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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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