This Week in History Part 1 Oct. 8-14

Oct. 8, 1871 – The Great Chicago Fire begins in the barn of Patrick and Catherine O’Leary

Oct. 8, 1921 – Harold W. Arlin announces the first live radio broadcast of a football game: University of Pittsburg defeats WVU 21-13

Oct. 9, 1888 – The Washington Monument, built between 1848 and 1884, opens to the public in Washington, D.C.

Oct. 9, 2012 – A Taliban gunman shoots 15-year-old Pakistani student Malala Yousafzai

Oct. 10, 1845 – George Bancroft—historian, educator, and secretary of the navy—founds the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, MD