Roy Halladay pitched the second no-hitter in postseason history
1979 - Pope John Paul II became the first pontiff to visit the White House
1951 - Stalin proclaims USSR has atom bomb
1927 - "Jazz Singer," 1st movie with a sound track, premieres
1882 - 1st World Series game, Cincinnati (AA) beats Chicago (NL) 4-0
10/7
1913 - Henry Ford institutes moving assembly line
1935 - Himmler/Hess/Heydrich inspect the concentration camp at Dachau
1957 - "American Bandstand" premieres
1968 -film-rating system
1971 - Disney World opens`
10/8
1869 - Franklin Pierce, the 14th president of the United States, died at the age of 64.
2011 - Al Davis, the Hall of Fame owner of the Oakland Raiders, died at age 82.
2004 - Martha Stewart reported to prison
1985 – singer Bruno Mars was born
1943 – Author R.L. Stine was born
10/9
2006 – Google bought Youtube for 1.65 billion in stock
2010 - Chile's 33 trapped miners were located after 66 days
2009 - President Barack Obama was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
1888 - The public was first admitted to the Washington Monument.
1958 - Pope Pius XII died at age 82.
10/10
2005 - Angela Merkel became Germany's first female chancellor2002 - The House voted to use military force against Iraq.
1979 - Hockey Hall-of-Famer Wayne Gretzky made his NHL debut with the Edmonton Oilers.
1885 - The U.S. Naval Academy opened in Annapolis, Md.
1973 - Mario Lopez, Actor, TV host ("The X Factor") was born
10/13
A.D. 54 – Nero becomes emperor of Rome
1792 - Cornerstone of Executive Mansion (White House) is set in place
1792 - "Old Farmer's Almanac" is 1st published
1947 - 1st NHL All-Star Game
1987 - 1st military use of trained dolphins (US Navy in Persian Gulf)
10/14
1964 - Martin Luther King Jr. won the Nobel Peace Prize
1968 - First live telecast from a manned U.S. spacecraft was transmitted from Apollo 7
1947 - Charles E. Yeager became the first person to break the sound barrier
1933 - Nazi Germany withdrew from the League of Nations
1927 - Roger Moore was born
10/15
1964 - Soviet leader Nikita S. Khrushchev was removed from office.
1946 - Nazi war criminal Hermann Goering fatally poisoned himself.
2007 - Alex Rodriguez signed a record 10-year, $275 million contract, the richest in sports history.1951 - The situation comedy "I Love Lucy" premiered on CBS.
2009 - A false report that a 6-year-old boy was aboard a runaway balloon in Colorado
10/16
1964 -China detonated its first atomic bomb.
1793 - Marie Antoinette was beheaded during the French Revolution.
1859 - Abolitionist John Brownled a raid on a federal armory at Harpers Ferry in present-day West Virginia.
2011 - The Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial was formally dedicated in Washington, D.C.1987 - Rescuers freed Jessica McClure
10/17
1931 - Mobster Al Capone was convicted of income tax evasion and sentenced to 11 years in prison.
1971 – Rapper Eminem was born
1919 - The Radio Corporation of America was created
1777 - British Gen. John Burgoyne surrendered to American forces
1915 - Pulitzer Prize-winning American playwright Arthur Miller was born.
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10/18
1922 - The British Broadcasting Co., Ltd. (later the British Broadcasting Corp. of BBC) was founded.
1892 - The first long distance telephone line between Chicago and New York was opened.
1876 - The United States took possession of Alaska from Russia.
1972 - Congress passed the Clean Water Act
1685 - King Louis XIV of France revoked the Edict of Nantes
10/20
1944 - Gen. Douglas MacArthur said, "I shall return”
1968 - Former first lady Jacqueline Kennedy married Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis
1977 - Three members of the rock band LynyrdSkynyrd were killed in a plane crash
1992 - The Toronto Blue Jays hosted the first World Series game played outside the United States.
1803 - The U.S. Senate ratified the Louisiana Purchase
10/21
1879 - Thomas Edison invented a workable electric light
1975 - Boston Red Sox catcher Carlton Fisk hit a home run in Game 6 of the World Series
1917 - American soldiers first saw action in World War I on the front lines in France
1797 - The U.S. Navy frigate Constitution, also known as Old Ironsides, was launched in Boston Harbor.
1956 - Carrie Fisher, Actress & author, was born
10/22
1962 - President John F. Kennedy announced an air and naval blockade of Cuba
2002 - A bus driver was shot and killed in the 13th and final attack by the Washington-area sniper.
1934 - Bank robber Charles "Pretty Boy" Floyd was shot to death by federal agents
1797 - French balloonist Andre-Jacques Garnerin made the first parachute descent, landing safely from a height of about 3,000 feet.
1746 - Princeton University received its charter.
10/23
2011 -Libya's interim rulers declared the country liberated, formally marking the end of Moammar Gadhafi's 42-year tyranny.
2001 – Apple Computer introduced the iPod
1993 - Toronto Blue Jays outfielder Joe Carter became the second player to end a World Series with a home run
1973 - President Richard M. Nixon agreed to turn White House tape recordings
1707 - The Parliament of Great Britain held its first meeting.
10/24
2007 -Facebook Inc. sold a 1.6 percent stake to Microsoft Corp. for $240 million
2005 - Civil rights activist Rosa Parks died at age 92
2003 - The era of supersonic jet travel came to an end as three British Airways Concordes landed at London's Heathrow Airport
1940 - The 40-hour workweek went into effect in the United States.
1861 - The first transcontinental telegraph message was sent from California to President Abraham Lincoln.
10/25
2001 - Microsoft released the Windows XP operating system.
1986 - The Mets won Game 6 of the World Series in the 10th inning when a routine ground ball went through Boston Red Sox first baseman Bill Buckner's legs.
1881 - Artist Pablo Picasso was born in Malaga, Spain.
1984 - Singer Katy Perry was born
1983 - A U.S.-led force invaded Grenada
10/28
1886 - The Statue of Liberty was dedicated by President Grover Cleveland
1636 - Harvard College was established
1793 - Eli Whitney applied for a patent for the cotton gin.
1919 - Congress enacted the Volstead Act
1858 - Rowland Hussey Macy opened his first store in New York
10/29
1929 - Stock prices collapsed on the New York Stock Exchange amid panic selling. Thousands of investors were wiped out.
1682 - The founder of Pennsylvania, William Penn, landed at what is now Chester, Pa.
1940 - The United States America began its first peacetime military draft.
2004 - Osama bin Laden, in a videotaped statement, directly admitted for the first time that he had ordered the Sept. 11 attacks.
1966 - The National Organization for Women was founded.
10/30
1735 -John Adams, the second president of the United States, was born in Braintree, Mass.
2003 - Lebron James made his NBA debut with the Cleveland Cavaliers.
1975 - The New York Daily News ran the headline "Ford to City: Drop Dead"
2005 -Civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks became the first woman to lie in honor in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda.
1974 - Muhammad Ali knocked out George Foreman in the eighth round of a 15-round bout in Kinshasa, Zaire, to regain his world heavyweight title.
10/31
1926 - Magician Harry Houdini died of complications from a ruptured appendix.
1864 - Nevada became the 36th state.
1795 - Poet John Keats was born in London.
1968 - President Lyndon B. Johnson ordered a halt to all U.S. bombing of North Vietnam
1938 - The day after his "War of the Worlds" broadcast had panicked radio listeners, Orson Welles expressed "deep regret" but also bewilderment that anyone had thought the show was real.