Today in History....October 4

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1777, George Washington's troops launched an assault on the British at Germantown, Pa., resulting in heavy American casualties

1918, German Chancellor Max von Baden, appointed by Kaiser Wilhelm II just three days earlier, sends a telegraph message to the administration of President Woodrow Wilson in Washington, D.C., requesting an armistice between Germany and the Allied powers in World War I

1927, sculpting begins on the face of Mount Rushmore in the Black Hills National Forest of South Dakota. The granite images of four of America’s most revered and beloved presidents -- George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt -- were completed 12 years later

1940, Adolf Hitler, ym"sh, and Benito Mussolini conferred at Brenner Pass in the Alps, where the Nazi leader sought Italy's help in fighting the British

1957,

the Space Age began as the Soviet Union launched Sputnik, the first man-made satellite, into orbit

Leave It to Beaver premieres


1993, ten hours into a tank assault on the Russian White House parliament building, rebel parliamentarians led by Vice President Aleksandr Rutskoi and Chairman Ruslan Khasbulatov surrender to Russian President Boris Yeltsin
1996, a judge in Philadelphia issued an injunction preventing Major League baseball umpires from striking for the remainder of the postseason over an incident in which Roberto Alomar of the Baltimore Orioles spat on umpire John Hirschbeck

2001,


Barry Bonds hit his 70th home run to tie Mark McGwire's 1998 record in a 10-2 victory over Houston (The legitamacy is still being debated)

Rickey Henderson homered to pass Ty Cobb and become baseball's career leader in runs scored with 2,246 during San Diego's 6-3 win over Los Angeles