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Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/13/11 at 12:52 pm
1962 – The Pacific Northwest experiences a cyclone the equal of a Cat 3 hurricane. Winds measured above 150 mph at several locations; 46 people died.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/13/11 at 12:53 pm
1967 – The first game in the history of the American Basketball Association is played as the Anaheim Amigos lose to the Oakland Oaks 134-129 in Oakland, California.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/13/11 at 12:53 pm
1970 – Fiji joins the United Nations.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/13/11 at 12:53 pm
1972 – An Aeroflot Ilyushin Il-62 crashes outside Moscow killing 176.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/13/11 at 12:54 pm
1972 – Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 crashes in the Andes mountains, near the border between Argentina and Chile. By December 23, 1972, only 16 out of 45 people lived long enough to be rescued.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/13/11 at 12:54 pm
1976 – A Bolivian Boeing 707 cargo jet crashes in Santa Cruz, Bolivia, killing 100 (97, mostly children, killed on the ground).
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/13/11 at 12:54 pm
1976 – The first electron micrograph of an Ebola viral particle is obtained by Dr. F.A. Murphy, now at U.C. Davis, who was then working at the C.D.C.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/13/11 at 12:55 pm
1977 – Four Palestinians hijack Lufthansa Flight 181 to Somalia and demand release of 11 members of the Red Army Faction.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/13/11 at 12:55 pm
1983 – Ameritech Mobile Communications (now AT&T) launched the first US cellular network in Chicago, Illinois.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/13/11 at 12:55 pm
1990 – End of the Lebanese Civil War. Syrian forces launch an attack on the free areas of Lebanon removing General Michel Aoun from the presidential palace.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/13/11 at 12:55 pm
1992 – An Antonov An-124 operated by Antonov Airlines registered SSSR-82002, crashes near Kiev, Ukraine killing 8.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/13/11 at 12:55 pm
1999 – The United States Senate rejects ratification of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT).
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/13/11 at 12:59 pm
539 (BC) The Persian armies of Cyrus the Great captured Babylon. (Babylon, under Nebuchadnezzar, was the former military scourge which had taken Judah into exile in 586 BC (see 2 Kings 25).
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/13/11 at 12:59 pm
1670 In Virginia, slavery was banned for Negroes who arrived in the American colonies as Christians. (The law was repealed in 1682.)
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/13/11 at 12:59 pm
1843 B'nai B'rith ("Sons of the Covenant") was established in New York City by a group of German Jews. It is both the oldest and the largest of the Jewish fraternal organizations.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/13/11 at 12:59 pm
1988 The Bishop of Turin, Italy announced that the Shroud of Turin, long believed to be Christ's burial sheet, did not withstand scientific testing. It dated back only to 1280, and not to the time of Jesus' crucifixion (ca. AD 30-33).
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/14/11 at 5:17 am
222 – Pope Callixtus I is killed by a mob in Rome's Trastevere after a 5-year reign in which he has stabilized the Saturday fast three times per year, with no food, oil, or wine to be consumed on those days. Callixtus is succeeded by cardinal Urban I.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/14/11 at 5:18 am
1066 – Norman Conquest: Battle of Hastings – In England on Senlac Hill, seven miles from Hastings, the Norman forces of William the Conqueror defeat the English army and kill King Harold II of England.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/14/11 at 5:18 am
1066 – Norman Conquest: Battle of Hastings – In England on Senlac Hill, seven miles from Hastings, the Norman forces of William the Conqueror defeat the English army and kill King Harold II of England.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cf/Battle_of_Hastings.jpg/300px-Battle_of_Hastings.jpg
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/14/11 at 5:18 am
1322 – Robert the Bruce of Scotland defeats King Edward II of England at Byland, forcing Edward to accept Scotland's independence.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/14/11 at 5:19 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 10/14/11 at 5:19 am
1586 – Mary, Queen of Scots, goes on trial for conspiracy against Elizabeth I of England.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/14/11 at 5:20 am
1586 – Mary, Queen of Scots, goes on trial for conspiracy against Elizabeth I of England.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1f/Mary_Stuart_Queen.jpg/220px-Mary_Stuart_Queen.jpg
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/14/11 at 5:20 am
1656 – Massachusetts enacts the first punitive legislation against the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). The marriage of church-and-state in Puritanism makes them regard the Quakers as spiritually apostate and politically subversive.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/14/11 at 5:20 am
1758 – Seven Years' War: Austria defeats Prussia at the Battle of Hochkirk.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/14/11 at 5:20 am
1773 – The first recorded Ministry of Education, the Komisja Edukacji Narodowej (Polish for Commission of National Education), is formed in Poland.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/14/11 at 5:20 am
1773 – Just before the beginning of the American Revolutionary War, several of the British East India Company's tea ships are set ablaze at the old seaport of Annapolis, Maryland.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/14/11 at 5:21 am
1805 – Battle of Elchingen, France defeats Austria.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/14/11 at 5:21 am
1806 – Battle of Jena-Auerstädt France defeats Prussia.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/14/11 at 5:21 am
1808 – The Republic of Ragusa is annexed by France.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/14/11 at 5:21 am
1812 – Work on London's Regent's Canal starts.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/14/11 at 5:21 am
1840 – The Maronite leader Bashir II surrenders to the British Army and then is sent into exile on the islands of Malta.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/14/11 at 5:21 am
1843 – The British arrest the Irish nationalist Daniel O'Connell for conspiracy to commit crimes.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/14/11 at 5:22 am
1863 – American Civil War: Battle of Bristoe Station – Confederate troops under the command of General Robert E. Lee fail to drive the American Union Army completely out of the Commonwealth of Virginia.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/14/11 at 5:22 am
1867 – The 15th and the last military Shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate resigns in Japan, returning his power to the Emperor of Japan and thence to the re-established civil government of Japan
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/14/11 at 5:22 am
1882 – University of the Punjab is founded in a part of India that later became West Pakistan.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/14/11 at 5:22 am
1884 – The American inventor, George Eastman, receives a U.S. Government patent on his new paper-strip photographic film.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/14/11 at 5:22 am
1888 – French inventor Louis Le Prince (pictured) filmed Roundhay Garden Scene, the earliest surviving motion picture, in Roundhay, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/14/11 at 5:23 am
1888 – French inventor Louis Le Prince (pictured) filmed Roundhay Garden Scene, the earliest surviving motion picture, in Roundhay, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/ba/Louisleprincerestored.png/64px-Louisleprincerestored.png
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/14/11 at 5:23 am
1898 – The steamer ship SS Mohegan sinks after impacting the Manacles near Cornwall, United Kingdom, killing 106.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/14/11 at 5:23 am
1908 – The Chicago Cubs defeat the Detroit Tigers, 2-0, clinching the World Series. It would be their last one to date.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/14/11 at 5:24 am
1910 – The English aviator Claude Grahame-White lands his Farman Aircraft biplane on Executive Avenue near the White House in Washington, D.C..
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/14/11 at 5:24 am
1912 – John Benjamin Murphy treated former U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt after the latter was shot in an assassination attempt, having delivered a speech with the bullet still in him.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/14/11 at 5:24 am
1913 – Senghenydd Colliery Disaster, the United Kingdom's worst coal mining accident, occurs, and it claims the lives of 439 miners.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/14/11 at 5:25 am
1920 – Part of Petsamo Province is ceded by the Soviet Union to Finland.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/14/11 at 5:25 am
1925 – An Anti-French uprising in French-occupied Damascus, Syria. (All French inhabitants flee the city.)
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/14/11 at 5:25 am
1926 – The first book featuring English author A. A. Milne's fictional bear Winnie-the-Pooh was first published.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/14/11 at 5:26 am
1933 – Nazi Germany withdraws from The League of Nations.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/14/11 at 5:26 am
1938 – The first flight of the Curtiss Aircraft Company's P-40 Warhawk fighter plane.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/14/11 at 5:26 am
1939 – The German submarine U-47 sinks the British battleship HMS Royal Oak within her harbor at Scapa Flow, Scotland.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/14/11 at 5:26 am
1940 – Balham subway station disaster, in London, England, occurs during the Nazi Luftwaffe air raids on Great Britain.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/14/11 at 5:27 am
1943 – Prisoners at the Nazi German Sobibor extermination camp in Poland revolt against the Germans, killing eleven SS guards, and wounding many more. About 300 of the Sobibor Camp's 600 prisoners escape, and about 50 of these survive the end of the war.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/14/11 at 5:27 am
1943 – The American Eighth Air Force loses 60 B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bombers in aerial combat during the second mass-daylight air raid on the Schweinfurt ball-bearing factories in western Nazi Germany.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/14/11 at 5:28 am
1944 – Athens, Greece, is liberated by British Army troops entering the city as the Wehrmacht pulls out during World War II. This clears the way for the Greek government-in-exile to return to its historic capital city, with George Papandreou, Sr., as the head-of-government.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/14/11 at 5:29 am
1947 – Captain Chuck Yeager of the U.S. Air Force flies a Bell X-1 rocket-powered experimental aircraft, the Glamorous Glennis, faster than the speed of sound - over the high desert of Southern California - and becomes the first pilot and the first airplane to do so in level flight.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/14/11 at 5:29 am
1949 – Eleven leaders of the American Communist Party are convicted, after a nine-month trial in a Federal District Court, of conspiring to advocate the violent overthrow of the U.S. Federal Government.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/14/11 at 5:29 am
1949 – Chinese Civil War: Chinese Communist forces occupy the city of Guangzhou (Canton), in Guangdong, China.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/14/11 at 5:29 am
1952 – Korean War: United Nations and South Korean forces launch Operation Showdown against Chinese strongholds at the Iron Triangle. The resulting Battle of Triangle Hill is the biggest and bloodiest battle of 1952.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/14/11 at 5:30 am
1956 – B. R. Ambedkar, a leader of India's "Untouchable" caste, publicly converted to Buddhism, becoming the leader of the Dalit Buddhist movement.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/14/11 at 5:30 am
1957 – Queen Elizabeth II becomes the first Canadian Monarch to open up an annual session of the Canadian Parliament, presenting her Speech from the Throne in Ottawa, Canada.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/14/11 at 5:30 am
1958 – The American Atomic Energy Commission, with supporting military units, carries out an underground nuclear weapon test at the Nevada Test Site, just north of Las Vegas, Nevada.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/14/11 at 5:31 am
1958 – The District of Columbia's Bar Association votes to accept African-Americans as member attorneys.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/14/11 at 5:31 am
1962 – The Cuban Missile Crisis begins: A U.S. Air Force U-2 reconnaissance plane and its pilot fly over the island of Cuba and take photographs of Soviet missiles capable of carrying nuclear warheads being installed and erected in Cuba.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/14/11 at 5:32 am
1964 – Leonid Brezhnev becomes the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, and thereby, along with his allies - such as Alexei Kosygin - the leader of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), ousting the former monolithic leader Nikita Khrushchev, and sending him into retirement as a nonperson in the USSR.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/14/11 at 5:32 am
1966 – The city of Montreal, Quebec, begins the operation of its underground Montreal Metro rapid-transit system.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/14/11 at 5:32 am
1967 – The Vietnam War: The folk singer Joan Baez is arrested concerning a physical blockade of the U.S. Army's induction center in Oakland, California.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/14/11 at 5:32 am
1968 – Vietnam War: 27 soldiers are arrested at the Presidio of San Francisco in California for their peaceful protest of stockade conditions and the Vietnam War.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/14/11 at 5:32 am
1968 – Vietnam War: The United States Department of Defense announces that the U.S. Army and U.S. Marine Corps will send about 24,000 soldiers and Marines back to Vietnam for involuntary second tours of duty in the combat zone there.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/14/11 at 5:33 am
1968 – The first live telecast from a manned spacecraft, the Apollo 7, launched by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration of the U.S.A.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/14/11 at 5:33 am
1968 – An earthquake rated at 6.8 on the Richter Scale destroys the Australian town of Meckering, Western Australia, and it also ruptures all nearby main highways and railroads.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/14/11 at 5:33 am
1968 – Jim Hines of the United States of America becomes the first man ever to break the so-called "ten-second barrier" in the 100-meter sprint in the Summer Olympic Games held in Mexico City with a time of 9.95 seconds.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/14/11 at 5:34 am
1969 – The United Kingdom introduces the British fifty-pence coin, which replaces, over the following years, the British ten-shilling note, in anticipation of the decimalization of the British currency in 1971, and the abolition of the shilling as a unit of currency anywhere in the world.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/14/11 at 5:34 am
1973 – In the Thammasat student uprising over 100,000 people protest in Thailand against the Thanom military government; 77 are killed and 857 are injured by soldiers.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/14/11 at 5:34 am
1979 – The first Gay Rights March on Washington, D.C., the National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights, demands "an end to all social, economic, judicial, and legal oppression of lesbian and gay people", and draws 200,000 people.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/14/11 at 5:35 am
1981 – Citing official misconduct in the investigation and trial, Amnesty International charges the U.S. Federal Government with holding Richard Marshall of the American Indian Movement as a political prisoner.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/14/11 at 5:35 am
1981 – Vice President Hosni Mubarak is elected as the President of Egypt one week after the assassination of the President of Egypt, Anwar Sadat.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/14/11 at 5:36 am
1982 – U.S. President Ronald Reagan proclaims a War on Drugs.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/14/11 at 5:36 am
1994 – The Palestinian leader, Yasser Arafat, The Prime Minister of Israel, Yitzhak Rabin, and the Foreign Minister of Israel, Shimon Peres, receive the Nobel Peace Prize for their role in the establishment of the Oslo Accords and the framing of the future Palestinian Self Government.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/14/11 at 5:37 am
1998 – Eric Robert Rudolph is charged with six bombings including the 1996 Centennial Olympic Park bombing in Atlanta, Georgia.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/14/11 at 5:37 am
2003 – Chicago Cubs fan Steve Bartman becomes infamously known as the scapegoat for the Cubs losing game 6 of the 2003 National League Championship Series to the Florida Marlins. This has become known as the Steve Bartman incident.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/14/11 at 5:37 am
2004 – A special nine-member council selects Norodom Sihamoni as the new King of Cambodia, replacing his father who abdicated a week earlier.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/14/11 at 5:37 am
2006 – College football brawl between University of Miami and Florida International University leads to suspensions of 31 players of both teams.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/15/11 at 4:07 am
1529 – The Siege of Vienna ended as the Austrians routed the invading Turks, turning the tide against almost a century of unchecked conquest throughout eastern and central Europe by the Ottoman Empire.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/15/11 at 4:08 am
1582 – Pope Gregory XIII implements the Gregorian calendar. In Italy, Poland, Portugal, and Spain, October 4 of this year is followed directly by October 15.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/15/11 at 4:08 am
1764 – Edward Gibbon observes a group of friars singing in the ruined Temple of Jupiter in Rome, which inspires him to begin work on The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/15/11 at 4:08 am
1783 – The Montgolfier brothers' hot air balloon marks the first human ascent, by Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier, (tethered balloon).
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/15/11 at 4:08 am
1793 – Queen Marie-Antoinette of France is tried and convicted in a swift, pre-determined trial in the Palais de Justice, Paris, and condemned to death the following day.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/15/11 at 4:08 am
1815 – Napoleon I of France begins his exile on Saint Helena in the Atlantic Ocean.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/15/11 at 4:09 am
1863 – American Civil War: The H. L. Hunley, the first submarine to sink a ship, sinks during a test, killing its inventor, Horace L. Hunley.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/15/11 at 4:09 am
1864 – American Civil War: The Battle of Glasgow is fought, resulting in the surrender of Glasgow, Missouri, and its Union garrison, to the Confederacy.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/15/11 at 4:09 am
1878 – The Edison Electric Light Company begins operation.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/15/11 at 4:09 am
1880 – Mexican soldiers kill Victorio, one of the greatest Apache military strategists.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/15/11 at 4:09 am
1888 – The "From Hell" letter sent by Jack the Ripper is received by investigators.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/15/11 at 4:11 am
1888 – The "From Hell" letter sent by Jack the Ripper is received by investigators.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/FromHellLetter.jpg/200px-FromHellLetter.jpg
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/15/11 at 4:13 am
1894 – The Dreyfus affair: Alfred Dreyfus is arrested for spying.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/15/11 at 4:14 am
1904 – The Russian Baltic Fleet leaves Reval, Estonia for Port Arthur during the Russo-Japanese War.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/15/11 at 4:14 am
1910 – Airship America launched from New Jersey in the first attempt to cross the Atlantic by a powered aircraft.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/15/11 at 4:14 am
1917 – Dutch exotic dancer Mata Hari (pictured) was executed by a firing squad for spying for Germany.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/15/11 at 4:15 am
1917 – Dutch exotic dancer Mata Hari (pictured) was executed by a firing squad for spying for Germany.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/16/Mata_Hari_6.jpg/82px-Mata_Hari_6.jpg
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/15/11 at 4:16 am
1928 – The airship, Graf Zeppelin completes its first trans-Atlantic flight, landing at Lakehurst, New Jersey, United States.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/15/11 at 4:16 am
1932 – Tata Airlines (later to become Air India) makes its first flight.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/15/11 at 4:16 am
1934 – The Soviet Republic of China collapses when Chiang Kai-shek's National Revolutionary Army successfully encircles Ruijin, forcing the fleeing Communists to begin the Long March.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/15/11 at 4:16 am
1939 – The New York Municipal Airport (later renamed La Guardia Airport) is dedicated.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/15/11 at 4:16 am
1940 – The President of Catalonia, Lluís Companys, is executed by the Spanish dictatorship of Francisco Franco, making him the only European president to have been executed.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/15/11 at 4:17 am
1944 – The Arrow Cross Party (very similar to Hitler's NSDAP (Nazi party)) takes power in Hungary.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/15/11 at 4:17 am
1945 – World War II: The former premier of Vichy France Pierre Laval is shot by a firing squad for treason.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/15/11 at 4:18 am
1951 – Mexican chemist Luis E. Miramontes conducted the very last step of the first synthesis of norethisterone, the progestin that would later be used in one of the first two oral contraceptives.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/15/11 at 4:18 am
1953 – British nuclear test Totem 1 detonated at Emu Field, South Australia.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/15/11 at 4:18 am
1956 – Fortran, the first modern computer language, is shared with the coding community for the first time.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/15/11 at 4:18 am
1965 – Vietnam War: The Catholic Worker Movement stages an anti-war rally in Manhattan including a public burning of a draft card; the first such act to result in arrest under a new amendment to the Selective Service Act.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/15/11 at 4:19 am
1966 – The Black Panther Party, a Marxist/Maoist African-American organization that promoted Black Power and self-defense in the United States, was founded in Oakland, California.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/15/11 at 4:20 am
1969 – Vietnam War; The Moratorium to End the War in Vietnam is held in Washington DC and across the US. Over 2 million demonstrate nationally; about 250,000 in the nation's capitol.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/15/11 at 4:20 am
1970 – Thirty-five construction workers are killed when a section of the new West Gate Bridge in Melbourne collapses.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/15/11 at 4:20 am
1970 – The domestic Soviet Aeroflot Flight 244 is hijacked and diverted to Turkey.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/15/11 at 4:20 am
1971 – The start of the 2500-year celebration of Iran, celebrating the birth of Persia.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/15/11 at 4:21 am
1979 – Black Monday in Malta. The Building of the Times of Malta, the residence of the opposition leader Eddie Fenech Adami and several Nationalist Party clubs are ransacked and destroyed by supporters of the Malta Labour Party.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/15/11 at 4:21 am
1987 – The Great Storm of 1987 hits France and England.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/15/11 at 4:21 am
1989 – Wayne Gretzky becomes the all-time leading points scorer in the NHL.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/15/11 at 4:21 am
1990 – Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to lessen Cold War tensions and open up his nation.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/15/11 at 4:22 am
1997 – The first supersonic land speed record is set by Andy Green in ThrustSSC (United Kingdom), exactly 50 years and 1 day after Chuck Yeager first broke the sound barrier in the Earth's atmosphere.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/15/11 at 4:22 am
1997 – The Cassini probe launches from Cape Canaveral on its way to Saturn.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/15/11 at 4:22 am
2001 – NASA's Galileo spacecraft passes within 112 miles of Jupiter's moon Io.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/15/11 at 4:22 am
2003 – China launches Shenzhou 5, its first manned space mission.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/15/11 at 4:23 am
2003 – The Staten Island Ferry boat Andrew J. Barberi runs into a pier at the St. George Ferry Terminal in Staten Island, killing 11 people and injuring 43.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/15/11 at 4:24 am
2005 – A riot in Toledo, Ohio breaks out during a National Socialist/Neo-Nazi protest; over 100 are arrested.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/15/11 at 4:24 am
2007 – Seventeen activists in New Zealand are arrested in the country's first post 9/11 anti-terrorism raids.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/15/11 at 4:24 am
2008 – The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed down 733.08 points, or 7.87%, the second worst day in the Dow's history based on a percentage drop.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/15/11 at 6:52 am
1784 - Birth of Thomas Hastings, American sacred composer. Hastings was an albino afflicted with extreme nearsightedness, yet from his pen came such enduring hymn tunes as TOPLADY ("Rock of Ages") and ORTONVILLE ("Majestic Sweetness Sits Enthroned").
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/15/11 at 6:52 am
1790 - Ann Teresa Mathews (aka Mother Bernardina) and Frances Dickinson founded a convent of Discalced Carmelites (a contemplative working order) in Port Tobacco, Maryland. It was the first Catholic convent founded in the United States.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/15/11 at 6:52 am
1840 - In Melville, Missouri, the Evangelical Synod of North America was founded. It later became one of the branches of today's United Church of Christ.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/15/11 at 6:52 am
1900 - Pentecostal evangelist Charles Fox Parham opened Bethel Bible Institute in Topeka, Kansas. It was here on January 1, 1901 that the first Christian in modern times was reported to have spoken in tongues: student Agnes Ozman.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/15/11 at 6:52 am
1948 - American missionary martyr Jim Elliot wrote in his journal: '"They shall mount up with wings as eagles" (Isa. 40:31). These wings are not so typical of purity as they are of power -- strength to live above snares and everything ese...Thanks for wings, Lord.'
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/15/11 at 6:54 am
1977 - Debbie Boone's "You Light Up My Life," goes #1 & stays #1 for 10 weeks
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Written By: Howard on 10/15/11 at 7:09 am
1977 - Debbie Boone's "You Light Up My Life," goes #1 & stays #1 for 10 weeks
What a great song. :)
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Written By: nally on 10/15/11 at 4:41 pm
60 years ago... October 15, 1951, the television show "I Love Lucy" premiered on national television.
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Written By: Howard on 10/15/11 at 7:49 pm
60 years ago... October 15, 1951, the television show "I Love Lucy" premiered on national television.
and it lasted a couple of seasons.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/17/11 at 6:55 am
539 BC – Cyrus the Great marches into the city of Babylon, releasing the Jews from almost 70 years of exile. Cyrus allows the Jews to return to Yehud Medinata and rebuild the Temple in Jerusalem.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/17/11 at 6:56 am
1091 – London Tornado of 1091: A tornado thought to be of strength T8/F4 strikes the heart of London.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/17/11 at 6:56 am
1346 – Battle of Neville's Cross: King David II of Scotland is captured by Edward III of England near Durham, and imprisoned in the Tower of London for eleven years.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/17/11 at 6:56 am
1448 – Second Battle of Kosovo, where the mainly Hungarian army led by John Hunyadi is defeated by an Ottoman army led by Sultan Murad II.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/17/11 at 6:56 am
1456 – The University of Greifswald is established, making it the second oldest university in northern Europe (also for a period the oldest in Sweden, and Prussia)
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/17/11 at 6:57 am
1604 – Kepler's Star: German astronomer Johannes Kepler observes a supernova in the constellation Ophiuchus.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/17/11 at 6:57 am
1610 – French king Louis XIII is crowned in Rheims.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/17/11 at 6:57 am
1660 – Nine Regicides, the men who signed the death warrant of Charles I, are hanged, drawn and quartered.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/17/11 at 6:57 am
1662 – Charles II of England sells Dunkirk to France for 40,000 pounds.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/17/11 at 6:58 am
1771 – Premiere in Milan of the opera Ascanio in Alba, composed by Wolfgang Mozart, age 15.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/17/11 at 6:58 am
1777 – American Revolutionary War: British General John Burgoyne surrenders his army at Saratoga, New York.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/17/11 at 6:59 am
1781 – American Revolutionary War: British General Lord Charles Cornwallis surrenders at the Siege of Yorktown.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/17/11 at 6:59 am
1800 – Britain takes control of the Dutch colony of Curaçao.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/17/11 at 6:59 am
1806 – Former leader of the Haitian Revolution, Emperor Jacques I of Haiti is assassinated after an oppressive rule.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/17/11 at 6:59 am
1814 – London Beer Flood occurs in London, killing nine.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/17/11 at 7:00 am
1860 – First The Open Championship (referred to in North America as the British Open).
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/17/11 at 7:00 am
1888 – Thomas Edison files a patent for the Optical Phonograph (the first movie).
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/17/11 at 7:01 am
1905 – The October Manifesto issued by Tsar Nicholas II of Russia
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/17/11 at 7:01 am
1907 – Guglielmo Marconi's company begins the first commercial transatlantic wireless service between Glace Bay, Nova Scotia, Canada and Clifden, Ireland.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/17/11 at 7:01 am
1912 – Bulgaria, Greece and Serbia declare war on the Ottoman Empire, joining Montenegro in the First Balkan War.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/17/11 at 7:01 am
1917 – First British bombing of Germany in World War I.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/17/11 at 7:02 am
1931 – American gangster Al Capone (pictured) was convicted on five counts of income tax evasion.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/17/11 at 7:02 am
1931 – American gangster Al Capone (pictured) was convicted on five counts of income tax evasion.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/AlCaponemugshotCPD-2.jpg/81px-AlCaponemugshotCPD-2.jpg
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/17/11 at 7:05 am
1933 – Albert Einstein flees Nazi Germany and moves to the United States.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/17/11 at 7:05 am
1941 – For the first time in World War II, a German submarine attacks an American ship.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/17/11 at 7:05 am
1941 – German troops execute the male population of the villages Kerdyllia in Serres, Greece.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/17/11 at 7:06 am
1943 – Burma Railway (Burma-Thailand Railway) is completed.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/17/11 at 7:06 am
1945 – A massive number of people, headed by CGT and Evita, gather in the Plaza de Mayo in Argentina to demand Juan Peron's release. It calls "el día de la lealtad peronista" (the loyalty peronista day)
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/17/11 at 7:07 am
1945 – Archbishop Damaskinos of Athens becomes Prime Minister of Greece between the pull-out of the German occupation force in 1944 and the return of King Georgios II to Greece.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/17/11 at 7:07 am
1956 – The first commercial nuclear power station is officially opened by Queen Elizabeth II in Sellafield,in Cumbria, England.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/17/11 at 7:07 am
1961 – Scores of Algerian protesters (some claim up to 400) are massacred by the Paris police at the instigation of Nazi collaborator Maurice Papon, then chief of the Prefecture of Police.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/17/11 at 7:08 am
1964 – Prime Minister of Australia Robert Menzies opens the artificial Lake Burley Griffin in the middle of the capital Canberra.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/17/11 at 7:09 am
1965 – The 1964-1965 New York World's Fair closes after a two year run. More than 51 million people had attended the two-year event.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/17/11 at 7:09 am
1966 – A fire at a building in New York, New York kills 12 firefighters, the New York City Fire Department's deadliest day until the September 11, 2001 attacks.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/17/11 at 7:09 am
1966 – Botswana and Lesotho join the United Nations.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/17/11 at 7:09 am
1970 – Montreal, Quebec: Quebec Vice-Premier and Minister of Labour Pierre Laporte murdered by members of the FLQ terrorist group.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/17/11 at 7:10 am
1973 – OPEC starts an oil embargo against a number of western countries, considered to have helped Israel in its war against Syria.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/17/11 at 7:10 am
1977 – German Autumn: Four days after it is hijacked, Lufthansa Flight 181 lands in Mogadishu, Somalia, where a team of German GSG 9 commandos later rescues all remaining hostages on board.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/17/11 at 7:10 am
1979 – Mother Teresa awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/17/11 at 7:10 am
1979 – The Department of Education Organization Act is signed into law creating the US Department of Education and US Department of Health and Human Services.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/17/11 at 7:10 am
1980 – As part of the Holy See – United Kingdom relations a British monarch makes the first state visit to the Vatican
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/17/11 at 7:11 am
1989 – 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake (7.1 on the Richter scale) hits the San Francisco Bay Area and causes 57 deaths directly (and 6 indirectly).
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/17/11 at 7:11 am
1994 – Russian journalist Dmitry Kholodov is assassinated while investigating corruption in the armed forces.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/17/11 at 7:11 am
1998 – At Jesse, in the Niger Delta, Nigeria, a petroleum pipeline explodes killing about 1200 villagers, some of whom are scavenging gasoline.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/17/11 at 7:11 am
2000 – Train crash at Hatfield, north of London, leading to collapse of Railtrack.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/17/11 at 7:12 am
2001 – Israeli tourism minister Rehavam Ze'evi became the first Israeli minister to be assassinated in a terrorist attack.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/17/11 at 7:12 am
2003 – The pinnacle is fitted on the roof of Taipei 101, a 101-floor skyscraper in Taipei, allowing it to surpass the Petronas Twin Towers in Kuala Lumpur by 56 metres (184 ft) and become the World's tallest highrise.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/17/11 at 7:12 am
2010 – Mary MacKillop is canonized (in Rome) and becomes the first saint of Australia.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/17/11 at 10:44 am
1962 - The Beatles first appeared on Great Britain's Grenada TV Network.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/18/11 at 5:05 am
320 – Pappus of Alexandria, Greek philosopher, observes an eclipse of the sun and writes a commentary on The Great Astronomer (Almagest).
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/18/11 at 5:05 am
1009 – The Church of the Holy Sepulchre, a Christian church in Jerusalem, is completely destroyed by the Fatimid caliph Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah, who hacks the Church's foundations down to bedrock.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/18/11 at 5:05 am
1016 – The Danes defeat the Saxons in the Battle of Ashingdon.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/18/11 at 5:05 am
1081 – The Normans defeat the Byzantine Empire in the Battle of Dyrrhachium.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/18/11 at 5:06 am
1210 – Pope Innocent III excommunicates German leader Otto IV.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/18/11 at 5:06 am
1356 – Basel earthquake, the most significant historic seismological event north of the Alps, destroys the town of Basel, Switzerland.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/18/11 at 5:06 am
1386 – A special Pontifical High Mass in the Church of the Holy Spirit commemorated the opening of Heidelberg University.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/18/11 at 5:07 am
1599 – Michael the Brave, Prince of Wallachia, defeats the Army of Andrew Bathory in the Battle of Şelimbăr, leading to the first recorded unification of the Romanian people.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/18/11 at 5:07 am
1648 – Boston Shoemakers form first U.S. labor organization.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/18/11 at 5:07 am
1748 – Signing of the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle ends the War of the Austrian Succession.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/18/11 at 5:08 am
1775 – American Revolutionary War: In an act of retaliation against ports that supported Patriot activities in the early stages of the war, the Royal Navy destroyed what is now Portland, Maine.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/18/11 at 5:08 am
1775 – African-American poet Phillis Wheatley freed from slavery.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/18/11 at 5:09 am
1779 – American Revolutionary War: The Franco-American Siege of Savannah is lifted.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/18/11 at 5:09 am
1797 – Treaty of Campo Formio is signed between France and Austria
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/18/11 at 5:10 am
1851 – Herman Melville's Moby-Dick is first published as The Whale by Richard Bentley of London.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/18/11 at 5:10 am
1860 – The Second Opium War finally ends at the Convention of Peking with the ratification of the Treaty of Tientsin, an unequal treaty.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/18/11 at 5:10 am
1867 – United States takes possession of Alaska after purchasing it from Russia for $7.2 million. Celebrated annually in the state as Alaska Day.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/18/11 at 5:10 am
1898 – United States takes possession of Puerto Rico.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/18/11 at 5:11 am
1912 – First Balkan War: Peter I of Serbia issues a declaration "To the Serbian People", as Serbia joins the war.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/18/11 at 5:11 am
1914 – The Schoenstatt Movement is founded in Germany.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/18/11 at 5:11 am
1921 – The Crimean Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic is formed as part of the RSFSR.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/18/11 at 5:12 am
1922 – The British Broadcasting Company (later Corporation) is founded by a consortium, to establish a nationwide network of radio transmitters to provide a national broadcasting service.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/18/11 at 5:12 am
1929 – The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council overrules the Supreme Court of Canada in Edwards v. Canada when it declares that women are considered "Persons" under Canadian law.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/18/11 at 5:12 am
1936 – Adolf Hitler announces the Four Year Economic Plan to the German people. The plan details the rebuilding of the German military from 1936 to 1940.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/18/11 at 5:12 am
1944 – Adolf Hitler orders the establishment of a German national militia.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/18/11 at 5:13 am
1944 – Soviet Union begins liberation of Czechoslovakia.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/18/11 at 5:13 am
1945 – The USSR's nuclear program receives plans for the United States plutonium bomb from Klaus Fuchs at the Los Alamos National Laboratory.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/18/11 at 5:13 am
1945 – A group of the Venezuelan Armed Forces, led by Mario Vargas, Marcos Pérez Jiménez and Carlos Delgado Chalbaud, stages a coup d'état against then president Isaías Medina Angarita, who is overthrown by the end of the day.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/18/11 at 5:14 am
1954 – Texas Instruments announces the first Transistor radio.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/18/11 at 5:14 am
1964 – The 1964-1965 New York World's Fair closes for its first season after a six-month run.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/18/11 at 5:15 am
1967 – The Soviet space probe Venera 4 (pictured) performed in-place analysis of the environment of Venus and became the first spacecraft to land on another planet, although it stopped working before that.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/18/11 at 5:16 am
1967 – The Soviet space probe Venera 4 (pictured) performed in-place analysis of the environment of Venus and became the first spacecraft to land on another planet, although it stopped working before that.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9c/Venera_4.jpg
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/18/11 at 5:16 am
1968 – At the Summer Olympics in Mexico City, American Bob Beamon set a world record of 8.90 m in the long jump, a mark that stood for 23 years.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/18/11 at 5:18 am
1977 – German Autumn: a set of events revolving around the kidnapping of Hanns-Martin Schleyer and the hijacking of a Lufthansa flight by the Red Army Faction (RAF) comes to an end when Schleyer is murdered and various RAF members allegedly commit suicide.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/18/11 at 5:18 am
1991 – The Supreme Council of Azerbaijan adopts a declaration of independence from the Soviet Union.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/18/11 at 5:19 am
2003 – Bolivian Gas War: President Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada, is forced to resign and leave Bolivia.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/18/11 at 5:19 am
2007 – Karachi bombings: A suicide attack on a motorcade carrying former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto kills 139 and wounds 450 more. Bhutto herself is not injured.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/18/11 at 6:19 am
1946 - Aaron Copland's 3rd Symphony, premieres
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/18/11 at 6:20 am
1975 - Simon and Garfunkel reunite on SNL, sing 'My Little Town'
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/18/11 at 6:21 am
1957 - Paul McCartney made his debut appearance with the Quarrymen in Norris Green, Liverpool.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/18/11 at 6:21 am
1967 - "How I Won the War," starring John Lennon, premiered in London.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/18/11 at 6:21 am
1968 - John Lennon and Yoko Ono were arrested and charged with possession of marijuana when Ringo Starr's apartment was raided by police.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/18/11 at 9:45 am
1662 - Birth of Matthew Henry, English Presbyterian pastor. He is remembered for his "Exposition of the Old and New Testaments" (1708-10) -- still in print! -- whose value lies in its devotional and practical comments on the books of the Bible.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/18/11 at 9:45 am
1685 - Louis XIV revoked the 1598 Edict of Nantes, which had permitted French Protestants limited religious tolerance. The Huguenot exodus which followed drained France's industrial economy, and possibly hastened the French Revolution.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/18/11 at 9:45 am
1931 - English apologist C.S. Lewis wrote in a letter: 'The "doctrines" are translations into our concepts and ideas of that which God has already expressed in language more adequate, namely the actual incarnation, crucifixion, and resurrection.'
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/18/11 at 9:45 am
1949 - Country songwriter Stuart Hamblen, 31, underwent a spiritual conversion. Author of the popular 1954 hit "This Old House," Hamblen later wrote such Christian favorites as "It Is No Secret What God Can Do," "How Big is God?" and "They That Wait Upon the Lord."
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/18/11 at 9:45 am
1954 - "The Week in Religion" aired for the last time over Dumont television. First broadcast in March 1952, this ecumenical Sunday evening panel show divided the hour into 20-minute segments each for Protestant, Catholic and Jewish news.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/19/11 at 1:26 am
1789 – John Jay (pictured) was sworn in as the first Chief Justice of the United States.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/19/11 at 1:26 am
1789 – John Jay (pictured) was sworn in as the first Chief Justice of the United States.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9d/Appletons%27_Jay_John.jpg/71px-Appletons%27_Jay_John.jpg
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/19/11 at 1:26 am
1914 – World War I: Allied forces engaged German troops in the First Battle of Ypres.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/19/11 at 1:27 am
1950 – The Chinese Army captured the town of Qamdo as part of China's plan to take control of Tibet.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/19/11 at 1:27 am
1987 – The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell by 22.6% on Black Monday, at the time one of the largest one-day percentage declines in stock market history.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/19/11 at 1:27 am
2004 – Irish aid worker Margaret Hassan was abducted in Baghdad by unidentified kidnappers, who murdered her about four weeks later.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/19/11 at 12:53 pm
202 BC – Second Punic War: At the Battle of Zama, Roman legions under Scipio Africanus defeat Hannibal Barca, leader of the army defending Carthage.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/19/11 at 12:53 pm
439 – The Vandals, led by King Gaiseric, take Carthage in North Africa.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/19/11 at 12:54 pm
1216 – King John of England dies at Newark-on-Trent and is succeeded by his nine-year-old son Henry.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/19/11 at 12:54 pm
1386 – The Universität Heidelberg held its first lecture, making it the oldest German university.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/19/11 at 12:54 pm
1466 – The Thirteen Years War ends with the Second Treaty of Thorn.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/19/11 at 12:55 pm
1469 – Ferdinand II of Aragon marries Isabella I of Castile, a marriage that paves the way to the unification of Aragon and Castile into a single country, Spain.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/19/11 at 12:55 pm
1512 – Martin Luther becomes a doctor of theology (Doctor in Biblia).
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/19/11 at 12:55 pm
1649 – New Ross town, Co. Wexford, Ireland, surrenders to Oliver Cromwell.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/19/11 at 12:55 pm
1781 – At Yorktown, Virginia, representatives of British commander Lord Cornwallis handed over Cornwallis' sword and formally surrendered to George Washington and the comte de Rochambeau.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/19/11 at 12:56 pm
1805 – Napoleonic Wars: Austrian General Mack surrenders his army to the Grand Army of Napoleon at the Battle of Ulm. 30,000 prisoners are captured and 10,000 casualties inflicted on the losers.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/19/11 at 12:56 pm
1812 – Napoleon I of France retreats from Moscow.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/19/11 at 12:56 pm
1813 – The Battle of Leipzig concludes, giving Napoleon Bonaparte one of his worst defeats.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/19/11 at 12:57 pm
1822 – In Parnaíba; Simplício Dias da Silva, João Cândido de Deus e Silva and Domingos Dias declare the independent state of Piauí.