7 October 1858
Chicago Speech
Lincoln answers Douglas and defends the Republican position in Chicago
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Browse historical events and people recorded at Chicago in United States of America. The records below are rendered directly from the World History Database into this page's initial HTML.
Lincoln answers Douglas and defends the Republican position in Chicago
Republicans open their national convention in Chicago
Republicans adopt a national platform opposing the expansion of slavery
Lincoln becomes the national standard bearer of the Republican Party
Lincoln is chosen as the Republican candidate for the 1860 presidential election
Lincoln wins the Republican presidential nomination on the third ballot
Republicans nominate Hannibal Hamlin as Lincolns running mate
Dawes organises a Chicago gas utility while expanding his banking and business interests.
Debs leads a railway boycott supporting Pullman workers during a major national labour conflict.
Bryan condemns exclusive gold monometallism and campaigns for free silver coinage.
Begins oil-drop measurements that isolate elementary electric charge by balancing electrical and gravitational forces on charged droplets.
Reports a precise value for the elementary electric charge from oil-drop measurements, strengthening the case for quantized charge.
Birth of Jacob Rubenstein
Composes a melody later adapted into the popular song It's All in the Game.
Studies isotope abundance and nuclear stability in heavy elements.
Dawes returns to Chicago banking after resigning from the Reconstruction Finance Corporation.
Birth of Ray Manzarek
Birth of Doors keyboardist Ray Manzarek.
The first shipment of irradiated uranium, about 300 pounds, arrives at the Metallurgical Laboratory for plutonium research.
Seaborg isolates pure plutonium using a separation method suitable for development on an industrial scale.
During a visit to the Metallurgical Laboratory, Groves orders long-delayed engineering decisions for plutonium production to be settled within five days.
Birth of John Michael Crichton
Seaborg warns that plutonium's alpha activity can make light-element impurities a serious unwanted neutron source.
Chicago Pile-1, the first nuclear reactor goes critical at the University of Chicago under the leadership and design of Enrico Fermi
Leads the first controlled self-sustaining uranium chain reaction.
A uranium and graphite pile achieves the first self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction.
Starts the first nuclear chain reaction. Completes the construction of a nuclear reactor at the University of Chicago. A constructed graphite pile is designed to produce weapons-grade plutonium
The Chicago Metallurgical Laboratory produces the first sample of plutonium in metallic form by chemically reducing plutonium fluoride.
Federal narcotics agents interviewed Jack and Hyman Rubenstein after Paul Roland Jones was arrested; both brothers acknowledged knowing Jones but denied knowing about his narcotics activity.
Malcolm X meets Elijah Muhammad in Chicago, soon after he changes his surname to "X", saying, the "X" is meant to symbolize the rejection of "slave names"
Wins the Republican Party nomination for President at the national convention.
44th pro boxing victoryt, knocking out former champ, Jersey Joe Walcott, at Chicago Stadium in two minutes
Hunt's wife Dorothy dies in United Airlines Flight 553; investigators later determine the crash was accidental, while cash found among her belongings attracts Watergate-related attention.
Begins Led Zeppelin's difficult 1977 North American tour.
Obama teaches constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School for twelve years, being first classified as a Lecturer from 1992 to 1996, and then as a Senior Lecturer from 1996 to 2004
Obama teaches constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School for twelve years, being first classified as a Lecturer from 1992 to 1996, and then as a Senior Lecturer from 1996 to 2004
Joins Davis, Miner, Barnhill & Galland, a twelve-attorney law firm specializing in civil rights litigation and neighborhood economic development, where he was an associate for three years from 1993 to 1996
Joins Davis, Miner, Barnhill & Galland, a twelve-attorney law firm specializing in civil rights litigation and neighborhood economic development, where he was an associate for three years from 1993 to 1996
Serves from 1994 to 2002 on the board of directors of the Woods Fund of Chicago, which in 1985 had been the first foundation to fund the Developing Communities Project
Serves from 1994 to 2002 on the board of directors of The Joyce Foundation
Publishes Lost Moon about the Apollo 13 mission.
Serves from 1994 to 2002 on the board of directors of the Woods Fund of Chicago, which in 1985 had been the first foundation to fund the Developing Communities Project
Serves on the board of directors of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge from 1995 to 2002
US authorities announce the arrest of an American citizen they accuse of planning to build and detonate a bomb containing radioactive material, Jose Padilla, is detained Chicago airport after arriving from Pakistan
The day President George W. Bush and Congress agree on the joint resolution authorizing the Iraq War, Obama addresses the first high-profile Chicago anti War rally in Federal Plaza, speaking out against the war
The day President George W. Bush and Congress agree on the joint resolution authorizing the Iraq War, Obama addresses the first high-profile Chicago anti War rally in Federal Plaza, speaking out against the war
The day Bush issues his 48-hour ultimatum to Saddam Hussein to leave Iraq before the US invasion of Iraq, Obama addresses the largest Chicago anti War rally to date in Daley Plaza and tells the crowd that "its not too late" to stop the war
The day Bush issues his 48-hour ultimatum to Saddam Hussein to leave Iraq before the US invasion of Iraq, Obama addresses the largest Chicago anti War rally to date in Daley Plaza and tells the crowd that "its not too late" to stop the war
In his victory speech, delivered before a crowd of hundreds of thousands of his supporters in Chicago's Grant Park, Obama proclaimed that "change has come to America"
Is elected vice president on Barack Obama's ticket.
Is arrested on corruption charges involving the vacant Senate seat of Barack Obama
Is reelected vice president with Barack Obama.
Refines distance ladder measurements that test the expansion history of the Big Bang universe.
Addresses the Democratic National Convention.
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