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On this day 63 years ago, Nebraska’s Memorial Stadium sellout streak began. 🏈

More than 36,000 fans filled the venue for a homecoming game against Missouri.

The Cornhuskers lost that Oct. 2, 1962 game 16-7, but the sellout marked the beginning of what would become college football’s longest active consecutive sellout streak.

The streak has continued for more than six decades, encompassing more than 400 games at Memorial Stadium.

Bomba

The bomba kryptologiczna—Polish for "cryptologic bomb"—was a machine designed in 1938 by mathematician and Polish Cipher Bureau cryptologist Marian Rejewski to break German Enigma machine ciphers. Shortly before Germany invaded Poland in 1939, Rejewski and his colleagues shared their findings on Enigma decryption with the French and British. The intelligence gathered as a result contributed, perhaps decisively, to the defeat of Nazi Germany.

1780 French-American force under Colonel LaBalme is defeated by Miami Chief Little Turtle

1872 American women's right to vote advocate Susan B. Anthony votes for Ulysses S. Grant

1872 Ulysses S. Grant re-elected US President

1895 First US automobile patent is granted to George B. Selden for a gasoline-driven car

1905 Roald Amundsen reaches Eagle City, Alaska, to announce to the world by telegraph his is the first expedition, in 400 years of attempts, to complete a Northwest Passage

5 Nov 1912 Franklin Roosevelt was re-elected to New York State Senate in the United States.

1912 Democrat Woodrow Wilson is elected President of the United States, defeating incumbent William Howard Taft and Theodore Roosevelt

1913 Ludwig III crowned king of Bavaria

1911 Calbraith Rodgers arrives in Pasadena, completing the first transcontinental airplane flight in 49 days after leaving Sheepshead Bay, New York, on September 17

1935 Parker Brothers launches the board game Monopoly

1938 Rugers beats Princeton 1st time in 60 yrs as Rutgers Stadium is edicated

1939 A plot to arrest or even kill Adolf Hitler, hatched by of his most senior military staff, collapsed. Led by General Franz Halder, the architect of the invasion of Poland, many Generals were appalled by Hitler's plans to continue the conflict by invading Belgium and the Netherlands and feared that the adventure would founder in another Great War quagmire. Walther von Brauchitsch, who met with Hitler and was supposed to be the one to issue the order for his arrest, got cold feet and lost the opportunity to prevent Hitler from plunging Europe into another World War. However one of the conspirators, Colonel Hans Oster of German Military Intelligence, tipped off the Dutch and Belgians about Hitler's invasion intentions.

1940 Franklin D. Roosevelt is re-elected President of the United States for an unprecedented third term

1942 The US 8th Marine Regiment and the 1st Battalion of US 10th Marine Regiment arrived at Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands.

1943 USS Card received aboard 130 survivors of USS Borie transferred over from USS Barry and USS Goff. 

The USAAF 306th Bomb Group flying from RAF Thurleigh launched a bombing raid against the rail yards and oil facilities at Gelsenkirchen, Germany

1946 John F. Kennedy (Democrat, Massachusetts) elected to US House of Representatives

1950 Cleveland Browns' Tommy James intercepts 3 passes, club record

1957 Mrs. Nellie McGrail wins $574,658 on a 2½-cent soccer pool ticket

1961 NFL St Louis Cardinals' Bill Stacy, returns 2 interceptions for TDs vs Dallas Cowboys

1966 Dietrich von Choltitz, German general known as the "Saviour of Paris" for surrendering the city to Free French forces and disobeying Hitler's orders to destroy it, dies at 71

1966 The Monkees score their 1st Billboard No. 1 - ‘Last Train To Clarksville’

1982 Cleveland Cavaliers lose 24th consecutive game (NBA record)

1983 NY Rangers & Quebec Nordiques both score in 1st 14 secs of 3rd period

1988 "Kokomo", single by the Beach Boys from the film "Cocktail" tops the charts, their first hit in 20 years, and to date their latest

1991 Fred MacMurray, American actor ( My Three Sons), dies of pneumonia at 83

1994 George Foreman (45) KOs Michael Moorer to win boxing Heavyweight championship

1996 Bill Clinton is re-elected President of the United States, defeating Bob Dole

1988 Cornell confirms a graduate student is the source of a major computer sabotage known as the Morris Worm, initially created as an experiment but spreading rapidly due to a programming error


1992 American chess grandmaster Bobby Fischer defeats Russian Boris Spassky in an unofficial match in Belgrade dubbed the "Revenge Match of the 20th Century"

1994 Space probe Ulyssus completes the first passage behind the Sun

1996 Voters in California re-elect entertainer Sonny Bono to US Congress

2010 Jill Clayburgh, American actress (Unmarried Woman, Semi-Tough), dies of Leukemia at 66

2024 Former Republican President Donald Trump is re-elected, defeating sitting Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris to become only the second president elected to non-consecutive terms after Grover Cleveland in 1884 and 1892, and the oldest elected

2024 World's first wooden satellite, named LignoSat, which will burn up on re-entry, is developed by Kyoto University to address space junk and launched from Kennedy Space Center