Happy November & Thanksgiving Break!
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- Oct 10 1970 – Fiji becomes independent.
- Oct 9 1410 – The first known mention of the Prague astronomical clock.
- Oct 8 1970 – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn wins the Nobel Prize in literature.
- Oct 7 1912 – The Helsinki Stock Exchange sees its first transaction.
- Oct 6 1995 – The first planet orbiting another sun, 51 Pegasi b, is discovered.
- Oct 5 1905 – The Wright brothers pilot the Wright Flyer III in a new world record flight of 24 miles in 39 minutes.
- Oct 4 1895 – Horace Rawlins wins the first U.S. Open Men's Golf Championship.
- Sep 12 1959 – Bonanza premieres, the first regularly scheduled TV program presented in color.
- Sep 11 1997 – NASA's Mars Global Surveyor reaches Mars.
- Sep 10 1846 – Elias Howe is granted a patent for the sewing machine.
- Sep 9 1850 – California is admitted as the thirty-first U.S. state.
- Sep 8 1888 – Isaac Peral's submarine is first tested.
- Sep 7 1927 – The first fully electronic television system is achieved by Philo Farnsworth.
- Sep 6 1492 – Columbus sails from La Gomera in the Canary Islands, his final port of call before crossing the Atlantic Ocean for the first time.
- Sep 5 1774 – First Continental Congress assembles in Philadelphia.
- Sep 4 1951 – The first live transcontinental television broadcast takes place in San Francisco, from the Japanese Peace Treaty Conference.
- Sep 3 1875 – The first official game of polo is played in Argentina after being introduced by British ranchers.
- Sep 2 1901 – Vice President of the United States Theodore Roosevelt utters the famous phrase, "Speak softly and carry a big stick" at the Minnesota State Fair.
- Sep 1 1905 – Alberta and Saskatchewan join the Canadian confederation.
- Sep 1 1804 – Juno, one of the largest asteroids in the Main Belt, is discovered by the German astronomer Karl Ludwig Harding.[10]
- Aug 31 1895 – German Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin patents his navigable balloon.
- Aug 30 1835 – Australia: Melbourne, Victoria is founded.
- Aug 29 1966 – The Beatles perform their last concert before paying fans at Candlestick Park in San Francisco.
- Aug 28 1937 – Toyota Motors becomes an independent company.
- Aug 27 2003 – Mars makes its closest approach to Earth in nearly 60,000 years, passing 34,646,418 miles (55,758,005 km) distant.
- Aug 25 1609 – Galileo Galilei demonstrates his first telescope to Venetian lawmakers.
- Aug 25 1835 – The first Great Moon Hoax article is published in The New York Sun, announcing the discovery of life and civilization on the Moon.
- Aug 24 1909 – Workers start pouring concrete for the Panama Canal.
- Aug 24 1995 – Microsoft Windows 95 was released to the public in North America.
- Aug 24 2006 – The International Astronomical Union (IAU) redefines the term "planet" such that Pluto is now considered a dwarf planet.
- Aug 23 1541 – French explorer Jacques Cartier lands near Quebec City in his third voyage to Canada.
- Aug 23 1991 – The World Wide Web is opened to the public.
- Aug 22 1902 – Cadillac Motor Company is founded.
- Aug 21 1993 – NASA loses contact with the Mars Observer spacecraft.
- Aug 20 1926 – Japan's public broadcasting company, Nippon Hōsō Kyōkai (NHK) is established.
- Aug 20 1920 – The National Football League is organized as the American Professional Football Conference in Canton, Ohio
- Aug 19 1848 – California Gold Rush: The New York Herald breaks the news to the East Coast of the United States of the gold rush in California (although the rush started in January).
- Aug 19 1839 – The French government announces that Louis Daguerre's photographic process is a gift "free to the world".
- Aug 18 1903 – German engineer Karl Jatho allegedly flies his self-made, motored gliding airplane four months before the first flight of the Wright brothers.
- Aug 17 1977 – The Soviet icebreaker Arktika becomes the first surface ship to reach the North Pole.
- Aug 16 1960 – Cyprus gains its independence from the United Kingdom.
- Aug 15 2015 – North Korea moves its clock back half an hour to introduce Pyongyang Time, 81⁄2 hours ahead of UTC.
- Aug 15 1947 – India gains Independence from British rule after near 190 years of British company and crown rule, and joins the Commonwealth of Nations.
- Aug 14 1885 – Japan's first patent is issued to the inventor of a rust-proof paint.
- Aug 13 1960 – The Central African Republic declares independence from France.
- Aug 12 1981 – The IBM Personal Computer is released.
- Aug 11 1942 – Actress Hedy Lamarr and composer George Antheil receive a patent for a Frequency-hopping spread spectrum communication system that later became the basis for modern technologies in wireless telephones and Wi-Fi.
- Aug 10 1990 – The Magellan space probe reaches Venus.
- Aug 9 1892 – Thomas Edison receives a patent for a two-way telegraph.
- Aug 8 1988 – The first night baseball game in the history of Chicago's Wrigley Field (game was rained out in the fourth inning).[5]
- Aug 7 1927 – The Peace Bridge opens between Fort Erie, Ontario and Buffalo, New York.
- Aug 6 2012 – NASA's Curiosity rover lands on the surface of Mars.
- July 28, 1896 – The city of Miami, Florida is incorporated.
- July 27, 1940 – The animated short A Wild Hare is released, introducing the character of Bugs Bunny.
- July 26, 1951 – Walt Disney's 13th animated film, Alice in Wonderland, premieres in London, England, United Kingdom.
- Feb 11 1999 – Pluto crosses Neptune's orbit, ending a nearly 20-year period when it was closer to the Sun than the gas giant; Pluto is not expected to interact with Neptune's orbit again until 2231.[35]
- Feb 10 1996 – IBM supercomputer Deep Blue defeats Garry Kasparov in chess for the first time.
- Feb 09 1895 – William G. Morgan creates a game called Mintonette, which soon comes to be referred to as volleyball.
- Feb 08 1971 – The NASDAQ stock market index opens for the first time.
- Feb 07 1940 – The second full-length animated Walt Disney film, Pinocchio, premieres.[10]