On October 18, 1969 Vice President Spiro T. Agnew referred to anti-Vietnam War protesters "an effete corps of impudent snobs."

On October 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.

On October 21, 1805, the Battle of Trafalgar occurred off the coast of Spain. The British defeated the French and Spanish fleet...

Also on October 21, 1797 The U.S. Navy frigate Constitution, also known as Old Ironsides, was launched in Boston Harbor.

On October 22, 1962, President John F. Kennedy announced an air and naval blockade of Cuba, following the discovery of Soviet missile bases on the island.

Also on October 22, 1797, Andre-Jacques Garnerin made the first recorded parachute jump. He made the jump from about 3,000 feet...

On October 23, 1993 Toronto Blue Jays outfielder Joe Carter became the second player to end a World Series with a home run - a three-run shot that gave Toronto an 8-6 victory over the Philadelphia Phillies in Game 6.

Also on October 23, 1869, John (William) Heisman was born. He is recognized as one of the greatest innovators of the game of football...

On October 24, 1788, poet Sarah Joseph Hale was born. She wrote the poem "Mary Had A Little Lamb..."

Also on October 24th, 1861 The first transcontinental telegraph message was sent from California to President Abraham Lincoln.

On October 25, 1400, Geoffrey Chaucer died at the age of 57. He was the first poet to be buried in Westminster Abbey...

Also on October 25, 1983 U.S. forces invaded Grenada at the order of President Ronald Reagan, who said the action was needed to protect U.S. citizens there.

I clearly remember this event as I was in the Navy at the time. Our ship went on a heightened state of alert and there were rumors of us steaming over to provide support. By the time I walked down to the ships library and found an atlas. The "Old Man" (the Captain) announced "Operations on the island of Grenada have been successful, return to normal operating procedures." I found it odd that we went to high alert for an event in the Caribbean since at the time we were floating around off the east coast of Africa some 14,000 miles away.

That is all, carry on. We now return you to your normal thread operating procedures.

"The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne, the assay so hard, so sharp the conqueryinge."
— Geoffrey Chaucer, the father of English poetry (c. 1340 - 1400)

On October 26, 1858, H.E. Smith patented the rotary-motion washing machine...

On October 27, 1880, Theodore Roosevelt married Alice Lee...

On October 28, 1904, the St. Louis Police Department became the first to use fingerprinting...

On October 29, 1901, Leon Czolgosz, the assassin of U.S. President McKinley, was electrocuted...

On October 30, 1894, the time clock was patented by Daniel M. Cooper of Rochester, NY...

On October 31, 1941, the U.S. Navy destroyer Reuben James was torpedoed by a German submarine near Iceland. The U.S. had not yet entered World War II. More than 100 men were killed...

On November 1, 1755, at least 60,000 people were killed in Lisbon, Portugal by an earthquake, its aftershocks and the ensuing tsunami...

On November 2, 1917, British Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour expressed support for a "national home" for the Jews of Palestine...

On November 3, 1507, Leonardo DaVinci was commissioned by the husband of Lisa Gherardini to paint her. The work is known as the Mona Lisa...

On November 4, 1939, at the 40th National Automobile Show the first air-conditioned car was put on display...

On November 5, 1605, the "Gunpowder Plot" attempted by Guy Fawkes failed when he was captured before he could blow up the English Parliament. Guy Fawkes Day is celebrated every November 5th in Britain to celebrate his failure to blow up all the members of Parliament and King James I...

On November 6, 1851, Charles Henry Dow was born. He was the founder of Dow Jones & Company....

On November 7, 1811, the Shawnee Indians of chief Tecumseh were defeated by William Henry Harrison at the Battle of Wabash (or (Tippecanoe)...

On November 8, 1966 Edward W. Brooke of Massachusetts became the first African-American to be elected to the U.S. Senate by popular vote.

Also on November 8, 1910, William H. Frost patented the insect exterminator...

On November 9, 1906, U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt left for Panama to see the progress on the new canal. It was the first foreign trip by a U.S. president...

Also on the 9th November 1989:

After several weeks of civil unrest and amid amazing scenes of celebration the Berlin Wall is officially opened after 28 years and 1 day.

Berlin Wall - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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On November 10, 1917, 41 suffragists were arrested in front of the White House...

Nov. 10th, 1775 saw the founding of the United States Marine Corps.

oorah, semper fi :thumbsup:

happy birthday to all my fellow marines.

On November 11, 1887, labor activists were hanged in Illinois after being convicted of being connected to a bombing that killed eight police officers...

On November 12, 1954, Ellis Island closed after processing more than 20 million immigrants since opening in New York Harbor in 1892.

Also on November 12, 1815, American suffragist Elizabeth Cady Stanton was born in Johnstown, NY...

On November 13, 1805, Johann George Lehner, a Viennese butcher, invented a recipe and called it the "frankfurter..."

On November, 13, 1956, the Supreme Court struck down laws calling for racial segregation on public buses.

On November 14, 1889, New York World reporter Nellie Bly (Elizabeth Cochrane) began an attempt to surpass the fictitious journey of Jules Verne's Phileas Fogg by traveling around the world in less than 80 days. Bly succeeded by finishing the journey the following January in 72 days, 6 hours and 11 minutes...

Also on November 14, 1972, the Dow Jones Industrial Average closed above 1,000 for the first time, ending the day at 1,003.16

On November 15, 1902, anarchist Gennaro Rubin failed in his attempt to murder King Leopold II of Belgium...