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 September 24 through six deeply researched stories: the Atlantic Charter, Shiroyama, Vitellius, Mangalyaan, the Judiciary Act and Black Friday’s gold panic.
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Explore September 23 through six deeply researched stories: the Italian Social Republic, Assaye, Augustus, Neptune, Saudi Arabia and Nixon’s Checkers speech.
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Explore September 21 through five deeply researched stories: Heydrich’s 1939 directive, Prestonpans, Virgil, Galileo at Jupiter and France’s abolition of monarchy.
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Discover September 20 in history: the Waal crossing at Nijmegen, Paoli, Legio I Italica, Surveyor 2 and Magellan’s fleet departing Spain.
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Discover September 19 in history: Kaiapit, Freeman's Farm, the Ludi Romani, the Rainier underground nuclear test and New Zealand women's suffrage.
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Discover September 18 in history: Arracourt, Chile’s First Government Junta, the birth of Emperor Trajan, Vanguard 3, and the first issue of The New…
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Discover September 17 in history: the Soviet invasion of Poland, Antietam, Tiberius and Rome’s first imperial succession, the first fatal powered-airplane crash, and the…
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Discover September 16 in history: America’s first peacetime draft, the Grito de Dolores, Constantinople’s final council session, the Montreal Protocol and the Wall Street…
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Discover September 15 in history: USS Wasp, the first tanks in combat, Constans II, Cassini's final plunge and Darwin in the Galápagos.
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Discover September 14 in history: Maastricht's liberation, the Fire of Moscow, Domitian's accession, LIGO's first gravitational-wave detection and McKinley's death.
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