October 2
1833 The Anti-Slavery Society was organized in New York City.
1890 Comedian Groucho Marx was born in New York City.
1935 Our Enemy the State by Albert Jay Nock
was published.
1950 The first Peanuts comic strip was published.
1954 The Jimmy Durante Show premiered on TV.
1954 The George Gobel Show premiered on TV.
October 3
1602 Decimal arithmetic was invented.
1902 Harvey Kurtzman, cartoonist and founder of
Mad magazine, was born in Brooklyn.
1925 Writer Gore Vidal was born in West Point, New York.
1947 Lindsey Buckingham, singer and songwriter with Fleetwood Mac,
was born in Palo Alto, California.
1951 Baseball star Dave Winfield was born in St. Paul, Minnesota.
1952 The first video recording on magnetic tape was made in Los Angeles.
1961 The Dick Van Dyke Show premiered on TV.
October 4
1861 Artist Frederick Remmington was born in Canton, New York.
1896 Comedian Buster Keaton was born in Piqua, Kansas.
1922 Actor and gun-owner rights advocate Charlton Heston was born
in Evanston, Illinois.
1946 Actress Susan Sarandon
(Susan Tomaling) was born in New York City.
1969 The Society for Individual Liberty was founded.
October 5
1830 Andrew Jackson proclaimed the reestablishment of trade with the
British West Indies.
1919 Actor Donald Pleasence was born.
1924 Comedian Bill Dana was born in Quincy, Massachusetts.
1962 The Beatles released their first single.
October 6
1846 Inventor George Westinghouse was born in Central Bridge,
New York.
1914 Sailing anthropologist and author Thor Heyerdahl was born
in Larvik, Norway.
October 7
1765 The Stamp Act Congress was convened.
1777 Americans beat back the British army at Bemis Heights in Boston.
1780 The Battle of King's Mountain, North Carolina, took place. The British
and Tories were defeated by mounted backwoodsmen.
This was the turning point of the war in the South.
1783 The Virginia House of Burgesses passed a law giving freedom to
slaves who served in the Continental Army.
1872 Boss Tweed was indicted.
1911 Singer and band leader Vaughn Monroe was born.
1913 Henry Ford established the first assembly line.
1919 The first commercial airline, KLM Royal Dutch Airlines,
was founded.
1951 Singer and songwriter John Cougar Mellencamp was born
in Seymour, Indiana.
October 8
1939 Actor Paul Hogan was born in
Lightning Ridge, Australia.
1943 Comedian Cornelius (Chevy) Chase was born in New York City.
1949 Actress Sigourney Weaver was born in New York City.
1956 Don Larson pitched a perfect game against
the Brooklyn Dodgers in the World Series.
October 9
1000 Lief Ericson landed in North America.
1940 Beatle John Lennon was born in Liverpool, England.
1950 Singer and song writer Jackson Browne was born
in Heidelberg, Germany.
1953 Topper premiered on TV.
1974 F. A. Hayek was awarded the Nobel prize in economics.
October 10
1738 Painter Benjamin West was born.
1774 Chester, Vermont, declared its independence.
1899 Economist Wilhelm Ropke was born.
1957 Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand was published.
1973 Vice President Spiro Agnew resigned his office and pleaded
no lo cotendere to a charge of income tax evasion.
October 11
1776 The Battle of Valcour Island started.
1925 Actor Richard Burton was born in Wales.
1935 Actor Roy "You're gonna need a bigger boat." Scheider
was born in Orange, New Jersey.
1948 Singer and songwriter Darly Hall was born
in Pottstown, Pennsylvania.
1961 The Bob Newhart Show premiered on TV.
1975 Saturday Night Live premiered on TV.
October 12
1936 Yankee shortstop Tony Kubek was born in
Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
1950 The Burns and Allen Show premiered on TV.
1969 The Radical Libertarian Alliance sponsored the first East Coast
Libertarian Conference in New York City.
October 13
1754 Molly Pitcher (Mary Ludwig),
heroine of the American Revolution, was born near Trenton, New Jersey.
1812 The US attempt to invade Canada failed when General Stephen
Van Rensselair could not persuade militia under his command to cross
the border.
1870 Libertarian social philosopher and essayist Albert Jay Nock
was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania.
1911 Libertarian social philosopher and educator Robert Lefevre
was born.
1921 French movie star Yves Montand was born in
Monsummano Alto, Italy.
1941 Singer and songwriter Paul Simon
was born in Newark, New Jersey.
1962 Football great Jerry Rice
was born in Starkville, Mississippi.
1991 The Bulgarian Communist government, the last in eastern Europe,
was defeated in elections.
October 14
1644 William Penn, founder of Pennsylvania, was born in London.
1774 The First Continental Congress passed a resolution protesting the
encroachments by the Crown of liberties of the people.
1890 "Relation of the State to the Individual" by
Benjamin R. Tucker
was published in Liberty.
1905 Travel guide author Eugene Fodor was born in
Leva, Hungary.
1906 Writer against totalitarianism and genocide
Hannah Arendt was born.
October 15
1858 Boxer John L. Sullivan was born in Roxbury, Massachusetts.
1881 Humorist P. G. Wodehouse
was born in Guildford, Surrey, England.
1923 The New York Yankees defeated the New York Giants in the World Series.
1942 Actress and director Penny Marshall was born in New York City.
1945 Baseball pitcher Jim Palmer was born in New York City.
1946 Hermann Goering, creator of the Nazi Luftwaffe, killed himself.
1951 I Love Lucy premiered on TV.
October 16
1758 Lexicographer Noah Webster was born at West Hartford,
Connecticut.
1773 Philadelphians held the first public protest against the Tea Act.
1828 The Delaware and Hudson canal opened.
1854 Wit and playwright Oscar Wilde was born in Dublin, Ireland.
1888 Playwright Eugene O'Neill was born in
New York City.
1940 Professional baseball and basketball player Dave DeBuschere
was born in Detroit.
1946 Actress and entrepreneur Suzanne Somers was born in
San Bruno, California.
October 17
1777 British General John Burgoyne
surrendered with 5,000 men to American
General Horatio Gates at Saratoga, New York.
1855 The Bessemer process was employed for the first time.
1927 Comedian Tom Poston was born in Columbus, Ohio.
October 18
1697 Landscape painter Giovanni Canaletto
was born in Venice, Italy.
1776 Tadeuz Kosciuszko was commissioned as Colonel of Engineers
in the Continental Army.
1926 Rock and Roll legend Chuck Berry
was born in St. Louis, Missouri.
1939 NFL Hall of Fame tight end and sportscaster Mike Ditka
was born in Carnegie, Pennsylvania.
October 19
1720 Quaker and anti-slavery writer John Woolman was born.
1765 The Stamp Act Congress in New York City drew up a declaration
of rights and liberties.
1781 British General Cornwallis surrendered with 7000 men at Yorktown, Virginia.
1810 Abolitionist Cassius M. Clay was born.
1922 Investigative reporter Jack Anderson was born in Long Beach,
California.
October 20
1632 Christopher Wren, architect, astronomer, and mathematician,
was born in East Knoyle, England.
1774 The Association of the United Colonies was constructed to boycott
goods from England.
1882 Horror movie star Bela Lugosi was born in Lugos, Hungary.
1931 Yankee great Mickey Mantle was born in Spavinaw, Oklahoma.
1953 Basebal star Keith Hernandez was born in San Francisco.
October 21
1772 Poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge was born in
Ottery St. Mary, Devonshire, England.
1879 Thomas Edison demonstrated the incandescent lamp.
1928 Yankee pitching great Whitey Ford was born in New York City.
1956 Actress and author Carrie Fisher was born in
Beverly Hills, California.
1948 Basketball star Bill Russell was born.
October 22
1811 Composer Franz List was born in Raiding, Hungary.
1938 Chester Floyd Carlson produced the first xerographic copy.
1938 Comic actor Christopher Lloyd
was born in Stamford, Connecticut.
1943 Actress Catherine Deneuve (Dorleac) was born in Paris.
1952 Actor Jeff Goldblum was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
1962 Premier Khrushchev agreed to halt Soviet construction of bases
in Cuba and to remove missiles from Cuba, thereby preventing a
nuclear war between the USA and the USSR.
1973 Baseball star Ichiro Suzuki was born.
October 23
1752 Nicolas Appert, the father of canning, was born in
Chalons-Sue-Marne, France.
1925 Comedian and Tonight Show host Johnny Carson was born
in Corning, Iowa.
1940 Soccer great Pele
(Edson Arantes do Nascimento) was born in Tres Coracoes, Brazil.
1942 Author Michael Crichton was born in Chicago.
1956 Hungarians revolted against communist dictatorship.
October 24
1632 Microscope pioneer Anton Van Leeuwenhoek was born in Delft,
Holland.
1774 People in Edenton, North Carolina, held a tea-party protest.
1940 Actor F. Murray Abraham was born in El Paso, Texas.
1947 Actor Kevin Kline was born in St. Louis, Missouri.
1978 American industries such as airlines and railroads were deregulated
to promote competition.
October 25
1765 The Non-Importation Agreement was made in
Philadelphia.
1767 French libertarian theorist Benjamin Constant was born
in Lausanne, Switzerland.
1800 Historian Thomas Macaulay was born at
Rothley Temple, Leicestershire, England.
1806 Individualist philosopher Max Stirner was born.
1825 Composer Johann Strauss was born in Vienna.
1838 Georges Bizet, composer of Carmen,
was born in Paris.
1882 Journalist and social philosopher John T. Flynn was born.
1941 Novelist Anne Tyler was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
October 26
1685 Composer Domenico Scarlatti was born in Naples, Italy.
1803 Taxi cab inventor Joseph A. Hansom
was born in York, England.
2000 The New York Yankees beat the New York Mets to win the "subway" World Series.
October 27
1775 Navy Day: The first ships in the US Navy were launched at
Skeensboro (Whitehall), New York.
1782 Nicolo Paganini, considered to be the greatest violinist ever,
was born in Genoa, Italy.
1858 Macy's opened its first store in New York City.
1871 William "Boss" Tweed was arrested after
looting New York City of between 30 and 200 million dollars.
1904 The first rapid-transit subway, the IRT, opened in
New York City. It was financed privately.
1919 President Woodrow Wilson
vetoed a prohibition enforcement bill.
1920 Comedienne Nanette Fabray was born in San Diego, California.
1939 Comedian John Cleese was born in Weston-Super-Mare, England.
1950 Humorist Fran Lebowitz was born.
October 28
1793 Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin.
1846 French chef George Auguste Escoffier was born.
1886 The statue Liberty Enlightening the World was unveiled
in New York harbor.
1914 Dr. Jonas Salk, inventor of polio vaccine, was born
in New York City.
1967 Actress Julia Roberts was born in Smyrna, Georgia.
October 29
1740 Journalist James Boswell was born in Edinburgh, Scotland.
1765 Sam Adams wrote the Massachusetts Resolves,
which provide a natural rights defense of private property.
1906 Science-fiction writer Frederic Brown
was born in Cincinnati, Ohio.
1947 Actor Richard Dreyfuss was born in Brooklyn.
October 30
1840 Libertarian social philosopher William Graham Sumner was
born in Patterson, New Jersey.
1895 Gerhard Domagk, discoverer of sulfa drugs, was born.
1918 Baseball great Ted Williams was born.
1925 John Baird created Britain's first TV transmitter.
1939 Singer Grace Slick was born in Evanston, Illinois.
1945 Actor Henry Winkler was born in New York City.
1964 Cassius Clay defeated Sonny Liston to become the heavyweight
boxing champion of the world.
October 31
1517 Martin Luther posted 95 propositions challenging
the authority of the church.
1683 The New York assembly adopted the Charter of
Liberties.
1795 Poet John Keats was born in London.
1833 Composer Aleksandr Borodin was born in Russia.
1912 Actress and singer Dale Evans was born in Uvalde, Texas.
1951 Comedian John Candy was born in Toronto.
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