October 3. Adolfo Luque of Cuba becomes the first Latino to play in a World Series game in 1919.
Posted
October 3, 1919. Adolfo Luque of Cuba becomes the first Latino to play in a World Series game. Photograph of Luque pitching in a Cincinnati Reds uniform, 1919.
October 2. First test of a television system is made by John Logie Baird in 1925.
Posted
October 2, 1925. First test of a television system is made by John Logie Baird. Gambling board featuring a television image, celebrating the new invention, 1930.
September 27. Albert Einstein delivers his paper to a physics journal introducing his equation E=mc2 in 1905.
Posted
September 27, 1905. Albert Einstein delivers his paper to a physics journal introducing his equation E=mc2. Albert Einstein is photographed while visiting the Mt Wilson Observatory in Los Angeles in…
September 26. Sir Francis Drake completes Earth’s circumnavigation in 1580.
Posted
September 26, 1580. Sir Francis Drake completes Earth’s circumnavigation. Woodcut of the eruption of Vesuvius, a scene from the series ‘Drake’s Voyanges,’ from circa 1800.
September 24. President Eisenhower enforces desegregation in Little Rock in 1957.
Posted
September 24, 1957. President Eisenhower enforces desegregation in Little Rock, Arkansas. Photo of a sharecroppers cabin with an Afrcan American girl in the doorway, from Roanoke, Virginia in 1905.
September 22. Gene Tunney defeats Jack Dempsey in ‘long count’ match in 1927.
Posted
September 22, 1927. Gene Tunney wins ‘long count’ match over Jack Dempsey. Portrait of Gene Tunney, c.1927.
September 21. In the Opium Wars the Euros defeat the Chinese in the Battle of Palikao in 1860.
Posted
September 21, 1860. In the Opium Wars the Euros defeat the Chinese in the Battle of Palikao. Real photo postcard from Shanghai showing antics in an opium den.
September 18. Fugitive Slave Act passed by Congress in 1850.
Posted
September 18, 1850. Congress requires all runaway slaves to be returned to owners in the Fugitive Slave Act. Advertising trade cards showing a slave having reached safety in the North,…
September 16. Wall Street bombing kills 38 in 1920.
Posted
September 16, 1920. Wall Street bombing occurs in front of the J.P. Morgan building. Wire photo of the aftermath of the bombing on Wall Street.
September 15. Charles Darwin aboard the HMS Beagle arrives in the Galapagos Islands in 1835.
Posted
September 15, 1835. Charles Darwin aboard the HMS Beagle arrives in the Galapagos Islands. Poster for a monkey act which proved Darwin’s theories, from circa 1905.
September 14. In the first military draft lottery this date as number one in 1969.
Posted
September 14, 1969. The number one day selected in the military draft lottery. Sheet music from WWI, with a wounded soldier not wanting to back to the front, 1918.
September 12. In Flatwoods, West Virginia a monster is sighted in 1952.
Posted
September 12, 1952. Among many reported unusual happenings, a monster is sighted in Flatwoods, West Virginia. A green monster graces the cover of Amazing Stories science fiction magazine.
September 10. In Wembley Stadium, London, the first world motorcycle speed championships are held in 1936.
Posted
September 10, 1936. At Wembley Stadium, London, the first world motorcycle speed championships are held. Needle envelope with a motorcycle them from the 1930s.
September 8. Northern Pacific Railway is completed in ceremony in Montana in 1883.
Posted
September 8, 1883. Northern Pacific Railway is completed in ceremony in Montana in 1883. Cabinet photo of the workers camp at Elk Creek for the Northern Pacific Railway, from the…
September 7. With the bombing of London, the Nazi Blitz begins in 1940.
Posted
September 7, 1940. With the bombing of London, the Nazi Blitz begins in 1940. Wire photograph of a Nazi airport from circa 1940.
Pictorial Daily
