[Exercising the right to vote in Mississippi (in 1963). Air travel
revolutionized (1958). Feds cant prove their case (1918). Markets
plummet (1973). A new way of walkin (1923). Deadly influenza (1918).
None dare call it mutiny (1971)]
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_ Exercising the right to vote in Mississippi (in 1963). Air travel
revolutionized (1958). Feds can't prove their case (1918). Markets
plummet (1973). A new way of walkin' (1923). Deadly influenza (1918).
None dare call it mutiny (1971) _

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_OCTOBER 3, 1963 (60 YEARS AGO). _ At mass meeting in Jackson,
Mississippi, a large group of Mississippians, the vast majority of
whom are disfranchised by the state's racist voter registration rules,
gather to pick candidates to run in the fall 1964 election. They
nominate Aaron Henry for governor and Edwin King for lieutenant
governor, the first integrated ticket for the state's leadership since
the Reconstruction era. 
    Because the Henry-King ticket had almost no chance of appearing
on an official ballot, in November 1963 civil rights activists held
the Freedom Vote, a mock election with polling stations in
neighborhood locations such as churches, drug stores, gas stations and
barber shops. 
    Polls were open for three days beginning November 2. By the
4th, 78,869 ballots had been cast across Mississippi, four times the
number of blacks who were registered to vote in the state.
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_OCTOBER 4, 1958 (65 YEARS AGO)._ International travel is
revolutionized when a commercial jet carrying passengers crosses the
Atlantic for the first time. The trip from London to New York takes
six hours and 12 minutes, compared to the 11 hours and 30 minutes that
a piston-powered airliner needed. 

_OCTOBER 5, 1918 (105 YEARS AGO)._ A federal criminal trial ends in
 a hung jury and the U.S. Justice Department fails for the second
time to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that The Masses magazine and
the leading members of its staff -- Max Eastman, Floyd Dell, John
Reed, Josephine Bell, Henry Glinterekamp, Arthur Young and C. Merrill
Rogers, Jr. -- had violated the Espionage Act by publishing a magazine
opposed U.S. participation in World War 1.  
Twice the Justice Department attempted to convince a jury that
magazine's leadership had committed a crime. After the second failure
to secure a conviction, the charges are dismissed, but it is far too
late to save the magazine, which had to close down more than a year
earlier, because the Post Office would not deliver it to the
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_OCTOBER 6, 1973 (50 YEARS AGO)._ Financial markets go into free-fall,
giving rise to these New York Times headlines: "FED WEIGHS BID TO SPUR
ECONOMY AS MARKETS PLUMMET WORLDWIDE," "Global Fears of Recession Grow
Stronger," and "A Day (Gasp) Like Any Other." Front-page photos, with
no captions, show the faces of three anonymous desparate-looking
stock-exchange workers. The lead of the top story: "As pressure built
in the credit markets and stocks spiraled lower around the world on
Monday, the Federal Reserve was considering a radical new plan to
jump-start the engine of the financial system." The Crash of 1973 hits
hard.

_OCTOBER 7, 1923 (100 YEARS AGO). _The first section of the
Appalachian Trail opens with a 16-miles path from Bear Mountain in
NYS, to the Delaware Water Gap on the border of NJ+PA. With an
objective of having a hiking path from Maine to Georgia, the Trail
would be 2194 miles long by 2023.

_OCTOBER 8, 1918 (105 YEARS AGO). _An epicenter of the mushrooming
influenza pandemic is the U.S. Army's Camp Grant, where some 40,000
raw recruits are receiving basic training while living, sleepimg and
eating in dangerously overcrowded conditions. Camp Grant's first
influenza fatality took place on September 25. The camp experienced
100 fatalities in a single day just nine days later, on October 4. On
October 8, soon after Col. Charles Hagadorn, the camp's 52-year-old
commander, receives the latest daily report on the recruits' health,
he kills himself with a bullet to the head.

_OCTOBER 9, 1971. _U.S military operations in Vietnam take a dramatic
turn for the worst when five U.S. soldiers at Firebase Pace near the
Cambodian border refuse orders to go on patrol outside the perimeter
of the firebase. At the same time, U.S. media widely reports that 65
soldiers at Firebase Pace have signed a letter to Sen. Edward Kennedy
protesting that they were being ordered to participate in offensive
combat operations despite the Pentagon's claim the U.S. has ceased
combat operations in Vietnam.

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