This Day In History
- 1683 Thirteen families from Krefeld, Germany, arrived in present-day Philadelphia to begin Germantown, one of America's oldest European settlements.
- 1857 The first major chess tournament was sponsored in New York by the New York Chess Club.
- 1863 The first Turkish bath was opened in Brooklyn, NY. Dr. Charles Shepard was the proprietor.
- 1884 The Naval War College was established in Newport, R.I.
- 1889 The Moulin Rouge cabaret opened in Paris.
- 1927 The era of talking pictures arrived with the opening of ''The Jazz Singer,'' starring Al Jolson.
- 1939 In an address to the Reichstag, Adolf Hitler denied having any intention of war against France and Britain.
- 1949 American-born Iva Toguri D'Aquino, convicted as Japanese wartime broadcaster ''Tokyo Rose,'' was sentenced to 10 years in prison and fined $10,000.
- 1973 War erupted in the Middle East as Egypt and Syria attacked Israel during the Yom Kippur holiday.
- 1976 In his second debate with Democratic candidate Jimmy Carter, President Gerald R. Ford asserted there was ''no Soviet domination of eastern Europe.'' Ford later conceded that he had misspoken.
- 1979 Pope John Paul II became the first pontiff to visit the White House, where he was received by President Jimmy Carter.
- 1983 Cardinal Terence Cooke of New York died at age 62.
- 1987 The Senate Judiciary Committee voted 9-5 against the nomination of Robert H. Bork to the Supreme Court.
- 1989 Actress Bette Davis died in France at age 81.
- 1820 Jenny (Johanna) Lind (‘The Swedish Nightingale’: singer; died Nov 2, 1887)
- 1846 George Westinghouse (inventor: railway braking systems; developer: alternating current [AC] electricity; founder: Westinghouse Electric Company; died March 12, 1914)
- 1897 Florence Seibert (physician, scientist: developed process that removed all bacteria from water in a single distillation; perfected test used worldwide for tuberculosis; died in 1991)
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