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On this day, October 19, 1987, Black Monday, the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell by 22.6 percent. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2023 Oct 2023 1 600
On this day, October 18, 1954, the transistor radio was announced. 3 mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2023 Oct 2023 2 633
On October 16, 1968, Tommie Smith and John Carlos gave the Black Power salute at the Olympics. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2023 Oct 2023 3 614
On October 18, 2021, Sinclair Broadcast Group announced it had been hit by a ransomware attack. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2023 Oct 2023 0 557
On October 17, 1871, Pres. Grant declared martial law and suspended the writ of habeas corpus in SC 1 mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2023 Oct 2023 8 755
1773 Apple Pie 🥧 Earliest Recipe - 18th Century Cooking 5 appalachiablue Oct 2023 Oct 2023 8 1205
John Brown's raid October 16, 1859 0 spike jones Oct 2023 Oct 2023 3 745
On this day, October 16, 1882, the Nickel Plate Road began operation. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2023 Oct 2023 0 569
On this day, October 16, 1991, the Luby's shooting in Killeen, Texas, occurred. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2023 Oct 2023 0 636
On this day, October 15, 1954, Hurricane Hazel made landfall in the Carolinas. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2023 Oct 2023 1 718
On this day, October 15, 1965, a draft card was burned during an anti-war rally. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2023 Oct 2023 3 611
On this day, October 15, 2008, the DJIA dropped 733 points. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2023 Oct 2023 0 447
JFK in Oval Office with aides and son John, October 14, 1963, month before assassination: #Getty 6 mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2023 Oct 2023 13 1182
On this day, October 14, 2012, Felix Baumgartner jumped from a helium balloon in the stratosphere. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2023 Oct 2023 1 554
The Start of the National Aids Movement: Act Up's Defining Moment In Queer Protest History, Oct 1988 2 appalachiablue Oct 2023 Oct 2023 2 741
On October 11, 1963, the President's Commission on the Status of Women released its report. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2023 Oct 2023 2 640
On this day, October 12, 1928, the iron lung was used for the first time. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2023 Oct 2023 1 638
On October 12, 1871, Pres. Grant took the first step to suspending habeas corpus in South Carolina. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2023 Oct 2023 2 616
On this day, October 12, 1998, Matthew Shepard died. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2023 Oct 2023 0 499
Ferdinand Ward: Swindler, Fraud, Gold Digger, 'Young Napoleon of Wall St' 'Best Hated Man in the US' 0 appalachiablue Oct 2023 Oct 2023 3 671
On this day, October 10, 1973, Vice President Spiro Agnew resigned. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2023 Oct 2023 3 593
Opinion: At last, the 146 ghosts of the Triangle Fire are being immortalized 4 mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2023 Oct 2023 7 918
On October 8, 1871, the Great Chicago, Great Michigan, and Peshtigo Fires started. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2023 Oct 2023 3 750
On this day, October 7, 1916, Georgia Tech beat Cumberland by a score of 222-0. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2023 Oct 2023 0 775
On this day, October 7, 1849, Edgar Allan Poe died. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2023 Oct 2023 2 735
On this day, October 6, 1998, Matthew Shepard was attacked and fatally wounded near Laramie, Wyoming 1 mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2023 Oct 2023 5 929
On this day, October 6, 1949, inventor, engineer, and entrepreneur Lonnie George Johnson was born. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2023 Oct 2023 1 556
On this day, October 5, 1970, the Public Broadcasting Service was founded. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2023 Oct 2023 4 579
On this day, October 5, 2011, Steve Jobs died. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2023 Oct 2023 0 626
On this day, October 4, 1918, the T. A. Gillespie Company shell loading plant explosions began. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2023 Oct 2023 4 655

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On this day, October 4, 1957, the Russians launched Sputnik. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2023 Oct 2023 1 672
On October 3, 1932, state troopers marched into Kincaid, Ill., to guard against a sympathy strike. 4 mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2023 Oct 2023 3 961
On this day, October 3, 1951, there was a shot heard 'round the world. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2023 Oct 2023 1 615
On this day, October 3, 2019, Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman tried to smear Elizabeth Warren. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2023 Oct 2023 1 659
A Lecture by Annette Gordon Reed on the Hemmings of Monticello. 0 NNadir Oct 2023 Oct 2023 5 692
On this day, October 2, 2018, Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi was assassinated. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2023 Oct 2023 3 510
On this day, October 2, 1967, Thurgood Marshall was sworn in as a Supreme Court justice. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2023 Oct 2023 2 685
On this day, October 2, 2002, the Beltway sniper shootings began. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2023 Oct 2023 4 513
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On October 1, 2017, the deadliest mass shooting by a single gunman in American history occurred. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2023 Oct 2023 2 730
On this day, September 29, 2008, the stock market crashed, due to Congressional inaction. 7 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2023 Sep 2023 4 1344
On September 25, 2008, Washington Mutual was placed into receivership. 4 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2023 Sep 2023 1 887
On September 29, 1760, the Williamsburg Bray School, dedicated to educating Black children, opened. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2023 Sep 2023 0 685
On this day, September 28, 1919, race riots began in Omaha, Nebraska. 4 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2023 Sep 2023 3 882
Camden Central Airport 0 discntnt_irny_srcsm Sep 2023 Sep 2023 4 553
On this day, September 28, 1940, FDR laid the cornerstone of Washington National Airport. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2023 Sep 2023 2 843
On this day, September 27, 1903, Southern Railway mail train 97 rolled off the Stillhouse Trestle. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2023 Sep 2023 2 783
On this day, September 26, 2020, Donald Trump nominated Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court. 3 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2023 Sep 2023 1 768
On September 23, 1911, the first official airmail delivery was made in the United States. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2023 Sep 2023 4 705
On this day, September 23, 1779, John Paul Jones said, "Sir, I have not yet begun to fight!" 7 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2023 Sep 2023 3 1422
Two Ford's Theatre tickets for night of Lincoln murder to be auctioned 6 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2023 Sep 2023 3 799
On this day, September 23, 1952, Richard Nixon went on television to give his "Checkers speech." 1 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2023 Sep 2023 1 738
On this day, September 23, 1913, the United Mine Workers of America launched a strike in Colorado. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2023 Sep 2023 1 741
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On this day, September 22, 1975, Gerald Ford survived his second assassination attempt in 3 weeks. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2023 Sep 2023 5 915
On this day, September 22, 1993, Amtrak experienced its deadliest train wreck. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2023 Sep 2023 1 654
On September 20, 1973, Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs played tennis on TV. 3 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2023 Sep 2023 1 1042
On this day, September 19, 1921, WBZ started broadcasting. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2023 Sep 2023 1 621
On this day, September 19, 1883, Mabel Vernon was born. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2023 Sep 2023 1 734
On this day, September 19, 1995, the Unabomber manifesto was published. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2023 Sep 2023 0 622

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On this day, September 18, 2020, Ruth Bader Ginsburg died. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2023 Sep 2023 4 572
On this day, September 18, 2001, the first of what became the 2001 anthrax attacks occurred. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2023 Sep 2023 0 821
"Laws are made for men of ordinary understanding 3 elleng Sep 2023 Sep 2023 13 1183
"Fight for the things that you care about, 1 elleng Sep 2023 Sep 2023 2 658
On this day, September 17, 1787, the Constitution was signed. 4 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2023 Sep 2023 3 1046
On this day, September 15, 1963, a bomb went off in the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2023 Sep 2023 5 1012
On this day, September 14, 1814, Francis Scott Key wrote a poem, "Defence of Fort McHenry." 2 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2023 Sep 2023 2 702
On this day, September 14, 1901, President William McKinley died, eight days after he was shot. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2023 Sep 2023 3 780
On this day, September 13, 1848, Phineas Gage had a large iron rod driven through his head. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2023 Sep 2023 4 996
On this day, September 12, 2008, 25 died when two trains collided in Chatsworth, California. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2023 Sep 2023 2 786
On this day, September 12, 1991, the last stoplight was removed from I-90 in Idaho. 3 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2023 Sep 2023 2 933
On this day, September 12, 1962, Kennedy gave his "We choose to go to the Moon" speech. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2023 Sep 2023 2 814
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On this day, September 12, 2009, agronomist and Nobel Prize recipient Norman Borlaug died. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2023 Sep 2023 1 988
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Manhattan, September 10, 2001, photographed by a Canadian tourist, twenty-two years ago this week: 0 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2023 Sep 2023 11 973
On this day, September 9, 1850, California was admitted into the Union. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2023 Sep 2023 2 859
On this day, September 8, 1922, Lyndon Larouche was born. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2023 Sep 2023 1 770
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