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October 15 1964:
It was announced that Soviet leader Nikita S. Khrushchev had been removed from office. He was succeeded as premier by Alexei N. Kosygin and as Communist Party secretary by Leonid I. Brezhnev. |
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October 16 1859:
John Brown leads a raid on the United States armory and arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia (now West Virginia). The abolitionist hoped to use captured weapons to initiate a slave uprising throughout the South. Brown is captured by a force lead by U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel Robert E. Lee along with Lieutenant J. E. B. Stuart as his aide-de-camp. He was tried and convicted of treason against the State of Virginia and sentrnced to death by hanging. He was executed on December 2, 1859. |
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Boss's Day (also known as Bosses Day or National Boss Day) is a secular holiday celebrated on October 16 in the United States. It has traditionally been a day for employees to thank their boss for being kind and fair throughout the year. The holiday has been the source of some controversy and criticism in the United States, where it is often mocked as a Hallmark Holiday.
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October 16 1964:
China detonated its first atomic bomb. |
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October 17 1931:
Mobster Al Capone was convicted of income tax evasion and sentenced to 11 years in prison. He was released in 1939. |
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October 19 1781:
At Yorktown, Virginia, representatives of British commander Lord Cornwallis hand over Cornwallis' sword and formally surrender in person to George Washington and the comte de Rochambeau, ending the American Revolutionary War. |
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October 19 1950:
United Nations forces entered the North Korean capital of Pyongyang. |
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October 20 1973:
In the so-called Saturday Night Massacre, President Nixon abolished the office of special Watergate prosecutor Archibald Cox, accepted the resignation of Attorney General Elliot L. Richardson and fired Deputy Attorney General William B. Ruckelshaus. |
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1520 Ferdinand Magellen arrives at Tierra Del Fuego (Pacific Ocean) !!
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October 21 1797:
The U.S. Navy frigate Constitution, also known as Old Ironsides, was launched in Boston Harbor. |
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