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01/01 Anniversary of the Triumph of the Revolution in Cuba

01/01 Castro expels Cuban President Batista, 1959

01/01 Churchill delivers his "Iron Curtain" speech, 1947

01/02 Canada and the United States agree on a plan to preserve

Niagara Falls, 1929

01/03 Benito Mussolini announces he is taking dictatorial powers

over Italy, 1925

01/03 Margaret Thatcher becomes the longest-serving British

Prime Minister in the 20th Century, 1988

01/04 Burma becomes independent from United Kingdom, 1948

01/05 Twelfth night

01/06 Maria Montessori opens her first school in Rome, 1907

01/07 First transatlantic telephone call, 1927

01/08 Monaco gains its independence, 1297

01/09 Plough Monday

01/10 First meeting of United Nations General Assembly in London, 1946

01/10 Thomas Paine's Common Sense published, 1776

01/11 Anniversary of the Peoples Republic of Albania

01/11 De Hostos' Birthday in Puerto Rico

01/11 Prithvi Jayanti in Nepal

01/12 Batman the TV series debuts on ABC, 1966

01/13 Mickey Mouse comic strip makes its first appearance, 1930

01/14 Julian Calendar New Year's Day

01/15 Angola becomes an independent state, 1975

01/16 The Medici family are made official bankers of the Papacy, 1412

01/17 Captain James Cook becomes the first explorer to cross the

Antarctic Circle, 1773

01/18 The X-ray machine is exhibited for the first time, 1896

01/19 The last Volkswagen Beetle made in Germany leaves VW's plant, 1978

01/20 St. Agnes Eve (Ah, bitter chill it was...)

01/21 First commercial flight with a Concorde, 1976

01/22 British colonists reach New Zealand, 1840

01/23 The Royal Exchange opens in London, 1571

01/23 The Union of Utrecht forms a Protestant republic in

the Netherlands, 1579

01/24 Robert Baden-Powell begins the Boy Scout movement, 1908

01/25 The British Parliament passes the Constitutional Act of 1791 and splits

the old province of Quebec into Upper and Lower Canada, 1791

01/26 Sydney Aust. settled, 1788

01/27 Vietnam War cease-fire signed, 1973

01/28 The first locomotive runs from the Atlantic to the Pacific on the

Panama Railway, 1855

01/29 Liliuokalani is proclaimed Queen of Hawaii, the last monarch of

Hawaii, 1891

01/30 Mohandas Gandhi assassinated in New Delhi by Hindu fanatic, 1948

01/31 Irving Langmuir, 1881, invented tungsten filament lamp

01/31 Irving Langmuir invented tungsten filament lamp, 1881

01/31 Dmitry Mendeleev, 1865, established optimal alcohol-water mixture ratio

01/31 Dmitry Mendeleev established optimal alcohol-water mixture ratio

in his PhD work on alcohol-water mixtures

in his PhD work on alcohol-water mixtures, 1865

02/01 Forces led by Khomeini take over Iran, 1979

02/02 Adolf Hitler dissolves the German Parliament, 1933

02/03 The first commercial cheese factory is founded in Switzerland, 1815

02/04 Cybernet inaugurated, 1969

02/04 Patricia Hearst kidnaped by Symbionese Liberation Army, 1974

02/05 Gamel Abdel Nasser is nominated to be the first president of

the United Arab Republic, 1958

02/06 Signing of the Treaty of Waitangi, founding document of New Zealand, 1840

02/07 The British Labour Party is formed, 1900

02/08 1963 Revolution Anniversary in Iraq

02/09 Gregory XV becomes Pope, the last Pope elected by acclamation, 1621

02/10 New Delhi becomes the capital of India, 1931

02/11 Norway's independence is proclaimed, marking the ultimate end of

the Kalmar Union, 1814

02/12 China adopts the Gregorian calendar, 1912

02/13 France tests its first atomic bomb in Algeria, 1960

02/14 Bombing of Dresden, 1945

02/15 Chicago Seven convicted, 1970

02/16 Nylon patented, 1937

02/17 The first ship passes through the Suez Canal, 1867

02/18 Joseph Goebbels delivers the Sportpalast speech, 1943

02/19 Serfdom is abolished in Russia, 1861

02/20 FBI agent Robert Hanssen is arrested and charged with spying for Russia

for 15 years, 2001

02/21 Battle of Verdun begins, 1916 1M casualties

02/22 Start of the Czechoslovak Revolution, 1948

02/23 Lt. Calley confesses, implicates Cpt. Medina, 1971

02/24 Impeachment proceedings against Andrew Johnson begin, 1868

02/25 The Democratic Republic of Georgia occupied by Bolshevist Russia, 1921

02/26 Final radio broadcast of Dragnet, 1957

02/27 The Lionheart crowned, 1189

02/28 The "French Connection" drug bust occurs in Marseilles, 1972

03/06 Hindenburg explodes and burns upon landing at Lakehurst, NJ, 1939

03/01 The city of Rio de Janeiro is founded, 1565

03/02 Ho Chi Minh is elected the President of North Vietnam, 1946

03/03 Bulgaria regains its independence from Ottoman Empire, 1878

03/04 Emile Berliner invents the microphone, 1877

03/05 Samuel Colt makes the first production-model revolver, 1836

03/06 The aspirin is registered as a trademark of Bayer, 1899

03/07 Mass protest outside the National Assembly of Kuwait building for

women's voting rights in Kuwait, 2005

03/08 The first case of Spanish flu occurs, killing 50 million to 100 million

people worldwide, 1918

03/09 The Barbie doll debuts, 1959

03/10 Republic of Cote d'Ivoire becomes a colony of France, 1893

03/11 Ceasefire declared in the war between Iran and Irak, 1988

03/12 The first bottles of Coca Cola were sold, 1894

03/13 "Striptease" introduced, Paris, 1894

03/14 The kingdom of Cyprus is sold by the ruling Queen to Venice, 1489

03/15 France assumes protectorate over Vietnam, 1874

03/15 Julius Caesar, Dictator of the Roman Republic, is stabbed to death by

several senators, 44BC

03/16 Largest coordinated worldwide virgil against the Iraq War, 2003

03/17 Invention of the rubber band, 1845

03/18 In the Pyramid of Cheops a 4.400 year old mummy is found, 1989

03/19 Swallows return to Capistrano

03/20 Radio Caroline, the original British pirate radio station, sinks, 1980

03/21 Henry V becomes the king of England, 1413

03/22 First motion picture displayed by Auguste and Louis Lumi�re, 1895

03/23 The first Islamic replublic in the world is Pakistan, 1956

03/24 Construction of New York subway system begins, 1900

03/25 The first Bed-In for Peace by John Lennon and Yoko Ono, 1969

03/26 The driving test is introduced, in the United Kingdom, 1934

03/27 Khrushchev becomes Premier of Soviet Union, 1958

03/28 Three Mile Island releases radioactive gas, 1979

03/29 The Republic of Ireland bans smoking in all work places, 2004

03/30 Pencil with eraser patented, 1858

03/31 The Eiffel Tower is inaugurated, 1889

04/01 People of superb intelligence, savoir-faire, etc. born this day.

04/04 NATO Established, 1949

04/02 Haile Selassie is proclaimed emperor of Ethiopia, 1930

04/03 First publication of the newspaper La Gazzetta dello Sport, 1896

04/04 NATO established, 1949

04/05 Pocahontas marries English colonist John Rolfe in Virginia, 1614

04/06 Joseph Smith founds Mormon Church, 1830

04/07 Albert Hofmann synthesizes LSD in Switzerland, 1943

04/07 Alewives run, Cape Cod

04/08 The Venus de Milo is found on the island of Melos, 1820

04/09 The first public exhibition of art opens in Paris, 1667

04/10 The Belfast Agreement is signed, on Good Friday, 1998

04/11 The Shogunate is abolished in Japan, 1868

04/12 Great Britain adops the Union Jack as their national flag, 1606

04/13 Laotian New Year (3 days) in Laos

04/14 Titanic hits iceberg and sinks, 1912

04/15 Insulin first becomes generally available for use by diabetics, 1923

04/16 Syria becomes an independent Republic, 1946

04/17 Bay of Pigs invasion crushed by Castro forces, 1961

04/18 The League of Nations is dissolved after 27 years, 1946

04/19 Landing of the "33" in Uruguay

04/19 Warsaw Ghetto uprising, 1943

04/20 In Bulgaria, the April Uprising takes place, 1876

04/21 Rome is founded by Romulus and Remus, 753BC

04/22 The first Earth Day is celebrated, 1970

04/23 Bavarian co-rulers Duke Wilhelm IV and Duke Ludwig X proclaimed the

weighty and consequential Bavarian Beer Purity Law

(later Reinheitsgebot), 1516

04/24 The Greek enter Troy with the Trojan Horse, 1184BC

04/25 Integrated circuit patented by Robert Noyce, 1961

04/26 William Shakespeare baptized in Stratford-on-Avon, England, 1564,

birthdate less certain

04/27 Magellan killed in Philippines, 1521

04/28 President of France, Charles de Gaulle resigns, 1969

04/29 Zipper patented by Gideon Sindback, 1913

04/30 Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun commit suicide, 1945

05/01 Beltaine; Feast of the god Bel, sun god

05/01 Adam Weishaupt founded the Illuminati of Bavaria, 1776

05/03 Anti-war protest disrupts business in Washington, 1971

05/02 The first modern sighting of the Loch Ness monster is reported, 1933

05/04 Four Kent State students are shot down by the National Guard, 1970

05/03 Jamaica is spotted by Christopher Columbus, 1494

05/05 John Scopes arrested for teaching evolution, Dayton, TN, 1925

05/04 Christopher Columbus sets foot on Jamaica, 1494

05/05 Alan Shepard becomes the first American in space, 1961

05/05 Kublai Khan becomes ruler of the Mongol Empire, 1260

05/07 Germany surrenders after WWII, 1945

05/06 Hindenburg explodes and burns upon landing at Lakehurst, NJ, 1937

05/08 US institutes mining of Haiphong Harbor, 1972

05/07 Germany surrenders after World War II, 1945

05/09 94 degrees, New York, 1979

05/08 The first games of the Italian Football League are played, 1898

05/09 The first parliament of Australia opens in Melbourne, 1901

05/10 Germany invades Low Countries, 1940

05/10 Nazi bookburning, 1933

05/11 Thailand is no longer known as Siam, 1949

05/12 Tunisia becomes a French protectorate, 1881

05/13 Dutch statesman Johan van Oldenbarnevelt is executed in The Hague after

having been accused of treason, 1619

05/14 Beginning of Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1804

05/14 Nation of Israel proclaimed, 1948

05/14 Skylab (first U.S. space station) launched, 1973

05/15 The civil war in Finland ends, 1918

05/15 Asylum for Inebriates founded, Binghamton NY, 1854

05/16 Root beer invented by Charles Elmer Hires, 1866

05/17 24" rain in 11 hours, Pearl River, S. China, 1982

05/17 Six SLA members killed in televised gun fight, 1974

05/18 Battle of Las Piedras in Uruguay

05/18 Napoleon crowned Emperor, 1804

05/19 The Legion d'Honneur is founded by Napoleon Bonaparte, 1802

05/20 The first modern atlas issued by Abraham Ortelius, 1570

05/21 Battle of Iquique in Chile

05/21 US explodes first hydrogen bomb, 1956

05/22 The transporting of British convicts to the New South Wales colony,

05/22 US Civil War ends, 1865

is abolished, 1840

05/23 Israeli raid into Argentina to capture Adolf Eichmann, 1960

05/24 Battle of Pinchincha in Ecuador

05/25 Successful test of the limelight in Purfleet, England, 1830

05/26 Congress sets first immigration quotas, 1924

05/26 John Calvin and his followers are expelled from Geneva, 1538

05/27 Golden Gate Bridge opens, 1937

05/27 The pop-up toaster patented by Charles Strite, 1919

05/28 Alan Turing submits On Computable Numbers for publication, 1936

05/29 Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norkay climb Mt. Everest, 1953

05/29 First food stamps issued, 1961

05/30 US Marines sent to Nicaragua, 1912

05/30 Beginning of the civil war over Biafra, 1967

06/02 Native Americans "granted" citizenship, 1924

05/31 Yom Kippur War comes to an end by the signing of a disengagement

agreement by Syria and Israel, 1974

06/01 In a referendum the Dutch reject the European Constitution, 2005

06/02 Denmark rejects the Maastricht Treaty in a close-call referendum, 1992

06/03 Last Star Trek episode first aired ("Turnabout Intruder"), 1969

06/03 A 46-cent computer chip fails, causing the mistaken detection

of a Soviet missile attack by the NORAD system. About a 100 B-52

bombers were readied for take off along with the President's

airborne command post before the error is detected, 1980

06/03 Edward White becomes the first American to perform a "Space Walk", 1965

06/04 Roquefort cheese developed, 1070

06/05 Robert Kennedy assassinated, 1968

06/05 Titus and his Roman legions breach the middle wall of Jerusalem, 70

06/05 US leaves the Gold Standard, 1933

06/06 First drive-in movie, 1933

06/06 Normandy landing, 1944

06/07 The first act of civil disobedience by Gandhi, 1893

06/08 The Canadian Parliament meets for the first time in Ottawa, 1866

06/09 The Roman Emperor Nero commits suicide, 68

06/10 Death of Alexander the Great, 323 B.C.

06/10 Denver police tear gas Jethro Tull and 2000 fans at Red Rocks, 1971

06/11 Greeks seize Troy, 1184BC

06/13 Pioneer 10 flies past Neptune's orbit, and becomes the first human

06/12 Nelson Mandela in sentenced to life in prison, 1964

artifact to travel beyond the orbits of all known planets, 1983

06/13 Much of Vancouver, British Columbia, is devastated by a fire, 1886

06/14 Sandpaper invented by I. Fischer, Jr., 1834

06/15 Ben Franklin's kite experiment, 1752

06/15 Magna Carta signed, 1215

06/15 Series of photographs by Edward Muggeridge prove to Leland Stanford

that all the hooves of a horse are off the ground during the gallop,

1878

06/16 "The Blues Brothers" premieres in Chicago, 1980

06/16 Henry Ford launched the Ford Motor Company, 1903

06/17 China explodes its first Hydrogen bomb, 1967

06/17 Watergate Democratic National Committee break-in, 1972

06/18 Winston Churchill delivers his "Finest Hour" speech, 1940

06/19 Lizzie Bordon acquitted, 1893

06/19 Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are executed in Sing-Sing prison, 1953

06/19 Start of a bus boycott protesting discrimination,

Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 1953

06/20 Victoria crowned, 1837

06/21 Berlin airlift begins, 1948

06/21 Sun rises over Heelstone at Stonehenge

06/22 Civil rights workers disappear in Mississippi, 1964

06/22 The June Days Uprising in Paris begins, 1848

06/23 Slavery abolished in England, 1772

06/23 Harriet, Darwin's turtle died at the age of 176 years old, 2006

06/23 Harriet, Darwin's turtle died at the age of 176 years, 2006

06/24 Senate repeals Gulf of Tonkin resolution, 1970

06/24 The capital of Jamaica, Kingston, is founded, 1664

06/25 Custer's Last Stand at Little Big Horn, 1876

06/25 North Korea invades South Korea, 1950

06/26 Toothbrush invented, 1498

06/26 Battle of Gettysburg, 1863

06/26 St. Lawrence Seaway dedicated by Eisenhower & Queen Elizabeth II, 1959

06/27 100 degrees, Fort Yukon, 1915

06/27 The world's first ATM is installed in Enfield, London, 1967

06/27 Bill Graham closes the Fillmore East, 1971

06/28 Supreme Court decides in favor of Alan Bakke, 1978

06/28 Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria assassinated in Sarajevo,

marking the beginning of World War I, 1914

06/28 World War I ended with the signing of the Treaty of Versailles, 1919

06/29 The Seychelles gains independence from the United Kingdom, 1976

06/30 Albert Einstein published his theory of special relativity, 1905

06/30 "That" explosion in Siberia at 7:17 local time, 1908

06/30 China and Soviet Union announce split over ideology, 1960

07/01 Battle of Gettysburg begins, 1863

07/01 Warsaw Pact officially dissolved, 1991

07/01 The first day on the Somme marked the beginning of the

Battle of the Somme, 1916

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07/02 Vermont abolishes slavery, as the first state, 1777

07/03 Dog days begin

07/04 Battles of Vicksburg and Gettysburg won by Union forces, 1863

07/04 Cloudy, 76 degrees, Philadelphia PA, 1776

07/04 New York abstains on Declaration of Independence vote, 1776

07/04 Thoreau enters woods, 1845

07/06 First `talkie' (talking motion picture) premiere in New York, 1928

07/05 Bikini demonstrated for the first time, 1946

07/06 Lawrence of Arabia captures Aqaba, 1917

07/07 First radio broadcast of "Dragnet", 1949

07/08 First public reading of the Declaration of Independence, 1776

07/08 A UFO is believed to have crashed near Roswell, New Mexico, 1947

07/08 Liberty Bell cracks while being rung at funeral of John Marshall, 1835

07/09 The African Union gets established, 2002

07/09 10-hour working day set by law, NH, 1847

07/10 Most of London gets burned down in a severe fire, 1212

07/10 134 degrees in Death Valley, 1913

07/11 Mongolia gains independence from China, 1921

07/11 Skylab enters Earth's atmosphere and is destroyed, 1979

07/12 Minimum wages established: 40 cents/hour, 1933

07/13 Women first compete in Olympic games, 1908

07/16 Detonation of the first atomic bomb at Alamagordo, NM, 1945

07/14 Storming of the Bastille by the citizens of Paris, 1789

07/15 First item sold via Amazon.com, 1995

07/16 End of the civil war in Rwanda, 1994

07/17 Disneyland opens, 1955

07/18 Ty Cobb gets 4000th base hit, 1927

07/18 "Mein Kampf" is published, 1925

07/19 Five Massachusetts women executed for witchcraft, 1692

07/19 France declares war on Prussia, marking the beginning of the

07/20 Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin land on moon, 1969

Franco-Prussian war, 1870

07/21 First Train Robbery, Jesse James gets $3000 near Adair, Iowa, 1873

07/20 Ford Motor Company ships their car, 1903

07/21 Vietnam divided at 17th parallel, 1954

07/22 Wiley Post becomes the first person to fly around the world, 1933

07/23 Ice cream cone introduced, St. Louis MO, 1904

07/24 Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925

07/25 First test-tube baby born, 1978

07/26 Potsdam Declaration signed, 1945

07/27 The last Citroen 2CV made, 1990

07/28 Potato introduced in Europe by Sir Thomas Harriot, 1586

07/28 B-25 hit 79th floor of Empire State Building, 1945

07/29 Inauguration of the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, 1836

07/30 "In God We Trust" made U.S. motto, 1956

07/30 Elvis Presley performes for the first time in public, 1954

07/31 Harry S. Truman dedicates N.Y. Int'l Airport @ Idlewild Field, 1948,

07/31 First U.S. patent issued, 1790

later JFK

08/01 Lughnasa; Feast of the god Lugh, a 30 day Celtic feast centers on

this day

08/02 Hitler becomes the Fuehrer of Germany, 1934

08/03 Columbus sets sail for Cathay, 1492

08/03 First ICBM (P-7) test (5T of iron is launched to Kamchatka), 1957

08/03 USS Nautilus crosses under north polar ice cap, 1958

08/04 Axe murder of Andrew and Abbey Borden, 1892

08/04 Bombing of N. Vietnam begins, 1964

08/04 Britain declares war on Germany starting World War I, 1914

08/05 Nelson Mandela is jailed, 1962

08/06 Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, 1945

08/06 Caricom in Barbados

08/06 Cy Young pitches first game, 1890

08/07 Jack the Ripper makes his first kill, 1888

08/08 Atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, 1945

08/08 Montenegro declares war on Germany, 1914

08/08 Richard Nixon resigns the US presidency, 1974

08/08 The Great Train Robbery -- $7,368,000, 1963

08/09 Helter Skelter... the Charles Manson murders take place, 1969

08/09 Persia defeats Spartan King Leonidas at Thermopylae, 480 BC

08/09 US/Canada border defined in the Webster-Ashburton Treaty, 1842

08/10 Major terrorist plot to destroy aircrafst disrupted by

08/10 Chicago incorporated as a village of 300 people, 1833

Scotland Yard, 2006

08/10 US and Panama agree to transfer the canal in the year 2000, 1977

08/11 Dog days end

08/11 France Ends War in Indochina, 1954

08/11 Perseid meteor shower (look north; three days)

08/12 Cleopatra commits suicide, 30BC

08/12 First test flight of Space Shuttle "Enterprise" from 747, 1977

08/12 Last U.S. ground troops out of Vietnam, 1972

08/13 Berlin wall erected, 1961

08/13 Li'l Abner debut, 1934

08/14 Social Security begins in U.S., 1935

08/14 France introduces motor vehicle registration, 1893

08/14 NYNEX merges with Bell Atlantic, 1997

08/14 North-East American blackout, 2003

08/15 Hurricane hits Plymouth Plantation, 1635

08/15 Gandhi's movement obtains independence for Pakistan and India, 1947

08/16 Roller Coaster patented, 1898

08/17 First public bath opened in N.Y., 1891

08/17 Indonesian Declaration of Independence, 1945

08/18 Anti-Cigarette League of America formed

08/18 Power blackout on Java, Indonesia, affects almost

08/19 Air Force cargo plane snares payload from Discoverer 14 spy satellite,

100 million people, 2005

marking start of practical military reconnaissance from space, 1960

08/19 Gail Borden patents condensed milk, 1856

08/20 First commercial radio station airs in Detroit, Michigan, 1920

08/21 Lourvre employee steals the "Mona Lisa", 1911

08/22 Death of King Richard III, 1485, Last of the Plantagenets

08/22 Joe Walker sets X-15 all time altitude mark (67 miles), 1963

08/22 St. Columbia reports seeing monster in Loch Ness, 565

08/23 Sacco and Vanzetti executed, 1927

08/24 "Alice's Restaurant" premieres in New York and Los Angeles, 1969

08/24 -126.9 F at Vostok, Antarctica, 1960

08/24 British troops burn Washington, 1814

08/25 General de Gaulle leads French forces into Paris, 1944

08/25 First reaction thrust motor design, 1898

08/25 Gen. DeGaulle leads French forces into Paris, 1944

08/26 Women get the vote, 1920

08/27 "Tarzan of the Apes" published, 1912

08/27 Krakatoa, Java explodes with a force of 1,300 megatons, 1883

08/28 King leads over 200K in civil rights rally in Washington, DC, 1963

08/28 Henry Hudson discovers Delaware Bay, 1609

08/29 Star in Cygnus goes nova and becomes 4th brightest in sky, 1975;

08/29 Michael Faraday discovers electromagnetic induction, 1831

Nova Cygni 1975.

08/30 75 cents a pound tariff set on opium, 1842

08/30 Japan Stationery Co. sells first felt-tipped pen, 1960

08/30 St. Rose of Lima in Peru

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09/02 Great Britain adopts Gregorian Calendar, 1752

09/02 Japan signs unconditional surrender on US battleship `Missouri', 1945

09/03 Anniversary of the Founding of the Republic in San Marino

09/04 Napoleon III is deposed and the Third Republic is declared, 1870

09/05 St. Gotthard Tunnel opens in Switzerland, 1980

09/06 149 Pilgrims set forth from England aboard the Mayflower, 1620

09/06 Somhlolo in Swaziland

09/07 Brazil declares its independence from Portugal, 1822

09/08 Jack the Ripper kills again, Annie Chapman is second victim, 1888

09/09 John Herschel takes the first glass plate photograph, 1839

09/10 Mountain Meadows Massacre. Mormons kill Gentile wagon train, 1857

09/11 World Wide Fund (WWF) founded, 1961

09/12 German paratroopers rescue Mussolini from captivity in Rome, 1943

09/12 Germany annexes Sudetenland, 1938

09/13 136.4 F at el Azizia, Libya, 1922

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09/13 Building of Hadrian's Wall begun, 122

09/13 Chiang Kai-Shek becomes president of China, 1943

09/14 The Selective Service Act establishes the first peacetime draft, 1940

09/15 The Nazi's adopt a new national flag with the swastika, 1935

09/16 General Motors is founded, 1908

09/17 Joshua A. Norton proclaims himself 'Emperor Norton I', 1859

09/17 Battle of Antietam, 1862

09/18 Victory of Uprona in Burundi

09/19 Walt Disney releases Steamboat Willie, 1928

09/20 Magellan leaves Spain on the first Round the World passage, 1519

09/21 J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit is published, 1937

09/22 Allied forces form the independent nation West Germany, 1953

09/22 The first Soviet atomic bomb explodes, 1949

09/23 Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos declares martial law, 1972

09/24 The Netherlands surrenders New Amsterdam to England, 1664

09/25 Battle of Stamford Bridge marks the end of the Viking era, 1066

09/26 Concorde makes its first non-stop crossing of the Atlantic, 1973

09/27 The first passenger was hauled in a locomotive in England, 1825

09/28 "Pilgrim's Progress" published, 1678

09/28 A Greek soldier runs 26+ miles after the Persian defeat at Marathon,

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09/30 The first tooth is extracted under anesthesia in Charleston, Mass, 1846

09/30 The verdicts of the Nuremberg trials are announced, 1946

10/01 Austria issues the world's first postcards, 1869

10/02 Jacques Cartier discovers Montreal, Quebec, 1535

10/03 O. J. Simpson is found not guilty of murder, 1995

10/04 Crimean war begins, 1853

10/05 Portugal declares itself a republic, 1910

10/06 Antioch College is the first public school to admit men and women, 1853

10/06 Egyptian President Anwar Sadat is assassinated in Cairo, 1981

10/06 Israel is attacked by the alliance of Egypt and Syria, 1973

10/07 Foundation of the GDR in 1949 in German Democratic Republic

10/07 Georgia Tech. beats Cumberland Univ. 222-0, 1916

10/07 Mother Teresa of Calcutta awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, 1979

10/07 Police stop Wilbur Mills car, Fanne Fox jumps into water, 1974

10/08 San Marino adopts its written constitution, 1600

10/09 First two-way telephone conversation, 1876

10/10 Beginning of the Wars for Independence in Cuba

10/10 Foundation of the Workers Party in North Korea

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10/12 Man O'War's last race, 1920

10/13 Italy declares war on Germany, 1943

10/14 Battle of Hastings won by William the Conqueror and the Normans, 1066

10/15 Edison Electric Light Company begins operation, 1878

10/16 The Walt Disney Company is founded by Walt Disney

and his brother, Roy Disney, 1923

10/17 Al Capone convicted of income tax evasion, 1931

10/18 The Grand Ole Opry opens its doors, 1925

10/19 Mao Tse-tung establishes the People's Republic of China, 1949

10/19 Napoleon's beaten army begins the long retreat from Moscow, 1812

10/20 "Saturday Night Massacre", 1973

10/20 OPEC embargo, 1973

10/21 Edison makes the first practical incandescent lamp, 1879

10/21 Guggenheim Museum opens, 1959

10/22 Laos gains independence from France, 1953

10/23 Battle of Leyte Gulf begins, 1944

10/23 Swallows leave Capistrano

10/23 South African troops invade Angola in support of UNITA and FNLA, 1975

10/24 Founding of the United Nations, 1945

10/25 The UN removes Taiwan and admits the People's Republic of China, 1971

10/26 UN's World Health Organization declares smallpox eradicated, 1978

10/27 Stock markets around the world crash because of fears of

a global economic meltdown, 1997

10/28 Columbus discovers Cuba, 1492

10/28 Constantine's army defeats forces of Maxentius at Mulvian Bridge, 312

10/29 Leibniz makes the first use of the "long s" for integral, 1675

10/30 Communist Party of Australia founded in Sydney, 1920

10/31 Luther nails 95 Theses to door of Castle Church, Wittenberg, 1517

11/01 Austria-Hungary become two separate nations, 1918

11/01 Puerto Rican nationalists try to kill Truman at the Blair House, 1950

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11/18 First hydrogen bomb blasts Enewetok, 1952

11/25 Alfred Nobel invents dynamite, 1867

11/27 Alfred Nobel establishes Nobel Prize, 1895

11/27 Friction match invented, England, 1826

11/27 Friction match invented by englishman John Walker, Sweden, 1826

11/29 King Tut's tomb opened, 1922

12/03 First neon light display, Paris, 1910

12/03 First successful human heart transplant led by Dr. Barnard, 1967