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10/11/2026

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/october-11/jimmy-carter-wins-nobel-prize

Former President Jimmy Carter wins the Nobel Peace Prize for his work advocating for human rights, world peace, and e...

10/11/2026

Today is Sunday, Oct. 11, the 284th day of 2026. There are 81 days left in the year.

Today in history:

Oct. 11, 80 A.D. - The Colosseum in Rome (begun around 70 A.D. by emperor Vespasian) was completed by his son Titus on this day.

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1776 - During the American Revolution the first naval battle of Lake Champlain was fought. The forces under Gen. Benedict Arnold suffered heavy losses.
1811 - The Juliana, the first steam-powered ferryboat, was put into operation by the inventor John Stevens. The ferry went between New York City, NY, and Hoboken, NJ.
1869 - Thomas Edison filed for a patent on his first invention. The electric machine was used for counting votes for the U.S. Congress; however the Congress did not buy it.
1871 - The Great Fire of Chicago was finally extinguished after three days. Some 300 people had been killed and 90,000 were made homeless. Damage was estimated at over $200 million.
1881 - David Henderson Houston patented the first roll film for cameras.
1890 - The Daughters of the American Revolution was founded in Washington, DC.
1929 - JCPenney opened a store in Milford, DE, making it a nationwide company with stores in all 48 states.
1939 - U.S. President Roosevelt was presented with a letter from Albert Einstein that urged him to develop the U.S. atomic program rapidly.
1942 - The Battle of Cape Esperance, during World War II, began in the Solomons.
1958 - Pioneer 1, a lunar probe, was launched by the U.S. The probe did not reach its destination and fell back to Earth and burned up in the atmosphere.
1968 - Apollo 7 was launched by the U.S. The first manned Apollo mission was the first in which live television broadcasts were received from orbit. Wally Schirra, Don Fulton Eisele and R. Walter Cunningham were the astronauts aboard.
1983 - The last hand-cranked telephones in the U.S. went out of service. The 440 telephone customers of Bryant Pond, ME, were switched to direct-dial service.
1984 - American Kathryn D. Sullivan became the first female astronaut to space walk. She was aboard the space shuttle Challenger.
2017 - The Boy Scouts of America announced that it would admit girls into the cub scouts starting in 2018 and would establish a new program for older girls using the same curriculum as the Boy Scouts.

10/10/2026

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/october-10/achille-lauro-hijacking-ends

Terrorists from the Palestine Liberation Front are intercepted by U.S. Navy fighter jets after they attempted to esca...

10/10/2026

Today is Saturday, Oct. 10, the 283rd day of 2026. There are 82 days left in the year.

Today in history:

Oct. 10, 1913 - U.S. President Woodrow Wilson triggered the explosion of the Gamboa D**e that ended the construction of the Panama Canal.
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1780 - ‘The Great Hurricane of 1780’ killed 22,000 people in the Caribbean. The storm completely flattened the islands of Barbados, Martinique, and St. Eustatius between Oct 10 and 16th and was the deadliest western hemisphere hurricane on record.
1845 - The United States Naval Academy opened in Annapolis, MD.
1886 - The tuxedo dinner jacket made its U.S. debut in New York City.
1887 - Thomas Edison organized the Edison Phonograph Company.
1911 - China's Manchu dynasty was overthrown by revolutionaries under Sun Yat-sen.
1938 - N**i Germany completed its annexation of Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland.
1959 - Pan American World Airways announced the beginning of the first global airline service.
1963 - A dam burst in Italy killing 3,000 people.
1965 - The Red Baron made his first appearance in the "Peanuts" comic strip.
1973 - Fiji became independent after of nearly a century of British rule.
1977 - Joe Namath played the last game of his National Football League (NFL) career.
1978 - The U.S. bill authorizing the Susan B. Anthony dollar was signed by U.S. President Jimmy Carter.
1987 - Tom McClean finished rowing across the Atlantic Ocean. It set the record at 54 days and 18 hours.
1995 - Gary Kasparov won a chess championship against Viswanathan Anand that had lasted about a month.
1997 - The Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, opened to the public. Architect Frank Gehry designed the 450 ft. long and 98 ft. wide building.
2010 - In China, Canton Tower opened to the public.

10/09/2026

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/october-9/che-guevara-is-executed

On October 9, 1967, socialist revolutionary and guerrilla leader Che Guevara, age 39, is killed by the Bolivian army....

10/09/2026

Today is Friday, Oct. 9, the 282nd day of 2026. There are 83 days left in the year.

Today in history:

Oct. 9, 1930 - Aviator Laura Ingalls landed in Glendale, CA, to complete the first solo transcontinental flight across the U.S. by a woman.

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1635 - Roger Williams, founder of Rhode Island, was banished from Massachusetts because he had spoken out against punishments for religious offenses and giving away land that belonged to the Indians. Williams had founded Providence, Rhode Island as a place for people to seek religious freedom.
1701 - The Collegiate School of Connecticut was chartered in New Haven. The name was later changed to Yale.
1776 - A group of Spanish missionaries settled in what is now San Francisco, CA.
1781 - The last major battle of the American Revolutionary War took place in Yorktown, VA. The American forces, led by George Washington, defeated the British troops under Lord Cornwallis.
1812 - During the War of 1812 American forces captured two British brigs, the Detroit and the Caledonia.
1855 - Isaac Singer patented the sewing machine motor.
1855 - Joshua C. Stoddard received a patent for his calliope.
1858 - Mail service via stagecoach between San Francisco, CA, and St. Louis, MO, began.
1872 - Aaron Montgomery started his mail order business with the delivery of the first mail order catalog. The firm later became Montgomery Wards.
1876 - Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas Watson made their longest telephone call to date. It was a distance of two miles.
1888 - The public was admitted to the Washington Monument for the first time.
1914 - During World War I, German forces captured Antwerp, Belgium.
1919 - The Cincinnati Reds won the World Series. The win would be later tainted when 8 Chicago White Sox were charged with throwing the game. The incident became known as the "Black Sox" scandal.
1935 - "Cavalcade of America" was first broadcast on CBS radio.
1936 - The first generator at Boulder Dam began transmitting electricity to Los Angeles, CA. The name of the dam was later changed to Hoover Dam.
1940 - St. Paul's Cathedral in London was bombed by the N**is. The dome was unharmed in the bombing.
1975 - Andrei Sakharov was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. The Soviet scientist is known as the "father of the hydrogen bomb."
1994 - The U.S. sent troops and warships to the Persian Gulf in response to Saddam Hussein sending thousands of troops and hundreds of tanks toward the Kuwaiti border.
2000 - Brett Hull (Dallas Stars) scored his 611th National Hockey League (NHL) goal. The goal allowed him to pass his father, Bobby Hull, on the all time scoring list bringing him to number 9.
2003 - Britain's Queen Elizabeth II knighted Roger Moore and made Sting a CBE (Commander of the British Empire).
2009 - NASA launched the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS). On November 13, it was announced that water had been discovered in the planned impact plume on the moon.
2009 - President Barack Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize for what the Norwegian Nobel Committee called “his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples.”

10/08/2026

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/october-8/great-chicago-fire-begins

The Great Chicago Fire of 1871 erupts on October 8. The two-day blaze killed between 200 and 300 people, destroyed 17...

10/08/2026

Today is Thursday, Oct. 8, the 281st day of 2026. There are 84 days left in the year.

Today in history:

Oct. 8, 1918 - U.S. Corporal Alvin C. York almost single-handedly killed 25 German soldiers and captured 132 in the Argonne Forest in France. York had originally tried to avoid being drafted as a conscientious objector. After this event his was promoted to sergeant and was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor.

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1871 - The Great Chicago Fire began; more than 300 people died and more than 17,000 structures were destroyed during the three-day blaze.
1895 - The Berliner Gramophone Company was founded in Philadelphia, PA.
1919 - The first transcontinental air race in the U.S. began.
1938 - The cover of "The Saturday Evening Post" portrayed Norman Rockwell.
1944 - "The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet" debuted on CBS radio.
1945 - U.S. President Truman announced that only Britain and Canada would be given the secret to the atomic bomb.
1956 - Donald James Larsen (New York Yankees) pitched the first perfect game in the history of the World Series.
1957 - The Brooklyn Baseball Club announced that it had accepted a deal to move the Dodgers to Los Angeles.
1981 - U.S. President Reagan greeted former Presidents Carter, Ford and Nixon to the White House. The group was preparing to leave for Egypt to attend the funeral of Anwar Sadat.
1982 - In Poland, all labor organizations, including Solidarity, were banned.
1998 - Taliban forces attacked Iranian border posts. Iran said that three border posts were destroyed before the Taliban forces were forced to retreat. The Taliban of Afghanistan denied the event occurred.
2001 - Tom Ridge, former Governor of Pennsylvania, was sworn in as director of the new U.S. department of Homeland Security.
2001 - Two Russian cosmonauts made the first spacewalk to be conducted outside of the international space station without a shuttle present.
2003 - Vietnam and the United States reached a tentative agreement that would allow the first commercial flights between the two countries since the end of the Vietnam War.
2003 - Siegfried Fischbacher and his manager announced that the "Siegfried and Roy" show at the Mirage was canceled permanently. It was also said that if Roy Horn survived, after a tiger attack on October 3, the duo would continue to work together.
2004 - The first-ever direct presidential elections were held in Afghanistan.

10/07/2026

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/october-7/u-s-led-attack-on-afghanistan-begins

On October 7, 2001, a U.S.-led coalition begins attacks on Taliban-controlled Afghanistan with an intense bombing cam...

10/07/2026

Today is Wednesday, Oct. 7, the 280th day of 2026. There are 85 days left in the year.

Today in history:

Oct. 7, 1765 - Nine American colonies sent a total of 28 delegates to New York City for the Stamp Act Congress. The delegates adopted the "Declaration of Rights and Grievances."

Also on this date:

1777 - During the American Revolution the second Battle of Saratoga began.
1868 - Cornell University was inaugurated in Ithaca, NY.
1913 - For the first time, Henry Ford's entire Highland Park automobile factory was run on a continuously moving assembly line when the chassis was added to the process.
1916 - The Georgia Tech football team defeated Cumberland College 222-0. Georgia Tech carried the ball 978 yards and never threw a pass.
1949 - The German Democratic Republic (East Germany) was formed.
1950 - The U.S.-led U.N. forces crossed the 38th parallel and entered North Korea. China in November proved their threat to enter the war by sending several hundred thousand troops over the border into North Korea.
1956 - A U.S. House subcommittee began investigations of allegedly rigged TV quiz shows.
1963 - U.S. President Kennedy signed a nuclear test ban treaty with Britain and the Soviet Union.
1968 - The Motion Picture Association of America adopted the film-rating system that ranged for "G" to "X."
1985 - The United States announced that it would no longer automatically comply with World Court decisions.
1989 - In Budapest, Hungary's Communist Party renounced Marxism in favor of democratic socialism.
1994 - U.S. President Clinton dispatched an aircraft carrier to the Persian Gulf when Iraqi troops were spotted moving toward Kuwait. The U.S. Army was also put on alert.
2000 - Vojislav Kostunica took the oath of office as Yugoslavia's first popularly elected president.
2001 - Barry Bonds (San Francisco Giants) hit his 73rd home run of the season and set a new major league record.
2001 - The U.S. and Great Britain began airstrikes in Afghanistan in response to that state's support of terrorism and Osama bin Laden. The act was the first military action taken in response to the terrorist attacks on the U.S. on September 11, 2001.
2003 - In California, Arnold Schwarzenegger was elected governor in the recall election of Governor Gray Davis.