X** 09 04 99 99 00 Ford Motor Co. began selling its ill-fated Edsel. (1957)
X** 09 04 99 99 00 George Eastman patents 1st rollfilm camera & registers "Kodak". (1888)
X** 09 04 99 99 00 Los Angeles founded in the Valley of Smokes (Indian Name) (1781)
X** 09 04 99 99 00 Nine blacks denied entry into Central High School in Arkansas. (1957)
X** 09 05 99 99 00 11 Israeli athletes and 5 Arab guerrillas who had taken them hostage were killed in a shoot-out at the summer Olympics in Munich (1972)
X** 09 05 99 99 00 1st gasoline pump is delivered to a gasoline dealer. (1885)
X** 09 05 99 99 00 Battle of Virginia Capes, where the French Fleet defeats the British rescue fleet, trapping Cornwallis at Yorktown (1781)
X** 09 05 99 99 00 First Continental Congress convened (Philadelphia, 1774)
X** 09 05 99 99 00 Iva Toguri D'Aquino, Japanese-American suspected of being Tokyo Rose, was arrested in Yokohama (1945)
X** 09 05 99 99 00 President Gerald Ford escaped an attempt on his life by Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme in Sacramento, California (1975)
X** 09 05 99 99 00 Russia's Peter the Great imposed a tax on beards. (1698)
X** 09 05 99 99 00 Sam Houston was elected president of the Republic of Texas (1836)
X** 09 05 99 99 00 The first battle of the Marne began in World War I (1914)
X** 09 05 99 99 00 The nation's first Labor day parade was held in New York (1882)
X** 09 06 99 99 00 Word is received that Perry has reached the North Pole and died (1909)
X** 09 07 99 99 00 Desmond Tutu was installed as the first black to lead the Anglican Church in South Africa (1986)
X** 09 07 99 99 00 Fire storms surround the Old Faithful Lodge complex in Yellowstone National Park as massive fires continue to burn out of control in Western forest lands. The Lodge survives. (1988)
X** 09 07 99 99 00 German begins its blitz on London and will continue bombing every night for two more months (1940)
X** 09 07 99 99 00 The Boxer Rebellion in China ends (1901)
X** 09 08 99 99 00 1st US Air Mail service begins. (1920)
X** 09 08 99 99 00 1st permanent settlement in US founded at St Augustine, Florida (1565)
X** 09 08 99 99 00 Feast of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary, instituted (695)
X** 09 08 99 99 00 Gerald R. Ford pardons former President Richard M. Nixon (1974)
X** 09 08 99 99 00 Harvard College is established with the help of 800 pounds from Rev. John Harvard (1636)
X** 09 08 99 99 00 Lincoln makes a speech about when you can fool people. (1858)
X** 09 08 99 99 00 a small English fleet takes New Amsterdam and names it New York (1664)
X** 09 09 99 99 00 27 year old Abe Lincoln received license to practice law (1836)
X** 09 09 99 99 00 Alfred Dreyfus went on trial a second time for disclosing French secrets (1899)
X** 09 09 99 99 00 California becomes the 31st state (1850)
X** 09 09 99 99 00 Continental Congress decrees that United Colonies be called United States (1776)
X** 09 09 99 99 00 Ed Greer, a Hughes Aircraft electronics engineer, goes to lunch and never returns. A party is held in his honor every year celebrating his escape from the corporate world. (1981)
X** 09 10 99 99 00 Elias Howe receives patent for his sewing machine. (1846)
X** 09 10 99 99 00 Ellis Island opens as a park honoring the immigrants (1990)
X** 09 10 99 99 00 John Smith elected president of the Jamestown colony council. (1608)
X** 09 10 99 99 00 Lincoln Highway opens as 1st paved coast-to-coast highway. (1913)
X** 09 10 99 99 00 Mormons, embittered by religious persecution, attack and kill Gentile wagon train in what was to become known as the Mountain Meadows Massacre. (1857)
X** 09 11 99 99 00 Americans defeated at Brandywine, Pennsylvania by General Howe (1777)
X** 09 11 99 99 00 Chinese and Indian forces engage in heavy fighting on the border of Sikkim in the Himalayas (1967)
X** 09 11 99 99 00 Hungary, under pressure from refugees, suspends treaty with East Germany and lets thousands of "vacationing" East Germans across the border into West Germany (1989)
X** 09 11 99 99 00 Sebastopol is taken by Allies after capitulation of the Russian forces. (1855)
X** 09 11 99 99 00 U.S. captures British flotilla on Lake Champlain (1814)
X** 09 12 99 99 00 Canyonlands National Park is established (1964)
X** 09 12 99 99 00 Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia is deposed by military coup (1974)
X** 09 12 99 99 00 English explorer Henry Hudson sailed into the river that now bears his name (1609)
X** 09 12 99 99 00 German paratroopers rescue Mussolini from captivity in Rome (1943)
X** 09 13 99 99 00 British defeat the French at Abraham near Quebec City (1788)
X** 09 13 99 99 00 Building of Hadrian's Wall began (122)
X** 09 13 99 99 00 Chiang Kai-Shek becomes president of China (1943)
X** 09 13 99 99 00 In the Caribbean hurricane Gilbert grows to a category 5 hurricane with 175 mph sustained winds and the lowest recorded barometric pressure ever recorded in the Western Hemisphere, 26.22 inches of mercury. (1988)
X** 09 13 99 99 00 New York City becomes the capitol of the United States. (1788)
X** 09 13 99 99 00 first lobotomy performed (1848)
X** 09 14 99 99 00 1st lighthouse in US is lit (in Boston Harbor). (1716)
X** 09 14 99 99 00 Benjamin Franklin sent to France as American minister (1778)
X** 09 14 99 99 00 Francis Scott Key writes words to "Star Spangled Banner" (1814)
X** 09 14 99 99 00 General Winfield Scott and his U.S. forces take control of Mexico City (1847)
X** 09 14 99 99 00 Salem, Massachusetts, founded (1629)
X** 09 14 99 99 00 Selective Service Act establishes first peacetime draft (1940)
X** 09 14 99 99 00 While in New York, Henry Bliss becomes 1st automobile fatality (1899)
X** 09 14 99 99 00 the typewriter ribbon is patented. (1886)
X** 09 15 99 99 00 1789, The U.S. Government adopts the "Great Seal of the United States", taking it from Congress and placing it in the custody of the Secretary of State
X** 09 15 99 99 00 Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatamala, Honduras & Nicaragua all gain their independence (1821)
X** 09 15 99 99 00 Four children were killed when a bomb went off during services at a black Baptist church in Alabama (1963)
X** 09 15 99 99 00 New York is taken by General Howe (1776)
X** 09 15 99 99 00 Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev begins 13 day tour of U.S. (1959)
X** 09 15 99 99 00 The Nuremberg Laws deprived German Jews of their citizenship and made the swastika the official symbol of Nazi Germany (1935)
X** 09 15 99 99 00 The U.S. Foreign Affairs Department becomes the U.S. State Department (1789)
X** 09 15 99 99 00 The bank rate in Germany exceeds 90% (1923)
X** 09 15 99 99 00 tanks were used in battle for the first time, at Flers in the Somme Offensive, by the British Machine Gun Corps (1916)
X** 09 16 99 99 00 After two false starts, 149 Pilgrims set forth from England aboard the Mayflower (1620)
X** 09 16 99 99 00 Great Seal of the United States is used for 1st time. (1782)
X** 09 16 99 99 00 Patent is issued for the typesetting machine. (1857)
X** 09 16 99 99 00 The Massachusetts village of Shawmut changed its name to Boston. (1630)
X** 09 16 99 99 00 the American Legion is incorporated. (1919)
X** 09 17 99 99 00 Battle of Antietam (1862)
X** 09 17 99 99 00 Jay Cooke & Co. fails, causing a securities panic (1873)
X** 09 17 99 99 00 The American Kennel club was founded (1884)
X** 09 17 99 99 00 US Constitution is adopted. (1787)
X** 09 17 99 99 00 Vanessa Williams became the first black to be crowned Miss America. (1983)
X** 09 18 99 99 00 "The New York Times" goes on sale, at 2 cents a copy. (1851)
X** 09 22 99 99 00 General Idi Amin gives Uganda's 8000 Asians 48 hours to leave the country (1972)
X** 09 22 99 99 00 Joseph Smith, founder of the The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the Mormons), receives the plates from which the Book of Mormon was translated (1827)
X** 09 22 99 99 00 Patent is granted for the Ice Cream Cone. (1903)
X** 09 22 99 99 00 President Lincoln issues the Emancipation Proclamation (1863)
X** 09 22 99 99 00 Special prosecutor Leon Jeworski subpoenas President Nixon (1974)
X** 09 22 99 99 00 The Mustang Ranch, a famous Nevada brothel, is shutdown by the IRS for past due taxes. A motion to have the government run the lucrative business fails for some reason. :-) (1990)
X** 09 22 99 99 00 Two men and seven women were executed for witchcraft in Salem, Massachusetts. One was pressed to death for standing mute while the others were hung. (1692)
X** 09 23 99 99 00 Harvard College held its first commencement. (1642)
X** 09 23 99 99 00 John Andre reveals Benedict Arnold's plot to betray West Point. (1780)
X** 09 23 99 99 00 Naval engagement between 'Bonhomme Richard' and 'HMS Serepis'. (1779)
X** 09 23 99 99 00 Phillippine President Ferdinand Marcos declares martial law (1972)
X** 09 23 99 99 00 Truman announces that the Soviets have set off their first atomic bomb within the last few weeks (1949)
X** 09 23 99 99 00 V.P. Nixon denies campaign fund fraud with his "Checkers" speech. (1952)
X** 09 24 99 99 00 1st atomic powered aircraft carrier, the "Enterprise", is launched. (1960)
X** 09 24 99 99 00 1st round-the-world trip by a woman on a bicycle (took 15 months). (1895)
X** 09 24 99 99 00 Barbara Harris, is elected the first woman bishop in the Episcopal Church (1988)
X** 09 24 99 99 00 Black Friday: Thousands of business are ruined after Jay Gould and James Fisk try to corner the Gold market (1869)
X** 09 24 99 99 00 Congress creates the Post Office. (1789)
X** 09 24 99 99 00 Congress passes the First Judiciary Act which provides for an Attorney General and a Supreme Court (1789)
X** 09 24 99 99 00 Patricia Hearst is sentenced to seven years in prison (she will serve only 22 months before being released under presidential order from President Carter) (1976)
X** 09 24 99 99 00 President Eisenhower suffers a heart attack after during a vacation in Denver (1955)
X** 09 24 99 99 00 The USS Enterprise, the first nuclear powered aircraft carrier, is launched in Newport News, Va. (1960)
X** 09 24 99 99 00 The trail of the Chicago Eight (later seven) begins (1969)
X** 09 24 99 99 00 Wilford Woodruff, president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints issues a declaration affirming that the Church no longer teaches nor performs plural marriage. (1890)
X** 09 25 99 99 00 Columbus sailed on his second voyage to America. (1493)
X** 09 25 99 99 00 King Harold defeats Tostig at Stamford Bridge (1066)
X** 09 25 99 99 00 Pres. Harrison signed a measure establishing Sequoia National Park. (1890)
X** 09 25 99 99 00 Sandra Day O'Connor becomes first woman on U.S. Supreme Court (1981)
X** 09 25 99 99 00 The first session of the first Congress of the United States met in New York and voted 10 amendments to the constitution (the Bill of Rights) (1789)
X** 09 29 99 99 00 David Belasco, impressario, opens his first theater (1902)
X** 09 29 99 99 00 Parliament of one day, King Richard II is deposed (1399)
X** 09 29 99 99 00 The London Police, remodeled by Sir Robert Peel, begin duty (1829)
X** 09 29 99 99 00 The U.S. War Department establishes a regular army of several hundred soldiers (1789)
X** 09 29 99 99 00 U.S. and Itay sign armistice treaty on a ship off the coast of Malta (1943)
X** 09 30 99 99 00 Franklin D. Roosevelt dedicates Boulder Dam (1935)
X** 09 30 99 99 00 Mikhail Gorbachev retires President Andrei Gromyko from the Politburo and fires other old guard leaders in a Kremlin shakeup (1989)
X** 09 30 99 99 00 New York City fluoridates its water to the protest of many (1965)
X** 09 30 99 99 00 The Berlin Airlift ends (1949)
X** 09 30 99 99 00 The Siege of Yorktown, Virginia, begins (1781)
X** 09 30 99 99 00 The first U. S. hydroelectric power plant was opened in Appleton Wisconson. A single dynamo of 180 lights each of ten candle power was erected. (1882)
X** 09 30 99 99 00 The first execution in the English American Colonies takes place as John Billington is hanged (1630)
X** 09 30 99 99 00 The first tooth is extracted under anesthesia in Charleston, Mass (1846)
X** 09 30 99 99 00 The verdicts of the Nuremberg trials are announced, finding 22 top Nazi leaders guilty of war crimes (1946)
X** 10 01 99 99 00 1st postcards are issued in Vienna. (1869)
X** 10 01 99 99 00 General Franco is appointed Spain's chief of state by Spanish rebels (1936)
X** 10 01 99 99 00 Henry Ford introduces the Model T car. (1908)
X** 10 01 99 99 00 Henry Huntington buys the Los Angeles Railway. (1898)
X** 10 02 99 99 00 Hans Lippershey offers the Dutch government a new invention -- the telescope (1608)
X** 10 02 99 99 00 Rome and its provinces are formally made part of Italy and Rome is declared the capital (1870)
X** 10 02 99 99 00 This is the first day for the new united Germany (reunification day) (1990)
X** 10 02 99 99 00 Thurgood Marshall sworn as first black Supreme Court Justice (1967)
X** 10 03 99 99 00 A national flag day was held for the Belgian Relief Fund in England (this was probably the world's first flag day) (1914)
X** 10 03 99 99 00 Federal Income Tax is signed into law (at 1%). (1913)
X** 10 03 99 99 00 Lincoln designates the last Thursday in November as Thanksgiving Day (1863)
X** 10 03 99 99 00 Serbo-Croat-Slovene Kingdom becomes the country of Yugoslavia (1929)
X** 10 03 99 99 00 The first British atomic bomb test (1952)
X** 10 03 99 99 00 Washington proclaims the 1st national Thanksgiving Day on Nov 26 (1789)
X** 10 04 99 99 00 Crimean war begins (1853)
X** 10 04 99 99 00 George Washington is defeated at Germantown, Pennsylvania (1777)
X** 10 04 99 99 00 The bill establishing Dinosaur National Monument is signed (1915)
X** 10 05 99 99 00 Former PTL evangelist Jim Bakker was convicted of using his television show to defraud followers of $3.7 million (1989)
X** 10 05 99 99 00 The ABM early warning system, Thule Greenland, detects the moonrise as a large Russian missile contingent headed for the US (1960)
X** 10 05 99 99 00 The Revolutionary Calendar is adopted in France. This day becomes 14 Vendemiaire (grape harvest) Year II. Months were named for seasonal characteristics and years from the beginning of the revolution. (1793)
X** 10 05 99 99 00 part of a fuel core of an experimental breeder reactor near Detroit melts down (1966)
X** 10 06 99 99 00 Antioch College is the first public school to admit both men and women (1853)
X** 10 06 99 99 00 Israel is attacked by the forces of Egypt and Syria, 4th Israeli war begins (1973)
X** 10 06 99 99 00 LSD is made an illegal drug (1966)
X** 10 06 99 99 00 Pope John Paul II became the 1st pontiff to visit the White House. (1979)
X** 10 06 99 99 00 the Mormons abolish polygamy by general conference declaration that the president of the church's declaration of Sep 24 is "authoritative and binding" (1890)
X** 10 07 99 99 00 Foundation of German Democratic Republic (1949)
X** 10 07 99 99 00 Maryland Governor Marvin Mandel sent to prison on fraud charges (1977)
X** 10 07 99 99 00 Mother Teresa of Calcutta awarded the Nobel Peace Prize (1979)
X** 10 07 99 99 00 Police stop the car of Senator Wilbur Mills, stripper Fanne Fox jumps into fountain (1974)
X** 10 07 99 99 00 The Windscale nuclear pile north of Liverpool, England catches fire and burns for several days releasing radiation. 39 cancer deaths attributed to the leak. (1957)
X** 10 08 99 99 00 Dow Jones starts reporting an average of industrial stocks. (1896)
X** 10 08 99 99 00 First VisiCalc prototype (1978)
X** 10 08 99 99 00 Great Chicago Fire (1871)
X** 10 08 99 99 00 Mohammed, the prophet of Islam makes public entrance to Medina marking the beginning of the Moslem era (622)
X** 10 08 99 99 00 The Equal Rights Amendment ratification deadline is extended (1978)
X** 10 08 99 99 00 The Great Fire destroys over 4 square miles of Chicago. (1871)
X** 10 12 99 99 00 John Dillinger, bank robber, escapes Allen County, Ohio jail with the help of his gang and killed the Sheriff (1933)
X** 10 12 99 99 00 Khrushchev pounds his desk with shoe during a speech to the UN (1960)
X** 10 12 99 99 00 President Nixon nominated Gerald Ford of Michigan to succeed Spiro Agnew as vice-president (1973)
X** 10 13 99 99 00 Dolly Parton's band uniform number 39 was retired by the Sevier County High School. She played the snare drum. (1977)
X** 10 13 99 99 00 George Washington lays the cornerstone for the Executive Mansion, later to be called the White House (1792)
X** 10 13 99 99 00 Italy declares war on Germany (1943)
X** 10 13 99 99 00 The Jewish organization B'nai B'rith was founded in New York. (1843)
X** 10 13 99 99 00 The stockmarket falls 190 points in a minor crash (1989)
X** 10 14 99 99 00 1st declaration of colonial rights in America. (1774)
X** 10 14 99 99 00 Battle of Hastings, in which William the Conqueror wins England (1066)
X** 10 14 99 99 00 British Computer Society founded (1957)
X** 10 14 99 99 00 Martin Luther King Jr. was named winner of the Nobel Peace Prize. (1964)
X** 10 14 99 99 00 President Ford escaped injury when his limousine was hit broadside by a car in Hartford, Conn (1975)
X** 10 15 99 99 00 First draft card burned (1965)
X** 10 15 99 99 00 Florence Nightingale is solicited to organize nurses in Crimea (1854)
X** 10 15 99 99 00 Grace Bedell writes to Lincoln, tells him to grow a beard. (1860)
X** 10 15 99 99 00 The first swarm of killer bees to be found in the U. S. is destroyed in Texas. (1990)
X** 10 16 99 99 00 China's first atomic bomb is exploded (1964)
X** 10 16 99 99 00 Polish Cardinal Karol Wojtyla elected Pope and takes the name John Paul II (1978)
X** 10 16 99 99 00 a hotel in Boston becomes the 1st to have indoor plumbing. (1869)
X** 10 16 99 99 00 body washed ashore in Syria is identified as Leon Klinghoffer, slain in hijacking of Achille Lauro (1985)
X** 10 17 99 99 00 A earthquake measured at 6.9-7.1 on the Richter scale hits San Francisco at 5:04 pm killing nearly 300 people and doing billions of dollars in damage. (1989)
X** 10 17 99 99 00 Al Capone, mobster, convicted of income tax evasion (1931)
X** 10 17 99 99 00 Albert Einstein, physicist, arrives in the United States as a refugee from Nazi Germany (1933)
X** 10 17 99 99 00 Columbus sights the isle of San Salvador. (1492)
X** 10 17 99 99 00 Juan Peron, dictator, stages coup and gains control of Argentina (1945)
X** 10 18 99 99 00 The American flag was raised in Puerto Rico shortly before Spain formally gave control to the U.S. (1898)
X** 10 18 99 99 00 The Burma Road is reopened by the Britsh (1940)
X** 10 18 99 99 00 The Mason-Dixon line was established. (1767)
X** 10 18 99 99 00 The last lottery is held in England (1826)
X** 10 18 99 99 00 The raid on Harper's Ferry is led by John Brown (1859)
X** 10 18 99 99 00 U.S. Olympic Committee suspended two black athletes for giving a "black power" salute during a victory ceremony in Mexico City (1968)
X** 10 18 99 99 00 the United States take possession of Alaska. (1869)
X** 10 19 99 99 00 American ships attack two off-shore platforms used by the Iranians to attack shipping in the Persian Gulf (1987)
X** 10 19 99 99 00 General Cornwallis and 7000 of his men surrender at Yorktown (1781)
X** 10 19 99 99 00 Mao Tse-tung establishes the People's Republic of China (1949)
X** 10 19 99 99 00 Napoleon's defeated army begins long retreat from Moscow (1812)
X** 10 19 99 99 00 The League of Nations imposes sanctions against Italy for its invasion of Abyssinia (1935)
X** 10 19 99 99 00 The stock market crashed as the Dow Jones Industrial Average plunged 508 points, its worst one-day decline (1987)
X** 10 20 99 99 00 "Saturday Night Massacre", Watergate Special Prosecutor, Archibald Cox, dismissed by president Nixon. Attorney General Elliot Richardson and Assistant Attorney General Ruckelshaus resign. (1973)
X** 10 20 99 99 00 Battle of Sekigahara, which established the Tokugawa clan as rulers of Japan (SHOGUN) until 1865 (1600)
X** 10 20 99 99 00 Dr Lee DeForest gives a demonstration of his radio tube. (1906)
X** 10 20 99 99 00 OPEC oil embargo begins (1973)
X** 10 20 99 99 00 Spain gives Florida to the United States. (1820)
X** 10 20 99 99 00 The Senate voted to convict U.S. District Judge Alcee Hastings of eight articles of impeachment and remove him from office (1989)
X** 10 20 99 99 00 The reading room of the British Museum was first lighted with electricity (1879)
X** 10 21 99 99 00 Battle of Trefalgar, where Nelson established British naval supremacy for the next century (1805)
X** 10 21 99 99 00 Edison makes the first practical incandescent lamp (1879)
X** 10 21 99 99 00 Edward Austin Tracy, an American living in Beirut, was kidnapped in Lebanon (1986)
X** 10 22 99 99 00 John F Kennedy announces USSR has missile bases in Cuba (1962)
X** 10 22 99 99 00 Princeton is chartered (1746)
X** 10 22 99 99 00 The Great Disappointment. The Millerites, a popular religous sect of the era, predict the second coming will happen on this day and are very disappointed (1844)
X** 10 22 99 99 00 The Surgeon General releases his first report on AIDS (1986)
X** 10 22 99 99 00 US National debt topped $1 TRILLION (nothing to celebrate). (1981)
X** 10 22 99 99 00 the Israeli destroyer Eilat is sunk by Egyptian missiles (1967)
X** 10 23 99 99 00 A suicide truck-bomber crashed into the U.S. compound in Beirut, killing 241 U.S. marines and sailors (1983)
X** 10 24 99 99 00 The 40-hour workweek went into effect under the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (1940)
X** 10 24 99 99 00 To repay a loan on her Texas Ranch, Mrs Anna Taylor goes over Niagara Falls in a barrel and is the first person to survive the attempt (1901)
X** 10 24 99 99 00 end of Thirty Years War (1648)
X** 10 24 99 99 00 fictitious person John Doe officially put to death to end the use of the name to hide the names of real or imagined witnesses in English courts (1852)
X** 10 25 99 99 00 Adlai Stevenson presents photographic evidence of Russian missile bases in Cuba (1962)
X** 10 25 99 99 00 Battle of Agincourt, where the Welsh longbow defeats the armored knight (1415)
X** 10 25 99 99 00 Charge of the Light Brigade took place in the Battle of Balaklava in the Crimean War (1854)
X** 10 25 99 99 00 Erie Canal opens for business in New York. (1825)
X** 10 25 99 99 00 The UN removes Taiwan and admits the People's Republic of China (1971)
X** 10 25 99 99 00 U.S. Marines and Rangers invaded Grenada. (1983)
X** 10 26 99 99 00 An investor who suffered heavy stock market losses shot and killed a Miami brokerage manager, wounded another then committed suicide (1987)
X** 10 26 99 99 00 Erie Canal opens (1825)
X** 10 26 99 99 00 International Atomic Energy Agency established. (1956)
X** 10 26 99 99 00 Shootout at the OK corral, in Tombstone, Arizona. (1881)
X** 10 26 99 99 00 Telegraph service inaugurated in US (end of Pony Express). (1861)
X** 10 26 99 99 00 The first appearance of Asiatic Cholera in England, at Sutherland (1831)
X** 10 26 99 99 00 UN's World Health Organization declares smallpox eradicated (1978)
X** 10 26 99 99 00 United Nations Charter goes into effect. (1945)
X** 10 27 99 99 00 Captain James Cook, discovered the Sandwich Islands. (1728)
X** 10 27 99 99 00 Du Pont announces that it has coined the term Nylon (1938)
X** 10 27 99 99 00 Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minsiter Menachem Begin were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. (1978)
X** 10 27 99 99 00 New York City's Boss Tweed arrested on fraud charges (1871)
X** 10 27 99 99 00 New York opens 1st section of it's subway system. (1904)
X** 10 27 99 99 00 RH Macy & Co. opens 1st store, on 6th Avenue, New York City. (1858)
X** 10 28 99 99 00 Columbus discovers Cuba (1492)
X** 10 28 99 99 00 Constantine's army defeats forces of Maxentius at Mulvian Bridge (312)
X** 10 28 99 99 00 Eli Whitney gets a patent for the Cotton Gin.
X** 10 28 99 99 00 German rocket engineers begin work in USSR (1946)
X** 10 28 99 99 00 Harvard University was founded in Massachusetts (1636)
X** 10 28 99 99 00 St. Louis Police try a new investigation method - fingerprints. (1904)
X** 10 28 99 99 00 Statue of Liberty was dedicated on Bedloe's Island (1886)