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10-14-2007, 07:30 AM
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October 14th
1894 ~ Birthday of E. E. Cummings, American poet.
1940 ~ Birthday of Cliff Richard, British rock singer.
1944 ~ Given the choice between a public treason trial and a certain death by firing squad or suicide with honor, German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel chose the latter.
1947 ~ Chuck Yeager flew a Bell X-1 faster than the speed of sound, the first man to do so in level flight.
1962 ~ Cuban Missile Crisis began: A U-2 flight over Cuba took photos of Soviet nuclear weapons being installed.
1964 ~ Civil Rights movement leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr became the youngest recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize.
1977 ~ Death of Bing Crosby, Actor & Singer.
1990 ~ Death of Leonard Bernstein, Composer & Conductor.
1991 ~ Aung San Suu Kyi was named winner of the Nobel Peace Prize.
1994 ~ PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat, Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres and Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin shared the Nobel Peace Prize.
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10-15-2007, 04:50 AM
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10-16-2007, 05:04 AM
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October 16th
1758 ~ Birthday of Noah Webster, American lexicographer.
1793 ~ Death of Marie Antoinette – guillotined.
1854 ~ Birthday of Oscar Wilde, Irish writer.
1859 ~ In one of the developments towards the American Civil War, John Brown led a raid of the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia.
1916 ~ Planned Parenthood founded by Margaret Sanger.
1925 ~ Birthday of Angela Lansbury, actress.
1964 ~ China detonated its first nuclear weapon.
1970 ~ Anwar Sadat was elected President of Egypt.
1978 ~ Karol Józef Wojtyła became Pope John Paul II. He was the first non Italian to be elevated to the position since 1522.
1981 ~ Death of Moshe Dayan, Israeli general.
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10-17-2007, 05:07 AM
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10-18-2007, 05:11 AM
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October 18th
1851 ~ Moby-Dick, a novel by Herman Melville, was first published as The Whale.
1871 ~ Death of Charles Babbage, mathematician and inventor of computing machines.
1919 ~ Birthday of Pierre Trudeau, fifteenth PM of Canada.
1926 ~ Birthday of Chuck Berry, Musician.
1935 ~ Birthday of Peter Boyle, American actor.
1939 ~ Birthday of Lee Harvey Oswald, Assassin.
1954 ~ The Regency Division of Industrial Development Engineering Associates announced the first Transistor radio.
1962 ~ Dr. Watson of the United States, and Drs. Crick and Wilkins of the UK, were named winners of the Nobel Prize for Medicine and Physiology for their work in determining the double-helix molecular structure of DNA.
1989 ~ Erich Honecker was forced to step down as leader of East Germany after 18 years in power.
2006 ~ Death of Anna Russell, English music satirist.
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10-19-2007, 04:59 AM
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10-20-2007, 05:49 AM
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October 20th
1632 ~ Birthday of Sir Christopher Wren, Architect.
1740 ~ Maria Theresa took the throne of Austria.
1803 ~ The U.S. Senate ratified the Louisiana Purchase.
1882 ~ Birthday of Bela Lugosi, Actor.
1893 ~ Birthday of Jomo Kenyatta, President of Kenya.
1931 ~ Birthday of Mickey Mantle, athlete.
1983 ~ Grenada's Prime Minister, Maurice Bishop, was assassinated.
1973 ~ In the “Saturday Night Massacre”, President Nixon abolished the office of special Watergate prosecutor, accepted the resignation of the Attorney General, and fired Deputy Attorney General William B. Ruckelshaus.
1973 ~ The Sydney Opera House opened.
1984 ~ Death of Paul Dirac, awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 1933.
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10-21-2007, 02:33 PM
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October 21st
1772 ~ Birthday of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Poet.
1805 ~ A British fleet led by Admiral Lord Nelson defeated a combined French and Spanish fleet in the Battle of Trafalgar off the coast of Spain.
1805 ~ Death of Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson.
1833 ~ Birthday of Alfred Nobel, Swedish inventor and benefactor of the Nobel Prize.
1854 ~ Florence Nightingale and a staff of 38 nurses were sent to the Crimean War.
1879 ~ Thomas Edison invented a workable electric light.
1917 ~ Birthday of Dizzy Gillespie, Jazz Musician.
1929 ~ Birthday of Ursula K. Le Guin, Science Fiction Author.
1944 ~ The first kamikaze attack: HMAS Australia was hit by a Japanese plane carrying a 200 kg bomb.
1983 ~ The meter was defined as the distance light travels in a vacuum in 1/299,792,458 of a second.
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10-22-2007, 05:05 AM
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October 22nd
741 ~ Death of Charles Martel, leader of the Franks.
1746 ~ Princeton University in New Jersey received its charter.
1836 ~ Sam Houston was inaugurated as the first President of the Republic of Texas.
1844 ~ Birthday of Sarah Bernhardt, Actress.
1906 ~ Death of Paul Cezanne, Painter.
1920 ~ Birthday of Timothy Leary, writer, psychedelic drug advocate.
1943 ~ Birthday of Catherine Deneuve, Actress.
1943 ~ The RAF air raid on Kassel, a city of 236,000 people, killed 10,000, and left 150,000 homeless.
1962 ~ US President Kennedy announced that American spy planes had discovered Soviet nuclear weapons in Cuba, and that he had ordered a naval "quarantine" of the island nation.
1990 ~ The region around the Aral Sea assessed as the world’s worst ecological disaster.
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October 23rd
4004 BC ~ The start of the universe, according to the Ussher-Lightfoot Calendar.
1892 ~ Birthday of Gummo Marx, actor, comedian (Marx Brothers).
1935 ~ Birthday of Chi Chi Rodriguez, golf champion.
1940 ~ Birthday of Pelé, soccer player Extraordinaire.
1942 ~ In Egypt, British forces begin a major offensive against Axis forces by initiating the Second Battle of El Alamein.
1956 ~ Hungarians took to the streets in to demand an end to Soviet rule. Thousands died.
1958 ~ Belgian cartoonist Peyo introduced a new set of comic strip characters "The Smurfs".
1983 ~ U.S. & French barracks in Beirut hit by truck bombs, killing 241 U.S. servicemen and 58 French.
1993 ~ Toronto Blue Jays outfielder Joe Carter became the second player to end a World Series with a home run - three-run shot that gave Toronto an 8-6 victory over the Philadelphia Phillies in Game 6.
1998 ~ Death of Dr. Barnett Slepian, physician.
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October 24th
1632 ~ Birthday of Anton van Leeuwenhoek, the “Father of Microbiology".
1799 ~ Death of Karl Ditters von Dittersdorf, Composer.
1929 ~ Death of George Cadbury, Chocolate Manufacturer & Philanthropist.
1929 ~ "Black Thursday" crash of the New York Stock Exchange.
1945 ~ Founding of the United Nations Organisation.
1947 ~ The expression “Cold War” was first used by Bernard Baruch to the U.S. Senate War Investigation Committee.
1948 ~ Death of Franz Lehár, Composer.
1992 ~ In the first real "World" Series, the Toronto Blue Jays became the first non-US team to win the World Series.
2002 ~ John Muhammad and Lee Malvo were arrested in connection with the Washington D.C. area sniper attacks.
2003 ~ The Concorde completed its last commercial flight.
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October 27th
1466 ~ Birthday of Erasmus of Rotterdam, Dutch writer and philosopher.
1728 ~ Birthday of James Cook, British Captain and explorer.
1787 ~ The first of the Federalist Papers, a series of essays calling for ratification of the U.S. Constitution, was published.
1811 ~ Birthday of Isaac Singer, inventor of the sewing machine.
1904 ~ New York’s first rapid transit subway opened.
1914 ~ Birthday of Dylan Thomas, British poet and writer. If you’ve never heard Richard Burton read Under Milk Wood, you have a treat in store for you!
1932 ~ Birthday of Sylvia Plath, American poet.
1991 ~ Turkmenistan achieved independence from the Soviet Union.
2002 ~ Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva was elected President of Brazil.
2005 ~ Riots begin in Paris after the deaths of two Muslim teenagers.
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