#OTD in 1901, saloon-smashing crusader Carrie Nation was arrested on the Pan-American Exposition Midway in Buffalo. Her crime? Peddling souvenir hatchets without a license.

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OTD in 1897, a custody fight over a mastodon was settled in LeRoy. Two brothers burying a dead colt on a local farm had dug up a giant tusk, and the finders and the landowner all claimed the bones. The outcome: they went to a new historical society, and each claimant got $1. #WNYhistory #history

#OTD Oct. 13, 1827: A party from Batavia dug up a drowned stranger at Oak Orchard Harbor to prove he was William Morgan, the missing man who threatened to expose Masonic secrets. Morgan’s wife said yes. Then another widow described her husband’s clothes. It wasn’t Morgan. #WNYhistory

#OTD Oct. 11, 1812, Lewiston: US troops stood in a howling storm, ready to cross the Niagara and attack Queenston. The lead boat vanished into the dark carrying nearly all the oars, and its officer reportedly ran off. Invasion postponed. #WNYhistory #NiagaraHistory #History #OnThisDay

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#OTD Oct. 10, 1925: Bobby Leach, who survived Niagara Falls in a barrel in 1911, reportedly parachuted from an airplane over the gorge and drifted into a Canadian cornfield. Months later he died after slipping on an orange peel in New Zealand.

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#OTD in 2006, Buffalo got thundersnow. In October. Nearly two feet of heavy, wet snow landed on trees still full of leaves, snapping limbs across the city and cutting power to some 400,000 customers. Locals called it the October Surprise. Some called it Arborgeddon. #WNYHistory #history #Buffalo

Not that weird: Oct. 8, 1812: two British brigs sat at anchor across the river from Black Rock. After midnight, about 100 Americans rowed out from Buffalo Creek and seized both. One, the Detroit, ran aground on Unity Island and was burned. #WNYhistory #Buffalo #History #NotWeird #OTD

Oct. 9, 1901, Buffalo: At the Pan-American Exposition, New York Day is kicked off with a 19-gun salute and the release of 10,000 homing pigeons.

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