Columbus Day is a national holiday in many countries of the
Americas and elsewhere, and a federal holiday in the United
States, which officially celebrates the anniversary of Christopher Columbus’s arrival in the Americas.
He went ashore at Guanahaní, an island in the Bahamas, on
October 12, 1492 [OS]. Wikipedia
Christopher Columbus
(between 25 August and 31 October 1451 – 20 May 1506)
US Naval Academy Class of 1892.
The United States Naval Academy opened in Annapolis, Maryland,
with 50 midshipmen students and seven professors. Known as
the Naval School until 1850, the curriculum included mathematics
and navigation, gunnery and steam, chemistry, English, natural philosophy, and French.
The Naval School officially became the U.S. Naval Academy in
1850, and a new curriculum went into effect, requiring midshipmen
to study at the academy for four years and to train aboard ships
each summer—the basic format that remains at the academy to
this day.
ROSS SIMPSON
On October 7, 1960, the first episode of the one-hour television
drama "Route 66" aired on CBS.
The program had a simple premise: It followed two young men,
Buz Murdock (George Maharis) and Tod Stiles (Martin Milner),
as they drove across the country in an inherited Corvette
(Chevrolet was one of the show’s sponsors), doing odd jobs
and looking for adventure.
“The motive power driving our two characters is not a Corvette:
it is the desire for knowledge—and for sentience; it is a quest
through the perennially fascinating cosmos of personal identity.”
On October 6, 1866, the brothers John and Simeon Reno staged
the first train robbery in American history, making off with
$13,000 from an Ohio and Mississippi railroad train in Jackson
County, Indiana.
Of course, trains had been robbed before the Reno brothers’
holdup. But these previous crimes had all been burglaries of
stationary trains sitting in depots or freight yards.
The Reno brothers’ contribution to criminal history was to stop
a moving train in a sparsely populated region where they could
carry out their crime without risking interference from the law
or curious bystanders.
Though created in Indiana, the Reno brother’s new method of
robbing trains quickly became very popular in the West.
By the late 19th century, train robbery was became an
increasingly difficult—and dangerous—profession.
Colt 45 the favorite gun of train robbers.
