At 10:50 in the evening on Sunday, October 5, 1947, President Harry S. Truman walked to a lectern in the Diplomatic Reception Room of the White House, faced the large, unfamiliar e
On the evening of Friday, October 5, 1962, Radio Luxembourg, broadcasting to Britain on 208 meters on the medium wave band with the most powerful signal in popular music radio, pla
On the morning of October 5, 1789, the market women of Paris had reached their limit. For months they had watched bread prices rise to levels that made feeding their families nearl
In October 2006, a website went live under the address wikileaks.org that its creators described as a clearinghouse for classified, censored, or otherwise suppressed material from
At 5:30 in the afternoon on October 4, 1965, a Douglas DC-8 aircraft bearing the livery of Alitalia and decorated inside with chartreuse velvet touched down at John F. Kennedy Inte
At 10:29 p.m. Moscow time on October 4, 1957, a Soviet R-7 rocket roared off its launchpad at the Tyuratam launch site in the Kazakh Republic and began accelerating toward orbit. S
On October 4, 1830, a provisional government meeting in Brussels issued a formal declaration of independence, proclaiming the separation of the Belgian provinces from the United Ki
On the night of October 4, 1582, millions of people across Catholic Europe went to sleep in one world and woke up in another. The citizens of Spain, Portugal, Poland, and most of I
On October 4, 1535, the printing of the first complete English Bible was finished. The man responsible was Miles Coverdale, a Yorkshire-born priest and scholar who had fled England
On the morning of October 3, 2008, President George W. Bush signed the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 into law at the White House. The signing, conducted quickly and
