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United States October anniversaries

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History of the United States

October 1

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• 1890 – Yosemite National Park is established by the U.S. Congress. (pictured)
• 1903 – The first modern World Series in North American baseball, pitting the National League's Pittsburgh Pirates against Boston of the American League, begins at Pittsburgh's Exposition Park.
• 1931 – The George Washington Bridge linking New Jersey and New York opens.
• 1940 – The Pennsylvania Turnpike, often considered the first superhighway in the United States, opens to traffic.
• 1958 – NASA is created to replace NACA.
• 2017 – Stephen Paddock fired more than 1,000 rounds of ammunition from his hotel suite on a crowd attending the Route 91 Harvest music festival on the Las Vegas Strip, resulting in 60 deaths and 867 injuries.

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October 2

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October 3

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October 4

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October 5

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October 7

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• 1777 – American Revolutionary War: The Americans defeat the British in the Second Battle of Saratoga, also known as the Battle of Bemis Heights.
• 1826 – The Granite Railway begins operations (pictured) as the first chartered railway in the U.S.
• 1864 – American Civil War: Bahia Incident: USS Wachusett illegally captures the CSS Florida Confederate raider while in port in Bahia, Brazil in violation of Brazilian neutrality.
• 1868 – Cornell University holds opening day ceremonies; initial student enrollment is 412, the highest at any American university to that date.
• 1958 – The U.S. manned space-flight project is renamed Project Mercury.
• 1963 – John F. Kennedy signs the ratification of the Partial Test Ban Treaty.

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October 9

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October 10

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October 12

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• 1692 – The Salem witch trials are ended by a letter from Province of Massachusetts Bay Governor William Phips.
• 1773 – America's first insane asylum opens.
• 1792 – The first celebration of Columbus Day is held in New York City.
• 1892 – The Pledge of Allegiance is first recited by students in many US public schools.
• 1918 – A massive forest fire kills 453 people in Minnesota.
• 2000 – The USS Cole, a US Navy destroyer, is badly damaged by two al-Qaeda suicide bombers, killing 17 crew members and wounding at least 39.

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October 13

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October 14

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• 1894 – E. E. Cummings (pictured), considered a preeminent voice of 20th century poetry, was born.
• 1912 – While campaigning in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, former President Theodore Roosevelt is shot and mildly wounded by John Schrank, a mentally-disturbed saloon keeper.
• 1926 – The children's book Winnie-the-Pooh, by A.A. Milne, is first published.
• 1949 – Eleven leaders of the Communist Party of the United States are convicted, after a nine-month trial in a Federal District Court, of conspiring to advocate the violent overthrow of the Federal Government.
• 1962 – An American U-2 reconnaissance plane flying over the island of Cuba takes photographs of Soviet missiles capable of carrying nuclear warheads being installed, sparking the Cuban Missile Crisis.
• 1968 – During the 1968 Summer Olympic Games, Jim Hines becomes the first man to break the so-called "ten-second barrier" in the 100-meter sprint in the, with a time of 9.95 seconds.

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October 15

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October 16

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• 1780 – American Revolutionary War: The British-led Royalton raid is the last Native American raid on New England.
• 1846 – William T. G. Morton administers ether anesthesia during a surgical operation.
• 1875 – Brigham Young University is founded in Provo, Utah.
• 1923 – The Walt Disney Company is founded by Roy and Walt Disney as the Disney Brothers Studio.
• 1991 – George Hennard runs amok in Killeen, Texas, killing twenty-three and wounding twenty.
• 1995 – The Million Man March takes place in Washington, D.C. About 837,000 attend. (pictured)

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October 17

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October 20

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October 21

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October 22

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October 23

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October 24

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October 25

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October 26

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October 27

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October 28

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October 29

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• 1792 – Mount Hood (Oregon) is named after Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood by Lt. William E. Broughton who sighted the mountain near the mouth of the Willamette River.
• 1863 – American Civil War: Battle of Wauhatchie: Forces under Union General Ulysses S. Grant repel a Confederate attack led by General James Longstreet. Union forces thus open a supply line into Chattanooga, Tennessee.
• 1901 – In Amherst, Massachusetts, nurse Jane Toppan is arrested for murdering the Davis family of Boston with an overdose of morphine.
• 1929 – The New York Stock Exchange crashes in what will be called the Crash of '29 or "Black Tuesday", ending the Great Bull Market of the 1920s and beginning the Great Depression.
• 1991 – The American Galileo spacecraft makes its closest approach to 951 Gaspra, becoming the first probe to visit an asteroid.
• 1998 – Space Shuttle Discovery blasts off on STS-95 with 77-year-old John Glenn on board, making him the oldest person to go into space at that time.

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October 30

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• 1735 – John Adams (pictured), champion of the Declaration of Independence, second President of the United States, and Founding Father, was born.
• 1831 – In Southampton County, Virginia, escaped slave Nat Turner is captured and arrested for leading the bloodiest slave rebellion in United States history.
• 1864 – Helena, Montana is founded after four prospectors discover gold at "Last Chance Gulch".
• 1938 – Orson Welles broadcasts his radio play of H. G. Wells's The War of the Worlds, causing anxiety in some of the audience in the United States.
• 1945 – Jackie Robinson of the Kansas City Monarchs signs a contract for the Brooklyn Dodgers to break the baseball color barrier.

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