On Friday, October 2, 1187, the city of Jerusalem surrendered to Saladin, the Sultan of Egypt and Syria, ending eighty-eight years of Crusader Christian control over the holiest ci
On October 1, 1982, Sony Corporation placed the world’s first commercially available compact disc player on sale in Japan. The device was called the CDP-101, and it carried a
On the morning of October 1, 1971, a family from Lakeland, Florida named the Windsors became the very first guests to walk through the turnstiles of the Magic Kingdom at Walt Disne
On the morning of October 1, 1958, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration officially opened for business at its first headquarters, the Dolley Madison House on Lafayette
On October 1, 1908, the Ford Motor Company shipped the first production Ford Model T to its customer. Henry Ford had tested a pre-production example himself just weeks before, taki
At exactly 3:00 in the afternoon on October 1, 1949, Mao Zedong stood atop the Tiananmen Gate in Beijing and addressed a vast crowd gathered in the square below. He wore a plain gr
On the evening of January 4, 2010, in the heart of Downtown Dubai, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, the ruler of Dubai, stepped to a podium before a crowd of thousands and ma
At 4:20 in the morning on January 4, 1948, Burma became an independent republic. The precise timing of the independence declaration had been chosen by an astrologer for its auspici
On January 4, 1847, Samuel Colt secured a contract to provide the United States government with 1,000 of his .44 caliber revolvers at a price of $25 per weapon, a $25,000 order tha
In the early hours of Tuesday, September 5, 1972, eight men in tracksuits climbed over the two-meter chain-link fence surrounding the Olympic Village in Munich, West Germany. They
