Friday, October 02, 2026
History for October 2
History for October 2 - On-This-Day.com
Don McLean 1945
- 1835 - The first battle of the Texas Revolution took place near the Guadalupe River when American settlers defeated a Mexican cavalry unit.
- 1870 - Rome was made the capital of Italy.
- 1919 - U.S. President Woodrow Wilson suffered a stroke that left him partially paralyzed.
- 1944 - The Nazis crushed the Warsaw Uprising.
- 1950 - "Peanuts," the comic strip created by Charles M. Schulz, was published for the first time in seven newspapers.
- 1955 - "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" debuted on CBS-TV.
- 1959 - "The Twilight Zone" debuted on CBS-TV. The show ran for 5 years for a total of 154 episodes.
Thursday, October 01, 2026
Breaking: Jack Smith Admits to Secretly Gathering Banking Info of Thousands of Trump Donors
Breaking: Jack Smith Admits to Secretly Gathering Banking Info of Thousands of Trump Donors:
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley said in a Tuesday news release that records provided to the committee through whistleblower disclosures revealed that Smith’s team acquired at least 4,782 checks from Americans who contributed mainly small dollar amounts between September 2019 and August 2023.
“Thousands of Americans across all 50 states, as well as Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico, who donated as little as $1 to President Trump and Trump-aligned Republican entities had their checks secretly subpoenaed by Special Counsel Jack Smith and his team,” the news release declares.
Truly Incredible... Retired Navy pilot Matthew 'Whiz' Buckley revealed today that the hijacked flydubai flight exceeded its maximum operating speed by a staggering 100 knots while plunging 20,000 feet in just 30 seconds.
This means the Boeing 737 MAX 8 was flying 115 mph OVER its absolute structural red-line limit! - Israel MyChannel@IsraelMychannel
- 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐃𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐫: Commercial jets are built tough, but they aren't fighter jets. Exceeding max speed by this much causes "flutter"—violent aerodynamic vibrations that can literally rip the wings or tail right off the fuselage mid-air.
- 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐌𝐢𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐥𝐞: Surviving a dive this steep and fast without the airframe snapping apart under the extreme G-forces is virtually unheard of.
The fact that the passengers and crew managed to subdue the attacker and pull the plane out of this violent dive before it disintegrated in the sky is an absolute miracle...
UCLA Would Rather You Didn’t Read the Syllabus
Universities like U Michigan/UCLA are still dragging their feet on syllabus transparency. - Daniel BuckI had a simple question: What are teachers learning at schools of education?..
In the course of that investigation (the results of which you can read about here), I requested the syllabi of required courses from 10 different universities.
- Eight gave me the requested documents promptly.
- The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor has yet to provide the syllabi over a year later but assures me that it will do so…one day…eventually.
- The University of California, Los Angeles, however, declined to fulfill this basic public records request. In a letter justifying their decision, they wrote that the public interest in not disclosing the requested documents “outweighs the public interest served by disclosure.”..
ICE Announces Arrests of Killers, Child Predators, Drug Traffickers in Major Sweep
ICE Announces Arrests of Killers, Child Predators, Drug Traffickers in Major Sweep:
These individuals committed crimes across the country in California, Indiana, Louisiana, Florida, New York, Iowa, Texas, Kansas, Maryland, Virginia, and Massachusetts.
The list of offenses ranged from murder, sexual abuse of a minor, and assault to drug possession with intent to distribute heroin and fentanyl.
Additionally, there were some who’d been convicted of “child abuse with great bodily injury or death,” as well as “lewd and lascivious acts” with a child under the age of 14.
The release came just days after ICE posted about another large group of illegal alien criminals who had been successfully apprehended.
Breaking: Trump to Announce Construction of the Largest Steel Plant in American History
Breaking: Trump to Announce Construction of the Largest Steel Plant in American History:
Officials said the mill would turn out about 7.5 million tons of steel a year in its first phase and as much as 10 million tons a year when fully built. The White House added that output would rank among the largest in the country and could supply defense-related demand.
#News Fast Fact: E. Jean Carroll never produced any proof of a 30-year-old allegation against Trump and was awarded tens of millions of dollars, Carroll was treated as a beacon for women's rights.
$5 million liability, $83 million defamation – for Trump’s denial calling Carroll a liar. - Christina Aguayo News
- Meanwhile 23 women launched timely s*xual assault allegations against prominent Democrats, including three against Bill Clinton (including r*pe) and one against Biden - but all cases were either not charged or dismissed.
The women in these cases were attacked by Democrats, accused of being partisan props and even 'trailer park trash'
- Carroll never produced a police report, a dressing-room witness, or physical evidence from the mid-1990s encounter she claims happened at Bergdorf Goodman in Manhattan. (She couldn't pin down a date, saying it happened in late 1995 or early 1996)
- A civil jury in that same city still found Donald Trump liable for s*xual abuse - not r*pe - and later hit him with tens of millions more in defamation damages...
- Carroll has a history of accusing men of crimes, in fact in her book, she includes a “Most Hideous Men of My Life” list of about 21 names that she claims either r*ped, sexually assaulted her, groped her, abused her at age 12, and physically abused her, including choking. (allegations)
Fast Facts...Read all!
Department of Education Officially Axes Biden's 'Illegal Title IX Rewrite'
Department of Education Officially Axes Biden's 'Illegal Title IX Rewrite':
The U.S. Department of Education said Monday it has formally rescinded the Biden administration’s 2024 Title IX regulation and restored the 2020 rule to the Code of Federal Regulations.
Officials described the 2024 rewrite as illegal and said the published text will now match the rule that has been enforced since early in President Donald Trump’s second term.
Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 barred sex discrimination in education programs that take federal money. The statute has long been the legal basis for sex-separated sports, locker rooms, and bathrooms in those schools.
When a single political party has total control!-----When Local Bureaucracy Pays Better Than the Oval Office: Fairfax County's Salary Problem
Fairfax County Public Schools Chief Equity Officer Nardos King makes $288,064 this year—more than every single member of the president’s Cabinet - Stephanie Lundquist-Arora
Indeed, the district doesn’t have just one highly paid executive, it has a small army of them.
- At the top of the heap, Michelle Reid, Fairfax schools’ superintendent, is paid $469,936 a year—nearly $70,000 more than the President of the United States...
- Reid, by contrast, runs a declining school district with about 180,000 students.
Indeed, the district doesn’t have just one highly paid executive, it has a small army of them.
- A Chief Information Technology Officer, a Chief Financial Officer, and a Division Counsel each earn $305,694.
- A Chief of Schools and a Chief Human Resources Officer each earn $293,824.
- Four more chiefs—of Facilities, Operations, Academics, and Safety and Security—make $288,064, alongside King.
- And ten assistant superintendents earn between $241,475 and $251,231.
- Add it up, and the 71 Fairfax County positions...single one of the 71 clears $200,000...
History for October 1
History for October 1 - On-This-Day.com 
Jimmy Carter 1924 - 39th President of the United States, 76th governor of Georgia
- 1890 - The U.S. Congress passed the McKinley Tariff Act. The act raised tariffs to a record level.
- 1908 - The Model T automobile was introduced by Henry Ford. The purchase price of the car was $850.
- 1938 - German forces enter Czechoslovakia and seized control of the Sudetenland. The Munich Pact had been signed two days before.
- 1940 - The Pennsylvania Turnpike opened as the first toll superhighway in the United States.
- 1962 - Johnny Carson began hosting the "Tonight" show on NBC-TV. He stayed with the show for 29 years. Jack Paar was the previous host.
- 1971 - Walt Disney World opened in Orlando, FL.
- 1989 - 7,000 East Germans were welcomed into West Germany after they were allowed to leave by the communist government.
- 2001 - San Francisco's Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to ban Internet filters designed to keep pornography away from children at city libraries.
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