Logan Stout

• September 25, 1789 US Congress proposes the Bill of Rights

• September 26, 1983 Soviet military officer Stanislav Petrov averts a worldwide nuclear war by judging supposed missile attack from the US an error.

• September 27, 1905 Albert Einstein’s paper “Does the Inertia of a Body Depend Upon Its Energy Content?”, is published; introducing the equation E=mc².

• September 28, 1781 9,000 American and 7,000 French troops begin siege of Yorktown.

• September 29, 1916, American oil tycoon John D. Rockefeller becomes the world’s first billionaire.

• September 30, 1938 Treaty of Munich signed by Hitler, Mussolini, Daladier and Chamberlain, forces Czechoslovakia to give territory to Germany

• October 1, 1908 Henry Ford introduces the Model T car (costs $825)