Friday, October 30, 2026
This Day In History
November 1, 1765
In the face of widespread opposition in the American colonies, the Stamp Act goes into effect. The taxation measure is designed to raise revenue for British military operations in America.
Taken from: https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/november-1/parliament-enacts-the-stamp-act
This Day In History
October 31, 1517
On October 31, 1517, legend has it that the priest and scholar Martin Luther approaches the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg, Germany, and nails a piece of paper to it containing the 95 revolutionary opinions that would begin the Protestant Reformation.
Taken from:https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/october-31/martin-luther-posts-95-theses
Thursday, October 29, 2026
This Day In History
October 29, 1969
Following several outbursts, the judge orders “Chicago Eight” defendant Bobby Seale gagged and chained to his chair during his trial.
Taken from: https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/october-29/bobby-seale-gagged-during-his-trial
Wednesday, October 28, 2026
Senior Night 10/30
Friday the 30th is SENIOR night against Stillwater at the HIVE! Come out if you can, and it is the last home game.
This is a pic of me at last year's Home Game with the POM team! Love them!!!
This Day In History
October 28, 1886
The Statue of Liberty, a gift of friendship from the people of France to the people of the United States, is dedicated in New York Harbor by President Grover Cleveland.
Taken by: https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/october-28/statue-of-liberty-dedicated
Monday, October 26, 2026
This Day In History
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
Saturday, October 24, 2026
This Day In History
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
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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
This Day In History
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
This Day In History
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
Monday, October 12, 2026
This Day In History
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
This Day In History
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
This Day In History
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
Wednesday, October 7, 2026
This Day In History
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
Tuesday, October 6, 2026
This Day In History
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
Monday, October 5, 2026
This Day In History
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
Thursday, October 1, 2026
Parent Teacher Conferences
Parent Teacher Conferences Fall 2026
Monday the 5th and Thursday the 8th
4 to 7
Hope to see you there!
This Day In History
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
This Day In History
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
This Day In History
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!
This Day in History
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
This Day In History
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
Monday, September 28, 2026
This Day In History
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:
This Day In History
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
Saturday, September 26, 2026
This Day In History
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