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1851 - Herman Melville's novel Moby-Dick is published in the U.S. by Harper & Brothers, New York - after it was first published on October 18, 1851 by Richard Bentley, London.
1862 - American Civil War: President Abraham Lincoln approves General Ambrose Burnside's plan to capture the Confederate capital at Richmond, Virginia, leading to the Battle of Fredericksburg.
1889 - Pioneer woman journalist Nellie Bly (Elizabeth Cochrane) begins a successful attempt to travel around the world in less than 80 days.
1910 - Aviation pioneer Eugene Ely performs the first take-off from a ship in Hampton Roads, VA. He took off from a makeshift deck on the light cruiser USS Birmingham in a Curtiss pusher.
1922 - The British Broadcasting Company (BBC) begins radio service in the United Kingdom.
1967 - Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones Ltd., The Monkees' fourth album, is released.
1969 - Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 12, the second manned mission to the surface of the Moon.
1970 - Southern Airlines Flight 932 crashes in the mountains near Huntington, West Virginia, killing 75, including members of the Marshall University football team.
1971 - Mariner program: Mariner 9 reaches Mars, becoming the first spacecraft to orbit another planet.
1973 - In the United Kingdom, Princess Anne marries Captain Mark Phillips, in Westminster Abbey.
1991 - In Royal Oak, Michigan, a fired United States Postal Service employee goes on a shooting rampage, killing four and wounding five before committing suicide. Hence the term, Going Postal.
1997 - 14-year-old Reena Virk is beaten and then murdered by fellow teenagers Kelly Ellard and Warren Glowatski.
2000 - Netscape Navigator version 6.0 is launched following two years of open source development.
2003 - Planetoid 90377 Sedna is discovered.
Happy Birthday:
1765 - Robert Fulton, American inventor (d. 1815)
1840 - Claude Monet, French painter (d. 1926)
1896 - Mamie Eisenhower, First Lady of the United States (d. 1979)
1908 - Joseph McCarthy, U.S. Senator and anti-communist (d. 1957)
1936 - Freddie Garrity, English singer (Freddie and the Dreamers) (d. 2006)
1948 - Charles, Prince of Wales
1949 - James Young, American guitarist (Styx)
Deaths on this day:
1915 - Booker T. Washington, American inventor, educator, and author (b. 1856)
Yep, he's the only one.
1862 - American Civil War: President Abraham Lincoln approves General Ambrose Burnside's plan to capture the Confederate capital at Richmond, Virginia, leading to the Battle of Fredericksburg.
1889 - Pioneer woman journalist Nellie Bly (Elizabeth Cochrane) begins a successful attempt to travel around the world in less than 80 days.
1910 - Aviation pioneer Eugene Ely performs the first take-off from a ship in Hampton Roads, VA. He took off from a makeshift deck on the light cruiser USS Birmingham in a Curtiss pusher.
1922 - The British Broadcasting Company (BBC) begins radio service in the United Kingdom.
1967 - Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones Ltd., The Monkees' fourth album, is released.
1969 - Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 12, the second manned mission to the surface of the Moon.
1970 - Southern Airlines Flight 932 crashes in the mountains near Huntington, West Virginia, killing 75, including members of the Marshall University football team.
1971 - Mariner program: Mariner 9 reaches Mars, becoming the first spacecraft to orbit another planet.
1973 - In the United Kingdom, Princess Anne marries Captain Mark Phillips, in Westminster Abbey.
1991 - In Royal Oak, Michigan, a fired United States Postal Service employee goes on a shooting rampage, killing four and wounding five before committing suicide. Hence the term, Going Postal.
1997 - 14-year-old Reena Virk is beaten and then murdered by fellow teenagers Kelly Ellard and Warren Glowatski.
2000 - Netscape Navigator version 6.0 is launched following two years of open source development.
2003 - Planetoid 90377 Sedna is discovered.
Happy Birthday:
1765 - Robert Fulton, American inventor (d. 1815)
1840 - Claude Monet, French painter (d. 1926)
1896 - Mamie Eisenhower, First Lady of the United States (d. 1979)
1908 - Joseph McCarthy, U.S. Senator and anti-communist (d. 1957)
1936 - Freddie Garrity, English singer (Freddie and the Dreamers) (d. 2006)
1948 - Charles, Prince of Wales
1949 - James Young, American guitarist (Styx)
Deaths on this day:
1915 - Booker T. Washington, American inventor, educator, and author (b. 1856)
Yep, he's the only one.
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