The History Shack

  OTD October 4th is the two hundred seventy-seventh day of the year, and there are 88 days remaining until the end of the year.   Event  1535 – The Coverdale Bible is printed, with translations into English by William Tyndale and Myles Coverdale. 1582 – Pope Gregory XIII introduced the Gregorian Calendar. 1795 – Napoleon first rises to prominence by suppressing counter-revolutionary rioters threatening the National Convention. 1883 – First run of the Orient Express. 1927 – Gutzon Borglum begins sculpting Mount Rushmore. 1941 – Norman Rockwell's Willie Gillis character debuts on the cover of The Saturday Evening Post. 1957 – Sputnik 1 becomes the first artificial satellite to orbit the Earth. 2006 – WikiLeaks is launched.   Birthdays  1759 – Louis François Antoine Arbogast, French mathematician and academic (d. 1803) 1835 – Jenny Twitchell Kempton, American opera singer and educator (d. 1921) 1895 – Buster Keaton, American film actor, director, and p

  OTD October 3rd is the two hundred seventy-sixth day of the year, and there are 89 days remaining until the end of the year.   Event 1712 – The Duke of Montrose issues a warrant for the arrest of Rob Roy MacGregor. 1789 – George Washington proclaimed Thanksgiving Day on Thursday, November 26, 1789. 1863 – U.S. President Abraham Lincoln declared the last Thursday in November as Thanksgiving Day. 1919 – Cincinnati Reds pitcher Adolfo Luque becomes the first Latin American player to appear in a World Series. 1929 – The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes is renamed to Yugoslavia by King Alexander I. 1942 – A German V-2 rocket reaches a record 85 km (46 nm) altitude. 1957 – The California State Superior Court rules that the book Howl and Other Poems is not obscene. 1962 – Project Mercury: U.S. astronaut Wally Schirra, in Sigma 7, is launched from Cape Canaveral for a six-orbit flight. 1985 – The Space Shuttle Atlantis makes its maiden flight, carrying two DSCS-I

  OTD October 2nd is the two hundred seventy-fifth day of the year, and there are 90 days remaining until the end of the year.   Event  1780 – American Revolutionary War: John André, a British Army officer, is hanged as a spy by the Continental Army. 1835 – Texas Revolution: Mexican troops attempt to disarm the people of Gonzales but encounter stiff resistance from a hastily assembled militia. 1870 – By referendum, the citizens of the Papal States accepted annexation by the Kingdom of Italy. 1928 – The "Prelature of the Holy Cross and the Work of God," commonly known as Opus Dei, is founded. 1967 – Thurgood Marshall is sworn in as the first African-American justice of the United States Supreme Court. 1980 – Michael Myers becomes the first member of either chamber of Congress to be expelled since the Civil War. 2002 – The Beltway sniper attacks begin in Washington, D.C., extending over three weeks and     Birthdays  1452 – Richard III of England (d. 1

  OTD October 1st is the two hundred seventy-fourth day of the year, and there are 91 days remaining until the end of the year.   Event 331 BC – Alexander the Great defeats Darius III of Persia in the Battle of Gaugamela. 1787 – Russians under Alexander Suvorov defeat the Turks at Kinburn. 1814 – The Congress of Vienna opens intending to redraw Europe's political map after the defeat of Napoleon in the previous spring. 1890 – the U.S. Congress established Yosemite National Park. 1891 – Stanford University opens its doors in California, United States. 1903 – Baseball: The Boston Americans play the Pittsburgh Pirates in the first game of the modern World Series. 1928 – Newark Liberty International Airport opens, becoming the first New York City metro area airport. 1940 – The Pennsylvania Turnpike, often considered the first superhighway in the United States, opens to traffic. 1964 – Japanese Shinkansen ("bullet trains") begin high-speed rail service