History's headlines from today, October 25, before.

1870: first post card circulated

1944: first kamikaze attack

1955: microwave oven released to public

1964: "The Wrong Way Run"

1983: The US invades Grenada

Birthdays

1864: John Francis Dodge (co-founder, Dodge Brothers Company)

1881: Pablo Picasso (painter)

1912: Minnie Pearl (country comedienne)

Deaths

1400: Geoffrey Chaucer (poet, author, "The Canterbury Tales")

1826: Philipe Pinel (French physician, father of modern psychiatry)

1992: Roger Miller (country singer)

History's headlines from today, October 24, before.

1861: Transcontinental telegraph system completed

1889: Formalized indoor baseball (softball) rules

1901: Annie Taylor is first to survive Niagara Falls in a bucket

1929: Black Thursday

1938: Fair Labor Standards Act goes into effect

Birthdays

1788: Sara Josepha Hale (writer, "Mary Had a Little Lamb")

1904: Moss Hart (playwright, "You Can't Take It With You")

1985: Wayne Rooney (British soccer legend)

Deaths

1601: Tycho Brahe (astronomer)

1972: Jackie Robinson (color barrier-breaking hall of fame baseball player)

1991: Gene Roddenbery (co-creator of Star Trek)

History's headlines from today, October 23rd, before.

1679: The Meal-Tub Plot

1915: Suffragette march on New York City

1945: Jackie Robinson signs with Montreal Royals

2001: Apple releases the iPod

Birthdays

1925: Johnny Carson (comedian, host "The Tonight Show")

1940: Pele (Brazilian soccer legend)

1976: Ryan Reynolds (actor, entrepreneur, "Deadpool")

Deaths

42 BC: Marcus Junius Brutus (Roman senator, advisor to Julius Caesar)

1978: Maybelle Carter (country singer)

2002: Adolph Green (screenwriter, playwright, "Singin' in the Rain")

History's headlines from today, October 20th, before.

1774: Continental Congress bans entertainment

1803: Senate ratifies Louisiana Purchase

1924: Kansas City Monarch win first Negro League World Series

1973: Sydney Opera House opens

Birthdays

1859: John Dewey (philosopher, educational theorist)

1890: Jelly Roll Morton (jazz pioneer)

1891: James Chadwick (physicist, discovered neutron)

Deaths

1964: Herbert Hoover (31st US President)

1988: Sheila Scott (aviator, first woman to fly around the world solo)

1994: Burt Lancaster (actor, "Field of Dreams")

History's headlines from today, October 19th, before.

1781: General Cornwallis surrenders at Yorktown, ending Revolutionary War

1789: John Jay named first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court

1982: John DeLorean arrested for conspiring to obtain up to 220 lbs of cocaine

1985: First Blockbuster opens

1987: Black Monday

Birthdays:

1876: Mordecai "Three Finger" Brown (Hall of Fame pitcher)

1899: Hal B. Wallis (film producer)

1945: John Lithgow (actor)

Deaths:

1216: King John (King of England)

1745: Jonathan Swift (writer, "Gulliver's Travels")

1937: Ernest Rutherford (father of nuclear physics)

History's headlines from today, October 18th, before.

1648: Boston shoomakers and coopers unionize

1867: US buys Alaska

1898: US troops raise American flag in Puerto Rico

1921: Charles Strite receives pop-up automatic toaster patent

1922: BBC forms

Birthdays

1926: Chuck Berry (singer, guitarist)

1939: Mike Ditka (NFL coach)

1961: Wynton Marsalis (jazz musician)

History's headlines from today, October 17, before.

1814: London Beer Flood

1871: President Grant suspends Writ of Habeas Corpus

1920: First professional American football game

1931: Al Capone convicted

1989: 6.9 earthquake rocks Bay Area World Series

Birthdays

1914: Jerry Siegel (co-creator of Superman)

1915: Arthur Miller (playwright, "Death of a Salesman")

1938: Evil Knievel (motorcycle stuntman)

Deaths

1810: Frédéric Chopin (pianist, composer)

1962: Henry "Rubberlegs" Williams (Vaudeville dancer, blues singer)

1991: Tennessee Ernie Ford (country singer)

History's headlines from today, October 16, before.

1859: Harper's Ferry raid

1869: First hotel with indoor plumbing, running water

1923: Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio begins operations

1962: Evidence of USSR nuclear weapons in Cuba

1968: Olympic sprinters Tommie Smith and John Carlos raise fists in protest

Birthdays

1758: Noah Webster (lexicographer)

1854: Oscar Wilde (playwright, novelist, "The Picture of Dorian Gray"

1923: Bert Kaempfert (songwriter, record producer)

Deaths

1793: Marie Antoinette (Queen of France)

1959: George Marshall (US Secretary of State, "Marshall Plan")

1973: Gene Krupa (jazz and swing drummer, bandleader, "Sing, Sing, Sing")