October 10, 1977 – Joe Namath played the last game of his National Football League career.
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October 9, 1986 – The musical “Phantom of the Opera” by Andrew Lloyd Webber opened in London.
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October 8, 1957 – Jerry Lee Lewis recorded the song “Great Balls Of Fire.”
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October 7, 1913 – For the first time, Henry Ford‘s entire Highland Park, Michigan automobile factory is run on a continuously moving assembly line when the chassis—the automobile’s frame—is assembled using the revolutionary industrial technique.
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October 6, 1848 – The steamboat SS California left New York Harbor for San Francisco via Cape Horn. The steamboat service arrived on February 28, 1849. The trip took 4 months and 21 days.
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October 5, 1930 – Laura Ingalls became the first woman to make a transcontinental airplane flight.
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October 6, 1957 – “Leave it to Beaver” debuted on CBS-TV.
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October 3, 1895 – ”The Red Badge of Courage”, by Stephen Crane, is published in book form. The story of a young man’s experience of battle was the first American novel to portray the Civil War from the ordinary soldier’s point of view. The tale originally appeared as a serial published by a newspaper syndicate.
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