October 15
Today in America's Present Past
1762 | Composer Samuel Adams Holyoke was born.
1767 | Cleric Gabriel Richard was born.
1789 | POTUS: George Washington makes the first “tour” of the new nation.
1789 | Revolutionary War physician John Morgan died.
1810 | SCOTUS: Justice Alfred Moore died.
1829 | Astronomer Asaph Hall was born.
1858 | Boxer John L. Sullivan was born.
1860 | POTUS: 11-year-old Grace Bedell writes to candidate Abraham Lincoln, telling him to grow a beard.
1878 | Edison Electric Light Company was incorporated.
1881 | American Angler begins publication.
1881 | Novelist P. G. Wodehouse was born.
1883 | SCOTUS: The Court declared the Civil Rights Act of 1875 unconstitutional.
1895 | Entrepreneur Henry Perky patents a machine to help produce what will become Shredded Wheat.
1908 | Economist John Kenneth Galbraith was born.
1910 | Boxer Stanley Ketchel died.
1914 | Congress: Enacted anti-trust legislation, the Clayton Act (union & strike rights).
1917 | Historian Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. was born.
1920 | Novelist Mario Puzo was born.
1920 | Entrepreneur Peter Koch was born.
1924 | POTUS: Republican President Coolidge made the Statue of Liberty a national monument.
1924 | Entrepreneur Lee Iacocca was born.
1928 | German dirigible “Graf Zeppelin” lands in Lakehurst, New Jersey.
1930 | Entrepreneur Herbert Henry Dow died.
1933 | The 20th Amendment goes into effect.
1934 | Journalist and entrepreneur John Coleman was born.
1937 | Ernest Hemingway’s “To Have and Have Not” was published.
1940 | Film: “The Great Dictator” debuted.
1943 | Actress Penny Marshall was born.
1951 | TV: “I Love Lucy” debuted.
1952 | E. B White’s Charlotte’s Web was published.
1955 | Radio: “Grand Ole Opry” debuted.
1956 | Entrepreneur Kevin Harrington was born.
1959 | General George Marshall died.
1964 | Musician Cole Porter died.
1966 | The Blank Panther political party was created.
1966 | Congress: Democrat President Johnson signed an act to create the U.S. Department of Transportation.
1971 | Civil Rights: Sylvester Magee, the last living American slave, died.
1972 | WWI Medal of Honor recipient Lloyd Martin Seibert died.
1986 | Comedian Paul Walter Hauser was born in Saginaw, Michigan.
2000 | TV: “Curb Your Enthusiasm” debuted.
2018 | Entrepreneur Paul Allen died.