Wednesday, October 6, 2010

October 6, 336 BC – Pausanias of Orestis Assassinates Attalus

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King Philip II carved out a grand empire stretching south from his original kingdom of Macedon. He unified the often-warring city-states of...
Tuesday, October 5, 2010

October 5, 1813 – Prophet Dies at Battle of the Thames

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As the new nation of the United States spread across North America, their frontiersmen encroached on lands that had belonged to the Native A...
Monday, October 4, 2010

October 4, 1970 – Janis Joplin Born Again

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Janis Joplin described her early life as that of a “Babylonian whore”, quoting a line from a fellow graduate of Thomas Jefferson High School...
Sunday, October 3, 2010

October 3, 2008 – Bush Vetoes Bailout

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A vicious cycle of “predatory lending” following comfortable economic growth in the mid-2000s gave way to one of the largest economic disast...
Saturday, October 2, 2010

October 2, 1529 – Ottomans Storm Vienna

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The army of Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent arrived at the gates of Vienna September 27, 1529. Three years before, Suleiman had smashed t...
Friday, October 1, 2010

October 1, 1936 – Mola named Jefe del Esanto for Spain

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The Spanish Civil War had raged for two and a half months, though the political confusion went back decades. In 1873, the experiment with t...
Thursday, September 30, 2010

September 30, 1955 – James Dean Narrowly Survives Crash

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Born February 8, 1931, James Dean grew to become America's favorite Bad Boy of the 1950s and '60s. A popular, though mediocre, high...