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On this day, October 8, 1871, the Great Chicago, Great Michigan, and Peshtigo Fires started. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Oct 8 Oct 8 2 320
On this day, October 7, 1849, Edgar Allan Poe died. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Oct 7 Oct 7 6 285
On this day, October 7, 1916, Georgia Tech beat Cumberland by a score of 222-0. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Oct 7 Oct 7 0 320
On October 6, 1998, Matthew Shepard was attacked and fatally wounded near Laramie, Wyoming 0 mahatmakanejeeves Oct 7 Oct 7 10 322
On October 6, 1949, inventor, engineer, and entrepreneur Lonnie George Johnson was born. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Oct 7 Oct 7 2 250
The Absolute Unit That Was The USS Enterprise 3 Eko Oct 6 Oct 6 3 642
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On this day, October 5, 1982, Tylenol products were recalled after bottles were found with cyanide. 5 mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2023 Oct 5 2 496
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On this day, October 5, 2011, Steve Jobs died. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Oct 5 Oct 5 3 284
On this day, October 5, 1970, the Public Broadcasting Service was founded. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Oct 5 Oct 5 2 256
On this day, October 4, 1918, the T. A. Gillespie Company shell loading plant explosions began. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Oct 4 Oct 4 4 338
On this day, October 4, 1957, the Russians launched Sputnik. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Oct 4 Oct 4 1 280
On October 2, 1978, Jimmy Carter proclaimed October 4, 1978, as "10-4 Day." It's also called National CB Radio Day. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Oct 4 Oct 4 2 460
On this day, October 3, 1849, Edgar Allan Poe was found semi-conscious and delirious in Baltimore. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Oct 3 Oct 3 8 435
On this day, October 3, 1995, O. J. Simpson was acquitted of the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman. 3 mahatmakanejeeves Oct 3 Oct 3 1 311
On this day, October 3, 2019, Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman tried to smear Elizabeth Warren. 3 mahatmakanejeeves Oct 3 Oct 3 2 369
On this day, October 3, 1932, state troopers marched into Kincaid, Ill., to guard against a sympathy strike. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Oct 3 Oct 3 2 347
On this day, October 3, 1951, there was a shot heard 'round the world. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Oct 3 Oct 3 2 503
On this day, October 2, 2002, the Beltway sniper shootings began. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2 Oct 2 2 241
On this day, October 2, 1967, Thurgood Marshall was sworn in as a Supreme Court justice. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2 Oct 2 6 229
On this day, October 2, 2018, Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi was assassinated. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2 Oct 2 8 283
On this day, October 1, 1890, Congress established Yosemite National Park. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Oct 1 Oct 1 5 246
On the night of October 1, 2017, the deadliest mass shooting by a single gunman in American history occurred. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Oct 1 Oct 1 3 515
On the night of September 30, 1962, there was a riot at Ole Miss over the admission of James Meredith. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 30 Sep 30 7 309
Jimmy Carter on Democracy Now 1of4 2 Uncle Joe Sep 29 Sep 29 3 323
Jimmy Carter Democracy Now 2of4 2 Uncle Joe Sep 29 Sep 29 4 324
Jimmy Carter on Democracy Now 4of4 0 Uncle Joe Sep 29 Sep 29 7 325
Jimmy Carter on Democracy Now 3of4 0 Uncle Joe Sep 29 Sep 29 5 276
On this day, September 29, 1935, Jerry Lee Lewis was born. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 29 Sep 29 2 241

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On this day, September 29, 2008, the stock market crashed, due to Congressional inaction. 6 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 29 Sep 29 2 362
On September 19, 2021, the remains of Gabby Petito were found in the Bridger-Teton National Forest in Wyoming. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 29 Sep 29 4 319
On September 16, 1974, Robert Caro's "The Power Broker" was published. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 28 Sep 28 5 302
On this day, September 28, 1919, race riots began in Omaha, Nebraska. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 28 Sep 28 1 237
On this day, September 28, 1940, FDR laid the cornerstone of Washington National Airport. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 28 Sep 28 2 285
Masamitsu Yoshioka, last of Japan's Pearl Harbor attack force, dies at 106 1 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 28 Sep 28 6 503
On this day, September 27, 1903, Southern Railway mail train 97 rolled off the Stillhouse Trestle. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 27 Sep 27 0 302
On this day, September 26, 2020, Donald Trump nominated Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 26 Sep 26 1 265
On September 23, 1952, Richard Nixon went on television to give his "Checkers speech." 1 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 24 Sep 25 0 215
On this day, September 25, 1957, Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, was integrated by the use of Army troops. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 25 Sep 25 9 284
On this day, September 25, 1978, PSA Flight 182, a Boeing 727, collided in mid-air with a Cessna 172 and crashed. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 25 Sep 25 2 298
On September 23, 1779, John Paul Jones said, "Sir, I have not yet begun to fight!" 1 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 24 Sep 25 4 219
On this day, September 25, 2008, Washington Mutual was placed into receivership. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 25 Sep 25 1 292
On September 23, 1911, the first official airmail delivery was made in the United States. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 24 Sep 24 2 211
On this day, September 24, 1869, the Black Friday gold panic broke out in the US and triggered a financial crisis. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 24 Sep 24 5 252
On September 23, 1913, the United Mine Workers of America launched a strike in Colorado. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 24 Sep 24 1 199
On this day, September 22, 1993, Amtrak experienced its deadliest train wreck. 6 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 22 Sep 22 3 329
On this day, September 22, 1975, Gerald Ford survived his second assassination attempt in 3 weeks. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 22 Sep 22 1 320
On this day, September 20, 1967, L. Ron Hubbard, the founder of Scientology, announced the story of Xenu. 6 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 20 Sep 21 3 453
On the night of September 20, 1776 -- September 21, the Great Fire of New York occurred. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 21 Sep 21 3 276
On this day, September 21, 1976, Exiled Chilean diplomat Orlando Letelier and Ronni Moffitt were killed by a car bomb. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 21 Sep 21 2 256
On September 5, 1957, "On the Road" was published. 3 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2024 Sep 20 4 388
Virginia: The hidden story of Native tribes who outsmarted Bacon's Rebellion 0 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 20 Sep 20 4 400
On this September 20, 1973, Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs played tennis on TV. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 20 Sep 20 4 308
On this day, September 19, 1921, WBZ started broadcasting. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 19 Sep 19 5 285
On September 18, 1927, the Columbia Phonographic Broadcasting System made its debut. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 19 Sep 19 4 265
On this day, September 19, 1883, Mabel Vernon was born. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 19 Sep 19 2 254
On this day, September 19, 1995, the Unabomber manifesto was published. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 19 Sep 19 1 250
On this day, September 18, 2020, Ruth Bader Ginsburg died. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 18 Sep 18 7 935
On this day, September 18, 2008, Ben Bernanke requested a $700 billion fund to acquire toxic mortgages. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 18 Sep 18 0 285

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On this day, September 18, 2001, the first of what became the 2001 anthrax attacks occurred. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 18 Sep 18 1 231
On this day, September 18, 1961, conjoined twins Lori and George Schappell were born. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 18 Sep 18 2 368
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It's Constitution Day. On this day, September 17, 1787, the Constitution was signed. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 17 Sep 17 9 308
On this day, September 16, 2013, a gunman killed twelve people at the Washington Navy Yard in Washington, D.C. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 16 Sep 17 3 342
On September 14, 1814, Francis Scott Key wrote a poem, "Defence of Fort McHenry." 2 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 15 Sep 15 3 241
On September 14, 1901, President William McKinley died, eight days after he was shot. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 15 Sep 15 1 245
On this day, September 15, 1963, a bomb went off in the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham. 5 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 15 Sep 15 6 320
On this day, September 13, 1848, Phineas Gage had a large iron rod driven through his head. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 13 Sep 13 4 349
On this day, September 12, 2008, 25 died when two trains collided in Chatsworth, California. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 12 Sep 12 1 255
On this day, September 12, 1991, the last stoplight was removed from I-90 in Idaho. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 12 Sep 12 1 237
On this day, September 12, 1962, Kennedy gave his "We choose to go to the Moon" speech. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 12 Sep 12 1 217
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On September 8, 1922, Lyndon Larouche was born. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2024 Sep 2024 2 341
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