Chips, who had started off his life as a family pet and who went on to be the most decorated American war dog of the Second World War, died. He served in the Algerian-Moroccan, Tunisian, Sicilian, Rhineland and Central Europe Campaigns and won the Distinguished Service Cross, Silver Star and Purple Heart prior to the military ruling that only human beings could receive such awards.
He was returned to his owners, where he later died, after the war.
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Boston Terrier Sgt. Stubby, mascot of the mascot of the 102nd Infantry Regiment, died at age 10. He'd served for 18 months in France in the Great War, participating in 100 battles and four offensives. He provided warnings of attacks and of the use of mustard gas, and captured a German soldier by holding him by the seat of his pants.
He was a genuinely heroic dog.
The Casper recaptured fugitives indicated that they'd left Casper by rail.
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Whatever It Is, I’m Against It: Today -100: October 23, 1925: Of invasions, discre...: War of the Stray Dog News: Greece invades Bulgaria, occupying posts and shelling villages (well, at least one village). Greece, claiming Bu...
Billy Mitchell's troubles hit the front page.
Beer in Chicago did as well.
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The Hilldale Club from Philadelphia won the second Colored World Series, beating the Kansas City Monarchs to win the 4 of 7 series.
The Pirates tied up the World Series with the Nationals in Game 2.
And Mitchell's troubles were growing.
President Ford signed a Senate resolution restoring the citizenship of traitor Robert E. Lee.
South African forces drove ten miles into Angolan territory in reaction to the increased presence of Cuban troops in the country.
This is one of those news stories I can recall watching on the nightly news when I was a kid.
Fairfax County, Virginian K9 Officer Bandit was killed in the line of duty chasing a suspect.
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The longest part of the Serum Run was undertaken by Leonhard Seppala with lead dog Togo. They ran through the dark across the dangerous ice of Norton Sound.
Seppala was Kven, a group related to the Lapps. He's a major figure in the history of the Siberian Husky dog breed.
The Saturday magazines were out.
Diphtheria antitoxin ran out in Nome. The serum run had reached Kaltag.
Turkey exiled Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople Constantine VI to Greece
The Khost Rebellion in Afghanistan ended with the reign of King Amanullah Khan intact.
A national news media frenzy started when Cave explorer Floyd Collins became trapped in Sand Cave, Kentucky. The story went on for days, but did not conclude happily.
High winds blew a train off of a viaduct in County Donegal, Ireland, killing four people.
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Two mushers and 150 dogs began the relay transportation of diphtheria antitoxin to the remote town of Nome, Alaska
The event became the basis of the Iditarod sled dog race.
Italian prefects were ordered to control "suspect", i.e., non fascist, political organizations. Mass searches resulted.
Adolf Hitler pledged his loyalty to Bavarian Minister President Heinrich Held.
Hitler's pledge, of course, would turn out to be a lie. Held maintained Bavarian state sovereignty until the end, but ultimately the Bavarian government was removed in 1933 by Hitler. Held's pension would be revoked by the Nazis. He died in 1938.
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Finnish forces captured Taivalkoski.
The Red Army took Hiuma Island, Estonia.
The 1st Army broke through the Siegfried Line north of Aachen.
The RAF broke the dikes around Walcheren Island, flooding it.
Partisans attempted to kidnap fascist Italian Social Republic Minister of the Interior.Guido Buffarini Guidi with tragic unsuccessful results.
The ME 262 became operational.
The I-177 was sunk by the USS Samuel S. Miles
The USS Seawolf was sunk by the USS Richard M. Rowell in a friendly fire accident.
Pack mule train of 26th Indian Mule Co. with British 13th Corps, moving through town of Marradi.
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The Red Army entered Hungary. In Estonia, they reached the Baltic.
The Canadians crossed the Escaut Canal in an attack designed to clear the Germans from the north bank of the Scheldt. 30th Corps, however, was halted and the Germans made a successful counterattack north of Eindhoven.
The RAF destroyed an aqueduct on the Dortmund-Ems Canal wiping out a route of transport for prefabricated U-boat parts.
President Roosevelt delivered a speech in front of Washington Teamsters in which he defended himself against false accusations by Republicans that he had a Navy destroyer restrive his dog Fala from the Aleutians. In it, he stated:
These Republican leaders have not been content with attacks on me, or my wife, or on my sons. No, not content with that, they now include my little dog, Fala. Well, of course, I don't resent attacks, and my family don't resent attacks, but Fala does resent them. You know, Fala is Scotch, and being a Scottie, as soon as he learned that the Republican fiction writers in Congress and out had concocted a story that I'd left him behind on an Aleutian island and had sent a destroyer back to find him – at a cost to the taxpayers of two or three, or eight or twenty million dollars – his Scotch soul was furious. He has not been the same dog since. I am accustomed to hearing malicious falsehoods about myself ... But I think I have a right to resent, to object, to libelous statements about my dog.
The crowd laughed at the joke.
The 81st Infantry Division took the unoccupied Ulithi Atoll to the north of Palau. Work would immediately commence on building an airstrip.
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