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On October 4, 1895, 21-year-old Englishman Horace Rawlins wins the first U.S. Open golf tournament, edging Willie Dunn ...read more
On October 4, 2011, Michael Morton, who spent 25 years in prison for his wife’s murder, is released after DNA evidence ...read more
Pope Paul VI addresses 150,000 people in St. Peter’s Square in Rome and calls for an end to the war in Vietnam through ...read more
On October 4, 1955, the Brooklyn Dodgers win the World Series at last, beating the New York Yankees 2-0. They’d lost the ...read more
On October 4, 1927, sculpting begins on the face of Mount Rushmore in the Black Hills National Forest of South Dakota. ...read more
Art, Literature, and Film History In the summer of 1966, Janis Joplin was a drifter; four years later, she was a rock-and-roll legend. She’d gone from ...read more
Art, Literature, and Film History On October 4, 1990, Beverly Hills, 90210, a TV drama about a group of teenagers living in upscale Beverly Hills, ...read more
A cargo plane crashes into an apartment building near an airport in Amsterdam, Holland, on October 4, 1992. Four people ...read more
Televangelist Jim Bakker is indicted on federal charges of mail and wire fraud and of conspiring to defraud the public. ...read more
President Abraham Lincoln observes a balloon demonstration near Washington, D.C. Both Confederate and Union armies ...read more
Art, Literature, and Film History Legendary blues singer Bessie Smith is buried near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on October 4, 1937. Some 7,000 mourners ...read more
On October 4, 1777, 11,000 Patriots under General George Washington attempt an early morning attack on British General ...read more
In the early hours of October 4, 1918, German Chancellor Max von Baden, appointed by Kaiser Wilhelm II just three days ...read more
On October 4, 1944, Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower distributes to his combat units a report by the U.S. Surgeon General that ...read more
There are now thousands of man-made satellites orbiting Earth. Following Sputnik, fears that the US was losing the space race led to a drive to improve American scientific and engineering capabilities. The US government poured more funding into science, science education was emphasized in schools, and more people went into science and engineering careers. This October, we commemorate the 50th anniversary of Sputnik, and fifty years of scientific and technological innovation in the Space Age.
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