This Week in History
October 10:
- Frank leader Charles Martel, outnumbered and against overwhelming odds, won the Islam tours battles to keep Muslims from invading Europe and giving Christianity a chance to evangelize (732 AD)
- Second Great Awakening preacher Charles Finney was saved and had what he called a mighty baptism of the Holy Ghost. The next day, he gave up a career in law to become a preacher. (1821)
- WW2: 800 children are sent to the gas chambers by the Nazis in Auschwitz (1944)
- US Navel Academy founded (1845)
- Birth of Jacob Arminius, the Dutch theologian from whose writings and doctrines Protestants opposed to Calvinism have since been called “Arminians” (1560)
- Vice-President Spiro Agnew resigns in disgrace (1973)
- First synthetic detergent, Dreft by Procter & Gamble, goes on sale (1933)
- Ex-postal worker Joseph Harris kills 4 postal workers (1991)
October 11:
- Explorer Meriwether Lewis dies under mysterious circumstances at an inn called Grinder’s Stand in Tennessee (1809)
- US Civil War: Slavery abolished in Maryland (1864)
- Great Chicago Fire is finally extinguished after 3 days, 300 killed (1871)
- Thomas Edison patents his first invention: electric voice machine (1868)
- David Houston patents roll film for cameras (1881)
- A Miles patents elevator (1887)
- Daughters of American Revolution founded (1890)
- WW1: Edith Cavell, an English nurse in Belgium, is executed by the Germans for aiding the escape of Allied prisoners (1915)
- Chinese civil war begins (1945)
October 12:
US Navy forms (1775)- Columbus discovered America (1492)
- Civil War: General Robert E. Lee died (1870)
- President Grant condemns Ku Klux Klan (1871)
- First use of Iron Lung at Boston Children’s Hospital (1928)
- US Pledge of Allegiance first recited in public schools during Columbus Day (1892)
- Summoned before Cardinal Thomas Cajetan, Martin Luther refused to recant the 95 theses he had posted on the chapel door at Wittenberg Castle. (1518)
- USS Cole badly damaged in terrorist attack (2000)
- First women’s medical school, Women’s Medical College of Pennsylvania, opens (1850)
- President Theodore Roosevelt changes name of Executive Mansion to White House (1901)
- America’s first insane asylum opens in Virginia for ‘Persons of Insane and Disordered Minds’ (1773)
October 13:
Washington lays cornerstone of Executive Mansion, now called White House (1792)- Greenwich established as universal time meridian of longitude (1884)
- Revival of Hebrew language as Eliezer Ben-Yehuda & friends agree to use Hebrew exclusively in their conversations (1881)
- Persian armies of Cyrus the Great captured Babylon (539 BC)
- Nero become emperor of Rome (54 AD)
- Jordan enters Yom Kippur War (1773)
- In Virginia, slavery was banned for Negroes who arrived in the American colonies as Christians (1670)
- Harvey starring Jimmy Stewart is released (1950)
October 14:
- Massachusetts enacted a law against Quakers (1656)
- John Wesley first set sail to America, to minister to the Indians (1735)
- Yeager breaks sound barrier (1947)
- US Civil War: Battle of Bristoe Station in Virginia (1863)
- US Revolutionary War: The United Kingdom’s East India Company tea ships’ cargo is burned at Annapolis, Maryland (1773)
- WW1: Adolf Hitler wounded (1918)
- Robert the Bruce of Scotland defeats King Edward II of England at Byland, forcing Edward to accept Scotland’s independence (1322)
October 15:
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Agnes Ozman
After Pentecostal evangelist Charles Fox Parham opened Bethel Bible Institute in Topeka, Kansas, Student Agnes Ozman became the first in that movement to speak in tongues. (1900)
- Billy Graham begins his ministry (1949)
- 11-year-old Grace Bedell writes to Lincoln, tells him to grow a beard (1860)
- Edison Electric Light Company incorporated (1878)
- Child labor law takes 12 year olds out of work force (1874)
- WW1: Mata Hari is executed for spying for the Germans (1917)
- Vietnam War: First draft card burned (1965)
October 16:
- US Civil War: John Brown leads raid on Harper’s Ferry intending to arm slaves (1859)
- Cuban Missile Crisis begins when JFK becomes aware of missiles in Cuba (1962)
- China becomes a nuclear power (1964)
- Yale founded to fight growing liberalism of Harvard (1701)
- The American colony of Maine passed legislation granting religious freedom to all its citizens (1649)
- Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio founded (1923)
- Nicholas Ridley and Hugh Latimer were martyred by being burned at the stake by order of Queen Mary of England (1555)
- Welsh Revival Evangelist Daniel Rowland died (1790)
- Lincoln speaks out against slavery (1854)
- WW2: Alfred Rosenberg is executed as a war criminal (1946)
- French Revolution: Marie Antoinette beheaded (1793)
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