On This Day And In Previous Years (Brief Events In History)

[Captain WH Rollins]

28th September 1066 - William the Conqueror invades England landing at Pevensey Bay, Sussex

28th September 1106 - Battle at Tinchebrai: English King Henry I beats his brother Robert

28th September 1652 - English-Dutch sea battle at Kentish Knock

28th September 1781 - 9,000 American and 7,000 French troops begin siege of Yorktown

28th September 1928 - Juan de la Cierva makes first helicopter flight over English Channel

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30th September 1399 - King Richard II of England abdicates

30th September 1846 - Anesthetic ether used for first time by American dentist Dr William Morton who extracts a tooth

30th September 1862 - Prussia Minister President Otto von Bismarck's delivers his "Blood & Iron" speech

30th September 1938 - Treaty of Munich signed by Hitler, Mussolini, Daladier and Chamberlain, forces Czechoslovakia to give territory to Germany

30th September 1939 - Britain first evacuates citizens in anticipation of war.

30th September 1946 - 22 Nazi leaders, including Joachim von Ribbentrop and Hermann Goering, are found guilty of war crimes, sentenced to death or prison at the Nuremberg war trials

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1st October 1688 - Prince Willem III of Orange accepts invitation to take up the British crown

1st October 1814 - Opening of the Congress of Vienna, which redrew Europe's political map after the defeat of Napoléon Bonaparte

1st October 1890 - Congress establishes Yosemite National Park (California)

1st October 1908 - Henry Ford introduces the Model T car, costs $825

1st October 1948 - California Supreme Court voids state statute banning interracial marriages

1st October 1952 - Monte Bello-Island, Great Britain first atom bomb explosion

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2nd October 1492 - King Henry VII of England invades France

2nd October 1518 - English cardinal Thomas Wolsey makes European plan

2nd October 1789 - George Washington transmits the proposed Constitutional amendments, The United States Bill of Rights, to the States for ratification

2nd October 1923 - British occuping army leaves Constantinople

2nd October 1940 - 17 German aircraft shot down over England

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3rd September 1922 - first facsimile photo sent over city telephone lines, Washington, D.C.

3rd September 1941 - "The Maltese Falcon" directed by John Huston and based off Dashiell Hammett's 1929 novel of the same name, starring Humphrey Bogart and Mary Astor, premieres in New York City

3rd September 1952 - first video recording on magnetic tape, LA, Ca

3rd September 1952 - first British nuclear test at Monte Bello Island in Australia

3rd September 1990 - Reunification of East and West Germany. West German flag is raised above the Brandenburg Gate on the stroke of midnight.

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5th October 1789 - French Revolution: Women of Paris march to Versailles in the March on Versailles to confront Louis XVI about his refusal to promulgate the decrees on the abolition of feudalism, demand bread, and have the King and his court moved to Paris

5th October 1813 - Battle of Thames in Canada; Americans defeat British

5th October 1862 - Battle of Hatchie Bridge, Tennessee; confederate forces avoid capture by Union army

5th October 1862 - Federal fleet occupies Galveston, Texas

5th October 1947 - Harry Truman makes the first Presidential address televised from the White House

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6th October 1917 - Battle of Passchendaele, Canadian troops capture the village of Passchendaele in the Third Battle of Ypres, after 250,000 casualties on both sides

6th October 1927 - "The Jazz Singer", directed by Alan Crosland, starring Al Jolson and May McAvoy, released, first film with a soundtrack (Honorary Academy Award 1928)

6th October 1946 - US President Harry Truman questions Great Britain Jews about Palestine

6th October 1951 - Joseph Stalin proclaims the Soviet Union has the atomic bomb

6th October 1956 - Dr Albert Sabin discovers oral polio vaccine

6th October 1960 - "Spartacus", directed by Stanley Kubrick and starring Kirk Douglas and Laurence Olivier, premieres in NYC

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7th October 1763 - George III of Great Britain issues Proclamation of 1763, closing lands in North America north and west of Alleghenies to white settlement

7th October 1777 - Americans beat British in Second Battle of Saratoga & Battle of Bemis Heights

7th October 1780 - British defeated by American militia near Kings Mountain, SC

7th October 1916 - the German submarine U-53 arrives off Newport, Rhode Island, and sinks 9 British merchant ships in international waters

7th October 1919 - KLM, Royal Dutch Airlines, established (oldest existing airline)

7th October 1968 - the Motion Picture Association of America adopts film rating system

7th October 2001 - the US invasion of Afghanistan starts with an air assault and covert operations on the ground

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10th October 1695 - King Willem III escapes South Netherlands, back to England

10th October 1839 - British troops under General Charles Napier occupy Beirut

10th October 1865 - John Wesley Hyatt patents the billiard ball made from cellulose nitrate (celluloid) in Albany, New York

10th October 1954 - Ho Chi Minh enters Hanoi after withdrawal of French troops

10th October 1957 - a fire at the Windscale nuclear plant in Cumbria, England becomes the world's first major nuclear accident

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12th October 1492 - Christopher Columbus's expedition makes landfall on a Caribbean island he names San Salvador (likely Watling Island, Bahamas). The explorer believes he has reached East Asia

12th October 1823 - Charles Macintosh of Scotland begins selling raincoats

12th October 1899 - South Africa Boer Republic declares war on Britain

12th October 1915 - the Ford Motor Company under Henry Ford manufactures its 1 millionth automobile at the River Rouge plant in Detroit

12th October 1915 - Theodore Roosevelt criticizes US citizens who identify themselves with dual nationalities

12th October 1957 - the first commercial flight between California & Antarctica

12th October 1973 - US President Richard Nixon nominates Gerald Ford to replace Spiro Agnew as Vice President

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13th October 1884 - Greenwich in London established as the universal time meridian of longitude

13th October 1914 - Pro-German Boers begin opposition to British authority in South Africa

13th October 1943 - Italy declares war on former Axis partner Germany

13th October 1944 - US army begins battle of Aachen, first German city captured during WWII

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14th October 1066 - Battle of Hastings - William the Conqueror and his Norman army defeat the English forces of Harold II who is killed in the battle

14th October1322 - Robert the Bruce of Scotland defeats King Edward II of England at Byland, forcing Edward to accept Scotland's independence

14th October 1586 - Mary Queen of Scots goes on trial for conspiracy against Elizabeth

14th October 1773 - American Revolutionary War - The United Kingdom's East India Company tea ships' cargo are burned at Annapolis, Maryland.

14th October 1774 - first Continental Congress makes Declaration of Colonial Rights in Philadelphia

14th October 1933 - Nazi Germany announces its withdrawal from the League of Nations

14th October 1953 - Great Britain performs nuclear test at Emu Field, Australia

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15th October 1815 - Napoleon Bonaparte arrives on island of St Helena to begin his exile

15th October 1951 - Mexican chemist Luis E. Miramontes synthesizes the first oral contraceptive

15th October 1993 - Nelson Mandela and South African President F. W. de Klerk awarded the Nobel Peace Prize

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17th October 1907 - Guglielmo Marconi's company begins the first commercial transatlantic wireless service between Glace Bay, Nova Scotia, Canada and Clifden, Ireland

17th October 1943 - Burma railway completed, built by Allied POWs and Asian laborers for use of the Japanese army

17th October 1917 - the first British bombing of Germany

17th October 1956 - England's first large scale nuclear power station opens

17th October 1960 - the US and Britain sign accord for nuclear submarine bases

17th October 1979 - the US President Jimmy Carter signs legislation creating Department of Education

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[Tito]

On October 17, 1989 San Francisco suffered a massive earthquake that killed many people, dislodged an upper portion of the Bay Bridge, an upper portion of the Cypress highway c on top of the lower portion of the highway pancaking cars below and sadly killing those below. It was so bad.

 

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18th October 1685 - French King Louis XIV revokes Edict of Nantes cancelling rights of French Protestants

18th October 1867 - US takes formal possession of Alaska from Russia, having paid $7.2 million

18th October 1931 - American gangster Al Capone convicted of tax evasion

18th October 1954 - Texas Instruments Inc. announces the first transistor radio.

18th October 1955 - University of California discovers anti-proton

18th October 1962 - James Watson, Francis Crick and Maurice Wilkins win the Nobel Prize for Medicine for their work in determining the structure of DNA

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19th October 1765 - Stamp Act Congress meets in New York City, writes the Declaration of Rights and Grievances

19th October 1781 - British forces under General Charles Cornwallis sign terms of surrender to George Washington and Comte de Rochambeau at Yorktown at 2 pm; US Revolutionary War ends

19th October 1932 - British government signs trade agreement with Soviet Union

19th October 1943 - Streptomycin, the first antibiotic remedy for tuberculosis, is isolated by researchers at Rutgers University

19th October 1954 - Egypt and Great Britain sign treaty; British troops depart

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20th October 1820 - Spain sells part of Florida to US for $5 million

20th October 1864 - US President Abraham Lincoln formally establishes Thanksgiving as a national holiday

20th October 1899 - Battle at Talana Hill, Natal: British army vs Boers

20th October 1903 - US wins disputed boundary between District of Alaska & Canada

20th October 1971 - Senator in the US Congress Edward Kennedy calls for a withdrawal of British troops from Northern Ireland and all-party negotiations to establish a United Ireland

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21st October 1555 - English parliament refuses to recognize Philip of Spain as king

21st October 1774 - first display of the word "Liberty" on a flag, raised by colonists in Taunton, Massachusetts and which was in defiance of British rule in Colonial America.

21st October 1805 - Battle of Trafalgar: British Admiral Horatio Nelson defeats combined French and Spanish fleet. Nelson shot and killed during battle.

21st October 1824 - Joseph Aspdin patents Portland cement (Yorkshire, England)

21st October 1854 - Florence Nightingale with a staff of 38 nurses is sent to the Crimean War

21st October 1944 - World War II: US troops capture Aachen, 1st large German city to fall

21st October 1948 - UN rejects Russian proposal to destroy atomic weapons

21st October 1960 - first British nuclear sub HMS Dreadnought launched

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22nd October 1879 - Thomas Edison perfects carbonized cotton filament light bulb

22nd October 1884 - International Meridian Conference in Washington, D.C. adopts Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) worldwide, creating 24 international time zones with longitude zero at the Greenwich meridian

22nd October 1907 - a run on Knickerbocker Trust Company stock leads to US wide run on banks

22nd October 1956 - Great Britain performs nuclear test at Maralinga Australia

22nd October 1962 - Cuban missile crisis: US President John F. Kennedy addresses TV about Russian missile bases in Cuba and imposes a naval blockade on Cuba, beginning the missile crisis

22nd October 1964 - US performs underground nuclear test at Hattiesburg, Mississippi

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