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On this day, October 20, 1973, Henry Kissinger met Leonid Brezhnev to work out a Mideast cease-fire plan. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2024 Oct 2024 1 496
On this day, October 20, 1951, Johnny Bright was assaulted during a football game at Oklahoma A&M. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2024 Oct 2024 2 618
On this day, October 20, 1968, Jackie Kennedy became Jackie Onassis. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2024 Oct 2024 1 590
On October 19, 1960, Martin Luther King was arrested at a lunch counter sit-in. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2024 Oct 2024 3 491
On the evening of October 20, 1973, the Saturday Night Massacre took place. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2024 Oct 2024 3 617
On this day, October 18, 1954, the transistor radio was announced. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2024 Oct 2024 4 650
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On October 17, 1969, 14 Black players were dismissed from UWyo's football team for wanting to protest racial injustice. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2024 Oct 2024 1 556
On this day, October 16, 1968, Tommie Smith and John Carlos gave the Black Power salute at the Olympics. 3 mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2024 Oct 2024 7 1149
On this day, October 16, 1882, the Nickel Plate Road began operation. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2024 Oct 2024 0 659
On this day, October 16, 1991, the Luby's shooting in Killeen, Texas, occurred. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2024 Oct 2024 0 665
On this day, October 16, 1923, the Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio was founded. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2024 Oct 2024 0 560
On October 12, 2024, Lilly Ledbetter, a stalwart in the fight for fair pay, died at the age of 86. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2024 Oct 2024 3 759
On this day, October 15, 1965, a draft card was burned during an anti-war rally. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2024 Oct 2024 3 753
On this day, October 15, 2008, the Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 733 points. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2024 Oct 2024 1 704
On this day, October 15, 2018, Dorcas Reilly, the inventor or popularizer of the green bean casserole, died. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2024 Oct 2024 1 700
On this day, October 15, 1954, Hurricane Hazel made landfall in the Carolinas. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2024 Oct 2024 1 757
On this day, October 14, 1947 Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier in a Bell X-1. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2024 Oct 2024 5 737
On this day, October 14, 2012, Felix Baumgartner jumped from a helium balloon in the stratosphere. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2024 Oct 2024 2 783
On this day, October 14, 1963, JFK met with his aides in the Oval Office while John John was at play. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2024 Oct 2024 6 749
Opinion: Born in another ugly era, Columbus Day is an accident of history 3 mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2024 Oct 2024 4 985
On this day, October 13, 1983, cell service was first provided to the general public. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2024 Oct 2024 1 693
On this day, October 12, 1928, the iron lung was used for the first time. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2024 Oct 2024 3 641
On this day, October 12, 1871, Pres. Grant took the first step to suspending habeas corpus in South Carolina. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2024 Oct 2024 2 631
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On this day, October 11, 1987, the AIDS Memorial Quilt was displayed for the first time. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2024 Oct 2024 2 708
On this day, October 11, 1963, the President's Commission on the Status of Women released its report. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2024 Oct 2024 2 580

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On this day, October 10, 1774, the Battle of Point Pleasant was fought. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2024 Oct 2024 1 792
On this day, October 10, 1973, Vice President Spiro Agnew resigned. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2024 Oct 2024 2 612
On this day, October 10, 1957, Ghanian finance minister Komla Gbedemah was denied service at a Delaware restaurant. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2024 Oct 2024 4 699
On this day, October 9, 1949, activist William E. Woods was born. His work led to the legalization of same-sex marriage. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2024 Oct 2024 1 574
On this day, October 8, 1956, Don Larsen threw the only perfect game in World Series history. 3 mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2024 Oct 2024 2 757
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On this day, October 8, 1871, the Great Chicago, Great Michigan, and Peshtigo Fires started. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2024 Oct 2024 2 615
On this day, October 7, 1849, Edgar Allan Poe died. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2024 Oct 2024 6 609
On this day, October 7, 1916, Georgia Tech beat Cumberland by a score of 222-0. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2024 Oct 2024 0 679
On October 6, 1998, Matthew Shepard was attacked and fatally wounded near Laramie, Wyoming 0 mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2024 Oct 2024 10 560
On October 6, 1949, inventor, engineer, and entrepreneur Lonnie George Johnson was born. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2024 Oct 2024 2 511
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On this day, October 5, 1982, Tylenol products were recalled after bottles were found with cyanide. 5 mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2023 Oct 2024 2 989
On this day, October 5, 1982, Tylenol products were recalled after bottles were found with cyanide. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2024 Oct 2024 1 708
On this day, October 5, 2011, Steve Jobs died. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2024 Oct 2024 3 637
On this day, October 5, 1970, the Public Broadcasting Service was founded. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2024 Oct 2024 2 519
On this day, October 4, 1918, the T. A. Gillespie Company shell loading plant explosions began. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2024 Oct 2024 4 681
On this day, October 4, 1957, the Russians launched Sputnik. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2024 Oct 2024 1 536
On October 2, 1978, Jimmy Carter proclaimed October 4, 1978, as "10-4 Day." It's also called National CB Radio Day. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2024 Oct 2024 2 1014
On this day, October 3, 1849, Edgar Allan Poe was found semi-conscious and delirious in Baltimore. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2024 Oct 2024 8 753
On this day, October 3, 1995, O. J. Simpson was acquitted of the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman. 3 mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2024 Oct 2024 1 655
On this day, October 3, 2019, Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman tried to smear Elizabeth Warren. 3 mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2024 Oct 2024 2 767
On this day, October 3, 1932, state troopers marched into Kincaid, Ill., to guard against a sympathy strike. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2024 Oct 2024 2 602
On this day, October 3, 1951, there was a shot heard 'round the world. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2024 Oct 2024 2 762
On this day, October 2, 2002, the Beltway sniper shootings began. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2024 Oct 2024 2 636
On this day, October 2, 1967, Thurgood Marshall was sworn in as a Supreme Court justice. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2024 Oct 2024 6 561
On this day, October 2, 2018, Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi was assassinated. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2024 Oct 2024 8 846
On this day, October 1, 1890, Congress established Yosemite National Park. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2024 Oct 2024 5 542
On the night of October 1, 2017, the deadliest mass shooting by a single gunman in American history occurred. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2024 Oct 2024 3 855

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On the night of September 30, 1962, there was a riot at Ole Miss over the admission of James Meredith. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2024 Sep 2024 7 572
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On this day, September 29, 2008, the stock market crashed, due to Congressional inaction. 6 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2024 Sep 2024 2 948
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On this day, September 28, 1919, race riots began in Omaha, Nebraska. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2024 Sep 2024 1 523
On this day, September 28, 1940, FDR laid the cornerstone of Washington National Airport. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2024 Sep 2024 2 631
Masamitsu Yoshioka, last of Japan's Pearl Harbor attack force, dies at 106 1 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2024 Sep 2024 6 810
On this day, September 27, 1903, Southern Railway mail train 97 rolled off the Stillhouse Trestle. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2024 Sep 2024 0 600
On this day, September 26, 2020, Donald Trump nominated Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2024 Sep 2024 1 541
On September 23, 1952, Richard Nixon went on television to give his "Checkers speech." 1 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2024 Sep 2024 0 566
On this day, September 25, 1957, Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, was integrated by the use of Army troops. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2024 Sep 2024 9 623
On this day, September 25, 1978, PSA Flight 182, a Boeing 727, collided in mid-air with a Cessna 172 and crashed. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2024 Sep 2024 2 651
On September 23, 1779, John Paul Jones said, "Sir, I have not yet begun to fight!" 1 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2024 Sep 2024 4 558
On this day, September 25, 2008, Washington Mutual was placed into receivership. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2024 Sep 2024 1 625
On September 23, 1911, the first official airmail delivery was made in the United States. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2024 Sep 2024 2 605
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