Today in History: October 9
October 9 in history: the Fourth Moscow Conference, Savannah’s failed assault, Apollo’s Palatine temple, LCROSS lunar water, the Great Hurricane of 1780 and Phantom’s London premiere.
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October 9 in history: the Fourth Moscow Conference, Savannah’s failed assault, Apollo’s Palatine temple, LCROSS lunar water, the Great Hurricane of 1780 and Phantom’s London premiere.
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Explore October 4 through six sourced stories: Corsica’s liberation, Germantown, the Fast of Ceres, Sputnik 1, Lesotho’s independence and Buster…
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Explore six sourced October 8 stories: Crucifix Hill, Angamos, Chalcedon, Pioneer Venus, the Great Chicago Fire, and Ozzie and Harriet…
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On 7 October: the Auschwitz-Birkenau Sonderkommando revolt, Lepanto, Pope Mark, Luna 3, the GDR's founding and the Broadway opening of…
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Explore October 4 through six sourced stories: Corsica’s liberation, Germantown, the Fast of Ceres, Sputnik 1, Lesotho’s independence and Buster Keaton’s birth.
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Explore six sourced October 8 stories: Crucifix Hill, Angamos, Chalcedon, Pioneer Venus, the Great Chicago Fire, and Ozzie and Harriet on radio.
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On 7 October: the Auschwitz-Birkenau Sonderkommando revolt, Lepanto, Pope Mark, Luna 3, the GDR's founding and the Broadway opening of Cats.
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Explore six sourced events from October 6: the Battle of Kock, the Yom Kippur War, Arausio, 51 Pegasi b, Anwar Sadat and The Jazz…
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Explore six deeply researched events from October 5: Warsaw in 1939, the Battle of the Thames, Heraclius, Portugal’s republic, STS‑41‑G and Monty Python.
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Six sourced events from 3 October, including Leiden's relief, Sigma 7, German reunification, the 1965 immigration act and Lincoln's Thanksgiving proclamation.
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Explore six sourced events from 2 October, from the Warsaw Uprising's end to the first Peanuts strip and the Tlatelolco massacre.
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Six October 1 stories with documented dates: Nuremberg, Rancagua, NASA, Nigeria, Yosemite and Walt Disney World.
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Explore six documented September 30 stories: Calais, Canal du Nord, Jerome, Rosetta, Botswana and The Magic Flute.
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