1783 – Benjamin Hanks patents self-winding clock.
1866 – 1st train robbery in US (Reno Brothers take $13,000)
1889 – Thomas Edison shows his 1st motion picture.
1893 – Nabisco Foods invents Cream of Wheat.
1918 – US ship Otranto sinks between Scotland & Ireland, 425 die.
1935 – Market Street Railway, San Francisco, starts using trackless trolley coaches.
1946 – 90 degrees F highest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in October.
1946 – US President Harry Truman questions Great Britain Jews about Palestine.
1949 – US Truman Harry Truman signs Mutual Defense Assistance Act (for NATO)
1956 – Dr. Albert Sabin discovers oral polio vaccine.
1961 – JFK advises Americans to build fallout shelters.
1976 – US President Gerald Ford says there is “no Soviet domination in Eastern Europe”
1976 – Cubana Flight 455 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean after two bombs, placed by terrorists with connections to the CIA, explode onboard shortly after taking off from Bridgetown, Barbados, killing all 73 people on board.
1978 – Hannah H. Gray inaugurated as 1st female head of a US university (Chicago)
1982 – Auburn’s Al Del Greco kicks 6 field goals.
1990 – US 67th manned space mission STS 41 (Discovery II) launches into orbit.
1996 – Bob Dole and President Bill Clinton meet in their 1st debate.
1996 – Lois & Clark (fictional characters) wed.
2010 – Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger launch Instagram.
2014 – John O’Keefe, May-Britt Moser and Edward Moser win the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
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