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Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/09/11 at 2:07 am
1238 – James I of Aragon conquers Valencia and founds the Kingdom of Valencia.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/09/11 at 2:07 am
1264 – The Kingdom of Castile conquers the city of Jerez that was under Muslim occupation since 711.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/09/11 at 2:09 am
1446 – Scholars in the court of Sejong the Great promulgated the new Korean alphabet, now known as Hangul.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/09/11 at 2:09 am
1514 – Mary Tudor (pictured), sister of Henry VIII of England, became queen consort of France.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/09/11 at 2:10 am
1514 – Mary Tudor (pictured), sister of Henry VIII of England, became queen consort of France.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/2/2a/Mary_Tudor_and_Charles_Brandon_cropped.jpg/100px-Mary_Tudor_and_Charles_Brandon_cropped.jpg
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/09/11 at 2:10 am
1558 – Mérida is founded in Venezuela.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/09/11 at 2:10 am
1582 – Because of the implementation of the Gregorian calendar, this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/09/11 at 2:11 am
1595 – The Spanish army captures Cambrai.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/09/11 at 2:11 am
1595 – The Spanish army captures Cambrai.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/09/11 at 2:12 am
1604 – Supernova 1604, the most recent supernova to be observed in the Milky Way.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/09/11 at 2:12 am
1635 – Founder of Rhode Island Roger Williams is banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony as a religious dissident after he speaks out against punishments for religious offenses and giving away Native American land.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/09/11 at 2:12 am
1701 – The Collegiate School of Connecticut (later renamed Yale University) is chartered in Old Saybrook, Connecticut.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/09/11 at 2:13 am
1708 – Peter the Great defeats the Swedes at the Battle of Lesnaya.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/09/11 at 2:14 am
1708 – Peter the Great defeats the Swedes at the Battle of Lesnaya.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/72/Peter_der-Grosse_1838.jpg/220px-Peter_der-Grosse_1838.jpg
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/09/11 at 2:14 am
1760 – Seven Years' War: Russian forces occupy Berlin.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/09/11 at 2:14 am
1771 – The Dutch merchant ship Vrouw Maria sinks near the coast of Finland.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/09/11 at 2:14 am
1776 – Father Francisco Palou founds Mission San Francisco de Asis in what is now San Francisco, California.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/09/11 at 2:14 am
1799 – Sinking of HMS Lutine, with the loss of 240 men and a cargo worth £1,200,000.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/09/11 at 2:15 am
1804 – Hobart, capital of Tasmania, is founded.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/09/11 at 2:15 am
1799 – Sinking of HMS Lutine, with the loss of 240 men and a cargo worth £1,200,000.
...and what to the bell?
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/09/11 at 2:15 am
1806 – Prussia declares war on France.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/09/11 at 2:15 am
1812 – War of 1812: In a naval engagement on Lake Erie, American forces capture two British ships: HMS Detroit and HMS Caledonia.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/09/11 at 2:15 am
1820 – Guayaquil declares independence from Spain.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/09/11 at 2:16 am
1824 – Slavery is abolished in Costa Rica.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/09/11 at 2:16 am
1831 – Capo d'Istria, the first head of state of independent Greece is assassinated.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/09/11 at 2:16 am
1834 – Opening of the Dublin and Kingstown Railway, the first public railway on the island of Ireland.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/09/11 at 2:16 am
1845 – The eminent and controversial Anglican, John Henry Newman, is received into the Roman Catholic Church.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/09/11 at 2:17 am
1845 – The eminent and controversial Anglican, John Henry Newman, is received into the Roman Catholic Church.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ab/John_Henry_Newman_by_Sir_John_Everett_Millais%2C_1st_Bt.jpg/220px-John_Henry_Newman_by_Sir_John_Everett_Millais%2C_1st_Bt.jpg
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/09/11 at 2:17 am
1854 – Crimean War: The siege of Sebastopol begins.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/09/11 at 2:17 am
1861 – American Civil War: Battle of Santa Rosa Island – Union troops repel a Confederate attempt to capture Fort Pickens.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/09/11 at 2:18 am
1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Tom's Brook – Union cavalrymen in the Shenandoah Valley defeat Confederate forces at Tom's Brook, Virginia.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/09/11 at 2:18 am
1873 – A meeting at the U.S. Naval Academy establishes the U.S. Naval Institute.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/09/11 at 2:18 am
1874 – The Universal Postal Union, then known as the General Postal Union, was established with the signing of the Treaty of Bern to unify disparate postal services and regulations so that international mail could be exchanged freely.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/09/11 at 2:19 am
1888 – The Washington Monument in Washington, D.C., at the time the world's tallest building, officially opened to the general public.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/09/11 at 2:19 am
1907 – Las Cruces, New Mexico is incorporated.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/09/11 at 2:20 am
1911 – An accidental bomb explosion in Hankou, Wuhan, China leads to the ultimate fall of the Qing Empire
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/09/11 at 2:20 am
1913 – Steamship SS Volturno catches fire in the mid-Atlantic.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/09/11 at 2:20 am
1914 – World War I: Siege of Antwerp – Antwerp, Belgium falls to German troops.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/09/11 at 2:20 am
1919 – Black Sox scandal: The Cincinnati Reds win the World Series.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/09/11 at 2:21 am
1934 – Regicide at Marseille: The assassination of King Alexander I of Yugoslavia and Louis Barthou, Foreign Minister of France.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/09/11 at 2:21 am
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, California.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/09/11 at 2:22 am
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, California.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/Ansel_Adams_-_National_Archives_79-AAB-01.jpg/220px-Ansel_Adams_-_National_Archives_79-AAB-01.jpg
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/09/11 at 2:22 am
1940 – World War II: Battle of Britain – During a night-time air raid by the German Luftwaffe, St. Paul's Cathedral in the City of London, England is hit by a bomb.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/09/11 at 2:22 am
1941 – A coup in Panama declares Ricardo Adolfo de la Guardia Arango the new president.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/09/11 at 2:23 am
1942 – Statute of Westminster 1931 formalises Australian autonomy.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/09/11 at 2:23 am
1942 – The last day of the October Matanikau action on Guadalcanal as United States Marine Corps forces withdraw back across the Matanikau River after destroying most of the Imperial Japanese Army's 4th Infantry Regiment.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/09/11 at 2:23 am
1945 – Parade in NYC for Fleet Admiral Nimitz and 13 USN/USMC Medal of Honor recipients
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/09/11 at 2:24 am
1962 – Uganda becomes an independent Commonwealth realm.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/09/11 at 2:24 am
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.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/09/11 at 2:24 am
1966 – Vietnam War: Binh Tai massacre
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/09/11 at 2:24 am
1966 – Vietnam War: Dien Nien-Phuoc Binh massacre
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/09/11 at 2:25 am
1967 – A day after being captured, Marxist revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara is executed for attempting to incite a revolution in Bolivia.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/09/11 at 2:25 am
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.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/09/11 at 2:25 am
1970 – The Khmer Republic is proclaimed in Cambodia.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/09/11 at 2:25 am
1981 – Abolition of capital punishment in France.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/09/11 at 2:26 am
1983 – South Korean President Chun Doo-hwan survived an assassination attempt in Rangoon, Burma.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/09/11 at 2:26 am
1983 – South Korean President Chun Doo-hwan survived an assassination attempt in Rangoon, Burma.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f0/Chun_Doo-hwan.png/220px-Chun_Doo-hwan.png
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/09/11 at 2:27 am
1986 – The musical The Phantom of the Opera has its first performance at Her Majesty's Theatre in London.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/09/11 at 2:27 am
1989 – An official news agency in the Soviet Union reports the landing of a UFO in Voronezh.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/09/11 at 2:27 am
1991 – Ecuador becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/09/11 at 2:28 am
1992 – A 13 kilogram (est.) fragment of the Peekskill meteorite lands in the driveway of the Knapp residence in Peekskill, New York, destroying the family's 1980 Chevrolet Malibu
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/09/11 at 2:29 am
1992 – A 13 kilogram (est.) fragment of the Peekskill meteorite lands in the driveway of the Knapp residence in Peekskill, New York, destroying the family's 1980 Chevrolet Malibu
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/84/Peekskill_meteorite_in_Museum_of_Natural_History.jpg/220px-Peekskill_meteorite_in_Museum_of_Natural_History.jpg
Portion of the meteorite in the National Museum of Natural History.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/09/11 at 2:29 am
1995 – An Amtrak Sunset Limited train is derailed by saboteurs near Palo Verde, Arizona.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/09/11 at 2:29 am
1999 – The last flight of the SR-71.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/09/11 at 2:29 am
2001 – Second mailing of anthrax letters from Trenton, New Jersey in the 2001 anthrax attack.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/09/11 at 2:30 am
2003 – Mission: SPACE opens to the public in the Epcot park at Walt Disney World. The opening ceremony included several astronauts from all eras of space exploration.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/09/11 at 2:30 am
2006 – North Korea allegedly tests its first nuclear device.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/09/11 at 2:30 am
2009 – First lunar impact of the Centaur and LCROSS spacecrafts as part of NASA's Lunar Precursor Robotic Program.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/09/11 at 2:31 am
1635 - Colonial American Separatist Roger Williams was banished from Massachusetts for preaching that civil government had no right to interfere in religious affairs. (Williams was seeking to establish freedom of worship through the separation of church and state.)
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/09/11 at 2:31 am
1776 - Spanish missionaries dedicated the first mission chapel on the northern California coast at Yerba Buena. (In 1847, the city which grew up around the mission changed its name to San Francisco.)
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/09/11 at 2:32 am
1842 - Episcopal missionary James L. Breck was ordained a priest at Duck Creek, WI. In 1850, this "apostle of the wilderness" moved to Minnesota and in 1858 founded the Seabury Divinity School. It is said that "no priest did more for the Episcopal Church in the West than Breck."
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/09/11 at 2:32 am
1845 - Cofounder of the Oxford Movement in England, churchman John Henry Newman made his celebrated conversion from Anglicanism to Catholicism. From 1845-1862, nearly 250 other English clergy followed Newman into the Roman Catholic faith
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/09/11 at 2:32 am
1747 - Colonial missionary to the New England Indians, David Brainerd died of tuberculosis (brought on by exposure) at age 29. Following his death, the publication of "Brainerd's Journal" by Jonathan Edwards influenced hundreds to become missionaries after him.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/10/11 at 1:25 am
680 – Hussein ibn Ali, grandson of Muhammad, was killed in the Battle of Karbala by the forces of Yazid I, whom Hussein had refused to recognise as caliph.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/10/11 at 1:25 am
732 – Charles Martel and the Franks defeated a large Andalusian Muslim army led by Abd er Rahman at the Battle of Tours (pictured) near Tours and Poitiers.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/10/11 at 1:26 am
732 – Charles Martel and the Franks defeated a large Andalusian Muslim army led by Abd er Rahman at the Battle of Tours (pictured) near Tours and Poitiers.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bb/Bataille_de_Poitiers.jpg/100px-Bataille_de_Poitiers.jpg
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/10/11 at 1:26 am
1845 – The United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, opened with 50 midshipmen students.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/10/11 at 1:27 am
1868 – Carlos Manuel de Céspedes made the Grito de Yara, declaring Cuban independence from Spain, sparking the Ten Years' War.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/10/11 at 1:27 am
1928 – General Chiang Kai-shek was named to be Chairman of the National Military Council, giving him leadership of the Republic of China.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/10/11 at 1:27 am
1982 – Maximilian Kolbe, who had volunteered to die in place of a stranger in the Nazi concentration camp of Auschwitz in Poland, was canonized by the Catholic Church.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/10/11 at 11:48 am
1471 – Battle of Brunkeberg in Stockholm: Sten Sture the Elder, the Regent of Sweden, with the help of farmers and miners, repels an attack by Christian I, King of Denmark.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/10/11 at 11:48 am
1575 – Battle of Dormans: Roman Catholic forces under Duke Henry of Guise defeat the Protestants, capturing Philippe de Mornay among others.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/10/11 at 11:49 am
1580 – After a three-day siege, the English Army beheads over 600 Irish and Papal soldiers and civilians at Dún an Óir, Ireland.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/10/11 at 11:49 am
1582 – Because of the implementation of the Gregorian calendar this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/10/11 at 11:49 am
1631 – A Saxon army takes over Prague.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/10/11 at 11:49 am
1780 – The Great Hurricane of 1780 kills 20,000-30,000 in the Caribbean.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/10/11 at 11:50 am
1860 – The original cornerstone of the University of the South is laid in Sewanee, Tennessee.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/10/11 at 11:52 am
1860 – The original cornerstone of the University of the South is laid in Sewanee, Tennessee.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/10/11 at 11:52 am
1868 – Carlos Céspedes issues the Grito de Yara from his plantation, La Demajagua, proclaiming Cuba's independence
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/10/11 at 11:53 am
1911 – The Wuchang Uprising leads to the demise of Qing Dynasty, the last Imperial court in China, and the founding of the Republic of China.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/10/11 at 11:53 am
1911 – The Kowloon-Canton Railway (split into MTR East Rail Line and Guangshen Railway now) commences service between Kowloon and Canton.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/10/11 at 11:54 am
1913 – President Woodrow Wilson triggers the explosion of the Gamboa Dike thus ending construction on the Panama Canal.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/10/11 at 11:54 am
1920 – The Carinthian Plebiscite determines that the larger part of Carinthia should remain part of Austria.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/10/11 at 11:54 am
1933 – United Airlines Chesterton Crash: A United Airlines Boeing 247 is destroyed by sabotage, the first such proven case in the history of commercial aviation.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/10/11 at 11:54 am
1935 – A coup d'état by the royalist leadership of the Greek Armed Forces takes place in Athens. It overthrows the government of Panagis Tsaldaris and establishes a regency under Georgios Kondylis, effectively ending the Second Hellenic Republic.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/10/11 at 11:55 am
1938 – The Munich Agreement cedes the Sudetenland to Nazi Germany.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/10/11 at 11:55 am
1942 – The Soviet Union establishes diplomatic relations with Australia.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/10/11 at 11:55 am
1943 – Double Tenth Incident in Japanese controlled Singapore
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/10/11 at 11:55 am
1944 – Holocaust: 800 Gypsy children are murdered at Auschwitz concentration camp.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/10/11 at 11:55 am
1945 – The Chinese Communist Party and the Kuomintang signed a principle agreement in Chongqing about the future of post-war China. Later, the pact is commonly referred to as the Double-Ten Agreement.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/10/11 at 11:55 am
1957 – U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower apologizes to the finance minister of Ghana, Komla Agbeli Gbdemah, after he is refused service in a Dover, Delaware restaurant.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/10/11 at 11:56 am
1957 – The Windscale fire in Cumbria, U.K. is the world's first major nuclear accident.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/10/11 at 11:56 am
1963 – France cedes control of the Bizerte naval base to Tunisia.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/10/11 at 11:56 am
1964 – The opening ceremony at The 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan, is broadcast live in the first Olympic telecast relayed by geostationary communication satellite.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/10/11 at 11:57 am
1967 – The Outer Space Treaty, signed on January 27 by more than sixty nations, comes into force.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/10/11 at 11:57 am
1970 – Fiji becomes independent.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/10/11 at 11:57 am
1970 – In Montreal, Quebec, 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.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/10/11 at 11:58 am
1971 – Sold, dismantled and moved to the United States, London Bridge reopens in Lake Havasu City, Arizona.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/10/11 at 11:59 am
1972 – The 1972 Chicago commuter rail crash, killing 48, occurs due to foggy conditions, the accident push for changes in Chicago commuter rail, such as brightly colored ends on the cars.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/10/11 at 11:59 am
1973 – Vice President of the United States Spiro Agnew resigns after being charged with federal income tax evasion.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/10/11 at 11:59 am
1975 – Papua New Guinea joins the United Nations.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/10/11 at 11:59 am
1980 – A magnitude 7.3 earthquake occurs in the Algerian town of El Asnam. 3.500 die and 300,000 are left homeless.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/10/11 at 12:00 pm
1985 – United States Navy F-14 fighter jets intercept an Egyptian plane carrying the Achille Lauro cruise ship hijackers and force it to land at a NATO base in Sigonella, Sicily where they are arrested.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/10/11 at 12:00 pm
1986 – An earthquake measuring 7.5 on the Richter Scale strikes San Salvador, El Salvador, killing an estimated 1,500 people.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/10/11 at 12:00 pm
1997 – An Austral Airlines DC-9-32 crashes and explodes near Nuevo Berlin, Uruguay, killing 74.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/10/11 at 12:01 pm
1998 – A Lignes Aériennes Congolaises Boeing 727 is shot down by rebels in Kindu, Democratic Republic of the Congo, killing 41 people.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/10/11 at 12:01 pm
2006 – The Greek city of Volos floods in one of the prefecture's worst recorded floods.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/10/11 at 12:01 pm
2008 – The 10 October 2008 Orakzai bombing kills 110 and injures 200 more.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/10/11 at 12:01 pm
2009 – After having closed borders for about two hundred years, Armenia and Turkey sign protocols in Zurich, Switzerland to open their borders.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/10/11 at 12:02 pm
2010 – The Netherlands Antilles are dissolved as a country.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/11/11 at 1:31 am
1531 – Huldrych Zwingli, a leader of the Reformation in Switzerland, was killed in battle in the Second War of Kappel.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/11/11 at 1:31 am
1634 – A storm tide on the coast of North Frisia caused a massive flood that killed at least 8,000 people and split the island of Strand into three smaller islands.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/11/11 at 1:31 am
1852 – The University of Sydney (pictured), Australia's oldest university, was inaugurated in Sydney two years after the New South Wales Legislative Council established it with the passage of the University of Sydney Act.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/11/11 at 1:31 am
1852 – The University of Sydney (pictured), Australia's oldest university, was inaugurated in Sydney two years after the New South Wales Legislative Council established it with the passage of the University of Sydney Act.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/23/University_of_Sydney_Main_Quadrangle.jpg/100px-University_of_Sydney_Main_Quadrangle.jpg
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/11/11 at 1:32 am
1941 – Armed insurgents from the People's Liberation Army of Macedonia attacked Axis occupied zones in the city of Prilep, beginning the National Liberation War of Macedonia.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/11/11 at 1:32 am
1942 – World War II: At the Battle of Cape Esperance on the northwest coast of Guadalcanal, American ships intercepted and defeated a Japanese fleet on their way to reinforce troops on the island.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/11/11 at 9:15 am
1138 – A massive earthquake struck Aleppo, Syria.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/11/11 at 9:15 am
1582 – Because of the implementation of the Gregorian calendar, this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/11/11 at 9:16 am
1614 – Adriaen Block and 12 Amsterdam merchants petition the States General for exclusive trading rights in the New Netherland colony.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/11/11 at 9:16 am
1649 – Sack of Wexford: After a ten-day siege, English New Model Army troops (under Oliver Cromwell) stormed the town of Wexford, killing over 2,000 Irish Confederate troops and 1,500 civilians.
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1727 – George II and Caroline of Ansbach are crowned King and Queen of Great Britain.
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1776 – American Revolutionary War: Battle of Valcour Island – On Lake Champlain a fleet of American boats is defeated by the Royal Navy, but delays the British advance until 1777.
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1797 – Battle of Camperdown: Naval battle between Royal Navy and Royal Netherlands Navy during the French Revolutionary Wars. The outcome of the battle was a decisive British victory.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/11/11 at 9:17 am
1809 – Along the Natchez Trace in Tennessee, explorer Meriwether Lewis dies under mysterious circumstances at an inn called Grinder's Stand.
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1811 – Inventor John Stevens' boat, the Juliana, begins operation as the first steam-powered ferry (service between New York, New York, and Hoboken, New Jersey).
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/11/11 at 9:17 am
1833 – A big demonstration at the gates of the legislature of Buenos Aires forces the ousting of governor Juan Ramón Balcarce and his replacement with Juan José Viamonte.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/11/11 at 9:18 am
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.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/11/11 at 9:18 am
1864 – Campina Grande, Brazil is established as a city.
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1865 – Paul Bogle led hundreds of black men and women in a march in Jamaica, starting the Morant Bay rebellion.
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1890 – In Washington, DC, the Daughters of the American Revolution is founded.
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1899 – Second Boer War begins: In South Africa, a war between the United Kingdom and the Boers of the Transvaal and Orange Free State erupts.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/11/11 at 9:19 am
1899 – The Western League is renamed the American League.
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1906 – San Francisco public school board sparks United States diplomatic crisis with Japan by ordering Japanese students to be taught in racially segregated schools.
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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.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/11/11 at 9:19 am
1912 – First Balkan War: The Greek Army liberates the city of Kozani.
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1929 – JC Penney opens store #1252 in Milford, Delaware, making it a nationwide company with stores in all 48 U.S. states.
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1944 – Tuvinian People's Republic or formerly Tannu Tuva is annexed by the U.S.S.R
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1950 – Television: CBS's mechanical color system is the first to be licensed for broadcast by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission.
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1954 – First Indochina War: The Viet Minh take control of North Vietnam.
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1957 – Space Race: M.I.T. scientists calculate Sputnik I's booster rocket's orbit.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/11/11 at 9:21 am
1958 – Pioneer program: NASA launches the lunar probe Pioneer 1 (the probe falls back to Earth and burns up).
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1962 – Second Vatican Council: Pope John XXIII convenes the first ecumenical council of the Roman Catholic Church in 92 years.
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1968 – Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 7, the first successful manned Apollo mission, with astronauts Wally Schirra, Donn F. Eisele and Walter Cunningham aboard.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/11/11 at 9:21 am
1972 – A race riot occurs on the United States Navy aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk off the coast of Vietnam during Operation Linebacker.
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1975 – The NBC sketch comedy/variety show Saturday Night Live debuts with George Carlin as the host and Andy Kaufman, Janis Ian and Billy Preston as guests.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/11/11 at 9:22 am
1976 – George Washington's appointment, posthumously, to the grade of General of the Armies of the United States by congressional joint resolution Public Law 94-479 is approved by President Gerald R. Ford.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/11/11 at 9:22 am
1982 – The Mary Rose, a Tudor carrack which sank on July 19 1545, is salvaged from the sea bed of the Solent, off Portsmouth.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/11/11 at 9:22 am
1984 – Aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger, astronaut Kathryn D. Sullivan becomes the first American woman to perform a space walk.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/11/11 at 9:22 am
1986 – Cold War: U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev meet in Reykjavík, Iceland, in an effort to continue discussions about scaling back their intermediate missile arsenals in Europe.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/11/11 at 9:23 am
1987 – Start of Operation Pawan by Indian Peace Keeping Force in Sri Lanka that killed few thousand ethnic Tamil civilians, several hundred Tamil Tigers and few hundred Indian Army soldiers.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/11/11 at 9:23 am
1996 – Pala accident: a wood lorry and school bus collide in Jõgeva county, Estonia, killing eight children.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/11/11 at 9:23 am
2000 – NASA launches STS-92, the 100th Space Shuttle mission, using Space Shuttle Discovery.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/11/11 at 9:23 am
2001 – The Polaroid Corporation files for federal bankruptcy protection.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/11/11 at 9:24 am
2002 – A bomb attack in a shopping mall in Vantaa, Finland kills seven.2002 – A bomb attack in a shopping mall in Vantaa, Finland kills seven.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/11/11 at 9:37 am
1521 - Leo X conferred the title "Fidei Defensor" (Defender of the Faith) upon England's Henry VIII. Three popes and 13 years later, Henry severed all ties with Rome to establish the Church of England.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/11/11 at 9:38 am
1551 - The 13th Session of the Council of Trent opened, during which major decisions were reached regarding the Catholic doctrine of the Eucharist.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/11/11 at 9:38 am
1895 - Birth of Avis B. Christiansen, devotional author. One of the most prolific hymnwriters of the 20th century, two of her most enduring hymns today are "Up Calvary's Mountain" and "Precious Hiding Place."
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/11/11 at 9:38 am
1914 - During World War I, the Cathedral of Notre Dame suffered minor damage during an air raid on Paris. (Notre Dame, the most famous of the Gothic cathedrals of the Middle Ages, is distinguished for both its size and antiquity.)
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/11/11 at 9:38 am
1954 - Presbyterian apologist Francis Schaeffer wrote in a letter: 'Doctrinal rightness and rightness of ecclesiastical position are important, but only as a starting point to go on into a living relationship -- and not as ends in themselves.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/12/11 at 12:00 pm
539 BC – The army of Cyrus the Great of Persia takes Babylon.
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1216 – King John of England loses his crown jewels in The Wash, probably near Fosdyke, perhaps near Sutton Bridge
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1279 – Nichiren, a Japanese Buddhist monk founder of Nichiren Buddhism, inscribes the Dai-Gohonzon
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1398 – The Treaty of Salynas is signed between Grand Duke of Lithuania Vytautas the Great and the Teutonic Knights, who received Samogitia.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/12/11 at 12:01 pm
1492 – Believing he had reached India, Christopher Columbus (pictured) made landfall on San Salvador Island in the Caribbean, sparking a series of events that led to the European colonization of the Americas.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/12/11 at 12:01 pm
1492 – Believing he had reached India, Christopher Columbus (pictured) made landfall on San Salvador Island in the Caribbean, sparking a series of events that led to the European colonization of the Americas.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/12/11 at 12:02 pm
1582 – Because of the implementation of the Gregorian calendar this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.
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1654 – The Delft Explosion devastates the city in the Netherlands, killing more than 100 people.
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1692 – The Salem witch trials are ended by a letter from Massachusetts Governor William Phips.
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1773 – America's first insane asylum opens for 'Persons of Insane and Disordered Minds' in Virginia
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1773 – America's first insane asylum opens for 'Persons of Insane and Disordered Minds' in Virginia
Is it still open today?
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1792 – First celebration of Columbus Day in the USA held in New York
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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
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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.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/12/11 at 12:04 pm
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.
I'll drink to that!
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1822 – Peter I of Brazil is proclaimed the emperor of the Brazil
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1823 – Charles Macintosh of Scotland sells the first raincoat.
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1871 – Criminal Tribes Act (CTA) enacted by British rule in India, which named over 160 local communities 'Criminal Tribes', i.e. hereditary criminals. Repealed in 1949, after Independence of India.
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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.
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1901 – President Theodore Roosevelt officially renames the "Executive Mansion" to the White House.
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1915 – World War I: British nurse Edith Cavell is executed by a German firing squad for helping Allied soldiers escape from Belgium
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1917 – World War I: The First Battle of Passchendaele takes place resulting in the largest single day loss of life in New Zealand history.
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1918 – A massive forest fire kills 453 people in Minnesota.
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1928 – An iron lung respirator is used for the first time at Children's Hospital, Boston
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1933 – The United States Army Disciplinary Barracks on Alcatraz Island, is acquired by the United States Department of Justice
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1942 – World War II: Japanese ships retreat after their defeat in the Battle of Cape Esperance with the Japanese commander, Aritomo Gotō dying from wounds suffered in the battle and two Japanese destroyers sunk by Allied air attack.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/12/11 at 12:06 pm
1945 – World War II: Desmond Doss is the first conscientious objector to receive the U.S. Medal of Honor.
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1953 – "The Caine Mutiny Court Martial" opens at Plymouth Theatre, New York
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1959 – At the national congress of APRA in Peru a group of leftist radicals are expelled from the party. They will later form APRA Rebelde.
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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
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1960 – Inejiro Asanuma, Chair of the Japanese Socialist Party, is assassinated in Japan by Otoya Yamaguchi, a 17-year-old. The cameras were rolling at the time, so the moment was caught on film.
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1962 – Infamous Columbus Day Storm strikes the U.S. Pacific Northwest with record wind velocities; 46 dead and at least U.S. $230 million in damages.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/12/11 at 12:07 pm
1964 – The Soviet Voskhod 1 mission became the first multi-person space flight as well as the first without spacesuits.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/12/11 at 12:08 pm
1967 – Vietnam War: US Secretary of State Dean Rusk states during a news conference that proposals by the U.S. Congress for peace initiatives are futile because of North Vietnam's opposition
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1968 – Equatorial Guinea becomes independent from Spain
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1970 – Vietnam War: US President Richard Nixon announces that the United States will withdraw 40,000 more troops before Christmas
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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.
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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.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/12/11 at 12:09 pm
1983 – Japan's former Prime Minister Tanaka Kakuei is found guilty of taking a $2 million bribe from Lockheed and is sentenced to 4 years in jail.
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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.
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1986 – Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh visit the People's Republic of China.
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1988 – Sri Lankan Civil War: Indian troops mounted a failed assault on Jaffna University, which served as the Tamil Tigers' military headquarters.
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1988 – Two officers of the Victoria Police are gunned down executional style in the Walsh Street police shootings, Australia.
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1991 – Askar Akayev, previously chosen President of Kyrgyzstan by republic's Supreme Soviet, is confirmed president in an uncontested poll.
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1994 – NASA loses radio contact with the Magellan spacecraft as the probe descends into the thick atmosphere of Venus (the spacecraft presumably burned up in the atmosphere).
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/12/11 at 12:10 pm
1997 – Sidi Daoud massacre in Algeria; 43 killed at a fake roadblock.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/12/11 at 12:11 pm
1999 – Pervez Musharraf takes power in Pakistan from Nawaz Sharif through a bloodless coup.
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1999 – The former Autonomous Soviet Republic of Abkhazia declares its independence from Georgia
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1999 – The Day of Six Billion: The proclaimed 6 billionth living human in the world is born.
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2000 – The USS Cole is badly damaged in Aden, Yemen, by two suicide bombers, killing 17 crew members and wounding at least 39
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2002 – Terrorists detonate bombs in the Sari Club in Kuta, Bali, killing 202 and wounding over 300.
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2005 – The second Chinese human spaceflight Shenzhou 6 launched carrying Fèi Jùnlóng and Niè Hǎishèng for five days in orbit.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/12/11 at 12:24 pm
1518 - Summoned before Cardinal Thomas Cajetan, German reformer Martin Luther, 35, refused to recant the 95 theses he had posted the previous October on the chapel door at Wittenberg Castle.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/12/11 at 12:24 pm
1812 - The Half Moon Bluff Baptist Church was organized near Clifton. It was the first Baptist congregation to be constituted in the American territory now comprising the state of Louisiana.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/12/11 at 12:24 pm
1883 - Birth of C. Harold Lowden, American sacred composer. His most enduring hymn tunes today are GENEVA ("God Who Touchest Earth with Beauty") and LIVING ("Living for Jesus a Life That is True").
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/12/11 at 12:25 pm
1949 - American missionary and martyr Jim Elliot wrote in his journal: 'For my generation I must have the oracles of God in fresh terms.'
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1971 - The rock musical "Jesus Christ, Superstar" debuted on Broadway. (Twenty years later, the actor who played the part of Jesus, Jeff Fenholt became a born-again Christian.)
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/13/11 at 1:28 am
1710 – Queen Anne's War: The French surrender ending the Siege of Port Royal gave the British permanent possession of Nova Scotia.
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1773 – French astronomer Charles Messier discovered the Whirlpool Galaxy, an interacting, grand-design spiral galaxy located at a distance of approximately 23 million light-years in the constellation Canes Venatici.
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1843 – B'nai B'rith, the oldest continually operating Jewish service organization in the world, was founded in New York City.
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1917 – An estimated 100,000 people in the Cova da Iria fields near Fátima, Portugal, witnessed the "Miracle of the Sun".
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2010 – A live television audience of over 1 billion viewers watched as 33 miners were rescued (pictured) following a cave-in at the San José Mine in the Atacama Desert of Chile.
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2010 – A live television audience of over 1 billion viewers watched as 33 miners were rescued (pictured) following a cave-in at the San José Mine in the Atacama Desert of Chile.
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54 – Nero ascends to the Roman throne
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409 – Vandals and Alans cross the Pyrenees and appear in Hispania.
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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.
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1332 – Rinchinbal Khan, Emperor Ningzong of Yuan becomes the Khagan of the Mongols and Emperor of the Yuan Dynasty, reigning for only 53 days.
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1775 – The United States Continental Congress orders the establishment of the Continental Navy (later renamed the United States Navy).
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1792 – In Washington, D.C., the cornerstone of the United States Executive Mansion (known as the White House since 1818) is laid.
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1812 – War of 1812: Battle of Queenston Heights – As part of the Niagara campaign in Ontario, Canada, United States forces under General Stephen Van Rensselaer are repulsed from invading Canada by British and native troops led by Sir Isaac Brock.
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1843 – In New York City, Henry Jones and 11 others found B'nai B'rith (the oldest Jewish service organization in the world).
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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.
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1881 – Revival of the Hebrew language as Eliezer Ben-Yehuda and friends agree to use Hebrew exclusively in their conversations.
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1884 – Greenwich, in London, England, is established as Universal Time meridian of longitude.
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1885 – The Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) is founded in Atlanta, United States.
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1892 – Edward Emerson Barnard discovers D/1892 T1, the first comet discovered by photographic means, on the night of October 13–14.
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1915 – The Battle for the Hohenzollern Redoubt marks the end of the Battle of Loos in northern France, World War I.
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1918 – Mehmed Talat Pasha and the Young Turk (C.U.P.) ministry resign and sign an armistice, ending Ottoman participation in World War I.
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1923 – Ankara replaces Istanbul as the capital of Turkey.
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1943 – World War II: The new government of Italy sides with the Allies and declares war on Germany.
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1944 – World War II: Riga, the capital of Latvia is occupied by the Red Army.
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1946 – France adopts the constitution of the Fourth Republic.