October 2: What Happened on This Day in History (High_school Level)?

(Page last edited 10/12/2017)

1. 1535 - Jacques Cartier discovers Montreal, Quebec.
2. 1789 - George Washington sends the proposed Constitutional amendments (The United States Bill of Rights) to the States for ratification.
3. 1889 - In Colorado, Nicholas Creede strikes it rich in silver during the last great silver boom of the American Old West.
4. 1919 - U.S. President Woodrow Wilson suffers a massive stroke, leaving him partially paralyzed.
5. 1924 - The Geneva Protocol is adopted as a means to strengthen the League of Nations.
6. 1925 - John Logie Baird performs the first test of a working television system.
7. 1950 - Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz is first published
8. 1967 - Thurgood Marshall is sworn in as the first African-American justice of United States Supreme Court.
9. 1996 - The Electronic Freedom of Information Act Amendments are signed by U.S. President Bill Clinton.
10. 2001 - NATO backs U.S. military strikes following 9/11.
11. Famous Birthdays: Nat Turner (American slave and slave rebellion figure), Bud Abbott (American comedian and actor), Sir William Ramsay (Scottish chemist), Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (Indian independence movement figure), Edward Burnett Tylor (English anthropologist)

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