Today In History - October 9

1000 Leif Ericson discovers "Vinland"
1446 The Korean Hangual alphabet devised
1635 Religious dissident Roger Williams is banished from Massachusetts Bay Colony
1701 Collegiate School of Connecticut (Yale) is chartered in New Haven
1837 Steamboat "Home" sinks NC coast killing 100 people
1855 Joshua Stoddard patents the first calliope
1876 The first 2-way telephone conversation over outdoor wires
1877 The American Humane Association is organized in Cleveland
1888 The Public is admitted to the Washington Monument
1903 11" of rainfall in 24 hours is recorded in New York City
1915 Woodrow Wilson becomes the first president to attend a World Series game
1930 The first transcontinental flight by a woman is completed by Laura Ingalls
1936 Hoover Dam begins transmitting electricity to Los Angeles
1946 The first electric blanket is manufactured and sold for $39.50
1947 The first telephone conversation between a moving car and a plane
1961 Tanganyika becomes independent within the British Commonwealth
1962 NASA test pilot John B McKay takes the X-15 to an altitude of 39,200 meters
1963 Uganda becomes a republic within the British Commonwealth
1967 Che Guevara is executed in Bolivia
1969 Supremes release "Someday We'll Be Together"
1970 Khmer Republic (Cambodia) declares its independence
1973 Elvis and Priscilla Presley divorce after 6 years
1975 Emperor Hirohito of Japan visits San Francisco
1975 Soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov wins the Nobel Peace Prize
1980 The first consumer use of home banking by computer
1980 Princess Caroline of Monaco divorces Philippe Junot
1983 Four South Korean cabinet ministers are assassinated in Rangoon, Burma
1984 Kathy Sullivan becomes the first US woman to walk in space
1986 Senate convicted US District Judge Harry E. Claiborne making him the 5th federal official in history to be removed from office through impeachment
1989 Penthouse Magazine's Hebrew edition appears on newsstands
1990 Radio stations around the world play "Imagine" in honor of John Lennon
1990 Saddam Hussein threatens to attack Israel with a new missile

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