| 1555 |
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The Protestant martyrs Bishop Hugh Latimer and Bishop
Nicholas Ridley are burned at the stake for heresy in England. |
| 1701 |
|
Yale University is founded as The Collegiate School
of Kilingworth, Connecticut by Congregationalists who consider Harvard too liberal. |
| 1793 |
|
Queen Marie Antoinette is beheaded by guillotine
during the French Revolution. |
| 1846 |
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Ether was first administered in public at the Massachusetts
General Hospital in Boston by Dr. William Thomas Green Morton during an operation
performed by Dr. John Collins Warren. |
| 1859 |
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Abolitionist John Brown, with 21 men, seizes the
U.S. Armory at Harpers Ferry, Va. U.S. Marines capture the raiders, killing several.
John Brown is later hanged in Virginia for treason. |
| 1901 |
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President Theodore Roosevelt incites controversy
by inviting black leader Booker T. Washington to the White House. |
| 1908 |
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The first airplane flight in England is made at
Farnsborough, by Samuel Cody, a U.S. citizen. |
| 1934 |
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Mao Tse-tung decides to abandon his base in Kiangsi
due to attacks from Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalists. With his pregnant wife and
about 30,000 Red Army troops, he sets out on the "Long March." |
| 1938 |
|
Billy the Kid, a ballet by Aaron Copland,
opens in Chicago. |
| 1940 |
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Benjamin O. Davis becomes the U.S. Army's first
African American Brigadier General. |
| 1946 |
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Ten Nazi war criminals are hanged in Nuremberg,
Germany. |
| 1969 |
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The New York Mets win the World Series four games
to one over the heavily-favored Baltimore Orioles. |
| 1973 |
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Israeli General Ariel Sharon crosses the Suez Canal
and begins to encircle two Egyptian armies. |
| 1978 |
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The college of cardinals elects 58-year-old Karol
Cardinal Wojtyla, a Pole, the first non-Italian Pope since 1523. |
| 1984 |
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A baboon heart is transplanted into 15-day-old Baby
Fae--the first transplant of the kind--at Loma Linda University Medical Center,
California. Baby Fae lives until November 15. |
| 1995 |
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The Million Man March for 'A Day of Atonement' takes
place in Washington, D.C. |
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