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Old 09-25-2016, 07:49 PM   #286
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Hey, mr. Grav. Have you watched Amy yet? I watched it again for like the 6th time. I fell a little bit in love with her for her talent and just being a real fucked up person like so many of us are.

Please watch!
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Old 09-26-2016, 10:09 AM   #287
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Oh, it'll have to be some kind of special circumstance for me to ever watch it. I wasn't a fan. Didn't like her music, for the most part. Can't even name one of her songs.

I don't think it's on Netflix. I thought it was. I might not ever see it.

Just checked the movie store here in town, and I might rent the dvd. Sometime.
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Old 09-26-2016, 11:48 AM   #288
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September 26

Today is Johnny Appleseed Day, celebrated on the birthday of John Chapman, better known as Johnny Appleseed.

46 BC – Julius Caesar dedicates a temple to his mythical ancestor Venus Genetrix in accordance with a vow he made at the Battle of Pharsalus.

1087 – William II is crowned King of England, and reigns until 1100.

1580 – The Golden Hind sailed into Plymouth, England, as explorer Francis Drake completed his circumnavigation of the globe.

1687 – The Parthenon in Athens is partially destroyed by an explosion caused by the bombing from Venetian forces led by Morosini who are besieging the Ottoman Turks stationed there.

1687 – The city council of Amsterdam votes to support William of Orange's invasion of England, which became the Glorious Revolution.

1777 – American Revolution: British troops occupy Philadelphia.

1789 – Thomas Jefferson is appointed the first United States Secretary of State, John Jay is appointed the first Chief Justice of the United States, Samuel Osgood is appointed the first United States Postmaster General, and Edmund Randolph is appointed the first United States Attorney General.

1907 – New Zealand and Newfoundland each become dominions within the British Empire.

1918 – World War I: The Meuse-Argonne Offensive, the bloodiest single battle in American history, begins.

1933 – As gangster Machine Gun Kelly surrenders to the FBI, he shouts out, "Don't shoot, G-Men!", which becomes a nickname for FBI agents.

1950 – United Nations troops recapture Seoul from North Korean forces.

1959 – Typhoon Vera, the strongest typhoon to hit Japan in recorded history, makes landfall, killing 4,580 people and leaving nearly 1.6 million others homeless.

1960 – In Chicago, the first televised presidential debate takes place between presidential candidates Richard M. Nixon and John F. Kennedy.

1961 - The Greenbriar Boys started a two-week residency at Gerde's Folk Club in New York. The opening act was Bob Dylan.

1965 - At the end of a European tour Roger Daltry knocked out Keith Moon and the singer was sacked from The Who. The band were playing two shows in one night in Denmark, when an argument broke about between all four band members. Daltrey was reinstated the following day.

1969 – Abbey Road, the last recorded album by The Beatles, is released.

1973 – Concorde makes its first non-stop crossing of the Atlantic in record-breaking time.

1981 – Nolan Ryan sets a Major League record by throwing his fifth no-hitter.

1981 - Bruce Dickinson joined UK rock band Iron Maiden. Dickinson had been the vocalist with Samson).

1983 – Soviet nuclear false alarm incident: Military officer Stanislav Petrov identifies a report of an incoming nuclear missile as a computer error and not an American first strike.

2003 - English singer/songwriter Robert Palmer died of a heart attack, aged 54, in Paris France. [The dude rocked a suit. Literally.]

2014 – A mass kidnapping occurs in Iguala, Mexico.

Births

1774 – Johnny Appleseed; 1875 – Edmund Gwenn (Miracle On 34th Street); 1887 – Barnes Wallis (invented the Bouncing Bomb, the Tall boy bomb, and
the Grand Slam Bomb); 1888 – T. S. Eliot; 1898 – George Gershwin; 1901 – George Raft; 1901 – Ted Weems♪ ♫; 1909 – Bill France, Sr. (founded NASCAR); 1914 – Jack LaLanne; 1919 – Barbara Britton; 1925 – Marty Robbins♪ ♫; 1926 – Julie London♪ ♫; 1927 – Robert Cade (co-invented Gatorade); 1927 – Patrick O'Neal; 1932 – Donna Douglas ('Elly May Clampett'); 1937 – Jerry Weintraub; 1942 – Kent McCord (Adam-12); 1944 – Jan Brewer; 1944 – Anne Robinson (hostess Weakest Link); 1945 – Bryan Ferry♪ ♫; 1946 – Christine Todd Whitman; 1947 – Lynn Anderson♪ ♫; 1948 – John Foxx; 1948 – Olivia Newton-John♪ ♫; 1955 – Carlene Carter♪ ♫(daughter of June Carter); 1956 – Linda Hamilton; 1961 – Cindy Herron♪ ♫(En Vogue); 1962 – Melissa Sue Anderson ('Mary Ingalls' on Little House On The Prairie); 1963 – Lysette Anthony; 1963 – Joe Nemechek; 1964 – John Tempesta(White Zombie, The Cult, Testament, et al.); 1967 – Shannon Hoon♪ ♫(Blind Melon); 1968 – Jim Caviezel (Person of Interest); 1970 – Sheri Moon Zombie ('Baby Firefly' in House of 1,000 Corpses); 1981 – Christina Milian♪ ♫; 1981 – Serena Williams

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1820 – Daniel Boone (the rippin'est, roarin'est, fightin'est man the frontier ever knew); 1902 – Levi Strauss (yeah, that one); 1945 – Bιla Bartσk; 1946 – William Strunk, Jr.; 1973 – Ralph Earnhardt(father to Dale, Sr., grandfather to Dale, Jr.); 1979 – Arthur Hunnicutt; 1991 – Billy Vaughn♪ ♫; 1998 – Betty Carter♪ ♫; 2000 – Richard Mulligan; 2003 – Robert Palmer♪ ♫(The Power Station); 2006 – Byron Nelson; 2008 – Paul Newman; 2012 – M'el Dowd♪ ♫
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Old 09-27-2016, 12:42 PM   #289
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September 27

Today is National Gay Men's HIV/AIDS Awareness Day.

Today is also World Tourism Day.

1066 – William the Conqueror and his army set sail from the mouth of the River Somme, beginning the Norman conquest of England.

1590 – Pope Urban VII dies 13 days after being chosen as the Pope, making his reign the shortest papacy in history.

1777 – American Revolutionary War: Lancaster, Pennsylvania becomes the capital of the United States, for one day after the Second Continental Congress evacuates Philadelphia to avoid invading British forces.

1822 – Jean-Franηois Champollion announces that he has deciphered the Rosetta Stone.

1825 – Locomotion No. 1 hauled the train on the opening day of the Stockton and Darlington Railway, the first public railway to use steam locomotives.

1854 – The steamship SS Arctic sinks with 300 people on board. This marks the first great disaster in the Atlantic Ocean.

1908 – The first production of the Ford Model T automobile was built at the Ford Piquette Avenue Plant in Detroit, Michigan.

1930 – Bobby Jones wins the U.S. Amateur Championship to complete the Grand Slam of golf. The old structure of the grand slam was the U.S. Open, British Open, U.S. Amateur, and British Amateur.

1941 – The SS Patrick Henry is launched becoming the first of more than 2,700 Liberty ships.

1954 – The nationwide debut of Tonight Starring Steve Allen (The Tonight Show) hosted by Steve Allen on NBC.

1956 – USAF Captain Milburn G. Apt becomes the first man to exceed Mach 3 while flying the Bell X-2. Shortly thereafter, the craft goes out of control and Captain Apt is killed.

1962 – Rachel Carson's book Silent Spring is published, inspiring an environmental movement and the creation of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

1964 – The British TSR-2 aircraft XR219 makes its maiden flight from Boscombe Down in Wiltshire.

1968 – The stage musical Hair opens at the Shaftesbury Theatre in London, where it played 1,998 performances until its closure was forced by the roof collapsing in July 1973.

1979 - Scottish guitarist Jimmy McCullough died from a heroin overdose in his flat in Maida Vale, London, aged 26.

1983 – Richard Stallman announces the GNU project to develop a free Unix-like operating system.

1986 - Metallica bass player Cliff Burton was crushed to death after the bands tour bus crashed between Stockholm and Copenhagen. During a European tour members from the band drew cards for the most comfortable bunk on the tour bus, Burton had won the game with an Ace of Spades and was asleep when the tour bus ran over a patch of black ice and skidded off of the road. He was thrown through the window of the bus, which fell on top of him.

1996 – The Julie N., a tanker ship, spills thousands of gallons of oil after crashing into the Million Dollar Bridge in Portland, Maine.

1998 – The Google internet search engine retrospectively claims this as its birthday.

2003 – SMART-1 satellite is launched.

2004 - Legendary record producer Phil Spector was formally charged with murder in the February 3rd, 2003 shooting of actress Lana Clarkson. He was convicted in April, 2009 and sentenced to 19 years to life in the California State prison system.

2007 – NASA launches the Dawn probe.

2011 - Tony Bennett became the oldest living person to top the US album chart when the 85-year-old's 'Duets II' album went to No.1. The record, which featured collaborations with Amy Winehouse and Lady Gaga, was also his first US No.1 in his 60 year career.

Births

1722 – Samuel Adams; 1803 – Samuel Francis Du Pont; 1824 – William "Bull" Nelson; 1840 – Thomas Nast; 1885 – Harry Blackstone, Sr.; 1919 – Jayne Meadows; 1920 – William Conrad (Cannon, Nero Wolfe; Jake & The Fat Man); 1922 – Arthur Penn; 1927 – Sada Thompson; 1933 – Greg Morris (Mission Impossible); 1934 – Wilford Brimley; 1934 – Claude Jarman, Jr. (The Yearling); 1934 – Dick Schaap; 1936 – Don Cornelius♪ ♫ (Soul Train); 1942 – Dith Pran (inspiration/subject of The Killing Fields); 1943 – Randy Bachman(Bachman-Turner Overdrive, The Guess Who); 1947 – Meat Loaf♪ ♫; 1953 – Greg Ham♪ ♫(Men At Work); 1954 – Larry Wall (creator of the Perl programming language); 1957 – Peter Sellars; 1958 - Shaun Cassidy♪ ♫; 1963 – Marc Maron; 1966 – Debbie Wasserman Schultz; 1972 – Gwyneth Paltrow; 1982 – Lil Wayne♪ ♫; 1984 – Avril Lavigne♪ ♫

Deaths

1876 – Braxton Bragg; 1917 – Edgar Degas; 1921 – Engelbert Humperdinck (no, not that one, there was another one); 1944 – Aimee Semple McPherson; 1956 – Babe Didrikson Zaharias; 1965 – Clara Bow; 1979 – Jimmy McCulloch; 1981 – Robert Montgomery; 1985 – Lloyd Nolan ('Mike Shayne' in the Shayne detective movies); 1986 – Cliff Burton(Metallica); 1993 – Jimmy Doolittle; 2003 – Donald O'Connor; 2008 – Henri Pachard (porn & sexploitation movie director/producer); 2009 – William Safire; 2010 – George Blanda; 2014 – James Traficant
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Old 09-28-2016, 01:16 PM   #290
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September 28

Today is a busy day:

Today is Freedom From Hunger Day.

Today is International Right to Know Day, "raising awareness about people's right to access government information while promoting freedom of information as essential to both democracy and good governance".

Today is See You at the Pole Day, "an annual gathering of thousands of Christian students at a flagpole in front of their local school for prayer, scripture-reading and worship, during the early morning before school starts."

Today is World Rabies Day.

And, finally, today is Ask a Stupid Question Day, in the United States. In honor of same: Who is buried in Grant's tomb?

48 BC – After landing in Egypt, Pompey the Great is assassinated on the orders of Ptolemy, King of Egypt.

1066 – William the Conqueror invades England beginning the Norman conquest of England.

1781 – American forces backed by a French fleet begin the siege of Yorktown, Virginia, during the American Revolutionary War.

1787 – The newly completed United States Constitution is voted on by the U.S. Congress to be sent to the state legislatures for approval.

1791 – France becomes the first country to emancipate its Jewish population.

1871 – The Brazilian Parliament passes the Law of the Free Womb, granting freedom to all new children born to slaves, the first major step in the eradication of slavery in Brazil.

1889 – The first General Conference on Weights and Measures (CGPM) defines the length of a meter as the distance between two lines on a standard bar of an alloy of platinum with ten percent iridium, measured at the melting point of ice.

1892 – The first night game for American football takes place in a contest between Wyoming Seminary and Mansfield State Normal.

1912 – The Ulster Covenant is signed by some 500,000 Ulster Protestant Unionists in opposition to the Third Irish Home Rule Bill.

1924 – First round-the-world flight is completed.

1928 – Sir Alexander Fleming notices a bacteria-killing mold growing in his laboratory, discovering what later became known as penicillin.

1951 – CBS makes the first color televisions available for sale to the general public, but the product is discontinued less than a month later.

1973 – The ITT Building in New York City is bombed in protest at ITT's alleged involvement in the September 11, 1973 coup d'ιtat in Chile.

1975 – The Spaghetti House siege, in which nine people are taken hostage, takes place in London.

1991, American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer Miles Davis died of a stroke and pneumonia. His 1959 album 'Kind of Blue', is a major influence on jazz music. Davis is considered one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century.

1994 – The cruise ferry MS Estonia sinks in the Baltic Sea, killing 852 people.

2008 – SpaceX launches the first private spacecraft, Falcon 1 into orbit.

Births

551 BC – Confucius ("He who stand on toilet, is high on pot."); 1836 – Thomas Crapper (invented the ballcock, snicker); 1901 – William S. Paley (founded CBS); 1901 – Ed Sullivan (had a really big shoe); 1905 – Max Schmeling; 1909 – Al Capp (created Li'l Abner); 1914 – Maria Franziska von Trapp (of the The Sound Of Music von Trapps); 1916 – Peter Finch (he's as mad as hell, and he's not going to take this anymore); 1925 – Seymour Cray (founded the CRAY Computer Company); 1926 – Jerry Clower; 1934 – Brigitte Bardot; 1935 – Ronald Lacey (got his face melted off in Raiders Of The Lost Ark); 1938 – Ben E. King♪ ♫; 1943 – J. T. Walsh; 1950 – John Sayles; 1954 – George Lynch(Dokken, Lynch Mob); 1964 – Janeane Garofalo; 1967 – Mira Sorvino; 1967 – Moon Zappa; 1968 – Francois Botha; 1968 – Rob Moroso; 1968 – Naomi Watts; 1972 – Dita Von Teese; 1979 – Bam Margera (jackass, I mean Jackass); 1987 – Hilary Duff♪ ♫

Deaths

48 BC – Pompey; 1891 – Herman Melville (Typee, Omoo, Moby Dick); 1895 – Louis Pasteur; 1914 – Richard Warren Sears (yeah, that Sears); 1935 – William Kennedy Dickson (invented the Kinetoscope); 1953 – Edwin Hubble; 1956 – William Boeing (yeah, that Boeing); 1964 – Harpo Marx; 1970 – John Dos Passos; 1970 – Gamal Abdel Nasser; 1989 – Ferdinand Marcos; 1991 – Miles Davis♪ ♫; 2000 – Pierre Trudeau; 2003 – Althea Gibson; 2003 – Elia Kazan; 2007 – Wally Parks (founded Nat'l Hot Rod Assn (NHRA); 2012 – Chris Economaki; 2016 – Shimon Peres
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Old 09-28-2016, 01:40 PM   #291
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today is Ask a Stupid Question Day, in the United States. In honor of same: Who is buried in Grant's tomb?
Where do you get all this stuff that you put into this Day in History?
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Old 09-28-2016, 02:02 PM   #292
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Old 09-28-2016, 02:08 PM   #293
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Everything comes from Wikipedia, and This Day In Music.

Copy/paste, copy/paste...
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Old 09-28-2016, 04:17 PM   #294
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Old 09-29-2016, 01:36 PM   #295
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Never heard of it.



j/k Don't remember anything other than Peter Finch's scene where he told people to go yell out their windows.
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Old 09-29-2016, 03:02 PM   #296
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September 29

Today is Michaelmas.

Today is National Coffee Day in the United States, and other countries.

Today is World Heart Day.

61 BC – Pompey the Great celebrates his third triumph for victories over the pirates and the end of the Mithridatic Wars on his 45th birthday.

1650 – Henry Robinson opens his Office of Addresses and Encounters in Threadneedle Street, London.

1789 – The United States Department of War first establishes a regular army with a strength of several hundred men.

1829 – The Metropolitan Police of London, later also known as the Met, is founded.

1885 – The first practical public electric tramway in the world is opened in Blackpool, England.

*1907 – The cornerstone is laid at Washington National Cathedral in the U.S. capital.

1923 – The British Mandate for Palestine takes effect, creating Mandatory Palestine.

1940 – Two Avro Ansons of No. 2 Service Flying Training School RAAF collide in mid-air over Brocklesby, New South Wales, Australia, remain locked together after colliding, and then land safely.

1941 – The Holocaust: German Nazis, aided by local collaborators, began the Babi Yar massacre in Kiev, Ukraine, killing over 30,000 Jewish civilians in two days and thousands more in the months that followed.

1954 – The convention establishing CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research) is signed.

1957 – Twenty MCi (740 petabecquerels) of radioactive material is released in an explosion at the Soviet Mayak nuclear plant at Chelyabinsk.

1975 – WGPR in Detroit, Michigan, becomes the world's first black-owned-and-operated television station.

1976 - Enjoying his own birthday celebrations singer Jerry Lee Lewis accidentally shot his bass player Norman Owens in the chest. Lewis had been blasting holes in an office door. Owens survived but sued his boss.

1988 – Space Shuttle: NASA launches STS-26, the return to flight mission, after the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.

*1990 – Construction of the Washington National Cathedral is completed.

1990 – The YF-22, which would later become the F-22 Raptor, flies for the first time.

2004 – The asteroid 4179 Toutatis passes within four lunar distances of Earth (~a million miles).

2004 – The Burt Rutan Ansari X Prize entry SpaceShipOne performs a successful spaceflight, the first of two required to win the prize.

2008 – Following the bankruptcies of Lehman Brothers and Washington Mutual, The Dow Jones Industrial Average falls 777.68 points, the largest single-day point loss in its history.

Births

106 BC – Pompey; 1547 – Miguel de Cervantes; 1571 – Caravaggio; 1758 – Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson; 1901 – Enrico Fermi; 1904 – Greer Garson; 1907 – Gene Autry; 1907 – George W. Jenkins (founded Publix); 1913 – Trevor Howard; 1923 – Bum Phillips; 1925 – Steve Forrest; 1931 – Anita Ekberg; 1935 – Jerry Lee Lewis; 1936 – Silvio Berlusconi (Bunga Bunga); 1939 – Larry Linville ('Major Frank Burns' on tv series MASH); 1942 – Madeline Kahn; 1942 – Ian McShane; 1943 – Lech Wałęsa; 1944 – Mike Post♪ ♫(tv Theme composer); 1946 – Ian Wallace(King Crimson, Don Henley); 1948 – Mark Farner(Grand Funk Railroad); 1948 – Bryant Gumbel; 1948 – Mike Pinera(Blues Image, Iron Butterfly); 1955 – Ann Bancroft; 1956 – Sebastian Coe; 1963 – Les Claypool(Primus); 1970 – Russell Peters

Deaths

1862 – William "Bull" Nelson; 1902 – Ιmile Zola; 1910 – Winslow Homer; 1913 – Rudolf Diesel (yeah, that diesel); 1970 – Edward Everett Horton; 1975 – Casey Stengel; 1987 – Henry Ford II; 1997 – Roy Lichtenstein; 1998 – Tom Bradley; 2001 – Nguyễn Văn Thiệu; 2010 – Tony Curtis; 2010 – Greg Giraldo; 2013 – L. C. Greenwood
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Old 09-30-2016, 08:38 AM   #297
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September 30

Today is International Translation Day, celebrated on the feast day of St. Jerome, who translated the Bible into Latin.

Today, Canadians observe Recovery Day, celebrating the ability of those with drug, alcohol and behavioral addictions to achieve long-term sobriety.

1399 – Henry IV is proclaimed King of England.

1541 – Spanish conquistador Hernando de Soto and his forces enter Tula territory in present-day Fort Smith, Arkansas, encountering fierce resistance.

1791 – The first performance of The Magic Flute, the last opera by Mozart to make its debut, took place at Freihaus-Theater auf der Wieden in Vienna, Austria.

1882 – Thomas Edison's first commercial hydroelectric power plant (later known as Appleton Edison Light Company) begins operation on the Fox River in Appleton, Wisconsin, United States.

1888 – Jack the Ripper kills his third and fourth victims, Elizabeth Stride and Catherine Eddowes.

1915 – A Serbian Army private becomes the first soldier in history to shoot down an enemy aircraft with ground-to-air fire.

1927 – Babe Ruth becomes the first baseball player to hit 60 home runs in a season.

1938 – The League of Nations unanimously outlaws "intentional bombings of civilian populations".

1939 – NBC broadcasts the first televised American football game between the Waynesburg Yellow Jackets and the Fordham Rams. Fordham won the game 34–7.

1945 – The Bourne End rail crash, in Hertfordshire, England, kills 43.

1947 – The World Series, featuring the New York Yankees and the Brooklyn Dodgers, is televised for the first time.

1949 – The Berlin Airlift ends.

1954 – The U.S. Navy submarine USS Nautilus is commissioned as the world's first nuclear reactor powered vessel.

1955 – Film star James Dean dies in a road accident aged 24.

1965 – The Lockheed L-100, the civilian version of the C-130 Hercules, is introduced.

1967 – BBC Light Programme, Third Programme and Home Service are replaced with BBC Radio 2, 3 and 4 Respectively, BBC Radio 1 is also launched with Tony Blackburn presenting its first show.

1968 – The Boeing 747 is rolled out and shown to the public for the first time at the Boeing Everett Factory.

1975 – The Hughes (later McDonnell Douglas, now Boeing) AH-64 Apache makes its first flight. 8 years later, the first production model rolled out of the assembly line.

1980 – Ethernet specifications are published by Xerox working with Intel and Digital Equipment Corporation.

1982 – Cyanide-laced Tylenol kills six people in the Chicago area. Seven are killed in all.

1994 – Aldwych tube station (originally Strand Station) of the London Underground closes after eighty-eight years in service.

1994 – Ongar railway station, the furthest London Underground from Central London, closes.

1999 – The Tokaimura nuclear accident causes the deaths of two technicians in Japan's second-worst nuclear accident.

Births

1861 – William Wrigley, Jr. (the gum guy); 1882 – Hans Geiger (Geiger counter); 1912 – Kenny Baker♪ ♫(The Jack Benny Program); 1917 – Buddy Rich; 1921 – Deborah Kerr; 1924 – Truman Capote; 1928 – Elie Wiesel; 1931 – Angie Dickinson; 1932 – Anthony Hawkins; 1933 – Cissy Houston♪ ♫; 1935 – Z. Z. Hill; 1935 – Johnny Mathis♪ ♫; 1936 – Jim Sasser; 1939 – Len Cariou; 1940 – Dewey Martin(Buffalo Springfield); 1942 – Frankie Lymon♪ ♫; 1943 – Marilyn McCoo♪ ♫; 1947 – Marc Bolan(T. Rex); 1954 – Barry Williams ('Greg Brady' on The Brady Bunch); 1955 – Andy Bechtolsheim (co-founded Sun Microsystems); 1957 – Fran Drescher; 1958 – Marty Stuart♪ ♫; 1961 – Crystal Bernard; 1961 – Eric Stoltz; 1964 – Trey Anastasio(Phish); 1964 – Monica Bellucci; 1965 – Kathleen Madigan; 1971 – Jenna Elfman; 1975 – Marion Cotillard; 1981 – Dominique Moceanu; 1985 – T-Pain

Deaths

420 – Jerome; 1888 - Elizabeth Stride (3rd victim of Jack The Ripper); 1888 – Catherine Eddowes (4th victim of Jack The Ripper); 1955 – James Dean; 1977 – Mary Ford(Les Paul & Mary Ford); 1978 – Edgar Bergen; 1985 – Charles Francis Richter (Richter Scale); 1985 – Simone Signoret; 1988 – Al Holbert; 1990 – Rob Moroso; 1998 – Dan Quisenberry; 2010 – Stephen J. Cannell
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October 1 Yes, I typed September before remembering it's October.

Today is International Day of Older Persons, as well as World Vegetarian Day.

331 BC – Alexander the Great defeats Darius III of Persia in the Battle of Gaugamela.

1811 – The first steamboat to sail the Mississippi River arrives in New Orleans.

1843 – The News of the World tabloid begins publication in London.

1854 – The watch company founded in 1850 in Roxbury by Aaron Lufkin Dennison relocates to Waltham, Massachusetts, to become the Waltham Watch Company, a pioneer in the American system of watch manufacturing.

1880 – First electric lamp factory is opened by Thomas Edison.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Edison [If only ol' Tom could see what we've done to his light bulb.]

1890 – Yosemite National Park is established by the U.S. Congress.

1891 – Stanford University, founded by railroad magnate and California Governor Leland Stanford and his wife Jane on their former farm lands in Palo Alto, California, officially opened with 559 students and free tuition.

1903 – Baseball: The Boston Americans play the Pittsburgh Pirates in the first game of the modern World Series.

1908 – Ford puts the Model T car on the market at a price of US$825. ($21,282.74 in 2016 dollars.)

1910 – Los Angeles Times bombing: A large bomb destroys the Los Angeles Times building in downtown Los Angeles, killing 21.

1918 – World War I: Arab forces under T. E. Lawrence, also known as "Lawrence of Arabia", capture Damascus.

1931 – The George Washington Bridge linking New Jersey and New York opens.

1940 – The Pennsylvania Turnpike, often considered the first superhighway in the United States, opens to traffic.

1946 – Nazi leaders are sentenced at the Nuremberg trials.

1947 – The North American F-86 Sabre flies for the first time.

1957 – First appearance of In God We Trust on U.S. paper currency.

1962 – First broadcast of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson.

1965 - Bob Dylan appeared at Carnegie Hall in New York City. He introduced his new touring band on this tour, made up of guitarist Robbie Robertson, organist Garth Hudson, bassist Rick Danko, pianist Richard Manual and drummer Levon Helm. They will become known simply as The Band.

1969 – Concorde breaks the sound barrier for the first time.

1970 - Jimi Hendrix was buried at The Greenwood Cemetery at the Dunlop Baptist Church Seattle. Among the mourners; Miles Davis, Eric Burdon, Johnny Winter and members of Derek and the Dominoes.

1971 – Walt Disney World opens near Orlando, Florida, United States.

1975 – The Thrilla in Manila: Muhammad Ali defeats Joe Frazier in a boxing match in Manila, Philippines. Frequently regarded as one of the best boxing matches in boxing history.

1975 – Al Jackson, Jr., drummer for Booker T. & the M.G.'s, was shot in the back five times, fatally, in his own home.

1979 – The United States returns sovereignty of the Panama Canal to Panama.

1982 – Epcot opens at Walt Disney World near Orlando, Florida, United States.

1982 – Sony launches the first consumer compact disc player (model CDP-101).

1989 – Denmark introduces the world's first legal modern same-sex civil union called "registered partnership".

Births

1808 – Mary Anna Custis Lee (wife of Robert E. Lee); 1881 – William Boeing (yeah, that one); 1893 - Ip Man; 1896 – Ted Healy (created The Three Stooges); 1903 – Vladimir Horowitz; 1903 – Pierre Veyron (namesake of the Bugatti Veyron supercar); 1904 – Otto Robert Frisch; 1910 – Bonnie Parker (of Bonnie & Clyde); 1913 – Hιlio Gracie(Brazilian martial artist); 1920 – Walter Matthau; 1921 – James Whitmore; 1924 – Jimmy Carter (39th POTUS); 1924 – William Rehnquist (former Chief Justice SCOTUS); 1924 – Roger Williams; 1927 – Tom Bosley ('Howard Cunningham' on Happy Days); 1928 – Laurence Harvey (The Alamo, The Manchurian Candidate (1962)); 1928 – George Peppard ("I love it when a plan comes together."); 1929 – Bonnie Owens♪ ♫(wife of Buck Owens, and, later, Merle Haggard); 1930 – Richard Harris (left his cake out in the rain); 1932 – Albert Collins; 1935 – Julie Andrews; 1938 – Stella Stevens; 1940 – Marc Savoy (created the Cajun accordion); 1942 – Herb Fame♪ ♫(Peaches & Herb); 1947 – Dave Arneson (co-created Dungeons & Dragons); 1947 – Stephen Collins; 1948 – Cub Koda(Brownsville Station); 1950 – Randy Quaid (American nut); 1956 – Theresa May (Prime Minister of the United Kingdom); 1958 – Martin Cooper♪ ♫(Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark); 1962 – Esai Morales; 1964 – Christopher Titus; 1969 – Zach Galifianakis; 1989 – Brie Larson

Deaths

1972 – Louis Leakey; 1975 – Al Jackson, Jr.(Booker T & The MGs); 1985 – E. B. White (wrote Stuart Little, Charlotte's Web); 1990 – Curtis LeMay; 2002 – Walter Annenberg; 2004 – Richard Avedon; 2004 – Bruce Palmer(Buffalo Springfield); 2013 – Tom Clancy
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October 2

Today is observed as an International Day Of Non-Violence, observed on the birth date of one Mohandas K. Gandhi.

Rosh Hashanah begins today at sunset. So...Shanah Tovah Umetukah!

1187 – Siege of Jerusalem: Saladin captures Jerusalem after 88 years of Crusader rule.

1535 – Jacques Cartier "discovers" [there was already a fortified village of ~3000 Iroquois living there] the area where Montreal is now located.

1789 – George Washington sends proposed Constitutional amendments (The United States Bill of Rights) to the States for ratification.

1835 – The Texas Revolution begins with the Battle of Gonzales: Mexican soldiers attempt to disarm the people of Gonzales, Texas, but encounter stiff resistance from a hastily assembled militia.

1889 – In Colorado, Nicholas Creede strikes it rich in silver during the last great silver boom of the American Old West.

1919 – U.S. President Woodrow Wilson suffers a massive stroke, leaving him partially paralyzed.

1925 – John Logie Baird performs the first test of a working television system.

1928 - Opus Dei is founded by Josemarνa Escrivα.

1937 – Dominican Republic strongman Rafael Trujillo orders the execution of the Haitian population living within the borderlands; approximately 20,000 people are killed over the next five days.

1942 – World War II: Ocean Liner RMS Queen Mary accidentally rams and sinks her own escort ship, HMS Curacoa, off the coast of Ireland, killing 239 crewmen aboard the Curacoa.

1950 – Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz is first published.

1959 – The anthology series The Twilight Zone premieres on CBS television.

1967 – Thurgood Marshall is sworn in as the first African-American justice of the United States Supreme Court.

1970 – A plane carrying the Wichita State University football team, administrators, and supporters crashes in Colorado killing 31 people.

1980 – Michael Myers, then Democratic Representative of Pennsylvania, becomes the first member of either chamber of Congress to be expelled since the Civil War.

1992 – The Carandiru massacre takes place after a riot in the Carandiru Penitentiary in Sγo Paulo, Brazil. 111 prisoners are killed.

2002 – The Beltway sniper attacks begin, extending over three weeks.

2006 – Five Amish girls are murdered by Charles Carl Roberts in a shooting at an Amish school in Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania before Roberts commits suicide.

Births

1452 – Richard III of England; 1800 – Nat Turner; 1847 – Paul von Hindenburg; 1869 – Mahatma Gandhi; 1871 – Cordell Hull; 1879 – Wallace Stevens; 1890 – Groucho Marx; 1897 – Bud Abbott (Abbott & Costello); 1904 – Graham Greene (no, not the one in Dances With Wolves, there was another one); 1911 – Jack Finney (wrote The Body Snatchers); 1915 – Chuck Williams (Williams-Sonoma); 1917 – Charles Drake; 1921 – Albert Scott Crossfield (X-plane pilot); 1929 – Moses Gunn; 1942 – Steve Sabol (co-founded NFL Films); 1945 – Don McLean♪ ♫(sang American Pie); 1946 – Jo-El Sonnier♪ ♫; 1948 – Avery Brooks ('Hawk' on Spenser: For Hire, 'Capt. Sisko' on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine); 1948 – Donna Karan (founded DKNY); 1948 – Chris LeDoux♪ ♫; 1949 – Richard Hell; 1949 – Annie Leibovitz; 1950 – Ian McNeice; 1950 – Mike Rutherford(Genesis, Mike & The Mechanics); 1951 – Sting(The Police); 1954 – Lorraine Bracco (Tony's shrink on The Sopranos); 1955 – Philip Oakey(The Human League); 1956 – Freddie Jackson; 1967 – Gillian Welch♪ ♫; 1970 – Kelly Ripa; 1971 – Jim Root(Slipknot); 1971 - Tiffany♪ ♫; 1974 – Paul Teutul Jr. (co-founded Orange County Choppers); 1987 – Ricky Stenhouse Jr.; 1988 - Brittany Howard♪ ♫(Alabama Shakes)

Deaths

1764 – William Cavendish; 1803 – Samuel Adams; 1968 – Marcel Duchamp; 1985 – Rock Hudson; 1994 – Harriet Nelson (The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet); 1998 – Gene Autry♪ ♫; 2005 – Nipsey Russell; 2006 – Tamara Dobson (Cleopatra Jones); 2007 – George Grizzard
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2333 BC – According to Korean legend, Dangun, the "grandson of heaven", established Gojoseon, the first Korean kingdom.

382 – Roman Emperor Theodosius I concludes a peace treaty with the Goths and settles them in the Balkans in exchange for military service.

1283 – Dafydd ap Gruffydd, prince of Gwynedd in Wales, is the first nobleman to be executed by hanging, drawing and quartering.

1712 – The Duke of Montrose issues a warrant for the arrest of Rob Roy MacGregor.

1789 – George Washington makes the first Thanksgiving Day designated by the national government of the US.

1849 – American author Edgar Allan Poe is found delirious in a gutter in Baltimore under mysterious circumstances; it is the last time he is seen in public before his death.

1863 – The last Thursday in November is declared as Thanksgiving Day by United States President Abraham Lincoln as are Thursdays, November 30, 1865 and November 29, 1866.

1872 – The Bloomingdale brothers open their first store at 938 Third Avenue, New York City.

1919 – Cincinnati Reds pitcher Adolfo Luque becomes the first Latin player to appear in a World Series.

1942 – Spaceflight: The first successful launch of a V-2 /A4-rocket from Test Stand VII at Peenemόnde, Germany. It is the first man-made object to reach space.

1945 - Elvis Presley made his first ever-public appearance in a talent contest at the Mississippi Alabama Dairy Show singing 'Old Shep', Elvis was 10 years old at the time and came in second (Wiki says he came in 5th).

1949 – WERD, the first black-owned radio station in the United States, opens in Atlanta.

1952 – The United Kingdom successfully tests a nuclear weapon to become the world's third nuclear power.

1957 – The California State Superior Court rules that Allen Ginsberg's Howl and Other Poems is not obscene.

1967 - American singer, songwriter Woody Guthrie died after suffering from Huntington's Chorea disease. Guthrie was a major influence on American folk music.

1978 - The members of Aerosmith bailed thirty fans out of jail after they were arrested for smoking pot during an Aerosmith concert at Fort Wayne Coliseum.

1985 – The Space Shuttle Atlantis makes its maiden flight. (Mission STS-51-J).

1990 – German reunification: The German Democratic Republic ceases to exist and its territory becomes part of the Federal Republic of Germany. East German citizens became part of the European Community, which later became the European Union. Now celebrated as German Unity Day.

1991 - Texas governor Ann Richards proclaimed October 3, (Stevie Ray Vaughan's birthday), to be "Stevie Ray Vaughan Day". An annual motorcycle ride and concert in Central Texas benefits the Stevie Ray Vaughan Memorial Scholarship Fund.

1992 - Sinead O'Connor (Irish attention whore) ripped up a photograph of Pope John Paul II, on the US TV show 'Saturday Night Live', as a protest over sexual abuse in the Roman Catholic Church. The incident happened as O'Connor ended her live performance and out of nowhere, produced a photograph of Pope John Paul II, which she ripped into pieces. There was stunned silence in the studio and the station went to a commercial. NBC was fined $2.5 million dollars by the Federal Communications Commission.

1993 – Battle of Mogadishu: A firefight occurs during a failed attempt to capture key officials of warlord Mohamed Farrah Aidid's organisation in Mogadishu, Somalia, costing the lives of 18 American soldiers, and over 350 Somalis.

1995 – O. J. Simpson is acquitted of the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman.

2000 - John Lennon's assassin Mark Chapman was denied parole after serving 20 years in prison. Chapman was interviewed for 50 minutes by parole board members who concluded that releasing Chapman would 'deprecate the seriousness of the crime.'

2008 – The Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 for the U.S. financial system is signed by President George W. Bush.

2011 - According to new scientific research, Queen's 'We Are The Champions' was found to be the catchiest song ever written. Musicologist Dr Alisun Pawley from the University of London, England, conducted research into what makes a song memorable and compiled a list of the ten "catchiest" songs of all time. During the research, they discovered that sing-along songs contained four key elements: long and detailed musical phrases, multiple pitch changes in a song's 'hook', male vocalists, and higher male voices making a noticeable vocal effort. 'Y.M.C.A.' by the Village People, Sum 41's 'Fat Lip', and Europe's 'The Final Countdown' were also in the list.

Births

85 BC – Gaius Cassius Longinus; 1790 – John Ross (Cherokee Chief); 1804 – Townsend Harris; 1865 – Gustave Loiseau; 1879 – Warner Oland (Charlie Chan); 1900 – Thomas Wolfe; 1916 – James Herriot; 1925 – Gore Vidal; 1938 – Eddie Cochran♪ ♫; 1940 – Alan O'Day♪ ♫(wrote & sang "Undercover Angel"); 1941 – Chubby Checker♪ ♫; 1944 – Roy Horn; 1949 – Lindsey Buckingham(Fleetwood Mac); 1951 – Keb' Mo'; 1954 – Al Sharpton (asshole); 1954 – Stevie Ray Vaughan; 1955 – Allen Woody(Allman Bros., Gov't Mule); 1959 – Fred Couples; 1959 – Greg Proops; 1959 – Jack Wagner; 1962 – Tommy Lee(Motley Crue); 1964 – Clive Owen; 1967 – Chris Collingwood♪ ♫(Fountains of Wayne); 1969 – Gwen Stefani♪ ♫(No Doubt); 1973 – Neve Campbell; 1973 – Lena Headey ('Ma Ma' in Dredd); 1975 – India Arie♪ ♫; 1976 – Seann William Scott ('Stifler' in American Pie movies); 1984 – Jessica Parker Kennedy; 1984 – Ashlee Simpson


Deaths

42 BC – Gaius Cassius Longinus; 1226 – Francis of Assisi; 1283 – Dafydd ap Gruffydd; 1656 – Myles Standish; 1838 – Black Hawk (Sauk war chief); 1867 – Elias Howe; 1965 – Zachary Scott; 1967 – Woody Guthrie♪ ♫; 1969 – Skip James♪ ♫; 1998 – Roddy McDowall; 1999 – Akio Morita (co-founded Sony); 2000 – Benjamin Orr(The Cars); 2003 – Florence Stanley; 2004 – Janet Leigh; 2005 – Ronnie Barker (one of The Two Ronnies); 2015 – Denis Healey
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