The first James Bond movie, Dr. No, is released. Dr. No is a 1962 British spy film, starring Sean Connery, with Ursula Andress and Joseph…
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4 October 1927
Gutzon Borglum begins the sculpting work on Mount Rushmore. On this day in 1927, sculpting begins on the face of Mount Rushmore in the Black…
3 October 1932
Iraq gets its independence from the United Kingdom. With the admission of Iraq into the League of Nations, Britain terminates its mandate over the Arab…
2 October 2002
The Beltway sniper attacks start. D.C. sniper attacks of 2002, shooting spree in the Washington, D.C., area that killed 10 people and injured 3 over…
1 October 1992
The Cartoon Network is launched. Cartoon Network is an American basic cable and satellite television channel that is owned by The Cartoon Network, Inc., a…
30 September 1949
The Berlin Airlift come to an end. After 15 months and more than 250,000 flights, the Berlin Airlift officially comes to an end. The airlift…
29 September 1911
Italy declares war on the Ottoman Empire. The Ottoman Empire, long considered the “Sick Man of Europe,” was the ostensible ruler of the Muslim and…
28 September 1928
Alexander Fleming notices a bacteria-killing mold growing in his laboratory leading to the discovery of penicillin. Scottish scientist Alexander Fleming makes a curious discovery when…
27 September 2014
Mount Ontake in Japan erupts. A volcanic eruption of Mount Ontake took place on September 27, 2014, killing 63 people. Mount Ontake is a volcano…
26 September 1905
Albert Einstein publishes his paper on the special theory of relativity. In 1905, Albert Einstein, a 26-year-old patent clerk, wrote a paper that revolutionized science….