On October 5, 1877, Chief Joseph, exhausted and disheartened, surrendered in the Bears Paw Mountains of Montana, forty miles south of Canada. Continue reading.

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A bit of October 5th history…

1274 - Around 1,000 soldiers of the Mongol army land on the Japanese island of Tsushima, the 1st attack of Kublai Khan’s Mongol invasion of Japan (pictured)  

1568 - Conference of York begins: trial against Mary Queen of Scots

1947 - Truman makes 1st Presidential address televised from the White House

1962 - “Dr No”, 1st James Bond film premiers

1969 - “Monty Python’s Flying Circus” begins airing on BBC

2018 - Banksy work “Girl With Balloon” automatically shreds moments after being sold for 1 million pounds in London, renamed “Love is in the Bin”

The General Court of the Plymouth Colony instituted a legal code, the first composed in North America, on October 4, 1636. Continue reading.

On October 4, 1822, Rutherford Birchard Hayes was born in Delaware, Ohio. Continue reading.

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A bit of October 4th history…

1363 - End of the Battle of Lake Poyang: the Chinese rebel forces of Zhu Yuanzhang defeat that of rival Chen Youliang; one of the largest naval battles in history with approx. 850,000 taking part

1537 - The 1st complete English-language Bible, the “Matthew Bible” is printed 

1648 - Peter Stuyvesant establishes America’s 1st volunteer fire service

1678 - The pocket watch is patented

1883 - The Orient Express departs on its 1st official journey from Paris to Istanbul (pictured)

1922 - World Series is broadcast over radio for 1st time

1957 - Soviet Union launches Sputnik I, 1st artificial Earth satellite (pictured below)

2006 - WikiLeaks is launched by Julian Assange

2011 - US State Department lists Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi (ISIC) as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist with a $10 million reward for information leading to his capture 

John Ross, long-time leader of the Cherokee Nation, was born on October 3, 1790, in Cherokee territory now part of Alabama. Continue reading.

On October 3, 1902, President Theodore Roosevelt met with miners and coalfield operators from the anthracite coalfields in Pennsylvania in an attempt to settle a strike, then in its fifth month. Continue reading.

The Kingdom of Yugoslavia, “Land of the South Slavs,” was formed on October 3, 1929. Continue reading.

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A bit of October 3rd history…

1712 - The Duke of Montrose issues a warrant for the arrest of Rob Roy MacGregor

1849 - American author Edgar Allen Poe is found delirious in a gutter in Baltimore, Maryland under mysterious circumstances; it is the last time he is seen in public before his death

1955 - “Mickey Mouse Club” premiers

1971 - American tennis star Billie Jean King becomes 1st female athlete to win $100,000 in prize money in a single year; wins the $4,000 Virginia Slims Tournament in Arizona

1992 - Sinaed O’Connor rips up picture of Pope John Paul II on “Saturday Night Live”

1995 - Former NFL running back, broadcaster, and actor, OJ Simpson, found not guilty of the murder of Nicole Simpson and Ron Goldman in Los Angeles, CA (pictured)

2003 - Roy Horn of Siegfried and Roy is attacked by one of the shows tigers; cancels show for good (pictured below)

2008 - The $700 billion bailout bill for the US financial system is signed by President GW Bush

2018 - 259 people have died taking selfies since 2011 according to study in  “Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care” 

On October 2, 1780, British intelligence officer Major John André was hanged as a spy in Tappan, New York. Continue reading.

On October 2, 1967, Thurgood Marshall was sworn in as a United States Supreme Court justice. Continue reading.

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A bit of October 2nd history…

1187 - Sultan Saladin captures Jerusalem from the Crusaders (pictured)

1872 - Phileas Fogg sets out on his journey as depicted in Jules Verne’s  “Around the World in 80 Days”

1904 - German General Lothar von Trotha issues order to exterminate Herero people in Namidia; 1st genocide of 20th century, will kill 65,000 Herero and 100,000 of the Nama tribe

1950 - 1st cartoon strip of Charlie Brown and “Peanuts” published

1967 - Thurgood Marshal sworn in as 1st black Supreme Court Justice

2009 - “Stan Lee Day” declared by county of Los Angeles and City of Long Beach (pictured below)

2016 - Kim Kardashian is robbed at gunpoint of $10 million worth of jewelry in her hotel in Paris 

On October 1, 1903, the Boston Americans (soon to become the Red Sox) of the American League played the National League champion Pittsburgh Pirates in the first game of the modern World Series. Continue reading.

On October 1, 1961, Roger Maris slammed home run number sixty-one into the stands. Continue reading.

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A bit of October 1st history…

331 BC - Alexander the Great defeats Darius III of Persia

1867 - Karl Marx’s “Das Kapital” published

1888 - National Geographic published for 1st time

1908 - Ford introduces Model T car - costs $825 (pictured)

1949 - People’s Republic of China proclaimed by Mao Zedong (National Day)

1957 - 1st appearance of “In God We Trust” on US paper currency

1971 - Walt Disney World opens in Florida

1988 - Steffi Graf wins 1st and only Golden Slam - Grand Slam and Olympics - in history

2012 - California becomes 1st US state to ban conversion therapy for minors

2017 - Stephen Paddock shoots dead 58 people, and injures 489 at a concert in Las Vegas in the deadliest mass shooting in American history