Tuesday, October 15, 2024

History for October 15

History for October 15 - On-This-Day.com 
Lee Iacocca 1924 - Chrysler Chairman
  • 1860 - Grace Bedell, 11 years old, wrote a letter to presidential candidate Abraham Lincoln. The letter stated that Lincoln would look better if he would grow a beard.
  • 1892 - The U.S. government announced that the land in the western Montana was open to settlers. The 1.8 million acres were bought from the Crow Indians for 50 cents per acre.
  • 1945 - Pierre Laval, the former premier of Vichy France, was executed for treason.
  • 1946 - Hermann Goering, a Nazi war criminal and founder of the Gestapo, poisoned himself just hours before his scheduled execution.
  • 1951 - "I Love Lucy" premiered on CBS-TV.
  • 1964 - It was announced that Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev had been removed from power. He was replaced with Alexei N. Kosygin.
  • 1984 - The Freedom of Information Act was passed.

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