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| 312 | Constantine the Great defeats Marcus Aurelius Valerius Maxentius at the Mulvian Bridge. | |
| 969 | After a prolonged siege, the Byzantines end 300 years of Arab rule in Antioch. | |
| 1216 | Henry III of England is crowned. | |
| 1628 | After a fifteen-month siege, the Huguenot town of La Rochelle surrenders to royal forces. | |
| 1636 | Harvard College, the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States, is founded in Cambridge, Mass. | |
| 1768 | Germans and Acadians join French Creoles in their armed revolt against the Spanish governor of New Orleans. | |
| 1793 | Eli Whitney applies for a patent on the cotton gin, a machine which cleans the tight-clinging seeds from short-staple cotton easily and effectively–a job which was previously done by hand. | |
| 1863 | In a rare night attack, Confederates under Gen. James Longstreet attack a Federal force near Chattanooga, Tennessee, hoping to cut their supply line, the “cracker line.” They fail. | |
| 1886 | The Statue of Liberty, originally named Liberty Enlightening the World, is dedicated at Liberty Island, N. Y., formerly Bedloe’s Island, by President Grover Cleveland | |
| 1901 | Race riots sparked by Booker T. Washington’s visit to the White House kill 34. | |
| 1904 | The St. Louis police try a new investigation method: fingerprints. | |
| 1914 | The German cruiser Emden, disguised as a British ship, steams into Penang Harbor near Malaya and sinks the Russian light cruiser Zhemchug. | |
| 1914 | George Eastman announces the invention of the color photographic process. | |
| 1919 | Over President Woodrow 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. | |
| 1927 | Pan American Airways launches the first scheduled international flight. | |
| 1940 | Italy invades Greece, launching six divisions on four fronts from occupied Albania. | |
| 1944 | The first B-29 Superfortress bomber mission flies from the airfields in the Mariana Islands in a strike against the Japanese base at Truk. | |
| 1960 | In a note to the OAS (Organization of American States), the United States charges that Cuba has been receiving “substantial quantities of arms and numbers of military technicians” from the Soviet bloc. | |
| 1962 | Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev orders Soviet missiles removed from Cuba, ending the Cuban Missile Crisis. | |
| 1965 | Construction is completed on the St. Louis Arch; at 630 feet (192m), it is the world’s tallest arch. | |
| 1971 | Britain launches the satellite Prospero into orbit, using a Black Arrow carrier rocket; this is the first and so far (2013) only British satellite launched by a British rocket. | |
| 1982 | The Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party wins the election, giving Spain its first Socialist government since the death of right-wing President Francisco Franco. | |
| 2005 | Libby “Scooter” Lewis, chief of staff to Vice Pretender Cheney, resigns after being indicted for “outing” CIA agent Valerie Plame. | |
| 2007 | Argentina elects its first woman president, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner. |
Rare condition causes Italian woman to sweat blood
Ancient skull belonged to victim of deadly tsunami
Scientists studying a mysterious skull discovered in Papua New Guinea
88 years ago have said they believe it belonged to an early victim of a
violent tsunami in the southwest Pacific 6,000 years ago.The skull, named for the village of Aitape near where it was discovered, has been an item of longstanding archaeological interest because it is one of only a few rare skeletal remains to have been recovered from the area.
The universe as we know it should not exist
After performing the most precise experiments on antiprotons that have ever been carried out, researchers have discovered a symmetry in nature that they say just shouldn’t be possible.
Energy firm tasked with restoring power to Puerto Rico threatens to leave
The two-man Montana company that was awarded a
$300 million contract to restore electricity to Puerto Rico — thanks to
its connection to Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke — threatened to pull
out of the island territory in a tantrum over a request for more
transparency about its contract.
Reddit shuts down ‘alt-right’ forums
In an announcement posted on its website,
Reddit said it was cracking down on violent content in a way that it
hadn’t done before.
9-year-old banned from peewee football after calling opponent a ‘nigger’
A Massachusetts boy was banned from a peewee football league for using a racial slur against an opponent.
Man abandons 5-year-old son in the woods
Sheriff Jody Ashley of the neighboring Wayne County informed NBC and ABC affiliated television station, WDAM-TV on Monday the manhunt for 32-year-old Richard Dearman was in progress. She added Dearman told his son on Oct. 18 to hide by a tree because the “law was behind him.”
Cops arrest girl who attacked teen holding infant
Police and McCoy’s father Jeremy confirmed the incident took place Oct. 18 in Broken Bow, Oklahoma. No other arrests have been made yet.
Klan-defending Georgia lawyer calls for US to be divided into 'racial zones'
An Atlanta real estate lawyer who defended the Ku Klux Klan in the ’70s and ’80s is once again in the news for his claim that “desegregation was a mistake.”KKK Grand Dragon gets outed as Florida college student
Students at Jacksonville, Florida’s University
of North Florida were shocked when they discovered their
“normal”-looking classmate is a KKK “grand dragon.”
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