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1881
Shootout at the O.K. Corral
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19th Century
1825
Erie Canal opens
 
American Revolution
1774
Congress petitions British king to address grievances
1775
King George III speaks to Parliament of American rebellion
1776
Benjamin Franklin sets sail for France
 
Art, Literature and Film History
1946
“Wheel of Fortune” host Pat Sajak is born
1985
Whitney Houston earns her first #1 hit with “Saving All My Love For You”
 
Civil War
1864
“Bloody Bill” Anderson killed
 
Crime
1984
An Ozzy Osbourne fan dies by suicide
 
Inventions & Science
1984
Infant receives baboon heart
 
Sports
1986
Red Sox first baseman Bill Buckner lets ground ball roll through his legs
 
U.S. Presidents
2001
George W. Bush signs the Patriot Act
 
World War I
1917
Brazil declares war on Germany
 
World War II
1942
Japanese planes destroy the U.S.S Hornet

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October 27
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1904
New York City subway opens
At 2:35 on the afternoon of October 27, 1904, New York City Mayor George McClellan takes the controls on the inaugural run of the city’s innovative new rapid transit system: the subway. While London boasts the world’s oldest underground train network (opened in 1863) and Boston built the first... read more
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1990s
1994
Justice Department announces that U.S. prison population exceeds one million
 
Art, Literature and Film History
1932
Poet Sylvia Plath is born
 
Cold War
1962
The United States and Soviet Union step back from brink of nuclear war
 
Crime
1940
Mafia boss John Gotti is born
1961
Appeals court upholds Chuck Berry’s conviction
 
Inventions & Science
1873
Joseph Glidden applies for a patent on his barbed wire design
2006
Chick-fil-A founder takes last Ford Taurus
 
Religion
1659
Quakers executed for religious beliefs
 
Sports
2004
Red Sox win first championship since 1918
 
U.S. Presidents
1858
Theodore Roosevelt is born

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October 28
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1965
St. Louis’s Gateway Arch is completed
On October 28, 1965, construction is completed on the Gateway Arch, a spectacular 630-foot-high catenary curve of stainless steel marking the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial on the waterfront of St. Louis, Missouri... read more
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19th Century
1886
Statue of Liberty dedicated
 
Art, Literature and Film History
1998
President Bill Clinton signs the Digital Millennium Copyright Act into law
 
Cold War
1962
Nikita Khrushchev orders withdrawal of missiles from Cuba
 
Inventions & Science
1992
Leif Erickson Tunnel completes 1,593-mile I-35
 
U.S. Government and Politics
1919
Congress overrides presidential veto of the Volstead Act, ushering in Prohibition
 
World War II
1940
Italy invades Greece

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October 29
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1998
John Glenn returns to space
Nearly four decades after he became the first American to orbit the Earth, Senator John Herschel Glenn Jr. is launched into space again as a payload specialist aboard the space shuttle Discovery on October 29, 1998... read more
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Art, Literature and Film History
1971
Guitarist Duane Allman dies in motorcycle accident
 
Black History
1965
“The Autobiography of Malcolm X” is published
 
Cold War
1956
Israel invades Egypt; Suez Crisis begins
 
European History
1618
Sir Walter Raleigh executed
 
Great Depression
1929
Stock market crashes on Black Tuesday
 
Sports
2003
LeBron James debuts in the NBA
 
U.S. Presidents
1901
President William McKinley’s assassin is executed
 
Vietnam War
1969
“Chicago Eight” defendant Bobby Seale gagged during his trial
World War I
1918
German sailors begin to mutiny

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October 30
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1938
Orson Welles’s “War of the Worlds” radio play is broadcast
“The War of the Worlds”—Orson Welles's realistic radio dramatization of a Martian invasion of Earth—is broadcast on the radio on October 30, 1938. Welles was only 23 years old when his Mercury Theater company decided to update H.G. Wells’s 19th-century science fiction novel The War of the Worlds for national radio... read more
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19th Century
1864
The city of Helena, Montana, is founded after miners discover gold
 
1990s
1995
Quebec separatists narrowly defeated
 
Art, Literature and Film History
1811
“Sense and Sensibility” is published
1905
George Bernard Shaw’s “Mrs. Warren’s Profession” premieres in New York, causing a scandal
 
Early 20th Century U.S.
1908
Queen of American high society dies
 
Natural Disasters & Environment
1948
Killer smog claims elderly victims
1991
“Perfect storm” intensifies in the North Atlantic
 
Sports
1974
Muhammad Ali wins the Rumble in the Jungle
 
U.S. Presidents
1735
John Adams is born
 
World War I
1918
Ottoman Empire signs treaty with Allies

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October 31
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1517
Martin Luther posts 95 theses
On October 31, 1517, legend has it that the priest and scholar Martin Luther approaches the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg, Germany, and nails a piece of paper to it containing the 95 revolutionary opinions that would begin the Protestant Reformation... read more
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19th Century
1864
The U.S. Congress admits Nevada as the 36th state
 
1960s
1963
Freak explosion at Indiana State Fairgrounds Coliseum kills nearly 100
 
American Revolution
1776
King George gives first parliamentary address after the Declaration of Independence
 
Art, Literature and Film History
1963
Ed Sullivan witnesses Beatlemania firsthand, paving the way for the British Invasion
1993
Actor River Phoenix dies
 
Crime
1984
Indian prime minister Indira Gandhi is assassinated
 
European History
1961
Stalin’s body removed from Lenin’s tomb
 
Inventions & Science
2008
Satoshi Nakamoto publishes a paper introducing Bitcoin
 
Roaring Twenties
1926
Celebrated magician Harry Houdini dies
 
Sports
1950
Earl Lloyd becomes first Black player to suit up in the NBA
1997
Violet Palmer becomes first woman to officiate an NBA game

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November 01
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1512
Sistine Chapel ceiling opens to public
The ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in Rome, one of Italian artist Michelangelo’s finest works, is exhibited to the public for the first time on November 1, 1512. Michelangelo Buonarroti, the greatest of the Italian Renaissance artists, was born in the small village of Caprese in 1475... read more
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19th Century
1924
Legendary western lawman is murdered
 
1990s
1993
European Union officially established
 
American Revolution
1765
Stamp Act goes into effect in the American colonies
1777
John Paul Jones sets sail
 
Black History
1945
The first issue of “Ebony” magazine is published
 
Civil War
1861
George McClellan replaces Winfield Scott
 
Cold War
1952
United States tests first hydrogen bomb
 
Crime
1950
An assassination attempt threatens President Harry S. Truman
 
Inventions & Science
1911
World’s first aerial bomb is dropped over Libya
 
Middle Eastern History
1935
Palestinian-American public intellectual Edward Said is born
 
Natural Disasters & Environment
1755
Earthquake takes heavy toll on Lisbon
 
Sports
1946
First NBA game played
1959
Montreal’s Jacques Plante becomes first NHL goaltender to wear facemask
 
U.S. Presidents
1800
John Adams moves into White House

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November 02
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1947
Howard Hughes’s “Spruce Goose” flies
The Hughes Flying Boat—at one time the largest aircraft ever built—is piloted by designer Howard Hughes on its first and only flight. Built with laminated birch and spruce (hence the nickname the Spruce Goose) the massive wooden aircraft had a wingspan longer than a football field and was designed to carry more than 700 men to battle... read more
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Art, Literature and Film History
1960
“Lady Chatterley’s Lover” obscenity trial ends
 
Crime
1989
A nurse’s aide gets life imprisonment for murder
 
Holidays
1983
MLK federal holiday declared
 
Space Exploration
2000
First residential crew arrives aboard the International Space Station
 
Sports
1986
Grete Waitz wins her eighth New York City Marathon
 
U.S. Government and Politics
1948
Truman defeats Dewey
 
U.S. Presidents
1795
James Polk is born
1865
Warren G. Harding is born
 
Vietnam War
1963
Ngo Dinh Diem assassinated in South Vietnam
 
World War I
1917
Balfour Declaration letter written

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November 03
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2014
One World Trade Center officially opens in New York City, on the site of the Twin Towers
One World Trade Center officially opens in Manhattan on November 3, 2014. The new tower, along with the rest of the World Trade Center complex, replaced the Twin Towers and surrounding complex, which were destroyed by terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001... read more
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1970s
1979
Communists and Klansmen clash in Greensboro
 
1980s
1982
Massive truck explosion in Afghanistan’s Salang Tunnel
 
Art, Literature and Film History
1844
William Makepeace Thackeray completes his novel “Barry Lyndon”
1962
The Crystals earn a #1 hit with “He’s A Rebel”
 
Cold War
1957
Soviet Union launches a dog into space
 
Crime
1883
Black Bart makes his last stagecoach robbery
 
Latin American History
1903
Panama declares independence from Colombia
 
Sports
1998
Former wrestler Jesse “The Body” Ventura is elected governor of Minnesota
2016
Chicago Cubs win first World Series title since 1908, snapping “curse”
 
U.S. Government and Politics
 
1948
Newspaper mistakenly declares “Dewey Defeats Truman”
1964
D.C. residents cast first presidential votes since 1800
1964
Lyndon B. Johnson defeats Barry Goldwater for presidency
 
Vietnam War
1969
President Nixon calls on the “silent majority”
 
Women's History
1992
Dianne Feinstein elected California Senator in the “Year of the Woman”
 
World War I
1918
Central Powers face rebellion on the home front

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November 04
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1922
Entrance to King Tut’s tomb discovered
British archaeologist Howard Carter and his workmen discover a step leading to the tomb of King Tutankhamen in the Valley of the Kings in Egypt on November 4, 1922. When Carter first arrived in Egypt in 1891, most of the ancient Egyptian tombs had been discovered, though the little-known King... read more
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21st Century
2016
Paris Agreement comes into effect
 
American Revolution
1777
George Washington learns of effort to discredit him
 
Art, Literature and Film History
1948
T.S. Eliot wins Nobel Prize in Literature
1990
“Dances with Wolves” premieres in theaters
 
Crime
1928
One of New York’s most notorious gamblers is shot to death
1995
Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin assassinated
 
Early U.S.
1791
Native Americans deliver crushing defeat at the Battle of the Wabash
 
European History
 
1956
Soviets put a brutal end to Hungarian revolution
 
Gay Rights
2008
Proposition 8 is passed in California, banning same-sex marriage
 
Inventions & Science
1960
Jane Goodall observes a chimpanzee making and using tools
 
Middle Eastern History
1979
Iran hostage crisis begins after U.S. embassy in Tehran is stormed
 
Sports
1924
California legalizes professional boxing after 10-year ban
 
U.S. Presidents
1842
Abraham Lincoln marries Mary Todd
2008
Barack Obama elected as America’s first Black president
 
Vietnam War
1963
General Minh takes over leadership of South Vietnam
 
World War I
1918
Poet Wilfred Owen killed in action

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November 05
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1941
The order is given: Bomb Pearl Harbor
On November 5, 1941, the Combined Japanese Fleet receive Top-Secret Order No. 1: In just over a month's time, Pearl Harbor is to be bombed, along with Malaya (now known as Malaysia), the Dutch East Indies and the Philippines... read more
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Art, Literature and Film History
2007
Writers strike stalls production of TV shows, movies
 
Asian History
1556
Mughal victory assures Akbar’s ascension
 
Civil War
1862
Lincoln removes General McClellan from Army of the Potomac
 
Crime
2009
Army major kills 13 people in Fort Hood shooting spree
 
European History
1605
King James learns of Gunpowder Plot
 
Native American History
1862
Dakota Indian trials conclude, with more than 300 sentenced to hang
 
Sports
1994
George Foreman becomes oldest heavyweight champ
 
U.S. Government and Politics
1968
Richard Nixon elected president
 
U.S. Presidents
1912
Woodrow Wilson wins landslide victory
1977
George W. Bush marries Laura Welch in Midland, Texas
 
Women’s History
1872
Susan B. Anthony casts a vote, prompting arrest
 
World War II
1940
FDR re-elected for a third term

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November 06
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1962
UN condemns apartheid in South Africa
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Civil War
1861
Jefferson Davis elected Confederate president
 
Cold War
1988
Renowned Soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov visits United States
 
European History
1917
Bolsheviks revolt in Russia
 
Exploration
1528
Spanish explorer Cabeza de Vaca lands in Texas
 
Natural Disasters & Environment
1977
Dam gives way in Georgia, killing 39
 
Sports
1869
Rutgers beats Princeton in first college football game
 
U.S. Presidents
1860
Abraham Lincoln elected president
 
World War I
1917
British victory at Passchendaele

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November 07
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1944
FDR wins unprecedented fourth term
On November 7, 1944, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt is elected to an unprecedented fourth term in office. FDR remains the only president to have served more than two terms. Roosevelt rose above personal and political challenges to emerge as one of the nation’s most revered and influential... read more
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19th Century
1885
Canada’s transcontinental railway completed
 
Art, Literature and Film History
1943
Singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell is born
1966
John Lennon and Yoko Ono meet
1980
“King of Cool” Steve McQueen dies
 
Black History
1989
Two African American firsts in politics
 
Civil War
1861
Battle of Belmont, Missouri
 
Crime
1932
Supreme Court overturns Scottsboro convictions
 
Natural Disasters & Environment
1940
Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapses
 
Sports
 
1991
Magic Johnson announces he is HIV-positive
 
U.S. Government and Politics
2000
Hillary Clinton is elected to the U.S. Senate
 
U.S. Presidents
2000
Election results between Al Gore and George Bush too close to call
 
Vietnam War
1972
Nixon re-elected president
 
Women's History
1916
Jeannette Rankin becomes first woman elected to Congress
 
World War I
1914
First issue of “The New Republic” published
 
World War II
1944
Soviet master spy is hanged by the Japanese

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November 08
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1895
German scientist discovers X-rays
On November 8, 1895, physicist Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen (1845-1923) becomes the first person to observe X-rays, a significant scientific advancement that would ultimately benefit a variety of fields, most of all medicine, by making the invisible visible... read more
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