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📖🗣️ Notable Events

KellytheBelly — Fri, 08 Nov 2024 03:14:21 GMT

I found these historic events to be quite interesting, and just wanted to share! 🙂

Notable Events for October 21st:

[source: National Day Calendar - October 21 | Birthdays & Events]

1774 - The first flag to include the word "Liberty" is flown in Massachusetts.
1867 - The Medicine Lodge Treaty is signed Great Plains Indian leaders, relocating the tribes to a reservation in Indian Territory.

[While the treaty did relocate some Plains tribes, it's important to note that it was a complex event with significant cultural and historical implications. The treaty process was often fraught with misunderstandings and unequal power dynamics.]
1869 - The first shipment of fresh oysters is delivered from Baltimore.
1871 - The first amateur outdoor athletic games begin in NY.
1879 - Thomas Edison applies for a patent for an incandescent light bulb.
1915 - The first radiotelephone message overseas is made from Arlington, VA to Paris, France.

[This was a significant milestone, but it's worth noting that wireless communication had been evolving for several decades before this point.]
1917 - The first U.S. troops see action on the front lines in WWI.
1921 - President Harding delivers the first speech by a sitting U.S. president in opposition of lynching in the South.

[While this was a significant step forward, it's important to recognize that lynching persisted in the South for many years after this speech.]
1940 - Ernest Hemingway's first novel, For Whom the Bell Tolls, is published.
1944 - American forces take the city of Aachen, Germany, after three weeks.

[This was a crucial battle, but it was part of a larger Allied offensive in Western Europe.]

1959 - The Guggenheim Museum opens to the public in NY.
1959 - President Eisenhower approves the transfer of all US Army space-related activities to NASA.
1964 - My Fair Lady, starring Rex Harrison and Audrey Hepburn, premieres in NY.
1967 - Fifty thousand people march from the Lincoln Memorial to the Pentagon in protest of the Vietnam War.

[This was a major event in the history of the anti-war movement, but it's important to note that there were many other protests and demonstrations against the war.]
1975 - Women are allowed to enroll in the Coast Guard Academy for the first time.
1986 - Journalist Edward Tracy is kidnapped in Beirut.

[This was a tragic event, and Tracy was eventually released after several years in captivity.]
1989 - Bertram Lee and Peter Bynoe become the first major sports team owners after they purchase the Denver Nuggets for $65 million.
1991 - Hostage Jesse Turner is released from captivity in Beirut after 5 years.
2019 - Facebook takes down disinformation campaigns from Iran and Russia.
2020 - Over 545 children are left without parents after being separated at the U.S./Mexican border.

[This was a highly controversial policy that led to widespread condemnation and legal challenges.]

Re: 📖🗣️ Notable Events

KellytheBelly — Fri, 08 Nov 2024 03:34:37 GMT

Notable Events for October 22nd:

[source: National Day Calendar - October 22 | Birthdays & Events]

1746 - The College of New Jersey (now Princeton University) receives its charter.
1790 - The Miami Tribe under Chief Turtle defeat U.S. troops near Kekionga.
1836 - Sam Houston is sworn in as the first President of the Republic of Texas.
1844 - Followers of Baptist preacher William Miller (Millerites) prepared and waited for the Second Advent of Christ and end of the world.
1861 - The first telegraph line became operational between the east and west coast.
1881 - The Boston Symphony Orchestra gives its first concert.
1883 - The Metro Opera House (NY City) opens.
1884 - International Meridian Conference in Washington, D.C. adopts 24 Greenwich meridian time zones worldwide.
1879 - Thomas Edison tests the first electric incandescent light bulb using a filament of carbonized thread.
1885 - Baseball players secretly meet and form Brotherhood of Professional Baseball Players, which became known as the first baseball union.
1906 - 3000 blacks riot in Philadelphia protesting a racist play.
1906 - Henry Ford becomes President of Ford Motor Company.
1907 - Ringling Brothers (Greatest Show on Earth) buys the Barnum and Bailey circus.
1916 - Suffragette Inez Milholland collapses during a speech California and dies weeks later after publicly asking “Mr. President (Woodrow Wilson), how long must women wait for liberty?”
1928 - Herbert Hoover gave a speech on "American system of rugged individualism" during his campaign.
1934 - FBI agents shoot and kill notorious bank robber Pretty Boy Floyd in Ohio.
1936 - The first commercial flight (Pan American Airlines) flies to from the mainland to Hawaii.
1939 - NBC airs the first professional football game.
1962 - President Kennedy announces that American reconnaissance has discovered Soviet nuclear weapons in Cuba.
1963 - About 225,000 students boycott Chicago public schools protesting racial segregation.
1964 - Nuclear test are conducted underground at Hattiesburg, MS.
1967 - Charlie Finley hires Joe DiMaggio as executive VP of the A's.
1976 - NBA player Rick Barry (San Francisco Warriors) begins then longest free throw streak of 60 free throws.
1976 - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration ban Red Dye No. 4 after it is discovered that it causes tumors in the bladders of dogs.
1979 - The 100-millionth guest visits Walt Disney World.
1981 - The U.S. Federal Labor Relations Authority de-certifies the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization (PATCO) for going on strike the previous August.
1981 - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved artificial sweetener.
1981 - The national debt in the U.S. reaches $1 trillion.
1983 – Two correctional officers are killed by inmates at a penitentiary in Marion, IL.
1986 - A news helicopter crashes into Hudson River during a live report in NY.
1988 - Geraldo Rivera hosts "Devil Worship: Exposing Satan's Underground" on television.
1991 - GM announces 9 month loss of $2.2 billion.
1997 - Compaq testifies against Microsoft regarding the Windows 95 agreement.
1997 - The owner of Hustler sells the magazine to an under-age buyer in Ohio.
2008 - Google Play is launched is launched for Androids.
2009 - Windows 7 is released by Microsoft.
2012 - Lance Armstrong is stripped of his Tour de France titles for doping.
2016 - AT&T buys Time Warner for $85.4 billion.
2019 - The drug company Biogen claims to have created the first drug that slows Alzheimer's.
2020 - Goldman Sachs agrees to pay record $3 billion for their role in a corruption scandal to regulators across the world.

Re: 📖🗣️ Notable Events

KellytheBelly — Fri, 08 Nov 2024 03:34:16 GMT

Notable Events for October 23rd:

[source: National Day Calendar - October 23 | Birthdays & Events]

1850 - The first National Women's Rights Convention begins in Worcester, MA.

[The first National Women's Rights Convention was held in Seneca Falls, New York, not Worcester, Massachusetts.]
1864 - Union beats confederate soldiers just west of the Mississippi (Battle of Westport).
1684 - English King Charles II revokes the Massachusetts Bay Colony charter trading with other countries.
1760 - First Jewish prayer books printed.
1819 - The first ship sails through the Erie Canal to Utica.

[The Erie Canal was not fully completed until 1825.]
1910 - The first woman (Blanche Scott) flies at a public event at Fort Wayne, IN.
1915 -The first National Horseshoe Tournament is held at Kellerton, IA.
1923 - Babe Ruth makes a postseason exhibition appearance in a rival Giants uniform.
1923 - Sebastian Hinton receives a patent for a playground climbing structure known monkey bars.
1932 - The radio comedy program The Fred Allen Show airs.
1933 - The John Dillinger gang rob $75,000 from the Central National Bank in Greencastle, IN.
1934 - Jean Piccard and Jeanette Ridlen set the record for their hot air balloon flying 10.9 miles over Lake Erie.
1941 - Dumbo is released by Walt Disney.
1942 - U.S. Army Air Forces bomber strikes an American Airlines DC-3 airliner in California, killing 12 passengers and the crew.
1945 - Jackie Robinson signs contract with Montreal Royals, the minor league team of Brooklyn Dodgers.
1947 - NAACP submits a petition on racism to the UN entitled An Appeal to the World.
1956 - First video recording on magnetic tape televised across the country.
1964 - Champion boxer Joe Frazier beats German Hans Huber for the Olympic heavyweight gold medal.
1973 - President Nixon turns over White House tape recordings to the judge.
1982 - Authorities engage in a gun fight with members of a religious cult in Arizona, leaving 2 people dead and dozens injured.
1984 - The Ethiopian famine is aired on NBC via the BBC.
1991 - Justice Clarence Thomas is sworn in as a United States Supreme Court Justice.
1991 - Two women commit suicide using Dr. Jack Kevorkian's suicide machine.
1997 - San Francisco experiences a power blackout at 6:11 a.m. as a result of to sabotage.
2001 - The iPod is released by Apple.
2007 - Astronaut Pamela Melroy becomes the second female space shuttle commander.
2019 - Google claims it has achieved Quantum Supremacy.
2023 - New Orleans experiences a super fog causing a pile-up of 158 vehicles during commute.

Re: 📖🗣️ Notable Events

KellytheBelly — Fri, 08 Nov 2024 03:34:01 GMT

Notable Events for October 24th:

[source: National Day Calendar - October 24 | Birthdays & Events]

1836 - Alonzo Phillips receives a patent for a phosphorus friction match.
1861 - The first transcontinental telegraph line from San Francisco to Washington, D.C. is completed.
1861 - West Virginia secedes from Virginia
1871 - At least 22 Chinese immigrants are hanged in CA.
1881 - U.S. Ambassador Levi Morton inserts the first rivet in Statue of Liberty.
1900 - U.S. Government announces its plans to purchase the Danish West Indies for $7 million.
1901 - Annie Edson Taylor becomes the first person to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel.
1908- Take Me Out to the Ball Game hits the charts.
1911 - Orville Wright remains in the air 9:45 in his glider.
1926 - Harry Houdini makes his last performance.
1931 - The George Washington Bridge opens to public traffic over the Hudson River.
1931 - Al Capone is sentenced to 11 years for tax evasion.
1938 - The U.S. makes child labor in factories illegal.
1939 - Nylon stockings go on sale for first time in DE.
1940 - Minimum wage is set for $0.30 for a 44 hour work week.
1944 - The U.S. sinks Japanese battleship Musashi sinks.
1944 - Naval pilot David McCampbell shoots down 9 Japanese planes during Battle of Leyte Gulf in the Philippines.
1947 - Forest fires burn over $30 million of timber on the east coast.
1947 - Walt Disney testifies before the House Un-American Activities Committee giving the names of Disney employees he believes to be communists.
1947 - United Airlines Flight 608 crashes in Utah during an emergency landing and kills 52 people on board.
1949 - The first brick for the UN Headquarters in NY is laid.
1954 - President Eisenhower pledges support to South Vietnam.
1956 - Margaret Towner becomes first woman to be ordained into the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.
1970 - Nancy Walker creates Ida Morgenstern role on The Mary Tyler Moore Show.
1973 - A 65 car collision kills 9 people on NJ Turnpike during heavy fog.
1973 - John Lennon sues U.S. government for tapping his phone.
1989 - Evangelist Jim Bakker is sentenced to 45 years in prison for fraud.
2002 - Police arrest John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo for sniper attacks around Washington, D.C.
2012 - An unknown gunman kills 3 people and injures 2 in CA.
2015 – A drunk driver crashes into students at Oklahoma State University.
2018 - A South Carolina person wins $1.6 billion, making it the largest jackpot in history.
2018 - Pipe bombs are sent to prominent U.S. Democrats.
2021 - Tom Brady completes his 600th touchdown pass.
2022 - The first U.S. currency featuring an Asian-American becomes a part of the American Women Quarters Program.

Re: 📖🗣️ Notable Events

KellytheBelly — Fri, 08 Nov 2024 03:33:47 GMT

Notable Events for October 25th:

[source: National Day Calendar - October 25 | Birthdays & Events]

1780 - John Hancock becomes the first Governor of Massachusetts.
1812 - American frigate (ship) the USS United States Decatur captures the British frigate HMS Macedonian.
1861 - The first telegraph message is sent from St Louis to San Francisco.

[The first transcontinental telegraph line was completed in 1861, but the first message was sent a few days later.]
1870 - Pimlico Race Course (Old Hilltop) opens in Baltimore.
1870 - The first postcards are used in the U.S.
1891 - The first international 6 day bike race ends at Madison Square Garden.
1906 - Lee de Forest patents the 3-diode amplification valve called the Audion, an invention later used for broadcast radios.

[Lee De Forest invented the Audion tube, which revolutionized radio and electronics, but the specific patent date for the 3-diode amplification valve might need further verification.]
1918 - The Canadian steamship Princess Sophia hits a reef off the Alaska coast, killing 398 people.
1923 - The first report on the Teapot Dome Scandal is published by the U.S. Senate.
1930 - TWA begins a 30 hour trip as the first scheduled air service between NY City and Los Angeles, CA.
1938 - Francis J. L. Beckman (Archbishop of Dubuque, IA) denounces Swing music as "a degenerated musical system... turned loose to gnaw away at the moral fiber of young people" and warns the music leads down a "primrose path to hell".
1940 - Benjamin O. Davis Sr. becomes the first Black General in the U.S.

[Benjamin O. Davis Sr. became the first Black general in the U.S. Army. His son, Benjamin O. Davis Jr., later became the first Black general in the U.S. Air Force.]
1957 - Crime boss Albert Anastasia is murdered in a barber's chair in NY City.
1960 - First electronic wrist watch (Hamilton Electric 500) is put on sale.
1962 - U.S. Ambassador Adlai Stevenson presents the UN Security Council photographs of Soviet ballistic missiles in Cuba.
1969 - The American ocean liner SS United States completes its 400th voyage for crossing over the Atlantic Ocean.
1976 - Alabama Governor Wallace grants a full pardon to Clarence Norris, one of nine Black boys falsely accused and convicted of assaulting two white women in the deep South.
1978 - Jamie Lee Curtis makes her film debut in the horror movie Halloween.
1983 - The U.S. and Caribbean allies invade Grenada.
1994 - Susan Smith claims her 2 kids were carjacked, sparking a shocking investigation leading to her killing her children.
1995 - Seven kids die when a commuter train slams into a school bus in Fox River Grove, IL.
2001 - Microsoft releases Windows XP.
2018 - First work of art produced by artificial intelligence sells for $432,500 at auction.
2018 - Google says it has fired 48 people for sexual harassment, including Android software creator.

[While it's true that Google fired employees for sexual harassment, including the creator of Android, the specific number of 48 might need further clarification.]
2020 - Pope Francis appoints the first Black American Cardinal Wilton Daniel Gregory
2021 - Forbes dubs Elon Musk as the richest person ever.

Re: 📖🗣️ Notable Events

KellytheBelly — Fri, 08 Nov 2024 03:46:07 GMT

Notable Events for October 26th:
[source: National Day Calendar - October 26 | Birthdays & Events]

1682 - William Penn leases land along the Delaware River from Duke of York.

[This is incorrect. William Penn received a land grant from King Charles II of England, not the Duke of York.]
1749 - The Georgia Colony reverses an earlier decision and rules slavery is illegal.

[This is incorrect. Georgia initially allowed slavery, but it was later banned in the 1750s.]
1774 - The First Continental Congress adjourns.
1776 - Benjamin Franklin departs for France seeking French support for the American Revolution.
1813 - British regulars, Canadian militia and Mohawks defeat the U.S. Army in the Battle of the Chateauguay.
1824 - Even though Andrew Jackson wins the majority vote to become president, John Quincy Adams wins after a contingent election in the House of Representatives is held.
1858 - The rotary washing machine patent is given to Hamilton Smith.
1861 - The Pony Express from Missouri to California ends after only 19 months.
1864 - Bloody Bill Anderson is ambushed by Union soldiers near Albany, MS.
1869 - The first steeplechase horse race is held at Westchester, NY.
1881 - Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday have a shootout at the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, AZ.
1892 - Female Black author Ida B. Wells publishes Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases.
1916 - Margaret Sanger arrested and charged with obscenity for advocating birth control.
1919 - President Wilson's veto of Prohibition Enforcement Bill is overridden and passed into law.
1927 - Jazz singer Adelaide Hall records Creole Love Call and Blues I Love to Sing with the Duke Ellington Orchestra.
1936 - Hoover Dam goes into full operation by using the first electric generator.
1942 - A U.S. aircraft carrier is sunk and another heavily damaged after a fight with two Japanese carriers.
1944 - Americans gain an overwhelming victory at the The Battle of Leyte Gulf in the Philippines.
1949 - President Truman increases minimum wage from 40 cents to 75 cents.
1954 - The V-8 engine is released by Chevrolet.
1955 - The NY City subway fare increased from 10 cents to 15 cents.
1958 - Pan American Airways makes the first commercial flight to Paris from NY City.
1970 - The comic strip Doonesbury makes its debut in 28 newspapers.
1970 - Muhammad Ali returns to the ring after being banned for refusing to serve in the Vietnam War.
1973 - President Nixon releases the first set of tapes on the Watergate scandal.
2001 - The United States passes the USA PATRIOT Act into law.
2004 - Rockstar Games releases Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas for the PlayStation 2.
2012 - Microsoft debuts Windows 8.
2020 - NASA announces the discover of more water on the Moon.
2021 - Elon Musk's SpaceX launches a crew of four astronauts into space.

Re: 📖🗣️ Notable Events

KellytheBelly — Fri, 08 Nov 2024 03:46:14 GMT

Notable Events for October 27th:
[source: National Day Calendar - October 27 | Birthdays & Events]

1682- Philadelphia, PA, is founded by Englishman William Penn.
1775 - The Continental Navy is formed, the precursor to the U.S. Navy.
1795 - The Treaty of Madrid is signed by the U.S. and Spain to establish boundaries.
1787 - Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay, writing under the pseudonym Publius, publish The Federalist Papers in NY newspapers.
1780 - Samuel Williams takes the first astronomical expedition to record an eclipse of the sun.

[This statement is likely inaccurate or incomplete. More research is needed to verify this claim.]
1838 - Missouri Governor Lilburn Boggs issues the Extermination Order, warning Mormons to leave the state or be killed.
1884 - Architect Henry Hardenbergh opens the Dakota, the first and oldest apartment complex in New York City.
1904 - The first section of NY subway from Manhattan to Harlem is opened.
1917 - Nearly 20,000 women march in a suffrage parade in New York City.
1919 - The unknown Axeman of New Orleans claims its last victim but is never identified or arrested.
1922 - Navy Day celebrates its first commemoration.
1938 - DuPont announces its new nylon stockings product.
1947 - Groucho Marx's You Bet Your Life premieres on the radio.
1954 - Disneyland premieres on ABC.
1954 - Benjamin O. Davis, Jr. becomes the first Black General in the U.S. Air Force.
1962 - Major Rudolf Anderson (Air Force) becomes the only direct human casualty of the Cuban Missile Crisis.
1967 - A priest, a writer and artist, and a pastor pour blood on selective service records in Baltimore as a protest against the Vietnam War.
1983 - Larry Flynt allegedly pays a hitman $1 million to kill Hugh Hefner, Bob Guccione, Walter Annenberg, and Frank Sinatra.

[This statement is likely inaccurate or exaggerated. More research is needed to verify this claim.]
1988 - Ronald Reagan suspends construction of the new U.S. Embassy in Moscow after inspectors found listening devices.
1997 - Microsoft argues against the U.S. government in a court case (253 F.3d 34 (D.C. Cir. 2001)) that the Internet should be free from government interference.
1997 - US releases a redesigned $50 bill to combat counterfeit measures.
2018 - A gunman opens fire on the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, killing 11 people and injuring 6 others in an anti-Semitic attack.
2022 - Elon Musk buys Twitter.

Re: 📖🗣️ Notable Events

KellytheBelly — Fri, 08 Nov 2024 03:46:23 GMT

Notable Events for October 28th:
[source: National Day Calendar - October 28 | Birthdays & Events]

1636 - Harvard University is established.
1646 - First Protestant church assembly for American Indians is established.

[This statement is likely inaccurate or incomplete. There's no widely recognized record of a significant Protestant church assembly for American Indians in 1646. More research is needed to verify this claim.]
1790 - New York gives up Vermont for $30,000.

[This statement is inaccurate. Vermont became the 14th state in the United States in 1791. There was no transaction involving New York and Vermont.]
1793 - Eli Whitney applies for a patent for his cotton gin machine.

1831 - Michael Faraday demonstrates his electrical generator invention.
1846 - Pioneers traveling to the west die in a blizzard in Nevada.
1858 - Macy's opens its first store in NY City and grosses $11.06 for the day.
1886 - President Cleveland dedicates the Statue of Liberty.
1867 - The first U.S. Jewish college, Maimonides College, opens in Pennsylvania.
1904 - St. Louis police try using fingerprints in an investigation for the first time.
1913 - George Herriman's comic strip Krazy Kat debuts.
1919 - Congress passes the Volstead Act paving the way for Prohibition to begin.
1921 - North Dakota has the first gubernatorial recall election causing Governor Lynn Frazier to lose to Ragnvald Nestos by a little over 4,000.
1922 - The first football game is broadcasted coast-to-coast.
1942 - A train crashes into bus and kills 16 people in Detroit.
1973 - Elmore Smith (LA Lakers) blocks 17 shots in one game.
1981 - Edward M McIntyre is elected the first Black Mayor of Augusta, GA.
1986 - The 100th year anniversary of the Statue of Liberty is celebrated.
2014 - A NASA rocket carrying supplies for the Cygnus CRS Orb-3 explodes seconds after taking off.
2021 - Facebook changes it's corporate name to Meta.

Re: 📖🗣️ Notable Events

KellytheBelly — Fri, 08 Nov 2024 03:46:30 GMT

Notable Events on October 29th:
[source: National Day Calendar - October 29 | Birthdays & Events]

1692 - The Special Court of Oyer and Terminer (Salem witch trials) was dissolved.
1792 - Mount Hood in Oregon is named after Samuel Hood who sighted the mountain first.
1811 - First Ohio River steamboat leaves Pittsburgh for New Orleans.
1863 - General Ulysses S. Grant repels a Confederate attack led by General James Longstreet, opening the supply line into Chattanooga, TN.
1872 -J. S. Risdon patents the metal windmill.
1901 - A nurse named Jane Toppan nicknamed Jolly Jane is arrested for murdering a family with an overdose of poison.
1929 - The NY Stock Exchange crashes causing the beginning of the Great Depression.
[While the stock market crash of 1929 is a significant event, it didn't occur on a specific day in October. It was a gradual decline that accelerated in late October and early November.]
1945 - The first ballpoint pen goes on sale.
1960 - An airplane carrying the Cal Poly football team crashes.
1960 - Cassius Clay's (later Muhammad Ali) wins his first professional fight.
1964 - The American Museum of Natural History in NY is robbed by Murph the Surf and gang.
1966 - National Organization of Women is officially established.
1969 - The first computer-to-computer link is established on ARPANET.
1969 - The U.S. Supreme Court ends school segregation in the country.
[The U.S. Supreme Court's decision to end school segregation was made in 1954, not 1969.]
1994 - National Museum of American Indian joins the Smithsonian Institution.
1994 - Francisco Martin Duran is arrested after firing shots at the White House in an attempt to assassin President Clinton.
1998 - Astronaut John Glenn blasts off in the Space Shuttle Discovery, making him the oldest oldest person to go into space at that time.
2004 - Al Jazeera broadcasts an excerpt from an Osama bin Laden video admitting the terrorist leader is directly responsible for the September 11, 2001 attacks on the U.S.

Re: 📖🗣️ Notable Events

KellytheBelly — Fri, 08 Nov 2024 03:46:38 GMT

Notable Events on October 30th:
[source: National Day Calendar - October 30 | Birthdays & Events]

1766 - St. Paul's Chapel in New York is declared sacred.
1768 - Wesley Chapel in NY City becomes the first Methodist church in North America.
1831 - Nat Turner is arrested for leading a four day rebellion protesting slavery.
1864 - Helena becomes the capital of Montana.
1866 - Jesse James' and his gang rob $2,000 from a bank in Lexington, MO.
1868 - John Menard becomes the first Black to be elected to Congress.
1873 - P. T. Barnum's Greatest Show on Earth (circus) debuts in NY City.
1888 - John Loud receives his patent for the ballpoint pen.
1894 - Daniel Cooper receives his patent for the time clock.
1919 - The spitball is abolished by baseball league presidents.
1938 - Orson Welles broadcasts The War of the Worlds on the radio causing a massive panic.
1945 - Jackie Robinson signs a contract for the Brooklyn Dodgers as the first black person to cross lines in baseball segregation.
[While Jackie Robinson did break the color barrier in Major League Baseball, he signed with the Montreal Royals (a minor league team) in 1945. He didn't debut with the Brooklyn Dodgers in the major leagues until 1947.]
1945 - The U.S. Government announces end of shoe rationing imposed in 1943.
1953 - President Eisenhower approves a top-secret document for strong nuclear deterrent force against the Soviet Union.
1954 - The first 24-sec shot clock is used in in pro basketball.
1954 - The U.S. announces the elimination of all racially segregated regiments in the military.
1959 - Piedmont Airlines crashes on approach in Virginia, killing 26 of the 27 people on board.
1972 - 45 people were killed in a rail accident in Chicago.
1974 - Muhammad Ali knocks out George Foreman using his famous "rope-a-dope" tactic.
1974 - The Texas Chain Saw Massacre premiers in LA.
1979 - Birmingham, AL elects Richard Arrington, Jr. as the first African American mayor in the city.
2002 - Jam Master Jay (Run DMC) is shot and killed in his recording studio.
2003 - WICKED the musical opens at the Gershwin Theatre in NY City.
2012 - Walt Disney purchases the rights for the Star Wars and Indiana Jones franchises for $4.05 billion.
2017 - A Federal judge blocks President Trump's ban on transgender people in the military.
2018 - The Pentagon sends 5,200 troops to Mexican border.

Re: 📖🗣️ Notable Events

KellytheBelly — Fri, 08 Nov 2024 03:46:49 GMT

Notable Events on October 31st:

[source: National Day Calendar - October 31 | Birthdays & Events]

1864 - Nevada becomes the 36th state.
1868 - Post office carries are given a standard uniform.
1895 - An earthquake near Charleston, MO, kills 2 people.
1903 - A railroad train collision kills 14 players of the Purdue University football team.
1913 – The Lincoln Highway becomes the automobile highway in the U.S.
1918 - The Spanish Flu pandemic in the U.S. killed 21,000 people in one week.
1938 - The NY Stock Exchange unveils a program to help recover from the Depression.
1941 - Mount Rushmore Monument is completed in South Dakota.
1943 - A AF4U Corsair accomplishes the first successful radar-guided interception by the military.
1950 - Earl Lloyd becomes the first Black to play a game in the NBA.
1961 - A Federal judge rules that laws against integrated playing fields in Alabama are illegal.
1963 - A gas explosion at the Indiana State Fairgrounds kills 81 people and injures many others during a show.
1968 - President Johnson announces a halt to all bombing in Vietnam.
2002 - A federal grand jury indicts former Enron chief financial officer Andrew Fastow on wire fraud, money laundering, and obstruction of justice.
2017 - Eight people are killed after a truck drives into a crowd in Lower Manhattan.

Re: 📖🗣️ Notable Events

KellytheBelly — Fri, 08 Nov 2024 03:47:03 GMT

Notable Events on November 1st:

[source: National Day Calendar - November 1 | Birthdays & Events]

1683 - New York is subdivided into 12 counties.
1776 - Mission San Juan Capistrano founded in CA.
1787 - The African Free School in NY opens.
1800 - President John Adams moves into the Executive Mansion (White House).
1802 - Ohio begins forming a state constitutional.
1834 - Poker is officially published for the first time as a Mississippi riverboat game.
1848 - The first medical school for women (Boston Female Medical School) opens MA.
1870 - The Weather Bureau makes its first official meteorological forecast.
1894 - Thomas Edison films the Buffalo Bill show.
1896 - National Geographic shows an image of a woman's breast on the cover of their printed magazine.
[While it's true that National Geographic published an image of a woman's breast on its cover, it was in 1972, not 1896.]
1897 - The Library of Congress building opens to the public.
1921 - The American Birth Control League after the National Birth Control League and Voluntary Parenthood League merge.
[The American Birth Control League was founded in 1921, not 1931.]
1938 - Baseball legend Ernie Lombardi (Cincinnati Reds) becomes the first catcher to win the National League MVP.
1938 - Seabiscuit beats Triple Crown winner War Admiral by 3 lengths and becomes the greatest horse race in history.
1941 - Japanese naval staff officer Suguru Suzuki arrives at Pearl Harbor on the Taiyo Maru boat carrying 340 passengers with intentions of scoping out the island for a future attack.
[While it's true that a Japanese naval officer visited Pearl Harbor, the specific date and details of the visit are not entirely accurate. The attack on Pearl Harbor occurred on December 7, 1941.]
1942 - John H. Johnson publishes the first issue of the Negro Digest.
1951 - U.S. Army soldiers are exposed to desert rock after a few atomic explosions used for training.
1957 - The world's longest suspension bridge opens MI.
1968 - The movie rating system is officially introduced with the ratings G, M, R, and X.
1971 - The President Eisenhower dollar coin is put into circulation.
1988 - Staten Island ferry gets pay phones installed.
1997 - The Expanded Negro Leagues Museum opens in Kansas City to honor Black baseball players.
2009 - Sisters Serena and Venus Williams play against for the WTA Championship.
2012 - Gmail becomes the world's most popular email provider.

Re: 📖🗣️ Notable Events

KellytheBelly — Fri, 08 Nov 2024 03:47:14 GMT

Notable Events on November 2nd:

[source: National Day Calendar - November 2 | Birthdays & Events]

1783 - General George Washington says goodbye to his army after the American Revolutionary War ends.
1852 - Franklin Pierce becomes the 14th President of the U.S.
1867 - Harper's Bazaar publishes their first magazine issue.
1880 - James A. Garfield becomes the 20th President of the U.S.
[James A. Garfield did become the 20th President, but he was assassinated a few months into his term. Chester A. Arthur succeeded him.]
1889 - North Dakota and South Dakota both become the 39th and 40th states in the union.
1898 - Cheerleading makes its debut at a University of Minnesota football game.
1907 - Banker J. P. Morgan locks 40 bankers in his library to try and force them to find a way to prevent to force them to find ways to avert New York banking crisis.
[While J. P. Morgan did convene a meeting of bankers to address the financial crisis, the specific detail of "locking them in his library" is likely an exaggeration or a myth.]
1917 - James Gresham, Thomas Enright and Merle Hay become the first U.S. soldiers killed in WWI.
[The first U.S. soldiers killed in WWI were actually members of the 16th Infantry Regiment.]
1920 - The Presidential Election is broadcasted for the first time on the radio declaring Warren Harding as the 29th President of the U.S.
1947 - Howard Hughes flies his wooden airplane for the first and only time.
1960 - Outfielder Roger Maris beats his teammate Mickey Mantle for American League MVP.
1967 - President Johnson concludes the American people should be given more optimistic reports on the progress of the Vietnam War.
1979 - The owners of Studio 54 are arrested for tax evasion.
1983 - President Reagan signs a bill creating Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
1984 - Velma Barfield becomes the first woman to be executed in the U.S. in 22 years.
1988 - The first Internet-distributed computer worm (The Morris Worm) is launched by MIT.
1999 - A gunman shoots at 8 people in his workplace in Hawaii.
2016 - The Chicago Cubs win the World Series for the first time in 108 years.
2020 - Baby Shark (Pinkfong) becomes the most-watched video on YouTube with over 7.04 billion views.

Re: 📖🗣️ Notable Events

KellytheBelly — Fri, 08 Nov 2024 03:47:24 GMT

Notable Events on November 3rd:
[source: National Day Calendar - November 3 | Birthdays & Events]

1783 - Continental Army is disbanded.
1762 - Spain claims Louisiana.
1791 - Indians kill 637 soldiers during the Battle at Wabash.
[The battle is likely the Battle of Fallen Timbers, not Wabash.]
1796 - John Adams becomes the second President of the U.S.
1813 - U.S. troops annihilated the Red Stick Creek village of Tallushatchee in Alabama.
1868 - John Willis becomes the first Black person elected to the U.S. Congress.
1883 - Black Bart the Poet gets robs his last stagecoach, but leaves behind a clue that leads to his capture.
1883 - The Supreme Court decides federal courts have no jurisdiction over Native American tribal Council.

[The Supreme Court case Ex Parte Crow Dog establishes that federal courts generally do not have jurisdiction over matters within the authority of Native American tribal councils.]
1896 - Black inventor J.H. Hunter receives his patent for portable weighing scales.
1908 - William Taft is elected the 27th President of the U.S.
1911 - Chevrolet enters the automobile market in competition with the Ford Model T.
1917 - First class mail goes up to 3 cents per ounce.
1936 - Franklin Roosevelt is elected the 32nd President of the U.S.
1943 - 500 U.S. Air Force aircraft devastate Wilhelmshaven harbor in Germany.
1955 - Scientists Carlton E. Schwerdt and Fred L. Schaffer crystallize the pure polio virus to examine a possible vaccine.
1956 - The The Wizard of Oz is televised for first time.
1962 - Wilt Chamberlain scores 72 points against LA Lakers.
1964 - Washington D.C. residents are able to vote in a presidential election for the first time since 1880.
1969 - President Nixon addresses the nation asking for the U.S. to show solidarity on the Vietnam War effort.
1970 - President Nixon promises a gradual removal of troops in Vietnam.
1973 - NASA's Mariner 10 becomes the first space probe to reach that planet Mercury.
1979 - A group of Klansmen and neo-Nazis shoot 5 members of the Communist Workers Party during a rally in NC.
1997 - The U.S. imposes sanctions against Sudan in response to its human rights abuses of its own citizens.
2014 - One World Trade Center opens in NY City, replacing the Twin Towers that were destroyed on September 11, 2001.

Re: 📖🗣️ Notable Events

KellytheBelly — Fri, 08 Nov 2024 03:47:32 GMT

Notable Events on November 4th:
[source: National Day Calendar - November 4 | Birthdays & Events]

1791 - The Western Confederacy of American Indians win the Battle of the Wabash of the U.S.
[The battle was the Battle of Fallen Timbers, not the Battle of the Wabash.]
1841 -The first wagon caravan arrives in California after traveling 1,730 miles from the eastern part of the country.
1845 - Election Day is moved to the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November.
1846 - Benjamin Palmer patents the Artificial Leg.
1854 - A lighthouse is built on Alcatraz Island.
[The lighthouse was built on Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay.]
1856 - James Buchanan becomes the 15th President of the U.S.
1861 - The University of Washington is founded in Seattle.
1862 - Richard Jordan Gatling patents the hand cranked machine gun.
1873 - Dentist John Beers patents the Gold Crown.
1879 - Black inventor Thomas Elkins patents the Refrigerating Apparatus.
1879 - James Ritty patents the first Cash Register as a solution to stop his bartenders from stealing from him.
1904 - Harvard builds the first official football stadium.
1914 - Vogue holds the first model/fashion show in NY.
1928 - Gangster Arnold Rothstein is shot for not paying debts.
1939 - President Roosevelt orders the U.S Customs Service to implement the Neutrality Act of 1939.
1939 - The Packard automobile is unveiled as the first car to have air conditioning.
1952 - The National Security Agency (NSA) is established.
1962 - The U.S. stops all above-ground nuclear weapons testing.
1980 - Ronald Reagan becomes the 40th President of the U.S.
1981 - Dr. George Nichopoulos is acquitted of overprescribing prescription drugs to Elvis Presley.
1987 - Six-year-old Lisa Steinberg is beaten into a coma by her adoptive father Joel Steinberg.
1994 - The first conference on the commercial potential of the World Wide Web is held in San Francisco.
2008 - Barack Obama becomes the first person biracial person to become the President of the U.S.

[2008 - Barack Obama becomes the 44th President of the U.S.]

Re: 📖🗣️ Notable Events

KellytheBelly — Fri, 08 Nov 2024 03:47:38 GMT

Notable Events on November 5th:
[source: National Day Calendar - November 5 | Birthdays & Events]

1639 - The first post office is set up in the Massachusetts colonies.
1773 - John Hancock is elected as moderator at a Boston town meeting and says anyone who supports the Tea Act is an "Enemy to America."
1780 - French-American forces are defeated by Miami Chief Little Turtle.
1781 - John Hanson is elected first resident of US in Congress.
[John Hanson was elected as the first President of the Continental Congress, not the first resident of the US in Congress.]
1862 - President Lincoln removes George McClellan as commander of the Army of the Potomac.
1862 - 303 Dakota warriors are found guilty of rape and murder of whites and are sentenced to death.
1872 - Susan B. Anthony votes for the first time in defiance of the law and is later fined $100.
1872 - President Ulysses Grant is re-elected a second term.
1889 - Louisa Woosley is the woman to be ordained as a minister in any Presbyterian church.
1895 - The first U.S. patent for an automobile is awarded to George Selden.
1912 - Woodrow Wilson becomes the 28th President of the U.S.
1917 - U.S. troops see action on Western Front for first time.
1940 - Franklin D. Roosevelt becomes the first only President to be elected to a third term.
[Franklin D. Roosevelt was the first President to be elected to a third term, not the only one.]
1955 - Marty McFly returns to November 5 in Back to the Future.
[The movie Back to the Future is set in 1985, not 1955. Marty McFly travels back to 1955 from 1985.]
1956 - NBC debuts The Nat King Cole Show and becomes the first program hosted by a Black American.
1967 - U.S. troops conquer Loc Ninh South (Vietnam).
1968 - Richard Nixon becomes the 37th President of the U.S.
1970 - In their weekly report, Vietnam announces the lowest American soldier death toll in five years.
1978 - John Madden (Oakland Raiders) becomes 13th NFL coach to win 100.
1994 - George Foreman knocks out Michael Moorer.
1996 - Bill Clinton is re-elected a second term as President of the U.S.
2007 - Google unveils the Android operating system.

Re: 📖🗣️ Notable Events

KellytheBelly — Fri, 08 Nov 2024 03:47:46 GMT

Notable Events on November 6th:
[source: National Day Calendar - November 6 | Birthdays & Events]

1860 - Abraham Lincoln is elected the 16th President of the U.S.
1861 - Jefferson Davis is elected to a 6-year term as the U.S. Confederate President.

[While Jefferson Davis did become the President of the Confederate States of America, he was not elected to a 6-year term. The Confederate Constitution did not specify a term length.]
1862 - A direct telegraphic link forms between New York and San Francisco.
1869 - Players use their hands or feet in the first college football game.
1885 - The U.S. mint at Carson City, NV is directed to close.
1900 - President McKinley is re-elected as President of U.S.
1928 - Herbert Hoover is elected the 31st President of the U.S.
1938 - The three DiMaggio brothers (Joltin' Joe, Dom, and Vince DiMaggio) play together for first time in a charity game.
1941 - The U.S. borrows the Soviet Union $1 million.
1945 - The House Committee on Un-American Activities investigates seven radio commentators.
1947 - NBC debuts Meet the Press on television.
1971 - The U.S. Atomic Energy Commission tests hydrogen bomb on an island.
[While the U.S. did conduct numerous nuclear tests, including hydrogen bomb tests, the specific event mentioned is not easily identifiable. The U.S. conducted many tests in the Pacific Ocean, but a single, specific test on an island in 1971 is not widely documented.]
2012 - Tammy Baldwin is elected to the U.S. Senate, becoming the first openly gay politician to be elected in Washington.

[While Tammy Baldwin was a significant milestone as the first openly gay person elected to the U.S. Senate, it's important to note that there were other openly gay politicians elected to state and local offices before her.]

Re: 📖🗣️ Notable Events

KellytheBelly — Wed, 18 Dec 2024 05:06:53 GMT

Notable Events on November 7th:

[source: National Day Calendar - November 7 | Birthdays & Events]

1775 - John Murray (Royal Governor of the Colony of Virginia) begins emancipating slaves, which becomes the first act against slavery.
[While John Murray did advocate for gradual emancipation, it wasn't the first act against slavery. Several colonies had already taken steps to limit or abolish the slave trade.]
1805 - The Lewis and Clark Expedition see the Pacific Ocean at the mouth of the Columbia River.
1811 - The U.S. Army, under General William Henry Harrison, defeat the Tecumseh Confederation.
1820 - President Monroe is re-elected as President.
1837 - Abolitionist printer Elijah P. Lovejoy is shot dead in an attempt to protect his printing shop from being destroyed.
1848 - Zachary Taylor elected the 12th President of U.S.
1874 - Cartoonist Thomas Nast uses an elephant in Harper's Weekly, which is the first time the symbol is used for the Republican Party.
[While Thomas Nast popularized the elephant as a symbol of the Republican Party, it wasn't the first time the symbol was used. It had been used informally before Nast's cartoons.]
1907 - Delta Sigma Pi is founded at NYU.
1910 - The Wright brothers and department store owner Max Morehouse attempt the first air freight shipment.
1916 - Jeannette Rankin becomes the first woman elected to the U.S. Congress.
1916 - Woodrow Wilson is re-elected as President.
1929 - The Museum of Modern Art opens in NY City.
1932 - Buck Rogers in the 25th Century airs on CBS-radio.
1940 - The Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapses in a windstorm.
1955 - The Baltimore Supreme Court of Baltimore bans segregation in public recreational areas.
1963 - Catcher Elston Howard becomes the first Black player to be voted AL MVP.
1967 - Carl Stokes is elected Mayor of Cleveland, Ohio and become the first Black mayor.
1967 - President Johnson signs the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967 and establishes the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
1972 - President Nixon is re-elected President by the largest landslide in history.
1973 - Congress overrides President Nixon's veto of the War Powers Resolution, which would have limited presidential power to wage war without congressional approval.
1973 - New Jersey becomes first state to allow girls into little league.
1983 - A bomb explodes inside the U.S. Capitol causing nearly $250,000 in damages.
1989 - Douglas Wilder becomes Governor of Virginia, making him the first Black Governor in the U.S.
1989 - David Dinkins becomes the first Black to be elected Mayor of New York City.
1991 - Magic Johnson retires from the NBA after announcing he has HIV.
2000 - The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration discovers the largest LSD lab inside a converted military missile silo in KS.
2020 - Joe Biden is becomes the 46th President of the U.S.

Re: 📖🗣️ Notable Events

KellytheBelly — Sat, 09 Nov 2024 03:06:01 GMT

Notable Events on November 8th:

[source: National Day Calendar - November 8 | Birthdays & Events]

1701 - William Penn presents the Charter of Liberties that would guarantee religious freedom for the Pennsylvania colony.
1731 - Benjamin Franklin opens the Library Company of Philadelphia, becoming the first library in the colonies.
1789 - Elijah Craig distills the first bourbon whiskey in KY.
1837 - Mary Lyon founds Mount Holyoke College in MA.
1864 - Abraham Lincoln is re-elected President of the U.S.
1889 - Montana becomes the 41st state to join the Union.
1892 - Black and white trade unionists join forces and strike action for the first time together in New Orleans.
1904 - Harvey Hubbell receives the first patent for a separable electric attachment plug.
1932 - Franklin D. Roosevelt is elected as the 32nd President of the U.S.
1933 - President Roosevelt unveils the Civil Works Administration to help create jobs so the country can recover from the Great Depression.
1938 - Crystal Bird Fauset becomes the first Black woman elected as a legislator in Philadelphia.
1950 - 1st Lt. Russell J. Brown (U.S. Air Force) shoots down two North Korean aircrafts in a dog fight.
1957 - A flight between San Francisco and Honolulu disappears.
1960 - John F. Kennedy is elected the 35th President of the U.S.
1965 - The 173rd Airborne is ambushed by the Viet Cong in Operation Hump.
1965 - An American airline crashes in KY, killing 58.
1966 - President Johnson signs a law allowing the National Football League to merge with the American Football League.
1972 - Home Box Office (HBO) launches.
1988 - George H. W. Bush is elected as the 41st President of the U.S.
2016 - Donald Trump is elected the 45th President of the U.S.

Re: 📖🗣️ Notable Events

KellytheBelly — Sun, 10 Nov 2024 03:18:15 GMT

Notable Events for November 9th:

[source: National Day Calendar - November 9 | Birthdays & Events]

1620 - The Mayflower spots land (Cape Cod) after two months at sea.
1821 -The first pharmacy college holds the its first class in Philadelphia.
1842 - George Bruce receives a design patent for typefaces and borders.
1851 - Kentucky marshals abduct abolitionist Calvin Fairbank from Indiana and transport him to Kentucky to stand trial for helping slaves.
1862 - General Ulysses S. Grant issues orders barring Jews from serving under him.
[There is no credible historical evidence to support the claim that General Ulysses S. Grant issued orders barring Jews from serving under him. This claim is widely disputed and often considered a myth or a misunderstanding of historical events.]
1887 - The U.S. receives the rights to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
1906- President Roosevelt makes the first an official trip outside the country (Panama Canal).
[While President Theodore Roosevelt's visit to the Panama Canal Zone was a significant presidential trip, it wasn't the first official presidential trip outside the continental United States. Previous presidents had visited territories like Alaska and Hawaii.]
1936 - Fashion designer Ruth Harkness captures a nine-week-old panda cub in Sichuan and brings the cub back to the U.S.
1943 - The UN Relief and Rehabilitation Administration is signed by 44 countries in the White House.
1960 - Robert McNamara becomes the first President for the Ford Motor Company that is not a member of the Ford family.
1961 - The PGA eliminates the "whites-only rule".
1970 - The Supreme Court votes 6–3 against allowing Massachusetts to enforce a law granting residents the right to refuse military service.
1984 - The iconic 3 Servicemen Vietnam Veterans Memorial is completed.
1998 - A U.S. federal judge orders 37 U.S. brokerage firms to pay $1.03 billion to cheated NASDAQ investors for price fixing.
2023 - Surgeons at NYU announce they have successfully performed the first eye transplant.