October 8th:
2001- US President George W. Bush announces the establishment of the Office of Homeland Security
1915- Battle of Loos on WWI Western Front ends, German forces contain British attack (85,000 casualties)
1633- Massachusetts Bay Colony forms its first government
1769- Captain James Cook lands in New Zealand at Poverty Bay (East Coast)
1775- Officers decide to bar slaves & free blacks from Continental Army
1840- First Hawaiian constitution proclaimed
1871- Forest fire destroys Peshtigo, Wisconsin, killing between 1,200 and 2,500 people, making it then the deadliest wildfire in recorded history
1918- American soldier Alvin York single-handedly attacks German gun nest, killing at least 25 and capturing 132 Germans
1934- Bruno Hauptmann is indicted for murder of Charles Lindbergh’s son
1945- US President Harry Truman announces atomic bomb secret shared with Britain and Canada
1945- Microwave oven patented by US inventor Percy Spencer
1953- Birmingham, Alabama, bars Jackie Robinson’s Negro-White All-Stars from playing there Robinson gives in & drops white players from his group
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