October 9
Today in America's Present Past
1000 | Leif Ericson reached “Vinland,” possibly the first European to reach North America.
1635 | Civil Rights: Roger Williams was banished from Massachusetts Bay Colony due to religious intolerance.
1701 | Yale University was founded.
1747 | Missionary David Brainerd died.
1782 | Soldier and politician Lewis Cass was born.
1806 | African-American astronomer Benjamin Banneker died.
1812 | War of 1812: Americans captured British invaders HMS Detroit and HMS Caledonia on Lake Erie.
1823 | Activist Mary Ann Shadd Cary was born.
1855 | Entrepreneur Issac Singer patented the sewing machine motor.
1864 | Civil War: Battle of Tom’s Brook.
1865 | The first U.S. underground oil pipeline was laid.
1873 | Entrepreneur Charles Rudolph Walgreen was born.
1877 | The American Humane Association was formed.
1888 | The Washington Monument was opened to the public.
1890 | Cleric Aimee Semple McPherson was born.
1895 | Aviator Eugene Bullard was born.
1899 | Historian Bruce Catton was born in Petoskey, Michigan.
1906 | Entrepreneur Joseph Glidden died.
1911 | Entrepreneur Jasper Newton Daniel died.
1915 | POTUS: Democrat President Wilson became the first sitting president to attend a baseball game.
1918 | Intelligence agent E. Howard Hunt was born.
1926 | The National Broadcast Corporation was formed.
1930 | Aviator Laura Ingalls completes the first female transatlantic flight.
1934 | Civil Rights: Detroit, Michigan World Series Riot.
1941 | POTUS: Democrat President Roosevelt approved the Manhattan Project.
1941 | Entrepreneur and journalist Brian Lamb was born.
1954 | SCOTUS: Justice Robert H. Jackson died.
1961 | U.S. members of the Communist Party are obligated to report themselves to the police (McCarran Act).
1969 | Civil Rights: The National Guard was called to quell riots over the Chicago Eight trial.
1974 | Civil Rights: Boston Race rioting over busing begins.
1986 | Congress: U.S. Senate impeached Judge Harry E. Claiborne.
1987 | Clare Boothe Luce died.
1990 | SCOTUS: Justice Davide Souter was sworn in.
1994 | Marathoner Fred Lebow died.
1999 | The last flight of the U.S. Lockheed SR-71 “Blackbird”
2006 | Entrepreneur Raymond Noorda died.
2017 | Economist Richard Thaler was awarded the Nobel Prize.
2023 | Entrepreneur Chuck Feeney died.