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Monday, October 9, 2006 | 4:20pm
On This Day in History, Oct. 9
1701-The Collegiate School of Connecticut was chartered in New Haven. The name was later changed to Yale.
1858-Mail service via stagecoach between San Francisco, CA, and St. Louis, MO, began.
1888-The public was admitted to the Washington Monument for the first time.
1936-The first generator at Boulder Dam began transmitting electricity to Los Angeles, CA. […]
1701-The Collegiate School of Connecticut was chartered in New Haven. The name was later changed to Yale.

1858-Mail service via stagecoach between San Francisco, CA, and St. Louis, MO, began.

1888-The public was admitted to the Washington Monument for the first time.

1936-The first generator at Boulder Dam began transmitting electricity to Los Angeles, CA. The name of the dam was later changed to Hoover Dam.

1974-Oskar Schindler died in Frankfurt, Germany. Schindler is credited with saving the lives of about 1,200 Jews during the Holocaust.

1986-The musical, “Phantom of the Opera” by Andrew Lloyd Webber, opened in London.

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