Today in History

A History Fact for everyday

October 5 1965 Chuck Linster performs 6,006 consecutive push-ups
October 6 1979 Pope John Paul II is 1st Pope to visit the White House
October 7 1737 40 foot waves sink 20,000 small craft & kill 300,000 (Bengal, India)
October 8 1860 Telegraph line between LA & SF opens
October 9 1946 1st electric blanket manufactured; sold for $39.50
October 10 1780 Great Hurricane of 1780 kills 20,000 to 30,000 in Caribbean
October 11 1890 Daughters of the American Revolution founded
October 12 1933 Alcatraz becomes a federal prison (unofficially)
October 13 1860 1st aerial photo taken in US (from a balloon), Boston
October 14 1933 Nazi Germany announces withdrawal from League of Nations
October 15 1937 Ernest Hemingway novel "To Have & Have Not" published
October 16 1829 Tremont Hotel, 1st US modern hotel opens (Boston)
October 17 1781 Cornwallis defeated at Yorktown
October 18 1767 Boundary between Md & Pa, the Mason Dixon line, agreed upon
October 19 1960 Martin Luther King Jr arrested in Atlanta sit-in
October 20 1803 US Senate ratifies the Louisiana Purchase
October 21 1917 1st Americans to see action on the front lines of WW I
October 22 1938 1st Xerox copy made
October 23 1981 US national debt hits $1 trillion
October 24 1836 The match is patented
October 25 1971 Roy Disney dedicates Walt Disney World
October 26 1970 "Doonesbury" comic strip debuts in 28 newspapers
October 27 1880 Theodore Roosevelt marries Alice Lee, on his 22nd birthday
October 28 1929 1st child born in aircraft, Miami, Fl
October 29 1833 1st US college fraternity to have a fraternity house founded
October 30 1888 1st ballpoint pen patented
October 31 1908 4th Olympic games end in London




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