Author: Christe McMenomy
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October 30: Lucas Watzenrode
On this date in 1447, Lucas Watzenrode was born. A nobleman from Weizenrodau in Poland, he studied theology at universities in Krakow, Cologne, and Bolona, became a priest and then bishop under Pope Innocent VIII, and in a political compromise between the King of Poland and the Pope, became Prince-Bishop of Warmia, an autonomous Bishop.…
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October 29: Arpanet
On October 29, 1969, around 10:30pm PST, Charley Kline, a student at UCLA using the SDS host computer in Boelter Hall, logged into the SDS 940 computer at the Stanford Research Center 350 miles away in the first successful ARPANET computer-to-computer transmission using a wide-area packet-switched network. Within a month, the UCLA-Stanford computers were permanently…
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October 28: The Statue of Liberty
On this day in 1886, President Grover Cleveland dedicated a statue in New York City. It was no simple ceremony. There was a parade from Madison Square down Fifth Avenue and Broadway to the Battery. Traders at the New York Stock exchange threw ticker tape out the windows as the parade passed, beginning the tradition…