This Day in History
October 12th:
Columbus reaches the New World in 1492
U.S.S Cole attacked by terrorists in 2000
John Denver dies in 1992
Al Gore wins Nobel Prize in 2007
October 11th:
Jimmy Carter wins Nobel Prize in 2002
Pope opens Vatican II in 1962
Apollo 7 launched in 1942
Saturday Night Live debuts in 1975
October 10th:
Achille Lauro hijacking ends in 1985
Battle of tours in 735
Birth of the U.S Naval Academy in 1845
Christopher Reeves dies in 2004
October 9th:
Che Guevara is executed in 1967
Oskar Schindler dies in 1974
Meteorite crashes into car in 1992
October 8th:
Great Chicago fire beings in 1871
First person diagnosed with Ebola in the U.S dies in 2014
Massive earthquake hits Kashmir region in 2005
Communists reject Nixon’s peace proposal
October 7th:
Arnold Schwarzenegger becomes California governor in 2003
Nixon announces a peace proposal in 1970
President Bush announces military action in Afghanistan in 2001
October 6th:
First U.S train robbery in 1866
Kennedy urges Americans to build bomb shelters in 1961
Babe Ruth sets world series record in 1926
October 5th:
First presidential speech on TV in 1947
Apple founder Steve Jobs dies in 2011
Yankees win fifth world series 1953
October 4th:
Sputnik launched in 1957
Pope visits U.S in 1965
Plane crashes into an apartment in 1992
October 3rd:
O.J Simpson acquitted in 1995
Iraq wins independence in 1932
Amanda Knox murder conviction overturned in 2011
October 2nd:
Rock Hudson dies in 1985
Darwin returns to England in 1836
Hurricane devastates Haiti in 1963
October 1st:
Yosemite National Park is established in 1890
A gunman opens up fire in Las Vegas in 2017
Tom Clancy dies in 2013
Jimmy Carter is born in 1928
September 30th:
The first nuclear submarine is built in 1954
Munich pact is signed in 1938
First volume of Little Women is published in 1868
Elie Wiesel is born in 1928
September 29th:
Reporter Judith Miller released from prison in 2005
Trains collide in Pakistan in 1957Willie Mays makes a catch in 1954
Nazis and communists divvy up Poland in 1939
September 28th:
William the Conqueror invades England in 1066
Pompey the Great assassinated in 48 B.C
Estonia sinks in 1994
Ed Sullivan born in 1901
September 27th:
FDR appeals to Hitler for peace in 1938
The Tripartite Pact is signed in 1940
Anti-war sentiment grows for the Vietnam War in 1967
John Adams discusses terms of peace with British in 1779
September 26th:
First Kennedy-Nixon debate in 1960
West Side Story premieres in 1957
The Brady Bunch premieres in 1969
Paul Newman dies in 2008
September 25th:
Central High School officially integrates nine black students in 1957
Bill of Rights goes through congress in 1789
IRA officially disarms in 2005
Mid-air collision kills 153 in 1978
September 24th:
Mormon Church officially renounced polygamy in 1890
Muhammed completes Hegira in 662
Stephen King releases two books at once in 1996
The first Supreme Court is established in 1789
September 23rd:
Billy the Kid arrested for the first time in 1875
Eighth planet discovered in 1846
Lewis and Clark return to Washington D.C in 1806
FDR defends his dog to the public in 1944
September 22nd:
Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation in 1862
President Ford survives second assassination attempt in 1975
F.R.I.E.N.D.S debuts in 1994
Train derails in Alabama in 1993
September 21st:
Benedict Arnold commits treason in 1780
Monarchy is abolished in France in 1792
Mao Zedong outlines the new Chinese government in 1949
Earthquake kills thousands in Taiwan in 1999
September 20th:
Chester Arthur becomes third U.S president to serve in the same year in 1881
Amish convicted in beard-cutting attacks in 2012
Kennedy proposes a joint mission to the moon in 1963
The returning Lewis and Clark reach the first white settlement on the Missouri in 1806
September 19th:
President Garfield is pronounced dead from gunshot wounds in 1881
Soviet Leader Khrushchev banned from Disneyland in 1959
Germans bombard Leningrad in 1941
Unabomber manifesto published in 1995
September 18th:
Doris Day wins her lawsuit in 1974
MacArthur moves his command headquarters to Tokyo in 1945
Fidel Castro arrives in New York in 1960
General Lee retreats at Battle of Antietam in 1862
September 17th:
Battle of Antietam breaks out in 1862
Oprah launches book club in 1996
U.S Constitution adopted in 1787
Vanessa Williams becomes the first black Miss America
September 16th:
Gandhi begins fast out of protest in 1932
Gunman kills 12 in D.C Navy Yard massacre in 2013
Mexican War of independence begins in 1810
FDR approves military draft in 1940
September 15th:
Muhammad Ali defeats Spink to wins world heavyweight championship in 1978
Four black girls killed in Birmingham bombing in 1963
First trenches dug in western front in 1914
Train plunges off bridge in 1958
September 14th
McKinley dies of infection in 1901
Napoleon enters Moscow in 1812
Soviet probe reaches moon in 1959
Scott captures Mexico City in 1847
September 13th
Key writes “Star Spangled Banner” in 1814
Road Dahl born in 1916
George Wallace dies in 1998
Oprah gives away 300 new cars in 2004
September 12th
Kruschev elected Soviet leader
Hurricane Gilbert hits Jamaica in 1988
Sugar Ray Robinson wins black belt in 1951
JFK marries Jacqueline Bouvier
September 11th
The World Trade Towers are attacked in 2001
Plane crashes near Bangkok
Nikita Khrushchev dies in 1971
Fatal Attraction premieres in 1987
September 10th
First drunk driver arrested in 1897
Nirvana releases “Smells Like Teen Spirit” is released as a single
Andrew Jackson shuts down Second Bank of the U.S in 1833
Guillotine used for last time in 1977
September 9th
Congress renames the country “United States of America” in 1776
California becomes 31st state in 1850
Chairman Mao dies in 1976
Audience previews Gone with the Wind in 1939
September 8th
Ford pardons Nixon in 1974
Siege of Leningrad in 1941
Hurricane destroys Galveston in 1900
Oprah goes national in 1986
September 7th
United States adopts Uncle Sam 1813
Panama gains control of the Panama Canal in 1977
Tupac Shakur shot in 1996
Flash flood hits San Antonio in 1921
September 6th
First tank made in 1915
President William McKinley shot in 1901
2.5 billion people watch Princess Diana’s funeral in 1997
Train derails on way to New York in 1943
September 5th
Sam Houston elected president of Texas in 1836
First Continental Congress held in 1774
Crazy Horse killed in 1877
Outlaw Jesse James born in 1847
September 4th
The Little Rock Nine attend their first day of school in 1957
Western Roman Empire falls in 457
Kelly Clarkson wins first American Idol in 2002
The USS Greer is fired upon in 1940
September 3d
Treaty of Paris is signed in 1783
American flag flies in 1777
Hurricane batters Dominican Republic in 1930
Confederate forces enter Kentucky in 1861
September 2nd
First ATM opens in 1969
Japan surrenders in 1945
Great fire of London starts in 1666
J.R.R Tolkien dies
September 1st
Atlanta falls to the Union in 1864
Wreck of Titanic found in 1985
Germans invade Poland in 1939
Aaron Burr acquitted
August 31st
Sam Mason survives Native American attack in 1777
Jack the Ripper kills his first victim in 1888
Germany prepares to invade Poland in 1939
FDR signs neutrality act in 1935
August 30th
Vladimir Lenin shot in 1918
General MacArthur arrives in Japan in 1945
Henry James returns to Uthe .S in 1904
China provides aid to North Vietnam in 1966
Casey Stengel retires in 1965
August 29th
Hurricane Katrina hits in 2005
The North and South clash in the second battle of Bull Run in 1862
Michael Jackson is born in 1958
Nixon announces another troop reduction in 1972
August 28th
Charles and Diana divorce in 1996
Mass slaughter in Ukraine in 1941
Voices raised against the Vietnam War in 1967
MLK speaks to March on Washington in 1963
August 27th
Krakatau explodes in 1883
Red Scare dominates American politics in 1954
NFL star Michael Vick pleads guilty to dogfighting charge in 2007
LBJ is born in 1904
August 26th
First televised Major League baseball game in 1939
Russia tests an ICBM in 1957
19th amendment is adopted in 1920
George Washington writes to Henry Lee in 1794
August 25th
The Great Moon Hoax in 1835
The Wizard of Oz debuts in 1939
David Hume dies in 1776
In Cold Blood author dies in 1984
August 24th
Wall Street scheme is hatched in 1982
John Lennon’s killer is sentenced in 1981
Congress passes Communist Control Act in 1954
Mount Vesuvius in 79
Captain Webb swims the English Channel in 1874
August 23rd
Hitler-Stalin pact is formed in 1939
Rose Greenhow is arrested in 1861
Fannie Farmer opens a cooking school
Patent for tire chain issued in 1904
August 22nd
Michael Collins assassinated in 1922
Ulysses S Grant marries in 1848
Shootings at Ruby Ridge in 1992
Hurricane Andrew pounds in 1992
August 21st
Hawaii becomes the 50th state in 1959
Slave revolt erupted in 1831
Michael Phelps wins his fourth medal in 2004
Dirty Dancing debuts in 1987
August 20th
The Soviet Union invaded Czechoslovakia in 1968
Professional football becomes a thing in 1920
Trotsky assassinated in Mexico in 1940
The Menendez brothers murder their parents in 1989
August 19th
The Beatles first tour in the U.S begins in 1964
Bill Clinton born in 1946
Adolf Hitler becomes president of Germany in 1934
First motor car race is held in Indianapolis in 1909
August 18th
Genghis Khan dies in 1227
Woman suffrage amendment ratified in 1920
Larry Bird retires in 1992
Hitler suspends euthanization program in 1941
August 17th
First Woodstock festival concludes
Robert De Niro born in 1943
Hitler’s last living henchman dies in 1987
Billy the Kid kills his first man in 1877
August 16th
Babe Ruth dies in 1948
Elvis Presley in 1967
Madonna was born in 1958
Gold discovered in Yukon in 1896
August 15th
The first Woodstock festival is held in 1969
Malcom slays McBeth in 1057
India and Pakistan win their independence in 1947
Berlin wall built in 1961