Post by Buckeye Dale on Oct 2, 2018 3:10:07 GMT -5
1187: Siege of Jerusalem
Sultan Saladin leads the Muslim military campaign against the Crusader states which occurred from Sept. 20 to Oct. 2, 1187, resulting in the total breakdown of the Kingdom of Jerusalem.
1552: Conquest of Kazan
The conquest of Kazan is the final battle of the Russo-Kazan wars that led to the fall of the Khanate of Kazan by Ivan the Terrible’s army.
1789: Constitutional Amendments ratification
President George Washington sends the proposed Constitutional amendments (The United States Bill of Rights) to the States for ratification.
1869: Gandhi is born
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi is born in Porbandar, India. He was the leader of the Indian non-violent independence movement against the British rule. His advocacy of mass non-violent civil disobedience influenced the world.
1925: First test of a working television system
Scottish inventor John Logie Baird successfully transmits the first television picture with a greyscale image.
1930: My dad was born in Whittier, CA.
1944: WW II Warsaw Uprising crushed
The Nazis crush the Polish rebel’s unsuccessful effort to liberate the city of Warsaw from German occupation before it was occupied by the advancing Soviet forces. The Germans then systematically deported Warsaw’s population and destroyed the city.
1950: Peanuts cartoon strip first published
A four-paneled comic strip, featuring Charlie Brown and others by Charles M. Schulz, is published in nine newspapers across the US. It was eventually syndicated to more than 2,600 newspapers worldwide turning its characters into American pop culture icons.
1967: Thurgood Marshall sworn in
Thurgood Marshall is sworn in as the first African-American justice of the United States Supreme Court.
1980: Michael Myers’ expulsion
Rep. Michael Myers, D-Pa. becomes the first member to be expelled from the house in nearly 120 years. He was ousted by a vote of 376 to 30 by fellow house members for accepting a bribe in the Abscam case.
1985: Rock Hudson dies of AIDS
Actor Rock Hudson, 59, becomes the first major U.S. celebrity to die of complications from AIDS. (How did AIDS get to California? In the rear of a Hudson)
1991: Steffi Graf's 500
Steffi Graf of Germany becomes the youngest woman to win 500 professional tennis matches.
2007: Inter-Korean summit
President Roh Moo-hyun of South Korea walks across the Military Demarcation Line into North Korea on his way to the second Inter-Korean summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-il.
Sultan Saladin leads the Muslim military campaign against the Crusader states which occurred from Sept. 20 to Oct. 2, 1187, resulting in the total breakdown of the Kingdom of Jerusalem.
1552: Conquest of Kazan
The conquest of Kazan is the final battle of the Russo-Kazan wars that led to the fall of the Khanate of Kazan by Ivan the Terrible’s army.
1789: Constitutional Amendments ratification
President George Washington sends the proposed Constitutional amendments (The United States Bill of Rights) to the States for ratification.
1869: Gandhi is born
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi is born in Porbandar, India. He was the leader of the Indian non-violent independence movement against the British rule. His advocacy of mass non-violent civil disobedience influenced the world.
1925: First test of a working television system
Scottish inventor John Logie Baird successfully transmits the first television picture with a greyscale image.
1930: My dad was born in Whittier, CA.
1944: WW II Warsaw Uprising crushed
The Nazis crush the Polish rebel’s unsuccessful effort to liberate the city of Warsaw from German occupation before it was occupied by the advancing Soviet forces. The Germans then systematically deported Warsaw’s population and destroyed the city.
1950: Peanuts cartoon strip first published
A four-paneled comic strip, featuring Charlie Brown and others by Charles M. Schulz, is published in nine newspapers across the US. It was eventually syndicated to more than 2,600 newspapers worldwide turning its characters into American pop culture icons.
1967: Thurgood Marshall sworn in
Thurgood Marshall is sworn in as the first African-American justice of the United States Supreme Court.
1980: Michael Myers’ expulsion
Rep. Michael Myers, D-Pa. becomes the first member to be expelled from the house in nearly 120 years. He was ousted by a vote of 376 to 30 by fellow house members for accepting a bribe in the Abscam case.
1985: Rock Hudson dies of AIDS
Actor Rock Hudson, 59, becomes the first major U.S. celebrity to die of complications from AIDS. (How did AIDS get to California? In the rear of a Hudson)
1991: Steffi Graf's 500
Steffi Graf of Germany becomes the youngest woman to win 500 professional tennis matches.
2007: Inter-Korean summit
President Roh Moo-hyun of South Korea walks across the Military Demarcation Line into North Korea on his way to the second Inter-Korean summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-il.
