939 Battle at Andernach: King Otto & Hermann of Zwaben beat Eberhard of France & Giselbert of Lutherans

• 976 Hisham II appointed kalief of Cordoba
• 1134 Storm flood ravages Zeeland county
• 1187 Sultan Saladin captures Jerusalem from Crusaders
• 1263 The battle of Largs fought between Norwegians and Scots.
• 1492 – King Henry VII of England invaded France.1780 – British army major John Andre was hanged as a spy. He was carrying information about the actions of Benedict Arnold.1835 – The first battle of the Texas Revolution took place near the Guadalupe River when American settlers defeated a Mexican cavalry unit.

  1836 – Charles Darwin returned to England after 5 years of acquiring knowledge around the world about fauna, flora, wildlife and geology. He used the information to develop his “theory of evolution” which he unveiled in his 1859 book entitled The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.

  1869 – Mahatma (Mohandas) K Gandhi was born. He was known for his advocacy of non-violent resistance to fight tyranny.

  1870 – Rome was made the capital of Italy.

  1876 – The Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas opened. It was the state’s first venture into public higher education. The school was formally dedicated 2 days later by Texas Gov. Richard Coke.

  1889 – The first international Conference of American States began in Washington, DC.

  1908 – Addie Joss of Cleveland pitched the fourth perfect game in major league baseball history.

  1919 – U.S. President Woodrow Wilson suffered a stroke that left him partially paralyzed.

  1920 – The Cincinnati Reds and the Pittsburgh Pirates played the only triple-header in baseball history. The Reds won 2 of the 3 games.

  1924 – The Geneva Protocol adopted the League of Nations.

  1925 – Scottish inventor John Logie Baird completed the first transmission of moving images.

  1929 – “The National Farm and Home Hour” debuted on NBC radio.

  1933 – “Red Adams” debuted on NBC radio.

  1937 – Warner Bros. released “Love Is on the Air.” Ronald Reagan made his acting debut in the motion picture. He was 26 years old.

  1941 – Operation Typhoon was launched by Nazi Germany. The plan was an all-out offensive against Moscow.

  1944 – The Nazis crushed the Warsaw Uprising.

  1947 – The Federatino Internationale de l’Automobile (FIA) formally established Formula One racing in Grand Prix competition.

  1948 – The first automobile race to use asphalt, cement and dirt roads took place in Watkins Glen in New York. It was the first road race in the U.S. following World War II.

  1949 – “The Aldrich Family” debuted on NBC-TV.

  1950 – “Peanuts,” the comic strip created by Charles M. Schulz, was published for the first time in seven newspapers.

  1953 – “Person to Person” debuted on CBS-TV.

  1955 – “Alfred Hitchcock Presents” debuted on CBS-TV.

  1958 – Guinea, the French colony in West Africa, proclaimed its independence. Sekou Toure was the first president of the Republic of Guinea.

  1959 – “The Twilight Zone” debuted on CBS-TV. The show ran for 5 years for a total of 154 episodes.

  1962 – U.S. ports were closed to nations that allowed their ships to carry arms to Cuba, ships that had docked in a socialist country were prohibited from docking in the United States during that voyage, and the transport of U.S. goods was banned on ships owned by companies that traded with Cuba.

  1967 – Thurgood Marshall was sworn in. He was the first African-American member of the U.S. Supreme Court.

  1988 – Pakistan’s Supreme Court ordered free elections.

  1989 – In Leipzig, East Germany a protest took place demanding the legalization of opposition groups and the adoption of democratic reforms.

  1990 – The Allies ceded their rights to areas they occupied in Germany.

  1993 – Opponents of Russian President Boris Yeltsin fought police and set up burning barricades.

  1998 – Hawaii sued petroleum companies, claiming state drivers were overcharged by about $73 million a year in price-fixing.

  1998 – About 10,000 Turkish soldiers crossed into northern Iraq and attacked Kurdish rebels.

  2001 – The U.S. Postmaster unveiled the “Tribute to America” stamp. The stamp was planned for release the next month.

  2001 – NATO, for the first time, invoked a treaty clause that stated that an attack on one member is an attack on all members. The act was in response to the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in the United States.

1721 – Peter the Great (Peter I), ruler of Russia, changed his title to emperor.

1776 – During the American Revolutionary War, William Demont, became the first traitor of the American Revolution when he deserted.

1783 – U.S. Gen. George Washington gave his “Farewell Address to the Army” near Princeton, NJ.

1883 – Thomas Edison executed a patent application for an electrical indicator using the Edison effect lamp (U.S. Pat. 307,031).

1889 – North Dakota and South Dakota were admitted into the union as the 39th and 40th states.

1895 – In Chicago, IL, the first gasoline powered car contest took place in America.

1903 – Business and civic leader, Maggie L Walker, opens the St Luke Penny Savings Bank in Richmond, VA, blackfacts.com

1917 – British Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour expressed support for a “national home” for the Jews of Palestine.

1920 – The first commercial radio station in the U.S., KDKA of Pittsburgh, PA, began regular broadcasting.

1921 – Margaret Sanger’s National Birth Control League combined with Mary Ware Denetts Voluntary Parenthood League to form the American Birth Control League.

1930 – Haile Selassie was crowned emperor of Ethiopia.

1930 – The DuPont Company announced the first synthetic rubber. It was named DuPrene.

1937 – The play “I’d Rather be Right” opened in New York City.

1947 – Howard Hughes flew his “Spruce Goose,” a huge wooden airplane, for eight minutes in California. It was the plane’s first and only flight. The “Spruce Goose,” nicknamed because of the white-gray color of the spruce used to build it, never went into production.

1948 – Harry S. Truman defeated Thomas E. Dewey for the U.S. presidency. The Chicago Tribune published an early edition that had the headline “DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN.” The Truman victory surprised many polls and newspapers. (Illinois>

1959 – Charles Van Doren, a game show contestant on the NBC-TV program “Twenty-One” admitted that he had been given questions and answers in advance.

1960 – In London, the novel “Lady Chatterly’s Lover,” was found not guilty of obscenity.

1962 – U.S. President Kennedy announced that the U.S.S.R. was dismantling the missile sites in Cuba.

1963 – South Vietnamese President Ngo Dihn Diem was assassinated in a military coup.

1966 – The Cuban Adjustment Act allows 123,000 Cubans to apply for permanent residence in the U.S.

1979 – Joanna Chesimard, a black militant escaped from a New Jersey prison, where she’d been serving a life sentence for the 1973 murder of a New Jersey state trooper.

1983 – U.S. President Ronald Reagan signed a bill establishing a federal holiday on the third Monday of January in honor of civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. 

1984 – Velma Barfield became the first woman to be executed in the U.S. since 1962. She had been convicted of the poisoning death of her boyfriend.

1985 – The South African government imposed severe restrictions on television, radio and newspaper coverage of unrest by both local and foreign journalists.

1986 – The 12-by-16-inch celluloid of a poison apple from Walt Disney’s “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs”” was purchased for $30,800.
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1986 – American hostage David Jacobson was released after being held in Lebanon for 17 months by Shiite Muslims kidnappers.

1989 – Carmen Fasanella retired after 68 years and 243 days of taxicab service in Princeton, NJ.

1993 – Christie Todd Whitman was elected the first woman governor of New Jersey. 

1995 – The play “Sacrilege” opened.

1995 – The U.S. expelled Daiwa Bank Ltd. for allegedly covering up $1.1 billion in trading losses.

2001 – The computer-animated movie “Monsters, Inc.” opened. The film recorded the best debut ever for an animated film and the 6th best of all time.

2003 – In the U.S., the Episcopal Church diocese consecrated the church’s first openly gay bishop.

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These African American heroes battled the Nazis, but were still treated as second-class citizens in their home country.

In October of 1944, the 761st tank battalion became the first African American tank squad to see combat in World War II. And, by the end of the war, the Black Panthers had fought their way further east than nearly every other unit from the United States, receiving 391 decorations for heroism. They fought in France and Belgium, and were one of the first American battalions to meet the Russian Army in Austria. They also broke through Nazi Germany’s Siegfried line, allowing General George S. Patton‘s troops to enter Germany.

During the war, the 761st participated in four major Allied campaigns including the Battle of the Bulge, the last major German World War II campaign on the Western Front. Germany’s defeat in this battle is widely credited with turning the tide of the war towards an Allied victory.

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On the night of October 1, 2017, a gunman opens fire on a crowd attending the final night of a country music festival in Las Vegas, killing 58 people and injuring more than 800. Although the shooting only lasted 10 minutes, the death and injury tolls made this massacre the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history at the time of the attack.

Stephen Paddock, a 64-year-old retired man who lived in Mesquite, Nevada, targeted the crowd of concert-goers on the Las Vegas strip from the 32 floor of the Mandalay Bay hotel. He had checked into the hotel several days before the massacre.

Paddock began firing at the crowd at 10:05 p.m. using an arsenal of 23 guns, 12 of which were upgraded with bump stocks, a tool used to fire semi-automatic guns in rapid succession. Within the 10-minute period, he was able to fire more than 1,100 rounds of ammunition.

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