Events in History
Event of Interest
Oct 8 Officers decide to bar slaves & free blacks from Continental Army
Nathanael Greene
- Oct 13 First US Navy forms when Continental Congress orders construction of a naval fleet
- Oct 16 Portland, Maine burned by British
Event of Interest
Oct 18 African-American poet Phillis Wheatley freed from slavery
Phillis Wheatley
- Oct 27 US Navy forms as the Continental Navy
Birthdays in History
- Oct 12 Lyman Beecher, US Presbyterian clergyman, temperance movement leader, born in New Haven, Connecticut (d. 1863)