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.

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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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On September 30, 1822, Joseph Marion Hernández becomes the first Hispanic to be elected to the United States Congress. Born a Spanish citizen, Hernández would die in Cuba, but in between he became the first Hispanic American to serve at the highest levels of any of three branches of the American federal government.

Hernández belonged to a St. Augustine family that came to Florida as indentured servants. Despite these humble beginnings, records show that his family eventually became wealthy enough to own property and several slaves, and that Hernández was educated both in both Georgia and in Cuba. Throughout the 1810s, the United States made a variety of efforts to take Florida from the Spanish, finally succeeding after Andrew Jackson led an army through the territory in the First Seminole War. What Hernández did during this time is unclear, but he was either very savvy or very lucky—he fought the Americans during the war and received substantial amounts of land from the Spanish government, but then pledged loyalty to the United States and was allowed to keep his three plantations when the territory changed hands in 1819. It was then that Hernández changed his name from José Mariano to Joseph Marion.

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