Events 1492 - The Ensisheim
Meteorite, the oldest
meteorite with a known date of impact, struck the
earth around noon in a
wheat field outside the village of
Ensisheim,
Alsace,
France.1665 - The
London Gazette, the oldest surviving
journal, is first published.
1786 - The oldest musical organization in the
United States was founded as the
Stoughton Musical Society.
1811 -
Tecumseh's War: The
Battle of Tippecanoe was fought near present-day
Battle Ground,
Indiana,
United States.
1837 - In
Alton, Illinois,
abolitionist printer
Elijah P. Lovejoy is shot dead by a
mob while attempting to protect his printing shop from being destroyed a third time.
1861 -
American Civil War:
Battle of Belmont: In Belmont, Missouri,
Union forces led by
General Ulysses S. Grant overrun a
Confederate camp but are forced to retreat when Confederate reinforcements arrive.
1874 - A
cartoon by
Thomas Nast in
Harper's Weekly, is considered the first important use of an
elephant as a symbol for the
United States Republican Party1885 - In
Craigellachie, British Columbia, construction ends on the
Canadian Pacific Railway railway extending across
Canada.
1893 -
Women in the
U.S. state of
Colorado are granted the right to vote.
1900 -
Battle of Leliefontein, a battle during which the
Royal Canadian Dragoons win three
Victoria Crosses1910 - The first
air freight shipment (from
Dayton, Ohio, to
Columbus, Ohio) is undertaken by the
Wright Brothers and
department store owner Max Moorehouse.
1912 - The
Deutsche Opernhaus (now
Deutsche Oper Berlin) opens in the
Berlin neighborhood of
Charlottenburg, with a production of
Beethoven's
Fidelio.
1914 - The first issue of
The New Republic magazine is published.1914 - The
German colony of
Kiaochow Bay and its centre at
Tsingtao are captured by Japanese forces.
1917 -
Russian Revolution: In
Petrograd,
Russia,
Bolshevik leaders
Vladimir Lenin and
Leon Trotsky lead revolutionaries in overthrowing the
Provisional Government (As Russia is still using the
Julian Calendar, subsequent period references show an
October 25 date).1917 -
World War I:
Third Battle of Gaza ends:
British forces capture
Gaza from the
Ottoman Empire.
1918 - The
1918 influenza epidemic spreads to
Western Samoa, killing 7,542 (about 20% of the population) by the end of the year.
1921 - the
Partito Nazionale Fascista (PNF), National Fascist Party, came into existence.
1929 - In
New York City, the
Museum of Modern Art opens to the public.
1931 - The
Chinese Soviet Republic proclaimed on the anniversary of the
Bolshevik Revolution.
1932 -
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century airs on
radio for the first time.
1933 -
Fiorello H. LaGuardia is elected the 99th mayor of
New York City.
1934 - Premiere of
Rachmaninoff's
Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini at the
Lyric Opera House in
Baltimore, Maryland,
United States.
1940 - In
Tacoma, Washington, the middle section of the
Tacoma Narrows Bridge ("
Galloping Gertie") collapses in a windstorm, a mere four months after the bridge's completion.
1941 -
World War II: Soviet hospital
ship Armenia sunk by German planes while evacuating refugees and wounded military and staff of several
Crimea’s hospitals. It is estimated that over 5,000 people died in the sinking. 1941 -
Holocaust:
Jewish tragedy in
Nemyriv,
Ukraine:
German fascists murder 2580
Jews. Earlier in September,
1941 2,400
Jews were shot by
German Nazis at the brickworks near
Nemyriv.1944 - Passenger train derails in
Aguadilla,
Puerto Rico due to excessive speed in a declining hill. 16 killed; 50 injured.
1956 -
Suez Crisis: The
United Nations General Assembly adopts a resolution calling for the
United Kingdom,
France and
Israel to immediately withdraw their troops from
Egypt.
1957 -
Cold War: The
Gaither Report calls for more
American missiles and
fallout shelters.
1963 -
Wunder von Lengede: In
Germany, eleven miners are rescued from a collapsed mine after 14 days.
1967 -
Carl B. Stokes was elected as Mayor of the City of Cleveland, Ohio, becoming the first Black Mayor of a major American city.1967 - US President
Lyndon B. Johnson signs the
Public Broadcasting Act of 1967, establishing the
Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
1973 - The
U.S. Congress overrides President
Richard M. Nixon's veto of the
War Powers Resolution, which limits presidential power to wage
war without congressional approval.
1983 -
1983 United States Senate bombing: a bomb explodes inside the
U.S. Capitol Building.
1987 - In
Tunisia, president
Habib Bourguiba is overthrown and replaced by Prime Minister
Zine El Abidine Ben Ali.
1989 -
Douglas Wilder wins the governor's seat in
Virginia, becoming the first elected
African American governor in the
United States.1989 -
David Dinkins becomes the first
African American mayor of
New York City.1989 -
East German Prime Minister
Willi Stoph, along with his entire cabinet, is forced to resign after huge anti-government protests.1990 -
Mary Robinson is first woman to be elected
President of the Republic of Ireland1996 -
NASA launches the
Mars Global Surveyor.1996 - A
Nigerian Boeing 727 crashes into a lagoon 40 miles southeast of
Lagos, killing 143.2000 -
Hillary Rodham Clinton is elected to the
United States Senate, becoming the first former First Lady to win a public office in the United States.2000 - The U.S.
Drug Enforcement Administration discovered one of the country's largest
LSD lab inside a converted military
missile silo in
Wamego, Kansas.
2001 - The
supersonic commercial aircraft
Concorde resumes flying after a 15-month break.
2002 -
Iran bans
advertising of
United States products.
2004 -
War in Iraq: The interim government of
Iraq calls for a 60-day "
state of emergency" as U.S. forces storm the insurgent stronghold of
Fallujah.
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