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On October 19, 1951, President Harry S Truman signed an act officially ending the state of war with Germany...
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On October 20, 1952, the Mau Mau uprising against white settlers began in Kenya...
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October 21
This Day in History:
lite http://cache.eb.com/eb/image?id=62101&rendTypeId=4 Ferdinand Magellan, detail of a painting by an unknown artist; in the Uffizi Gallery, Florence. On this day in 1520, explorer Ferdinand Magellan and three Spanish ships entered the strait later named for him, sailing between the mainland tip of South America and the island of Tierra del Fuego toward the Pacific Ocean. Today's Birthday: Born this day in 1917, Dizzy Gillespie, an American trumpeter, composer, and bandleader, helped to found the modern jazz style known as bebop, but his improvisations also influenced later jazz trumpeters such as Miles Davis. http://cache.eb.com/eb/image?id=935&rendTypeId=4 Dizzy Gillespie, 1955 |
On October 22, 1879, Thomas Edison conducted his first successful experiment with high-resistance carbon filament...
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On October 23, 1915, the first U. S. championship horseshoe tournament was held in Kellerton, IA...
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On October 24, 1939, nylon stockings were sold to the public for the first time in Wilmington, DE...
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On October 25, 1881, the founder of "Cubism," Pablo Picasso, was born in Malaga, Spain...
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On October 26, 1970, "Doonesbury," the comic strip by Gary Trudeau, premiered in 28 newspapers across the United States...
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On October 27, 1927, the first newsreel featuring sound was released in New York...
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On October 28, 1904, the St. Louis Police Department became the first to use fingerprinting...
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On October 29, 1940, the first peacetime military draft began in the United States...
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On October 30, 1945, the United States Government announced the end of shoe rationing...
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On Oct 30, 2002, Jam Master Jay of the hip-hop group RUN-DMC was found murdered inside of his Queens studio. To date, no motive or suspect has ever been identified.
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On October 31, 1968, President Lyndon B. Johnson ordered a halt to all U. S. bombing of North Vietrnam...
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On November 1, 1944, "Harvey," by Mary Chase, opened on Broadway...
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On November 2, 1960, in London, the novel "Lady Chatterly's Lover" was found not guilty of obscenity...
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November 2, 1947
Spruce Goose flies The Hughes Flying Boat--the largest aircraft ever built--is piloted by designer Howard Hughes on its first and only flight. http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history.do |
On November 3, 1998, Bob Kane, the creator of Batman, died at the age of 83...
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On November 4, 1956, Soviet forces entered Hungary in order to supress the uprising that had begun on October 23, 1956...
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On November 5, 1872, Susan B. Anthony was fined $100 for attempting to vote in the presidential election. She never paid the fine...
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In 1935, Edwin H. Armstrong announced his development of FM broadcasting...
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On November 7, 1967, the U. S. Selective Service Commission announced that colege students arrested in anti-war demonstrations would lose their draft deferments...
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On November 8, 1959, the 'Big E,' Elgin Baylor of the Minneapolis Lakers, scored 64 points and set a National Basketball Association scoring record...
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On November 9, 1961, the Professional Golfer's Association (PGA) eliminated its "caucasians only" rule...
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On November 10, 1801, Tenessee outlawed the practice of dueling...
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On November 11, 1938, Kate Smith first sang Irving Berlin's "God Bless America on network radio...
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On November 12, 1940, Walt Disney released "Fantasia..."
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On November 13, 1982, the Vietnam Veterans Memorial was dedicated in Washington, DC...
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On November 14, 1968, Yale University announced it was going co-educational...
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On November 15, 1969, in Washington, DC, a quarter of a million protesters staged a peaceful demonstration against the Vietnam War...
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On November 16,1952, in the Peanuts comic strip, Lucy first held a football for Charlie Brown...
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On November 17, 1973, U.S. President Nixon told an Associated Press managing editors meeting in Orlando, FL, "people have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I'm not a crook..."
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On November 18, 1966, U.S. Roman Catholic bishops did away with the rule against eating meat on Fridays...
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On November 19, 1954, two automatic toll collectors were placed in service on the Garden State Parkway in New Jersey...
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On November 20, 1962, Mickey Mantle was named the American League Most Valuable Player for the third time...
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On November 21, 1871, M.F. Galethe patented the cigar lighter...
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On November 22, 1910, Arthur F. Knight patented a steel shaft to replace wood shafts in golf clubs...
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On November 23, 1979, Marianne Faithful was arrested at Oslo Airport in Norway for possession of marijuana...
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On November 24, 1859, Charles Darwin, a British naturalist, published "On the Origin of Species." It was the paper in which he explained his theory of evolution through the process of natural selection.
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On November 25, 1867, Alfred Nobel patented dynamite...
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On November 26, 1789, U.S. President Washington set aside this day to observe the adoption of the Constitution of the United States...
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On November 28, 1973, The U.S. Senate voted to confirm Gerald R. Ford as vice president after the resignation of Spiro T. Agnew...
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On November 28, 1977, Larry Bird was introduced as "College Basketball's Secret Weapon" with a cover story in Sports Illustrated...
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On November 29, 1947, The U.N. General Assembly passed a resolution that called for the division of Palestine between Arabs and Jews...
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i was gona say that the name was microsoft was invented today by bill gates. i love this thread. keep em coming uncle phil!
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On November 30, 1897, Thomas Edison's own motion picture projector had its first commercial exhibition...
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On December 1, 1835, Hans Christian Andersen published his first book of fairy tales...
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On December 2, 1954, the U.S. Senate voted to condemn Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy for what it called "conduct that tends to bring the Senate into dishonor and disrepute." The censure was related to McCarthy's controversial investigation of suspected communists in the U.S. government, military and civilian society...
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On December 3, 1964, police arrested about 800 students at the University of California at Berkeley. The arrest took place one day after the students staged a massive sit-in inside an administration building...
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On December 4, 1943, baseball Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis announced that any club was free to employ black players...
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1933 - Prohibition came to an end when Utah became the 36th state to ratify the 21st Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
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On December 6, 1884, construction of the Washington Monument was completed by Army engineers. The project took 34 years...
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On December 7, 1982, Charlie Brooks Jr., a convicted murderer, became the first prisoner in the U.S. to be executed by injection, at a prison in Huntsville, TX...
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*note to self: start thread about guillotine and lack of use in the US*
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December 7th 1941, Pear Harbor is attacked by surprise by Japanese Imperial forces, bringing war to the United States.
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On December 8, 1982, Norman D. Mayer demanding an end to nuclear weapons held the Washington Monument hostage. He threatened to blow it up with explosives he claimed were inside a van. 10 hours later he was shot to death by police...
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On December 9, 1926, the United States Golf Association legalized the use of steel-shafted golf clubs...
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On December 10, 19XX, Uncle Phil jumped kicking and screaming into the new world...
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On December 11, 1844, Dr. Horace Wells became the first person to have a tooth extracted after receiving an anesthetic for the dental procedure. Nitrous Oxide, or laughing gas, was the anesthetic...
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On December 12, 1899, George Grant patented the wooden golf tee...
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December 13
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1769: Dartmouth College (pictured) in present-day Hanover, New Hampshire, USA was established by a Royal Charter from British King George III and became the last university founded in the Thirteen Colonies before the American Revolution. |
On December 14, 1503, physician, astrologer and clairvoyant Nostradamus was born at St. Remy, Provence, France...
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On December 15, 1964, Canada's House of Commons approved a newly designed flag thereby dropping the Canadian "Red Ensign" flag...
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On December 16, 1850, the first immigrant ship, the Charlotte Jane, arrived at Lyttleton, New Zealand...
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On December 17, 1953, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) decided to approve RCA’s color television specifications...
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On December 18, 1917,the Eighteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was passed by the U.S. Congress...
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On December 19, 1973, Johnny Carson started a fake toilet-paper scare on the "Tonight Show..."
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On December 20, 1860, South Carolina became the first state to secede from the American Union...
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On December 21, 1978, police in Des Plaines, IL, arrested John W. Gacy Jr. and began unearthing the remains of 33 men and boys that Gacy was later convicted of killing...
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On December 22, 1894, the United States Golf Association was formed in New York City...
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On December 23, 1968, eighty-two crewmembers of the U.S. intelligence ship Pueblo were released by North Korea, 11 months after they had been captured...
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On December 24, 1906, Reginald A. Fessenden became the first person to broadcast a music program over radio, from Brant Rock, MA.
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On December 25, 1946, W.C. Fields died at the age of 66...
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On December 26, 1947, heavy snow blanketed the Northeast United States, burying New York City under 25.8 inches of snow in 16 hours. The severe weather was blamed for about 80 deaths...
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On December 27, 1831, Charles Darwin set out on a voyage to the Pacific aboard the HMS Beagle. Darwin's discoveries during the voyage helped him form the basis of his theories on evolution...
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On December 28, 1956, after five years on television, the last "Ding Dong School" was aired on NBC-TV...
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On December 29, 1934, the first regular-season, college basketball game was played at Madison Square Garden in New York City. New York University defeated Notre Dame 25-18...
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On December 30, 1961, Jack Nicklaus lost his first attempt at pro golf to Gary Player in an exhibition match in Miami, FL...
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On December 31, 1929, Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians played "Auld Lang Syne" as a New Year's Eve song for the first time...
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On January 1, 0404, the last gladiator competition was held in Rome...
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On January 2, 1965, "Broadway" Joe Namath signed the richest rookie contract ($400,000) in the history of pro football...
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On January 3, 1967, Jack Ruby died in a Dallas, TX, hospital...
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On January 4, 1936, the first pop music chart based on national sales was published by "Billboard" magazine...
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On January 5, 1914, Ford Motor Company announced that there would be a new daily minimum wage of $5 and an eight-hour workday...
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On January 6, 1994, figure skater Nancy Kerrigan was clubbed on the right leg by an assailant at Cobo Arena in Detroit, MI. Four men were later sentenced to prison for the attack, including Tonya Harding's ex-husband...
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On January 7, 1927, transatlantic telephone service began between New York and London. 31 calls were made on this first day...
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On January 8, 1918, U.S. President Woodrow Wilson announced his Fourteen Points as the basis for peace upon the end of World War I...
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On January 9, 1902, New York State introduced a bill to outlaw flirting in public...
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On January 10, 1949, vinyl records were introduced by RCA (45 rpm) and Columbia (33.3 rpm)...
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On January 11, 1964, U.S. Surgeon General Luther Terry released a report that said that smoking cigarettes was a definite health hazard...
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On January 12, 1915, the U.S. House of Representatives rejected a proposal to give women the right to vote...
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On January 13, 1957, Wham-O began producing "Pluto Platters." This marked the true beginning of production of the flying disc...
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On January 14, 1954, Marilyn Monroe and Joe DiMaggio were married. The marriage only lasted nine months...
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On January 15, 1967, the first National Football League Super Bowl was played. The Green Bay Packers defeated the Kansas City Chiefs of the American Football League. The final score was 35-10...
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On January 16, 1919, the 18th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which prohibited the sale or transportation of alcoholic beverages, was ratified. It was later repealed by the 21st Amendment...
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On January 17, 1916, the Professional Golfers Association was formed in New York City...
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On January 18, 1948, "The Original Amateur Hour" debuted. The show was on the air for 22 years...
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On January 19, 1971, at the Charles Manson murder trial, the Beatles' "Helter Skelter" was played. At the scene of one of his gruesome murders, the words "helter skelter" were written on a mirror...
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oN jANUARY 20, 1937, Franklin Delano Roosevelt became the first U.S. President to be inaugurated on January 20th. The 20th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution officially set the date for the swearing in of the President and Vice President...
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On January 21, 1977, U.S. President Carter pardoned almost all Vietnam War draft evaders...
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