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1837 – Collision of river boats Monmouth & Trement on Mississippi; 300 die.

1868 – Standard uniform approved for US postal carriers.

1906 – George Bernard Shaw’s “Caesar & Cleopatra” premieres in NYC.

1913 – 1st US paved coast-to-coast highway, the Lincoln Highway is dedicated.

1938 – Great Depression: In an effort to try restore investor confidence, the New York Stock Exchange unveils a fifteen-point program aimed to upgrade protection for the investing public.

1941 – Prior to US joining WWII, German submarine U-552 torpedoes US destroyer Reuben James near Iceland.

1941 – Mount Rushmore Monument is completed.

1943 – World War II: F4U Corsair accomplishes the first successful radar-guided interception.

1950 – Collazo & Torresola attempt to assassinate Harry Truman in Washington, D.C.

1956 – Rear Admiral G.J. Dufek becomes 1st American to land an airplane at South Pole.

1959 – Lee Harvey Oswald announces in Moscow he will never return to USA.

1961 – Federal judge rules that laws in Birmingham, Alabama, against integrated playing fields, are illegal.

1963 – J. Edgar Hoover’s last meeting with President John F. Kennedy.

1968 – US President Lyndon B. Johnson orders a halt to all bombing of North Vietnam.

1972 – Gaylord Perry wins American League Cy Young award.

1988 – 19 degrees F, lowest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in October.

1994 – American Eagle ATR-72 crash down at Gary, Indiana: 68 killed.

1999 – EgyptAir Flight 990 traveling from New York City to Cairo crashes off the coast of Nantucket, Massachusetts, killing all 217 on-board.

2002 – A federal grand jury in Houston, Texas formally indicted former Enron Corp. chief financial officer Andrew Fastow on 78 counts of wire fraud, money laundering, conspiracy and obstruction of justice related to the collapse of his ex-employer.

2011 – The world population reaches 7 billion inhabitants according to the United States.

2018 – US and Great Britain call for a cease-fire in Saudi-let war in Yemen, in 3-year war that has claimed over 10,000 lives and created famine conditions.

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