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Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/19/11 at 12:57 pm
1864 – Battle of Cedar Creek – Union Army under Philip Sheridan destroys a Confederate Army under Jubal Early.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/19/11 at 12:57 pm
1864 – St. Albans Raid – Confederate raiders launch an attack on Saint Albans, Vermont from Canada.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/19/11 at 12:58 pm
1866 – Venice - Annexion of Veneto and Mantua to Italy - At Hotel Europa, Austria hands over Veneto to France, which hands it immediately over to Italy.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/19/11 at 12:58 pm
1904 – Polytechnic University of the Philippines founded as Manila Business School through the superintendence of the American C.A. O'Reilley.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/19/11 at 12:58 pm
1912 – Italy takes possession of Tripoli, Libya from the Ottoman Empire.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/19/11 at 12:59 pm
1917 – The Love Field in Dallas, Texas is opened.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/19/11 at 1:00 pm
1921 – Portuguese Prime Minister António Granjo and other politicians are murdered in a Lisbon coup.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/19/11 at 1:00 pm
1933 – Germany withdraws from the League of Nations.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/19/11 at 1:00 pm
1935 – The League of Nations places economic sanctions on fascist Italy for its invasion of Ethiopia.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/19/11 at 1:00 pm
1943 – Streptomycin, the first antibiotic remedy for tuberculosis, is isolated by researchers at Rutgers University.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/19/11 at 1:00 pm
1944 – United States forces land in the Philippines.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/19/11 at 1:01 pm
1950 – The People's Liberation Army takes control of the town of Qamdo; this is sometimes called the "Invasion of Tibet".
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/19/11 at 1:12 pm
1954 – First ascent of Cho Oyu.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/19/11 at 1:12 pm
1956 – The Soviet Union and Japan sign a Joint Declaration, officially ending the state of war between the two countries that had existed since August 1945.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/19/11 at 1:12 pm
1959 – The first discothèque opens.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/19/11 at 1:12 pm
1969 – The first Prime Minister of Tunisia in twelve years, Bahi Ladgham, is appointed by President Habib Bourguiba.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/19/11 at 1:13 pm
1973 – President Richard Nixon rejects an Appeals Court decision that he turn over the Watergate tapes.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/19/11 at 1:13 pm
1974 – Niue becomes a self-governing colony of New Zealand.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/19/11 at 1:13 pm
1976 – Battle of Aishiya in Lebanon.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/19/11 at 1:13 pm
1986 – Samora Machel, President of Mozambique and a prominent leader of FRELIMO, and 33 others die when their Tupolev 134 plane crashes into the Lebombo Mountains.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/19/11 at 1:15 pm
1987 – In retaliation for Iranian attacks on ships in the Persian Gulf, the U.S. Navy disables three of Iran's offshore oil platforms.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/19/11 at 1:15 pm
1989 – The convictions of the Guildford Four are quashed by the Court of Appeal of England and Wales, after they had spent 15 years in prison.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/19/11 at 1:15 pm
2001 – SIEV-X, an Indonesian fishing boat en-route to Christmas Island, carrying over 400 asylum seekers, sinks in international waters with the loss of 353 people.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/19/11 at 1:16 pm
2003 – Mother Teresa is beatified by Pope John Paul II.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/19/11 at 1:16 pm
2004 – Myanmar prime minister Khin Nyunt is ousted and placed under house arrest by the State Peace and Development Council on charges of corruption.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/19/11 at 1:16 pm
2004 – Care International aid worker Margaret Hassan is kidnapped in Iraq.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/19/11 at 1:16 pm
2005 – Saddam Hussein goes on trial in Baghdad for crimes against humanity.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/19/11 at 1:16 pm
2005 – Hurricane Wilma becomes the most intense Atlantic hurricane on record with a minimum pressure of 882 mb.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/19/11 at 1:16 pm
2007 – Philippines: A bomb explosion rocked Glorietta 2, a shopping mall in Makati. The blast killed 11 and injured more than 100 people.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/19/11 at 1:36 pm
1562 - Birth of George Abbot, archbishop of Canterbury. A recognized leader of the English Calvinists, Abbot also demonstrated Puritan sympathies, and took a leading part in translating the 1611 King James Version of the Bible.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/19/11 at 1:36 pm
1609 - Death of Jacob Arminius, 49, the Dutch theologian who lent his name to the beliefs (known today at Arminianism) which oppose the major tenets of Protestant Reformed (Calvinist) theology.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/19/11 at 1:36 pm
1720 - Birth of John Woolman, American Quaker reformer. His "Journal," written from 1756-72, greatly influenced 19th century abolitionists.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/19/11 at 1:36 pm
1744 - English revivalist George Whitefield, 29, arrived in Maine at the start of his second visit to America. Whitefield struggled to adapt the beliefs of Calvinism to the Arminian teachings of proto-Methodists John and Charles Wesley.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/19/11 at 1:37 pm
1921 - Birth of Bill Bright, American youth evangelist. Bill and his wife Vonette founded Campus Crusade for Christ in 1951, incorporating this evangelical Christian student organization in California in 1953.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/20/11 at 1:24 am
1740 – Per the terms of the Pragmatic Sanction of 1713, Maria Theresa (pictured) assumed the throne of the Habsburg Monarchy in Austria.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/20/11 at 1:25 am
1740 – Per the terms of the Pragmatic Sanction of 1713, Maria Theresa (pictured) assumed the throne of the Habsburg Monarchy in Austria.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Andreas_Moeller_001.jpg/81px-Andreas_Moeller_001.jpg
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/20/11 at 1:25 am
1818 – The United Kingdom and the United States signed the Treaty of 1818, which settled the Canada – United States border on the 49th parallel for most of its length.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/20/11 at 1:25 am
1917 – The Military Revolutionary Committee of the Petrograd Soviet, in charge of preparing for and carrying out the Russian Revolution, held its first meeting.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/20/11 at 1:25 am
1939 – Pope Pius XII published his first major encyclical entitled Summi Pontificatus, which was seen as setting a tone for his papacy.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/20/11 at 1:25 am
1941 – World War II: German soldiers began a massacre of thousands of civilians in Kragujevac in Nazi-occupied Serbia.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/20/11 at 12:02 pm
2011 – Muammar Gaddafi is killed and the Libyan Civil War 2011 ends.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/20/11 at 12:10 pm
1548 – The city of Nuestra Señora de La Paz (Our Lady of Peace) is founded by Alonso de Mendoza by appointment of the king of Spain and Holy Roman Emperor, Charles V.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/20/11 at 12:10 pm
1720 – Caribbean pirate Calico Jack is captured by the Royal Navy.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/20/11 at 12:10 pm
1781 – Patent of Toleration, providing limited freedom of worship, is approved in Habsburg Monarchy.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/20/11 at 12:10 pm
1803 – The United States Senate ratifies the Louisiana Purchase.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/20/11 at 12:11 pm
1827 – Battle of Navarino – a combined Turkish and Egyptian armada is defeated by British, French, and Russian naval force in the port of Navarino in Pylos, Greece.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/20/11 at 12:12 pm
1873 – Yale, Princeton, Columbia, and Rutgers universities draft the first code of American football rules.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/20/11 at 12:12 pm
1883 – Peru and Chile sign the Treaty of Ancón, by which the Tarapacá province is ceded to the latter, bringing an end to Peru's involvement in the War of the Pacific.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/20/11 at 12:12 pm
1904 – Chile and Bolivia sign the Treaty of Peace and Friendship, delimiting the border between the two countries.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/20/11 at 12:12 pm
1910 – The hull of the RMS Olympic, sister-ship to the ill-fated RMS Titanic, is launched from the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/20/11 at 12:13 pm
1935 – The Long March ends.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/20/11 at 12:13 pm
1943 – The cargo vessel Sinfra is attacked by Allied aircraft at Suda Bay, Crete, and sunk. 2,098 Italian prisoners of war drown with it.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/20/11 at 12:14 pm
1944 – The Soviet Army and Yugoslav Partisans liberate Belgrade, the capital of Yugoslavia
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/20/11 at 12:14 pm
1944 – Liquid natural gas leaks from storage tanks in Cleveland, then explodes; the explosion and resulting fire level 30 blocks and kill 130.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/20/11 at 12:14 pm
1944 – General Douglas MacArthur fulfills his promise to return to the Philippines when he commands an Allied assault on the islands, reclaiming them from the Japanese during the Second World War.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/20/11 at 12:14 pm
1947 – The House Un-American Activities Committee begins its investigation into Communist infiltration of Hollywood, resulting in a blacklist that prevents some from working in the industry for years.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/20/11 at 12:15 pm
1947 – United States of America and Pakistan establish diplomatic relations for the first time.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/20/11 at 12:15 pm
1951 – The "Johnny Bright Incident" occurs in Stillwater, Oklahoma
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/20/11 at 12:15 pm
1952 – Governor Evelyn Baring declares a state of emergency in Kenya and begins arresting hundreds of suspected leaders of the Mau Mau Uprising, including Jomo Kenyatta, the future first President of Kenya.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/20/11 at 12:15 pm
1961 – The Soviet Union performs the first armed test of a submarine-launched ballistic missile, launching an R-13 from a Golf class submarine.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/20/11 at 12:16 pm
1962 – China launches simultaneous offensives in Ladakh and across the McMahon Line, beginning the Sino-Indian War.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/20/11 at 12:16 pm
1967 – A purported bigfoot is filmed by Patterson and Gimlin.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/20/11 at 12:16 pm
1968 – Former First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy marries Greek shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/20/11 at 12:16 pm
1970 – Siad Barre declares Somalia a socialist state.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/20/11 at 12:16 pm
1971 – The Nepal Stock Exchange collapses.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/20/11 at 12:17 pm
1973 – "Saturday Night Massacre": President Richard Nixon fires U.S. Attorney General Elliot Richardson and Deputy Attorney General William Ruckelshaus after they refuse to fire Watergate special prosecutor Archibald Cox, who is finally fired by Robert Bork.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/20/11 at 12:17 pm
1973 – The Sydney Opera House opens.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/20/11 at 12:18 pm
1976 – The ferry George Prince is struck by a ship while crossing the Mississippi River between Destrehan and Luling, Louisiana. Seventy-eight passengers and crew die and only 18 people aboard the ferry survive.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/20/11 at 12:19 pm
1977 – A plane carrying Lynyrd Skynyrd crashes in Mississippi, killing lead singer Ronnie Van Zant and guitarist Steve Gaines along with backup singer Cassie Gaines, the road manager, pilot, and co-pilot.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/20/11 at 12:20 pm
1981 – Two police officers and an armored car guard are killed during an armed robbery in Rockland County, NY, carried out by members of the Black Liberation Army and Weather Underground.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/20/11 at 12:20 pm
1982 – During the UEFA Cup match between FC Spartak Moscow and HFC Haarlem, 66 people are crushed to death in the Luzhniki disaster.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/20/11 at 12:21 pm
1991 – The Oakland Hills firestorm kills 25 and destroys 3,469 homes and apartments, causing more than $2 billion in damage.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/20/11 at 12:21 pm
1991 – A 6.8 Mw earthquake strikes the Uttarkashi region of India, killing more than 1,000 people.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/20/11 at 12:21 pm
2011 – Muammar Gaddafi is killed and the Libyan Civil War 2011 ends.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/20/11 at 1:01 pm
1967 – A purported bigfoot is filmed by Patterson and Gimlin.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/25/Smalfut.jpg
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Howard on 10/20/11 at 2:19 pm
2011 – Muammar Gaddafi is killed and the Libyan Civil War 2011 ends.
Thank God.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/21/11 at 1:16 am
1096 – The Seljuk forces of Kilij Arslan destroyed the army of the People's Crusade as it marched toward Nicaea.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/21/11 at 1:16 am
1520 – The islands of Saint Pierre and Miquelon were discovered by Portuguese explorer João Álvares Fagundes, who named them "Islands of the 11,000 Virgins".
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/21/11 at 1:16 am
1805 – Napoleonic Wars: Lord Nelson signalled "England expects that every man will do his duty" to the rest of his Royal Navy forces before they defeated Pierre-Charles Villeneuve and his combined French and Spanish navy at the Battle of Trafalgar off the coast of Spain's Cape Trafalgar.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/21/11 at 1:16 am
1959 – The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (pictured), designed by American architect Frank Lloyd Wright, opened in New York City.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/21/11 at 1:17 am
1959 – The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (pictured), designed by American architect Frank Lloyd Wright, opened in New York City.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b1/Guggenheim_01.jpg/100px-Guggenheim_01.jpg
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/21/11 at 1:18 am
1978 – After reporting contact with an unidentified aircraft, Frederick Valentich disappeared in unexplained circumstances while piloting a Cessna 182L light aircraft over the Bass Strait to King Island, Australia.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/21/11 at 11:35 am
1097 – First Crusade: Crusaders led by Godfrey of Bouillon, Bohemund of Taranto, and Raymond IV of Toulouse, begin the Siege of Antioch.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/21/11 at 11:35 am
1209 – Otto IV is crowned emperor of the Holy Roman Empire by Pope Innocent III.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/21/11 at 11:35 am
1512 – Martin Luther joins the theological faculty of the University of Wittenberg.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/21/11 at 11:36 am
1520 – Ferdinand Magellan discovers a strait now known as Strait of Magellan.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/21/11 at 11:36 am
1600 – Tokugawa Ieyasu defeats the leaders of rival Japanese clans in the Battle of Sekigahara, which marks the beginning of the Tokugawa shogunate that in effect rules Japan until the mid-nineteenth century.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/21/11 at 11:36 am
1774 – First display of the word "Liberty" on a flag, raised by colonists in Taunton, Massachusetts in defiance of British rule in Colonial America.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/21/11 at 11:37 am
1797 – In Boston Harbor, the 44-gun United States Navy frigate USS Constitution is launched.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/21/11 at 11:37 am
1816 – The Penang Free School is founded in George Town, Penang, Malaysia, by the Rev Hutchings. It is the oldest English-language school in Southeast Asia.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/21/11 at 11:37 am
1824 – Joseph Aspdin patents Portland cement.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/21/11 at 11:38 am
1854 – Florence Nightingale and a staff of 38 nurses are sent to the Crimean War.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/21/11 at 11:39 am
1861 – American Civil War: Battle of Ball's Bluff – Union forces under Colonel Edward Baker are defeated by Confederate troops in the second major battle of the war. Baker, a close friend of Abraham Lincoln, is killed in the fighting.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/21/11 at 11:39 am
1867 – Manifest Destiny: Medicine Lodge Treaty – Near Medicine Lodge, Kansas a landmark treaty is signed by southern Great Plains Indian leaders. The treaty requires Native American Plains tribes to relocate a reservation in western Oklahoma.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/21/11 at 11:39 am
1892 – Opening ceremonies for the World's Columbian Exposition are held in Chicago, though because construction was behind schedule, the exposition did not open until May 1, 1893.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/21/11 at 11:40 am
1895 – The Republic of Formosa collapses as Japanese forces invade.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/21/11 at 11:40 am
1902 – In the United States, a five month strike by United Mine Workers ends.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/21/11 at 11:40 am
1912 – During the First Balkan War, Kardzhali is liberated by Bulgarian forces
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/21/11 at 11:40 am
1921 – President Warren G. Harding delivers the first speech by a sitting President against lynching in the deep south.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/21/11 at 11:40 am
1921 – George Melford's silent film, The Sheik, starring Rudolph Valentino, premiers.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/21/11 at 11:41 am
1931 – The Sakurakai, a secret society in the Imperial Japanese Army, launches an abortive coup d'état attempt.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/21/11 at 11:41 am
1944 – The first kamikaze attack: A Japanese plane carrying a 200 kilograms (440 lb) bomb attacks HMAS Australia off Leyte Island, as the Battle of Leyte Gulf began.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/21/11 at 11:41 am
1945 – Women's suffrage: Women are allowed to vote in France for the first time.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/21/11 at 11:41 am
1950 – Korean War: heavy fighting begins between British and Australian forces from the 27th British Commonwealth Brigade and the North Korean 239th Regiment during the Battle of Yongju.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/21/11 at 11:41 am
1956 – Kenyan rebel leader Dedan Kimathi is captured by the British Army, signalling the ultimate defeat of the Mau Mau Uprising, and essentially ending the British military campaign.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/21/11 at 11:42 am
1959 – President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs an executive order transferring Wernher von Braun and other German scientists from the United States Army to NASA.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/21/11 at 11:42 am
1965 – Comet Ikeya-Seki approaches perihelion, passing 450,000 kilometers from the sun.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/21/11 at 11:42 am
1966 – Aberfan disaster: A slag heap collapses on the village of Aberfan in Wales, killing 144 people, mostly schoolchildren.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/21/11 at 11:43 am
1967 – Vietnam War: More than 100,000 war protesters gather in Washington, D.C.. A peaceful rally at the Lincoln Memorial is followed by a march to The Pentagon and clashes with soldiers and United States Marshals protecting the facility. Similar demonstrations occurred simultaneously in Japan and Western Europe.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/21/11 at 11:43 am
1969 – A coup d'état in Somalia brings Siad Barre to power.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/21/11 at 11:43 am
1971 – A gas explosion kills 22 people at a shopping centre in Clarkston, East Renfrewshire, near Glasgow, Scotland.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/21/11 at 11:43 am
1973 – John Paul Getty III's ear is cut off by his kidnappers and sent to a newspaper in Rome; it doesn't arrive until November 8.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/21/11 at 11:43 am
1973 – Fred Dryer of the then Los Angeles Rams becomes the first player in NFL history to score two safeties in the same game.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/21/11 at 11:44 am
1977 – The European Patent Institute is founded.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/21/11 at 11:44 am
1979 – Moshe Dayan resigns from the Israeli government because of strong disagreements with Prime Minister Menachem Begin over policy towards the Arabs.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/21/11 at 11:45 am
1983 – The metre is defined at the seventeenth General Conference on Weights and Measures as the distance light travels in a vacuum in 1/299,792,458 of a second.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/21/11 at 11:45 am
1986 – In Lebanon, pro-Iranian kidnappers claim to have abducted American writer Edward Tracy (he is released in August 1991).
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/21/11 at 11:45 am
1987 – Jaffna hospital massacre is carried out by Indian Peace Keeping Force in Sri Lanka killing 70 ethnic Tamil patients, doctors and nurses.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/21/11 at 11:45 am
1994 – North Korea nuclear weapons program: North Korea and the United States sign an agreement that requires North Korea to stop its nuclear weapons program and agree to inspections.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/21/11 at 11:46 am
1994 – In Seoul, 32 people are killed when the Seongsu Bridge collapses.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/21/11 at 11:46 am
2003 – Images of the dwarf planet Eris are taken and subsequently used in documenting its discovery by the team of Michael E. Brown, Chad Trujillo, and David L. Rabinowitz.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/21/11 at 1:24 pm
1532 German reformer Martin Luther declared: 'For some years now I have read through the Bible twice every year. If you picture the Bible to be a mighty tree and every word a little branch, I have shaken every one of these branches because I wanted to know what it was and what it meant.'
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/21/11 at 1:24 pm
1692 William Penn was deposed as Governor of Pennsylvania. His overtures of gratefulness to James II for permitting religious freedom for dissenters of the Church of England led William and Mary to charge Penn with being a papist.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/21/11 at 1:24 pm
1751 The first Baptist association in the American South was organized at Charleston, SC. It was formed under the initiative of Oliver Hart, who had left the Philadelphia area to become pastor of the Charleston Baptist Church in 1749.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/21/11 at 1:24 pm
1808 Birth of American Baptist clergyman Samuel Francis Smith. Credited with writing over 100 hymns, Smith is best remembered as the author of "America" ("My Country, 'Tis of Thee"), written at age 23, while a student at Andover Seminary.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/21/11 at 1:26 pm
1892 Birth of James L Kelso, American Presbyterian archaeologist. He participated in digs at the biblical sites of Debir, Bethel and Jericho, and authored the text "Ceramic Vocabulary of the O.T."
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/22/11 at 12:33 am
362 – A mysterious fire destroys the temple of Apollo at Daphne outside Antioch.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/22/11 at 12:33 am
794 – Emperor Kanmu relocates the Japanese capital to Heiankyo (now Kyoto).
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/22/11 at 12:34 am
1383 – The 1383-1385 Crisis in Portugal: King Fernando dies without a male heir to the Portuguese throne, sparking a period of civil war and disorder.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/22/11 at 12:34 am
1575 – Foundation of Aguascalientes.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/22/11 at 12:34 am
1633 – Battle of southern Fujian sea: The Ming dynasty defeats the Dutch East India Company.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/22/11 at 12:34 am
1707 – In one of the greatest maritime disasters in the history of the British Isles, more than 1,400 sailors on four Royal Navy ships were lost in stormy weather off the Isles of Scilly.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/22/11 at 12:35 am
1730 – Construction of the Ladoga Canal is completed.
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1746 – The College of New Jersey (later renamed Princeton University) receives its charter.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/22/11 at 12:35 am
1777 – American Revolutionary War: American defenders of Fort Mercer on the Delaware River repulse repeated Hessian attacks in the Battle of Red Bank.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/22/11 at 12:36 am
1784 – Russia founds a colony on Kodiak Island, Alaska.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/22/11 at 12:36 am
1790 – Warriors of the Miami tribe under Chief Little Turtle defeat United States troops under General Josiah Harmar at the site of present-day Fort Wayne, Indiana, in the Northwest Indian War.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/22/11 at 12:36 am
1797 – One thousand meters (3,200 feet) above Paris, André-Jacques Garnerin makes the first recorded parachute jump.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/22/11 at 12:37 am
1836 – Sam Houston is inaugurated as the first President of the Republic of Texas.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/22/11 at 12:37 am
1844 – The Great Anticipation: Millerites, followers of William Miller, anticipate the end of the world in conjunction with the Second Advent of Christ. The following day became known as the Great Disappointment.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/22/11 at 12:37 am
1859 – Spain declares war on Morocco.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/22/11 at 12:37 am
1866 – A plebiscite ratifies the annexion of Veneto and Mantua to Italy, occurred three days before, on October 19.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/22/11 at 12:38 am
1875 – First telegraphic connection in Argentina.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/22/11 at 12:38 am
1877 – The Blantyre mining disaster in Scotland kills 207 miners.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/22/11 at 12:38 am
1878 – The first rugby match under floodlights takes place in Salford, between Broughton and Swinton.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/22/11 at 12:39 am
1879 – Thomas Edison performed a successful test using a carbon filament thread in an incandescent light bulb (pictured), which would become the most successful version of the product.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/22/11 at 12:39 am
1879 – Thomas Edison performed a successful test using a carbon filament thread in an incandescent light bulb (pictured), which would become the most successful version of the product.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/22/11 at 12:40 am
1883 – The Metropolitan Opera House in New York City opens with a performance of Gounod's Faust.
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1895 – In Paris an express train overruns a buffer stop and crosses more than 30 metres of concourse before plummeting through a window at Gare Montparnasse.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/22/11 at 12:41 am
1907 – A bank run forced New York's Knickerbocker Trust Company to suspend operations, which triggered the Panic of 1907.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/22/11 at 12:42 am
1910 – Dr. Crippen is convicted at the Old Bailey of poisoning his wife and is subsequently hanged at Pentonville Prison in London.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/22/11 at 12:42 am
1924 – Toastmasters International is founded.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/22/11 at 12:42 am
1926 – J. Gordon Whitheead sucker punches magician Harry Houdini in the stomach in Montreal.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/22/11 at 12:42 am
1927 – Nikola Tesla exposed his six (6) new inventions including motor with onephase electricity
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/22/11 at 12:42 am
1928 – Phi Sigma Alpha fraternity is founded at the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras Campus.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/22/11 at 12:43 am
1934 – In East Liverpool, Ohio, Federal Bureau of Investigation agents shoot and kill notorious bank robber Pretty Boy Floyd.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/22/11 at 12:43 am
1941 – World War II: French resistance member Guy Môquet and 29 other hostages are executed by the Germans in retaliation for the death of a German officer.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/22/11 at 12:45 am
1943 – World War II: in the Second firestorm raid on Germany, the Royal Air Force conducts an air raid on the town of Kassel, killing 10,000 and rendering 150,000 homeless.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/22/11 at 12:45 am
1957 – Vietnam War: First United States casualties in Vietnam.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/22/11 at 12:45 am
1962 – Cuban Missile Crisis: US President John F. Kennedy, after internal counsel from Dwight D. Eisenhower, announces that American reconnaissance planes have discovered Soviet nuclear weapons in Cuba, and that he has ordered a naval "quarantine" of the Communist nation.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/22/11 at 12:46 am
1963 – A BAC One-Eleven prototype airliner crashes in UK with the loss of all on board.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/22/11 at 12:46 am
1964 – Jean-Paul Sartre is awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, but turns down the honor.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/22/11 at 12:46 am
1964 – Canada: A Multi-Party Parliamentary Committee selects the design which becomes the new official Flag of Canada.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/22/11 at 12:46 am
1966 – The Supremes become the first all-female music group to attain a No. 1 selling album (The Supremes A' Go-Go).
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/22/11 at 12:47 am
1966 – The Soviet Union launches Luna 12.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/22/11 at 12:47 am
1968 – Apollo program: Apollo 7 safely splashes down in the Atlantic Ocean after orbiting the Earth 163 times.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/22/11 at 12:47 am
1972 – Vietnam War: In Saigon, Henry Kissinger and South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu meet to discuss a proposed cease-fire that had been worked out between Americans and North Vietnamese in Paris.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/22/11 at 12:47 am
1975 – The Soviet unmanned space mission Venera 9 lands on Venus.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/22/11 at 12:48 am
1976 – Red Dye No. 4 is banned by the US Food and Drug Administration after it is discovered that it causes tumors in the bladders of dogs. The dye is still used in Canada.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/22/11 at 12:48 am
1981 – The United States Federal Labor Relations Authority votes to decertify the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization for its strike the previous August.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/22/11 at 12:49 am
1983 – Two correctional officers are killed by inmates at the United States Penitentiary in Marion, Illinois. The incident inspires the Supermax model of prisons.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/22/11 at 12:49 am
1999 – Maurice Papon, an official in the Vichy France government during World War II, is jailed for crimes against humanity.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/22/11 at 12:49 am
2005 – Tropical Storm Alpha forms in the Atlantic Basin, making the 2005 Atlantic Hurricane Season the most active Atlantic hurricane season on record with 22 named storms.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/22/11 at 12:49 am
2006 – A Panama Canal expansion proposal is approved by 77.8% of voters in a National referendum held in Panama.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/22/11 at 12:49 am
2007 – Raid on Anuradhapura Air Force Base is carried out by 21 Tamil Tiger commandos. All except one died in this attack. Eight Sri Lankan Air Force planes are destroyed and 10 damaged.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/22/11 at 12:49 am
2008 – India launches its first unmanned lunar mission Chandrayaan-1.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/22/11 at 4:05 am
451 - During the Fifth Session of the Council of Chalcedon, the final form of the Chalcedonian Creed was drafted. It became the Early Church's highest and most enduring "definition" of the person and work of Jesus Christ.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/22/11 at 4:05 am
1844 - The "Great Disappointment" began when this latest date, set for the return of Christ by religious leader William Miller, passed without event. Over 100,000 disillusioned followers returned to their former churches, or abandoned the Christian faith altogether.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/22/11 at 4:06 am
1899 - American Presbyterian missionary James B. Rodgers, 34, baptized his first Filipino converts to the Christian faith, thus inaugurating the beginning of Philippine Protestant churches.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/22/11 at 4:06 am
1952 - The complete Jewish Torah was published in English for the first time. A collection of oral and written commentary (dating 200 BC to AD 500) on the first five books of the Old Testament, the Torah comprises the basic religious code of Judaism.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/22/11 at 4:06 am
1966 - Swiss Reformed theologian Karl Barth declared in a letter: 'God makes no mistakes.'
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/22/11 at 4:30 am
1984 - Paul McCartney releases "Give My Regards to Broad Street" soundtrack
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/22/11 at 4:34 am
1979 - Walt Disney World's 100-millionth guest
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/22/11 at 4:39 am
1884 - Sporting Life announces that both pennant winners will meet in 3 game series Oct 23-25 at Polo Grounds NYC to determine baseball champion
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/22/11 at 4:39 am
1991 - General Motors announces 9 month loss of $US2.2 billion
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/22/11 at 4:42 am
1986 - "Into the Light" opens at Neil Simon Theater NYC for 6 performances
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/22/11 at 4:42 am
1981 - US national debt tops $1 trillion
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/22/11 at 4:44 am
1961 - 75,000 Flemings demand equal rights & Flemish language in Belgium
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/22/11 at 11:28 pm
42 BC – Roman Republican civil wars: Second Battle of Philippi – Mark Antony and Octavian decisively defeat Brutus's army. Brutus commits suicide.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/22/11 at 11:28 pm
425 – Valentinian III is elevated as Roman Emperor, at the age of 6.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/22/11 at 11:29 pm
502 – The Synodus Palmaris, called by Gothic king Theodoric the Great, discharges Pope Symmachus of all charges, thus ending the schism of Antipope Laurentius.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/22/11 at 11:29 pm
1086 – At the Battle of az-Zallaqah, the army of Yusuf ibn Tashfin defeats the forces of Castilian King Alfonso VI.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/22/11 at 11:29 pm
1157 – The Battle of Grathe Heath ends the civil war in Denmark. King Sweyn III is killed and Valdemar I restores the country.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/22/11 at 11:29 pm
1295 – The first treaty forming the Auld Alliance between Scotland and France against England is signed in Paris.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/22/11 at 11:29 pm
1641 – Irish Catholic gentry in Ulster tried to seize control of Dublin Castle, the seat of English rule in Ireland to force concessions to Catholics.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/22/11 at 11:30 pm
1642 – Battle of Edgehill: First major battle of the First English Civil War.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/22/11 at 11:30 pm
1694 – British/American colonial forces, led by Sir William Phipps, fail to seize Quebec from the French.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/22/11 at 11:30 pm
1707 – The first Parliament of Great Britain meets.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/22/11 at 11:30 pm
1739 – War of Jenkins' Ear starts: British Prime Minister, Robert Walpole, reluctantly declares war on Spain.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/22/11 at 11:30 pm
1812 – Claude François de Malet, a French general, begins a conspiracy to overthrow Napoleon Bonaparte, claiming that the Emperor died in Russia and that he is now the commandant of Paris.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/22/11 at 11:30 pm
1850 – The first National Women's Rights Convention was held in Worcester, Massachusetts, US, to further the cause of women's rights.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/22/11 at 11:31 pm
1861 – U.S. President Abraham Lincoln suspends the writ of habeas corpus in Washington, D.C., for all military-related cases.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/22/11 at 11:31 pm
1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Westport – Union forces under General Samuel R. Curtis defeat Confederate troops led by General Sterling Price at Westport, near Kansas City.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/22/11 at 11:31 pm
1867 – 72 Senators are summoned by Royal Proclamation to serve as the first members of the Canadian Senate.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/22/11 at 11:31 pm
1870 – Franco-Prussian War: the Siege of Metz concludes with a decisive Prussian victory.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/22/11 at 11:32 pm
1906 – Alberto Santos-Dumont flies an airplane in the first heavier-than-air flight in Europe at Champs de Bagatelle, Paris, France.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/22/11 at 11:32 pm
1911 – First use of aircraft in war: An Italian pilot takes off from Libya to observe Turkish army lines during the Turco-Italian War.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/22/11 at 11:32 pm
1912 – First Balkan War: The Battle of Kumanovo between the Serbian and Ottoman armies begins.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/22/11 at 11:32 pm
1915 – Woman's suffrage: In New York City, 25,000-33,000 women march on Fifth Avenue to advocate their right to vote.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/22/11 at 11:33 pm
1917 – Lenin calls for the October Revolution.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/22/11 at 11:33 pm
1929 – Great Depression: After a steady decline in stock market prices since a peak in September, the New York Stock Exchange begins to show signs of panic.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/22/11 at 11:33 pm
1929 – The first North American transcontinental air service begins between New York City and Los Angeles, California.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/22/11 at 11:33 pm
1935 – Dutch Schultz, Abe Landau, Otto Berman, and Bernard "Lulu" Rosencrantz are fatally shot at a saloon in Newark, New Jersey in what will become known as The Chophouse Massacre.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/22/11 at 11:34 pm
1941 – World War II: Field Marshal Georgy Zhukov takes command of Red Army operations to prevent the further advance into Russia of German forces and to prevent the Wehrmacht from capturing Moscow.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/22/11 at 11:34 pm
1942 – World War II: Second Battle of El Alamein: – At El Alamein in northern Egypt, the British Eighth Army under Field Marshal Montgomery begins a critical offensive to expel the Axis armies from Egypt.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/22/11 at 11:34 pm
1942 – All 12 passengers and crewmen aboard an American Airlines DC-3 airliner are killed when it is struck by a U.S. Army Air Forces bomber near Palm Springs, California. Amongst the victims is award-winning composer and songwriter Ralph Rainger ("Thanks for the Memory", "Love in Bloom", "Blue Hawaii").
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/22/11 at 11:34 pm
1942 – World War II: The Battle for Henderson Field begins during the Guadalcanal Campaign and ends on October 26.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/22/11 at 11:34 pm
1944 – World War II: Battle of Leyte Gulf – The largest naval battle in history begins in the Philippines.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/22/11 at 11:35 pm
1944 – World War II: The Soviet Red Army enters Hungary.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/22/11 at 11:35 pm
1946 – The United Nations General Assembly convenes for the first time, at an auditorium in Flushing, Queens, New York City.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/22/11 at 11:35 pm
1956 – The Hungarian Revolution began as a peaceful student demonstration which attracted thousands as it marched through central Budapest to the Parliament building.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/22/11 at 11:36 pm
1958 – The Springhill Mine Bump – An underground earthquake traps 174 miners in the No. 2 colliery at Springhill, Nova Scotia, the deepest coal mine in North America at the time. By November 1, rescuers from around the world had dug out 100 of the victims, marking the death toll at 74.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/22/11 at 11:36 pm
1958 – The Smurfs, a fictional race of blue dwarves, later popularized in a Hanna-Barbera animated cartoon series, appear for the first time in the story La flute à six schtroumpfs, a Johan and Peewit adventure by Peyo which is serialized in the weekly comics magazine Spirou.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/22/11 at 11:36 pm
1965 – Vietnam War: The 1st Cavalry Division (United States) (Airmobile), in conjunction with South Vietnamese forces, launches a new operation seeking to destroy North Vietnamese forces in Pleiku in the II Corps Tactical Zone (the Central Highlands).
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/22/11 at 11:36 pm
1970 – Gary Gabelich sets a land speed record in a rocket-powered automobile called the Blue Flame, fueled with natural gas.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/22/11 at 11:36 pm
1972 – Operation Linebacker, a US bombing campaign against North Vietnam in response to its Easter Offensive, ends after five months.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/22/11 at 11:36 pm
1973 – The Watergate Scandal: US President Richard M. Nixon agrees to turn over subpoenaed audio tapes of his Oval Office conversations.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/22/11 at 11:37 pm
1973 – A United Nations sanctioned cease-fire officially ends the Yom Kippur War between Israel and Syria.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/22/11 at 11:37 pm
1983 – Lebanese Civil War: Suicide bombers destroyed two barracks in Beirut, Lebanon, killing 241 U.S. servicemen and 58 French paratroopers of the international peacekeeping force.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/22/11 at 11:38 pm
1989 – The Hungarian Republic is officially declared by president Mátyás Szűrös, replacing the communist Hungarian People's Republic.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/22/11 at 11:38 pm
1989 – Phillips Disaster in Pasadena, Texas kills 23 and injures 314.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/22/11 at 11:38 pm
1992 – Emperor Akihito becomes the first Emperor of Japan to stand on Chinese soil.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/22/11 at 11:38 pm
1993 – Shankill Road bombing: A Provisional IRA bomb prematurely detonates in the Shankill area of Belfast, killing the bomber and nine civilians.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/22/11 at 11:38 pm
1998 – Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Chairman Yasser Arafat reach a "land for peace" agreement.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/22/11 at 11:38 pm
2001 – The iPod (pictured), the line of portable media players designed and marketed by Apple, was launched.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/22/11 at 11:39 pm
2001 – The iPod (pictured), the line of portable media players designed and marketed by Apple, was launched.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/35/Ipod_1G.png
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/22/11 at 11:40 pm
2002 – Moscow Theatre Siege begins: Chechen terrorists seize the House of Culture theater in Moscow and take approximately 700 theater-goers hostage.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/22/11 at 11:40 pm
2004 – A powerful earthquake and its aftershocks hit Niigata prefecture, northern Japan, killing 35 people, injuring 2,200, and leaving 85,000 homeless or evacuated.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/22/11 at 11:40 pm
2007 – A powerful cold front in the Bay of Campeche causes the Usumacinta Jackup rig to collide with Kab 101, leading to the death and drowning of 22 people during rescue operations after evacuation of the rig.
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Written By: Howard on 10/23/11 at 7:08 am
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/35/Ipod_1G.png
I must buy one soon.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/23/11 at 7:11 am
I must buy one soon.
The iPod is so ten years ago.
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Written By: Howard on 10/23/11 at 7:12 am
The iPod is so ten years ago.
I need music to drown out the noise of the citybus.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/24/11 at 1:03 am
1260 – Qutuz, Mamluk sultan of Egypt, was assassinated by a fellow Mamluk leader, Baibars, who then seized power for himself.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/24/11 at 1:03 am
1851 – William Lassell discovered the Uranian moons Umbriel and Ariel.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/24/11 at 1:03 am
1912 – First Balkan War: Serbian forces defeated the Ottoman army at the Battle of Kumanovo in Vardar Macedonia.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/24/11 at 1:03 am
1949 – The cornerstone of the United Nations Headquarters (pictured) building in New York City was laid.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/24/11 at 1:03 am
1949 – The cornerstone of the United Nations Headquarters (pictured) building in New York City was laid.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a6/UN_HQ_157652121_5b5979da9e2.jpg/100px-UN_HQ_157652121_5b5979da9e2.jpg
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/24/11 at 1:03 am
1960 – A prototype of the Soviet R-16 intercontinental ballistic missile exploded on the launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome near Tyuratam, Kazakh SSR, killing at least 90 people.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/24/11 at 12:01 pm
69 – Second Battle of Bedriacum, forces under Antonius Primus, the commander of the Danube armies, loyal to Vespasian, defeat the forces of Emperor Vitellius.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/24/11 at 12:01 pm
1147 – After a siege of 4 months crusader knights led by Afonso Henriques reconquered Lisbon.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/24/11 at 12:02 pm
1260 – The spectacular Cathedral of Chartres is dedicated in the presence of King Louis IX of France; the cathedral is now a UNESCO World Heritage Site.