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September 25th
1066 ~ Battle of Stamford Bridge, which marked the end of the Viking era.
1683 ~ Birthday of Jean-Philippe Rameau, Composer.
1890 ~ Yosemite National Park established.
1897 ~ Birthday of William Faulkner, American writer, awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
1932 ~ Birthday of Glenn Gould, Pianist.
1950 ~ UN forces recaptured Seoul, the South Korean capital.
1957 ~ U.S. Army paratroopers ended the Little Rock school crisis.
1981 ~ Sandra Day O'Connor was sworn in as the 102nd Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, the first woman to hold the office.
1983 ~ Lieutenant Colonel Stanislav Petrov averted World War III by refusing to accept - despite the (erroneous) alert given by the Soviet early warning system - that the U.S. had launched missiles against the USSR.
2002 ~ The Vitim event, a possible NEO impact in Siberia, Russia.
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September 30th
1791 ~ Mozart's opera “The Magic Flute” premiered in Vienna, Austria.
1882 ~ Birthday of Hans Geiger, German physicist & co-inventor of the Geiger counter.
1913 ~ Death of Rudolf Diesel, German inventor.
1924 ~ Birthday of Truman Capote, Author (In Cold Blood).
1938 ~ British, French, German and Italian leaders agreed that Nazi Germany would be allowed to annex Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland.
1954 ~ The submarine USS Nautilus was commissioned as the first nuclear reactor powered vessel.
1955 ~ Death of James Dean, American actor.
1982 ~ Birthday of Tory Lane, Porn Actress.
1991 ~ President Jean-Bertrand Aristide of Haiti was forced from office.
1999 ~ Japan's worst nuclear accident occurred at a uranium reprocessing facility in Tokai-mura, northeast of Tokyo.
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October 1st
1905 ~ The Julliard School of Music was founded in New York City.
1939 ~ British Prime Minister Winston Churchill during a radio broadcast described the Soviet Union as ''a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma''.
1949 ~ The People's Republic of China was formed with Mao Zedong as its head.
1961 ~ The New York Yankees' Roger Maris hit his 61st home run of the season.
1968 ~ The cult horror movie "Night of the Living Dead" had its world premiere in Pittsburgh.
1971 ~ Walt Disney World opened in Orlando, Florida. Eventually it would become the largest, man-made, tourist attraction in the world.
1976 ~ Birthday of Dora Venter, Hungarian Porn Actress.
1979 ~ The U.S. returned sovereignty of the Panama canal to Panama. The Canal is a truly remarkable engineering achievement.
1986 ~ Former President Jimmy Carter's presidential library and museum were dedicated in Atlanta.
2009 ~ The Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, assumed the last judicial functions of the House of Lords.
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October 2nd
1187 ~ Saladin captured Jerusalem after 88 years of Crusader rule.
1836 ~ Charles Darwin returned to England after a 5-year journey aboard the HMS Beagle collecting data he will later use to develop his theory of evolution.
1869 ~ Birthday of Mahatma Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, Indian political leader.
1890 ~ Birthday of Groucho Marx, American comedian and actor.
1935 ~ Italy invaded Abyssinia (Ethiopia).
1951 ~ Birthday of Sting, English musician & actor.
1967 ~ Thurgood Marshall sworn in as the first African-American justice of United States Supreme Court.
1985 ~ Death of Rock Hudson, Actor.
1987 ~ Death of Peter Medawar, Brazilian-born scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
1993 ~ Hardline Communists riot in Moscow.
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October 3rd
1873 ~ Birthday of Emily Post, etiquette advisor.
1900 ~ Birthday of Thomas Wolfe, American novelist.
1916 ~ Birthday of James Herriot, veterinarian, author.
1922 ~ Rebecca L. Felton, D-Ga., became the first woman to be seated in the U.S. Senate. She was appointed to serve out the remaining term of Sen. Thomas E. Watson.
1925 ~ Birthday of Gore Vidal, author.
1967 ~ Death of Woody Guthrie, folk musician.
1973 ~ Frank Robinson was named major league baseball's first black manager when he was put in charge of the Cleveland Indians.
1990 ~ The re-unification of Germany. East Germany ceased to exist.
1995 ~ A jury found O.J. Simpson not guilty of murder in the 1994 slayings of his former wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and Ronald Goldman.
1997 ~ Attorney General Janet Reno said she had found no evidence that President Bill Clinton broke the law with White House coffees and overnight stays for big contributors.
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October 4th
1903 ~ Birthday of John Vincent Atanasoff, inventor of the digital electronic computer.
1941 ~ Birthday of Anne Rice, Author.
1943 ~ Birthday of H. Rap Brown, civil rights activist & murderer.
1957 ~ Launch of Sputnik I, the first artificial satellite to orbit the Earth.
1982 ~ Death of Glenn Gould, Canadian pianist.
1983 ~ The first Hooters restaurant opened in Clearwater, Florida.
1989 ~ Death of Secretariat, Triple Crown Winner.
1993 ~ Russian President Boris Yeltsin ordered the army to begin storming the Russian parliament building.
2002 ~ John Walker Lindh, the “American Taliban”, received a 20-year sentence.
2004 ~ The SpaceShipOne rocket plane broke through Earth's atmosphere for the second time in five days to capture a $10 million prize.
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October 6th
1600 ~ Jacopo Peri's “Euridice”, the earliest surviving opera, premiered in Florence.
1846 ~ Birthday of George Westinghouse, Engineer & Inventor.
1892 ~ Death of Alfred Tennyson, British poet laureate.
1914 ~ Birthday of Thor Heyerdahl, Norwegian explorer, leader of the “Kon-Tiki” expedition.
1927 ~ Opening of “The Jazz Singer”, the first talking movie.
1948 ~ Birthday of Gerry Adams, Irish politician.
1973 ~ Egyptian troops cross the Suez Canal, starting the Yom Kippur War.
1981 ~ Anwar al-Sadat was assassinated.
1887 ~ Death of Bette Davis, Actress.
1995 ~ The first extrasolar planet was discovered orbiting 51 Pegasi, in the constellation of Pegasus.
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1887 ~ Death of Bette Davis, Actress.
I knew she'd been gone for a while.
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1989 ~ Death of Bette Davis, Actress.
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Ooops! 
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