Significant events that happened on this day.
Milano encouraged survivors to reply 'me too' to show the magnitude of sexual harassment and assault. The phrase, originally coined by activist Tarana...
Yang orbited Earth 14 times in 21 hours, making China only the third nation to independently launch a human into space. He returned a national hero an...
The probe survived intense radiation and captured stunning images of Io's 400+ active volcanoes. This daring maneuver provided unprecedented data abou...
The Soviet leader was honored for his policies of glasnost and perestroika that led to the fall of the Berlin Wall and reduced East-West tensions. Wit...
BBC weatherman Michael Fish famously dismissed concerns hours earlier, saying 'don't worry, there isn't' a hurricane coming. The storm caused £2 billi...
Millions of Americans took the day off work and school to protest the Vietnam War in peaceful demonstrations. It was the largest one-day protest in Am...
David Miller burned his draft card on the steps of a Manhattan induction center, becoming the first person prosecuted under a new law making the act a...
Chaplin's first talking picture brutally mocked Hitler and fascism at a time when the U.S. was still neutral. The film's final speech pleading for hum...
The Italian immigrant from New York had been selling lemon ice in paper cups, but customers kept walking away with his containers. His edible cone sol...
The philosopher who declared 'God is dead' and developed concepts of the Übermensch and eternal recurrence would become one of history's most influent...
The French chemist rose 84 feet in a tethered balloon designed by the Montgolfier brothers. This 4-minute flight marked humanity's first step into the...
This Italian physicist proved that air has weight and created the first sustained vacuum. The 'torr' unit of pressure is named after him, and his work...
Pope Gregory XIII's calendar reform corrected the Julian calendar's drift by skipping 10 days. People went to bed on October 4 and woke up on October...
