Oct.17,1933, Albert Einstein arrived in the U.S. as a refugee from Nazi Germany.

 

October 17, 1989: The Loma Prieta Earthquake

The 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake occurred on California's Central Coast on October 17 at 5:04 p.m. local time. The shock was centered in The Forest of Nisene Marks State Park in Santa Cruz County, approximately 10 mi northeast of Santa Cruz on a section of the San Andreas Fault System and was named for the nearby Loma Prieta Peak in the Santa Cruz Mountains. With an Mw magnitude of 6.9 and a maximum Modified Mercalli intensity of IX, the shock was responsible for 63 deaths and 3,757 injuries. The Loma Prieta segment of the San Andreas Fault System had been relatively inactive since the 1906 San Francisco earthquake until two moderate foreshocks occurred in June 1988 and again in August 1989.

 

This is one of my favorite threads

 

The Smithsonian channel is having that earthquake footage on TV right now

 

October 18th, 1988, the TV show Roseanne premiered on ABC.

 

On October 18th, 1898, Puerto Rico officially became a U.S. possession following the Spanish American war.

 

I bet he got Shooter drunk and suspended too.

 

I’m selling these for members who want to hide from Stanley. He can’t ban you if he can’t find you!

You can have the first one @Truthful 1

 

1954 Texas Instruments Inc. announces the first transistor radio.

 

1962 James Watson (US), Francis Crick (UK) and Maurice Wilkins (UK) win the Nobel Prize for Medicine for their work in determining the structure of DNA

 

1977 West German commandos liberate Boeing 737 with 86 hostages at Mogadishu

 

2021 Flash foods and heavy rain in northern Indian state of Uttarakhand and Nepal kill over 100 people after 328mm falls in 24 hrs

 

Radio the greatest invention ever in my eyes I love radio I still love radio . Although there isn’t much to listen to on the radio anymore I still love radio

 

Oct. 18, 1867, the U.S. took formal possession of Alaska from Russia.

 

Oct. 18, 1892, the first long distance telephone line between New York and Chicago was officially opened. It could handle one call at a time.

 

On October 18, 1977, in the sixth game of the World Series against the Los Angeles Dodgers, New York Yankees outfielder Reggie Jackson hits three home runs in a row off of three consecutive pitches from three different pitchers. Only the great Babe Ruth had ever hit three homers in a single World Series game (and he did it twice, once in 1926 and once in 1928) —but he didn’t do it on consecutive pitches or even consecutive at-bats. Jackson’s amazing home-run streak helped the Yankees win the game and the series, the team’s first since 1962.
Reggie Jackson—aka “Mr. October”—hits three homers in three swings - HISTORY

 

On October 18, 1933, the American philosopher-inventor R. Buckminster Fuller applies for a patent for his Dymaxion Car. The Dymaxion—the word itself was another Fuller invention, a combination of “dynamic,” “maximum,” and “ion”—looked and drove like no vehicle anyone had ever seen. It was a three-wheeled, 20-foot-long, pod-shaped automobile that could carry 11 passengers and travel as fast as 120 miles per hour. It got 30 miles to the gallon, could U-turn in a distance equal to its length and could parallel park just by pivoting its wheels toward the curb and zipping sideways into its parking space. It was stylish, efficient and eccentric and it attracted a great deal of attention: Celebrities wanted to ride in it and rich men wanted to invest in it. But in the same month that Fuller applied for his patent, one of his prototype Dymaxions crashed, killing the driver and alarming investors so much that they withdrew their money from the project.
R. Buckminster Fuller tries to patent his Dymaxion Car - HISTORY

 

On this day in history, Oct. 19, 1789, John Jay sworn in as first Supreme Court chief justice
Founding Father John Jay served our nation in many roles, including as first of just 17 chief justices in Supreme Court history

 

October 19, 1781
British General Lord Cornwallis surrenders 8,000 British solders and seamen to the larger Franco-American force in Yorktown Virginia, conclusively bringing an end to the Revolutionary War

 

October 19, 1947: The US Federal Works administrator said the minimum wage of 40 cents per hour is obsolete and should be changed to 75 cents per hour. The change was made in 1949.

My, how times have changed...