https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_1

• 1893 – Henry Perky patents shredded wheat.
• 1894 – The First Sino-Japanese War erupts between Japan and China over Korea.
• 1907 – The start of the first Scout camp on Brownsea Island, the origin of the worldwide Scouting movement.
• 1911 – Harriet Quimby takes her pilot's test and becomes the first U.S. woman to earn an Aero Club of America aviator's certificate.
• 1993 – The Great Mississippi and Missouri Rivers Flood of 1993 comes to a peak.

Great Flood of 1993

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Flood_of_1993

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_2

• 1922 – A typhoon hits Shantou, Republic of China, killing more than 50,000 people.
• 1923 – Vice President Calvin Coolidge becomes U.S. President upon the death of President Warren G. Harding.
• 1932 – The positron (antiparticle of the electron) is discovered by Carl D. Anderson.
• 1934 – Gleichschaltung: Adolf Hitler becomes Führer of Germany following the death of President Paul von Hindenburg.
• 1937 – The Marihuana Tax Act of 1937 is passed in America, the effect of which is to render marijuana and all its by-products illegal.
• 1939 – Albert Einstein and Leo Szilard write a letter to Franklin D. Roosevelt, urging him to begin the Manhattan Project to develop a nuclear weapon.
• 1943 – The Holocaust: Jewish prisoners stage a revolt at Treblinka, one of the deadliest of Nazi death camps where approximately 900,000 persons were murdered in less than 18 months.
• 1943   – World War II: The Motor Torpedo Boat PT-109 is rammed by the Japanese destroyer Amagiri and sinks. Lt. John F. Kennedy, future U.S. president, saves all but two of his crew.
• 1990 – Iraq invades Kuwait, eventually leading to the Gulf War.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_3

• 1914 – World War I: Germany declares war against France, while Romania declares its neutrality.
• 1921 – Major League Baseball Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis confirms the ban of the eight Chicago Black Sox, the day after they were acquitted by a Chicago court.
• 1936 – Jesse Owens wins the 100 metre dash, defeating Ralph Metcalfe, at the Berlin Olympics.
• 1946 – Santa Claus Land, the world's first themed amusement park, opens in Santa Claus, Indiana, United States.
• 1948 – Whittaker Chambers accuses Alger Hiss of being a communist and a spy for the Soviet Union.
• 1949 – The Basketball Association of America and the National Basketball League finalize the merger that would create the National Basketball Association.
• 1958 – The world's first nuclear submarine, the USS Nautilus, becomes the first vessel to complete a submerged transit of the geographical North Pole.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_7

• 1794 – U.S. President George Washington invokes the Militia Acts of 1792 to suppress the Whiskey Rebellion in western Pennsylvania.^[15]
• 1947 – Thor Heyerdahl's balsa wood raft, the Kon-Tiki, smashes into the reef at Raroia in the Tuamotu Islands after a 101-day, 7,000 kilometres (4,300 mi) journey across the Pacific Ocean in an attempt to prove that pre-historic peoples could have traveled from South America.^[26]
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• 1974 – Philippe Petit performs a high wire act between the twin towers of the World Trade Center 1,368 feet (417 m) in the air.^[34]
• 1976 – Viking program: Viking 2 enters orbit around Mars.^[35]
• 1978 – U.S. President Jimmy Carter declares a federal emergency at Love Canal due to toxic waste that had been disposed of negligently.^[36]
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_8

• 1863 – American Civil War: Following his defeat in the Battle of Gettysburg, General Robert E. Lee sends a letter of resignation to Confederate President Jefferson Davis (which is refused upon receipt).
• 1876 – Thomas Edison receives a patent for his mimeograph.

• 1908 – Wilbur Wright makes his first flight at a racecourse at Le Mans, France. It is the Wright Brothers' first public flight.
• 1919 – The Anglo-Afghan Treaty of 1919 is signed. It establishes peaceful relations between Afghanistan and the UK, and confirms the Durand line as the mutual border. In return, the UK is no longer obligated to subsidize the Afghan government.^[5]
• 1929 – The German airship Graf Zeppelin begins a round-the-world flight.
• 1942 – Quit India Movement is launched in India against the British rule in response to Mohandas Gandhi's call for swaraj or complete independence.
• 1945 – The London Charter is signed by France, the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union and the United States, establishing the laws and procedures for the Nuremberg trials.
• 1969 – At a zebra crossing in London, photographer Iain Macmillan takes the iconic photo that becomes the cover image of the Beatles' album Abbey Road.
• 1974 – President Richard Nixon, in a nationwide television address, announces his resignation from the office of the President of the United States effective noon the next day.
• 1990 – Iraq occupies Kuwait and the state is annexed to Iraq. This would lead to the Gulf War shortly afterward.
• 2000 – Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley is raised to the surface after 136 years on the ocean floor and 30 years after its discovery by undersea explorer E. Lee Spence.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_10

August 10 is the 222nd day of the year (223rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar;  143 days remain until the end of the year.

The term 'the 10th of August' is widely used by historians as a shorthand for the Storming of the Tuileries Palace on the August 10, 1792, the effective end of the French monarchy until it was restored in 1814.

1519 – Ferdinand Magellan's five ships set sail from Seville to circumnavigate the globe. The Basque second-in-command Juan Sebastián Elcano will complete the expedition after Magellan's death in the Philippines.

1821 – Missouri is admitted as the 24th U.S. state.

1932 – A 5.1 kilograms (11 lb) chondrite-type meteorite breaks into at least seven pieces and lands near the town of Archie in Cass County, Missouri.]

• 1961 – Vietnam War: The U.S. Army begins Operation Ranch Hand, spraying an estimated 20 million US gallons (76,000 m³) of defoliants and herbicides over rural areas of South Vietnam in an attempt to deprive the Viet Cong of food and vegetation cover.^[6]

1948 – Candid Camera makes its television debut after being on radio for a year as Candid Microphone.

1985 - Evansville Indiana: Mike Maguire and Debbie Dart get married. Smartest thing that Mike ever did!  Happy 36th Anniversity to my Figgity Diggity!

1995 – Oklahoma City bombing: Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols are indicted for the bombing. Michael Fortier pleads guilty in a plea-bargain for his testimony.

• 2020 – Derecho in Iowa becomes the most costly thunderstorm disaster in U.S. history.^[15]

This image was when Mike used to be good looking but Debbie still looks the same (-:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_13

1792 – King Louis XVI of France is formally arrested by the National Tribunal, and declared an enemy of the people.

• 1969 – The Apollo 11 astronauts enjoy a ticker tape parade in New York City.^[6] That evening, at a state dinner in Los Angeles, they are awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by U.S. President Richard Nixon.^[7]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_15

1914   – The Panama Canal opens to traffic with the transit of the cargo ship SS Ancon.

• 1965 – The Beatles play to nearly 60,000 fans at Shea Stadium in New York City, an event later regarded as the birth of stadium rock.
• 1969 – The Woodstock Music & Art Fair opens in upstate New York, featuring some of the top rock musicians of the era.
• 1970 – Patricia Palinkas becomes the first woman to play professionally in an American football game.
• 1971 – President Richard Nixon completes the break from the gold standard by ending convertibility of the United States dollar into gold by foreign investors
• 1973 – Vietnam War: The USAF bombing of Cambodia ends

1977 – The Big Ear, a radio telescope operated by Ohio State University as part of the SETI project, receives a radio signal from deep space; the event is named the "Wow! signal" from the notation made by a volunteer on the project.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_17

1915   – A Category 4 hurricane hits Galveston, Texas with winds at 135 miles per hour (217 km/h).

1955 – Hurricane Diane made landfall near Wilmington, North Carolina, and it went on to cause major floods and kill more than 184 people...during global cooling.

1969 – Category 5 Hurricane Camille hits the U.S. Gulf Coast, killing 256 and causing $1.42 billion in damage.....during global cooling.

• 1970 – Venera program: Venera 7 launched. It will later become the first spacecraft to successfully transmit data from the surface of another planet (Venus).
• 1977 – The Soviet icebreaker Arktika becomes the first surface ship to reach the North Pole.

2008 – American swimmer Michael Phelps becomes the first person to win eight gold medals at one Olympic Games.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_22

1846 – The Second Federal Republic of Mexico is established.

• 1902 – Cadillac Motor Company is founded.
• 1902   – Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first President of the United States to make a public appearance in an automobile.

1968 – Pope Paul VI arrives in Bogotá, Colombia. It is the first visit of a pope to Latin America.

1989 – Nolan Ryan strikes out Rickey Henderson to become the first Major League Baseball pitcher to record 5,000 strikeouts.

2007 – The Texas Rangers defeat the Baltimore Orioles 30–3, the most runs scored by a team in modern Major League Baseball history.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_26

1791 – John Fitch is granted a United States patent for the steamboat

1883 – The 1883 eruption of Krakatoa begins its final, paroxysmal, stage

The 1883 eruption of Krakatoa (Indonesian: Letusan Krakatau 1883) in the Sunda Strait began on 20 May 1883 and peaked on the late morning of Monday, 27 August 1883, when over 70% of the island of Krakatoa and its surrounding archipelago were destroyed as it collapsed into a caldera.

The eruption was one of the deadliest and most destructive volcanic events in recorded history and explosions were so violent that they were heard 3,110 kilometres (1,930 mi) away in Perth, Western Australia, and Rodrigues near Mauritius, 4,800 kilometres (3,000 mi) away.^[2] At least 36,417 deaths are attributed to the eruption and the tsunamis it created. The sound was claimed to be heard in 50 different locations around the world and the sound wave is recorded to have travelled the globe seven times over.^[3]

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If the eruption is strong enough, it shoots that sulfur dioxide high into the stratosphere, more than 10 miles above Earth's surface. Up there, sulfur dioxide reacts with water vapor to form sulfate aerosols.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_28

• 1845 – The first issue of Scientific American magazine is published.
• 1859 – The Carrington event is the strongest geomagnetic storm on record to strike the Earth. Electrical telegraph service is widely disrupted.

1898 – Caleb Bradham's beverage "Brad's Drink" is renamed "Pepsi-Cola".

• 1955 – Black teenager Emmett Till is brutally murdered in Mississippi, galvanizing the nascent civil rights movement.
• 1957 – U.S. Senator Strom Thurmond begins a filibuster to prevent the Senate from voting on the Civil Rights Act of 1957; he stopped speaking 24 hours and 18 minutes later, the longest filibuster ever conducted by a single Senator.

1964 – The Philadelphia race riot begins.

1993 – NASA's Galileo probe performs a flyby of the asteroid 243 Ida. Astronomers later discover a moon, the first known asteroid moon, in pictures from the flyby and name it Dactyl.

                The Carrington Event            

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_30

1909 – Burgess Shale fossils are discovered by Charles Doolittle Walcott.*

https://siarchives.si.edu/history/charles-doolittle-walcott

• 1963 – The Moscow–Washington hotline between the leaders of the U.S. and the Soviet Union goes into operation.
• 1967 – Thurgood Marshall is confirmed as the first African American Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.

*Totally different guy than the fictitious Dr. JOHN Doolittle!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_Dolittle

Doctor John Dolittle is the central character of a series of children's books by Hugh Lofting starting with the 1920 The Story of Doctor Dolittle. He is a physician who shuns human patients in favour of animals, with whom he can speak in their own languages. He later becomes a naturalist, using his abilities to speak with animals to better understand nature and the history of the world.^[1]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_5

1960   – Muhammad Ali (then known as Cassius Clay) wins the gold medal in the light heavyweight boxing competition at the Olympic Games in Rome.

• 1972 – Munich massacre: A Palestinian terrorist group called "Black September" attacks and takes hostage 11 Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympic Games. Two die in the attack and nine are murdered the following day.
• 1975 – Sacramento, California: Lynette Fromme attempts to assassinate U.S. President Gerald Ford.
• 1977 – Voyager Program: NASA launches the Voyager 1 spacecraft.
• 1978 – Camp David Accords: Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat begin peace discussions at Camp David, Maryland.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_7

• 1864 – American Civil War: Atlanta is evacuated on orders of Union General William Tecumseh Sherman.
• 1876 – In Northfield, Minnesota, Jesse James and the James–Younger Gang attempt to rob the town's bank but are driven off by armed citizens.
• 1921 – In Atlantic City, New Jersey, the first Miss America Pageant, a two-day event, is held.
• 1921   – The Legion of Mary, the largest apostolic organization of lay people in the Catholic Church, is founded in Dublin, Ireland.
• 1923 – The International Criminal Police Organization (INTERPOL) is formed.
• 1927 – The first fully electronic television system is achieved by Philo Farnsworth.
• 1936 – The last thylacine, a carnivorous marsupial named Benjamin, dies alone in its cage at the Hobart Zoo in Tasmania.
• 1963 – The Pro Football Hall of Fame opens in Canton, Ohio with 17 charter members.
• 2008 – The United States government takes control of the two largest mortgage financing companies in the US, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_11

• 2001 – The September 11 attacks, a series of coordinated terrorist attacks killing 2,977 people using four aircraft hijacked by 19 members of al-Qaeda. Two aircraft crash into the World Trade Center in New York City, a third crashes into The Pentagon in Arlington County, Virginia, and a fourth into a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania.^[8]
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 Previous threads on the anniversary of this date. The archives from the old forum before 2018 no longer exist.

                What were you doing the morning of 9-11-01?            

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                Remembering September 11, 2001            

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  September 11th, 2001.            

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   September 11, 2018 This day in History            

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_15

• 1959 – Nikita Khrushchev becomes the first Soviet leader to visit the United States.
• 1962 – The Soviet ship Poltava heads toward Cuba, one of the events that sets into motion the Cuban Missile Crisis.
• 1963 – Baptist Church bombing: Four children killed in the bombing of an African-American church in Birmingham, Alabama, United States.
• 1967 – U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson, responding to a sniper attack at the University of Texas at Austin, writes a letter to Congress urging the enactment of gun control legislation.
• 1978 – Muhammad Ali outpointed Leon Spinks in a rematch to become the first boxer to win the world heavyweight title three times at the Superdome in New Orleans.
• 1981 – The Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously approves Sandra Day O'Connor to become the first female justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.
• 1981   – The John Bull becomes the oldest operable steam locomotive in the world when the Smithsonian Institution operates it under its own power outside Washington, D.C.
• 1983 – Israeli premier Menachem Begin resigns

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_21

• 1934 – A large typhoon hits western Honshū, Japan, killing more than 3,000 people.
• 1938 – The Great Hurricane of 1938 makes landfall on Long Island in New York. The death toll is estimated at 500–700 people.
• 1942 – The Holocaust in Ukraine: On the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur, Nazis send over 1,000 Jews of Pidhaitsi to Bełżec extermination camp.
• 1942   – The Holocaust in Ukraine: In Dunaivtsi, Ukraine, Nazis murder 2,588 Jews.
• 1942   – The Holocaust in Poland: At the end of Yom Kippur, Germans order Jews to permanently move from Konstantynów to Biała Podlaska.
• 1981   – Sandra Day O'Connor is unanimously approved by the U.S. Senate as the first female Supreme Court justice.
• 2001 – America: A Tribute to Heroes is broadcast by over 35 network and cable channels, raising over $200 million for the victims of the September 11 attacks.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_26

• 1777 – American Revolution: British troops occupy Philadelphia.
• 1789 – George Washington appoints Thomas Jefferson the first United States Secretary of State.^[1]
• 1905 – Albert Einstein publishes the third of his Annus Mirabilis papers, introducing the special theory of relativity.
• 1953 – Rationing of sugar in the United Kingdom ends
• 1954 – The Japanese rail ferry Tōya Maru sinks during a typhoon in the Tsugaru Strait, Japan, killing 1,172....during global cooling.
• 1959 – Typhoon Vera, the strongest typhoon to hit Japan in recorded history, makes landfall, killing 4,580 people and leaving nearly 1.6 million others homeless....during global cooling.
• 1960 – In Chicago, the first televised debate takes place between presidential candidates Richard M. Nixon and John F. Kennedy.
• 1969 – Abbey Road, the last recorded album by the Beatles, is released.
• 1973 – Concorde makes its first non-stop crossing of the Atlantic in record-breaking time.
• 1981 – Nolan Ryan sets a Major League record by throwing his fifth no-hitter.
• 2000 – Anti-globalization protests in Prague (some 20,000 protesters) turn violent during the IMF and World Bank summits.

2009 – Typhoon Ketsana hits the Philippines, China, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos and Thailand, causing 700 fatalities.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_28

1892 – The first night game for American football takes place in a contest between Wyoming Seminary and Mansfield State Normal.

1951 – CBS makes the first color televisions available for sale to the general public, but the product is discontinued less than a month later.

1995   – Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat sign the Interim Agreement on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_4

1582 – The Gregorian Calendar is introduced by Pope Gregory XIII.

1957 – Sputnik 1 becomes the first artificial satellite to orbit the Earth.

1983 – Richard Noble sets a new land speed record of 633.468 miles per hour (1,019.468 km/h) at the Black Rock Desert in Nevada.

1991 – The Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty is opened for signature.

• 2004 – SpaceShipOne wins the Ansari X Prize for private spaceflight.
• 2006 – WikiLeaks is launched.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_7

1950 – Mother Teresa establishes the Missionaries of Charity.

1958   – The U.S. manned space-flight project is renamed Project Mercury.

1963 – President Kennedy signs the ratification of the Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty.

1993 – The flood of '93 ends at St. Louis, Missouri, 103 days after it began, as the Mississippi River falls below flood stage.

• 1996 – Fox News Channel begins broadcasting.
• 1998 – Matthew Shepard, a gay student at the University of Wyoming, is found tied to a fence after being savagely beaten by two young adults in Laramie, Wyoming. He died five days later.
• 2000 – Israeli-Palestinian conflict: Hezbollah militants capture three Israeli Defense Force soldiers in a cross-border raid.
• 2001 – The U.S. invasion of Afghanistan begins with an air assault and covert operations on the ground.
• 2002 – The Space Shuttle Atlantis launches on STS-112 to continue assembly of the International Space Station.^[3]
• 2008 – Asteroid 2008 TC3 impacts the Earth over Sudan, the first time an asteroid impact is detected prior to its entry into earth's atmosphere.
• 2016 – In the wake of Hurricane Matthew, the death toll rises to over 800.^[4]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_10

1780 – The Great Hurricane of 1780 kills 20,000–30,000 in the Caribbean(when global temperatures were coldest towards the end of the Little Ice Age/global cooling).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Hurricane_of_1780

The Great Hurricane of 1780, also known as Huracán San Calixto, the Great Hurricane of the Antilles, the Great Hurricane of the West Indies, and the 1780 Disaster,^[1][2] was the deadliest Atlantic hurricane on record. An estimated  22,000 people died throughout the Lesser Antilles when the storm passed through the islands from October 10–16.^[3] Specifics on the hurricane's track and strength are unknown, as the official Atlantic hurricane database only goes back to 1851.^[4]

The hurricane struck Barbados likely as a Category 5 hurricane, with at least one estimate of wind speeds as high as 200 mph (320 km/h)^[5] (greater than any in recorded Atlantic basin history) before moving past Martinique, Saint Lucia, and Sint Eustatius, and causing thousands of deaths on those islands. Coming in the midst of the American Revolution, the storm caused heavy losses to the British fleet contesting for control of the area, largely weakening British control over the Atlantic. The hurricane later passed near Puerto Rico and over the eastern portion of Hispaniola, causing heavy damage near the coastlines. It ultimately turned to the northeast and was last observed on October 20 southeast of Atlantic Canada.

The death toll from the Great Hurricane alone exceeds that of many entire decades of Atlantic hurricanes. Estimates are marginally higher than for Hurricane Mitch, the second-deadliest Atlantic storm, for which figures are likely more precise. The hurricane was part of the disastrous 1780 Atlantic hurricane season, with two other deadly storms occurring in October.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_12

1773 – America's first insane asylum opens.

1892 – The Pledge of Allegiance is first recited by students in many US public schools.

• 1918 – A massive forest fire kills 453 people in Minnesota.
• 1928 – An iron lung respirator is used for the first time at Boston Children's Hospital.
• 1933 – The military Alcatraz Citadel becomes the civilian Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary.
• 1962 – The Columbus Day Storm strikes the U.S. Pacific Northwest with record wind velocities.  There was at least U.S. $230 million in damages and 46 people died.
• 1979 – Typhoon Tip becomes the largest and most intense tropical cyclone ever recorded.

Typhoon Tip:

https://www.marketforum.com/forum/topic/76053/#76117

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_15

• 1783 – The Montgolfier brothers' hot air balloon makes the first human ascent, piloted by Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier.^[3]
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  • 1878 – The Edison Electric Light Company begins operation.
  • 1888 – The "From Hell" letter allegedly sent by Jack the Ripper is received by investigators.
• 1910 – Airship America is launched from New Jersey in the first attempt to cross the Atlantic by a powered aircraft.
• 1928 – The airship Graf Zeppelin completes its first trans-Atlantic flight, landing at Lakehurst, New Jersey, United States.
• 1951 – Mexican chemist Luis E. Miramontes completes the synthesis of norethisterone, the basis of an early oral contraceptive.
• 1954 – Hurricane Hazel devastates the eastern seaboard of North America, killing 95 and causing massive floods as far north as Toronto.
• 1956 – FORTRAN, the first modern computer language, is first shared with the coding community.
• 1965 – Vietnam War: A draft card is burned during an anti-war rally by the Catholic Worker Movement, resulting in the first arrest under a new law.
• 1966 – The Black Panther Party is created by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale.
• 1989 – Wayne Gretzky becomes the all-time leading points scorer in the NHL.
• 2008 – The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes down 733.08 points, or 7.87%, the second worst percentage drop in the Dow's history.
• 2016 – One hundred ninety-seven nations amend the Montreal Protocol to include a phase-out of hydrofluorocarbons.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_18

• 1851 – Herman Melville's Moby-Dick is first published as The Whale by Richard Bentley of London.
• 1867 – United States takes possession of Alaska after purchasing it from Russia for $7.2 million. Celebrated annually in the state as Alaska Day.
• 1898 – The United States takes possession of Puerto Rico from Spain.
• 1929 – The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council overrules the Supreme Court of Canada in Edwards v. Canada when it declares that women are considered "Persons" under Canadian law.
• 1944 – World War II: Soviet Union begins the liberation of Czechoslovakia from Nazi Germany.
• 1954 – Texas Instruments announces the first transistor radio.
• 1963 – Félicette, a black and white female Parisian stray cat, becomes the first cat launched into space.
• 1979 – The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) begins allowing people to have home satellite earth stations without a federal government license.
• 2019 –  NASA Astronauts Jessica Meir and Christina Koch take part in the first all-female spacewalk when they venture out of the International Space Station to replace a power controller.^[3]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_20

1803 – The United States Senate ratifies the Louisiana Purchase.

1818 – The Convention of 1818 is signed between the United States and the United Kingdom, which settles the Canada–United States border on the 49th parallel for most of its length.

1973 – "Saturday Night Massacre": United States President Richard Nixon fires U.S. Attorney General Elliot Richardson and Deputy Attorney General William Ruckelshaus after they refuse to fire special prosecutor Archibald Cox, who is finally fired by Robert Bork.

1973 – "Saturday Night Massacre": United States President Richard Nixon fires U.S. Attorney General Elliot Richardson and Deputy Attorney General William Ruckelshaus after they refuse to fire special prosecutor Archibald Cox, who is finally fired by Robert Bork.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_26

1863 – The Football Association is founded.

• 1881 – Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday participate in the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Arizona.^[2]
• 1936 – The first electric generator at Hoover Dam goes into full operation.

1958 – Pan American Airways makes the first commercial flight of the Boeing 707 from New York City to Paris.

1994 – Jordan and Israel sign a peace treaty.

2001 – The United States passes the USA PATRIOT Act into law.

Patriot Act

https://www.justice.gov/archive/ll/highlights.htm