📖🗣️ Notable Events

[KellytheBelly]

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.]

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Notable Events for April 19th:

[source: National Day Calendar - April 19 | Birthdays & Events]

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1775 - The American Revolutionary War begins with the Battles of Lexington and Concord in Massachusetts. This marked the start of the armed conflict for American independence.
[The American Revolution began with the first shot fired at Lexington [no one knows from which side]. The 'shot heard round the world' (a reference from Ralph Waldo Emerson’s poem 'The Concord Hymn' occurred at the North Bridge in Concord later that same day. It was the first exchange where colonial militiamen were ordered to fire upon British soldiers.]
1852 - The California Historical Society is founded.  
1861 - The first bloodshed of the American Civil War occurs in Baltimore when a pro-secession mob attacks Massachusetts troops en route to Washington, D.C., resulting in casualties on both sides.
1874 - The barracks on Alcatraz Island are destroyed in a fire.
1897 - The Boston Marathon is held for the first time.
1904 - Great fire in Toronto is started.
1907 - Canadian runner Tom Longboat wins the Boston Marathon in 2 hours, 24 minutes, and 24 seconds.
[Setting a new course record. This victory made Longboat the first Indigenous person and the third Canadian to win the Boston Marathon.]
1916 - Women are granted the right to vote in Alberta, Canada.
1919 - Leslie Irvin makes the world's first free-fall parachute jump with a ripcord, testing a new parachute design. He breaks his leg upon landing.
[Leslie Irvin made the first free-fall parachute jump, Dayton, Ohio.]
1926 - John C. Miles wins the Boston Marathon.
1928 - Oxford English Dictionary is complete.
1929 - John C. Miles wins the Boston Marathon.
1932 - President Hoover recommends a five-day work week.
1934 - Surgeon’s Loch Ness monster hoax photo is taken.
1934 - Movie 'Stand Up and Cheer!' is released in U.S., first to seriously launch Shirley Temple’s film career.
1934 - Spring peepers are heard in Dublin, New Hampshire.
[This distinctive mating call of spring peepers, often described as a 'peep' or 'peeh-peh,' signifies the arrival of spring.]
1943 - The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising commences as Jewish resistance fighters in Nazi-occupy Warsaw, Poland, confronting German forces attempting to liquidate the ghetto.  
1960 - Baseball uniforms begin displaying players' names on their backs.  
1971 - The Soviet Union launches Salyut 1, the world's first manned space station.
1987 - The first short installment of 'The Simpsons' airs on the 'Tracey Ullman Show,' marking the debut of the hugely popular animated sitcom.
1988 - WIYY DJ Bob Rivers begin an on-air vigil until baseball’s Baltimore Orioles win [in 258 hours].
1993 - After a 51-day standoff, the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas, burns down, resulting in the deaths of many individuals inside.  
1995 - The Oklahoma City bombing occurs when a truck bomb explodes in front of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, killing 168 people.
2005 - Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger of Germany is elected pope. He chose the name Pope Benedict XVI.
[He was the oldest pope elected since 1730.] 

2018 - The death of the oldest known spider [43-year-old trapdoor species] is announced.
2021 - NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter becomes the first aircraft to make a powered, controlled flight on another planet [Mars].
[NASA successfully flies a drone on Mars.]

Other Observances:

Husband Appreciation Day [Third Saturday in April]

National Garlic Day
[A day to celebrate the flavorful and aromatic bulb, garlic! Get creative in the kitchen and add extra garlic to your meals today.]
Record Store Day
National North Dakota Day

[Celebrated annually on April 19th to honor North Dakota as the 39th state to join the Union.]
National Amaretto Day
[A day to enjoy the sweet, almond-flavored Italian liqueur. Consider mixing up a cocktail or simply savoring a glass.]
National Auctioneers Day [Third Saturday in April]
[Recognizing these professionals who conduct auctions.]
National Oklahoma City Bombing Commemoration Day
[A solemn day to remember the victims and honor the resilience of those affected by the 1995 tragedy.]
National Hanging Out Day
[A relaxed day to spend quality time with loved ones in a casual setting.]
Refresh Your Goals Day
National Rice Ball Day
[A day to appreciate this versatile and delicious dish. Experiment with different fillings and enjoy!]
National Cat Lady Day
[A day to celebrate and appreciate the special bond between women and their feline companions.]
World Jackal Day
[A day to learn more about these fascinating and adaptable wild canids.]
National Primrose Day
[A day to admire the delicate beauty of primrose flowers.]
Poetry & The Creative Mind Day
[A day to recognize the importance of creativity and self-expression through poetry and other art forms.]
Sylvester the Cat's Birthday
[A fun observance for fans of the classic Looney Tunes character.]
Humorous Day
[A day dedicated to laughter and enjoying the lighter side of life.]
Dutch-American Friendship Day
Easter Saturday  [Australia]
Orthodox/Holy Saturday
[Observed by Orthodox Christians as the final Saturday before Easter.]

Black Saturday
Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia Action Day
John Parker Day
Landing of the 33 Patriots Day [Uruguay]
National Dog Parent Appreciation Day
National Poker Day
Bicycle Day
[A day to recognize the scientific and psychiatric impact of the drug known as LSD.]

[KellytheBelly]

Notable Events for November 25th:
[source: National Day Calendar - November 25 | Birthdays & Events]

1783 - The last British troops leave New York City and return home.
1792 - Black inventor Benjamin Banneker publishes the first Farmer's Almanac.
1863 - General Grant and his troops (Union) break the Siege of Chattanooga.
1864 - The Confederate Army of Manhattan start fires in NY City in an attempt to burn down the city.
[The statement is partially accurate. There was a Confederate plot to burn New York City in 1864, but it was not carried out by a large "Confederate Army of Manhattan." Instead, a small group of eight Confederate operatives attempted to set fires in various locations in New York City on November 25, 1864. The plot was unsuccessful, and most of the fires were quickly extinguished. -AI ]
1867 - Congress looks into impeachment of President Johnson.
1884 - John Meyenberg receives the patent for evaporated milk.
1874 - The U.S. Greenback Party is established.
1876 - In retaliation for defeat at the Battle of the Little Bighorn, the U.S. Army attack the sleeping village of Cheyenne Chief Dull Knife.
1905 - Telimco makes the first advertisement for a radio product.
1920 - The first Thanksgiving Parade is held in Philadelphia.
[The first Thanksgiving Day Parade was indeed held in Philadelphia in 1920. It was organized by Gimbel's Department Store and has continued to be a beloved tradition ever since.]
1940 - Woody Woodpecker makes his debut.
1947 - The Hollywood Ten are blacklisted by Hollywood.
1955 - Race segregation is forbidden on public transportation.
1957 - President Eisenhower suffers a mild stroke.
1963 - President John F. Kennedy buried at Arlington National Cemetery.
1997 - Richard Bliss, a telephone technician, is arrested for spying in Russia.

[KellytheBelly]

Notable Events for November 24th:
[source: National Day Calendar - November 24 | Birthdays & Events]

1703 - Justus Falckner becomes the first ordained Lutheran pastor in America.
1775 - Continental Congress bars Blacks from enlisting.
[The Continental Congress actually barred free Blacks from enlisting.]
1835 - Texas creates the Texas Rangers.
1874 - Joseph Glidden receives his patent for barbed wire.
1896 - Vermont becomes the first state to implement absentee voting.
[Vermont was not the first state to implement absentee voting. Kentucky was the first in 1892.]
1930 - Ruth Nichols sets the record for the women's transcontinental air flight.
1932 - The FBI Crime Lab lab opens in Washington, D.C.
1954 - Air Force One is christened.
1971 -A hijacker named D. B. Cooper parachutes from a Northwest Orient Airlines plane with $200,000 in ransom money during a snowstorm.
1979 - Senate report proves Vietnam troops were exposed to Agent Orange.

[KellytheBelly]

Notable Events for November 23rd:
[source: National Day Calendar - November 23 | Birthdays & Events]

1765 - The People of Frederick County refused to pay British Stamp tax.
[The Stamp Act protests were widespread, including in Frederick County, Maryland.]
1783 - Annapolis became the capital of MD, for a short time.
[Annapolis served as the temporary capital of the United States from November 26, 1783, to August 19, 1784.]
1848 - The Female Medical Education Society was founded.
1876 - The Intercollegiate Football Association was formed.
1889 - The first jukebox debuted in a San Francisco saloon.
1897 - John Lee Love patented the portable pencil sharpener.
1904 - The 1904 Summer Olympics concluded.
1921 - The Willis-Campbell Act was signed.
1924 - Edwin Hubble discovers the nebula Andromeda is actually another island galaxy outside the Milky Way.
[Edwin Hubble's discovery was groundbreaking.]
1942 - The U.S. Coast Guard Woman's Auxiliary is created.
[The U.S. Coast Guard Women's Auxiliary was established.]
1945 - Wartime food rationing ends.
[Wartime food rationing ended in the U.S.]
1948 - Dr. Frank G. Back patented the zoom lens.
1981 - President Reagan signs the top secret directive giving the CIA authority to recruit and support Contra rebels in Nicaragua.
[President Reagan signed the secret directive.]
1991 - Freddie Mercury (Queen) announces he is HIV-positive.
[Freddie Mercury's announcement was public.]
1992 - The IBM Simon (first smartphone) is introduced at COMDEX in Las Vegas.
[The IBM Simon was introduced at COMDEX.]
2021 - Albert Einstein's original manuscript of the Theory of Relativity is sold for $13 million.
[While Einstein's manuscripts have been sold at auction, there's no record of the specific manuscript of the Theory of Relativity being sold for that amount in 2021.]

[KellytheBelly]

Notable Events for November 22nd:
[source: National Day Calendar - November 22 | Birthdays & Events]

1718 - Royal Navy Lieutenant Robert Maynard attacks and boards the vessels of the pirate Blackbeard.
1809 - Peregrine Williamson patents a steel pen.
1842 - Mount St Helens in Washington state erupts.
[The active stratovolcano located in Skamania County, Washington, in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States, is 96 miles south of Seattle, Washington, and 50 miles northeast of Portland, Oregon.]
1864 - The Battle at Griswoldville (Civil War) ends with 650 casualties.
1910 - Arthur Knight patents the steel shaft on golf clubs.
1919 - The Labor conference committee urges 8-hour work days.
1939 - Gangsters Bugsy Siegel, Whitey Krakower, Frankie Carbo and Albert Tannenbaum kill Harry "Big Greenie" Greenberg outside his apartment.
1943 - President Roosevelt, Prime Minister Churchill, and Chinese Premier Chiang Kai-shek meet to discuss how to defeat Japan.
1954 - The Humane Society is formed.
[The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) was founded in 1954, but the concept of humane societies and animal welfare organizations predates this by centuries.]
1963 - President Kennedy is assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald.
1963 - Lyndon B. Johnson sworn in as the 36th US President after President Kennedy's' assassination.
1989 - NASA launches Space Shuttle Discovery on a classified mission for the Department of Defense.

[KellytheBelly]

Notable Events for November 21st:
[source: National Day Calendar - November 21 | Birthdays & Events]

1620 - Plymouth settlers sign the Mayflower Compact.
1654 - Black free slave Richard Johnson is granted 550 acres in Virginia.
1787 - Andrew Jackson admitted to the bar at the age of 20.
1789 - North Carolina becomes the 12th state to join the union.
1817 - US soldiers attack Miccosukee Tribe in GA, which later becomes known as the First Seminole War.
[The First Seminole War began in 1817, but the specific attack on the Miccosukee Tribe likely occurred later in the year.]
1861 - President Jefferson Davis appoints Judah Benjamin as Secretary of War.
1877 - Thomas Edison announces his invention of the phonograph.
1922 - Rebecca Latimer Felton becomes the first female US Senator (Georgia).
1934 - NY Yankees buy Joe DiMaggio.
1945 - The United Auto Workers go on strike against GM for a 30% raise.
1946 - President Truman becomes the first to travel in a submarine.
1952 - The first stamp in two colors is introduced.
1959 - Vice President Richard Nixon (piano) plays a duet with Jack Benny (violin).
1970 - The U.S. Army and Air Force raid the Sơn Tây (Vietnam) POW camp in an attempt to free American prisoners.
1973 - The attorney for President Nixon reveals the presence of an 18½ minute gap in the Watergate tape recording.
1974 - Congress passed the Freedom of Information Act after President Gerald Ford vetoed the Act.
[The Freedom of Information Act was originally signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1966. In 1974, Congress passed amendments to the FOIA, which President Gerald Ford vetoed. However, Congress overrode the veto, making the amended FOIA law.]
1985 - Navy intelligence analyst Jonathan Pollard is arrested for spying for Israel.
1980 - Who Shot J.R.? (Dallas) airs.
1986 - Oliver North and his secretary start to shred documents allegedly implicating them in the Iran-Contra affair.
1989 - President George H. W. Bush bans smoking on most domestic flights.

[KellytheBelly]

Notable Events for November 20th:
[source: National Day Calendar - November 20 | Birthdays & Events]

1776 - The Continental Army starts to retreat across NJ.
1789 - New Jersey becomes the first state to ratify the Bill of Rights.
1861 - A Secession ordinance is filed by Kentucky's Confederate government.
1866 - The first national convention of a veterans' organization is held.
1866 - Howard University is founded (Washington, DC).
1914 - The State Department starts requiring photos for passports.
1923 - Garrett Morgan patents his traffic signal design that added a caution light between stop (red) and go (green).
1938 - Anti-semitic remarks are made by Father Coughlin on U.S. radio.

[Father Coughlin, a Catholic priest and radio personality, frequently made anti-Semitic remarks on his radio broadcasts throughout the 1930s. His rhetoric contributed to the rise of anti-Semitic sentiment in the United States during that time.]
1943 - Operation Galvanic begins between Japan and the U.S. Marines.
1945 - Trials begin against 24 Nazi war criminals at Nuremberg.

[The trials began in 1945, not 1944.]
1958 - Jim and Jane Henson establish the Muppets, Inc.
1962 - President Kennedy ends the quarantine of the Caribbean nation.
1968 - 78 miners are killed in an explosion at Farmington, WV.
1969 - The Plain Dealer (Cleveland, Ohio) publishes photos of the dead villagers from the My Lai Massacre in Vietnam.
1969 - Native American activists seize control of Alcatraz Island.
1974 - The Department of Justice files an antitrust suit against AT&T to break the company up.
1979 - The first artificial blood transfusion occurs at the University of Minnesota Hospital.
1983 - Over 100 million watch The Day After, a movie nuclear war.
1984 - McDonald's makes its 50 billionth hamburger.
1985 - Microsoft releases the first graphical personal computer operating environment (Windows 1.0).
1998 - A Taliban court declares Osama bin Laden "a man without a sin" in regard to the '98 U.S. Embassy bombings.
2016 - Jimmie Johnson wins his seventh NASCAR Cup Series championship.
2022 - The National Guard is activated to to assist with the snow emergency in NY.
2022 - President Biden turns 80 years old and becomes the first octogenarian to serve as President.

[KellytheBelly]

Notable Events for November 19th:
[source: National Day Calendar - November 19 | Birthdays & Events]

1805 - Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, reach the Pacific Ocean becoming the first European Americans to cross the west.
[While Lewis and Clark are often credited with being the first European Americans to cross the West, it's important to note that other explorers, such as Alexander Mackenzie, had already reached the Pacific coast earlier.]
1861 - Julia Ward Howe writes the lyrics of Battle Hymn of the Republic on paper.
1863 - President Lincoln delivers the Gettysburg Address.
1872 - E.D. Barbour is given the patent for the first calculator.
[While E.D. Barbour did receive a patent for a calculating machine, it wasn't the first. Earlier calculating machines had been invented and patented.]
1916 - Samuel Goldwyn and Edgar Selwyn found Goldwyn Pictures.
1923 - Governor Walton is ousted in OK for his anti-KKK measures.
[The reason for Governor Walton's ouster was more complex than just his anti-KKK measures. It involved a combination of factors, including political disputes and allegations of corruption.]
1944 - President Roosevelt announces the sixth War Loan Drive selling $14 billion in war bonds to help pay for the war effort.
1950 - General Dwight D. Eisenhower becomes Supreme Commander of NATO-Europe.
1959 - The first episode of Rocky and His Friends airs on television.
1965 - ABC radio begins giving a weekly update on Vietnam.
1965 - Kellogg creates Pop Tarts.
[Kellogg didn't create Pop-Tarts in 1965. They were introduced in 1964.]
1985 - Pennzoil wins a $10.53 billion judgment against Texaco.
1998 - Impeachment hearings begin against President Clinton.
[The impeachment hearings against President Clinton were not solely about his affair with Monica Lewinsky. They also involved allegations of perjury and obstruction of justice.]

[KellytheBelly]

Notable Events for November 18th:
[source: National Day Calendar - November 18 | Birthdays & Events]

1861 - The first meeting of the Confederate Congress is held VA.
1865 - Mark Twain publishes The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County in The NY Saturday Press.
1872 - Susan B. Anthony, along with 14 other women, are arrested for voting illegally for President.
1883 - American and Canadian railroads implement continental time zones.
1902 - Toymaker Morris Michtom names the teddy bear after President Teddy Roosevelt.
1913 - American pilot Lincoln Deachey performs the first aircraft loop-the-loop.
1917 - The Jewish high school fraternity Sigma Alpha Rho is founded in Philadelphia.
1928 - Steamboat Willie is released as the first sound cartoon.
1949 - MLB player Jackie Robinson wins the National League MVP.
1961 - President Kennedy sends 18,000 troops to South Vietnam.
1963 - The first push-button telephone goes into service in PA.
1964 - J. Edgar Hoover calls Martin Luther King Jr. a "most notorious liar."
1966 - The U.S. Roman Catholic bishops ends the rule against eating meat on Fridays.
1970 - President Nixon asks Congress for $155 million in aid for the Cambodian government.
1970 - Scientist Linus Pauling declares large doses of Vitamin C could ward off colds.
1985 - Calvin and Hobbes is published for the first time in 10 newspapers.
1999 - A bonfire collapses and kills 12 students at Texas A&M University.
2021 - US judge exonerates Muhammad Abdul Aziz and Khalil Islam for the killing of Malcolm X in 1965.

[KellytheBelly]

Notable Events for November 17th:
[source: National Day Calendar - November 17 | Birthdays & Events]

1774 - The First City Troop, Philadelphia City Cavalry, is formed at Carpenter's Hall, PA. (The unit is still in service today.)
1777 - The Articles of Confederation are submitted to the states for ratification.
1800 - The first session of the U.S. Congress is held in Washington, D.C.
1820 - Captain Nathaniel Palmer becomes the first American to see Antarctica.
1842 - Fugitive slave George Latimer is captured in Boston.
1858 - Denver, Colorado, is founded.
1863 - Abraham Lincoln begins his first draft of the Gettysburg Address.
1889 - The Union Pacific Railroad begins daily through service between Portland and San Francisco.
1894 - H.H. Holmes becomes one of the first modern serial killers.
[Note: 'first' is debatable as there were likely earlier serial killers.]
1913 - The first dental hygienist course is formed in CT.
1947 - Scientists John Bardeen and Walter Houser Brattain observe the basic principles of the transistor.
1962 - President Kennedy dedicates Washington Dulles International Airport.
1967 - As a way to update the nation about Vietnam, President Johnson says, "We are inflicting greater losses than we're taking...We are making progress."
1973 - President Nixon tells 400 Associated Press managing editors, 'I am not a crook.'
1980 - WHMM in Washington, D.C., becomes the first Black public-broadcasting television station.
1993 - The U.S. House of Representatives approves the North American Free Trade Agreement.
2013 - Six dozen tornadoes touch down in approximately an 11-hour time period, including seven EF3 and two EF4 tornadoes across the Midwest.

[KellytheBelly]

Notable Events for November 16th:
[source: National Day Calendar - November 16 | Birthdays & Events]

1676 - The first prison is organized in MA.
1798 - Kentucky becomes first state to nullify an act of Congress
1801 - The first edition of New York Evening Post is printed.
1822 - William Becknell arrives in Santa Fe, NM, over a route that became known as the Santa Fe Trail.
1841 - Napoleon Guerin patents life preservers made of cork.
1871 - The National Rifle Association of America receives its charter.
1907 - Oklahoma is admitted as the 46th state in the Union.
1914 - The Federal Reserve Bank officially opens.
1925 - The American Association for Advancement of Atheism is formed.
1933 - The U.S. and the Soviet Union form diplomatic relations.
1939 - Al Capone is released from Alcatraz.
1940 - Mad Bomber (George Metesky) places his first bomb at a Manhattan office.
1943 - American bombers strike a German-controlled power facility and heavy water factory in Norway.
1945 - The first Jewish college (Yeshiva College) opens in NY.
1950 - President Truman proclaims an emergency crisis for communist threats.
1960 - U.S. marshals escort four six-year-old Black girls to a former all-white public schools in LA.
1962 - Wilt Chamberlain scores 73 points against the NY Knicks.
1965 - EPCOT Center at Walt Disney World opens.
[Epcot Center at Walt Disney World opened in 1982, not 1965.]
1973 - President Nixon signs the Trans-Alaska Pipeline Authorization Act.
1990 - Milli Vanilli is stripped of their Grammy Award because the duo did not sing Girl You Know It's True.

[KellytheBelly]

Notable Events for November 15th:
[source: National Day Calendar - November 15 | Birthdays & Events]

1620 - Myles Standish leads 16 men in a foot exploration of Cape Cod.
1660 - The first kosher butcher is licensed in NY City.
1763 - Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon begin surveying Mason–Dixon line.
1777 - The Continental Congress approves the Articles of Confederation after 16 months of debate.
1791 - The first Catholic college (Georgetown) opens in the U.S.
1827 - Creek-indians lose all their property in US.
1842 - A slave revolt in the Cherokee Nation commences.
1849 - More than 150 people die on a steamboat after boilers explode.
1932 - Walt Disney Art School is created.
1939 - President Roosevelt begins the building of the Jefferson Memorial in Washington, D.C.
1940 - 75,000 men are called to armed forces duty during peacetime.
[While it's true that 75,000 men were called to armed forces duty, this was part of the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940, which initiated a peacetime draft.]
1946 - Baseball player Ted Williams is picked as American League MVP.
1957 - The U.S. sentences Soviet spy Rudolf Ivanovich Abel.
1965 - Craig Breedlove sets a land speed record of 600.601 mph at the Bonneville Salt Flats, UT.
1968 - The Cleveland Transit System becomes the first transit system in the western hemisphere, providing quick transit service from downtown to the airport.
1969 - Dave Thomas founds and opens the first Wendy's fast food restaurant.
1969 - An American submarine collides with a Soviet submarine in the Barents Sea.
1969 - A peaceful demonstration brings 250,000-500,000 protesters to in Washington, D.C. in protest of the Vietnam War.
1971 - Intel releases the world's first commercial single-chip microprocessor.
1990 - President George W. Bush signs Clear Air Act of 1990.
[The Clear Air Act of 1990 was signed by President George H.W. Bush, not George W. Bush.]
2001 - Microsoft launches the Xbox.
2013 - Sony releases the PlayStation 4 (PS4).
2017 - Leonardo da Vinci's painting Salvator Mundi sells for $450.3 million at auction in NY.

[KellytheBelly]

Notable Events for November 14th:
[source: National Day Calendar - November 14 | Birthdays & Events]

1732 - Louis Timothee is hired as the first professional librarian in the U.S.
[While Louis Timothee was indeed a significant figure in early American libraries, the claim of him being the "first professional librarian in the U.S." might require further historical research and specific evidence to verify.]
1792 - Captain George Vancouver becomes the first Englishman to enter San Francisco Bay.
1832 - The first horse-drawn streetcar debuts in NY City for 12 cents a ride.
1851 - Herman Melville publishes Moby-Dick.
1881 - Charles Guiteau is put on trial for the assassination of President Garfield.
1888 - A 6 hole golf course opens in Yonkers NY.
1896 - The Niagara Falls power plant begins operation.
1906 - President Roosevelt visits Panama for the first time.
1910 - Aviator Eugene Ely successfully performs the first takeoff from a ship in VA off the USS Birmingham.
1957 - High-level Mafia figures are arrested while trying to flee a meeting in upstate NY.
1957 - Hank Aaron wins baseball National League MVP.
[The claim of high-level Mafia figures being arrested while trying to flee a meeting in upstate New York in 1957 is not widely documented. It might be a reference to a specific event that requires further investigation.]
1960 - Ruby Bridges becomes the first black child to attend an all-white elementary school in LA.
[Ruby Bridges' integration of an elementary school took place in New Orleans, Louisiana, not Los Angeles, California.]
1965 - The first major engagement happens between regular American and North Vietnamese forces. As a result, the U.S. government sends 90,000 soldiers to Vietnam.
1967 - Theodore Maiman receives his patent for the first laser system.
1968 - National Turn in Your Draft Card Day features draft card burning.
1971 – NASA's Mariner 9 enters orbit around Mars.
1979 - President Carter issues and executive order freezing all Iranian assets.
1995 - The federal government to temporarily close national parks and museums because of a budget standoff between Democrats and Republicans.
2002 - The U.S. House of Representatives vote not to create an independent commission to investigate the September 11 attacks.

[KellytheBelly]

Notable Events for November 13th:
[source: National Day Calendar - November 13 | Birthdays & Events]

1839 - The Liberty Party convenes in N.Y. and becomes the first anti-slavery party.
1851 - The first settlers enter the future location of Seattle, WA.
1861 - Reverend Mark R. Watkinson petitions The U.S. Treasury to recognize God on American coins, prompting the motto In God We Trust.
1865 - The U.S. issues the first gold certificates.
1875 - Harvard and Yale play the first college football contest with team uniforms.
1875 - The National Bowling Association is formed in NY.
1927 - The Holland Tunnel linking N.J. to N.Y. City. 
1931 - Hattie Caraway becomes the first U.S. woman senator.
1941 - Fantasia (Walt Disney) is released at New York's Broadway Theatre.
1942 - The military draft age is lowered from 21 to 18.
1946 - Artificial snow is produced from a natural cloud for the first time in MA.
1956 - The U.S. Supreme Court declares AL laws requiring segregated buses illegal.
1964 - Bob Petit becomes the first NBA player to score 20,000 career points.
1973 - Reggie Jackson (Oakland A's) wins American League MVP unanimously.
1980 - Voyager 1 sends the first close-up pictures of Saturn back to earth.
1982 - Duk Koo Kim dies after a boxing match against Ray Mancini, leading to significant changes in boxing.
1982 - The Vietnam Veterans Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D.C.
1986 - President Reagan admits to selling weapons to Iran.
2001 - President George W. Bush signs an executive order allowing military tribunals against foreigners suspected of terrorist acts against the U.S.
2018 - Kristine Guillaume becomes the first Black woman to join the Harvard student newspaper The Crimson.

[KellytheBelly]

Notable Events for November 12th:
[source: National Day Calendar - November 12 | Birthdays & Events]

1775 - Black troops are forbidden from enlisting.
[While Black Americans did serve in the Continental Army, they were not universally forbidden from enlisting. There were limitations and discriminatory practices, but the blanket statement "forbidden" is not entirely accurate.]
1799 - Andrew Ellicott makes the known record of a meteor shower observation off the coast of Florida.
1892 - Pudge Heffelfinger becomes the first professional football player.
1910 - The first movie stunt is performed when a man jumps from a burning balloon into the Hudson River.
1928 - SS Vestris sinks approximately 200 miles from VA, killing 110 passengers, primarily women and children.
1936 - The Oakland Bay Bridge (CA) opens to traffic.
1942 - American forces beat Japanese forces at Guadalcanal after a three day battle.
1954 - Operations stop at Ellis Island.
1966 - Buzz Aldrin takes the first space selfie.
1969 - Journalist Seymour Hersh breaks the story of the My Lai Massacre.
1971 - President Nixon sets February 1, 1972 as the deadline for the removal of American troops from Vietnam.
1979 - President Carter stops all petroleum imports into the U.S. from Iran in response to the Iran hostage crisis.
1997 - Ramzi Yousef is found guilty of being the mastermind behind the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.

[KellytheBelly]

Notable Events for November 11th*:
[source: National Day Calendar - November 11 | Birthdays & Events]

1620 - The Mayflower Compact is signed.
1647 - The first compulsory school attendance law is passed in MA.
1750 - The first college fraternity (The Flat Hat Club Society) is formed at Raleigh Tavern, VA.
1775 - Joseph Brant (Mohawk military leader) goes to London to seek support from the government about land grievances.
1831 - Nat Turner is hanged after inciting a violent slave uprising in VA.
1839 - The Virginia Military Institute is founded in VA.
1865 - Mary Edward Walker is awarded the Medal of Honor and becomes the first female surgeon for the Army.
1868 - The first amateur track and field meet is held in NY City.
1889 - Washington State becomes the the 42nd state in the Union.
1918 - The signing of an armistice marked the end of hostilities, and the day became known as Armistice Day. One year later, President Woodrow Wilson proclaimed the first Armistice Day to commemorate peace and to honor those who had sacrificed in service to the country.
[Veterans Day was initially known as Armistice Day, commemorating the end of World War I in 1918. In 1954, the holiday was renamed Veterans Day to honor all military veterans. Across the U.S., the day is marked with parades, wreath-laying ceremonies, and moments of silence.]
1921 - President Harding dedicates The Tomb of the Unknowns at Arlington National Cemetery.
1926 - Route 66 is established.
1940 - Willys unveils the Jeep. THE JEEP IS BORN.
1967 - Three American prisoners of war are released by the Viet Cong.
1983 - President Reagan becomes the first President to address Japanese legislature.
1985 - Yonkers (NY) is found guilty of segregating schools and housing.
1994 - Bill Gates buys Leonardo da Vinci's Codex for $308 million.

*In recognition of Veterans Day, we extend our sincere thanks to all veterans. My family is proud to honor the 47 years of combined service of my father and father-in-law in the United States Air Force.

Grateful for the service of all veterans. 

[KellytheBelly]

Notable Events for November 10th:

[source: National Day Calendar - November 10 | Birthdays & Events]

1766 - NJ Governor William Franklin, signs the charter of for Rutgers University.
1775 - The Marine Corps is founded at Tun Tavern in Philadelphia.
1801 - Duelling is outlawed in KY.
1808 - The Osage Nation cedes territory after signing the Treaty of Fort Clark.
1857 - Paul Morphy wins the first American Chess Congress.
1865 - Prison camp superintendent Major Henry Wirz is hanged for war crimes committed during the Civil War.
1898 - A municipal government is overthrown Wilmington Insurrection of 1989.
[The Wilmington Insurrection actually occurred in 1898, not 1989.]
1919 - National Book Week is celebrated for the first time.
1944 - the U.S. 9th Army takes over Margraten cemetery to avoid burying American soldiers on enemy soil during WWII.
1951 - Direct-dial telephone service begins the country.
[Direct-dial telephone service began in the United States, not the entire country.]
1954 - President Eisenhower dedicates the Iwo Jima memorial at Arlington.
1958 - Harry Winston donates The Hope Diamond to the Smithsonian in NY.
1969 - Sesame Street debuts on National Educational Television.
1970 - There are no American fatalities reported in Vietnam for the first time in five years.
1983 - Windows 1.0 is introduced by Microsoft.
2006 - The National Museum of the Marine Corps in Quantico, VA is opened.

[KellytheBelly]

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.

[KellytheBelly]

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.

[KellytheBelly]

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.

[KellytheBelly]

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.]

[KellytheBelly]

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.

[KellytheBelly]

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.]

[KellytheBelly]

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.

[KellytheBelly]

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.

[KellytheBelly]

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.

[KellytheBelly]

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.

[KellytheBelly]

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.

[KellytheBelly]

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.

[KellytheBelly]

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.

[KellytheBelly]

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.