Dec. 4 1783: Gen. George Washington bade farewell to his Continental Army officers at Fraunces Tavern in New York. 1956: Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis and Carl Perkins — later dubbed the “Million […]
Nov. 27 1895: Swedish inventor Alfred Nobel signed a will allocating most of his fortune to establish the Nobel Prizes, honoring achievements in peace, physics, chemistry, literature and physiology or medicine. 1934: Bank robber Lester […]
Nov. 20 1910: Francisco Madero led a revolt against Mexican President Porfirio Díaz, marking the beginning of the decade-long Mexican Revolution. 1945: Twenty-two former Nazi officials went on trial for war crimes in Nuremberg, Germany; […]
Nov. 13 1775: During the Revolutionary War, American forces under Continental Army Gen. Richard Montgomery captured Montreal. 1956: The U.S. Supreme Court affirmed a lower court ruling that struck down Alabama’s bus segregation laws as […]
Nov. 6 1860: Former Illinois congressman Abraham Lincoln of the Republican Party was elected president of the United States. 1861: An unopposed Jefferson Davis was elected to a six-year term as president of the Confederate […]
Oct. 30 1938: The radio play “The War of the Worlds,” starring Orson Welles, aired on the CBS Radio Network, panicking some listeners with its realistic portrayal of a Martian invasion. 1974: Muhammad Ali, 32, […]
Oct. 23 1915: An estimated 25,000 women marched on Fifth Avenue in New York City in support of women’s suffrage. 1944: The Battle of Leyte (LAY’-tee) Gulf began; the largest naval battle of World War […]
Oct. 16 1793: Marie Antoinette, queen of France, was beheaded during the French Revolution. 1859: Abolitionist John Brown led a failed raid on the U.S. arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia. 1934: Chinese Communists, under siege […]
Oct. 9 1910: A coal dust explosion at the Starkville Mine in Colorado killed 56 miners. 1962: Uganda won independence from British rule. 1967: Marxist guerrilla leader Che Guevara, 39, was executed by the Bolivian […]
Oct. 2 1919: President Woodrow Wilson suffered a serious stroke at the White House that left him paralyzed on his left side. 1942: The RMS Queen Mary, carrying U.S. troops, accidentally rammed and sank the […]
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