Today in History
October 4
1957 - Sputnik becomes the first human-made
object to orbit the earth
1965 – Pope Paul VI becomes the first pope to
visit the United States
October 5
1762 – The British fleet bombards and captures
Spanish-held Manila in the Philippines
1813 – Nez Perce Chief Joseph surrenders to
Colonel Nelson Miles in Montana Territory, after
a 1,700-mile trek to reach Canada falls 40 miles
short
1947 – First presidential speech on TV
October 6
1927 - The first "talkie," The Jazz Singer, opens
with popular entertainer Al Jolson singing and
dancing in black-face. By 1930, silent movies
were a thing of the past
1973 - Israel is taken by surprise when Egypt,
Syria, Iraq and Jordan attack on the Jewish holy
day of Yom Kippur, beginning the Yom Kippur
War.
October 7
1976 - Hua Guofeng, premier of the People's
Republic of China, succeeds the late Mao Zedong as
chairman of the Communist Party of China.
1993 - The Great Flood of 1993 on the Mississippi
and Missouri rivers ends, the worst US flood since
1927.
2001 - US invasion of Afghanistan in reaction to the
terrorist attacks of 9/11 begins; it will become the
longest war in US history.
October 8
1871 – The Great Chicago Fire begins in southwest
Chicago killing 250 people, leaving 98,500 homeless
and destroying 17,540 buildings
1912 – First Balkan War as Montenegro declares
war against the Ottoman Empire
1921 – First live broadcast of a football game.
University of Pittsburg beat West Virginia 21-13
World Unit 1 Test
• Period 1
– Avg. 66
– High 100
– Low 0
• Period 2
– Avg. 77
– High 100
– Low 25
• Period 3
– Avg. 61
– High 95
– Low 15
• Period 5
– Avg. 67
– High 95
– Low 25
October 9
28 BCE - The Temple of Apollo is dedicated on
the Palatine Hill in Rome
1470 - Henry VI of England restored to the
throne
1949- Harvard Law School begins admitting
women
October 10
19 CE - Germanicus, the best loved of Roman
princes, dies of poisoning. On his deathbed he
accuses Piso, the governor of Syria, of poisoning
him
732 - At Tours, France, Charles Martel kills Abd
el-Rahman and halts the Muslim invasion of
Europe
October 11
1795 - In gratitude for putting down a rebellion in the
streets of Paris, France's National Convention appoints
Napoleon Bonaparte second in command of the Army of
the Interior
1906 - San Francisco school board orders the segregation
of Oriental schoolchildren, inciting Japanese outrage
1950 - The Federal Communications Commission
authorizes the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) to
begin commercial color TV broadcasts
October 12
1492 - Christopher Columbus and his crew land in
the Bahamas
1722- Shah Sultan Husayn surrenders the Persian
capital of Isfahan to Afghan rebels after a seven
month siege
2000 - Suicide bombers at Aden, Yemen, damage
USS Cole; 17 crew members killed and over 35
wounded
October 13
54 - Nero succeeds his great uncle Claudius, who
was murdered by his wife, as the new emperor of
Rome
1307 - Members of the Knights of Templar are
arrested throughout France, imprisoned and
tortured by the order of King Philip the Fair of
France
1946 - The Fourth Republic begins in France; will
continue to 1958
October 14
1066 - William of Normandy defeats King Harold in the Battle of
Hastings
1917 - Mata Hari, a Paris dancer, is executed by the French after
being convicted of passing military secrets to the Germans
1944- German Field Marshal Rommel chooses suicide rather
than a public trial for his role in attempting to assassinate Hitler
1962 - Cuban Missile Crisis begins; USAF U-2 reconnaissance
pilot photographs Cubans installing Soviet-made missiles capable
of carrying nuclear warheads
October 15
1529 – Ottoman army ends siege of Vienna and
head back to Belgrade
1813 – During the land defeat of the British on
the Thames River in Canada, the Indian chief
Tecumseh, now a brigadier general with the
British Army (War of 1812), is killed
October 16
1793 – Queen Marie Antoinette is beheaded by
guillotine during the French Revolution
1859 – Abolitionist John Brown, with 21 men,
seizes the U.S. Armory at Harpers Ferry, Va. U.S.
Marines capture the raiders, killing several. John
Brown is later hanged in Virginia for treason
October 17
1815 – Napoleon Bonaparte arrives at the island
of St. Helena in the South Atlantic, where he has
been banished by the Allies
1863 – General Ulysses S. Grant is named overall
Union Commander of the West
October 18
1813 – The Allies defeat Napoleon Bonaparte at
Leipzig
1867 – The rules for American football are
formulated at meeting in New York among
delegates from Columbia, Rutgers, Princeton
and Yale universities
October 19
1812 – Napoleon Bonaparte begins his retreat
from Moscow
1949 – The People’s Republic of China is
formally proclaimed
October 20
480 BCE – Greeks defeat the Persians in a naval
battle at Salamis
1924 – Baseball's first 'colored World Series' is held
in Kansas City, Mo.
1945 – Egypt, Syria, Iraq and Lebanon form the
Arab League to present a unified front against the
establishment of a Jewish state in Palestine
October 21
1879 – After 14 months of testing, Thomas
Edison first demonstrates his electric lamp,
hoping to one day compete with gaslight
1939 – As war heats up with Germany, the
British war cabinet holds its first meeting in the
underground war room in London
US Unit 1 Test
• 4th period
• 7th period
– Avg. 79
– High 100
– Low 45
– Avg. 72
– High 100
– Low 0
• 6th period
– Avg. 72
– High 90
– Low 45
October 22
741 – Charles Martel of Gaul dies. His mayoral
power is divided between his two sons, Pepin III
and Carloman
1962 – U.S. reveals Soviet missile sites in Cuba.
President Kennedy orders a naval and air
blockade on further shipment of military
equipment to Cuba.
October 23
4004 BCE – According to 17th century divine
James Ussher, Archbishop of Armagh, and Dr.
John Lightfoot of Cambridge, the world was
created on this day, a Sunday, at 9 a.m.
1861 - President Abraham Lincoln suspends the
writ of habeas corpus in Washington, D.C. for all
military-related cases
October 24
439 – Carthage, the leading Roman city in North Africa,
falls to Genseric and the Vandals
1901 - Anna Edson Taylor, 43, is the first woman to go
safely over Niagara Falls in a barrel.
1929 - Black Thursday–the first day of the stock market
crash which began the Great Depression
1931 - Al (Alphonse) Capone, the prohibition-era Chicago
gangster, is sent to prison for tax evasion
October 25
1923 - The Teapot Dome scandal comes to
public attention. The scandal, named for the
Teapot Dome oil reserves in Wyoming, involved
Albert B. Fall, the Secretary of the Interior,
secretly leasing naval oil reserve lands to private
companies.
1960 – Martin Luther King, Jr., is sentenced to
four months in jail for a sit-in
October 26
1918 – Germany's supreme commander, General Erich
Ludendorff, resigns, protesting the terms to which the
German Government has agreed in negotiating the
armistice. This sets the stage for his later support for
Hitler and the Nazis, who claim that Germany did not lose
the war on the battlefield but were "stabbed in the back"
by politicians.
2001 - The USA PATRIOT Act signed into law by Pres.
George W. Bush, greatly expanding intelligence and legal
agencies' ability to utilize wiretaps, records searches and
surveillance.
October 27
1806 – Emperor Napoleon enters Berlin
1917 – 20,000 women march in a suffrage parade in New York. As the
largest state and the first on the East Coast to do so, New York has an
important effect on the movement to grant all women the vote in all
elections.
1927 – Fox Movie-tone news, the first sound news film, is released.
1962 – American U-2 reconnaissance plane shot down by a surface-toair missile over Cuba, killing the pilot, Maj. Rudolf Anderson, the only
direct human casualty of the Cuban Missile Crisis.
October 28
1636 – Harvard College, the oldest institution of higher
learning in the United States, is founded in Cambridge,
Mass.
1919 – Over President Wilson's veto, Congress passes the
National Prohibition Act, or Volstead Act, named after its
promoter, Congressman Andrew J. Volstead. It provides
enforcement guidelines for the Prohibition Amendment.
1962 – Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev orders Soviet
missiles removed from Cuba, ending the Cuban Missile
Crisis.
October 29
1929 – Black Tuesday–the most catastrophic day in
stock market history, the herald of the Great
Depression. 16 million shares were sold at declining
prices. By mid-November $30 billion of the $80
billion worth of stocks listed in September will have
been wiped out.
1969 – The U.S. Supreme Court orders immediate
desegregation, superseding the previous "with all
deliberate speed" ruling
October 30
1838 – Oberlin Collegiate Institute in Lorian County, Ohio
becomes the first college in the U.S. to admit female students.
1922 – Mussolini sends his black shirts into Rome. The Fascist
takeover is almost without bloodshed. The next day, Mussolini
is made prime minister. Mussolini centralized all power in
himself as leader of the Fascist party and attempted to create
an Italian empire, ultimately in alliance with Hitler's Germany.
1961 – The USSR detonates "Tsar Bomba," a 50-megaton
hydrogen bomb; it is still (2013) the largest explosive device of
any kind over detonated.
October 31
1517 – Martin Luther nails his 95 Theses to the
door of the church at Wittenberg in Germany.
Luther’s writing give rise to the Protestant
Reformation.
1952 – The United States explodes the first
hydrogen bomb at Eniwetok Atoll in the Pacific.
November 1
79 CE – The city of Pompeii is buried by eruption
of Mt. Vesuvius.
1512 – Michelangelo's painting on the Sistine
Chapel ceiling is exhibited for the first time.
November 2
1914 – Russia declares war with Turkey.
1920 – The first radio broadcast in the United
States is made from Pittsburgh.
November 3
1507 – Leonardo da Vinci is commissioned to
paint Lisa Gherardini ("Mona Lisa")
1957 – The Soviet Union launches Sputnik II with
the dog Laika, the first animal in space, aboard
1964 – Robert Kennedy, brother of the slain
president, is elected as a senator from New York
November 4
1922 – The entrance to King Tut's tomb is
discovered
1979 – At the American Embassy in Teheran,
Iran, 90 people, including 63 Americans, are
taken hostage by militant student followers of
Ayatollah Khomeini. The students demand the
return of Shah Mohammad Reza Pablavi, who is
undergoing medical treatment in New York City.
November 5
1605 – Guy Fawkes is betrayed and arrested in an
attempt to blow up the British Parliament in the
"Gunpowder Plot." Ever since, England has
celebrated Guy Fawkes Day.
1872 – Susan B. Anthony is arrested for trying to
vote.
1935 – Parker Brothers company launches
"Monopoly," a game of real estate and capitalism.
November 6
1812 – The first winter snow falls on the French Army as
Napoleon Bonaparte retreats form Moscow.
1860 – Abraham Lincoln is elected 16th president of the
United States.
1861 – Jefferson Davis is elected to a six-year term as
president of the Confederacy.
1917 – The Bolshevik "October Revolution" (October 25 on
the old Russian calendar), led by Vladimir Lenin and Leon
Trotsky, seizes power in Petrograd.
November 7
1665 – The London Gazette, the oldest surviving
journal, is first published
1917 – The Bolsheviks, led by Lenin, take power in
Russia.
2000 – Dispute begins over US presidential election
between George W. Bush and Al Gore; Supreme
Court ruling on Dec. 12 results in a 271-270
electoral victory for Bush.
November 8
392 – Theodosius of Rome passes legislation
prohibiting all pagan worship in the empire.
1923 – Adolf Hitler attempts a coup in Munich, the
"Beer Hall Putsch," and proclaims himself
chancellor and Ludendorff dictator.
1960 – John F. Kennedy is elected 35th president,
defeating Republican candidate Richard Nixon in
the closest election, by popular vote, since 1880.
November 9
1799 – Napoleon Bonaparte participates in a coup
and declares himself dictator of France.
1938 – Nazis kill 35 Jews, arrest thousands and
destroy Jewish synagogues, homes and stores
throughout Germany. The event becomes known as
Kristallnacht, the night of the shattered glass.
1989 – The Berlin Wall is opened after dividing the
city for 28 years.
November 10
1775 – U.S. Marine Corps founded.
1969 – The PBS children's program Sesame
Street debuts.
November 11
1831 – Nat Turner, a slave who led a revolt
against slave owners, is hanged in Jerusalem,
Virginia.
1918 – The German leaders sign the armistice
ending World War I
1933 – The first of the great dust storms of the
1930s hits North Dakota
November 12
1859 – The first flying-trapeze circus act is
performed by Jules Leotard at the Circus
Napoleon
1923 – Adolf Hitler is arrested for his attempted
German coup
November 13
1835 – Texans officially proclaim independence
from Mexico, and calls itself the Lone Star
Republic, after its flag, until its admission to the
Union in 1845
1940 – U.S. Supreme Court rules in Hansberry v.
Lee that African Americans cannot be barred
from white neighborhoods.
November 14
1812 – As Napoleon Bonaparte's army retreats
form Moscow, temperatures drop to 20 degrees
below zero.
1908 – Albert Einstein presents his quantum
theory of light.
November 15
1533 – The explorer Francisco Pizarro enters
Cuzco, Peru.
1805 – Meriwether Lewis, William Clark and
their party reach the mouth of the Columbia
River, completing their trek to the Pacific.
November 16
1798 – British seamen board the U.S. frigate
Baltimore and impress a number of crewmen as
alleged deserters, a practice that contributed to
the War of 1812.
1907 – The Indian and Oklahoma territories are
unified to make Oklahoma, which becomes the
46th state.
November 17
1558 – Queen Elizabeth ascends to the throne of
England. The Church of England re-established.
1869 – The Suez Canal is formally opened.
1903 – Vladimir Lenin's efforts to impose his own
radical views on the Russian Social Democratic
Labor Party splits the party into two factions, the
Bolsheviks, who support Lenin, and the
Mensheviks.
November 18
1626 – St. Peter's Cathedral in Rome is officially
dedicated.
1928 – Mickey mouse makes his film debut in
Steamboat Willie, the first animated talking
picture.
November 19
1620 – The Pilgrims sight Cape Cod.
1863 – Abraham Lincoln delivers the Gettysburg
Address.
1915 – The Allies ask China to join the entente
against the Central Powers.
November 20
1945 – The Nazi war crime trials begin at
Nuremberg.
1978 – In Jonestown, Guyana, American Rev. Jim
Jones leads his followers in a mass suicide.
November 21
1620 – Leaders of the Mayflower expedition
frame the "Mayflower Compact," designed to
bolster unity among the settlers.
1927 – Police turn machine guns on striking
Colorado mine workers, killing five and
wounding 20.
November 22
1919 – A Labor conference committee in the United
States urges an eight-hour workday and a 48-hour
week.
1948 – Ho Chi Minh's Democratic Republic of
Vietnam requests admittance to the UN.
1963 – Lee Harvey Oswald assassinates President
John F. Kennedy in Dallas, Texas. Lyndon B. Johnson
becomes president.
Unit 2 Test
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High 100
Low 25
Median 85
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Avg. 74
High 100
Low 0
Median 80
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High 100
Low 0
Median 75
November 23
1909 – The Wright brothers form a million-dollar
corporation for the commercial manufacture of
their airplanes
November 24
1859 – Charles Darwin publishes The Origin of
Species by Means of Natural Selection, or The
Preservation of Favored Races in the Struggle for
Life.
1963 – Jack Ruby fatally shoots the accused
assassin of President Kennedy, Lee Harvey
Oswald, in the garage of the Dallas Police
Department.
November 25
2348 BCE – Biblical scholars have long asserted
this to be the day of the Great Deluge, or Flood
1923 – Transatlantic broadcasting from England
to America commences for the first time.
November 26
1774 – A congress of colonial leaders criticizes
British influence in the colonies and affirms their
right to "Life, liberty and property.“
1863 – The first National Thanksgiving is
celebrated.
1917 – The Bolsheviks offer an armistice
between Russian and the Central Powers.
November 27
43 BCE – Octavian, Antony and Lepidus form the
triumvirate of Rome.
511 CE – Clovis, king of the Franks, dies and his
kingdom is divided between his four sons.
1868 – Lieutenant Colonel George A. Custer's 7th
Cavalry kills Chief Black Kettle and about 100
Cheyenne (mostly women and children) on the
Washita River.
November 28
1520 – Spanish explorer Ferdinand Magellan,
having discovered a strait at the tip of South
America, enters the Pacific.
1943 – Sir Winston Churchill, Joseph Stalin and
Franklin D. Roosevelt meet at Tehran, Iran, to
hammer out war aims.
November 29
1949 – The United States announces it will
conduct atomic tests at Eniwetok Atoll in the
Pacific.
1961 – NASA launches a chimpanzee named
Enos into Earth orbit.
November 30
1782 – The British sign a preliminary agreement
in Paris, recognizing American independence.
1935 – Non-belief in Nazism is proclaimed
grounds for divorce in Germany.
December 1
1905 – Twenty officers and 230 guards are
arrested in St. Petersburg, Russia, for the revolt
at the Winter Palace.
1955 – Rosa Parks refuses to sit in the back of a
Montgomery, Alabama, bus, defying the South's
segregationist laws.
December 2
1804 – Napoleon Bonaparte crowns himself
Emperor of France in Notre Dame Cathedral.
1927 – The new Ford Model A is introduced to
the American public.
December 3
1847 – Frederick Douglass and Martin R.
Delaney establish the North Star, an anti-slavery
paper.
1989 – Presidents George Bush and Mikhail
Gorbachev announce the official end to the Cold
War at a meeting in Malta.
December 4
771 – With the death of his brother Carloman,
Charlemagne becomes sole ruler of the Frankish
Empire.
1950 – The University of Tennessee defies court
rulings by rejecting five Negro applicants.
December 5
1484 – Pope Innocent VIII issues a bill deploring
the spread of witchcraft and heresy in Germany.
1933 – The 21st Amendment ends Prohibition in
the United States, which had begun 13 years
earlier.
December 6
1877 – Thomas A. Edison makes the first sound
recording when he recites "Mary had a Little
Lamb" into his phonograph machine.
1948 – The "Pumpkin Spy Papers" are found on
the Maryland farm of Whittaker Chambers. They
become evidence that State Department
employee Alger Hiss is spying for the Soviet
Union
December 7
43 BCE – Cicero, considered one of the greatest
sons of Rome, is assassinated on the orders of
Marcus Antonius.
1941 – Japanese planes raid Pearl Harbor in a
surprise attack.
December 8
1660 – The first Shakespearian actress to appear
on an English stage makes her debut as
Desdemona.
1980 – John Lennon is shot to death outside his
Manhattan apartment building.
December 9
1872 – P.B.S. Pinchback becomes the first
African-American governor of Louisiana.
1908 – A child labor bill passes in the German
Reichstag, forbidding work for children under
age 13.
1949 – The United Nations takes trusteeship
over Jerusalem.
December 10
1869 – Governor John Campbell signs the bill
that grants women in Wyoming Territory the
right to vote as well as hold public office.
December 11
1688 – James II abdicates the throne because of
William of Orange landing in England.
1978 – Massive demonstrations take place in
Tehran against the shah.
December 12
1770 – The British soldiers responsible for the
"Boston Massacre" are acquitted on murder
charges.
1995 – Willie Brown beats incumbent mayor
Frank Jordon to become the first AfricanAmerican mayor of San Francisco
December 13
1812 – The last remnants of Napoleon
Bonaparte's Grand Armeé reach the safety of
Kovno, Poland, after the failed Russian
campaign. Napoleon's costly retreat from
Moscow
1951 – After meeting with FBI Director J. Edgar
Hoover, President Harry S Truman vows to purge
all disloyal government workers.
December 14
1799 – George Washington dies on his Mount
Vernon estate.
1909 – The Labor Conference in Pittsburgh ends
with a "declaration of war" on U.S. Steel.
1946 – The United Nations adopt a disarmament
resolution prohibiting the A-Bomb.
December 15
1946 – Vietnam leader Ho Chi Minh sends a
note to the new French Premier, Leon Blum,
asking for peace talks.
1967 – President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the
meat bill in the presence of Upton Sinclair, the
author of the controversial book The Jungle.
December 16
1653 – Oliver Cromwell takes on dictatorial
powers with the title of "Lord Protector.“
1939 – The National Women's Party urges
immediate congressional action on equal rights.
1998 – The United States launches a missile
attack on Iraq for failing to comply with United
Nations weapons inspectors.
December 17
1903 – Near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, Orville
and Wilbur Wright make the first successful
flight in history of a self-propelled, heavier-thanair aircraft.
1944 – The German Army renews the attack on
the Belgian town of Losheimergraben against
the defending Americans during the Battle of
the Bulge.
December 18
1118 – Afonso the Battler, the Christian King of
Aragon captures Saragossa, Spain, causing a major
blow to Muslim Spain.
1865 – Slavery is abolished in the United States. The
13th Amendment is formally adopted into the U.S.
Constitution.
1966 – “How the Grinch Stole Christmas” premiers
in prime time.
December 19
1154 – Henry II is crowned king of England.
1959 – Reputed to be the last civil war veteran,
Walter Williams, dies at 117 in Houston.
December 20
1802 – The United States buys the Louisiana
territory from France.
1924 – Adolf Hitler is released from prison after
serving less than one year of a five year
sentence for treason.
December 21
68 – Vespian, a gruff-spoken general of humble
origins, enters Rome and is named emperor by
the Senate.
1620 – The Pilgrims land at or near Plymouth
Rock.
December 22
1807 – Congress passes the Embargo Act, which
halts all trading completely. It is hoped that the
act will keep the United States out the European
Wars.
1829 – The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad opens the
first passenger railway line.
December 23
1923 – Pope Pius XI condemns the Nazi
sterilization program.
December 24
December 25
December 26
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January 1
January 2
1492 – Catholic forces under King Ferdinand and
Queen Isabella take the town of Granada, the
last Muslim kingdom in Spain.
1936 – In Berlin, Nazi officials claim that their
treatment of Jews is not the business of the
League of Nations.
January 3
1521 – Martin Luther is excommunicated from
the Catholic Church.
1959 – Fidel Castro takes command of the
Cuban army.
1961 – The United States breaks diplomatic
relations with Cuba.
January 4
1896 – Utah becomes the 45th state of the
Union.
1902 – France offers to sell their Nicaraguan
Canal rights to the United States.
2007 – Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-California) became
the first female speaker of the U.S. House of
Representatives.
January 5
1914 – Henry Ford astounds the world as he
announces that he will pay a minimum wage of
$5 a day and will share with employees $10
million in the previous year's profits.
1925 – Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming is sworn
in as the first woman governor in the United
States.
January 6
1540 – Henry VIII of England marries his fourth
wife, Anne of Cleves. The marriage will last six
months.
2001 – In one of the closest Presidential elections in
U.S. history, George W. Bush was finally declared
the winner of the bitterly contested 2000
Presidential elections more then five weeks after
the election due to the disputed Florida ballots.
January 7
1901 – New York stock exchange trading exceeds
two million shares for the first time in history.
1944 – The U.S. Air Force announces the
production of the first jet-fighter, Bell P-59
Airacomet.
January 8
1892 – A coal mine explosion kills 100 in
McAlister, Oklahoma.
1954 – President Dwight Eisenhower proposes
stripping convicted Communists of their U.S.
citizenship.
January 9
1776 – Thomas Paine publishes Common Sense,
a scathing attack on King George III's reign over
the colonies and a call for complete
independence.
1952 – Jackie Robinson becomes the highest
paid player in Brooklyn Dodger history.
January 10
1917 – Germany is rebuked as the Entente
officially rejects a proposal for peace talks and
demands the return of occupied territories from
Germany.
1920 – The Treaty of Versailles goes into effect.
1923 – The United States withdraws its last
troops from Germany.
January 11
4 BCE – Julius Caesar leads his army across the
Rubicon River, plunging Rome into civil war.
1948 – President Harry S. Truman proposes free,
two-year community colleges for all who want
an education.
January 12
1908 – A wireless message is sent long-distance
for the first time from the Eiffel Tower in Paris.
1991 – The U.S. Congress gives the green light to
military action against Iraq in the Persian Gulf
Crisis.
January 13
1846 – President James Polk dispatches General
Zachary Taylor and 4,000 troops to the Texas
Border as war with Mexico looms.
1927 – A woman takes a seat on the NY Stock
Exchange breaking the all-male tradition.
January 14
1920 – Berlin is placed under martial law as
40,000 radicals rush the Reichstag; 42 are dead
and 105 are wounded.
1943 – Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill,
and Charles DeGaulle meet at Casablanca to
discuss the direction of the war.
Period 1
Grade
Term 1
Term 2 (as of 1/14)
A
13
8
B
4
8
C
9
2
D
4
6
F
4
12
Period 2
Grade
Term 1
Term 2 (as of 1/14)
A
24
12
B
5
7
C
3
7
D
3
5
F
2
8
Period 3
Grade
Term 1
Term 2
A
17
6
B
7
9
C
3
9
D
2
0
F
2
10
Period 4
Grade
Term 1
Term 2
A
22
10
B
10
14
C
4
12
D
0
0
F
0
2
January 15
1913 – The first telephone line between Berlin
and New York is inaugurated.
1920 –The Dry Law goes into effect in the United
States. Selling liquor and beer becomes illegal.
Period 5
Grade
Term 1
Term 2
A
18
9
B
8
12
C
4
4
D
5
5
F
3
9
Period 6
Grade
Term 1
Term 2
A
24
14
B
7
7
C
0
5
D
2
1
F
4
10
Period 7
Grade
Term 1
Term 2
A
12
8
B
8
11
C
5
3
D
5
8
F
2
8
January 16
1547 – Ivan IV crowns himself the new Czar of
Russia in Assumption Cathedral in Moscow.
1944 – Eisenhower assumes supreme command
of the Allied Expeditionary Force in Europe.
1979 – The Shah leaves Iran.
January 17
1893 – Queen Liliuokalani, the Hawaiian
monarch, is overthrown by a group of American
sugar planters led by Sanford Ballard Dole.
1985 – A jury in New Jersey rules that terminally
ill patients have the right to starve themselves.
January 18
1701 – Frederick III, the elector of Brandenburg,
becomes king of Prussia.
1910 – Aviator Eugene Ely performs his first
successful take off and landing from a ship in
San Francisco.
1948 – Ghandi breaks a 121-hour fast after
halting Muslem-Hindu riots.
January 19
1523 – In Switzerland, Ulrich Zwingli publishes
his 67 Articles, the first manifesto of the Zurich
Reformation which attacks the authority of the
Pope.
1783 – William Pitt becomes the youngest Prime
Minister of England at age 24.
January 20
1327 – Edward II of England is deposed by his
eldest son, Edward III.
1930 – Charles Lindbergh arrives in New York,
setting a cross country flying record of 14.75
hours.
January 21
1793 – The French King Louis XVI is guillotined
for treason.
1943 – A Nazi daylight air raid kills 34 in a
London school.
1974 – The U.S. Supreme Court decides that
pregnant teachers can no longer be forced to
take long leaves of absence.
January 22
1689 – England's "Bloodless Revolution" reaches its
climax when parliament invites William and Mary to
become joint sovereigns.
1807 – President Thomas Jefferson exposes a plot
by Aaron Burr to form a new republic in the
Southwest.
1905 – Russian troops fire on civilians beginning
Bloody Sunday in St. Petersburg.
January 23
1913 – The "Young Turks" revolt because they
are angered by the concessions made at the
London peace talks.
1951 – President Truman creates the
Commission on Internal Security and Individual
Rights, to monitor the anti-Communist
campaign.
January 24
1848 – Gold is discovered by James Wilson
Marshall at his partner Johann August Sutter's
sawmill on the South Fork of the American River,
near Coloma, California.
1946 – The UN establishes the International
Atomic Energy Commission.
January 25
1533 – Henry VIII marries Anne Boleyn.
1915 – Alexander Graham Bell in New York and
Thomas Watson in San Francisco make a record
telephone transmission.
January 26
1875 – Pinkerton agents, hunting Jesse James,
kill his 18-year-old half-brother and seriously
injure his mother with a bomb.
1934 – Germany signs a 10-year non-aggression
pact with Poland, breaking the French alliance
system.
January 27
1916 – President Woodrow Wilson opens
preparedness program.
1924 –Lenin's body is laid in a marble tomb on
Red Square near the Kremlin.
January 28
1547 – Henry VIII of England dies and is
succeeded by his nine-year-old son Edward VI.
1986 – The space shuttle Challenger explodes
just after liftoff.
January 29
1950 – Riots break out in Johannesburg, South
Africa, over the policy of Apartheid.
1991 – Iraqi forces attack into Saudi Arabian
town of Kafji, but are turned back by Coalition
forces.
January 30
1649 – Charles I of England is beheaded at
Whitehall by the executioner Richard Brandon.
1933 – Adolf Hitler is named Chancellor by
President Paul Hindenburg.
January 31
1606 – Guy Fawkes is hanged, drawn and
quartered for his part in the Gunpowder Plot, an
attempt to blow up Parliament.
1968 – In Vietnam, the Tet Offensive begins as
Viet Cong and North Vietnamese soldiers attack
strategic and civilian locations throughout South
Vietnam.
February 1
1587 – Elizabeth I, Queen of England, signs the
Warrant of Execution for Mary Queen of Scots
1960 – Four black students stage a sit-in at a
segregated Greensboro, N.C. lunch counter
February 2
1494 – Columbus begins the practice using
Indians as slaves
1900 – Six cities, Boston, Detroit, Milwaukee,
Baltimore, Chicago and St. Louis agree to form
baseball's American League
February 3
1908 –The U.S. Supreme Court rules that unionsponsored boycotts are illegal, and applies the
Sherman Antitrust Act to labor as well as capital.
1912 – New U.S. football rules are set: field
shortened to 100 yds.; touchdown counts six
points instead of five; four downs are allowed
instead of three; and the kickoff is moved from
midfield to the 40 yd. line.
February 4
1795 – France abolishes slavery in her territories
and confers slaves to citizens.
1915 – Germany decrees British waters as part
of the war zone; all ships to be sunk without
warning.
February 5
1947 – The Soviet Union and Great Britain reject
terms for an American trusteeship over
Japanese Pacific Isles.
1952 – New York adopts three-colored traffic
lights.
February 6
1916 – Germany admits full liability for Lusitania
incident and recognizes the United State's right
to claim indemnity.
1933 – Adolf Hitler's Third Reich begins press
censorship.
February 7
1913 – The Turks lose 5,000 men in a battle with
the Bulgarian army in Gallipoli
1964 – The British band The Beatles are greeted
by 25,000 fans upon their arrival in the United
States at JFK Airport.
February 8
1587 – Mary, Queen of Scots is beheaded in
Fotheringhay Castle for her alleged part in the
conspiracy to usurp Elizabeth I.
1887 – Congress passes the Dawes Act, which
gives citizenship to Indians living apart from
their tribe.
February 9
1946 – Stalin announces the new five-year plan
for the Soviet Union, calling for production
boosts of 50 percent
1994 – Nelson Mandela becomes the first black
president of South Africa.
February 10
1799 – Napoleon Bonaparte leaves Cairo, Egypt,
for Syria, at the head of 13,000 men
1941 – Iceland is attacked by German planes.
February 11
1531 – Henry VIII is recognized as the supreme
head of the Church of England.
1904 – President Theodore Roosevelt proclaims
strict neutrality for the United States in the
Russo-Japanese War.
February 12
1921 – Winston Churchill of London is appointed
colonial secretary.
1931 – Japan makes its first television
broadcast–a baseball game.
February 13
1542 – Catherine Howard, the fifth wife of
Henry VIII, is beheaded for adultery
1865 – The Confederacy approves the
recruitment of slaves as soldiers, as long as the
approval of their owners is gained
February 14
1349 – 2,000 Jews are burned at the stake in
Strasbourg, Germany
1957 – The Georgia state senate outlaws
interracial athletics
1979 – Armed guerrillas attack the U.S. embassy
in Tehran.
February 15
1798 – The first serious fist fight occurs in
Congress.
1898 – The U.S. battleship Maine blows up in
Havana Harbor, killing 268 sailors and bringing
hordes of Western cowboys and gunfighters
rushing to enlist in the Spanish-American War
February 16
1942 – Tojo outlines Japan's war aims to the
Diet, referring to "new order of coexistence" in
East Asia.
1952 – The FBI arrests 10 members of the Ku
Klux Klan in North Carolina.
February 17
1801 – The House of Representatives breaks an
electoral college tie and chooses Thomas
Jefferson over Aaron Burr.
1919 – Germany signs an armistice giving up
territory in Poland.
February 18
1907 – 600,000 tons of grain are sent to Russia
to relieve the famine there.
1945 – U.S. Marines storm ashore at Iwo Jima.
February 19
1861 – Russian Tsar Alexander II abolishes
serfdom.
1917 – American troops are recalled from the
Mexican border.
February 20
1938 – Hitler demands self-determination for
Germans in Austria and Czechoslovakia.
1959 – The FCC applies the equal time rule to TV
newscasts of political candidates.
February 21
1631 – Mikhail Romanov, son of the Patriarch of
Moscow, is elected Russian Tsar.
1862 – The Texas Rangers win a Confederate victory
in the Battle of Val Verde, New Mexico.
1972 – Richard Nixon arrives in Beijing, China,
becoming the first U.S. president to visit a country
not diplomatically recognized by the U.S.
February 22
1349 – Jews are expelled from Zurich, Switzerland.
1909 – The Great White Fleet returns to Norfolk,
Virginia, from an around-the-world show of naval
power.
1984 – Britain and the U.S. send warships to the
Persian Gulf following an Iranian offensive against
Iraq.
February 23
303 – Emperor Diocletian orders the general
persecution of Christians in Rome.
1836 – The Alamo is besieged by Santa Anna.
February 24
786 – Pepin the Short of Gaul dies. His
dominions are divided between his sons Charles
(Charlemagne) and Carloman.
1821 – Mexico gains independence from Spain.
February 25
1815 – Napoleon leaves his exile on the island of
Elba, returning to France.
1910 – The Dalai Lama flees from the Chinese
and takes refuge in India.
February 26
1848 – Karl Marx and Frederick Engels publish
The Communist Manifesto in London.
1951 – The 22nd Amendment is added to the
Constitution limiting the Presidency to two
terms.
February 27
425 – Theodosius effectively founds a university
in Constantinople.
1920 – The United States rejects a Soviet peace
offer as propaganda.
February 28
1066 – Westminster Abbey, the most famous
church in England, opens its doors.
1967 – In Mississippi, 19 are indicted in the
slayings of three civil rights workers.
March 1
1780 – Pennsylvania becomes the first U.S. state
to abolish slavery.
1974 – A grand jury indicts seven of President
Nixon's aides for the conspiracy on Watergate.
1992 –Bosnian Serbs begin sniping in Sarajevo,
after Croats and Moslems vote for Bosnian
independence.