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October 4
Today is World Animal Day, a day of action for animal rights and welfare, celebrated on the feast day of St. Francis of Assisi, the patron saint of animals. World Space Week begins today. 1363 – End of the Battle of Lake Poyang; the Chinese rebel forces of Zhu Yuanzhang defeat that of his rival, Chen Youliang, in one of the largest naval battles in history, involving around 850,000 men total. 1535 – The first complete English-language Bible (the Coverdale Bible) is printed, with translations by William Tyndale and Myles Coverdale. 1582 – Pope Gregory XIII implements the Gregorian calendar. In Italy, Poland, Portugal, and Spain, October 4 of this year is followed directly by October 15. 1795 – Napoleon Bonaparte first rises to national prominence by suppressing armed counter-revolutionary rioters threatening the National Convention. 1876 – Texas A&M University opens as the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas, becoming the first public institution of higher education in Texas. 1883 – First run of the Orient Express. 1883 – First meeting of the Boys' Brigade in Glasgow, Scotland. 1895 – The first U.S. Open Men's Golf Championship administered by the United States Golf Association is played at the Newport Country Club in Newport, Rhode Island. 1918 – An explosion kills more than 100 and destroys the T.A. Gillespie Company Shell Loading Plant in Sayreville, New Jersey. Rail cars loaded with ammunition exploded, breaking windows over 25 miles away. The totality of the event ranked as one of the largest man-made non-nuclear explosions in history. 1927 – Gutzon Borglum begins sculpting Mount Rushmore. 1941 – Norman Rockwell's Willie Gillis character debuts on the cover of The Saturday Evening Post. 1957 – Space Race: Launch of Sputnik 1, the first artificial satellite to orbit the Earth. 1957 - Winners at this years Annual NME readers poll included Pat Boone who was voted the world's No.1 singer, with Elvis Presley voted second. 1961 - Bob Dylan played a showcase at New York's Carnegie Hall. To 53 people. 1970 - US singer Janis Joplin was found dead at the Landmark Hotel in Hollywood after an accidental heroin overdose. Joplin had the posthumous 1971 US No.1 single 'Me And Bobby McGee', and the 1971 US No.1 album 'Pearl'. 1976 – Official launch of the InterCity 125 high speed train. Operating at up to 125 mph, with a top speed of 148 mph, it is currently the fastest diesel-powered train in the world. 1978 - Country singer Tammy Wynette was abducted, beaten and held in her car for two hours by a kidnapper wearing a ski mask. He held a gun on her and forced her to drive 90 miles. She was later released and the kidnapper escaped. 1983 – Richard Noble sets a new land speed record of 633.468 miles per hour (1,019.468 km/h), driving Thrust2 at the Black Rock Desert in Nevada. 1985 – The Free Software Foundation is founded in Massachusetts, United States. 1993 – Russian Constitutional Crisis: In Moscow, tanks bombard the White House in Moscow, a government building that housed the Russian parliament, while demonstrators against President Boris Yeltsin rally outside. 1997 – The second largest cash robbery in U.S. history occurs at the Charlotte, North Carolina office of Loomis, Fargo and Company. A FBI investigation eventually results in 24 convictions and the recovery of approximately 95% of the $17.3 million stolen cash. 2001 – Siberia Airlines Flight 1812: A Sibir Airlines Tupolev Tu-154 crashes into the Black Sea after being struck by an errant Ukrainian S-200 missile. Seventy-eight people are killed. 2004 – SpaceShipOne wins Ansari X Prize for private spaceflight, by being the first private craft to fly into space. 2006 – Wikileaks is launched by Julian Assange. 2010 – The Ajka plant accident in western Hungary releases about a million cubic metres (35 million cubic feet) of liquid alumina sludge. Nine people are killed and 122 injured, and the Marcal and Danube rivers are severely contaminated. Births 1542 – Robert Bellarmine (namesake of Bellarmine University); 1625 – Jacqueline Pascal; 1626 – Richard Cromwell; 1822 – Rutherford B. Hayes (19th POTUS); 1861 – Frederic Remington:artist:; 1880 – Damon Runyon; 1895 – Buster Keaton; 1916 – Jan Murray; 1923 – Charlton Heston ("...from my cold dead hands."); 1929 – Scotty Beckett (Spanky's best friend before Alfalfa); 1929 – Leroy Van Dyke♪ ♫; 1937 – Jackie Collins; 1941 – Roy Blount, Jr.; 1941 – Anne Rice; 1942 – Christopher Stone; 1943 – H. Rap Brown; 1945 – Clifton Davis (That's My Mama); 1946 – Chuck Hagel; 1946 – Susan Sarandon; 1947 – Jim Fielder:bass:(Blood, Sweat & Tears); 1948 – Duke Robillard:shred:; 1949 – Armand Assante; 1953 – Gil Moore:drummer:(Triumph); 1956 – Christoph Waltz; 1957 – Bill Fagerbakke('Dauber' on Coach); 1957 – Russell Simmons (founded Def Jam Recordings and Phat Farm); 1959 – Chris Lowe:keys:(Pet Shop Boys); 1962 – Jon Secada♪ ♫; 1965 – Micky Ward:boxers:; 1967 – Liev Schreiber; 1976 – Alicia Silverstone; 1977 – Richard Reed Parry♪ ♫(Arcade Fire); 1989 – Dakota Johnson Deaths 1226 – Francis of Assisi; 1661 – Jacqueline Pascal; 1669 – Rembrandt; 1904 – Frιdιric Auguste Bartholdi:artist:(designed the Statue of Liberty); 1946 – Barney Oldfield:driving:; 1947 – Max Planck; 1951 – Henrietta Lacks; 1970 – Janis Joplin♪ ♫; 1989 – Secretariat (race horse); 1989 – Graham Chapman (Monty Python); 1994 – Danny Gatton:shred:; 1997 – Gunpei Yokoi (created the GameBoy); 2005 - Mike Gibbins:drummer:(Badfinger); 2014 – Jean-Claude 'Baby Doc' Duvalier; 2014 - Paul Revere Dick:keys:(Paul Revere & The Raiders) |
And Jimmah Carter declared this National CB Radio day... 10-4. :blush:
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October 5
Over 100 countries observe World Teachers' Day today. 610 – Heraclius was crowned Byzantine Emperor, having personally beheaded the previous emperor, Phocas. 1789 – French Revolution: Women March on Versailles to confront Louis XVI of France about his refusal to promulgate the decrees on the abolition of feudalism, to demand bread, and to have the King and his court moved to Paris. 1813 – Battle of the Thames in Canada; Americans defeat British and kill Shawnee leader Tecumseh. 1864 – The Indian city of Calcutta is almost totally destroyed by a cyclone; 60,000 die. 1869 – The Saxby Gale devastates the Bay of Fundy region of Maritime Canada. The storm had reportedly been predicted over a year before by a British naval officer, Lieutenant Stephen Martin Saxby. 1877 – Chief Joseph surrenders his Nez Perce band to General Nelson A. Miles. 1905 – Wilbur Wright pilots Wright Flyer III in a flight of 24 miles in 39 minutes, a world record that stood until 1908. 1914 – World War I: first aerial combat resulting in an intentional fatality. 1936 – Around 200 men marched from Jarrow to London, carrying a petition to the British government requesting the re-establishment of industry in the town. 1945 – Hollywood Black Friday: A six-month strike by Hollywood set decorators turns into a bloody riot at the gates of Warner Brothers' studios. 1947 – The first televised White House address is given by U.S. President Harry S. Truman. 1962 – Dr. No, the first in the James Bond film series, is released. 1962 – The Beatles' first single, "Love Me Do" backed with "P.S. I Love You", is released in the United Kingdom. 1965 - Johnny Cash was arrested crossing the Mexican border into El Paso, Texas after customs officials found 100's of pills in his guitar case. He received a suspended jail sentence and a $1,000 fine. 1966 - Having moved to and living in London, England, Jimi Hendrix, Mitch Mitchell and Noel Redding played together for the first time. 1966 – Near Detroit, Michigan, there is a partial core meltdown at the Enrico Fermi demonstration nuclear breeder reactor. 1968 – Police baton civil rights demonstrators in Derry, Northern Ireland – considered to mark the beginning of The Troubles. 1969 – The first episode of Monty Python's Flying Circus airs on BBC One. 1970 – The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is founded. 1970 – British Trade Commissioner James Cross is kidnapped by members of the FLQ terrorist group, triggering the October Crisis in Canada. 1974 – Guildford pub bombings: bombs planted by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) kill four British soldiers and one civilian. 1982 – Chicago Tylenol murders: Johnson & Johnson initiates a nationwide product recall in the United States for all products in its Tylenol brand after several bottles in Chicago are found to have been laced with cyanide, resulting in seven deaths. 1986 – Israeli secret nuclear weapons are revealed. The British newspaper The Sunday Times runs Mordechai Vanunu's story on its front page under the headline: "Revealed — the secrets of Israel's nuclear arsenal". 1990 – After one hundred and fifty years The Herald broadsheet newspaper in Melbourne, Australia, is published for the last time as a separate newspaper. 1999 – The Ladbroke Grove rail crash in west London kills 31 people. 2001 – Barry Bonds surpasses Mark McGwire's single-season home run total with his milestone 71st* and 72nd* home runs. Births 1829 – Chester A. Arthur (21st POTUS); 1864 – Louis Lumiθre (co-inventer of the moving picture); 1882 – Robert H. Goddard (rocket man); 1902 – Larry Fine (The Three Stooges); 1902 – Ray Kroc (McDonald's); 1905 – John Hoyt; 1907 – Mrs. Miller♪ ♫; 1917 – Allen Ludden; 1919 – Donald Pleasence; 1922 – Bil Keane (created comic strip The Family Circus); 1924 – Bill Dana; 1924 – Bob Thaves (created comic strip Frank & Ernest); 1925 – Gail Davis (Annie Oakley); 1936 – Vαclav Havel; 1937 – Barry Switzer; 1938 – Johnny Duncan♪ ♫; 1938 – Teresa Heinz (yeah, that Heinz); 1943 – Steve Miller:shred:(The Steve Miller Band); 1945 – Brian Connolly♪ ♫(Sweet); 1947 – Brian Johnson♪ ♫(AC/DC):devil:; 1949 – Peter Ackroyd; 1950 – Jeff Conaway; 1951 – Karen Allen (Raiders of the Lost Ark); 1951 – Bob Geldof ('Pink' in Pink Floyd - The Wall); 1952 – Clive Barker:speechls:; 1952 – Harold Faltermeyer:keys:(wrote the theme Axel F. for Beverly Hills Cop, and wrote Top Gun Anthem for Top Gun); 1957 – Bernie Mac; 1958 – Neil deGrasse Tyson; 1959 – Maya Lin:artist:(designed the Vietnam Veterans Memorial); 1960 – Daniel Baldwin; 1962 – Michael Andretti:driving:; 1965 – Mario Lemieux; 1967 – Guy Pearce; 1975 – Kate Winslet; 1976 – J. J. Yeley:driving:; 1978 – Morgan Webb:love:(X-Play hostess from TechTV); 1980 – Paul Thomas:bass:(Good Charlotte); 1983 – Jesse Eisenberg Deaths 1813 – Tecumseh; 1927 – Sam Warner (Co-founded Warner Bros); 1933 – Renιe Adorιe; 1941 – Louis Brandeis; 1981 – Gloria Grahame; 1983 – Earl Tupper (Tupperware); 1986 – Hal B. Wallis; 1992 – Eddie Kendricks♪ ♫(one of The Temptations); 1996 – Seymour Cray (founded CRAY Inc); 2003 – Timothy Treadwell (eaten by a grizzly bear); 2004 – Rodney Dangerfield; 2009 – Mike Alexander:bass:; 2011 – Steve Jobs; 2011 – Charles Napier; 2013 – Butch Warren:bass:; 2016 - Rod Temperton:keys:(Heatwave, wrote 'Thriller', 'Rock With You', 'Off The Wall') |
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I wondered if anyone would remember those asterisks.:)
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October 6
Today is German-American Day in the United States, celebrating German-American heritage by commemorating the landing of thirteen German families in Philadelphia in 1683. 1539 – Spanish conquistador Hernando de Soto and his army enter the Apalachee capital of Anhaica (present-day Tallahassee, Florida) by force. 1683 – German immigrant families found Germantown in the colony of Pennsylvania, marking the first major immigration of German people to America. 1723 – Benjamin Franklin arrives in Philadelphia at the age of 17. 1876 – The American Library Association was founded. 1889 – American inventor Thomas Edison shows his first motion picture. 1903 – The High Court of Australia sits for the first time. 1927 – Opening of The Jazz Singer, the first prominent "talkie" movie. 1939 – World War II: Germany's invasion of Poland ends with the surrender of Independent Operational Group Polesie after the Battle of Kock! Yep, it was a Kock fight. 1973 – Egypt launches a coordinated attack with Syria against Israel leading to the Yom Kippur War. 1976 – Cubana de Aviaciσn Flight 455 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean shortly after taking off from Bridgetown, Barbados, after two bombs, placed on board by terrorists with connections to the CIA, exploded. All 73 people on board are killed. 1977 – The first prototype of the Mikoyan MiG-29, designated 9-01, makes its maiden flight. 1979 – Pope John Paul II becomes the first pontiff to visit the White House. 1981 – Egyptian President Anwar Sadat is murdered by Islamic extremists. 1985 – PC Keith Blakelock is murdered as riots erupt in the Broadwater Farm suburb of London. 1995 – 51 Pegasi is discovered to be the second major star apart from the Sun to have a planet orbiting around it. 2007 – Jason Lewis completes the first human-powered circumnavigation of the globe. Births 1744 – James McGill (no, not Slippin' Jimmy, there was another one); 1820 – Jenny Lind♪ ♫; 1846 – George Westinghouse (invented the railway air brake); 1906 – Janet Gaynor; 1908 – Carole Lombard; 1914 – Thor Heyerdahl; 1925 – Shana Alexander ("Jane you ignorant slut."); 1935 – Bruno Sammartino; 1940 – Ellen Travolta (John's sister); 1942 – Fred Travalena; 1949 – Lonnie Johnson (80+ patents, invented the Super Soaker); 1949 – Les Moonves (Chairman, President, & CEO of CBS); 1951 – Kevin Cronin♪ ♫(REO Speedwagon); 1954 – David Hidalgo:shred:(Los Lobos); 1955 – Tony Dungy; 1959 – Oil Can Boyd; 1963 – Elisabeth Shue (Leaving Las Vegas); 1964 – Matthew Sweet♪ ♫; 1966 – Tommy Stinson:bass:(The Replacements); 1973 – Ioan Gruffudd; 1978 – Ricky Hatton:boxers:; 1982 – Paul Smith:boxers:♪ ♫; 1986 – Olivia Thirlby (Dredd) Deaths 1892 – Alfred, Lord Tennyson; 1951 – Will Keith Kellogg (yeah, that Kellogg); 1962 – Tod Browning; 1980 – Hattie Jacques; 1981 – Anwar Sadat; 1985 – Nelson Riddle♪ ♫; 1989 – Bette Davis; 1992 – Denholm Elliott (Raiders of the Lost Ark); 1992 – Bill O'Reilly (no, not the asshole from Fox News Channel, this one played cricket); 1999 – Gorilla Monsoon; 2000 – Richard Farnsworth |
October 7
1542 – Explorer Cabrillo discovers Santa Catalina Island off of the California coast. 1691 – The English royal charter for the Province of Massachusetts Bay is issued. 1763 – King George III of the United Kingdom issues the Royal Proclamation of 1763, closing aboriginal lands in North America north and west of the Alleghenies to white settlements. 1777 – American Revolutionary War: The Americans defeat the British in the Second Battle of Saratoga, also known as the Battle of Bemis Heights. 1780 – American Revolutionary War: Battle of Kings Mountain: American Patriot militia defeat Loyalist irregulars led by British major Patrick Ferguson in South Carolina. [Ferguson was extremely confident in his position on top of King's Mountain. He is reported to have said he was on King's Mountain, that he was king of that mountain, and that God Almighty could not drive him from it. Apparently, he was right. He's still there today. He was shot out of his saddle, dragged by his horse, at least six other Patriots fired into his body (which was found with 8 bullet holes in it), was stripped of his clothing, and urinated upon, before being buried in an ox hide near where he fell.] 1800 – French corsair Robert Surcouf, commander of the 18-gun ship La Confiance, captures the British 38-gun Kent inspiring the traditional French song Le Trente-et-un du mois d'aoϋt. 1826 – The Granite Railway begins operations as the first chartered railway in the U.S. 1864 – American Civil War: Bahia incident: USS Wachusett illegally captures the CSS Florida Confederate raider while in port in Bahia, Brazil in violation of Brazilian neutrality. 1868 – Cornell University holds opening day ceremonies; initial student enrollment is 412, the highest at any American university to that date. 1916 – Georgia Tech defeats Cumberland University 222–0 in the most lopsided college football game in American history. 1919 – KLM, the flag carrier of the Netherlands, is founded. It is the oldest airline still operating under its original name. 1940 – World War II: The McCollum memo proposes bringing the United States into the war in Europe by provoking the Japanese to attack the United States. 1955 – American poet Allen Ginsberg performs his poem Howl for the first time at the Six Gallery in San Francisco. 1959 – U.S.S.R. probe Luna 3 transmits the first ever photographs of the far side of the Moon. 1985 – The MS Achille Lauro is hijacked by Palestine Liberation Front. 1985 – The Mameyes landslide kills close to 300 in the worst landslide in North American history. 1988 – An Iρupiat hunter discovers three gray whales trapped under the ice in Barrow, Alaska, US; the situation becomes a multinational effort to free the whales. 1993 – The flood of '93 ends at St. Louis, Missouri, 103 days after it began, as the Mississippi River falls below flood stage. 1996 – The Fox News Channel begins broadcasting. 1998 – Matthew Shepard, a gay student at the University of Wyoming, is found tied to a fence after being savagely beaten by two young adults in Laramie, Wyoming. 2001 – The Global War on Terrorism begins as a result of the September 11 attacks. The U.S. invasion of Afghanistan initiates with an air assault and covert operations on the ground. 2008 – Asteroid 2008 TC3 impacts the Earth over Sudan. Births 1728 – Caesar Rodney; 1849 – James Whitcomb Riley; 1870 – Uncle Dave Macon♪ ♫; 1885 – Niels Bohr; 1897 – Elijah Muhammad; 1900 – Heinrich Himmler; 1905 – Andy Devine; 1911 – Vaughn Monroe♪ ♫; 1917 – June Allyson; 1927 – Al Martino♪ ♫(The Godfather); 1929 – Graeme Ferguson (co-founded the IMAX Corporation); 1942 – Joy Behar; 1943 – Oliver North; 1945 – Kevin Godley:drummer:(10cc, Godley & Creme); 1949 - David Hope:bass:(Kansas); 1951 – John Mellencamp♪ ♫; 1952 – Vladimir Putin (rascal); 1953 – Tico Torres:drummer:(Bon Jovi); 1955 – Yo-Yo Ma; 1959 – Dylan Baker; 1959 – Simon Cowell (British asshole); 1967 – Toni Braxton♪ ♫:love:; 1968 – Thom Yorke♪ ♫(Radiohead); 1975 – Tim Minchin "Atticus Fetch' on Californication); 1976 – Taylor Hicks♪ ♫(American Idol winner season #5); 1986 – Bree Olson (porn actress, Penthouse Pet) Deaths 1780 – Patrick Ferguson; 1849 – Edgar Allan Poe; 1894 – Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.; 1950 – Willis Haviland Carrier (invented modern a/c); 1956 – Clarence Birdseye (founder of the modern frozen food industry); 1959 – Mario Lanza♪ ♫ |
October 8
There 77 days until Christmas. 1480 Great stand on the Ugra river, a standoff between the forces of Akhmat Khan, Khan of the Great Horde, and the Grand Duke Ivan III of Russia, which results in the retreat of the Tataro-Mongols and the eventual disintegration of the Horde. 1645 Jeanne Mance opened the Hτtel-Dieu de Montrιal, the first lay hospital in North America. 1862 American Civil War: Battle of Perryville: Union forces under General Don Carlos Buell halt the Confederate invasion of Kentucky by defeating troops led by General Braxton Bragg at Perryville, Kentucky. 1871 Four major fires break out on the shores of Lake Michigan in Chicago, Illinois, Peshtigo, Wisconsin, Holland, Michigan, and Manistee, Michigan including the Great Chicago Fire, and the much deadlier Peshtigo Fire. 1918 World War I: In action near Pittem, Belgium, USMC 2nd Lieutenant aviator Ralph Talbot of Weymouth, Massachusetts becomes the first-ever USMC aviator to earn the Medal of Honor. 1918 World War I: In the Argonne Forest, in France, United States Corporal Alvin C. York kills 28 German soldiers and captures 132, for which he is awarded the Medal of Honor. 1921 KDKA in Pittsburgh's Forbes Field conducts the first live broadcast of a football game. 1956 New York Yankees's Don Larsen pitched the only perfect game in a World Series. 1978 Australia's Ken Warby sets the current world water speed record of 317.60 mph at Blowering Dam, Australia. 1982 Cats opens on Broadway and runs for nearly 18 years before closing on September 10, 2000. 2001 In response to the September 11 attacks, U.S. President George W. Bush announced the creation of the Office of Homeland Security, with former Pennsylvania Governor Tom Ridge as its director. Births 1890 Eddie Rickenbacker; 1920 Frank Herbert; 1936 Rona Barrett; 1939 Harvey Pekar; 1940 Paul Hogan; 1941 Jesse Jackson; 1943 Chevy Chase; 1943 R. L. Stine; 1946 Dennis Kucinich; 1948 Johnny Ramone; 1949 Sigourney Weaver; 1950 Robert "Kool" Bell; 1955 Bill Elliott:driving::devil:; 1955 Darrell Hammond; 1956 Stephanie Zimbalist; 1964 CeCe Winans; 1965 Matt Biondi; 1965 C. J. Ramone; 1968 Emily Procter; 1970 Matt Damon; 1980 Nick Cannon; 1985 Bruno Mars; 1993 Molly Quinn Deaths 1793 John Hancock; 1869 Franklin Pierce; 1944 Wendell Willkie; 1953 Nigel Bruce; 1983 Joan Hackett; 1992 Willy Brandt; 2011 Al Davis; 2011 Roger Williams; 2015 Paul Prudhomme |
October 9
Today is World Post Day, recognizing the importance of the postal services. Fire Prevention Week begins today in the United States, and Canadia. The United States, Iceland, & Norway observe today as Leif Erikson Day, celebrating the Norse explorer who led the first Europeans thought to have set foot in North America. Events 1410 – The first known mention of the Prague astronomical clock. 1604 – Supernova 1604, the most recent supernova to be observed in the Milky Way. 1804 – Hobart, capital of Tasmania, is founded. 1812 – War of 1812: In a naval engagement on Lake Erie, American forces capture two British ships: HMS Detroit and HMS Caledonia. 1874 – General Postal Union is created as a result of the Treaty of Bern. 1919 – Black Sox Scandal: The Cincinnati Reds win the World Series. 1936 – Generators at Boulder Dam (later renamed to Hoover Dam) begin to generate electricity from the Colorado River and transmit it 266 miles to Los Angeles. 1963 – In northeast Italy, over 2,000 people are killed when a large landslide behind the Vajont Dam causes a giant wave of water to overtop it. 1967 – A day after being captured, Marxist revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara is executed for attempting to incite a revolution in Bolivia. 1969 – In Chicago, the United States National Guard is called in for crowd control as demonstrations continue in connection with the trial of the "Chicago Eight" that began on September 24. 1970 – The Khmer Republic is proclaimed in Cambodia. 1980 – Pope John Paul II shakes hands with the Dalai Lama during a private audience in Vatican City. 2012 – Members of the Pakistani Taliban make a failed attempt to assassinate an outspoken schoolgirl, Malala Yousafzai. Births 1859 – Alfred Dreyfus; 1873 – Charles Rudolph Walgreen (founded Walgreens); 1890 – Aimee Semple McPherson; 1911 – Joe Rosenthal; 1920 – Jason Wingreen (voice of 'Boba Fett' in The Empire Strikes Back); 1922 – Philip "Fyuvsh" Finkel; 1939 – O. V. Wright♪ ♫; 1940 – John Lennon♪ ♫; 1941 – Trent Lott; 1944 – John Entwistle:bass:(The Who); 1944 – Nona Hendryx♪ ♫(Labelle); 1948 – Jackson Browne:shred::keys:; 1949 – Rod Temperton:keys:(Heatwave); 1952 – Sharon Osbourne; 1953 – Tony Shalhoub (Monk); 1954 – Scott Bakula (Quantum Leap, NCIS: New Orleans); 1954 – John O'Hurley ('J. Peterman' on Seinfeld); 1957 – Ini Kamoze ( Deaths 1941 – Helen Morgan♪ ♫; 1967 – Che Guevara; 1967 – Joseph Pilates (yeah, that Pilates); 1974 – Oskar Schindler (yeah, the one with the list); 1987 – Clare Boothe Luce; 1988 – Felix Wankel (of Wankel engine fame); 2000 – David Dukes (the actor, not the racist); 2005 – Louis Nye; 2007 – Carol Bruce ('Mother Carlson' on WKRP In Cincinnati); 2014 – Jan Hooks |
World Post Day so be sure to post to a thread today
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October 10
Today is marked as World Mental Health Day, so, go crazy. Today is also World Homeless Day, so go home if you have one. World Porridge Day, also today, raises awareness, and funds, to aid starving children in developing countries. Events 1780 The Great Hurricane of 1780 kills 20,00030,000 in the Caribbean. 1845 In Annapolis, Maryland, the Naval School (later renamed the United States Naval Academy) opens with 50 midshipman students and seven professors. 1846 Triton, the largest moon of the planet Neptune, is discovered by English astronomer William Lassell. 1871 Chicago burns after a barn accident. The fire lasts from October 8 to October 10. 1897 German chemist Felix Hoffmann discovers an improved way of synthesizing acetylsalicylic acid (aspirin). 1902 - The Gibson Mandolin-Guitar Mfg. Co. Ltd. was formed, in Kalamazoo Michigan.:devil: 1913 United States President Woodrow Wilson triggers the explosion of the Gamboa Dike, ending construction on the Panama Canal. 1928 Chiang Kai-shek becomes Chairman of the Republic of China. 1933 United Airlines Boeing 247 mid-air explosion: A United Airlines Boeing 247 is destroyed by sabotage, the first such proven case in the history of commercial aviation. 1939 - The real Eleanor Rigby died in her sleep of unknown causes at the age of 44. 1957 The Windscale fire in Cumbria, U.K. is the world's first major nuclear accident.<--Interesting read. 1964 The opening ceremony of the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan, is broadcast live in the first Olympic telecast relayed by geostationary satellite. 1970 In Montreal, a national crisis hits Canada when Quebec Vice-Premier and Minister of Labour Pierre Laporte becomes the second statesman kidnapped by members of the FLQ terrorist group. 1971 Sold, dismantled and moved to the United States, London Bridge reopens in Lake Havasu City, Arizona. 1978 - Joe Perry and Steven Tyler from Aerosmith were injured after a cherry bomb was thrown on stage during a gig in Philadelphia. The group performed behind a safety fence for the rest of the tour. 1979 - The Rose, starring Bette Midler as a self-destructive 1960s rock star, (transparently based on Janis Joplin) premiered in Los Angeles. The film was nominated for four Academy Awards including Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Frederic Forrest), Best Actress in a Leading Role (Bette Midler, in her screen debut), Best Film Editing and Best Sound. 1980 - The funeral of Led Zeppelin's drummer, John Bonham, took place. Bonzo was found dead at guitarist Jimmy Page's house of what was described as asphyxiation, after inhaling his own vomit after excessive vodka consumption, (40 shots in 4 hours) aged 32. 1985 United States Navy F-14 fighter jets intercept an Egyptian plane carrying the hijackers of the Achille Lauro cruise ship, and force it to land at a NATO base in Sigonella, Sicily where they are arrested. 2010 The Netherlands Antilles are dissolved as a country. 2014 - Former professional basketball player and Harlem Globetrotter Rico Harris disappears after visiting his mother's home in Alhambra, California. Aside from an accidental cell phone video, after extensive searches, no trace of the 6' 9", 300 lb. forward has been found. Births 1813 Giuseppe Verdi♪ ♫; 1819 Heinrich Joseph Dominicus Denzinger; 1825 Paul Kruger; 1858 Maurice Prendergast:artist:; 1900 Helen Hayes; 1917 Thelonious Monk:keys:; 1924 James Clavell; 1924 Ed Wood; 1926 Oscar Brown♪ ♫; 1926 Richard Jaeckel; 1927 Dana Elcar (MacGyver); 1933 Jay Sebring (Manson Family victim); 1940 Winston Churchill (no, not that one, this one's his grandson); 1941 Peter Coyote; 1945 - Alan Cartwright:bass:(Procol Harum); 1946 Charles Dance; 1946 John Prine:shred:♪ ♫; 1946 Ben Vereen♪ ♫; 1948 Cyril Neville:drummer:(Neville Bros.); 1950 Nora Roberts; 1953 Midge Ure♪ ♫(Ultravox, Thin Lizzy, co-wrote Do They Know It's Christmas?); 1954 David Lee Roth♪ ♫(Van Halen); 1958 Tanya Tucker♪ ♫; 1959 Julia Sweeney; 1959 Bradley Whitford (The West Wing); 1963 Daniel Pearl:behead:; 1965 Chris Penn (Reservoir Dogs); 1965 Rebecca Pidgeon♪ ♫; 1966 Bai Ling:heartpump; 1969 Brett Favre; 1973 Mario Lopez; 1974 Dale Earnhardt, Jr.:driving:; 1976 Bob Burnquist; 1979 Mύa♪ ♫ Deaths 1659 Abel Tasman; 1759 Granville Elliott; 1872 William H. Seward; 1911 Jack Daniel (yeah, that one); 1913 Adolphus Busch (yeah, that one); 1935 Gustave Loiseau:artist:; 1963 Ιdith Piaf♪ ♫; 1964 Eddie Cantor♪ ♫; 1985 Yul Brynner; 1985 Orson Welles; 1998 Marvin Gay, Sr. (father and murderer of Marvin Gaye); 2001 Eddie Futch:boxers:; 2004 Christopher Reeve:wheelchr:; 2010 Solomon Burke♪ ♫("I was young. Girls were coming from every angle. I couldn't love them all. But I tried."); 2010 Joan Sutherland♪ ♫; 2012 Alex Karras (NFL, Webster, 'Mongo' in Blazing Saddles); 2015 Steve Mackay (The Stooges) |
October 11
Yom Kippur begins today at sunset. The United States honors General Casimir Pulaski, Polish American Revolutionary War hero, by Presidential Proclamation, each year on this date with General Pulaski Memorial Day. Today is International Day of the Girl Child, supporting more opportunity for girls, and increasing awareness of gender inequality faced by girls worldwide. Today is International Newspaper Carrier Day honoring newspaper carriers worldwide. Today marks National Coming Out Day. So, get outta that closet!:rainbo: Today also marks the Muslim holy day of Ashura. [Note: That link goes to a page from 2014, dates will be incorrect for the current year.] Events 1138 – A massive earthquake strikes Aleppo, Syria. Sometimes listed as the third (Wiki says fifth) deadliest earthquake in history with ~230,000 people killed. 1634 – The Burchardi flood: "The second Grote Mandrenke" ["The Second Great Drowning of Men"] killed 8,000-15,000 men in North Friesland, Denmark and Germany. 1767 – Surveying for the Mason–Dixon line separating Maryland from Pennsylvania is completed. 1809 – Along the Natchez Trace in Tennessee, explorer Meriwether Lewis dies under mysterious circumstances at an inn called Grinder's Stand. 1811 – Inventor John Stevens' boat, the Juliana, begins operation as the first steam-powered ferry, with service between New York City, New York, and Hoboken, New Jersey. 1852 – The University of Sydney, Australia's oldest university, is inaugurated in Sydney. 1862 – American Civil War: In the aftermath of the Battle of Antietam, Confederate General J. E. B. Stuart and his men loot Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, during a raid into the north. 1910 – Former President Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first U.S. president to fly in an airplane. He flew for four minutes with Arch Hoxsey, in a plane built by the Wright brothers, at Kinloch Field (Lambert–St. Louis International Airport), St. Louis, Missouri. 1950 – Television: CBS's mechanical color system is the first to be licensed for broadcast by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission. 1974 - John Denver was at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'Annie's Song.' The song was a tribute to his wife and was written in 10 minutes while he was on a ski lift in Aspen, Colorado. 1975 – The NBC sketch comedy/variety show Saturday Night Live debuts.:devil: 1976 – George Washington's posthumous appointment to the grade of General of the Armies by congressional joint resolution Public Law 94-479 is approved by President Gerald R. Ford. 1987 – First public display of AIDS Memorial Quilt, weighing in at 54 tons, on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., during the Second National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights. 1990 - Drummer Dave Grohl played his first gig with Nirvana when they appeared at the North Shore Surf Club in Olympia, Washington. 1991 - Apple Computers settled a lawsuit launched by The Beatles record company, Apple Corporation, over name and logo rights. The computer company reportedly paid $29 million to settle the suit. 2000 – NASA launches STS-92, the 100th Space Shuttle mission, using Space Shuttle Discovery. 2001 – The Polaroid Corporation files for federal bankruptcy protection. 2003 - Mojo magazine readers voted the studio session for Elvis Presley's debut single 'That's All Right' the most pivotal moment in rock history. Bob Dylan's switch from acoustic to electric guitars in 1965 came second, and 'White Riot', the debut single by The Clash released in 1977 was voted third. 2005 - Freddie Mercury's 1974 Rolls Royce Silver Shadow was offered for auction on eBay by his sister, Kashmira Cooke, who had inherited the car from him. The luxury vehicle had not appeared in public since 2002, when it had been used to transport the Bulsara family to the premiere of the Queen stage musical We Will Rock You. It came with a box of Kleenex Mansize tissues left in the car by Freddie.;) Births 1739 – Grigory Potemkin (namesake of the Russian battleship Potemkin); 1821 – George Williams (founded the YMCA); 1844 – Henry J. Heinz (yeah, that Heinz); 1884 – Eleanor Roosevelt (39th FLOTUS); 1905 – Fred Christ Trump (The Donald'$ daddy); 1925 – Elmore Leonard; 1926 – Earle Hyman (Cosby's dad on The Cosby Show); 1932 – Dottie West♪ ♫; 1935 – Dan Evins (founded Cracker Barrel:devil:); 1937 – Ron Leibman; 1943 – Gene Watson♪ ♫; 1946 – Daryl Hall:shred:(Hall & Oates); 1946 – Gary Mallaber:drummer:(Raven, Steve Miller Band, Greg Kihn Band); 1947 – Al Atkins♪ ♫(Judas Priest); 1952 – Paulette Carlson♪ ♫(Highway 101); 1962 – Joan Cusack; 1964 – Michael J. Nelson (MST3K); 1965 – Sean Patrick Flanery; 1966 – Luke Perry; 1967 – Artie Lange; 1968 – Jane Krakowski; 1969 – Stephen Moyer (True Blood); 1973 – Mike Smith:shred:(Limp Bizkit); 1976 – Emily Deschanel (Bones); 1977 – Matt Bomer (White Collar); 1989 – Michelle Wie:love: Deaths 1779 – Casimir Pulaski; 1809 – Meriwether Lewis; 1889 – James Prescott Joule (namesake of the joule, a unit of energy); 1896 – Anton Bruckner:keys:; 1961 – Chico Marx; 1965 – Dorothea Lange; 1971 – Chesty Puller (THE most decorated Marine in American history); 1991 – Redd Foxx (Sanford & Son); 2007 – Werner von Trapp (of The Sound Of Music von Trapps); 2015 – Smokin' Joe Kubek:shred: |
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October 12
Today is Freethought Day in the United States, an annual observance by freethinkers and secularists of the effective end of the Salem Witch Trials. The United Nations has designated today UN Spanish Language Day. So, hablar mαs espaρol de hoy! Events 539 BC – The army of Cyrus the Great of Persia takes Babylon. 1492 – Christopher Columbus's expedition makes landfall in the Caribbean, specifically in The Bahamas. The explorer believes he has reached the Indies. 1654 – The Delft Explosion devastates the city in the Netherlands, killing more than 100 people. 1692 – The Salem witch trials are ended by a letter from Massachusetts Governor William Phips. 1748 – British and Spanish naval forces engage at the Battle of Havana during the War of Jenkins' Ear. 1773 – America's first insane asylum opens. People went nuts. 1793 – The cornerstone of Old East, the oldest state university building in the United States, is laid on the campus of the University of North Carolina. 1799 – Jeanne Geneviθve Labrosse was the first woman to jump from a balloon with a parachute, from an altitude of 900 meters. 1810 – First Oktoberfest: The Bavarian royalty invites the citizens of Munich to join the celebration of the marriage of Crown Prince Ludwig of Bavaria to Princess Therese von Sachsen-Hildburghausen. 1823 – Charles Macintosh of Scotland sells his first raincoat. The raincoat is still called a 'Mackintosh' in the U.K. 1847 – German inventor and industrialist Werner von Siemens founds Siemens & Halske, which later becomes Siemens AG. 1892 – The Pledge of Allegiance is first recited by students in many US public schools, as part of a celebration marking the 400th anniversary of Columbus's voyage. 1901 – President Theodore Roosevelt officially renames the "Executive Mansion" to the White House. 1917 – World War I: The First Battle of Passchendaele takes place resulting in the largest single day loss of life in New Zealand history. 1918 – A massive forest fire kills 453 people in Cloquet, Minnesota. 1928 – An iron lung respirator is used for the first time at Children's Hospital, Boston. 1933 – The military Alcatraz Citadel becomes the civilian Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary. 1945 – World War II: Desmond Doss is the first conscientious objector to receive the U.S. Medal of Honor. 1955 - The Chrysler Corporation launched high fidelity record players for their 1956 line-up of cars. The unit measured about four inches high and less than a foot wide and was mounted under the instrument panel. The seven inch discs spun at 16 2/3 rpm and required almost three times the number of grooves per inch as an LP. The players were discontinued in 1961. 1960 – Cold War: Nikita Khrushchev pounds his shoe on a desk at United Nations General Assembly meeting to protest a Philippine assertion of Soviet Union colonial policy being conducted in Eastern Europe. 1960 – Television viewers in Japan unexpectedly witness the assassination of Inejiro Asanuma, leader of the Japan Socialist Party, when he is stabbed and killed during a live broadcast. 1978 - Whilst living at the Chelsea Hotel in New York City, Sex Pistols member Sid Vicious called the police to say that someone had stabbed his girlfriend Nancy Spungen. He was arrested and charged with murder and placed in the detox unit of a New York prison. Vicious died of a heroin overdose before the case went to trial. 1979 – The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, the first of five books in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy comedy science fiction series by Douglas Adams is published. 1979 – The lowest recorded non-tornadic atmospheric pressure, 87.0 kPa (870 mbar or 25.69 inHg), occurred in the Western Pacific during Typhoon Tip. 1984 – Brighton hotel bombing: The Provisional Irish Republican Army attempt to assassinate Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and her cabinet. Thatcher escapes but the bomb kills five people and wounds 31. 1986 – Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh visit the People's Republic of China. 1994 – The Magellan spacecraft burns up in the atmosphere of Venus. 1994 - Pink Floyd played the first of a 15-night run at Earls Court, London, England. Less than a minute after the band had started playing 'Shine On You Crazy Diamond', a scaffolding stand holding 1200 fans, collapsed, throwing hundreds of people 20 feet to the ground. It took over an hour to free everyone from the twisted wreckage, ninety-six people were injured, with 36 needing hospital treatment. Six were detained overnight with back, neck and rib injuries. Pink Floyd sent a free T-shirt and a note of apology to all the fans who had been seated in the stand that collapsed. The show was immediately cancelled and re-scheduled. 1997 - John Denver was killed when the handmade, experimental airplane he was flying ran out of gas and crashed off the coast of Monterey Bay, California. He was 53 years old. 1998 – Matthew Shepard, a gay student at University of Wyoming, dies five days after he was beaten, robbed and left tied to a wooden fence post outside of Laramie, Wyoming. 2000 – The USS Cole is badly damaged in Aden, Yemen, by two suicide bombers, killing 17 crew members and wounding at least 39. 2002 – Terrorists detonate bombs in the Sari Club in Kuta, Bali, killing 202 and wounding over 300. 2005 - Motley Crue drummer Tommy Lee suffered minor burns at a concert in Casper, Wyoming during a pyrotechnics explosion. Lee was treated at a local hospital for the injuries to his arm and face, which occurred while he was suspended from a wire 30 feet above the stage. 2005 – The second Chinese human spaceflight Shenzhou 6 launched carrying Fθi Jωnlσng and Niθ Hǎishθng for five days in orbit. 2013 – Fifty-one people are killed after a truck veers off a cliff in La Convenciσn Province in Peru. Continued in next post |
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Births 1710 – Jonathan Trumbull; 1860 – Elmer Ambrose Sperry (co-invented the gyrocompass); 1875 – Aleister Crowley; 1920 – Christopher Soames; 1932 – Dick Gregory; 1932 – Ned Jarrett:driving:; 1935 – Luciano Pavarotti♪ ♫; 1935 - Sam Moore♪ ♫(Sam & Dave); 1937 – Robert Mangold:artist:; 1945 – Dusty Rhodes; 1947 – Chris Wallace; 1947 – Randy West (porn actor); 1949 – Carlos the Jackal (international terrorist); 1950 – Susan Anton; 1965 – Scott O'Grady (US F-16 pilot shot down over Bosnia, rescued); 1968 – Huge Ackman ('Wolverine' in X-Men); 1970 – Kirk Cameron; 1975 – Marion Jones (US track & field Olympian); 1977 – Bode Miller (US Olympic skier); 1992 – Josh Hutcherson Deaths 1870 – Robert E. Lee; 1940 – Tom Mix; 1960 – Inejiro Asanuma; 1969 – Sonja Henie; 1971 – Dean Acheson; 1971 – Gene Vincent♪ ♫; 1985 – Johnny Olson ("Come on down!"); 1985 – Ricky Wilson:shred:(The B-52's); 1987 – Alf Landon; 1991 – Regis Toomey (w/Jane Wyman, had the longest kiss in cinema history, at 3 minutes 5 seconds); 1996 – Renι Lacoste (put a tiny alligator on a polo shirt); 1997 – John Denver♪ ♫; 1998 – Matthew Shepard; 1999 – Wilt The Stilt Chamberlain; 2002 – Ray Conniff♪ ♫; 2003 – Joan Kroc (widow of Ray Kroc, McDonald's); 2003 – Bill Shoemaker (jockey); 2009 – Dickie Peterson:bass:(Blue Cheer); 2011 – Dennis Ritchie (created the C programming language); 2012 – Norm Grabowski (American hot rod builder); 2015 – Joan Leslie |
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October 13
54 – Emperor Claudius dies from poisoning under mysterious circumstances; his 17-year-old stepson Nero succeeds him. 1307 – Hundreds of Knights Templar in France are simultaneously arrested by agents of Phillip the Fair, to be later tortured into a "confession" of heresy. 1332 – Rinchinbal Khan, Emperor Ningzong of Yuan, becomes the Khagan of the Mongols and Emperor of the Yuan dynasty, reigning for only 53 days. 1773 – The Whirlpool Galaxy is discovered by Charles Messier. 1775 – The United States Continental Congress orders the establishment of the Continental Navy (later renamed the United States Navy). 1843 – In New York City, Henry Jones and 11 others found B'nai B'rith (the oldest Jewish service organization in the world). 1845 – A majority of voters in the Republic of Texas approve a proposed constitution that, if accepted by the U.S. Congress, will make Texas a U.S. state. 1881 – First known conversation in modern Hebrew by Eliezer Ben-Yehuda and friends. 1884 – The International Meridian Conference votes on a resolution to establish the meridian passing through the Observatory of Greenwich, in London, England, as the initial meridian for longitude. 1892 – Edward Emerson Barnard discovers D/1892 T1, the first comet discovered by photographic means, on the night of October 13–14. 1914 – In this year's World Series, the Boston Braves defeat the Philadelphia Athletics, at Fenway Park in Boston, completing the first World Series sweep in history. 1917 – The "Miracle of the Sun" is witnessed by an estimated 70,000 people in the Cova da Iria in Fαtima, Portugal. 1923 – Ankara replaces Istanbul as the capital of Turkey. 1958 – Paddington Bear, a character from English children's literature, makes his debut. 1962 – The Pacific Northwest experiences a cyclone the equal of a Cat 3 hurricane. Winds measured above 150 mph at several locations; 46 people died. 1972 – Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 crashes in the Andes mountains, near the border between Argentina and Chile. By December 23, 1972, only 16 out of 45 people lived long enough to be rescued. 1983 – Ameritech Mobile Communications (now AT&T) launched the first US cellular network in Chicago. 2000 - UK newspaper The Mirror reported that Toni Braxton had pulled out of this years US Mobo awards after one of her breast implants had exploded. A spokesman for her Arista record label said "We don't comment on our artists' personal lives." 2004 - The US Internal Revenue Service charged 63-year-old Ronald Isley, lead singer of the Isley Brothers, with tax evasion for failing to report income from royalties and performances by the band between 1997 and 2002. He was later found guilty and sentenced to three years in prison. 2016 – Bob Dylan wins the Nobel Prize in Literature. Births 1872 – Leon Leonwood Bean (founded L.L.Bean); 1909 – Herblock (cartoonist/illustrator, coined the term "McCarthyism"); 1909 – Art Tatum:keys:; 1912 – Cornel Wilde; 1917 – George Osmond (Osmond Family patriarch); 1921 – Yves Montand♪ ♫; 1925 – Lenny Bruce; 1925 – Margaret Thatcher; 1926 - Tommy Whittle♪ ♫; 1926 – Killer Kowalski; 1930 – Bruce Geller; 1941 – Paul Simon:shred:(Simon & Garfunkel); 1942 – Jerry Jones; 1947 – Sammy Hagar:shred:(Montrose, Van Halen, Chickenfoot); 1948 – John Ford Coley♪ ♫; 1948 – Lacy J. Dalton♪ ♫; 1950 – Simon Nicol:shred:(Fairport Convention); 1957 – Chris Carter (creator X-Files); 1959 – Marie Osmond♪ ♫; 1960 – Joey Belladonna♪ ♫(Anthrax); 1960 – Ari Fleischer; 1962 – Kelly Preston; 1962 – Jerry Rice; 1963 – Chip Foose; 1964 – Christopher Judge ('Teal'c' on Stargate SG-1); 1967 – Kate Walsh (Grey's Anatomy, Private Practice); 1968 – Tisha Campbell-Martin; 1969 – Nancy Kerrigan; 1971 – Sacha Baron Cohen; 1971 – Billy Bush; 1980 – Ashanti♪ ♫; 1982 – Ian Thorpe Deaths 54 – Claudius; 1938 – E. C. Segar (created Popeye); 1945 – Milton S. Hershey; 1966 – Clifton Webb; 1974 – Ed Sullivan (had a really big shoe); 1996 – Beryl Reid; 2001 – Peter Doyle♪ ♫; 2002 – Stephen Ambrose; 2009 - Al Martino♪ ♫('Johnny Fontane' in The Godfather); 2012 – Gary Collins; 2013 – Tommy Whittle♪ ♫ |
October 14
Today is World Standards Day, honoring the experts who develop voluntary standards within standards development organizations, such as ISO. Events 1066 – Norman Conquest: Battle of Hastings: In England on Senlac Hill, seven miles from Hastings, the Norman forces of William the Conqueror defeat the English army and kill King Harold II of England. 1322 – Robert the Bruce of Scotland defeats King Edward II of England at Byland, forcing Edward to accept Scotland's independence. 1656 – Massachusetts enacts the first punitive legislation against the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). The marriage of church-and-state in Puritanism makes them regard the Quakers as spiritually apostate and politically subversive. 1812 – Work on London's Regent's Canal starts. 1880 – Mexican soldiers kill Victorio, one of the greatest Apache military strategists. 1884 – The American inventor, George Eastman, receives a U.S. Government patent on his new paper-strip photographic film. 1888 – Louis Le Prince films first motion picture: Roundhay Garden Scene. 1908 – The Chicago Cubs defeat the Detroit Tigers, 2–0, clinching the World Series. The Cubs haven't won another one yet. 1912 – While campaigning in Milwaukee, the former President of the United States, Theodore Roosevelt, is shot and mildly wounded by John Schrank, a mentally-disturbed saloon keeper. With the fresh wound in his chest, and the bullet still within it, Mr. Roosevelt still carries out his scheduled public speech. He also carried that bullet, for the rest of his life. 1913 – Senghenydd colliery disaster, the United Kingdom's worst coal mining accident claims the lives of 439 miners. 1926 – The children's book Winnie-the-Pooh, by A. A. Milne, is first published. 1938 – The first flight of the Curtiss P-40 Warhawk fighter plane. 1940 – Balham underground station disaster in London, England, sixty-six people in the station were killed during the Nazi Luftwaffe air raids on Great Britain. 1943 – World War II: The American Eighth Air Force loses 60 of 291 B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bombers in aerial combat during the second mass-daylight air raid on the Schweinfurt ball bearing factories in western Nazi Germany. 1944 – Linked to a plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler, Field Marshal Erwin Rommel is forced to commit suicide. 1947 – Captain Chuck Yeager (:devil:) of the United States Air Force flies a Bell X-1 rocket-powered experimental aircraft, the Glamorous Glennis, faster than the speed of sound at Mach 1.06 (700 miles per hour (1,100 km/h; 610 kn) over the high desert of Southern California and becomes the first pilot and the first airplane to do so in level flight. 1958 – The District of Columbia's Bar Association votes to accept African-Americans as member attorneys. 1962 – The Cuban Missile Crisis begins: A U.S. Air Force U-2 reconnaissance plane and its pilot flies over the island of Cuba and takes photographs of Soviet SS-4 Sandal missiles being installed and erected in Cuba. 1964 – Leonid Brezhnev becomes the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, and thereby, along with his allies, such as Alexei Kosygin, the leader of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). 1968 – Jim Hines of the United States of America becomes the first man ever to break the so-called "ten-second barrier" in the 100-meter sprint in the Summer Olympic Games held in Mexico City with a time of 9.95 seconds. 1969 – The United Kingdom introduces the British fifty-pence coin, which replaces, over the following years, the British ten-shilling note, in anticipation of the decimalization of the British currency in 1971, and the abolition of the shilling as a unit of currency anywhere in the world. 1973 – In the Thammasat student uprising over 100,000 people protest in Thailand against the Thanom military government, 77 are killed and 857 are injured by soldiers. 1979 – The first Gay Rights March on Washington, D.C., the National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights, demands "an end to all social, economic, judicial, and legal oppression of lesbian and gay people", and draws approximately 100,000 people. 1982 – U.S. President Ronald Reagan proclaims a War on Drugs. Whoops. 1984 – "Baby Fae" receives a heart transplant from a baboon. 1988 - Def Leppard became first act in chart history to sell seven million copies of two consecutive LPs, with Pyromania (their third studio album released in 1983) and Hysteria, (which became the band's best-selling album to date, selling over 20 million copies worldwide, and spawning six hit singles). 1998 – Eric Rudolph is charged with six bombings including the 1996 Centennial Olympic Park bombing in Atlanta, Georgia. 2003 – Chicago Cubs fan Steve Bartman becomes infamously known as the scapegoat for the Cubs losing Game 6 of the 2003 National League Championship Series to the Florida Marlins. 2006 – The college football brawl between University of Miami and Florida International University leads to suspensions of 31 players of both teams. 2012 – Felix Baumgartner successfully jumped to Earth from a helium balloon in the stratosphere in the Red Bull Stratos project. 2014 – A snowstorm and avalanche in the Nepalese Himalayas triggered by the remnants of Cyclone Hudhud kills 43 people. 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Births 1644 William Penn (founded the Province of Pennsylvania); 1890 Dwight D. Eisenhower (34th POTUS); 1893 Lillian Gish; 1894 - e e cummings; 1910 John Wooden; 1916 C. Everett Koop (13th United States Surgeon General); 1927 Roger Moore (seven time James Bond); 1938 Melba Montgomery♪ ♫; 1939 Ralph Lauren; 1940 Cliff Richard♪ ♫; 1940 J. C. Snead; 1944 Udo Kier; 1946 Justin Hayward:shred:(The Moody Blues); 1946 Dan McCafferty♪ ♫(Nazareth); 1947 Norman Harris:shred:(MFSB); 1950 Joey Travolta (older bro to John); 1952 Harry Anderson (Night Court); 1954 Mordechai Vanunu; 1956 Arleen Sorkin (Days of Our Lives, voice of Harley Quinn on Batman: The Animated Series); 1958 Thomas Dolby (sang "She Blinded Me With Science"); 1959 A. J. Pero:drummer:(Twisted Sister); 1963 Lori Petty (Tank Girl); 1965 Steve Coogan; 1969 David Strickland (Suddenly Susan); 1974 - Natalie Maines♪ ♫(The Dixie Chicks); 1974 Jessica Drake:doit:(porn actress); 1978 Usher♪ ♫ Deaths 1880 Victorio; 1944 Erwin Rommel; 1959 Errol Flynn; 1977 Bing Crosby; 1986 Keenan Wynn; 1990 Leonard Bernstein:keys:; 1997 Harold Robbins; 1998 Cleveland Amory; 2006 Freddy Fender; 2009 Captain Lou Albano; 2010 Simon MacCorkindale; 2010 Benoit Mandelbrot (Mandelbrot set); 2012 Arlen Specter |
October 15
Today is Global Handwashing Day, motivating and mobilizing people around the world to improve their handwashing habits. So, wash your hands, Roger. Sweetest Day is celebrated each year, on the 3rd Saturday in October, to "scam people out of money, and make Nicole's boyfriend, Scott, feel bad for not getting her anything". In the United States, today is observed as White Cane Safety Day, celebrating the achievements of the blind and visually impaired. The United Nations designates this day as International Day of Rural Women. So, if you're a country girl, you rock! Pregnancy and Infant Loss Remembrance Day is observed annually in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom on this day. Events 1066 Edgar the Ζtheling is proclaimed King of England, but is never crowned. He reigns until 10 December, 1066. 1582 Pope Gregory XIII implements the Gregorian calendar. In Italy, Poland, Portugal, and Spain, October 4 of this year is followed directly by October 15. 1793 Queen Marie Antoinette of France is tried and convicted in a swift, pre-determined trial in the Palais de Justice, Paris, and condemned to death the following day. 1815 Napoleon I of France begins his exile on Saint Helena in the Atlantic Ocean. 1863 American Civil War: The H. L. Hunley, the first submarine to sink a ship, sinks during a test, killing its inventor, Horace L. Hunley. 1888 The "From Hell" letter allegedly sent by Jack the Ripper is received by investigators. 1894 The Dreyfus Affair: Alfred Dreyfus is arrested for spying. 1910 Airship America (<--Interesting read.) is launched from New Jersey in the first attempt to cross the Atlantic by a powered aircraft. 1917 World War I: At Vincennes outside Paris, Dutch dancer Mata Hari is executed by firing squad for spying for the German Empire. 1928 The airship, Graf Zeppelin completes its first trans-Atlantic flight, landing at Lakehurst, New Jersey, United States. 1939 The New York Municipal Airport (later renamed LaGuardia Airport) is dedicated. 1945 World War II: The former premier of Vichy France Pierre Laval is shot by a firing squad for treason. 1951 The first episode of I Love Lucy airs on CBS. 1953 British nuclear test Totem 1 is detonated at Emu Field, South Australia. 1956 Fortran, the first modern computer language, is shared with the coding community for the first time. 1989 Wayne Gretzky becomes the all-time leading points scorer in the NHL. 1995 - Paul and Linda McCartney were the guest voices on Fox-TV's The Simpsons in an episode called "Lisa the Vegetarian". Macca's stipulation for appearing was that Lisa's decision to become a vegetarian would be a permanent character change, to which producer David Mirkin agreed. 1997 The first supersonic land speed record is set by Andy Green in ThrustSSC (United Kingdom), 50 years and one day after Chuck Yeager first broke the sound barrier in the Earth's atmosphere. 2006 Hawaii earthquake: A magnitude 6.7 earthquake rocks Hawaii, causing property damage, injuries, landslides, power outages, and the closure of Honolulu International Airport. 2008 The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes down 733.08 points, or 7.87%, the second worst day in the Dow's history based on a percentage drop. Births 70 BC Virgil; 1844 Friedrich Nietzsche; 1858 John L. Sullivan:boxers:; 1881 P. G. Wodehouse; 1900 Mervyn LeRoy; 1920 Chris Economaki; 1920 Mario Puzo; 1923 Italo Calvino; 1924 Lee Iacocca; 1924 Warren Miller; 1925 Mickey Baker:shred:; 1926 Michel Foucault; 1926 Ed McBain; 1935 Barry McGuire (sang "Eve Of Destruction"); 1937 Linda Lavin (Alice); 1938 Robert Ward:shred:(The Ohio Players); 1943 Penny Marshall; 1945 Jim Palmer; 1946 Richard Carpenter♪ ♫; 1948 Chris de Burgh♪ ♫ (sang "Lady In Red"); 1950 Candida Royalle:doit:(porn actress/director); 1951 Roscoe Tanner; 1953 Tito Jackson♪ ♫; 1954 Jere Burns; 1959 Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of York; 1959 Emeril Lagasse ("Bam!"); 1969 Paige Davis (hostess Trading Spaces); 1970 Ginuwine♪ ♫ Deaths 1917 Mata Hari; 1930 Herbert Henry Dow (founded Dow Chemical Company); 1934 Raymond Poincarι; 1940 Lluνs Companys; 1945 Pierre Laval; 1946 Hermann Gφring; 1964 Cole Porter♪ ♫; 1976 Carlo Gambino (mob boss); 2008 Edie Adams♪ ♫; 2010 Johnny Sheffield ('Boy' in 3 Tarzan movies) |
October 16
Today is World Food Day, celebrating the founding of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations in 1945. So, today, think of the starving Pygmies in New Guinea. Today also marks World Anaesthesia Day, so, knock somebody out. Events 1780 – Royalton, Vermont and Tunbridge, Vermont are the last major raids of the American Revolutionary War. 1793 – Marie Antoinette, widow of Louis XVI, is guillotined at the height of the French Revolution. 1834 – Much of the ancient structure of the Palace of Westminster in London burns to the ground. 1846 – William T. G. Morton first demonstrated ether anesthesia at the Massachusetts General Hospital in the Ether Dome. 1869 – The Cardiff Giant, one of the most famous American hoaxes, is "discovered". 1875 – Brigham Young University is founded in Provo, Utah. 1909 – William Howard Taft and Porfirio Dνaz hold a summit, a first between a U.S. and a Mexican president, and they only narrowly escape assassination. 1916 – In Brooklyn, New York, Margaret Sanger opens the first family planning clinic in the United States. 1923 – The Walt Disney Company is founded by Walt Disney and his brother, Roy Disney. 1964 – China detonates its first nuclear weapon. 1968 – United States Olympic athletes Tommie Smith and John Carlos are kicked off the US team for participating in the 1968 Olympics Black Power salute. 1975 – Rahima Banu, a two-year-old girl from the village of Kuralia in Bangladesh, is the last known person to be infected with naturally occurring smallpox. 1978 – Karol Wojtyla is elected Pope John Paul II after the October 1978 Papal conclave, the first non-Italian pontiff since 1523. 1984 – The Bill debuts on ITV, eventually becoming the longest-running police procedural in British television history. 1991 – Luby's shooting: George Hennard runs amok in Killeen, Texas, killing 23 and wounding 20 in Luby's Cafeteria. 1995 – The Million Man March takes place in Washington, D.C. 1995 – The Skye Bridge is opened. 2002 – Bibliotheca Alexandrina in the Egyptian city of Alexandria, a commemoration of the Library of Alexandria that was lost in antiquity, is officially inaugurated. 2012 – The extrasolar planet Alpha Centauri Bb is discovered. Births 1758 – Noah Webster; 1815 – Francis Lubbock (namesake of Lubbock, Texas); 1854 – Oscar Wilde; 1886 – David Ben-Gurion (Israel's Ben Gurion International Airport is named in his honor); 1888 – Eugene O'Neill; 1890 – Paul Strand; 1925 – Angela Lansbury; 1938 – Nico♪ ♫; 1940 – Barry Corbin; 1943 – Fred Turner:bass:(the 'Turner' in Bachman-Turner Overdrive); 1945 – Roger Hawkins:drummer:(Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section); 1945 – Dave Hill (The Full Monty); 1946 – Suzanne Somers:love:; 1947 – Bob Weir:shred:(The Grateful Dead); 1947 – David Zucker; 1948 – Bruce Fleisher; 1952 – Cordell Mosson:bass:(Parliament-Funkadelic); 1953 – Tony Carey:keys:(Rainbow); 1958 – Tim Robbins (The Shawshank Redemption); 1960 – Bob Mould:shred:(Husker Du); 1962 – Flea:bass::devil:(Red Hot Chili Peppers); 1962 – Manute Bol; 1971 – Chad Gray♪ ♫(Mudvayne); 1977 – John Mayer:shred:; 1985 – Casey Stoner:driving: Deaths 1791 – Grigory Potemkin; 1793 – Marie Antoinette; 1972 – Hale Boggs; 1972 – Leo G. Carroll (Topper, The Man From U.N.C.L.E.); 1973 – Gene Krupa:drummer); 1978 – Dan Dailey♪ ♫; 1981 – Moshe Dayan; 1989 – Cornel Wilde; 1992 – Shirley Booth (Hazel); 1996 – Jason Bernard; 1997 – Audra Lindley ('Mrs. Roper' on Three's Company, The Ropers); 1997 – James A. Michener; 1999 – Jean Shepherd (narrated and co-scripted A Christmas Story); 2004 – Pierre Salinger; 2007 – Deborah Kerr; 2010 – Barbara Billingsley ('June Cleaver' on Leave It To Beaver); 2011 – Dan Wheldon:driving:; 2013 – Ed Lauter; 2014 – Allen Forte♪ ♫ |
October 17
Today is observed as an International Day For The Eradication of Poverty, honoring victims of poverty, hunger, violence and fear. Events 1091 – London tornado of 1091: A tornado thought to be of strength T8/F4 strikes the heart of London. 1346 – Battle of Neville's Cross: King David II of Scotland is captured by the English near Durham, and imprisoned in the Tower of London for eleven years. 1660 – Nine regicides, the men who signed the death warrant of Charles I, are hanged, drawn and quartered. 1781 – American Revolutionary War: British General Charles, Earl Cornwallis surrenders at the Siege of Yorktown. 1814 – Eight people die in the London Beer Flood. 1860 – First The Open Championship (referred to in North America as the British Open). 1888 – Thomas Edison files a patent for the Optical Phonograph (the first movie). 1907 – Guglielmo Marconi's company begins the first commercial transatlantic wireless service between Glace Bay, Nova Scotia, Canada and Clifden, Ireland. 1917 – First British bombing of Germany in World War I. 1919 – RCA is incorporated as the Radio Corporation of America. 1931 – Al Capone is convicted of income tax evasion. 1933 – Albert Einstein flees Nazi Germany and moves to the United States. 1941 – World War II: a German submarine attacks an American ship for the first time in the war. 1956 – The first commercial nuclear power station is officially opened by Queen Elizabeth II in Sellafield,in Cumbria, England. 1956 – Donald Byrne and Bobby Fischer play a famous chess game called The Game of the Century. Fischer beat Byrne and wins a Brilliancy prize. 1966 – A fire at a building in New York City kills 12 firefighters, the fire department's deadliest day until the September 11, 2001 attacks. 1970 – Montreal: Quebec Vice-Premier and Minister of Labour Pierre Laporte is murdered by members of the FLQ terrorist group. 1989 – The 6.9 Mw Loma Prieta earthquake shakes the San Francisco Bay Area and the Central Coast of California with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent). Sixty-three people were killed. 2000 – Train crash at Hatfield, north of London, leading to collapse of Railtrack. 2003 – The pinnacle is fitted on the roof of Taipei 101, a 101-floor skyscraper in Taipei, allowing it to surpass the Petronas Twin Towers in Kuala Lumpur by 56 metres (184 ft) and become the world's tallest highrise. Births 1900 – Jean Arthur; 1902 – Irene Ryan; 1914 – Jerry Siegel (co-created Superman); 1915 – Arthur Miller; 1918 – Rita Hayworth; 1918 – Ralph Wilson (founded the Buffalo Bills); 1920 – Montgomery Clift; 1921 – Tom Poston; 1923 – Barney Kessel:shred:(The Wrecking Crew); 1926 – Julie Adams (Creature From The Black Lagoon); 1930 – Robert Atkins (created the Atkins diet); 1933 – The Singing Nun♪ ♫; 1938 – Evel Knievel; 1941 – Earl Thomas Conley♪ ♫; 1941 – Jim Seals♪ ♫(Seals & Crofts); 1946 – Michael Hossack:drummer:(Doobie Bros); 1947 – Michael McKean; 1948 – Margot Kidder:crazy:; 1948 – George Wendt ('Norm' on Cheers); 1950 – Howard Rollins (In The Heat Of The Night tv series); 1956 – Mae Jemison; 1957 – Lawrence Bender (producer Reservoir Dogs); 1958 – Alan Jackson♪ ♫; 1959 – Richard Roeper; 1962 – Mike Judge (created Beavis & Butthead, King of the Hill); 1963 – Norm Macdonald; 1968 – Ziggy Marley♪ ♫; 1969 – Ernie Els; 1969 – Wyclef Jean♪ ♫(The Fugees); 1972 – Eminem♪ ♫( Deaths 1849 – Frιdιric Chopin:keys:; 1868 – Laura Secord; 1910 – Julia Ward Howe♪ ♫; 1970 – Pierre Laporte; 1991 – Tennessee Ernie Ford♪ ♫; 2007 – Joey Bishop; 2007 – Teresa Brewer♪ ♫; 2008 – Levi Stubbs♪ ♫; 2008 – Ben Weider (He was a Canadian businessman well known in two areas: Bodybuilding and Napoleonic history.) |
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October18
1009 The Church of the Holy Sepulchre, a Christian church in Jerusalem, is completely destroyed by the Fatimid caliph Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah, who hacks the Church's foundations down to bedrock. 1356 Basel earthquake, the most significant historic seismological event north of the Alps, destroys the town of Basel, Switzerland. 1386 Opening of Heidelberg University. 1540 Spanish conquistador Hernando de Soto's forces destroy the fortified town of Mabila in present-day Alabama, killing Tuskaloosa. 1648 Boston Shoemakers form first American labor organization. 1775 African-American poet Phillis Wheatley is freed from slavery. 1851 Herman Melville's Moby-Dick is first published as The Whale by Richard Bentley of London. 1867 United States takes possession of Alaska after purchasing it from Russia for $7.2 million. Celebrated annually in the state as Alaska Day. 1898 The United States takes possession of Puerto Rico from Spain. 1922 The British Broadcasting Company (later Corporation) is founded by a consortium, to establish a nationwide network of radio transmitters to provide a national broadcasting service. 1929 The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council overrules the Supreme Court of Canada in Edwards v. Canada when it declares that women are considered "Persons" under Canadian law. 1945 The USSR's nuclear program receives plans for the United States plutonium bomb from Klaus Fuchs at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. 1945 Argentine military officer and politician Juan Perσn marries actress Eva "Evita" Duarte. 1954 Texas Instruments announces the first transistor radio. 1963 Fιlicette, a black and white female Parisian stray cat becomes the first cat launched into space. Births 1785 Thomas Love Peacock; 1919 Anita O'Day; 1919 Pierre Trudeau; 1921 Jesse Helms; 1923 Jessie Mae Hemphill; 1926 Chuck Berry; 1926 Klaus Kinski; 1927 George C. Scott; 1928 Keith Jackson; 1934 Inger Stevens; 1935 Peter Boyle; 1938 Dawn Wells; 1939 Mike Ditka; 1939 Lee Harvey Oswald; 1945 Huell Howser; 1946 Howard Shore; 1947 Joe Morton; 1950 Wendy Wasserstein; 1951 Pam Dawber; 1951 Terry McMillan; 1952 Chuck Lorre; 1954 Arliss Howard; 1955 David Twohy; 1956 Martina Navratilova; 1958 Thomas Hearns; 1960 Jean-Claude Van Damme; 1960 Erin Moran; 1961 Wynton Marsalis; 1962 Vincent Spano; 1984 Lindsey Vonn; 1987 Zac Efron Deaths 1931 Thomas Edison; 1966 Elizabeth Arden; 1966 S. S. Kresge; 1973 Walt Kelly; 1982 Bess Truman; 2008 Dee Dee Warwick; 2013 Tom Foley; 2013 Bum Phillips |
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October 19
1469 Ferdinand II of Aragon marries Isabella I of Castile, a marriage that paves the way to the unification of Aragon and Castile into a single country, Spain. 1781 At Yorktown, Virginia, representatives of British commander Lord Cornwallis handed over Cornwallis' sword and formally surrendered to George Washington and the comte de Rochambeau. 1789 Chief Justice John Jay is sworn in as the first Chief Justice of the United States. 1812 Napoleon Bonaparte retreats from Moscow. 1813 The Battle of Leipzig concludes, giving Napoleon Bonaparte one of his worst defeats. 1900 Max Planck discovers the law of black-body radiation (Planck's law). 1917 Love Field in Dallas is opened. 1943 The cargo vessel Sinfra is attacked by Allied aircraft at Souda Bay, Crete, and sunk. 2,098 Italian prisoners of war drown. 1943 Streptomycin, the first antibiotic remedy for tuberculosis, is isolated by researchers at Rutgers University. 1950 Iran becomes the first country to accept technical assistance from the United States under the Point Four Program. 1960 Cold War: The United States government imposes a near-total trade embargo against Cuba. 1968 - 18 year old Peter Frampton meets Steve Marriott at a Small Faces show in London. After striking up a friendship, the two started planning a new group which emerged as Humble Pie the following April. 1973 President Richard Nixon rejects an Appeals Court decision that he turn over the Watergate tapes. 1988 The British government imposes a broadcasting ban on television and radio interviews with members of Sinn Fιin and eleven Irish republican and Ulster loyalist paramilitary groups. 1989 The convictions of the Guildford Four are quashed by the Court of Appeal of England and Wales, after they had spent 15 years in prison. 2003 Mother Teresa is beatified by Pope John Paul II. 2005 Saddam Hussein goes on trial in Baghdad for crimes against humanity. 2005 Hurricane Wilma becomes the most intense Atlantic hurricane on record with a minimum pressure of 882 mb. Births 1605 Thomas Browne; 1810 Cassius Marcellus Clay; 1862 Auguste Lumiθre; 1901 Arleigh Burke; 1920 LaWanda Page aka The Bronze Goddess Of Fire ('Aunt Esther' on Sanford & Son); 1931 John le Carrι; 1932 Robert Reed; 1936 Tony Lo Bianco; 1937 Peter Max; 1940 Michael Gambon; 1944 Peter Tosh♪ ♫(The Wailers); 1945 Gloria Jones♪ ♫; 1945 John Lithgow; 1945 Jeannie C. Riley♪ ♫; 1946 Keith Reid♪ ♫; 1948 James Howard Kunstler; 1948 Patrick Simmons:shred:(Doobie Bros); 1962 Evander Holyfield:boxers:; 1965 Ty Pennington; 1966 Jon Favreau; 1967 Amy Carter (daughter of POTUS Jimmy Carter); 1968 Rodney Carrington:lol2:; 1969 Trey Parker (co-creator South Park); 1970 Chris Kattan (SNL) Deaths 1682 Thomas Browne; 1745 Jonathan Swift; 1897 George Pullman; 1943 Camille Claudel:artist:; 1945 N. C. Wyeth:artist:; 1950 Edna St. Vincent Millay; 1978 Gig Young; 1988 Son House:shred:; 1994 Martha Raye; 2008 Richard 'Mr.' Blackwell; 2008 Rudy Ray Moore, "Dolemite"; 2009 Joseph Wiseman ('Dr. No' in Dr. No); 2010 Tom Bosley; 2014 - Raphael Ravenscroft (sax on Gerry Rafferty's "Baker Street") |
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October 20
Today is World Osteoporosis Day, as well as World Statistics Day. So, know that 2-8% of men, and 9-38% of women are affected by osteoporosis. Today is Vietnamese Women's Day (Ngΰy phụ nữ Việt Nam) in Vietnam. Events 1720 – Caribbean pirate Calico Jack is captured by the Royal Navy. 1781 – The Patent of Toleration, providing limited freedom of worship, is approved in Habsburg Monarchy. 1803 – The United States Senate ratifies the Louisiana Purchase. 1818 – The Convention of 1818 is signed between the United States and the United Kingdom, which settles the Canada–United States border on the 49th parallel for most of its length. 1827 – In the Battle of Navarino, a combined Turkish and Egyptian fleet is defeated by British, French, and Russian naval forces in the last significant battle fought with wooden sailing ships. 1873 – Yale, Princeton, Columbia, and Rutgers universities draft the first code of American football rules. 1935 – The Long March, a mammoth retreat undertaken by the armed forces of the Chinese Communist Party a year prior, ends. 1941 – World War II: Thousands of civilians in Kragujevac in German-occupied Serbia are murdered in the Kragujevac massacre. 1944 – Liquefied natural gas leaks from storage tanks in Cleveland and then explodes; the explosion and resulting fire level 30 blocks and kill 130 people. 1944 – American General Douglas MacArthur fulfills his promise to return to the Philippines when he commands an Allied assault on the islands, reclaiming them from the Japanese during the Second World War. 1946 – Government of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam decides that October 20 is Vietnam Women's Day. 1947 – The House Un-American Activities Committee begins its investigation into Communist infiltration of Hollywood, resulting in a blacklist that prevents some from working in the industry for years. 1951 – The "Johnny Bright incident" (a violent on-field assault against African American player Johnny Bright by white player Wilbanks Smith during an American college football game) occurs in Stillwater, Oklahoma. 1962 - Bobby 'Boris' Pickett and the Crypt Kickers started a two week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with 'Monster Mash', it became a No.3 in the UK eleven years later in 1973. 1968 – Former First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy marries Greek shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis. 1973 – "Saturday Night Massacre": United States President Richard Nixon fires U.S. Attorney General Elliot Richardson and Deputy Attorney General William Ruckelshaus after they refuse to fire Watergate special prosecutor Archibald Cox, who is finally fired by Robert Bork. 1973 – The Sydney Opera House is opened by Elizabeth II after 14 years of construction work. 1976 – The ferry George Prince is struck by a ship while crossing the Mississippi River between Destrehan and Luling, Louisiana. Seventy-eight passengers and crew die, and only 18 people aboard the ferry survive. 1977 – Rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd's plane crashes after running out of fuel near Gillsburg, Mississippi. 1983 - American country/western singer/songwriter Merle Travis died of a heart attack, aged 65. Travis is acknowledged as one of the most influential American guitarists of the twentieth century. 1991 – The Oakland Hills firestorm kills 25 people, and destroys 3,469 homes and apartments, causing more than $2 billion in damage. 2011 – Libyan Civil War: National Transitional Council rebel forces capture ousted Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi in his hometown of Sirte and kill him within the hour. Births 1632 – Christopher Wren (designed St Paul's Cathedral); 1854 – Arthur Rimbaud; 1882 – Bela Lugosi:speechls:; 1885 – Jelly Roll Morton:keys:; 1895 – Rex Ingram (the genie in The Thief of Bagdad); 1907 – Arlene Francis; 1913 – Grandpa Jones:shred:; 1922 – John Anderson; 1925 – Art Buchwald; 1925 – Tom Dowd♪ ♫; 1927 – Dr. Joyce Brothers; 1931 – Mickey Mantle; 1935 – Jerry Orbach; 1936 – Bobby Seale; 1937 – Wanda Jackson♪ ♫; 1940 – Kathy Kirby♪ ♫; 1942 – Earl Hindman (neighbor 'Wilson W. Wilson, Jr.' on Home Improvement); 1946 – Lewis Grizzard (Designing Women); 1950 – Tom Petty:shred::devil:; 1951 – Al Greenwood:keys:(Foreigner); 1953 – Keith Hernandez; 1955 – Aaron Pryor:boxers:; 1956 – Danny Boyle; 1958 – Viggo Mortensen:devil:; 1961 – Les Stroud♪ ♫:devil: (Survivorman); 1964 – Jim Sonefeld (Hootie & The Blowfish); 1967 – Fred Coury:drummer:(Cinderella); 1971 – Snoop Dogg♪ ♫; 1979 – John Krasinski (The Office) Deaths 1936 – Anne Sullivan (companion to Helen Keller); 1964 – Herbert Hoover (31st POTUS); :blackr:1977 – Cassie Gaines♪ ♫, Steve Gaines:shred:, Ronnie Van Zant♪ ♫ (all three were members of Lynyrd Skynyrd):blackr:; 1983 – Merle Travis:shred:; 1989 – Anthony Quayle; 1990 – Joel McCrea; 1994 – Burt Lancaster; 1995 – Christopher Stone; 2003 – Jack Elam:eyebrow:; 2005 – Shirley Horn:keys:; 2006 – Jane Wyatt (Spock's mother on Star Trek TOS); 2010 – Bob Guccione:ggw:(founded Penthouse magazine); 2011 – Muammar Gaddafi (int'l asshole); 2011 – Mutassim Gaddafi (the asshole's son); 2014 – Oscar de la Renta |
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October 21
Today is International Day of the Nacho. So, nacho up. The Britishers are celebrating Apple Day, as well as Trafalgar Day, today. Events 1097 – First Crusade: Crusaders led by Godfrey of Bouillon, Bohemund of Taranto, and Raymond IV, Count of Toulouse, begin the Siege of Antioch. 1512 – Martin Luther joins the theological faculty of the University of Wittenberg. 1520 – Ferdinand Magellan discovers the strait that now bears his name. 1774 – First display of the word "Liberty" on a flag, raised by colonists in Taunton, Massachusetts in defiance of British rule in Colonial America. 1797 – In Boston Harbor, the 44-gun United States Navy frigate USS Constitution is launched. 1805 – Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Trafalgar: A British fleet led by Vice Admiral Lord Nelson defeats a combined French and Spanish fleet under Admiral Villeneuve. 1824 – Joseph Aspdin patents Portland cement. 1867 – The Medicine Lodge Treaty is signed by southern Great Plains Indian leaders. The treaty requires Native American Plains tribes to relocate to a reservation in western Oklahoma. 1879 – Thomas Edison invents the first commercially practical incandescent light bulb. 1940 – The first edition of the Ernest Hemingway novel For Whom the Bell Tolls is published. Spoiler: It tolls for thee. 1944 – World War II: The first kamikaze attack. A Japanese fighter plane carrying a 200-kilogram (440 lb) bomb attacks HMAS Australia off Leyte Island, as the Battle of Leyte Gulf begins. 1944 – World War II: Battle of Aachen: The city of Aachen falls to American forces after three weeks of fighting, making it the first German city to fall to the Allies. 1959 – In New York City, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, opens to the public. 1959 – U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs an executive order transferring Wernher von Braun and other German scientists from the United States Army to NASA. 1966 – Aberfan disaster: A colliery spoil tip collapses on the village of Aberfan in Wales, killing 144 people, mostly schoolchildren. 1972 - Chuck Berry started a two week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with 'My Ding-A-Ling', his first and only US and UK No.1, 17 years after his first chart hit. 1973 – Fred Dryer of the Los Angeles Rams becomes the first player in NFL history to score two safeties in the same game. 1978 – Australian civilian pilot Frederick Valentich vanishes in a Cessna 182 over the Bass Strait south of Melbourne, after reporting contact with an unidentified aircraft. 1983 – The metre is defined at the seventeenth General Conference on Weights and Measures as the distance light travels in a vacuum in 1/299,792,458 of a second. Births 1772 – Samuel Taylor Coleridge (wrote poems The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, and Kubla Khan); 1833 – Alfred Nobel (invented dynamite and founded the Nobel Prize); 1912 – Georg Solti♪ ♫; 1917 – Dizzy Gillespie♪ ♫; 1928 – Whitey Ford; 1935 – Derek Bell♪ ♫(The Chieftans); 1940 – Manfred Mann♪ ♫; 1941 – Steve Cropper:shred:(Booker T. & the M.G.'s); 1942 – Elvin Bishop:shred:(he ain't good-lookin', but he sure can play); 1942 – Judith Sheindlin (American bitch); 1952 – Patti Davis; 1953 – Charlotte Caffey:shred:(The Go-Gos); 1956 – Carrie Fisher:crazy:; 1957 – Steve Lukather:shred:(Toto); 1976 – Josh Ritter♪ ♫; 1980 – Kim Kardashian:moon: Deaths 1805 – Horatio Nelson; 1965 – Bill Black:bass:; 1969 – Jack Kerouac; 1984 – Franηois Truffaut; 1985 – Dan White (Harvey Milk's & George Mosconi's assassin); 1995 – Nancy Graves:artist:; 1995 – Shannon Hoon:shred:(Blind Melon); 2006 – Sandy West:drummer:(The Runaways); 2012 – George McGovern; 2013 – Bud Adams (owner Tennessee Titans); 2014 – Ben Bradlee (WaPo editor); 2014 – Nelson Bunker Hunt (one of the Hunt Bros, they tried to corner the silver market in the late 70s) |
Thanks Mr G! I always enjoy your posts in this topic.
Unfortunately, it's also a reminder of my own mortality as the events I can actually remember seem to increase in number as each day passes. :eek: To Trafalgar Day. No, I don't remember the battle, but Dad being an old sea dog, always pauses for thought on October 21st. |
You are more than welcome Good Carruthers!
I try to throw Dwellars in other countries a bone every now and then, but, I'm afraid I'm not up what's an important date/event in other countries' history. I veer away from Kings and Queens because Britain has had so many, and they all have the same names!! How many Charless, Henrys, Georges and Marys can ya have for God's sake?! There's almost literally one or the other has died, been born, or was crowned or killed every day. I can't keep up with who was popular, hated, or laughed at. I do, however, know a few people who live in England, and Australia who know these things. And they are more than welcome to add or correct anything I've missed (or left out on purpose;)) to this thread. In fact, they are encouraged to do so.:) |
From this USians perspective I can't believe I had never heard of the Aberfan disaster. I guess that's the nature of disasters like that, overseas you don't hear much of the history of them. What a horrible, horrible event.
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October 22
Today, our friends down under celebrate Wombat Day, honoring (what else?) wombats. Today is Make A Difference Day, so, do that. The world marks today as International Stuttering Awareness Day. Also, TODAY IS INTERNATIONAL CAPS LOCK DAY, SO ♪ ♫SHOUT IT SHOUT IT SHOUT IT OUT LOUD♪ ♫. Events 4004 BC – The world was created at approximately six o'clock in the evening, according to the Ussher chronology. 1707 – Scilly naval disaster: four British Royal Navy ships run aground near the Isles of Scilly because of faulty navigation. Admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovell and thousands of sailors drown. 1790 – Warriors of the Miami people under Chief Little Turtle defeat United States troops under General Josiah Harmar at the site of present-day Fort Wayne, Indiana, in the Northwest Indian War. 1797 – Andrι-Jacques Garnerin makes the first recorded parachute jump from one thousand meters (3,200 feet) above Paris. 1836 – Sam Houston is inaugurated as the first President of the Republic of Texas. 1844 – The Great Anticipation: Millerites, followers of William Miller, anticipate the end of the world in conjunction with the Second Advent of Christ. The following day became known as the Great Disappointment. 1879 – Using a filament of carbonized thread, Thomas Edison tests the first practical electric incandescent light bulb (it lasted 13½ hours before burning out). 1883 – The Metropolitan Opera House in New York City opens with a performance of Gounod's Faust. 1884 – The Royal Observatory in Britain is adopted as the prime meridian of longitude by the International Meridian Conference. 1895 – In Paris an express train derails (<--awesome photo, btw) after overrunning the buffer stop, crossing almost 30 metres (100 ft) of concourse before crashing through a wall and falling 10 metres (33 ft) to the road below. 1927 – Nikola Tesla introduces six new inventions including single-phase electric power. 1934 – In East Liverpool, Ohio, Federal Bureau of Investigation agents shoot and kill notorious bank robber Pretty Boy Floyd. 1957 – Vietnam War: First United States casualties in Vietnam. 1962 – Cuban Missile Crisis: US President John F. Kennedy, after internal counsel from Dwight D. Eisenhower, announces that American reconnaissance planes have discovered Soviet nuclear weapons in Cuba, and that he has ordered a naval "quarantine" of the Communist nation. 1964 – Jean-Paul Sartre is awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, but turns down the honor. 1966 – The Supremes become the first all-female music group to attain a No. 1 selling album (The Supremes A' Go-Go). 1972 – Vietnam War: In Saigon, Henry Kissinger and South Vietnamese President Nguyễn Văn Thiệu meet to discuss a proposed cease-fire that had been worked out between Americans and North Vietnamese in Paris. 1976 – Red Dye No. 4 is banned by the US Food and Drug Administration after it is discovered that it causes tumors in the bladders of dogs. 1983 – Two correctional officers are killed by inmates at the United States Penitentiary in Marion, Illinois. The incident inspires the Supermax model of prisons. 1986 - Jane Dornacker was killed in a helicopter crash during a live traffic report for WNBC radio in New York. Listeners heard the terrified voice of Dornacker screaming "Hit the water, hit the water!" as the helicopter from which she and pilot Bill Pate were reporting, fell from the sky and crashed into the Hudson River. Dornacker had been a member of The Tubes and Leila And The Snakes. 1990 - Pearl Jam played their first ever concert when they appeared at the Off Ramp in Seattle. 2001 – Grand Theft Auto III was released, popularizing a genre of open-world, action-adventure video games as well as spurring controversy around violence in video games. 2005 – Tropical Storm Alpha forms in the Atlantic Basin, making the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season the most active Atlantic hurricane season on record with 22 named storms. 2013 – The Australian Capital Territory becomes the first Australian jurisdiction to legalize same-sex marriage with the Marriage Equality (Same Sex) Act 2013. 2014 – Michael Zehaf-Bibeau attacks the Parliament of Canada in Ottawa, Canada, killing a soldier and injuring three other people. Births 1734 – Daniel Boone; 1811 – Franz Liszt:keys:; 1844 – Louis Riel; 1882 – N. C. Wyeth:artist:; 1903 – Curly Howard (of Stooge fame); 1904 – Constance Bennett; 1917 – Joan Fontaine; 1920 – Timothy Leary; 1925 – Robert Rauschenberg:artist:; 1931 – Ann Rule; 1938 – Christopher Lloyd; 1939 – Tony Roberts; 1942 – Annette Funicello; 1943 – Catherine Deneuve; 1945 - Leslie West:shred:(Mountain); 1947 – Deepak Chopra; 1948 – Lynette 'Squeaky' Fromme (attempted assassin of Gerald Ford); 1952 – Jeff Goldblum; 1962 – Bob Odenkirk; 1963 – Brian Boitano; 1965 – Valeria Golino; 1968 – Jay Johnston; 1968 – Shaggy♪ ♫; 1969 – Spike Jonze; 1972 – Saffron Burrows; 1975 – Jesse Tyler Ferguson (Modern Family); 1985 – Zac Hanson:drummer:(Hanson) Deaths 741 – Charles Martel; 1906 – Paul Cιzanne:artist:; 1934 – Pretty Boy Floyd; 1973 – Pablo Casals♪ ♫; 1989 – Jacob Wetterling (kidnapping victim); 1992 – Cleavon Little ("Where da white women at?"); 1998 – Eric Ambler; 2006 – Arthur Hill (The Andromeda Strain); 2009 – Soupy Sales; 2012 – Russell Means ('Chingachgook' in The Last of the Mohicans (1992)); 2013 – Marylou Dawes:keys: |
October 23
Today chemists, chemistry students, and enthusiasts celebrate Mole Day. What the I don't even.:3_eyes: There are 62 until Christmas, and 69 days left in 2016. Events 42 BC Liberators' civil war: Second Battle of Philippi Mark Antony and Octavian decisively defeat Brutus's army. Brutus commits suicide. 1642 Battle of Edgehill: First major battle of the First English Civil War. 1707 The first Parliament of Great Britain meets. 1739 War of Jenkins' Ear starts: British Prime Minister Robert Walpole, reluctantly declares war on Spain. 1861 U.S. President Abraham Lincoln suspends the writ of habeas corpus in Washington, D.C., for all military-related cases. 1864 American Civil War: Battle of Westport: Union forces under General Samuel R. Curtis defeat Confederate troops led by General Sterling Price (<--the real one, not Rooster Cogburn's cat in True Grit) at Westport, Missouri, near Kansas City. 1867 Seventy-two Senators are summoned by Royal Proclamation to serve as the first members of the Canadian Senate. 1911 First use of aircraft in war: Italo-Turkish War: An Italian pilot takes off from Libya to observe Turkish army lines. 1915 Women's suffrage: In New York City, 25,00033,000 women march on Fifth Avenue to advocate their right to vote. 1917 Lenin calls for the October Revolution. 1929 Great Depression: After a steady decline in stock market prices since a peak in September, the New York Stock Exchange begins to show signs of panic. 1935 Dutch Schultz, Abe Landau, Otto Berman, and Bernard "Lulu" Rosencrantz are fatally shot at a saloon in Newark, New Jersey in what will become known as The Chophouse Massacre. 1939 The Japanese Mitsubishi G4M twin-engine "Betty" Bomber makes its maiden flight. 1944 World War II: Battle of Leyte Gulf: The largest naval battle in history begins in the Philippines. 1958 The Springhill Mine bump: An underground earthquake traps 174 miners 13,000 - 14,000 feet in, and ~4,000 feet deep, in the No. 2 colliery at Springhill, Nova Scotia, the deepest coal mine in North America at the time. By November 1, rescuers from around the world had dug out 100 of the victims, marking the death toll at 74. 1958 The Smurfs, a fictional race of blue dwarves, later popularized in a Hanna-Barbera animated cartoon series, appear for the first time in the story La flute ΰ six schtroumpfs, a Johan and Peewit adventure by Peyo, which is serialized in the weekly Spirou magazine. 1966 - The Jimi Hendrix Experience recorded their first single 'Hey Joe', at De Lane Lea studios in London. 1970 Gary Gabelich sets a land speed record (622.407 mph) in a rocket-powered automobile called the Blue Flame, fueled with natural gas. 1973 The Watergate scandal: US President Richard M. Nixon agrees to turn over subpoenaed audio tapes of his Oval Office conversations. 1976 - Led Zeppelin made their US television debut on Don Kirshner's Rock Concert, they performed Black Dog and Dazed And Confused. 1980 - Mark David Chapman quit his security job and signed out for the last time. Instead of the usual "Chappy" he wrote "John Lennon". 1983 Lebanese Civil War: The U.S. Marines barracks in Beirut is hit by a truck bomb, killing 241 U.S. military personnel. A French army barracks in Lebanon is also hit that same morning, killing 58 troops. 1993 The Troubles: A Provisional IRA bomb prematurely detonates in the Shankill area of Belfast, killing the bomber and nine civilians. 1995 - Def Leppard gave themselves a place in the Guinness book Of World Records, by playing three gigs in three continents in 24 hours. Tangier, London and Vancouver. 1995 Yolanda Saldνvar is found guilty of first-degree murder in the shooting death of popular Latin singer Selena. Three days later, Saldνvar was sentenced to life in prison, eligible for parole in 2025. 1998 IsraeliPalestinian conflict: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Chairman Yasser Arafat reach a "land for peace" agreement. 1998 Swatch Internet Time, a measure of 1000 "beats" per day was inaugurated by the Swatch Group. 2002 Moscow theater hostage crisis: Chechen terrorists seize the House of Culture theater in Moscow and take approximately 700 theater-goers hostage. 2015 The lowest sea-level pressure in the Western Hemisphere (25.75 inHg), and the highest reliably-measured non-tornadic sustained winds (~215 mph), are recorded in Hurricane Patricia, which strikes Mexico hours later, killing at least 13 and causing over $280 million in damages. Births 64 BC Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa; 1835 Adlai Stevenson I (23rd VPOTUS); 1869 John Heisman (Heisman Trophy); 1920 Ted Fujita (Fujita Scale measuring tornado intensity F-1 through F-5); 1925 Johnny Carson; 1935 Chi-Chi Rodrνguez:devil:; 1936 Philip Kaufman (director The Right Stuff); 1940 Pelι; 1942 Michael Crichton; 1949 Wόrzel:shred:(Motφrhead); 1954 Ang Lee; 1956 Dwight Yoakam♪ ♫; 1959 Nancy Grace (American bitch); 1959 Sam Raimi; 1959 "Weird Al" Yankovic♪ ♫; 1960 Randy Pausch; 1960 Wayne Rainey (motorcycle racer); 1962 Doug Flutie; 1964 Robert Trujillo:bass:(Metallica); 1970 Grant Imahara (robotics guy from Mythbusters); 1976 Cat Deeley; 1976 Ryan Reynolds (Deadpool); 1986 Jessica Stroup (The Following); 1986 Emilia Clarke (Game of Thrones) Deaths 42 BC Marcus Junius Brutus the Younger; 1921 John Boyd Dunlop (founded Dunlop Rubber); 1939 Zane Grey:devil:; 1950 Al Jolson; 1957 Christian Dior; 1978 'Mother' Maybelle Carter♪ ♫(country/bluegrass royalty); 1983 Jessica Savitch; 1984 Oskar Werner; 1994 Robert Lansing; 2005 William Hootkins |
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October 24
In the United States, this day is observed as Food Day. The United Nations marks today as World Development Information Day, as well as United Nations Day . Rotary International has declared Oct. 24 to be World Polio Day. Events 1260 – Chartres Cathedral is dedicated in the presence of King Louis IX of France; the cathedral is now a UNESCO World Heritage Site. 1590 – John White, the governor of the second Roanoke Colony, returns to England after an unsuccessful search for the "lost" colonists. 1851 – William Lassell discovers the moons Umbriel, and Ariel, orbiting Uranus. Snicker, anus. 1857 – Sheffield F.C., the world's oldest association football club still in operation, is founded in Sheffield, England. 1861 – The first transcontinental telegraph line across the United States is completed, spelling the end for the 18-month-old Pony Express. 1911 – Orville Wright remains in the air nine minutes and 45 seconds in a Wright Glider at Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina. 1926 – Harry Houdini's last performance takes place at the Garrick Theatre in Detroit, Michigan. 1929 – "Black Thursday" stock market crash on the New York Stock Exchange. The beginning of The Great Depression. 1931 – The George Washington Bridge opens to public traffic. 1945 – Founding of the United Nations. Commemorated as United Nations Day. 1946 – A camera on board the V-2 No. 13 rocket takes the first photograph of earth from outer space. 1947 – Famed animator Walt Disney testifies before the House Un-American Activities Committee, naming Disney employees he believes to be communists. Snitches, man... 1949 – The cornerstone of the United Nations Headquarters is laid in New York City. 1954 – U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower pledges United States support to South Vietnam. 1973 – The Yom Kippur War ends. 1975 – In Iceland, 90% of women take part in a national strike, refusing to work in protest of gaps in gender equality. 1977 – Veterans Day is observed in the U.S. on the fourth Monday in October for the seventh and last time. (The holiday is once again observed on November 11 beginning the following year.) 1990 – Italian prime minister Giulio Andreotti reveals to the Italian parliament the existence of Gladio, the Italian "stay-behind" clandestine paramilitary NATO army, which was implicated in false flag terrorist attacks implicating communists and anarchists as part of the strategy of tension from the late 1960s to early 1980s. 1998 – Launch of Deep Space 1 comet/asteroid mission. 2002 – Police arrest spree killers John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo, ending the Beltway sniper attacks in the area around Washington, D.C. 2003 – Concorde makes its last commercial flight. 2008 – "Bloody Friday" saw many of the world's stock exchanges experience the worst declines in their history, with drops of around 10% in most indices. 2015 – A driver, later arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence (DUI), crashes into the Oklahoma State Homecoming parade in Stillwater, Oklahoma, killing four people and injuring 34. Births 1855 – James S. Sherman (27th VPOTUS); 1903 – Melvin Purvis (captured more public enemies than any other agent in FBI history, a record that still stands); 1904 – Moss Hart; 1915 – Bob Kane (co-created Batman); 1919 – Frank Piasecki (pioneer in tandem rotor aircraft); 1926 – Y. A. Tittle; 1930 – The Big Bopper (aka J.P. Richardson); 1933 – Reginald & Ronald Kray (English gangsters); 1936 – Jimmy Dawkins; 1936 – David Nelson; 1936 – Bill Wyman; 1939 – F. Murray Abraham; 1943 – Bill 'Superstar' Dundee; 1947 – Kevin Kline; 1954 – Doug Davidson; 1960 – Ian Baker-Finch; 1960 – B. D. Wong; 1962 – Dave Blaney; 1981 – Tila Tequila; 1983 – Brian Vickers; 1986 – Drake Deaths 1537 – Jane Seymour (no, not that one, there was another one); 1601 – Tycho Brahe; 1852 – Daniel Webster; 1922 – George Cadbury; 1935 – Dutch Schultz; 1944 – Louis Renault; 1945 – Vidkun Quisling; 1972 – Jackie Robinson; 1979 – Carlo Abarth; 1991 – Gene Roddenberry; 1997 – Don Messick; 2005 – Rosa Parks; 2015 – Maureen O'Hara; 2016 – Bobby Vee |
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October 25
285 (or 286) Execution of Saints Crispin and Crispinian during the reign of Diocletian, now the patron saints of leather workers, curriers, and shoemakers. 1415 Hundred Years' War: Henry V of England and his lightly armoured infantry and archers defeat the heavily armoured French cavalry in the Battle of Agincourt on Saint Crispin's Day. 1828 St Katharine Docks open in London. 1854 The Battle of Balaclava during the Crimean War (Charge of the Light Brigade). Half a league, half a league, Half a league onward, All in the valley of Death Rode the six hundred. ~Alfred, Lord Tennyson 1920 After 74 days on hunger strike in Brixton Prison, England, the Sinn Fιin Lord Mayor of Cork, Terence MacSwiney dies. 1938 The Archbishop of Dubuque, Francis J. L. Beckman, denounces swing music as "a degenerated musical system ... turned loose to gnaw away at the moral fiber of young people", warning that it leads down a "primrose path to hell". His warning is widely ignored.:right: 1940 Benjamin O. Davis, Sr. is named the first African American general in the United States Army. 1944 The USS Tang under Richard O'Kane (the top American submarine captain of World War II) is sunk by the ship's own malfunctioning torpedo. 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis: Adlai Stevenson shows photos at a meeting of the United Nations Security Council proving that Soviet missiles are installed in Cuba. 1964 - The Rolling Stones appeared for the first time on The Ed Sullivan Show from New York, performing Around And Around and Time Is On My Side. A riot broke out in the studio, prompting Sullivans infamous quote, I promise you theyll never be back on our show again. The Rolling Stones went on to make a further five appearances on Sullivans show between 1965 and 1969. 1966 - Aged 7 months old, Jeff Healey had his right eye surgical removed (and subsequently his left eye, 4 months later), and replaced with artificial ones, necessitated by a form of cancer of the eyes called retinoblastoma. Three years later Healey was given his first guitar by his father. At the age of 13, the Canadian guitarist formed his first band, Blue Direction. 1977 Digital Equipment Corporation releases OpenVMS V1.0. 1983 Operation Urgent Fury: The United States and its Caribbean allies invade Grenada, six days after Prime Minister Maurice Bishop and several of his supporters are executed in a coup d'ιtat. 1995 A commuter train slams into a school bus in Fox River Grove, Illinois, killing seven students. Births 1838 Georges Bizet:keys:; 1864 John Francis Dodge (yeah, that Dodge); 1881 Pablo Picasso:artist:; 1886 Leo G. Carroll; 1888 Richard E. Byrd; 1912 Minnie Pearl ("HOOOWDEE!! I'm jist s'proud to be h'yere!"); 1913 Klaus Barbie; 1924 Billy Barty; 1928 Jeanne Cooper ('Katherine Chancellor' on The Young and the Restless); 1928 Tony Franciosa; 1928 Marion Ross ('Mrs. Cunningham' on Happy Days); 1940 Bobby Knight; 1941 Helen Reddy♪ ♫; 1944 Jon Anderson♪ ♫(Yes); 1944 James Carville (played 'Gollum' in The Lord of The Rings); 1947 Glenn Tipton:shred:(Judas Priest); 1955 Matthias Jabs:shred:(Scorpions); 1957 Nancy Cartwright (voice of Bart Simpson); 1959 Chrissy Amphlett♪ ♫(Divinyls); 1961 Ward Burton:driving:; 1961 Chad Smith:drummer:(The Red Hot Chili Peppers); 1964 Michael Boatman (Spin City, China Beach); 1970 Adam Goldberg; 1970 Ed Robertson♪ ♫(Barenaked Ladies); 1970 Chely Wright♪ ♫; 1984 Katy Perry♪ ♫; 1985 Ciara♪ ♫ Deaths 1400 Geoffrey Chaucer; 1806 Henry Knox (namesake of Fort Knox & Knox County, KY); 1920 Terence MacSwiney; 1921 Bat Masterson; 1957 Albert Anastasia (mob boss); 1986 Forrest Tucker; 1991 Bill Graham♪ ♫(concert promoter); 1992 Roger Miller♪ ♫; 1993 Vincent Price; 1995 Bobby Riggs:male:; 1999 Payne Stewart; 2002 Richard Harris (left his cake out in the rain); 2004 John Peel; 2008 Gerard Damiano (wrote & directed Deep Throat, directed The Devil in Miss Jones); 2013 Hal Needham; 2013 Marcia Wallace (voice of 'Edna Krabappel' on The Simpsons); 2014 Jack Bruce:bass:(Cream) |
October 26
Today is the 300th day of 2016, and there are 66 days left in 2016. There are 59 days until Christmas. Events 306 – Martyrdom of Saint Demetrius of Thessaloniki. 1185 – The Uprising of Asen and Peter begins on the feast day of St. Demetrius of Thessaloniki and ends with the creation of the Second Bulgarian Empire, ruled by the Asen dynasty. 1597 – Imjin War: Admiral Yi Sun-sin routs the Japanese Navy of 300 ships with only 13 ships at the Battle of Myeongnyang. 1689 – General Piccolomini of Austria burns down Skopje to prevent the spread of cholera. He died of cholera himself soon after. 1775 – King George III of Great Britain goes before Parliament to declare the American colonies in rebellion, and authorizes a military response to quell the American Revolution. 1776 – Benjamin Franklin departs from America for France on a mission to seek French support for the American Revolution. 1825 – The Erie Canal opens: Passage from Albany, New York to Lake Erie. 1861 – The Pony Express officially ceases operations. 1881 – The Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, one of the most famous gunfights in the history of the American Old West, took place in Tombstone, Arizona, between The Cowboys and lawmen led by Wyatt Earp. 1912 – First Balkan War: The Ottoman occupied city of Thessaloniki, is liberated and unified with Greece on the feast day of its patron saint Demetrius. On the same day, Serbian troops captured Skopje. 1917 – World War I: Battle of Caporetto; Italy suffers a catastrophic defeat to the forces of Austria-Hungary and Germany. The young unknown Oberleutnant Erwin Rommel captures Mount Matajur with only 100 Germans against a force of over 7000 Italians. 1936 – The first electric generator at Hoover Dam goes into full operation. 1940 – The P-51 Mustang makes its maiden flight. 1942 – World War II: In the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands during the Guadalcanal Campaign, one U.S. aircraft carrier, USS Hornet, is sunk and another aircraft carrier, USS Enterprise, is heavily damaged, while two Japanese carriers and one cruiser are heavily damaged. 1958 – Pan American Airways makes the first commercial flight of the Boeing 707 from New York City to Paris, France. 1984 - 19-year-old John D. McCollum killed himself with a .22 caliber handgun after spending the day listening to Ozzy Osbourne records. One year later, McCollum's parents took court action against Ozzy and CBS Records, alleging that the song "Suicide Solution" from the album Blizzard of Ozz contributed to their son's death. The case was eventually thrown out of court. 1984 – "Baby Fae" receives a heart transplant from a baboon. 1985 – The Australian government returns ownership of Uluru to the local Pitjantjatjara Aborigines. 1992 – The London Ambulance Service is thrown into chaos after the implementation of a new CAD, or Computer Aided Dispatch, system which failed. 1999 - American singer/songwriter and actor Hoyt Axton died of a heart attack in Victor, Montana aged 61. Wrote songs for, Elvis Presley, Three Dog Night, (1971 US No.1 Joy To The World), John Denver, Ringo Starr, Glen Campbell. His mother Mae Boren Axton wrote 'Heartbreak Hotel'. 1999 – Britain's House of Lords votes to end the right of hereditary peers to vote in Britain's upper chamber of Parliament. 2001 – The United States passes the USA PATRIOT Act into law. 2002 – Moscow theater hostage crisis: Approximately 50 Chechen terrorists and 150 hostages die when Russian Spetsnaz storm a theater building in Moscow, which had been occupied by the terrorists during a musical performance three days before. 2007 - Rapper T.I. was released on $3m (£1.5m) bail in Atlanta after he was charged with unlawfully possessing firearms, unregistered machine guns and silencers. US Magistrate Judge Alan Baverman said the rapper would remain under house arrest in Henry County, Georgia, being monitored 24 hours a day by a private firm paid for by himself. The rapper was also electronically tagged. 2011 - Aerosmith were forced to delay a concert in South America after Steven Tyler fell in his hotel bathroom. The singer suffered cuts to his face and lost two of his teeth ahead of a concert in Asuncion, Paraguay. He was said to have received stitches and had emergency dental work, forcing the gig to be postponed by 24 hours. Births 1854 – C. W. Post (founded Post Foods); 1865 – Benjamin Guggenheim (of the mining Guggenheims, went down with the Titanic); 1871 – Guillermo Kahlo (Mexican photog, father of Frida Kahlo); 1874 – Abby Aldrich Rockefeller (founded MOMA in NYC); 1902 – Jack Sharkey:boxers:; 1911 – Mahalia Jackson♪ ♫; 1912 – Don Siegel; 1914 – Jackie Coogan; 1916 – Franηois Mitterrand (21st President of France); 1919 – Mohammad Reza Pahlavi (Shah of Iran); 1929 – Neal Matthews, Jr.♪ ♫(The Jordanaires); 1936 – Shelley Morrison (Megan Mullally's maid on Will & Grace, 'Sister Sixto' on The Flying Nun); 1942 – Bob Hoskins (Who Framed Roger Rabbit?); 1945 – Pat Conroy (wrote the novels The Great Santini, The Prince Of Tides); 1945 – Jaclyn Smith (Charlie's Angels (tv)); 1946 – Pat Sajak; 1946 – Holly Woodlawn:male::female:(Holly came from Miami F.L.A., Hitch-hiked her way across the U.S.A., Plucked her eyebrows on the way, Shaved her legs and then he was a she, She said, hey babe, take a walk on the wild side); 1947 – Hillary Clinton:evil2:; 1951 – Bootsy Collins:bass:(James Brown, Parliament-Funkadelic); 1954 – D. W. Moffett; 1956 – Rita Wilson (Tom Hank's main squeeze); 1961 – Dylan McDermott; 1962 – Cary Elwes (The Princess Bride, Saw); 1963 – Natalie Merchant♪ ♫:keys:(10,000 Maniacs); 1966 – Steve Valentine♪ ♫(Crossing Jordan (tv); 1967 – Keith Urban♪ ♫:shred:; 1973 – Seth MacFarlane:devil:; 1977 – Jon Heder (Napoleon Dynamite) Deaths 1866 – John Kinder Labatt (founded Labatt Brewing Company); 1881 - Tom McLaury, Frank McLaury, Billy Clanton (all 3 died at the Gunfight At The O.K. Corral, in Tombstone, Arizona); 1902 – Elizabeth Cady Stanton; 1931 – Charles Comiskey (Chicago's Comiskey Park baseball stadium); 1952 – Hattie McDaniel (Gone With The Wind); 1972 – Igor Sikorsky (founded Sikorsky Aircraft); 1999 – Hoyt Axton:shred::devil:; 2008 – Tony Hillerman; 2009 – Troy Smith (founded Sonic Drive-In); 2012 – Arnold Greenberg (co-founded Snapple); 2012 – Alan Kirschenbaum |
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