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October 1, 1933 - Construction of the Norris Dam begins. Located on the Clinch River in East Tennessee, it is the first dam built by the Tennessee Valley Authority.
October 2, 1871 - Birth of Cordell Hull in a log cabin in Olympus, Tennessee; Hull was Secretary of State for 11 years in the administration of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and received the Nobel Peace Prize for his role in establishing the United Nations.
October 2, 1927 - Death of Governor Austin Peay, the only Tennessee governor ever to die in office; his successor was Henry Horton.
October 5, 1958 - A series of dynamite explosions destroyed much of Clinton High School, the result of a criminal act that was universally assumed to be related to the school's desegregation two years earlier.
October 18, 1925 - The Grand Ole Opry, the oldest continuous radio program in the U.S., started broadcasting in Nashville.
October 19, 1818 - The U.S. Government and the Chickasaw Nation agreed to the terms of the Jackson Purchase by signing the Treaty of Tuscaloosa.
October 27, 1795 - The political border between Tennessee and Arkansas was established in the "Treaty of Friendship, Limits, and Navigation Between Spain and the United States".
October 31, 1982 The 1982 World's Fair in Knoxville ended after receiving more than 11 million visitors over its six-month run.