1701 – The Collegiate School was founded in Killingworth, CT. The school moved to New Haven in 1745 and changed its name to Yale College.

1793 – During the French Revolution, Queen Marie Antoinette was beheaded after being convicted of treason.

1829 – In Boston, MA, the first modern hotel in America opened. The Tremont Hotel had 170 rooms that rented for $2 a day and included four meals.

1859 – Abolitionist John Brown led a raid on Harper’s Ferry, VA (now located in West Virginia). 

1869 – A hotel in Boston became the first in the U.S. to install indoor plumbing.

1916 – Margaret Sanger opened the first birth control clinic in New York City, NY.

1923 – Walt Disney contracted with M.J. Winkler to distribute the Alice Comedies. This event is recognized as the start of the Disney Company.
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1928 – Marvin Pipkin received a patent for the frosted electric light bulb.

1939 – “Right To Happiness” debuted on the NBC-Blue network.

1939 – “The Man Who Came to Dinner” opened on Broadway.

1941 – The Nazis advanced to within 60 miles of Moscow. Romanians entered Odessa, USSR, and began exterminating 150,000 Jews.

1942 – The ballet “Rodeo” premiered in New York City.

1943 – Chicago’s new subway system was officially opened with a ribbon cutting ceremony.

1944 – “The Robe,” by Lloyd Douglas, was published for the first time.

1945 – “His Honor the Barber” debuted on NBC Radio.

1955 – Mrs. Jules Lederer replaced Ruth Crowley in newspapers using the name Ann Landers.

1962 – U.S. President Kennedy was informed that there were missile bases in Cuba, beginning the Cuban missile crisis. 

1964 – China detonated its first atomic bomb becoming the world’s fifth nuclear power. 

1967 – NATO headquarters opened in Brussels.

1970 – Anwar Sadat was elected president of Egypt to succeed Gamal Abdel Nassar.

1973 – Henry Kissinger and Le Duc Tho were named winners of the Nobel Peace Prize. The Vietnamese official declined the award.

1978 – Poland’s Karol Josef Wojtyla was elected Pope John Paul II.

1982 – China announced that it had successfully fired a ballistic missile from a submarine. 

1987 – Rescuers freed Jessica McClure from the abandoned well that she had fallen into in Midland, TX. She was trapped for 58 hours.

1989 – U.S. President George H.W. Bush signed the Gramm-Rudman budget reduction law that ordered federal programs be cut by $16.1 billion.

1990 – Comedian Steve Martin and his wife Victoria Tennant visited U.S. soldiers in Saudi Arabia.

1993 – The U.N. Security Council approved the deployment of U.S. warships to enforce a blockade on Haiti to increase pressure on the controlling military leaders. 

1994 – German Chancellor Helmut Kohl was re-elected to a fourth term.

1995 – The “Million Man March” took place in Washington, DC.

1997 – Charles M. Schulz and his wife Jeannie announced that they would give $1 million toward the construction of a D-Day memorial to be placed in Virginia.

2000 – It was announced that Chevron Corp. would be buying Texaco Inc. for $35 billion. The combined company was called Chevron Texaco Corp. and became the 4th largest oil company in the world.

2002 – It was reported that North Korea had told the U.S. that it had a secret nuclear weapons program in violation of an 1994 agreement with the U.S. 

2002 – The Arthur Andersen accounting firm was sentenced to five years probation and fined $500,000 for obstructing a federeal investigation of the energy company Enron.

2008 – The iTunes Music Store reached 200 billion television episodes sold.

1815 – Napoleon Bonaparte began his exile on the remote island of St. Helena in the Atlantic Ocean.

1847 – “Jane Eyre” by Charlotte Bronte was first published in London.

1860 – Grace Bedell, 11 years old, wrote a letter to presidential candidate Abraham Lincoln. The letter stated that Lincoln would look better if he would grow a beard.

1883 – The U.S. Supreme Court struck down part of the Civil Rights Act of 1875. It allowed for individuals and corporations to discriminate based on race. 

1892 – The U.S. government announced that the land in the western Montana was open to settlers. The 1.8 million acres were bought from the Crow Indians for 50 cents per acre. (taken)

1914 – The Clayton Antitrust Act was passed by the U.S. Congress.

1931 – “Cat and the Fiddle” opened in New York for the first of 395 performances.

1937 – “To Have and Have Not” by Ernest Hemingway was published for the first time.

1939 – New York Municipal Airport was dedicated. The name was later changed to La Guardia Airport.

1945 – Pierre Laval, the former premier of Vichy France, was executed for treason.

1946 – Hermann Goering, a Nazi war criminal and founder of the Gestapo, poisoned himself just hours before his scheduled execution.

1951 – “I Love Lucy” premiered on CBS-TV.

1953 – “Teahouse of the August Moon” opened on Broadway. It ran for 1,027 performances.

1964 – It was announced that Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev had been removed from power. He was replaced with Alexei N. Kosygin.

1966 – U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signed a bill creating the Department of Transportation. 

1966 – In Illinois, Cahokia Mounds was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places.

1966 – The First Bank of the United States was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

1973 – “Tomorrow” debuted on NBC-TV.

1983 – U.S. Marines killed five snipers who had pinned them down in Beirut International Airport.

1984 – The Freedom of Information Act was passed. 

1989 – South African officials released eight prominent political prisoners.

1989 – Wayne Gretzky, while playing for the Los Angeles Kings, surpassed Gordie Howe’s NHL scoring record of 1,850 career points.

1993 – U.S. President Clinton sent warships to enforce trade sanctions that had been imposed on Haitian military rulers.

1993 – South Africa’s President F.W. de Klerk and African National Congress President Nelson Mandela were named winners of the Nobel Peace Prize for their efforts to end the apartheid system in South Africa.

1997 – British Royal Air Force pilot Andy Green broke the land-speed record by driving a jet-powered car faster than the speed of sound.

1997 – The Cassini-Huygens mission was launched from Cape Canaveral, FL. On January 14, 2005, a probe sent back pictures of Saturn’s moon Titan during and after landing.

1998 – The U.N. condemned the U.S. economic embargo on Cuba for the seventh year in a row.

2001 – NASA’s Galileo spacecraft passed within 112 miles of Jupiter’s moon Io.

2011 – Legoland Florida opened in Winter Haven, Florida.

Native American Indians are committed to making Indigenous Peoples Day a national holiday in 2024.

by Dennis Zotigh

This Monday, October 14, many Americans will celebrate Indigenous Peoples’ Day by recognizing the history and contributions of Native peoples. President Biden’s administration has officially recognized Indigenous Peoples’ Day since 2021, but it is not yet a federal holiday. Thus, for the fourth year in a row, the United States will officially observe Indigenous Peoples Day alongside Columbus Day. However, The Indigenous Peoples’ Day Act, reintroduced in Congress on October 2, 2023, would potentially designate the second Monday of October as Indigenous Peoples’ Day nationwide. The bill currently has 56 cosponsors in the House of Representatives and 11 cosponsors in the Senate.

 “On Indigenous Peoples’ Day, we honor the perseverance and courage of Indigenous peoples, show our gratitude for the myriad contributions they have made to our world, and renew our commitment to respect Tribal sovereignty and self-determination.”  President Joseph Biden, 2023 Proclamation on Indigenous People’s Day

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Dennis W. Zotigh (Kiowa/Ohkay Owingeh Pueblo/Isante Dakota Indian) is a member of the Kiowa Gourd Clan and San Juan Pueblo Winter Clan and a descendant of Sitting Bear and No Retreat, both principal war chiefs of the Kiowas. Dennis works as a writer and cultural specialist at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C.

Source: smithsonianmag.com for the complete article

The Unitarian Universalist faith calls us to fully understand the legacy of Christopher Columbus, just as it calls us to respect and learn from indigenous peoples and support their struggles for social justice and religious freedom. Join Unitarian Universalists across the United States in honoring Indigenous Peoples Day.

History of the Holiday

“Indigenous Peoples Day” reimagines Columbus Day and changes a celebration of colonialism into an opportunity to reveal historical truths about the genocide and oppression of indigenous peoples in the Americas, to organize against current injustices, and to celebrate indigenous resistance.

The idea of replacing Columbus Day with Indigenous Peoples Day was born in 1977, at a U.N.-sponsored conference in Geneva, Switzerland, on discrimination against indigenous populations in the Americas. Fourteen years later, activists in Berkeley, CA, convinced the Berkeley City Council to declare October  a “Day of Solidarity with Indigenous People.” Henceforth, there has been a growing movement to appropriate “Columbus Day” as “Indigenous People’s Day”; states such as South Dakota, Hawai’i, and Alaska have changed the holiday’s name and many more cities have taken similar action.

Read more about the history of Berkeley’s Indigenous Peoples Day.

 Ways to Honor Indigenous Peoples Day

More Resources

• Find out more about the Doctrine of Discovery and how to take action on the 2012 General Assembly resolution.
• Potential Unitarian Universalist Initiatives for Action About American Indians (PDF, 6 pages): A 2008 resource by James W. Loewen (author of Lies My Teacher Told Me and Sundown Towns) that provides background information and suggests ways for Unitarian Universalist congregations to carry out social justice work regarding Native justice issues.
• Coalition partner: The Friends Committee on National Legislation: This Quaker organization has long sought to live in right relations with Native peoples, working in respectful partnership with them on the issues most important to them.
• Coalition partner: Amnesty International: Amnesty is devoted to documenting and ending violence against Native women.

As we all know, the date can change

UK 1958 UK Paddington Bear 13th October, 1958 : The first of a series of books featuring Paddington Bear is published “A Bear Called Paddington” , the first story is about a bear who is found at Paddington railway station in London by the Brown family. The books are written by Michael Bond and illustrated by Peggy Fortnum. The much loved stuffed Paddington Bear toy with his Wellington boots did not appear until 1972 / 1973.

Northern Ireland 1971 Northern Ireland Border Security Oct. 13th, 1971: British Army engineers are blowing up several minor roads crossing from the Republic of Ireland into Northern Ireland, currently the Terrorists are using these roads to hop across the border undetected as most are just small tracks on farmland. .

1976 Bolivia Plane Crash 13th October, 1976: A chartered Boeing 707 crashed into a busy street in Santa Cruz, a city in the west of Bolivia, ploughing into buildings in the city’s main avenue and people leaving over 100 dead.

U.S. 1983 U.S.A. Mobile Phone Service Oct. 13th, 1983: Ameritech Mobile Communications, LLC provides cellular mobile phone service to the general public in Chicago. This was the first mobile phone service for public use in the United States.

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UK 1988 England Spycatcher Book 13th October, 1988: The British Government has lost its battle to stop the publication of the controversial book Spycatcher, written by a former secret service agent .

U.S. 2005 U.S.A. iPod Oct. 13th, 2005 : Apple introduce new iPod capable of playing video at a resolution of 320×240 starting at $299.00.