Today In History
What happened this day in history?
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Today in History: October 16
Today in History: October 16: In 1962 the Cuban Missile Crisis began; In 1793 Marie Antoinette, the queen of France, was beheaded; In 1859, radical abolitionist John Brown led a raid on the U.S. arsenal at Harpers Ferry; In 1934, Chinese Communists, under siege by the Nationalists, began their “long march”; In 1964, China set off its first atomic bomb; In 1978, John Paul II was elected Pope; In 1995, the Million Man March was held in Washington D.C.
Today in History: October 15
Today in History: October 15: In 2017, actress and activist Alyssa Milano sent a tweet that ignited the “Me Too” movement; In 1945, the former premier of Vichy France, Pierre Laval, was executed for treason; In 1815, Napoleon Bonaparte arrived on the island of St. Helena, where he remained in exile; In 1946, Nazi war criminal Hermann Goering fatally poisoned himself; In 1989, Wayne Gretzky of the Los Angeles Kings broke the all-time NHL scoring record; In 1991 the Senate narrowly confirmed the nomination of Clarence Thomas to the U.S. Supreme Court; In 1997, British Royal Air Force pilot Andy Green twice drove a jet-powered car in the Nevada desert faster than the speed of sound.
Today in History: October 14
Today in History: October 14: A day for Nobel Peace Prizes – awarded to Martin Luther King Jr. in 1964, and awarded to Elie Wiesel in 1986. Also on this date:In 1066, William the Conqueror defeated the English at the Battle of Hastings; In 1586, Mary, Queen of Scots, went on trial accused of treason against Queen Elizabeth I; In 1944, German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel took his own life in the face of accusations of conspiring against Hitler; In 1981, the new president of Egypt, Hosni Mubarak, was sworn in; 1947, U.S. Air Force Capt. Chuck Yeager became the first test pilot to break the sound barrier, and in 2012, he did it again in the backseat of an F-15.
Today in History: October 13
Today in History: October 13; In 1792, the cornerstone of the executive mansion was laid by President George Washington; In 1932, President Herbert Hoover and Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes laid the cornerstone for the U.S. Supreme Court building; In 1943, Italy declared war on Germany; In 2010, rescuers in Chile pulled 33 men to fresh air and freedom, 69 days after they were trapped in a collapsed mine; In 2016, Bob Dylan was named winner of the Nobel prize in literature.
Today in History: October 12
Today in History: October 12: In 1870, General Robert E. Lee died in Lexington, Virginia; In 1492, Christopher Columbus’s first expedition made landfall on San Salvador Island; In 1968, Mexican track and field athlete Enriqueta Basilio became the first woman to light the Olympic flame; In 1984, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher escaped an attempt on her life when a bomb exploded at a hotel in Brighton; In 2000, 17 sailors were killed in a suicide bomb attack on the destroyer USS Cole; In 2002, bombs blamed on al-Qaida-linked militants destroyed two nightclubs on the Indonesian island of Bali; In 2019, Eliud Kipchoge became the first person to run a marathon in less than two hours
Today in History: October 11
Today in History: October 11: In 1986, President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev opened two days of talks about arms control and human rights; In 1906, the San Francisco Board of Education ordered all the city’s Asian students segregated into their own school; In 1968, Apollo 7, the first manned Apollo mission, was launched; In 1984, Challenger astronaut Kathryn D. Sullivan became the first American woman to walk in space; In 1987, the AIDS Memorial Quilt was first displayed; In 1991, Anita Hill accused Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas of sexual harassment; In 2017, the Boy Scouts of America announced that it would admit girls into the Cub Scouts
Today in History: October 10
Today in History: October 10: In 1845, the U.S. Naval Academy was established; In 1935, the George Gershwin opera “Porgy and Bess,” featuring an all-Black cast, opened on Broadway; In 1966, the Beach Boys’ single “Good Vibrations” was released; In 1973, Vice President Spiro T. Agnew resigned his office; In 2001, a month after the Sept. 11 attacks, U.S. jets pounded the Afghan capital of Kabul; In 1911, Chinese revolutionaries launched an uprising that led to the collapse of the Qing Dynasty. In 2024 Ethel Kennedy, civil rights activist and wife of the late Senator Robert F Kennedy, passed away a day after suffering a stroke.
Today in History: October 9
Today in History: October 9: In 1963, a mega-tsunami in northern Italy destroyed villages; In 1962, Uganda won autonomy from British rule; In 1967, Che Guevara was executed by the Bolivian army; In 2009, President Barack Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize;
Today in History: October 8
Today in History: October 8: In 2020, Governor Gretchen Whitmer was threatened by militia groups; In 1871, the Great Chicago Fire erupted; In 1956, Don Larsen pitched the only perfect game in a World Series; In 2005, a magnitude 7.6 earthquake on the Pakistan-India border;