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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Today in History for September 29: Babyn Yar, Auray, Pompey, CERN, London’s Metropolitan Police and Space Shuttle Discovery’s return.
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Today in History for September 28: Poland’s partition, Yorktown, Pompey, Falcon 1, the First International and the first flight around the world.
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Six verified September 9 stories: Flodden, California statehood, a Harvard computer moth, Elvis, Mao's death and the Dreamcast.
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Six documented September 6 stories: the Victoria's return, McKinley, Ypres, Verwoerd, Swaziland and Pavarotti.
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Six documented September 5 stories: the Continental Congress, Chesapeake, Dolle Dinsdag, Munich, Voyager 1 and Pan Am Flight 73.
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Six verified September 4 stories: Los Angeles's pueblo, Antwerp, Eastman's patent, the Brabazon, Little Rock and Google.
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Explore six documented events on September 22, from Lincoln's preliminary emancipation proclamation to the founding of Mali, ITV's debut and Hinode's UTC launch.
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On September 26: Dover’s final shelling, Meuse-Argonne, Venus Genetrix, Kennedy and Nixon on television, Biosphere 2, and Abbey Road.
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Today in History for September 27: the Tripartite Pact, William’s invasion fleet, Champollion’s hieroglyph breakthrough, Dawn, Mexican independence and the Jesuits.
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On September 25: the fight at Stamford Bridge, the Arnhem evacuation, TAT-1, the Little Rock Nine, Sandra Day O’Connor, and Mars Observer.
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