Specialty Digest · Visual Stories This Day in History October 24 1945 The United Nations Comes Into Being Seven weeks after Japan’s surrender ended the Second World War, the charter founding the United Nations quietly took legal effect. The original 1945 UN Charter on permanent display at UN Headquarters, New York · Photo by Megs,
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Seven weeks after Japan's surrender ended the Second World War, the charter founding the United Nations quietly took legal effect.
Specialty Digest · Visual Stories This Day in History October 23 1956 Hungary Rises Against Soviet Rule A student march to a statue of a Polish general grew by nightfall into armed revolt, the first large-scale uprising against Soviet control behind the Iron Curtain. Photo: Jack Metzger, ETH-Bibliothek Zürich, Bildarchiv · CC BY-SA 4.0 What
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A student march to a statue of a Polish general grew by nightfall into armed revolt, the first large-scale uprising against Soviet control behind the Iron Curtain.
Specialty Digest · Visual Stories This Day in History October 22 1962 Kennedy Announces the Quarantine of Cuba In an eighteen-minute television address, President Kennedy told Americans that Soviet nuclear missiles sat ninety-three miles from Florida, and that the Navy would turn back any ship that tried to deliver more. U.S. Air Force / Lockheed
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In an eighteen-minute television address, President Kennedy told Americans that Soviet nuclear missiles sat ninety-three miles from Florida, and that the Navy would turn back any ship that tried to deliver more.
Specialty Digest · Visual Stories This Day in History October 21 1805 Nelson Dies Winning the Battle of Trafalgar A British fleet broke Napoleon’s naval ambitions off the coast of Spain in a single afternoon that cost its own commander his life. J. M. W. Turner, The Battle of Trafalgar, 21 October 1805, Royal Museums
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A British fleet broke Napoleon's naval ambitions off the coast of Spain in a single afternoon that cost its own commander his life.
Specialty Digest · Visual Stories This Day in History October 8 1871 The Great Chicago Fire Levels a City Overnight A fire of unknown origin tore through a drought-dried, wood-built city for two days, killing hundreds and leaving a hundred thousand people homeless, while legend quickly blamed a cow that almost certainly didn’t do it.
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A fire of unknown origin tore through a drought-dried, wood-built city for two days, killing hundreds and leaving a hundred thousand people homeless, while legend quickly blamed a cow that almost certainly didn't do it.
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Specialty Digest · Visual Stories This Day in History October 7 1571 The Holy League Crushes the Ottoman Fleet at Lepanto Nearly five hundred warships rowed into a Greek gulf expecting the war’s deciding battle, and by evening the Ottoman navy that had ruled the Mediterranean for a generation lay broken. Andrea Vicentino, The Battle
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Nearly five hundred warships rowed into a Greek gulf expecting the war's deciding battle, and by evening the Ottoman navy that had ruled the Mediterranean for a generation lay broken.
Specialty Digest · Visual Stories This Day in History October 6 1927 Hollywood Finds Its Voice Warner Bros. gambles its future on a melodrama with a few minutes of synchronized dialogue, and silent film’s remaining years begin counting down. Warner Bros., publicity still, via ha.com and Wikimedia Commons · Public Domain What Happened On October
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Warner Bros. gambles its future on a melodrama with a few minutes of synchronized dialogue, and silent film's remaining years begin counting down.
Specialty Digest · Visual Stories This Day in History October 5 1947 The Presidency Goes on Television Asking Americans to skip meat on Tuesdays, Harry Truman became the first president to speak to the nation live from inside the White House on television, changing how presidents would be seen as well as heard. Edmonston Studio
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Asking Americans to skip meat on Tuesdays, Harry Truman became the first president to speak to the nation live from inside the White House on television, changing how presidents would be seen as well as heard.
Specialty Digest · Visual Stories This Day in History October 4 1957 Sputnik 1 Opens the Space Age A beeping metal sphere launched from a desert in Soviet Kazakhstan convinced the United States, almost overnight, that it was losing a race it had not known was underway. Replica of Sputnik 1, Missile & Space Gallery,
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A beeping metal sphere launched from a desert in Soviet Kazakhstan convinced the United States, almost overnight, that it was losing a race it had not known was underway.