This Day in History

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THIS DAY IN HISTORY September 18 1793 George Washington lays the Capitol cornerstone On September 18, 1793, George Washington lays the cornerstone to the United States Capitol building, the home of the legislative branch of American government. The building would take nearly a century to complete, as architects came and went, the British set fire to it and it was called into use... read more Sponsored Content by REVCONTENT 1980s 1987 Hundreds are accidentally poisoned in Brazil   Arts & Entertainment 1970 Jimi Hendrix found dead 1974 Doris Day wins lawsuit 1987 “Fatal Attraction” opens in the U.S.   Asian History 1976 One million people attend funeral of Mao Zedong   Civil War 1862 Union General George B. McClellan lets Confederates retreat from Antietam   Cold War 1960 Fidel Castro arrives in New York   Colonial America 1634 Anne Hutchinson arrives in America   Crime 1959 Serial killer Harvey Glatman is executed 1975 Patty Hearst captured by police   Inventions & Science 1981 Canada mall sets parking-lot record   Mysteries & Folklore 1973 Jimmy Carter files report on UFO sighting

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THIS DAY IN HISTORY September 19 1957 Nevada is site of first-ever underground nuclear explosion On September 19, 1957, the United States detonates a 1.7-kiloton nuclear weapon in an underground tunnel at the Nevada Test Site (NTS), a 1,375-square-mile research center located 65 miles north of Las Vegas. The test, known as Rainier, was the first fully contained underground detonation and... read more Sponsored Content by REVCONTENT 19th Century 1827 Jim Bowie stabs a Louisiana banker with his famous knife   1990s 1995 Unabomber manifesto published   American Revolution 1777 Arnold and Gates argue at First Battle of Saratoga   Arts & Entertainment 1973 Country-rock pioneer Gram Parsons dies 2000 Michael Chabon’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel debuts   Cold War 1959 Khrushchev barred from visiting Disneyland   Latin American & Caribbean History 1955 Perón deposed in Argentina   Natural Disasters & Environment 1985 Earthquake shakes Mexico City   U.S. Presidents 1881 President James Garfield dies   Vietnam War 1969 Nixon cancels draft calls for November and December   Women’s History 1893 New Zealand first in women’s vote   World War II 1941 Germans bombard Leningrad

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THIS DAY IN HISTORY September 20 1973 Billie Jean King triumphs in “Battle of the Sexes” On September 20, 1973, in a highly publicized “Battle of the Sexes” tennis match, top women’s player Billie Jean King, 29, beats Bobby Riggs, 55, a former No. 1 ranked men’s player. Riggs (1918-1995), a self-proclaimed male chauvinist, had boasted that women were inferior, that they couldn’t handle... read more Sponsored Content by REVCONTENT 19th Century 1806 The returning Lewis and Clark reach the first white settlement on the Missouri   American Revolution 1777 Redcoats kill Americans in Paoli Massacre   Arts & Entertainment 1878 Upton Sinclair is born 1946 First Cannes Film Festival   Asian History 1932 Gandhi begins fast in protest of caste separation   Colonial America 1565 First European battle on American soil   Crime 2012 Amish convicted in beard-cutting attacks   Exploration 1519 Magellan sets sail from Spain   LGBTQ+ History 2011 “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” is repealed   Natural Disasters & Environment 2002 Avalanche thunders into Russian village   Sports 1988 Greg Louganis wins Olympic gold the day after suffering head injury   U.S. Presidents 1881 Chester Arthur becomes third president to serve in one year 1963 Kennedy proposes joint mission to the moon

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THIS DAY IN HISTORY September 21 1780 Benedict Arnold commits treason On September 21, 1780, during the American Revolution, American General Benedict Arnold meets with British Major John Andre to discuss handing over West Point to the British, in return for the promise of a large sum of money and a high position in the British army. The plot was foiled and Arnold, a... read more Sponsored Content by REVCONTENT Arts & Entertainment 1985 George Clooney makes “Facts of Life” debut   Asian History 1949 Mao Zedong outlines the new Chinese government   Crime 1983 A 13-year-old newspaper delivery boy is found dead   European History 1792 Monarchy abolished in France   LGBTQ+ History 1955 The Daughters of Bilitis become the first lesbian rights group in the U.S.   Native American History 1904 The great Nez Perce leader Chief Joseph dies in Washington   Natural Disasters & Environment 1938 The Great New England Hurricane 1999 Earthquake kills thousands in Taiwan   Sports 2008 Last baseball game played at historic Yankee Stadium   U.S. Presidents 1939 FDR urges repeal of Neutrality Act embargo provisions   World War II 1942 The Superfortress bomber takes flight

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THIS DAY IN HISTORY September 22 1862 Lincoln issues preliminary Emancipation Proclamation On September 22, 1862, President Abraham Lincoln issues a preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, which sets a date for the freedom of more than 3 million enslaved in the United States and recasts the Civil War as a fight against slavery. When the Civil War broke out in 1861, shortly after Lincoln’s... read more Sponsored Content by REVCONTENT 1990s 1993 Train derails in Alabama swamp   African History 1828 Shaka Zulu assassinated   American Revolution 1776 Nathan Hale is executed by the British for spying   Arts & Entertainment 1985 The first Farm Aid concert is held in Champaign, Illinois 1994 “Friends” debuts   Crime 1933 The Barker clan kills an officer in their fruitless robbery 1980 So-called Midtown Stabber kills his first victim   Early 20th Century U.S. 1906 Atlanta Race Massacre of 1906 begins   Inventions & Science 1953 The famous “four-level” opens in Los Angeles   Middle Eastern History 1980 Iran-Iraq War begins   U.S. Presidents 1961 President Kennedy signs Peace Corps legislation 1975 President Ford survives second assassination attempt   Vietnam War 1971 Captain Ernest Medina is acquitted of all My Lai Massacre charges   World War I 1914 U-boat devastates British squadron   World War II 1945 General Patton questions necessity of Germany’s “denazification”

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THIS DAY IN HISTORY September 23 1875 Billy the Kid arrested for first time On September 23, 1875, Billy the Kid is arrested for the first time after stealing a basket of laundry. He later broke out of jail and roamed the American West, eventually earning a reputation as an outlaw and murderer and a rap sheet that allegedly included 21 murders. The exact details of Billy... read more Sponsored Content by REVCONTENT American Revolution 1779 John Paul Jones wins in English waters   Arts & Entertainment 1923 “The Prophet,” by Lebanese-American poet-philosopher Kahlil Gibran, is published 1969 “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid” premieres in New York   Cold War 1949 President Truman announces Soviets have exploded a nuclear device   Crime 1981 A two-month manhunt for a murdering writer comes to an end   Exploration 1806 Lewis and Clark return to St. Louis   Inventions & Science 1846 Planet Neptune is discovered 1933 Standard Oil geologists arrive in Saudi Arabia   Sports 1992 Canadian woman breaks pro sports barrier   U.S. Presidents 1944 FDR defends his dog in a speech

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THIS DAY IN HISTORY September 24 1789 The first Supreme Court is established The Judiciary Act of 1789 is passed by Congress and signed by President George Washington, establishing the Supreme Court of the United States as a tribunal made up of six justices who were to serve on the court until death or retirement. That day, President Washington nominated John Jay to preside... read more Sponsored Content by REVCONTENT Arts & Entertainment 1968 First episode of “60 Minutes” airs   Black History 2016 The National Museum of African American History and Culture opens   Crime 1971 A game warden is reported missing   Early 20th Century U.S. 1902 Fannie Farmer opens cooking school   Inventions & Science 1948 Honda Motor Company is incorporated   Sports 1988 Ben Johnson wins gold, temporarily   U.S. Presidents 1964 Warren Commission report delivered to President Johnson   Vietnam War 1969 Chicago 8 trial opens in Chicago   World War II 1941 Japanese officials in Hawaii ordered to gather preliminary data on Pearl Harbor 1944 Allies begin retreat after massive losses in Operation Market Garden 1948 Mildred Gillars—aka “Axis Sally”—pleads not guilty to treason

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THIS DAY IN HISTORY September 25 1957 Little Rock Nine begin first full day of classes Under escort from the U.S. Army’s 101st Airborne Division, nine Black students enter all-white Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas on September 25, 1957. Three weeks earlier, Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus had surrounded the school with National Guard troops to prevent its federal...  read more Sponsored Content by REVCONTENT 19th Century 1867 Cattle pioneer Oliver Loving dies of gangrene   1970s 1978 Mid-air collision kills 144   American Revolution 1775 Ethan Allen is captured   Arts & Entertainment 1970 “The Partridge Family” premieres on ABC   Cold War 1959 Eisenhower and Khrushchev meet for talks   Crime 1959 New York mobster Little Augie Pisano is murdered   Inventions & Science 1928 First company to mass-produce car radios is incorporated   Religion 1890 The Mormon Church officially renounces polygamy   Sports 1965 Fifty-nine-year-old Satchel Paige pitches three innings   U.S. Constitution 1789 Bill of Rights passes Congress   U.S. Presidents 1894 Grover Cleveland pardons bigamists, adulterers, polygamists and unlawful cohabitants

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THIS DAY IN HISTORY September 26 1960 Kennedy and Nixon square off in first televised presidential debate On September 26, 1960, for the first time in U.S. history, a debate between major party presidential candidates is broadcast on live television. The presidential hopefuls, John F. Kennedy, a Democratic senator of Massachusetts, and Richard M. Nixon, the vice president of the United States, met in a... read more Sponsored Content by REVCONTENT 19th Century 1820 The famous frontiersman Daniel Boone dies in Missouri   Arts & Entertainment 1888 T.S. Eliot is born 1957 “West Side Story” opens on Broadway 1969 “The Brady Bunch” premieres 1975 'The Rocky Horror Picture Show' debuts in U.S. theaters   Crime 2007 Mistrial declared in Phil Spector murder case   European History 2005 IRA officially disarms   Exploration 1580 Francis Drake circumnavigates the globe   Space Exploration 1996 Shannon Lucid returns to Earth   Sports 1971 4th Oriole pitcher wins 20th game in a single season 1980 Lake Placid's Olympic Village reopens as federal prison   World War I 1918 Meuse-Argonne offensive opens   World War II 1945 First U.S. soldier killed during Vietnam’s August Revolution

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THIS DAY IN HISTORY September 27 1779 John Adams appointed to negotiate peace terms with British On September 27, 1779, the Continental Congress appoints John Adams to travel to France as minister plenipotentiary in charge of negotiating treaties of peace and commerce with Great Britain during the Revolutionary War. Adams had traveled to Paris in 1778 to negotiate an alliance with France, but... read more Sponsored Content by REVCONTENT 19th Century 1854 Ships collide off Newfoundland, killing about 350 1869 Sheriff Wild Bill Hickok breaks up fight, kills a man   1960s 1962 Rachel Carson’s “Silent Spring” is published   Crime 1989 Zsa Zsa Gabor storms out of the courtroom   European History 1960 British suffragette Sylvia Pankhurst dies   Religion 622 Muhammad completes Hegira 1540 Jesuit order established   U.S. Presidents 1938 Franklin Roosevelt appeals to Hitler for peace   World War I 1915 John Kipling killed at the Battle of Loos   World War II 1939 Warsaw falls to German forces 1940 The Tripartite Pact is signed by Germany, Italy and Japan

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THIS DAY IN HISTORY September 28 1941 Ted Williams becomes last MLB player to hit .400 On September 28, 1941, the last day of Major League Baseball’s regular season, the Boston Red Sox’s Ted Williams gets six hits in eight at-bats during a doubleheader in Philadelphia, boosting his average to .406. He becomes the first player since 1930 to hit .400. “I guess I’ll be satisfied with... read more Sponsored Content by REVCONTENT 19th Century 1542 Spanish explorer sails into San Diego Bay   1990s 1994 Passenger ferry Estonia sinks, killing 852   21st Century 2018 Arctic shipping lane opens due to ice melt; cargo ship completes the journey   American Revolution 1781 Battle of Yorktown begins   Ancient Egypt 48 B.C. Pompey the Great assassinated   Arts & Entertainment 1901 TV host Ed Sullivan born   Cold War 1965 Fidel Castro announces that Cubans are free to leave the island   Crime 1988 A cult leader kills one of his followers   European History 1066 William the Conqueror invades England   Inventions & Science 1918 Philadelphia parade exposes thousands to Spanish flu   Sports 1920 Eight MLB players indicted in “Black Sox Scandal” 1960 Ted Williams hits home run in last major league at-bat   World War I 1918 British soldier allegedly spares the life of an injured Adolf Hitler

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THIS DAY IN HISTORY September 29 1982 Cyanide-laced Tylenol kills first three of seven victims On September 29, 1982, three Chicago area residents become ill and die after ingesting Extra-Strength Tylenol later found to be poisoned with cyanide. They are the first of seven victims to lose their lives after taking the over-the-counter pain reliever, which had been tampered with. The case... read more Sponsored Content by REVCONTENT 19th Century 1907 The great singing cowboy Gene Autry is born in Texas   1990s 1995 Mexican American voting rights advocate Willie Velasquez awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom   21st Century 2005 Reporter Judith Miller released from prison 2008 Dow suffers record-breaking single-day drop   American Revolution 1780 Benedict Arnold’s accomplice is sentenced to death   Arts & Entertainment 1991 “My Own Private Idaho” premieres in theaters   Cold War 1953 New York Times article claims Russians want the “American dream”   Crime 2006 School principal murdered by student in Wisconsin   Exploration 1988 Stacy Allison becomes first American woman to reach summit of Mt. Everest   Holocaust 1941 Babi Yar massacre begins   Inventions & Science 1913 Inventor Rudolf Diesel mysteriously vanishes   World War I 1918 Allied forces break through the Hindenburg Line   World War II 1939 Nazis and communists divvy up Poland

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THIS DAY IN HISTORY September 30 1954 USS Nautilus—world’s first nuclear submarine—is commissioned The USS Nautilus, the world’s first nuclear submarine, is commissioned by the U.S. Navy. The Nautilus was constructed under the direction of U.S. Navy Captain Hyman G. Rickover, a brilliant Russian-born engineer who joined the U.S. atomic program in 1946. In 1947, he was put in charge of the navy’s... read more Sponsored Content by REVCONTENT 1960s 1955 James Dean dies in car accident   American Revolution 1776 General George Washington complains about his militia   Arts & Entertainment 1868 First volume of “Little Women” is published 1928 Elie Wiesel, Holocaust survivor and best-selling author, is born 2005 Michael Eisner resigns as Disney CEO   Black History 1962 Riots erupt over desegregation of Ole Miss   Cold War 1949 Berlin Airlift ends   Hispanic History 1822 Joseph Marion Hernández becomes the first Hispanic elected to Congress 1962 Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta establish the National Farm Workers Association   Middle Eastern History 1918 Lawrence of Arabia leads liberation forces into Damascus   Sports 1927 Babe Ruth hits 60th homer of 1927 season 1947 World Series broadcast on TV for first time   U.S. Presidents 1918 President Woodrow Wilson speaks in favor of female suffrage   Women’s History 1889 Wyoming legislators write the first state constitution to grant women the vote   World War II 1938 Munich Pact signed

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THIS DAY IN HISTORY October 01 1890 Yosemite National Park established On October 1, 1890, an act of Congress creates Yosemite National Park, home of such natural wonders as Half Dome and the giant sequoia trees. Environmental trailblazer John Muir (1838-1914) and his colleagues campaigned for the congressional action, which was signed into law by President Benjamin... read more Sponsored Content by REVCONTENT 1950s 1958 American Express launches its first credit card   21st Century 2005 Suicide bombers stage attacks in Bali   Arts & Entertainment 1962 Johnny Carson makes debut as “Tonight Show” host   Asian History 1949 Mao Zedong proclaims People’s Republic of China   Civil War 1864 Confederate spy Rose O’Neal Greenhow dies   Cold War 1988 Mikhail Gorbachev becomes head of Soviet Union   Crime 1910 A bomb explodes in the Los Angeles Times building 1993 A 12-year-old girl is kidnapped, leading to California’s “three strikes” law 2017 Gunman opens fire on Las Vegas concert crowd, wounding hundreds and killing 58   Inventions & Science 1908 Ford Motor Company unveils the Model T 1920 Scientific American reports that radio will soon be used to transmit music to the home   Natural Disasters & Environment 1987 Earthquake rocks Southern California   Sports 1903 Pittsburgh beats Boston in first World Series game 1961 Roger Maris breaks home run record 1977 Soccer star Pelé plays farewell game   U.S. Presidents 1924 Jimmy Carter is born   World War II 1944 Experiments begin on homosexuals at Buchenwald 1946 Nazi war criminals sentenced at Nuremberg

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THIS DAY IN HISTORY October 02 1985 Hollywood icon Rock Hudson dies of AIDS On October 2, 1985, actor Rock Hudson, 59, becomes the first major U.S. celebrity to die of complications from AIDS. Hudson’s death raised public awareness of the epidemic, which until that time had been ignored by many in the mainstream as a “gay plague.” Hudson, born Leroy Harold Scherer Jr., on... read more Sponsored Content by REVCONTENT 19th Century 1835 First shots of the Texas Revolution fired in the Battle of Gonzales   American Revolution 1780 Benedict Arnold accomplice hanged   Black History 1967 Thurgood Marshall sworn in as first Black Supreme Court justice   Cold War 1958 Guinea gains its independence, exploits Cold War tensions   Crime 2006 Gunman kills five students at Amish school   Sports 1965 Gatorade first tested in a college football game   U.S. Presidents 1919 Woodrow Wilson suffers a stroke 2020 President Trump announces he and the first lady tested positive for COVID-19   World War II 1941 Operation Typhoon is launched 1944 Warsaw Uprising ends 1944 General Eisenhower warns of the risk of “shell shock”

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THIS DAY IN HISTORY October 03 1995 O.J. Simpson acquitted At the end of a sensational trial, former football star O.J. Simpson is acquitted of the brutal 1994 double murder of his estranged wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend, Ronald Goldman. In the epic 252-day trial, Simpson’s “dream team” of lawyers employed creative and controversial methods to... read more Sponsored Content by REVCONTENT 19th Century 1873 U.S. Army hangs four Modoc leaders for the murder of a Civil War general   Arts & Entertainment 1955 “The Guinness Book of Records” debuts 1961 “The Dick Van Dyke Show” premieres 1967 Writer, singer and folk icon Woody Guthrie dies 1992 Sinéad O’Connor tears up a photo of Pope John Paul II on “Saturday Night Live” 2014 “Serial” debuts, inaugurating the podcast boom   Cold War 1990 East and West Germany reunite after 45 years   Crime 2011 Amanda Knox murder conviction overturned in Italy   European History 1981 Maze hunger strike called off   Middle Eastern History 1932 Iraq wins independence   Sports 1951 A miraculous home run wins the pennant for NY Giants 1997 Gordie Howe, 69, becomes only pro hockey player to compete in six decades   U.S. Presidents 1863 President Lincoln proclaims official Thanksgiving holiday   World War I 1917 War Revenue Act passed in U.S.   World War II 1942 Germany conducts first successful V-2 rocket test

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THIS DAY IN HISTORY October 04 1957 Sputnik launched The Soviet Union inaugurates the “Space Age” with its launch of Sputnik, the world’s first artificial satellite, on October 4, 1957. The spacecraft, named Sputnik after the Russian word for “fellow traveler,” was launched at 10:29 p.m. Moscow time from the Tyuratam launch base in the Kazakh... read more Sponsored Content by REVCONTENT 1990s 1992 Plane crashes into apartment building   American Revolution 1777 Both sides battered at Germantown   Arts & Entertainment 1937 Blues singer Bessie Smith, killed in Mississippi car wreck, is buried 1970 Janis Joplin dies of a heroin overdose 1990 “Beverly Hills, 90210” debuts   Civil War 1861 President Lincoln watches a balloon ascension   Crime 1988 Televangelist Jim Bakker is indicted on federal charges 2011 Man who served 25 years for murder exonerated by DNA   Sports 1895 Englishman wins the first U.S. Open golf tournament 1955 Brooklyn Dodgers win their first World Series   U.S. Presidents 1927 Work begins on Mount Rushmore   Vietnam War 1966 Pope calls for end to the Vietnam War   World War I 1918 Germany telegraphs President Wilson seeking armistice

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THIS DAY IN HISTORY October 05 2011 Apple co-founder founder Steve Jobs dies On October 5, 2011, Steve Jobs, the visionary co-founder of Apple Inc., which revolutionized the computer, music and mobile communications industries with such devices as the Macintosh, iPod, iPhone and iPad, dies at age 56 of complications from pancreatic cancer. Born on February 24, 1955, in San... read more Sponsored Content by REVCONTENT 19th Century 1813 Shawnee chief Tecumseh is defeated   1980s 1986 Iran-Contra scandal begins to unravel 1989 Dalai Lama wins Nobel Peace Prize   21st Century 2017 New York Times publishes bombshell investigation into allegations against Harvey Weinstein   American Revolution 1775 General Washington informs Congress of espionage   Arts & Entertainment 1978 Isaac Bashevis Singer wins Nobel Prize for Literature 1990 “Henry & June” is first NC-17 film shown in theaters   Crime 1892 The Dalton Gang is wiped out in Coffeyville, Kansas   Exploration 1974 American circumnavigates the globe on foot   Inventions & Science 1919 Enzo Ferrari makes his debut as a race car driver 1930 Airship crashes in France   Native American History 1877 Chief Joseph surrenders   Sports 2001 Seattle Mariners set American League record for wins in a season   U.S. Presidents 1947 Harry Truman delivers first-ever presidential speech on TV

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THIS DAY IN HISTORY October 06 1866 The Reno brothers carry out the first train robbery in U.S. history On October 6, 1866, the brothers John and Simeon Reno stage the first train robbery in American history, making off with $13,000 from an Ohio and Mississippi railroad train in Jackson County, Indiana. Of course, trains had been robbed before the Reno brothers’ holdup. But these previous crimes had... read more Sponsored Content by REVCONTENT Cold War 1973 The Yom Kippur War brings United States and USSR to brink of conflict   Crime 1981 The president of Egypt is assassinated   Sports 1926 Babe Ruth sets a World Series record   U.S. Presidents 1996 Bill Clinton debates Bob Dole   World War I 1908 Austria-Hungary annexes Bosnia-Herzegovina

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THIS DAY IN HISTORY October 07 2001 U.S.-led attack on Afghanistan begins On October 7, 2001, a U.S.-led coalition begins attacks on Taliban-controlled Afghanistan with an intense bombing campaign by American and British forces. Logistical support was provided by other nations including France, Germany, Australia and Canada and, later, troops were provided by the... read more Sponsored Content by REVCONTENT 21st Century 2003 Arnold Schwarzenegger elected California governor   American Revolution 1780 Battle of King’s Mountain   Arts & Entertainment 1955 Poet Allen Ginsberg reads “Howl” for the first time 1960 CBS broadcasts the premiere episode of “Route 66″ 1975 A judge reverses John Lennon’s deportation order 1983 “Never Say Never Again,” which brings back Sean Connery as 007, opens in U.S. theaters   Civil War 1864 Union and Confederate forces clash at Darbytown Road outside Richmond   Cold War 1949 East Germany created 1960 Kennedy and Nixon debate Cold War foreign policy   Crime 1985 Palestinian terrorists hijack an Italian cruise ship   Inventions & Science 1913 Moving assembly line debuts at Ford factory   Middle Eastern History 2023 Hamas launches deadliest attack in Israeli history   Sports 1916 Georgia Tech shuts out Cumberland, 222-0, in most lopsided college football game 1985 Lynette Woodard becomes first female Harlem Globetrotters player   World War II 1943 Japanese execute nearly 100 American POWs on Wake Island 1944 Hundreds of prisoners revolt at Auschwitz-Birkenau

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THIS DAY IN HISTORY October 08 1871 Great Chicago Fire begins On October 8, 1871, flames spark in the Chicago barn of Patrick and Catherine O’Leary, igniting a two-day blaze that kills between 200 and 300 people, destroys 17,450 buildings, leaves 100,000 homeless and causes an estimated $200 million (in 1871 dollars; more than $4 billion today) in damages.... read more Sponsored Content by REVCONTENT 1950s 1956 The first enclosed shopping mall in the United States opens   21st Century 2001 The Office of Homeland Security is founded   Arts & Entertainment 1957 Jerry Lee Lewis records “Great Balls Of Fire” in Memphis, Tennessee 1970 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn wins the Nobel Prize in Literature   Crime 2009 Self-help guru’s sweat lodge ceremony turns deadly   Food 1945 First patent filed for the microwave   Inventions & Science 2014 First person in U.S. diagnosed with Ebola dies   Latin American & Caribbean History 1967 Che Guevara captured by Bolivian army   Natural Disasters & Environment 1871 Massive Peshtigo fire burns in Wisconsin   Sports 1956 New York Yankees’ Don Larsen pitches only World Series perfect game   Vietnam War 1970 Communists reject Nixon’s peace proposal   Women’s History 2004 Kenyan environmentalist and human rights campaigner Wangari Maathai wins Nobel Peace Prize   World War I 1918 U.S. soldier Alvin York displays heroics at Argonne

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THIS DAY IN HISTORY October 09 1967 Che Guevara is executed On October 9, 1967, socialist revolutionary and guerrilla leader Che Guevara, age 39, is killed by the Bolivian army. The U.S.-military-backed Bolivian forces captured Guevara on October 8 while battling his band of guerrillas in Bolivia and executed him the following day. His hands were cut off as... read more Sponsored Content by REVCONTENT Arts & Entertainment 1946 “The Iceman Cometh,” by Eugene O’Neill, opens on Broadway   Colonial America 1635 Rhode Island founder banished from Massachusetts   Crime 1942 A Chicago bootlegger escapes from prison   European History 1974 Oskar Schindler—credited with saving 1,200 Jews during the Holocaust—dies 1975 Andrei Sakharov wins Nobel Peace Prize   Inventions & Science 1936 Hoover Dam begins transmitting electricity to Los Angeles 1988 Rotary engine inventor Felix Wankel dies 1992 Meteorite crashes into Chevy Malibu   Natural Disasters & Environment 1963 Landslide kills thousands in Italy

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THIS DAY IN HISTORY October 10 1985 U.S. Navy fighter jets intercept Italian cruise ship hijackers On October 10, 1985, the hijacking of the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro reaches a dramatic climax when U.S. Navy F-14 fighters intercept an Egyptian airliner attempting to fly the Palestinian hijackers to freedom and force the jet to land at a NATO base in Sigonella, Sicily. American and... read more Sponsored Content by REVCONTENT 19th Century 1845 U.S. Naval Academy opens 1877 Colonel George Custer’s funeral is held at West Point   American Revolution 1767 Mason and Dixon draw a line, dividing the colonies   Arts & Entertainment 1935 “Porgy and Bess,” the first great American opera, premieres on Broadway 1987 Whitesnake’s “Here I Go Again” tops the charts 2004 Superman Christopher Reeve dies at age 52   Crime 1991 A former postal worker commits mass murder   U.S. Government and Politics 1973 Vice President Agnew resigns   U.S. Presidents 1957 President Dwight D. Eisenhower apologizes to African diplomat   Vietnam War 1954 Viet Minh take control in the north   Women’s History 2014 Malala Yousafzai, 17, wins Nobel Peace Prize   World War II 1940 St. Paul’s Cathedral bombed

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THIS DAY IN HISTORY October 11 2002 Jimmy Carter wins Nobel Peace Prize On October 11, 2002, former President Jimmy Carter wins the Nobel Peace Prize “for his decades of untiring effort to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts, to advance democracy and human rights, and to promote economic and social development.” Carter, a peanut farmer from Georgia,... read more Sponsored Content by REVCONTENT 19th Century 1809 Meriwether Lewis dies along the Natchez Trace, Tennessee   African History 1899 Boer War begins in South Africa   American Revolution 1775 William Howe named commander in chief of British army 1776 Benedict Arnold fights valiantly at Valcour Island   Arts & Entertainment 1971 John Lennon’s “Imagine” is released 1975 Bruce Springsteen scores his first pop hit with “Born to Run” 1975 “Saturday Night Live” debuts   Religion 1962 Pope John XXIII opens Vatican II   Space Exploration 1968 Apollo 7 launched   U.S. Presidents 1975 Bill Clinton and Hillary Rodham marry   World War I 1915 Bulgaria enters World War I

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THIS DAY IN HISTORY October 12 1492 Columbus reaches the “New World” After sailing across the Atlantic Ocean, Italian explorer Christopher Columbus sights a Bahamian island on October 12, 1492, believing he has reached East Asia. His expedition went ashore the same day and claimed the land for Isabella and Ferdinand of Spain, who sponsored his attempt to find a... read more Sponsored Content by REVCONTENT 21st Century 2002 Terrorists kill 202 in Bali   Arts & Entertainment 1940 Silent-film star Tom Mix dies in Arizona car wreck 1997 John Denver dies in an aircraft accident 2007 Al Gore wins Nobel Prize in the wake of “An Inconvenient Truth”   Civil War 1870 Robert E. Lee dies   Cold War 1960 Nikita Khrushchev allegedly brandishes his shoe at the United Nations 1986 Soviet-U.S. arms control talks break down over President Reagan’s “Star Wars” initiative   Crime 1998 Matthew Shepard, victim of anti-gay hate crime, dies 2000 USS Cole attacked by terrorists   European History 1810 The origin of Oktoberfest   Natural Disasters & Environment 1918 Fire rages in Minnesota   Space Exploration 1964 USSR leads the space race   U.S. Presidents 1786 Thomas Jefferson composes an extraordinary romantic letter   Vietnam War 1972 Racial violence breaks out aboard U.S. Navy ships   World War I 1915 British nurse Edith Cavell executed   World War II 1945 Conscientious objector awarded Medal of Honor