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October 27, 1966

On October 27, 1966, “It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown” makes its debut on CBS and delights American viewers. The animated special becomes a seasonal classic, watched by generations of families every year around Halloween.

Taken from: https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/october-27/great-pumpkin-charlie-brown-airs

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October 26, 1881

On October 26, 1881, the Earp brothers face off against the Clanton-McLaury gang in a legendary shootout at the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Arizona.

Taken from: https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/october-26/shootout-at-the-ok-corral

Deadline to Sign up for AP Test is in 5 Days - October 31st

 

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October 25, 1929

During the Teapot Dome scandal, former Secretary of the Interior Albert B. Fall, who served in President Warren G. Harding’s Cabinet, is found guilty of accepting a bribe while he was in office. On October 25, 1929, Fall became the first individual to be convicted of a crime committed while serving as a presidential Cabinet member.

Taken from: https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/october-25/cabinet-member-guilty-in-teapot-dome-scandal

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October 24, 1945

On October 24, 1945, the United Nations Charter, which was adopted and signed on June 26, 1945, is now effective and ready to be enforced.

Taken from: https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/october-24/the-united-nations-is-born

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October 23, 2001

On October 23, 2001, Apple introduces the iPod, a portable digital music player that revolutionized the music industry and transformed the consumption of audio and eventually video content. Its minimalist, user-friendly design also helped reshape Apple from primarily a computer company to a consumer device titan and paved the way for the iPhone.

Taken from: https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/october-23/first-ipod

Have a GREAT Fall Break!

 

BE SAFE - SEE YOU ON THE 19th!!!

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October 11, 2002

On October 11, 2002, former President Jimmy Carter wins the Nobel Peace Prize “for his decades of untiring effort to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts, to advance democracy and human rights, and to promote economic and social development.”

Taken from: https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/october-11/jimmy-carter-wins-nobel-prize

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October 10, 1767

On October 10, 1767, Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon complete their survey of the boundary between the colonies of Pennsylvania and Maryland as well as areas that would eventually become the states of Delaware and West Virginia. The Penn and Calvert families had hired Mason and Dixon, English surveyors, to settle their dispute over the boundary between their two proprietary colonies, Pennsylvania and Maryland.

Taken from: https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/october-10/mason-and-dixon-draw-a-line

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October 9, 1974

German businessman Oskar Schindler, credited with saving 1,200 Jews from the Holocaust, dies at the age of 66.

Taken from: https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/october-9/oskar-schindler-dies

Surround yourself with people like you!

 

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October 8,  1871

On October 8, 1871, flames spark in the Chicago barn of Patrick and Catherine O’Leary, igniting a two-day blaze that kills between 200 and 300 people, destroys 17,450 buildings, leaves 100,000 homeless and causes an estimated $200 million in damages (more than $5.4 billion in 2026).

Taken from: https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/october-8/great-chicago-fire-begins

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October 7, 2003

On October 7, 2003, actor Arnold Schwarzenegger is elected governor of California, the most populous state in the nation with the world’s fifth-largest economy. Despite his inexperience, Schwarzenegger came out on top in the 11-week campaign to replace Gray Davis, who had earlier become the first United States governor to be recalled by the people since 1921. Schwarzenegger was one of 135 candidates on the ballot, which included career politicians, other actors and one adult-film star.

Taken from: https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/october-7/arnold-schwarzenegger-becomes-california-governor

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October 6, 1996

On October 6, 1996, Democratic President Bill Clinton faces his Republican challenger, Senator Bob Dole from Kansas, in their first debate of that year’s presidential campaign.

Taken from: https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/october-6/bill-clinton-debates-bob-dole

Parent Teacher Conferences

 

Parent Teacher Conferences Fall 2026

Monday the 5th and Thursday the 8th

4 to 7

Hope to see you there!

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October 5, 2011

On October 5, 2011, Steve Jobs, the visionary co-founder of Apple Inc., which revolutionized the computer, music and mobile communications industries with such devices as the Macintosh, iPod, iPhone and iPad, dies at age 56 of complications from pancreatic cancer.

Taken from: https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/october-5/apple-founder-steve-jobs-dies

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October 4, 1957

The Soviet Union inaugurates the “Space Age” with its launch of , the world’s first artificial satellite, on October 4, 1957. The spacecraft, named Sputnik after the Russian word for “fellow traveler,” was launched at 10:29 p.m. Moscow time from the Tyuratam launch base in the Kazakh Republic.

Taken from: https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/october-4/sputnik-launched

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October 3, 1995

At the end of a sensational trial, former football star O.J. Simpson is acquitted of the brutal 1994 double murder of his estranged wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend, Ronald Goldman. In the epic 252-day trial, Simpson’s “dream team” of lawyers employed creative and controversial methods to convince jurors that Simpson’s guilt had not been proved “beyond a reasonable doubt,” thus surmounting what the prosecution called a “mountain of evidence” implicating him as the murderer.

Taken from: https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/october-3/o-j-simpson-acquitted

Be Careful for what You Wish for!

 

During the Road to Revolution - American Revolution.  The colonists did not like the Stamp Act, and organized.  They formed the Stamp Act Congress to protest, boycott, and get Parliament to repeal the Stamp Act.  They were MOST upset that they do not have representation in Parliament.  Then they GOT what they wanted.  England repealed the Stamp Act!  I believe this why they kept protesting, boycotting, and organizing.

Sadly though England said oh you don't want to pay tax on paper?  Well now you get to pay it on everything else!  They passed the Townshend Acts.  So be careful what you wish for!

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October 2, 1944

The Warsaw Uprising ends on October 2, 1944, with the surrender of the surviving Polish rebels to German forces.

Two months earlier, the approach of the Red Army to Warsaw prompted Polish resistance forces to launch a rebellion against the Nazi occupation. The rebels, who supported the democratic Polish government-in-exile in London, hoped to gain control of the city before the Soviets “liberated” it. The Poles feared that if they failed to take the city the Soviet conquerors would forcibly set up a pro-Soviet communist regime in Poland.

Taken from: https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/october-2/warsaw-uprising-ends

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October 1, 1946

 On October 1, 1946, 12 high-ranking Nazis are sentenced to death by the International War Crimes Tribunal in Nuremberg. Among those condemned to death by hanging were Joachim von Ribbentrop, Nazi minister of foreign affairs; Hermann Goering, founder of the Gestapo and chief of the German air force; and Wilhelm Frick, minister of the interior. Seven others, including Rudolf Hess, Adolf Hitler’s former deputy, were given prison sentences ranging from 10 years to life. Three others were acquitted.

Taken from: https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/october-1/nazi-war-criminals-sentenced-at-nuremberg

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September 30, 1868

The first volume of Louisa May Alcott’s book Little Women is published on September 30, 1868. The novel will become Alcott’s first bestseller and a beloved children’s classic.

Taken from: https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/september-30/first-volume-of-little-women-is-published

My favorite movie version:

You are ENOUGH!!!!

 

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On September 29, 1780

British spy John André is court-martialed, found guilty and sentenced to death by hanging on September 29, 1780. André, an accomplice of Benedict Arnold, had been captured by Patriots John Paulding, David Williams and Isaac Van Wart six days earlier on September 23, after they found incriminating papers stashed in his boot.

Taken from: https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/september-29/british-spy-sentenced-to-death

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September 28, 1781

On September 28, 1781, General George Washington, commanding a force of 17,000 French and Continental troops, begins the siege known as the Battle of Yorktown against British General Lord Charles Cornwallis and a contingent of 9,000 British troops at Yorktown, Virginia, in the most important battle of the Revolutionary War.

Taken from: https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/september-28/battle-of-yorktown-begins

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September 27, 1939

On September 27, 1939, 140,000 Polish troops are taken prisoner by the German invaders as Warsaw surrenders to Hitler’s army. The Poles fought bravely, but were able to hold on for only 26 days.

Taken from: https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/september-27/poland-surrenders

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September 26, 1960

On September 26, 1960, for the first time in U.S. history, a debate between major party presidential candidates is broadcast on live television. The presidential hopefuls, John F. Kennedy, a Democratic senator of Massachusetts, and Richard M. Nixon, the vice president of the United States, met in a Chicago studio to discuss U.S. domestic matters.

Taken from: https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/september-26/first-kennedy-nixon-debate

No Posts September 21 - 25th

 This last week was crazy so I am going to skip the week of September 21st - September 25th.

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September 20, 1946

The first annual Cannes Film Festival opens at the resort city of Cannes on the French Riviera. The festival had intended to make its debut in September 1939, but the outbreak of World War II forced the cancellation of the inaugural Cannes.

Taken from: https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/september-20/first-cannes-film-festival

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September 19, 1957

On September 19, 1957, the United States detonates a 1.7-kiloton nuclear weapon in an underground tunnel at the Nevada Test Site (NTS), a 1,375-square-mile research center located 65 miles north of Las Vegas. The test, known as Rainier, was the first fully contained underground detonation and produced no radioactive fallout. A modified W-25 warhead weighing 218 pounds and measuring 25.7 inches in diameter and 17.4 inches in length was used for the test. Rainier was part of a series of 29 nuclear weapons and nuclear weapons safety tests known as Operation Plumbbob that were conducted at the NTS between May 28, 1957, and October 7, 1957.

Taken from: https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/september-19/nevada-is-site-of-first-ever-underground-nuclear-explosion