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5th October 1970: PBS, the national Public Broadcasting Service in the United States, was launched

With 80% of all American television households watching at least one PBS program each year, it has been consistently rated the most-trusted national institution in the United States according to Roper Opinion Research ...

4th October 1927: Work begins on the USA’s Mount Rushmore National Memorial in South Dakota

Washington’s face was the first to be completed, seven years after work began. In July 1939 Roosevelt was the final likeness to be ...

3rd October 1993: The Black Hawk Down incident during the Battle of Mogadishu

During the operation, two Black Hawk helicopters were shot down and 19 Americans lost their lives, while at least 200 Somali militiamen were killed as well as hundreds of ...

1st October 1957: The phrase ‘In God We Trust’ appears on U.S. paper currency for the first time

The first printed note to feature ‘In God We Trust’ was the updated one-dollar silver certificate that entered circulation on 1 October ...

30th September 1935: The Hoover Dam is dedicated by Franklin D. Roosevelt

The Hoover Dam was known as the Boulder Dam at the ...

29th September 1938: The Munich Conference agrees the Nazi annexation of the Sudetenland

On the 29th September 1938, Adolf Hitler, Neville Chamberlain, Benito Mussolini and Édouard Daladier reached an agreement on the Nazi annexation of the Sudetenland areas of ...

28th September 1781: The Siege of Yorktown begins in the American Revolutionary War

The Siege of Yorktown was the last major land battle of the American Revolutionary War in North ...

26th September 1960: Kennedy and Nixon take part in their first televised debate

The first United States presidential debate took place between John F. Kennedy and Richard ...

23rd September 1949: President Truman announces the USSR’s first nuclear test

‘The eventual development of this new force by other nations was to be expected. This probability has always been taken into account by ...

20th September 1973: Billie Jean King defeats Bobby Riggs in the ‘Battle of the Sexes’ tennis match

Female tennis player Billie Jean King beat Bobby Riggs, a former World No. 1 men’s player, in the ‘Battle of the ...