Today in History

1818
composer/pianist,Felix Mendelessohn age 9,gives his 1st public concert in Berlin
1901
Anne Taylor is 1st woman to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel
1979
Guinness Book of World records gives Paul McCartney a rhodium-plated disc for being history's all time best selling songwriter&recording artist
 

Oct 25th
1955
The Tappan Company introduces microwave oven for home use
1962
author,John Steinbeck receives Nobel Prize for Literature
1982
CBS sitcom'Newhart' '82-'90 debuts,in this show Bob and his 2nd 'TV wife',Mary Frann play innkeepers of the'Stratford Inn' in Norwich,VT.
The classic ending of the show, Bob wakes up from a bad dream to tell his wife about it about it. In bed with him his 1st "TV wife' Suzanne PLeshette,the audience goes crazy
 
Oct 26th
1858
Hamilton Smith patents the rotary washing machine
1949
Pres. Harry Truman raises the minimum wage from .40 to .75/hr
1958
PanAm flies the 1st transatlantic jet from NYC-Paris
 
Oct 27
1917
20,000 women march in a suffrage parade in NYC
1925
Fred Waller patents water skis
1975
singer Bruce Springsteen is on the cover of both Newsweek&Time Magazines
 
27th October
Today in 939...18-year-old Edmund I becomes king of England on the death of his half-brother, Aethelstan. A grandson of Alfred the Great, Edmund goes on to re-establish Anglo-Saxon control over northern England before being murdered in 946.
 
1929
"Blue Tues',Wall Street Stock Market crashes,start of the Great Depression
1956
NBC anchors,Chet Huntley&David Brinkley team up for the "Huntley-Brinkley Report' '56-'70
Each show ended with'Goodnight Chet,Goodnight David" This newscast ended in '70 when Chet Huntley retired
1998
former astronaut/U.S Senator JOhn Glenn became the oldest person age 77 to go back into space on the Space Shuttle Discovery
 
29th October

Today in 1618...The famous poet, soldier and explorer Sir Walter Raleigh is beheaded in the Old Palace Yard at the Palace of Westminster in London. His embalmed head is given to his wife who keeps it in a red leather bag by her side for the next 29 years, until her death.
 
October 29, 1969 .... the birth of the Internet ....

Fifty years ago today, on October 29, 1969, the internet was born. It was a humble beginning—a single login from a computer terminal at UCLA in Los Angeles to the Stanford Research Institute (SRI) in the Bay Area. But it was a tiny baby step that would eventually catapult the world into the information age.
Amazingly, we actually have a piece of paper that documents that important moment for the internet, first called the Arpanet because it was a project funded by ARPA. Today you probably know ARPA better by the name DARPA, the government agency that’s working on bleeding edge tech like warfighting robots and brain implants.

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https://paleofuture.gizmodo.com/heres-the-internets-birth-certificate-from-50-years-ago-1839436583
 
Oct 30th
1873
PT Barnum's circus,'Greatest Show on Earth' debuts in NYC
1888
John J Loud patents ballpoint pen
1894
Daniel Cooper patents time clock
1938
Orson Wells radio narration of HG Wells' "War of the Worlds' allegedly causes a mass panic
2012
Walt Disney Company buys Lucasfilm LTD,&the rights to 'Star Wars' &"Indiana Jones' for $4.05 billion
 
Oct 31st
1864
Nevada becomes the 34th state of the Union
1941
Mount Rushmore Monument is completed
1988
The 1st Monday Night NFL football game debuts in Indianopolis,Colts vs Broncos Colts won 55-23
 
Nov 1st
1512
Michelangelo's paintings on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel were 1st exhibited to the public
1800
John Adams is the 1st U.S. President to live in White House
1968
The Beatles'Abbey Road' goes#1 in U.S. stays in top spot for 11 weeks
1982
Honda becomes 1st Asian car company to produce cars in U.S. at their Maryville,Ohio factory. The Honda Accord is the 1st car produced
2012
Google's GMail becomes world's most popular email service
 
Nov 2nd
1898
Cheerleading started in U.S. The 1st known cheerleader was Johnny Campbell who lead the crowd to cheer on the Univ of Minnesota football team
1936
CBC,Canadian Broadcast Company is established
1983
Pres. Ronald Reagan signs bill to make Dr.Martin Luther King,Jr a federal holiday
2016
The Chicago Cubs beat Cleveland Indians in Game 7 of World Series.Its the 1st win for the Cubs in 108 yrs
 
Nov 3rd
1507
Leonardo da Vinci was commisssioned by Francesco delGiocondo to do portrait of his wife,Lisa.The work become known as 'Mona Lisa'
1906
International Radiotelegraph Conference selects 'SOS" as worldwide distress signal for help
1975
ABC's "Good Morning,America' debuts with co hosts,David Hartman and Nancy Dussault
 
1906 International Radiotelegraph Conference in Berlin selects "SOS" (· · · – – – · · ·) distress signal as the worldwide standard for help

1762 Spain acquires Louisiana

1911 Chevrolet officially enters the automobile market in competition with the Ford Model T
 
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4th November

Died today in 1918...the war poet Wilfred Owen, who was tragically killed just one week before the signing of the Armistice ending the Great War. He is most famous for his realistic war poetry on the horrors of trenches and gas warfare, most of which was published posthumously. His best known works include 'Dulce et Decorum est' and "Anthem for Doomed Youth".
 

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