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October 2017 Current Events: World News
Top of Page Disaster News | Science & Technology News | US News The world is a very busy place, and it's hard to stay on top of everything. Infoplease has got you covered. Here are the world…Emmett Till
The brutal 1955 murder of teenager Emmett Till helped ignite the civil rights movement in America in the 1950s. It's not clear exactly what Emmett Till, a 14-year-old Black boy, said or did to…Medgar Evers
Medgar Wiley Evers is the Black civil rights activist who was murdered in 1963 in Jackson, Mississippi. A World War II veteran and a graduate of Alcorn College, Evers began working in 1952 for the…Laura Ingalls Wilder Memorial Society
Laura Ingalls Wilder Memorial Society De Smet, South Dakota Six of Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House books are set in the small prairie town of De Smet. Today you can tour her family's…The Address and Reasons of Dissent of the Minority of the Convention of Pennsylvania to their Constituents
The Address and Reasons of Dissent of the Minority of the Convention of Pennsylvania to their Constituents12 December 1787by AbstractAfter the Pennsylvania Convention ratified the new…Magna Carta
(Encyclopedia) Magna Carta or Magna Charta [Lat., = great charter], the most famous document of British constitutional history, issued by King John at Runnymede under compulsion from the barons and…Charles Manson
Name at birth: Charles Milles MansonCharles Manson was the most notorious mass murderer of the 1960s. His followers murdered seven people, including the actress Sharon Tate, in a killing spree on the…Jack Ruby
Name at birth: Jacob RubensteinJack Ruby shot and killed Lee Harvey Oswald, accused assassin of president John F. Kennedy, on November 24, 1963. Jack Ruby was born in Chicago, and served in the U.S…Fantastic Fables, Ambrose Bierce: The Tried Assassin
46 48 The Tried Assassin AN Assassin being put upon trial in a New England court, his Counsel rose and said: "Your Honour, I move for a discharge on the ground of 'once in jeopardy': my client…Greta Van Susteren
Greta Van Susteren is a television legal personality whose show On the Record with Greta Van Susteren ran on the Fox News Network from 2002 until 2016. Greta Van Susteren grew up in Wisconsin and…