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On October 17, 1871, Pres. Grant declared martial law and suspended the writ of habeas corpus in South Carolina. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2025 Oct 2025 8 783
On October 26, 1963, JFK rode in a rented open car in Amherst, Massachusetts. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2025 Oct 2025 4 694
On October 21, 1972, Spiro Agnew and the Osmond Brothers attended a Nixon-Agnew fundraiser in Chicago. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2025 Oct 2025 0 564
On October 27, 1992, Radioman 3rd Class Allen R. Schindler Jr. was murdered. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2025 Oct 2025 6 641
On October 24, 1861, the first transcontinental telegraph was completed. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2025 Oct 2025 0 505
On this day, October 30, 1980, Mark David Chapman flew to New York. Unable to purchase bullets, he flew to Atlanta. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2025 Oct 2025 4 516
On October 27, 1962, "A guy called Vasily Arkhipov saved the world." 0 mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2025 Oct 2025 11 730
On October 29, 1960, a C-46 airliner carrying the Cal Poly Mustangs football team crashed during takeoff. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2025 Oct 2025 1 564
On Tuesday, October 29, 1929, "Black Tuesday" occurred. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2025 Oct 2025 0 502
On this day, Sunday, October 30, 1938, The Mercury Theatre on the Air broadcast "The War of the Worlds." 0 mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2025 Oct 2025 3 633
On this day, October 30, 1929, the Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 28.40 points, or 12.34%, to close at 258.47. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2025 Oct 2025 1 566
On this day, October 29, 1901, presidential assassin Leon Czolgosz was executed. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2025 Oct 2025 4 695
Pulitzer-winning biographer Doris Kearns Goodwin puts today in the context of Lincoln 1 mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2025 Oct 2025 5 1087
Meet This Year's Winners of the Portrait of a Nation Award, Including Steven Spielberg and Temple Grandin. 1 elleng Oct 2025 Oct 2025 6 682
Photographs Reveal Extent of White House Demolition 5 mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2025 Oct 2025 12 1362
On this day, October 16, 1968, Tommie Smith and John Carlos gave the Black Power salute at the Olympics. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2025 Oct 2025 10 771
On this day, October 16, 1882, the Nickel Plate Road began operation. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2025 Oct 2025 2 560
On this day, October 16, 1991, the Luby's shooting in Killeen, Texas, occurred. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2025 Oct 2025 0 524
On October 12, 1998, Matthew Shepard died. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2025 Oct 2025 7 646
On this day, October 14, 1963, JFK met with his aides in the Oval Office while John John was at play. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2025 Oct 2025 12 725
In the Wake of the Edmund Fitzgerald 3 elleng Oct 2025 Oct 2025 9 1048
Eugenics: Madison Grant Book 'Passing of the Great Race,' Hitler Bible; White Sup, Nordic, Anti Immigrant 2 appalachiablue Oct 2025 Oct 2025 3 967
On October 1, 1890, Congress established Yosemite National Park. 6 mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2025 Oct 2025 2 972
New York Faces Painful History as It Marks the Erie Canal's Bicentennial. 2 elleng Sep 2025 Oct 2025 7 2315
On this day, October 2, 1967, Thurgood Marshall was sworn in as a Supreme Court justice. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2025 Oct 2025 4 644
On the night of October 1, 2017, the deadliest mass shooting by a single gunman in American history occurred. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2025 Oct 2025 4 734
On this day, October 2, 2018, Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi was assassinated. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2025 Oct 2025 4 628
On this day, October 2, 2002, the Beltway sniper shootings began. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2025 Oct 2025 0 590
Legendary N.D. columnist Marilyn Hagerty, of viral Olive Garden review fame, dies at 99 3 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2025 Sep 2025 10 2353
1916 - at Age 24, Mary Pickford Becomes the First Woman in the World to Earn Over $1-Million per Year 1 GreatGazoo Sep 2025 Sep 2025 9 2645

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September 29, 2005, John G. Roberts, Jr. was confirmed as Chief Justice of the United States. 5 irisblue Sep 2025 Sep 2025 2 1184
Following Benedict Arnold: The 1775 Invasion of Quebec 3 eShirl Sep 2025 Sep 2025 5 1740
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On this day, September 28, 1940, FDR laid the cornerstone of Washington National Airport. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2025 Sep 2025 3 949
On this day, September 28, 1919, race riots began in Omaha, Nebraska. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2025 Sep 2025 2 827
On September 27, 1903, Southern Railway mail train 97 rolled off the Stillhouse Trestle. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2025 Sep 2025 2 797
What was the best law Harry S Truman signed, an idea taken from reddit 1 irisblue Sep 2025 Sep 2025 18 2328
What was the best law that Franklin D Roosevelt signed? 6 irisblue Sep 2025 Sep 2025 24 3059
On the night of September 20, 1776 -- September 21, the Great Fire of New York occurred. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2025 Sep 2025 2 828
On September 23, 1911, the first official airmail delivery was made in the United States. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2025 Sep 2025 0 819
On September 22, 1975, Gerald Ford survived his second assassination attempt in 3 weeks. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2025 Sep 2025 3 926
On September 22, 1993, Amtrak experienced its deadliest train wreck. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2025 Sep 2025 4 870
On September 24, 1869, the Black Friday gold panic broke out in the US and triggered a financial crisis. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2025 Sep 2025 2 819
On this day, September 26, 2020, Donald Trump nominated Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2025 Sep 2025 0 822
On September 25, 2008, Washington Mutual was placed into receivership. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2025 Sep 2025 1 1091
On September 23, 1779, John Paul Jones said, "Sir, I have not yet begun to fight!" 0 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2025 Sep 2025 1 830
On September 21, 1976, Exiled Chilean diplomat Orlando Letelier and Ronni Moffitt were killed by a car bomb. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2025 Sep 2025 2 902
Ron DiMenna, Founder of the Ron Jon Surf Shop Chain, Dies at 88 1 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2025 Sep 2025 2 855
The airliner pilot who gets to fly World War Two's biggest bomber 3 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2025 Sep 2025 11 3045
German Pilots Mocked The Tuskegee 'Red Tails' 2 struggle4progress Sep 2025 Sep 2025 8 3259
Captured German Nurses Shocked By American Medical Abundance 5 struggle4progress Sep 2025 Sep 2025 9 3841
***The American Revolution, Burns PBS 5 elleng Sep 2025 Sep 2025 1 2388
On September 15, 1963, a bomb went off in the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2025 Sep 2025 7 2475
On September 11, 2015, Meadville beat DuBois 107-90 in a Pennsylvania high school football shootout. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2025 Sep 2025 1 987
On September 12, 1991, the last stoplight was removed from I-90, in Wallace, Idaho. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2025 Sep 2025 3 1899
On September 11, 1857, the Mountain Meadows Massacre culminated in the mass slaughter of an emigrant party. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2025 Sep 2025 8 2542
On September 12, 1962, Kennedy gave his "We choose to go to the Moon" speech. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2025 Sep 2025 3 861
On September 14, 1814, Francis Scott Key wrote a poem, "Defence of Fort McHenry." 0 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2025 Sep 2025 1 808
On September 14, 1901, President William McKinley died, eight days after he was shot. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2025 Sep 2025 1 849
On September 12, 2008, 25 died when two trains collided in Chatsworth, California. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2025 Sep 2025 1 908

American History Continued...

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On September 13, 1848, Phineas Gage had a large iron rod driven through his head. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2025 Sep 2025 3 971
On this day, September 16, 2013, a gunman killed twelve people at the Washington Navy Yard in Washington, D.C. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2025 Sep 2025 1 811
September 5 thru 11, 1609 -- Henry Hudson vs Verrazzano 4 GreatGazoo Sep 2025 Sep 2025 8 2453
Henry Hudson's Progeny Forced to Live in Muncie Indiana? The Sept 15th Log Entry 1 GreatGazoo Sep 2025 Sep 2025 9 2642
On September 6, 1995, Cal Ripken Jr. played in a baseball game for the 2,131st time in a row. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2025 Sep 2025 6 2063
20 First Ladies of the United States Brought Back to Life - Martha Washington, Jacqueline Kennedy 3 QueerDuck Sep 2025 Sep 2025 5 3883
Michael Seltzer, Who Raised Millions to Fight AIDS, Dies at 78 0 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2025 Sep 2025 4 1202
On September 7, 1964, The "Daisy" commercial aired on TV. 3 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2025 Sep 2025 3 1478
On this day, September 8, 1922, Lyndon Larouche was born. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2025 Sep 2025 2 1392
On September 6, 1869, a continuous railroad line was extended from Omaha to Alameda, California. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2025 Sep 2025 0 1551
On this day, September 8, 1994, USAir Flight 427 crashed on approach to Pittsburgh. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2025 Sep 2025 1 947
On September 7, 2008, the Feds took over Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2025 Sep 2025 1 781
Circular to the General Officers, 8 September 1775 0 struggle4progress Sep 2025 Sep 2025 7 1775
1863 The New Ironsides firing on Condederate traitors 0 irisblue Sep 2025 Sep 2025 10 1681
Wehrmacht Soldiers Got 6 Cigarettes Daily While Americans Had Chocolate In Every K-Ration 0 struggle4progress Sep 2025 Sep 2025 4 1256
On the day, September 5, 2020, several boats sank during the Lake Travis Trump Boat Parade. 8 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2025 Sep 2025 9 2952
On this day, September 5, 1975, Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme attempted to assassinate Gerald Ford. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2025 Sep 2025 0 1130
On this day, September 4, 2019, Sharpiegate happened. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2025 Sep 2025 2 812
On this day, September 4, 1949, the Peekskill riots erupted after a Paul Robeson concert in NY. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2025 Sep 2025 5 2455
It's "E Day." On this day, September 4, 1957, the Edsel was introduced. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2025 Sep 2025 6 2444
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