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September 22, 1862 - President Abraham Lincoln issues the first Executive Order of the Emancipation Proclamation, declaring the freedom of all slaves in any state of the Confederate States of America that did not return to Union control by January 1, 1863.
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On September 23rd, 1806- The Lewis and Clark expedition returned to St. Louis from the Pacific Northwest.
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Also on September 23, 1961, Elizabeth Pena was born...
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On September 24th, 1968- "60 Minutes" premiered on CBS.
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Also on September 24, 1941, Linda McCartney was born...
Linda McCartney - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
September 24, 1957 - President Dwight Eisenhower orders U.S. troops to desegregate Little Rock schools, a pivotal event in the African-American Civil Rights Movement.
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On Sept. 25, 1957, with 300 United States Army troops standing guard, nine black children were escorted to Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, days after unruly white crowds had forced them to withdraw.
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September 25, 1981 - Nolan Ryan pitches his 5th career no-hitter as the Astros beat the Dodgers 5-0.
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Also on September 26th, 1969- The album "Abbey Road" by the Beatles was released.
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September 26, 1960 - Ted Williams last at bat is his 521st home run.
http://i196.photobucket.com/albums/a.../ted_cover.jpg "He is the last player in Major League Baseball to bat over .400 in a single season (.406 in 1941). Williams holds the highest career batting average of anyone with 500 or more home runs. His career year was 1941, when he hit .406 with 37 HR, 120 RBI, and 135 runs scored." Source: Wikipedia |
September 27, 1923 - New York Yankee Lou Gehrig hits 1st of his 493 home runs.
"His record for most career grand slams (23) still stands as of 2009." http://i196.photobucket.com/albums/a..._gehrig_13.jpg Source: Wikipedia |
Also on September 27, 1972, Gwyneth Paltrow was born...
Gwyneth Paltrow - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
On Sept. 28, 1924, two United States Army planes landed in Seattle, Washington, having completed the first round-the-world flight in 175 days
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Also on September 28, 1934, Brigitte Bardot was born...
Brigitte Bardot - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
September 28, 1987 "Star Trek: The Next Generation," debuts on syndicated TV.
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On September 29th, 1789- The U.S. War Department established a regular army with a strength of several hundred men.
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Also on September 29, 1931, Anita Ekberg was born...
Anita Ekberg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
September 29, 1963 Stan "The Man" Musial plays in his final MLB game (22 years as a St. Louis Cardinal). He gets his 3,629th and 3,630th hits.
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On September 30th, 1846- Ether was used as an anesthetic for the first time, at the office of Boston dentist William Morton.
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Also on September 30, 1971, Jenna Elfman was born...
Jenna Elfman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
September 30, 1927 - New York Yankee Babe Ruth hits record 60th home run of season off Tom Zachry.
Ruth's record for most home runs in a single season would stand for 37 years, until Roger Maris hit 61 in '61. Source: Baseball Almanac and Wikipedia. |
James Dean died on September 30, 1955
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On October 1st, 1908- Henry Ford introduced the Model T automobile to the market; each car cost $825
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Also on October 1, 1938, Stella Stevens was born...
Stella Stevens - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
October 1, 1961 - Roger Maris breaks Babe Ruth's single season home-run record of 60, by hitting 61 in '61.
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October 2, 1947 - Yankee Yogi Berra becomes 1st to pinch hit a World Series homer.
"Berra appeared in fourteen World Series, winning ten championships, both of which are records. Because Berra's playing career coincided with the Yankees' most consistent period, it enabled him to establish the major league records for World Series games (75), at-bats (259), hits (71), doubles (10), singles (49), games caught (63), and catcher putouts (457). In Game 3 of the 1947 World Series, Berra hit the first pinch-hit home run in World Series history, off Brooklyn Dodgers pitcher Ralph Branca (who later served up Bobby Thomson's famous home run in 1951)." --Wikipedia http://i196.photobucket.com/albums/a...2/ber0-004.jpg http://i196.photobucket.com/albums/a...ogi-berra1.jpg |
Also on October 2, 1949, Annie Leibovitz was born...
Annie Leibovitz - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
On October 3, 1990, West Germany and East Germany ended 45 years of postwar division, declaring the creation of a new unified country.
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Also on October 3, 1950, Pamela Hensley was born...
Pamela Hensley - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
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October 4, 1931 - Dick Tracy comic strip by Chester Gould debuts in the Detroit Mirror.
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October 5, 1962 - The Beatles release their first record, the single: Love Me Do.
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On October 5th, 1989- The exiled Dalai Lama, Tibet's spiritual leader, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
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October 6, 1938 - Yankees pitcher Lefty Gomez sets record of 6 World Series wins without a loss (1932-1, 1936-2, 1937-2, 1938-1). Source: Wikipedia |
On October 7, 1985 Palestinian gunmen hijacked the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro in the Mediterranean with more than 400 people aboard.
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Also on October 7, 1970, Nicole Ari Parker was born...
Nicole Ari Parker - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
On October 8th, 1871- The Great Chicago Fire erupted. The blaze destroyed four square miles of the city, killing about 250 people and leaving some 90,000 homeless.
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Also on October 8, 1949, Sigourney Weaver was born...
Sigourney Weaver - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
October 8, 1971 - John Lennon releases his megahit Imagine.
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On October 9th, 1930- Laura Ingalls became the first woman to fly across the United States as she completed a nine-stop journey from Roosevelt Field in New York to Glendale, Calif.
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Also on October 9, 1890, Aimee Semple McPherson was born...
Aimee Semple McPherson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
October 9, 1915 - President Woodrow Wilson attends World Series game number two in Philadelphia and becomes the first President to attend any World Series game.
The Red Sox beat the Phillies that day and went on to win the 1915 World Series, four games to one. Source: Baseball Almanac and Wikipedia |
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Also on October 10th, 1973, Vice President Spiro T. Agnew pleaded no contest to one count of federal income tax evasion and resigned his office.
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October 11, 1975 - Saturday Night Live (under a slightly different name) premieres. George Carlin is host.
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Also on Oct. 11, 1968, Apollo 7, the first manned Apollo mission, was launched with astronauts Wally Schirra, Donn Fulton Eisele and R. Walter Cunningham aboard.
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On October 12th, 1960- Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev disrupted a U.N. General Assembly session by pounding his desk with a shoe during a dispute.
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October 12, 1492 - Christopher Columbus arrives in the Bahamas.
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On October 13, 1775- The Continental Congress ordered the construction of a naval fleet.
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Also on October 13, 1969, Nancy Kerrigan was born...
Nancy Kerrigan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
Georgia Tech was founded in 1885, on this date.
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Oct 13, 1884 - Greenwich (GMT) established as universal time meridian of longitude. It was replaced by Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) on January 1, 1972, establishing midnight as hour zero.
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October 13, 1960 World Series: Pittsburgh Pirates second baseman Bill Mazeroski becomes the first person to end a World Series with a home run, as the Pirates beat the New York Yankees, four games to three.
1960 World Series - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
On Oct. 14, 1964, civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. was named winner of the Nobel Peace Prize.
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October 14, 1947 - Chuck Yeager makes the first recorded supersonic flight (Mach 1.015) in a rocket-powered Bell experimental supersonic aircraft.
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On October 15th, 1860 Eleven-year-old Grace Bedell of Westfield, N.Y., wrote a letter to presidential candidate Abraham Lincoln, suggesting he could improve his appearance by growing a beard.
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Also on October 15, 1959, Sarah Ferguson was born...
Sarah, Duchess of York - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
October 15, 1969 - The Moratorium to End the War in Vietnam, a large demonstration against the United States involvement in the Vietnam War, takes place.
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October 16, 1854
"Work is the curse of the drinking classes." Oscar Wilde born |
On October. 16, 1964- China detonated its first atomic bomb.
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October 16, 1988 - Orel Hirshiser is the first MLB pitcher to pitch a shutout game in a playoff series game and a World Series game in the same postseason.
http://i196.photobucket.com/albums/a...-hershiser.jpg "Hershiser put together one of the best single seasons in pitching history in 1988. That year, he led the league in wins (23), innings (267), and complete games (15). He finished the season with a record 59 consecutive scoreless innings pitched, breaking the mark held by Dodger great Don Drysdale. He also won his first Gold Glove. He was unanimously selected as the Cy Young Award winner, with a record of 23–8 and a 2.26 ERA. In the 1988 National League Championship Series between Hershiser's Dodgers and the New York Mets, Hershiser not only started Games 1 and 3, but recorded the final out in Game 4 in relief for a save. He then pitched a complete game shutout in Game 7. He was selected MVP of the series. Hershiser then capped his historic season in the World Series by pitching a complete game shutout in Game 2 and allowing two runs in a complete game in the clinching victory in Game 5, winning the World Series MVP Award. Hershiser is the only player to receive the Cy Young award, the Championship Series MVP award, and the World Series MVP award in the same season." Source: Wikipedia |
October 17, 1961 - The New York Museum of Modern Art hangs Henri Matisse's Le Bateau upside-down. It remained upside-down for 45 days "until a stockbroker named Genevieve Habert noticed the mistake and notified a guard. Habert later informed the New York Times, to which Monroe Wheeler, the art director was notified, and the artwork was rehung properly."
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October 18, 1988 - Traveling Wilburys release Vol. 1.
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On Oct. 19, 1987, the stock market crashed as the Dow Jones Industrial Average plunged 508 points, or 22.6 percent in value - its second biggest percentage drop.
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Also on October 19, 1945, Jeannie C. Riley was born...
Jeannie C. Riley - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
Look magazine ceased publication with the October 19, 1971 issue. The magazine was the victim of a $5 million loss in revenues in 1970 (with television cutting deeply into its advertising revenues), a slack economy and rising postal rates. Circulation was at 6.5 million when it closed.
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On Oct. 20, 1973, in the so-called Saturday Night Massacre, President Nixon abolished the office of special Watergate prosecutor Archibald Cox, accepted the resignation of Attorney General Elliot L. Richardson and fired Deputy Attorney General William B. Ruckelshaus.
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Also on October 20, 1931, Mickey Mantle was born...
Mickey Mantle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
On this day in 1977 a chartered plane carrying Lynard Skynard crashed near McComb,Mississippi,killing the lead singer Ronnie Van Zant,guitarist Steve Gaines and backup singer Cassie Gaines.
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
On Oct. 21, 1879, Thomas Edison invented a workable electric light at his laboratory in Menlo Park, N.J.
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Also on October 21, 1956, Carrie Fisher was born...
Carrie Fisher - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
On Oct. 22, 1962, President John F. Kennedy announced an air and naval blockade of Cuba, following the discovery of Soviet missile bases on the island.
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In 1936, the first commercial flight from the US mainland to Hawaii.
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On Oct. 23, 1983, a suicide truck-bombing at Beirut International Airport in Lebanon killed 220 U.S. Marines, 18 sailors and 3 Army soldiers; a near-simultaneous attack on French forces killed 58 paratroopers.
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Also on October 24th, 1992- The Toronto Blue Jays became the first team outside the United States to win a World Series as they defeated the Atlanta Braves 4-3 in Game 6.
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On October 25, 1912, Sarah Ophelia Colley was born...
Minnie Pearl - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
Also on October 25th, 1983 A U.S.-led force invaded Grenada at the order of President Ronald Reagan, who said the action was needed to protect U.S. citizens there.
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October 25, 2003 - The Florida Marlins defeat the NY Yankees 4-2 in the World Series. The Yankees did not return to the World Series until 2009.
http://i196.photobucket.com/albums/a.../gal_irod7.jpg "The series headed back to New York for Game 6, marking the 100th World Series game ever played at Yankee Stadium. Marlins manager Jack McKeon decided to start 23-year-old Josh Beckett on three days' rest. Beckett made the move seem brilliant—his complete game shutout in the final game of the World Series made him the first to accomplish the feat since Jack Morris of the Minnesota Twins in 1991. With the victory, the Marlins became the first National League team since the 1981 Los Angeles Dodgers to win the World Series without having home field advantage." Source: Wikipedia |
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Also on October 26th, 1881 The gunfight at the OK Corral took place in Tombstone, Ariz., as Wyatt Earp, his two brothers and "Doc" Holliday confronted Ike Clanton's gang. Three members of Clanton's gang were killed; Earp's brothers were wounded.
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On October 27, 1945, Carrie Snodgress was born...
Carrie Snodgress - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
On 27 October, 1858, Theodore Roosevelt was born.
And also on this date, in 1728, Captain James Cook discovered the Sandwich Islands. |
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Also on Oct. 28, 1886, the Statue of Liberty, a gift from the people of France, was dedicated in New York Harbor by President Grover Cleveland.
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On 28 October, 1919, the US passes the Volstead Act, beginning prohibition.
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