1 01/01 Julian Calendar takes effect, 45 BC 2 01/01 Haitian Independence Proclaimed, 1803 3 01/01 Emancipation Proclamation enters effect, 1863 4 01/01 United Nations created, 1942 5 01/02 Reconquest of Spain completed, 1492 6 01/02 Russian Fleet surrenders to Japan at Port Arthur, 1905 7 01/03 Martin Luther excommunicated, 1521 8 01/03 Emperor Meiji Restored to throne in Japan, 1868 9 01/04 Single European Currency debuts, 1999 10 01/04 New York Stock Exchange opens first permanent headquarters, 1865 11 01/04 Burma becomes independent, 1948 12 01/05 Prague Spring begins, 1968 13 01/05 -50 degrees F, Strawberry UT, 1913 14 01/05 The FCC hears the first demonstration of FM radio, 1940 15 01/06 Harold Godwinson crowned King Harold II of England, 1066 16 01/06 Electric Telegraph first tested by Samuel Morse, 1838 17 01/07 Pol Pot overthrown, 1979 18 01/07 Calais, last continental holding of England, falls to France, 1558 19 01/08 Major General Andrew Jackson leads US troops to victory at 20 Battle of New Orleans, 1815 21 01/09 Cruise ship RMS Queen Elizabeth destroyed by fire, 1972 22 01/10 First meeting of United Nations General Assembly in London, 1946 23 01/10 Thomas Paine's Common Sense published, 1776 24 01/10 League of Nations instituted, 1920 25 01/10 Lend-Lease Act introduced, 1941 26 01/11 Milk delivered in bottles for first time, 1878 27 01/11 Amelia Earhart flies from Hawaii to California, 1935 28 01/12 Zulu War begins, 1879 29 01/12 Siege of Leningrad ends, 1943 30 01/12 Santa Clara, California founded, 1777 31 01/13 First live radio concert broadcast, by Enrico Caruso, 32 broadcast from New York, 1910 33 01/14 United Nations condemns Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, 1980 34 01/14 Treaty of Paris ratified by Continental Congress, officially 35 establishing independent United States, 1784 36 01/15 Elizabeth I crowned Queen of England, 1559 37 01/16 Prohibition takes effect, 1919 38 01/16 Reza Shah Pallavi flees Iran, 1979 39 01/16 First Persian Gulf War begins, 1991 40 01/16 Chevy Corvette introduced, 1953 41 01/17 Over $2 million stolen in "Great Brinks Robbery" in Boston, 1950 42 01/18 James Cook discovers Hawaii, 1778 43 01/18 Robert Falcon Scott reaches South Pole, 1912 44 01/18 First Australian penal colony established, 1788 45 01/19 Indira Ghandi becomes Prime Minister of India, 1966 46 01/19 First college basketball game played, Chicago beats Iowa 15-12, 1896 47 01/20 Hong Kong ceded to Britain, 1841 48 01/20 US Hostages released from Iran, 1981 49 01/21 First commercial flight of Concorde SST, 1976 50 01/21 King Louis XVI executed, 1793 51 01/22 First British colonists arrive in New Zealand, 1840 52 01/22 First Russian Revolution begins, 1905 53 01/22 Battle of Tobruk concludes, 1941 54 01/23 USS Pueblo seized by North Korea, 1968 55 01/23 First insulin injection for diabetes, 1922 56 01/23 Peace treaty ending Vietnam war announced, 1973 57 01/24 Eskimo Pie patented by Christian Nelson, 1922 58 01/24 Joseph Marshall finds Gold at Sutter's Mill in California, 1848 59 01/24 Last IJA soldier captured in Guam, 1972 60 01/24 The Pleasure Garden, first Alfred Hitchcock film opens in London, 1927 61 01/25 First Winter Olympics held in Chamonix, 1924 62 01/25 Reporter Nellie Bly arrives in New York, completing 63 circumnavigation of the globe in 72 days, 6 hours, 11 64 minutes, 1890 65 01/26 Republic of India founded, 1950 66 01/26 Barcelona falls to Nationalist forces, 1939 67 01/26 Auschwitz liberated, 1945 68 01/26 Sydney settled, 1788 69 01/27 Somali dictator Muhammad Siyad Barre flees country, 1991 70 01/27 Grissom, White and Chaffe die in fire aboard Apollo I, 1967 71 01/27 Paris Peace Accords signed, ending Vietnam War, 1973 72 01/28 Space Shuttle Challenger (51-L) explodes 74 seconds after liftoff 73 killing Scobee, Smith, McNair, Resnick, Jarvis, Onizuka and McAuliffe, 74 1986 75 01/29 Stanley Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove premieres, 1964 76 01/30 Mohandas Gandhi assassinated in New Delhi, 1948 77 01/30 King Charles I executed by Cromwell's forces, 1649 78 01/30 Tet Offensive begins, 1968 79 01/31 "Ham" the chimpanzee soars into space aboard Mercury-Redstone 2, 1961 80 01/31 Explorer I launched, resulting in discovery of Van Allen Belt, 1958 81 82 02/01 "Secret Storm", first TV soap opera airs, 1954 83 02/01 Forces lead by the Ayatollah Khomeini take over Iran, 1979 84 02/01 Space Shuttle Columbia (STS-107) disintegrates over Texas 85 during re-entry killing Husband, Anderson, Brown, Chawla, 86 Clark, McCool, Ramon, 2003 87 02/01 First session of the United States Supreme Court, 1790 88 02/01 First automobile insurance policy issued by Travellers 89 Insurance of Hartford, CT, 1898 90 02/01 Land battle of Guadalcanal ends with Japanese evacuation after 91 seven months of fighting, 1943 92 02/02 Mexican-American war ends with signing of Treaty of Guadalupe 93 Hidalgo, 1848 94 02/02 Last German troops in Stalingrad surrender, 1943 95 02/03 Soviet probe Lunik 9 makes first controlled landing on Moon, 1966 96 02/03 Sixteenth Amendment to US Constitution, establishing first Federal 97 Income Tax, takes effect, 1913 98 02/04 George Washington elected first President of the United States, 1789 99 02/04 Confederate States of America formed, 1861 100 02/04 Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin meet at Yalta to determine 101 shape of post-war Europe, 1945 102 02/04 Cybernet inaugurated, 1969 103 02/04 James Fenimore Cooper's The Last of the Mohicans published, 1826 104 02/05 New Mexican Constitution proclaimed, founding modern nation 105 of Mexico, 1917 106 02/05 First Walk/Don't Walk sign installed, New York City, 1952 107 02/05 Last Soviet troops pull out of Kabul, 1989 108 02/06 John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men published, 1937 109 02/07 Beatles arrive in New York, 1964 110 02/07 Great Baltimore Fire begins, 1904 111 02/07 Bruce McCandless completes first untethered spacewalk, 1984 112 02/07 Maastricht Treaty signed, establishing European Union, 1992 113 02/07 Soviet Communist Party relinquishes monopoly on political power, 1990 114 02/08 Mary Queen of Scots beheaded at Fotheringhay Castle, 1587 115 02/08 Russo-Japanese war begins with surprise naval attack on 116 Port Arthur by Japanese forces, 1904 117 02/09 First US combat troops arrive in Vietnam, 1965 118 02/09 -51 degrees F, Vanderbilt MI, 1934 119 02/10 Seven Years' War ends, 1763 120 02/11 Japan becomes fourth nation to complete successful space 121 launch, 1970 122 02/11 Nelson Mandela freed, 1990 123 02/12 Last Emperor of China abdicates throne, 1912 124 02/12 Anatoly Scharansky released from Soviet prison camp, 1986 125 02/12 George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue debuts, 1924 126 02/13 William and Mary proclaimed King and Queen of England after 127 Glorious Revolution, 1689 128 02/14 Sandinistas agree to free elections in Nicaragua, 1989 129 02/14 Battle of the Kasserine Pass, 1943 130 02/15 Singapore surrenders to Japanese forces, 1942 131 02/15 USS Maine explodes in Havana harbor, leading to Spanish-American 132 war, 1898 133 02/15 Canadian Maple-Leaf Flag adopted, 1965 134 02/16 Nylon patented, 1937 135 02/16 Raiding party led by Stephen Decatur burns captured US 136 frigate in Tripoli harbor, 1804 137 02/16 Fidel Castro sworn in as Prime Minister of Cuba, 1959 138 02/17 China invades Vietnam, resulting in nine days of fighting 139 before Chinese retreat, 1979 140 02/18 Charleston, SC surrendered to Union forces, 1865 141 02/18 Pluto discovered by Clyde Tombaugh, Lowell Observatory, AZ, 1930 142 02/19 US Marines land on Iwo Jima, 1945 143 02/19 First prototype Ford Thunderbird completed, 1954 144 02/19 Donner Party rescued after four months, 1847 145 02/20 John Glenn orbits the Earth 3 times, 1962 146 02/21 Battle of Verdun begins, 1916 147 02/21 First telephone directory, New Haven, Connecticut, 1878 148 02/21 Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto published, 1848 149 02/21 Richard Nixon arrives in China for historic eight-day visit, 1972 150 02/22 Walt Disney's Cinderella opens, 1950 151 02/23 US Flag raised over Mount Suribachi on Iwo Jima, 1945 152 02/24 Impeachment proceedings against Andrew Johnson begin, 1868 153 02/24 Tet Offensive ends with recapture of Hue by US and South 154 Vietnamese forces, 1968 155 02/24 Ground offensive begins in first Gulf War, 1991 156 02/25 Ferdinand Marcos flees the Philippines, 1986 157 02/25 Bloodless coup leads to Communist government in Czechoslovakia, 1948 158 02/26 World Trade Center bombed, killing 6, 1993 159 02/26 Free elections held in Nicaragua, Sandinistas ousted, 1990 160 02/27 Reichstag building burns, 1933 161 02/27 Kuwait liberated, ending offensive ground operations in First Gulf War, 1991 162 02/28 The "French Connection" drug bust occurs in Marseilles, 1972 163 02/29 French and Indian raid on Deerfield MA kills 56 as part of 164 Queen Anne's War, 1704 165 166 03/01 Yellowstone National Park established by President Grant, 1872 167 03/01 Peace Corps established by President Kennedy, 1961 168 03/01 Twenty-month-old son of Charles Lindbergh kidnapped and killed, 1932 169 03/02 Texas declares independence from Mexico, 1836 170 03/02 Importation of slaves into United States prohibited, 1807 171 03/02 Pioneer 10 launched to explore Jupiter and beyond, 1973 172 03/02 Soviet and Chinese troops clash along Ussuri river, 1969 173 03/03 Treaty of Brest-Litovsk ends Russian participation in First 174 World War, 1918 175 03/03 Finland declares war on Germany, 1945 176 03/04 United States Constitution takes effect, and Congress meets 177 in New York, 1789 178 03/05 British troops fire into snowball-throwing crowd in Boston 179 Massacre, 1770 180 03/06 Alamo falls to forces of Mexican General Santa Anna after 181 13 days of siege, 1836 182 03/06 Dutch Resistance ambush, kill SS Lt. General Hanns Rauter 183 in Apeldoorn, 1945 184 03/07 Nazi forces re-militarize Rheinland in violation of Treaty 185 of Versailles and Locarno Pact, 1936 186 03/07 Sheikh Mujib Rahman becomes first elected leader of 187 Bangladesh, 1973 188 03/08 `February Revolution' in Russia begins on February 23 of 189 calendar then in use in Russia, 1917 190 03/08 Dutch forces on Java surrender to the Japanese, 1942 191 03/09 USS Monitor battles CSS Virginia (USS Merrimac) in world's 192 first battle between ironclad warships, 1862 193 03/09 Former Last Emperor of China becomes regent of Japanese 194 puppet state of Manchukuo, 1932 195 03/09 US forces land at Vera Cruz in largest amphibious landing 196 before World War II, 1847 197 03/10 Alexander Graham Bell conducts first successful telephone 198 experiment, 1876 199 03/10 Jan Masaryk dead in Czechoslovakia in reported suicide, 1948 200 03/11 Lend-Lease Act signed, 1941 201 03/11 Mikhail Gorbachev becomes Premier of USSR, 1985 202 03/11 Lithuania declares independence from USSR, 1990 203 03/12 Austria annexed by Germany, 1938 204 03/12 Mahatma Ghandi begins march to sea in protest of British Salt Tax, 1930 205 03/13 Uranus discovered by William Hershel, 1781 206 03/13 Tsar Alexander II of Russia assassinated, 1881 207 208 209 03/15 Tsar Nicholas II abdicates throne of Russia, 1917 210 211 212 03/16 Robert Goddard launches first liquid-fueled rocket, Auburn MA, 1926 213 03/17 Vanguard I launched, 1958. Earth proved pear-shaped 214 03/18 Aleksei Leonov performs first spacewalk, 1965 215 03/24 Construction of New York subway system begins, 1900 216 03/26 Popeye statue unveiled, Crystal City TX Spinach Festival, 1937 217 03/27 Khrushchev becomes Premier of Soviet Union, 1958 218 03/29 Swedish settled Christiana (Wilmington) DE, 1638 219 03/30 Alaska purchased from Russia for $7.2 million, 1867 220 03/30 Five rings around Uranus discovered, 1977 221 03/30 Pencil with eraser patented, 1858 222 03/31 Pioneer 10 mission ends, having travelled 6 billion miles 223 and provided close-up pictures of Jupiter and first data on 224 interstellar space, 1997 225 226 04/04 Martin Luther King assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee, 1968 227 04/04 NATO Established, 1949 228 04/05 US nationalises Gold at a value of $20.67, 1933 229 04/06 Joseph Smith founds Mormon Church, 1830 230 04/09 Lee surrenders to Grant at Appomattox Courthouse, 1865 231 04/12 Confederate troops fire first shots of Civil War at Ft Sumter, 1861 232 04/12 Space Shuttle Columbia launched, 1981 233 04/12 Yuri Gagarin becomes the first man in space, 1961 234 04/14 Lincoln shot in Ford's Theatre by John Wilkes Booth, 1865 235 04/14 Titanic hits iceberg and sinks, 1912 236 04/15 Ray Kroc opens first McDonalds in Des Plaines, IL, 1955 237 04/18 First Laundromat opens, Fort Worth Texas, 1934 238 04/18 San Francisco earthquake, 1906 239 04/19 Bicycle day, Albert Hofmann rides home after ingesting 0.25 milligrams 240 of LSD, 1943 241 04/19 Warsaw Ghetto uprising, 1943 242 04/23 Hank Aaron hits his first home run, 1954 243 04/26 William Shakespeare baptised in Stratford-on-Avon, England, 1564, 244 birthdate unknown 245 04/27 Magellan killed in Philippines, 1521 246 04/29 Zipper patented by Gideon Sindback, 1913 247 248 05/06 Hindenburg explodes and burns upon landing at Lakehurst, NJ, 1939 249 05/07 Germany surrenders after WWII, 1945 250 05/09 94 degrees, New York, 1979 251 05/10 Germany invades Low Countries, 1940 252 05/10 Nazi bookburning, 1933 253 05/14 Beginning of Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1804 254 05/14 Nation of Israel proclaimed, 1948 255 05/15 Asylum for Inebriates founded, Binghamton NY, 1854 256 05/17 24" rain in 11 hours, Pearl River, S. China, 1982 257 05/18 Battle of Las Piedras in Uruguay 258 05/18 Napoleon crowned Emperor, 1804 259 05/21 Battle of Iquique in Chile 260 05/21 US explodes first hydrogen bomb, 1956 261 05/22 US Civil War ends, 1865 262 05/23 Israeli raid into Argentina to capture Adolf Eichmann, 1960 263 05/24 Battle of Pinchincha in Ecuador 264 05/25 Successful test of the limelight in Purfleet, England, 1830 265 05/27 Golden Gate Bridge opens, 1937 266 05/29 Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norkay climb Mt. Everest, 1953 267 268 06/04 Roquefort cheese developed, 1070 269 06/05 Robert Kennedy assassinated, 1968 270 08/15 US leaves the Gold Standard, 1971 271 06/06 First drive-in movie, 1933 272 06/06 Normandy landing, 1944 273 06/11 Death of Alexander the Great, 323 B.C. 274 06/13 Pioneer 10 flies past Neptune's orbit, the first human artifact 275 to travel beyond the orbits of all known planets, 1983 276 06/14 Sandpaper invented by I. Fischer, Jr., 1834 277 06/15 Ben Franklin's kite experiment, 1752 278 06/15 Magna Carta signed, 1215 279 06/15 Series of photographs by Edward Muggeridge prove to Leland Stanford 280 that all the hooves of a horse are off the ground during the gallop, 281 1878 282 06/16 "The Blues Brothers" premieres in Chicago, 1980 283 06/17 China explodes its first Hydrogen bomb, 1967 284 06/19 Lizzie Borden acquitted, 1893 285 06/20 Victoria crowned, 1837 286 06/21 Berlin airlift begins, 1948 287 06/23 Slavery abolished in England, 1772 288 06/25 Custer's Last Stand at Little Big Horn, 1876 289 06/25 North Korea invades South Korea, 1950 290 06/26 Battle of Gettysburg, 1863 291 06/26 St. Lawrence Seaway dedicated by Eisenhower & Queen Elizabeth II, 1959 292 06/26 Toothbrush invented, 1498 293 06/27 100 degrees, Fort Yukon, 1915 294 06/28 Supreme Court decides in favor of Alan Bakke, 1978 295 06/30 "That" explosion in Siberia, 1908 296 06/30 China and Soviet Union announce split over ideology, 1960 297 298 07/01 Battle of Gettysburg begins, 1863 299 07/03 290 people killed after Iran Airlines A300 shot down by USA, 1988 300 07/04 Battles of Vicksburg and Gettysburg won by Union forces, 1863 301 07/04 Cloudy, 76 degrees, Philadelphia PA, 1776 302 07/04 New York abstains on Declaration of Independence vote, 1776 303 07/04 Thoreau enters woods, 1845 304 07/06 First `talkie' (talking motion picture) premiere in New York, 1928 305 07/06 Lawrence of Arabia captures Aqaba, 1917 306 07/07 First radio broadcast of "Dragnet", 1949 307 07/08 First public reading of the Declaration of Independence, 1776 308 07/08 Liberty Bell cracks while being rung at funeral of John Marshall, 1835 309 07/09 10-hour working day set by law, NH, 1847 310 07/10 134 degrees in Death Valley, 1913 311 07/13 Women first compete in Olympic games, 1908 312 07/16 Detonation of the first atomic bomb at Alamogordo, NM, 1945 313 07/17 Disneyland opens, 1955 314 07/18 Ty Cobb gets 4000th base hit, 1927 315 07/20 Armstrong and Aldrin land on moon, 1969 316 07/21 First Train Robbery, Jesse James gets $3000 near Adair, Iowa, 1873 317 07/23 Ice cream cone introduced, St. Louis MO, 1904 318 07/24 Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925 319 07/30 "In God We Trust" made U.S. motto, 1956 320 07/31 Harry S. Truman dedicates N.Y. Int'l Airport @ Idlewild Field, 1948, 321 later JFK 322 323 08/03 Columbus sets sail for Cathay, 1492 324 08/03 USS Nautilus crosses under north polar ice cap, 1958 325 08/04 Axe murder of Andrew and Abbey Borden, 1892 326 08/04 Britain declares war on Germany starting World War I, 1914 327 08/06 Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, 1945 328 08/06 Caricom in Barbados 329 08/06 Cy Young pitches first game, 1890 330 08/08 Atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, 1945 331 08/08 Montenegro declares war on Germany, 1914 332 08/08 Richard Nixon resigns the US presidency, 1974 333 08/08 The Great Train Robbery -- $7,368,000, 1963 334 08/09 Helter Skelter... the Charles Manson murders take place, 1969 335 08/09 Persia defeats Spartan King Leonidas at Thermopylae, 480 BC 336 08/09 US/Canada border defined in the Webster-Ashburton Treaty, 1842 337 08/10 Chicago incorporated as a village of 300 people, 1833 338 08/10 US and Panama agree to transfer the canal in the year 2000, 1977 339 08/11 France Ends War in Indochina, 1954 340 08/12 First test flight of Space Shuttle "Enterprise" from 747, 1977 341 08/12 Last U.S. ground troops out of Vietnam, 1972 342 08/13 Berlin wall erected, 1961 343 08/13 Li'l Abner debut, 1934 344 08/14 Social Security begins in U.S., 1935 345 08/15 Gandhi's movement obtains independence for Pakistan and India, 1947 346 08/15 Hurricane hits Plimoth Plantation, 1635 347 08/16 Roller Coaster patented, 1898 348 08/17 First public bath opened in N.Y., 1891 349 08/18 Anti-Cigarette League of America formed 350 08/19 Air Force cargo plane snares payload from Discoverer 14 spy satellite, 351 marking start of practical military reconnaissance from space, 1960 352 08/19 Gail Borden patents condensed milk, 1856 353 08/22 Death of King Richard III, 1485, Last of the Plantagenets 354 08/22 Joe Walker sets X-15 all time altitude mark (67 miles), 1963 355 08/22 St. Columbia reports seeing monster in Loch Ness, 565 356 08/24 "Alice's Restaurant" premieres in New York and Los Angeles, 1969 357 08/24 -126.9 F at Vostok, Antarctica, 1960 358 08/24 British troops burn Washington, 1814 359 08/25 Gen. DeGaulle leads French forces into Paris, 1944 360 08/26 Women get the right to vote, Nineteenth Amendment to US Constitution 361 becomes law, 1920 362 08/27 Edgar Rice Burroughs' "Tarzan of the Apes" published, 1912 363 08/27 Krakatoa, Java explodes with a force of 1,300 megatons, 1883 364 08/28 King leads over 200K in civil rights rally in Washington, DC, 1963 365 08/29 Star in Cygnus goes nova and becomes 4th brightest in sky, 1975; 366 Nova Cygni 1975. 367 08/30 Japan Stationery Co. sells first felt-tipped pen, 1960 368 08/30 Washington-to-Moscow hot line connected, 1963 369 08/31 269 people killed after Korean Airlines 747 shot down by USSR, 1983 370 08/31 Mary Anne Nichols becomes Jack the Ripper's first victim, 1888 371 08/31 Non-aggression pact signed by USSR and Afghanistan, 1926 372 373 09/01 Bobby Fischer defeats Boris Spassky in World Chess Match, 1972 374 09/01 Joshua A. Norton proclaims himself 'Emperor Norton I', 1859 375 09/02 Great Britain adopts Gregorian Calendar, 1752 376 09/02 Japan signs unconditional surrender on US battleship `Missouri', 1945 377 09/05 The first Continental Congress was convened in Philadelphia, 1774 378 09/06 149 Pilgrims set forth from England aboard the Mayflower, 1620 379 09/06 Pres. McKinley shot, 1901 380 09/08 "Star Trek" debuts on NBC (1966) 381 09/08 Jack the Ripper kills again, Annie Chapman is second victim, 1888 382 09/08 President Ford pardons Richard M. Nixon, 1974 383 09/09 California becomes the 31st state, 1850 384 09/09 United Colonies is renamed the United States, 1776 385 09/11 Twin Towers fall in terrorist attacks, 2001 386 09/12 German paratroopers rescue Mussolini from captivity in Rome, 1943 387 09/12 Germany annexes Sudetenland, 1938 388 09/13 136.4 F at el Azizia, Libya, 1922 389 09/13 British defeat the French at Abraham near Quebec City, 1788 390 09/13 Building of Hadrian's Wall begun, 122 391 09/13 Chiang Kai-Shek becomes president of China, 1943 392 09/14 Benjamin Franklin is sent to France as an American minister, 1778 393 09/14 Salem, Massachusetts, is founded, 1629 394 09/14 The Selective Service Act establishes the first peacetime draft, 1940 395 09/15 Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev begins his 13 day tour of the US, 1959 396 09/15 The U.S. Foreign Affairs Dept. becomes the U.S. State Department, 1789 397 09/16 The village of Shawmut, Massachusetts, becomes the city of Boston, 1630 398 09/17 Battle of Antietam, 1862 399 09/20 Equal Rights Party nominates Belva Lockwood for President, 1884 400 09/20 First meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of 401 Science, 1848 402 09/20 First meeting of the National Research Council, 1916 403 09/20 Magellan leaves Spain on the first Round the World passage, 1519 404 09/20 The Roxy Theater opens in Hollywood, 1973 405 09/22 Allied forces form the independent nation West Germany, 1953 406 09/22 President Lincoln issues the Emancipation Proclamation, 1862 407 09/22 The first Soviet atomic bomb explodes, 1949 408 09/23 Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos declares martial law, 1972 409 09/23 The New York Knickerbockers becomes the first U.S. Baseball club, 1845 410 09/25 Sandra Day O'Connor becomes first woman on US Supreme Court, 1981 411 09/27 The first passenger was hauled in a locomotive in England, 1825 412 09/28 John Bunyan's "Pilgrim's Progress" published, 1678 413 09/28 A Greek soldier runs 26+ miles after the Persian defeat at Marathon, 414 490BC 415 09/30 Red Jack kills 2, Elizabeth Stride (\#3) and Catherine Eddowes (\#4), 416 1888 417 09/30 The first tooth is extracted under anesthesia in Charleston, Mass, 1846 418 09/30 The verdicts of the Nuremberg trials are announced, 1946 419 420 10/01 NASA officially begins operations, 1958 421 10/02 Thurgood Marshall sworn in as the first black Supreme Court Justice, 1967 422 10/04 Crimean war begins, 1853 423 10/04 Sputnik 1, world's first orbiting satellite launched, 1957 424 10/06 Antioch College is the first public school to admit men and women, 1853 425 10/06 Egyptian President Anwar Sadat is assassinated in Cairo, 1981 426 10/06 Israel is attacked by the alliance of Egypt and Syria, 1973 427 10/07 Foundation of the German Democratic Republic in 1949 428 10/07 Georgia Tech. beats Cumberland Univ. 222-0, 1916 429 10/07 Mother Teresa of Calcutta awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, 1979 430 10/08 Great Chicago Fire, 1871 431 10/09 First two-way telephone conversation, 1876 432 10/11 "Saturday Night Live" premiers on NBC-TV, 1975 433 10/11 The Gang of Four are arrested in Peking, 1976 434 10/11 The first steam powered ferry ran between New York and Hoboken, 1811 435 10/11 The second Vatican Ecumenical Council opens in Rome, 1962 436 10/12 Bahama Natives discover Columbus of Europe lost on their shores, 1492 437 10/12 Khrushchev pounds his desk with shoe during a speech to the UN, 1960 438 10/12 Man O'War's last race, 1920 439 10/13 Italy declares war on Germany, 1943 440 10/13 U.S. Navy born, 1775, authorized by the Second Continental Congress 441 10/14 Battle of Hastings won by William the Conqueror and the Normans, 1066 442 10/14 Chuck Yeager breaks sound barrier, 1947 443 10/18 Boston Shoemakers form first U.S. labor org., 1648 444 10/18 Soviets announce their probe took photos of the Moon's far side, 1959 445 10/19 Mao Tse-tung establishes the People's Republic of China, 1949 446 10/19 Napoleon's beaten army begins the long retreat from Moscow, 1812 447 10/20 OPEC embargo, 1973 448 10/21 Edison makes the first practical incandescent lamp, 1879 449 10/21 Guggenheim Museum opens, 1959 450 10/23 Battle of Leyte Gulf begins, 1944 451 10/25 The UN removes Taiwan and admits the People's Republic of China, 1971 452 10/26 UN's World Health Organization declares smallpox eradicated, 1978 453 10/27 New York's Boss Tweed is arrested on fraud charges, 1871 454 10/27 The first New York Subway is opened, 1904 455 10/28 Columbus discovers Cuba, 1492 456 10/28 Constantine's army defeats forces of Maxentius at Mulvian Bridge, 312 457 10/28 Harvard was founded in Massachusetts, 1636 458 10/28 Statue of Liberty was dedicated on Bedloe's Island, 1886 459 10/29 Stock Market Crash, 1929 460 10/30 Orson Welles' "War of the Worlds" broadcast, 1938 461 10/31 Luther nails 95 Theses to door of Castle Church, Wittenberg, 1517 462 463 11/01 Austria-Hungary become two separate nations, 1918 464 11/02 Luftwaffe completes 57 consecutive nights of bombing of London, 1940 465 11/02 Two Frenchmen make the first free hot air balloon flight, 1783 466 11/03 Beef rises to 3 cents a pound, IL, 1837 467 11/03 Linus Pauling wins Nobel Chemistry Prize, 1954 468 11/03 Sputnik II launched, 1957, bearing spacedog Laika 469 11/04 Iranian militants seize US embassy personnel in Tehran, 1979 470 11/04 Soviet forces crush the anti-communist revolt in Hungary, 1956 471 11/05 Guy Fawkes' Plot, 1605 472 11/06 Anniversary of the October Socialist Revolution (2 days) in U.S.S.R. 473 11/07 Lewis and Clark Expedition in sight of the Pacific Ocean, 1805 474 11/09 Blackout of New York, New England, and Eastern Canada, 1965 475 11/09 Giant panda discovered (?!), China, 1927 476 11/09 Jack the Ripper kills fifth and final victim, Jane Kelly, 1888 477 11/09 Roosevelt establishes the Civil Works Administration, 1933 478 11/10 41 Women arrested in suffragette demonstrations near White House, 1917 479 11/10 Cpt. Wirz, commandant of Andersonville Prison hanged, 1865 480 11/10 Henry Morton Stanley asks David Livingstone, "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?", 1871 481 11/11 Washington becomes the 42nd state, 1889 482 11/12 Dr. Sun Yat-sen's Birthday in Taiwan 483 11/12 U.S. first exports oil to Europe, 1861 484 11/15 Niagara Falls power plant startup, 1896 485 11/16 Opening of the Suez Canal, 1869 486 11/17 46,000 meteoroids fall over AZ in 20 minutes, 1966 487 11/18 First hydrogen bomb blasts Enewetok, 1952 488 11/18 Local standard time zones established for US, 1883 489 11/19 Gettysburg Address delivered, 1863 490 11/22 Kennedy shot in Dallas, Texas by Lee Harvey Oswald, 1963 491 11/23 First broadcast of Dr. Who, 1963 492 11/24 Lee Harvey Oswald killed by Jack Ruby, 1963 493 11/25 Alfred Nobel invents dynamite, 1867 494 11/27 Alfred Nobel establishes Nobel Prize, 1895 495 11/27 Friction match invented, England, 1826 496 11/27 Hoosac Railroad Tunnel completed, 1873, in NW Massachusetts 497 11/29 Sand Creek massacre, Colorado, USA, 1864 498 11/29 King Tut's tomb opened, 1922 499 500 12/01 Martin Luther King Jr., leads black boycott of Montgomery buses, 1955 501 12/01 Rosa Parks refuses to move to back of the bus (Montgomery, AL), 1953 502 12/03 First neon light display, Paris, 1910 503 12/03 First successful human heart transplant led by Dr. Barnard, 1967 504 12/04 Washington takes leave of his officers at Fraunce's Tavern, NYC, 1783 505 12/05 End of Prohibition, 1933 (at least the alcohol part) 506 12/05 Phi Beta Kappa founded, 1776 507 12/05 The Eighteenth Amendment repealed, ending Prohibition, 1933 508 12/05 Nelson Mandela dies aged 95, 2013 509 12/07 Japan bombs Pearl Harbor, 1941 510 12/09 Ball-bearing roller skates patented, 1884 511 12/10 Metric system established in France, 1799 512 12/12 First wireless message sent across Atlantic by Marconi, 1901 513 12/13 Apollo 17 leaves the moon, with "last" men to walk on moon aboard, 1972 514 12/13 Dartmouth College chartered, 1769 515 12/15 Bill of Rights adopted, 1791 516 12/15 James Naismith invents basketball, Canada, 1891 517 12/16 Kazakhstan declares independence from USSR, 1991 518 12/20 U.S. buys ~1,000,000 sq. miles of Louisiana for ~$20/sq.mi. 519 12/27 Ether first used as anesthetic in childbirth, 1845 520 12/28 Comet Kohoutek at perihelion, 1973 521 12/29 Massacre at Wounded Knee, 1890 522 12/30 First Los Angeles freeway dedicated, 1940 523
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