Today in History - Oct. 7
Today is Tuesday, Oct. 7, the 281st day of 2008. There are 85 days left in the year.
Today's Highlight in History:
On Oct. 7, 1777, the second Battle of Saratoga began during the American Revolution. (British forces under Gen. John Burgoyne surrendered 10 days later.)
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In 1571, allied Christian forces defeated an Ottoman fleet in the naval Battle of Lepanto.
In 1858, the fifth debate between Illinois senatorial candidates Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas took place in Galesburg.
In 1868, Cornell University was inaugurated in Ithaca,...
Today is Monday, Oct. 6, the 280th day of 2008. There are 86 days left in the year.
Today's Highlight in History:
On Oct. 6, 1927, the era of talking pictures arrived with the opening of "The Jazz Singer," a movie starring Al Jolson that featured both silent and sound-synchronized scenes.
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In 1683, thirteen families from Krefeld, Germany, arrived in Philadelphia to begin Germantown, one of America's oldest settlements.
In 1884, the Naval War College was established in Newport, R,I.
In 1908, actress Carole Lombard was born in Fort Wayne, I...
Today is Sunday, Oct. 5, the 279th day of 2008. There are 87 days left in the year.
Today's Highlight in History:
On Oct. 5, 1947, President Truman delivered the first televised White House address. Speaking on the world food crisis, Truman called on Americans to refrain from eating meat on Tuesdays and poultry as well as eggs on Thursdays.
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In 1829, the 21st president of the United States, Chester Alan Arthur, was born in Fairfield, Vt. (Some sources list 1830.)
In 1892, the Dalton Gang, notorious for its train robberies, was practically wiped...
Today is Saturday, Oct. 4, the 278th day of 2008. There are 88 days left in the year.
Today's Highlight in History:
On Oct. 4, 1957, the Space Age began as the Soviet Union launched Sputnik 1, the first artificial satellite, into orbit.
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In 1777, George Washington's troops launched an assault on the British at Germantown, Pa., resulting in heavy American casualties.
In 1822, Rutherford B. Hayes, the 19th president of the United States, was born in Delaware, Ohio.
In 1940, Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini conferred at Brenner Pass in the...
Today is Friday, Oct. 3, the 277th day of 2008. There are 89 days left in the year.
Today's Highlight in History:
On Oct. 3, 1863, President Lincoln proclaimed the last Thursday in November Thanksgiving Day.
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In 1226, St. Francis of Assisi, founder of the Franciscan order, died; he was canonized in 1228.
In 1929, the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes formally changed its name to the Kingdom of Yugoslavia.
In 1941, Adolf Hitler declared in a speech in Berlin that Russia had been "broken" and would "never rise again."
In 1951, th...
Today is Thursday, Oct. 2, the 276th day of 2008. There are 90 days left in the year.
Today's Highlight in History:
On Oct. 2, 1967, Thurgood Marshall was sworn in as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
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In 1780, British spy John Andre was hanged in Tappan, N.Y.
In 1835, the first battle of the Texas Revolution took place as American settlers fought Mexican soldiers near the Guadalupe River; the Mexicans ended up withdrawing.
In 1869, political and spiritual leader Mohandas K. Gandhi was born in Porbandar, India.
In 1919,...
Today is Wednesday, Oct. 1, the 275th day of 2008. There are 91 days left in the year.
Today's Highlight in History:
One hundred years ago, on Oct. 1, 1908, Henry Ford introduced his Model T automobile to the market.
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In 1800, Spain ceded Louisiana to France in a secret treaty.
In 1918, Damascus fell to Arab forces as Turkish Ottoman officials surrendered the city.
In 1936, Gen. Francisco Franco was proclaimed the head of an insurgent Spanish state.
In 1949, Mao Zedong proclaimed the People's Republic of China during a ceremony in...
Today is Tuesday, Sept. 30, the 274th day of 2008. There are 92 days left in the year.
Today's Highlight in History:
On Sept. 30, 1846, Boston dentist William Morton used ether as an anesthetic for the first time as he extracted an ulcerated tooth from merchant Eben Frost.
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In 1777, the Continental Congress _ forced to flee in the face of advancing British forces _ moved to York, Pa.
In 1791, Mozart's opera "The Magic Flute" premiered in Vienna, Austria.
In 1938, after co-signing the Munich Agreement allowing Nazi annexation of Czechoslov...
Today is Monday, Sept. 29, the 273rd day of 2008. There are 93 days left in the year. The Jewish holiday of Rosh Hashana begins at sunset.
Today's Highlight in History:
On Sept. 29, 1978, Pope John Paul I was found dead in his Vatican apartment just over a month after becoming head of the Roman Catholic Church.
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In 1758, English Admiral Horatio Nelson was born in Burnham Thorpe, Norfolk.
In 1789, the U.S. War Department established a regular army with a strength of several hundred men.
In 1829, London's reorganized police force, which...
AP News
As a state senator, Democrat Barack Obama awarded $75,000 in government grants to a Chicago social service organization led by a rabbi who is also his wife's cousin, records show.
In 1999, Obama arranged for $50,000 for adult literacy and counseling services offered on Chicago's South Side by a group called Blue Gargoyle. A $25,000 grant for the group's youth services followed the next year.
The group's executive director when the grants were awarded was Capers Funnye, a South Side rabbi and Michelle Obama's first cousin once removed.
Funnye (pronounced fun-NAY) said Monday there was nothing improper about the way Blue Gargoyle obtained the grants. Obama did not encourage him to apply for the money, he said, and Funnye denied using family connections to pressure Obama to approve the application. Read More...
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