// file author: N.C.M 10/28/02
// This file of real history dates and facts was found at 
// http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki on Oct. 28th
// author unknown
// All the information was simply edited by hand into notepad
// by a UWCSE143 student
10/01/1958
NASA was created
10/01/1908
Ford introduces the Model T
10/01/1969
The Concorde breaks the sound barrier for the first time
10/02/1950
Comic stip Peanuts by Charles Schulz is first published in nine newspapers. 
10/03/1974
The Watergate trial opens
10/03/1995
O.J. Simpson found not guilty of murder
10/05/1921
The World Series was broadcast on the radio for the first time
10/05/1970
PBS became a television network
10/06/1927
The opening of "The Jazz Singer"- the first talking movie
10/06/1966
LSD was declared illegal in America
10/08/1871
The Great Chicago Fire takes place
10/10/1845
The U.S. Naval Academy opens
10/12/1492
Christopher Columbus' expedition makes landfall in the Caribbean
10/12/1933
Alcatraz becomes a federal prison
10/15/1815
Napolean I of France begins his exile on St. Helena
10/17/1933
Fleeing Nazi Germany/ Albert Einstein moves to the U.S.
10/22/1957
The first United States casualties occur in Vietnam
10/22/1962
President John F. Kennedy announces a blockade of Cuba
10/24/1954
Dwight D. Eisenhower pledges United States support to South Vietnam
10/25/1936
Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini crate the Rome-Berlin Axis
10/25/2001
Microsoft Windows XP is released
10/26/1881
The Gunfight at the O. K. Corral takes place
10/27/1775
United States Navy established
10/28/1886
Statue of Liberty dedicated
10/29/1929
New York stock market crashes
11/01/1952
The first hydrogen bomb is exploded by the United States on the island of Enewetak in the Bikini Atoll
11/05/1872
Suffragist Susan B. Anthony is fined $100 for attempting to vote
11/09/1989
Berlin Wall is opened
11/11/1918
World War I ends
11/14/1945
Nuremberg Trials begin
11/15/1971
Intel releases world's first microprocessor, the 4004
11/18/1820
Antarctica discovered
11/19/1863
Abraham Lincoln delivers the Gettysburg Address
11/22/1963
U.S. President John F. Kennedy assassinated
11/24/1859
Charles Darwin publishes The Origin of Species
11/30/1782
United States and Great Britain sign preliminary peace articles, ending American Revolution
12/07/1941
The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor brings the United States officially into World War II
12/07/1903
Orville Wright flies the first heavier-than-air aircraft