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Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/14/10 at 1:33 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 10/14/10 at 1:33 am
1939 – World War II: The German submarine U-47 torpedoed and sunk the British Royal Navy battleship HMS Royal Oak while the latter was anchored at Scapa Flow in Orkney, Scotland.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/14/10 at 1:33 am
1947 – Flying at an altitude of 45,000 ft (13.7 km) in an experimental Bell X-1 rocket-powered aircraft, American test pilot Chuck Yeager became the first person to break the sound barrier.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/14/10 at 1:33 am
1953 – Israeli military commander Ariel Sharon and his Unit 101 special forces attacked the village of Qibya on the West Bank, destroying 45 buildings, killing 42 villagers, and wounding 15 others.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/14/10 at 1:34 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 10/14/10 at 1:34 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 10/14/10 at 1:35 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 10/14/10 at 1:35 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 10/14/10 at 1:35 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 10/14/10 at 1:37 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 10/14/10 at 1:37 am
1982 – U.S. President Ronald Reagan proclaims a War on Drugs.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/14/10 at 1:39 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 Governing.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/14/10 at 1:39 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 10/14/10 at 2:05 pm
1933 - Nazi Germany announces withdrawal from League of Nations
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/14/10 at 2:05 pm
1944 - British troops march into Athens
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/14/10 at 2:05 pm
1992 - Toronto Blue Jays beats Oakland A's to win their 1st AL pennant
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/14/10 at 2:06 pm
1996 - Dow Jones closes over 6,000 for 1st time (6,010)
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: nally on 10/15/10 at 11:27 am
1996 - Dow Jones closes over 6,000 for 1st time (6,010)
I remember that.
Four months later it would break through the 7,000 mark.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/15/10 at 1:14 pm
533 – Byzantine general Belisarius makes his formal entry into Carthage, having conquered it from the Vandals.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/15/10 at 1:14 pm
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 10/15/10 at 1:14 pm
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 10/15/10 at 1:15 pm
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 10/15/10 at 1:17 pm
1783 – The Montgolfier brothers' hot air balloon marks the first human ascent, by Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier, (tethered balloon).
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Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/15/10 at 1:19 pm
1793 – Queen Marie-Antoinette of France is tried and condemned 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 10/15/10 at 1:19 pm
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 10/15/10 at 1:19 pm
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 10/15/10 at 1:20 pm
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 10/15/10 at 1:21 pm
1878 – The Edison Electric Light Company begins operation.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/15/10 at 1:22 pm
1880 – Mexican soldiers kill Victorio, one of the greatest Apache military strategists.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/15/10 at 1:22 pm
1888 – The "From Hell" letter sent by Jack the Ripper is received by the investigators.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/15/10 at 1:24 pm
1894 – The Dreyfus affair: Alfred Dreyfus is arrested for spying.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/15/10 at 1:25 pm
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 10/15/10 at 1:25 pm
1917 – World War I: At Vincennes outside of Paris, Dutch dancer Mata Hari is executed by firing squad for spying for the German Empire.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/15/10 at 1:26 pm
1928 – The airship, the 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 10/15/10 at 1:26 pm
1932 – Tata Airlines (later to become Air India) makes its first flight.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/15/10 at 1:26 pm
1934 – The Soviet Republic of China collapses when Chiang Kai-shek's National Revolutionary Army successfully encircle Ruijin, forcing the fleeing Communists to begin the Long March.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/15/10 at 1:27 pm
1939 – The New York Municipal Airport (later renamed La Guardia Airport) is dedicated.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/15/10 at 1:27 pm
1944 – The Arrow Cross Party (very similar to Hitler's NSDAP (Nazi party)) takes over the power in Hungary.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/15/10 at 1:28 pm
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 10/15/10 at 1:28 pm
1946 – Nuremberg Trials: Hermann Göring poisons himself the night before his execution.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/15/10 at 1:28 pm
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 10/15/10 at 1:29 pm
1953 – British nuclear test Totem 1 detonated at Emu Field, South Australia.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/15/10 at 1:29 pm
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 10/15/10 at 1:29 pm
1965 – Vietnam War: The National Coordinating Committee to End the War in Vietnam stages the first public burning of a draft card in the United States to result in arrest under a new law.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/15/10 at 1:29 pm
1966 – Black Panther Party is created by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/15/10 at 1:29 pm
1969 – Vietnam War; The Moratorium to End the War in Vietnam was held in Washington DC and across the US. Over 2 million demonstrated nationally; about 250,000 in the nation's capitol.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/15/10 at 1:30 pm
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 10/15/10 at 1:30 pm
1970 – The domestic Soviet Aeroflot Flight 244 is hijacked and diverted to Turkey.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/15/10 at 1:31 pm
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 10/15/10 at 1:32 pm
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 10/15/10 at 1:32 pm
1987 – The Great Storm of 1987 hits France and England.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/15/10 at 1:33 pm
1989 – Wayne Gretzky becomes the all-time leading points scorer in the NHL.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/15/10 at 1:33 pm
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 10/15/10 at 1:35 pm
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 10/15/10 at 1:35 pm
1997 – The Cassini probe launches from Cape Canaveral on its way to Saturn.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/15/10 at 1:35 pm
2001 – NASA's Galileo spacecraft passes within 112 miles of Jupiter's moon Io.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/15/10 at 1:36 pm
2003 – China launches Shenzhou 5, its first manned space mission.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/15/10 at 1:36 pm
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.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/15/10 at 1:36 pm
2005 – Iraqi constitution ratification vote.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/15/10 at 1:36 pm
2005 – A riot in Toledo, Ohio breaks out during a National Socialist/Neo-Nazi protest; over 100 are arrested.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/15/10 at 1:37 pm
2007 – Seventeen activists in New Zealand are arrested in the country's first post 9/11 anti-terrorism raids.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/15/10 at 3:12 pm
1980 - George Brett is forced out of World Series with hemorrhoids
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/15/10 at 3:12 pm
1980 - Nobel prize for economy awarded to Lawrence R Klein
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/16/10 at 6:37 am
456 – Magister militum Ricimer defeats Emperor Avitus at Piacenza and becomes master of the Western Roman Empire.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/16/10 at 6:37 am
1384 – Jadwiga is crowned King of Poland, although she is a woman.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/16/10 at 6:37 am
1590 – Carlo Gesualdo, composer, Prince of Venosa and Count of Conza, murders his wife, Donna Maria d'Avalos, and her lover Fabrizio Carafa, the Duke of Andria at the Palazzo San Severo in Naples.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/16/10 at 6:38 am
1780 – Royalton, Vermont and Tunbridge, Vermont are the last major raids of the American Revolutionary War.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/16/10 at 6:38 am
1781 – George Washington captures Yorktown, Virginia after the Siege of Yorktown.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/16/10 at 6:39 am
1793 – Marie Antoinette, wife of Louis XVI, is guillotined at the height of the French Revolution.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/16/10 at 6:40 am
1793 – The Battle of Wattignies ends in a French victory.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/16/10 at 6:40 am
1813 – The Sixth Coalition attacks Napoleon Bonaparte in the Battle of Leipzig.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/16/10 at 6:40 am
1834 – Much of the ancient structure of the Palace of Westminster in London is burnt to the ground.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/16/10 at 6:40 am
1841 – Queen's University is founded in Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/16/10 at 6:41 am
1843 – Sir William Rowan Hamilton comes up with the idea of quaternions, a non-commutative extension of complex numbers.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/16/10 at 6:41 am
1846 – William TG Morton first demonstrated ether anesthesia at the Massachusetts General Hospital in the Ether Dome.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/16/10 at 6:41 am
1859 – John Brown leads a raid on Harper's Ferry, West Virginia.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/16/10 at 6:41 am
1869 – The Cardiff Giant, one of the most famous American hoaxes, is "discovered".
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/16/10 at 6:43 am
1869 – The Cardiff Giant, one of the most famous American hoaxes, is "discovered".
The Cardiff Giant was one of the most famous hoaxes in United States history. It was a 10-foot (3.0 m) tall purported "petrified man" uncovered on October 16, 1869 by workers digging a well behind the barn of William C. "Stub" Newell in Cardiff, New York. Both it and an unauthorized copy made by P.T. Barnum are still on display.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/16/10 at 6:43 am
1869 – Girton College, Cambridge is founded, becoming England's first residential college for women.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/16/10 at 6:43 am
1875 – Brigham Young University is founded in Provo, Utah.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/16/10 at 6:43 am
1882 – The Nickel Plate Railroad opens for business.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/16/10 at 6:44 am
1905 – The Partition of Bengal in India takes place.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/16/10 at 6:44 am
1906 – The Captain of Köpenick fools the city hall of Köpenick and several soldiers by impersonating a Prussian officer.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/16/10 at 6:44 am
1916 – Margaret Sanger founds Planned Parenthood by opening the first U.S. birth control clinic.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/16/10 at 6:44 am
1923 – The Walt Disney Company is founded by Walt Disney and his brother, Roy Disney.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/16/10 at 6:45 am
1934 – Chinese Communists begin the Long March; it ended a year and four days later, by which time Mao Zedong had regained his title as party chairman.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/16/10 at 6:45 am
1939 – World War II: First attack on British territory by the German Luftwaffe.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/16/10 at 6:45 am
1940 – Benjamin O. Davis Sr. is named the first African American general in the United States Army.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/16/10 at 6:46 am
1940 – Holocaust: The Warsaw Ghetto is established.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/16/10 at 6:46 am
1945 – The Food and Agriculture Organization is founded in Quebec City, Canada.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/16/10 at 6:46 am
1946 – Nuremberg Trials: Execution of the convicted Nazi leaders of the Main Trial.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/16/10 at 6:46 am
1949 – Nikolaos Zachariadis, leader of the Communist Party of Greece, announces a "temporary cease-fire", effectively ending the Greek Civil War.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/16/10 at 6:47 am
1949 – The diplomatic relations between the Soviet Union and the German Democratic Republic are established.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/16/10 at 6:47 am
1951 – The first Prime Minister of Pakistan, Liaquat Ali Khan, is assassinated in Rawalpindi.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/16/10 at 6:47 am
1962 – Cuban Missile Crisis between the United States and Cuba begins.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/16/10 at 6:47 am
1964 – The People's Republic of China detonates its first nuclear weapon.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/16/10 at 6:48 am
1964 – Soviet leaders Leonid Brezhnev and Aleksey Kosygin are inaugurated as General Secretary of the CPSU and Premier, respectively.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/16/10 at 6:48 am
1968 – United States athletes Tommie Smith and John Carlos are kicked off the USA's team for participating in the 1968 Olympics Black Power salute.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/16/10 at 6:48 am
1968 – Kingston, Jamaica is rocked by the Rodney Riots, inspired by the barring of Walter Rodney from the country.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/16/10 at 6:49 am
1970 – In response to the October Crisis terrorist kidnapping, Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau of Canada invokes the War Measures Act.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/16/10 at 6:50 am
1973 – Henry Kissinger and Le Duc Tho are awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/16/10 at 6:50 am
1975 – The Balibo Five, a group of Australian television journalists based in the town of Balibo in the then Portuguese Timor (now East Timor), are killed by Indonesian troops.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/16/10 at 6:51 am
1975 – Rahima Banu, a 2-year old girl from the village of Kuralia in Bangladesh, is the last known person to be infected with naturally occurring smallpox.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/16/10 at 6:51 am
1975 – The Australian Coalition opposition parties using their senate majority, vote to defer the decision to grant supply of funds for the Whitlam Government's annual budget, sparking the 1975 Australian constitutional crisis.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/16/10 at 6:53 am
1978 – Pope John Paul II is elected after the October 1978 Papal conclave.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/16/10 at 6:53 am
1978 – Wanda Rutkiewicz is the first Pole and the first European woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/16/10 at 6:53 am
1984 – Desmond Tutu is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/16/10 at 6:53 am
1986 – Reinhold Messner becomes the first person to summit all 14 Eight-thousanders.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/16/10 at 6:53 am
1986 – Ron Arad, Israeli Weapons System Officer, is captured by Lebanese Shi'ite militia Amal.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/16/10 at 6:54 am
1991 – Luby's massacre: George Hennard runs amok in Killeen, Texas, killing 23 and wounding 20 in Luby's Cafeteria.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/16/10 at 6:54 am
1993 – Anti-Nazi riot breaks out in Welling in Kent, after police stop protesters approaching the British National Party headquarters.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/16/10 at 6:54 am
1995 – The Million Man March occurs in Washington, D.C.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/16/10 at 6:54 am
1995 – The Skye Bridge is opened.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/16/10 at 6:56 am
1996 – Eighty-four people are killed and more than 180 injured as 47,000 football fans attempt to squeeze into the 36,000-seat Estadio Mateo Flores in Guatemala City.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/16/10 at 6:56 am
1998 – Former Chilean dictator General Augusto Pinochet is arrested in London on a warrant from Spain requesting his extradition on murder charges.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/16/10 at 6:56 am
2002 – Bibliotheca Alexandrina in the Egyptian city of Alexandria, a commemoration of the Library of Alexandria that was lost in antiquity, is officially inaugurated.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/16/10 at 6:56 am
2006 – A magnitude 6.7 earthquake rocks Hawaii, causing property damage, injuries, landslides, power outages, and the closure of Honolulu International Airport.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/16/10 at 9:39 am
1984 – The Bill debuted on ITV, eventually becoming the longest-running police procedural in British television history.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/16/10 at 9:41 am
1854 – Oscar Wilde, Irish writer was born in Dublin
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/16/10 at 9:45 am
1990 - "Stand Up Tragedy" closes at Criterion Theater NYC after 13 perfs
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/16/10 at 9:45 am
1990 - Reds Eric Davis is 22nd player to homer in his 1st World Series at bat
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/16/10 at 9:45 am
1990 - Reds beat A's 7-0, ending Oakland's 10-game post-season winning streak
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/16/10 at 9:45 am
1990 - US forces reach 200,000 in Persian Gulf
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/16/10 at 9:50 am
1980 - "Brigadoon" opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 133 performances
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/16/10 at 9:56 am
1987 - Mike Tyson TKOs Tyrell Biggs in 7 for heavyweight boxing title
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/17/10 at 1:11 am
1860 – The Open Championship, the oldest of the four major championships in men's golf, was first played at Prestwick Golf Club in Prestwick, South Ayrshire, Scotland.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: nally on 10/17/10 at 1:12 am
October 17, 1860 – The Open Championship, the oldest of the four major championships in men's golf, was first played at Prestwick Golf Club in Prestwick, South Ayrshire, Scotland.
150 years ago to the day! :) :D
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/17/10 at 1:14 am
150 years ago to the day! :) :D
Hence this year it was a special Open at St Andrews.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/17/10 at 1:15 am
539 BC – King Cyrus The Great of Persia marches into the city of Babylon, releasing the Jews from almost 70 years of exile and making the first Human Rights Declaration.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/17/10 at 1:16 am
1091 – T8/F4 tornado strikes the heart of London.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/17/10 at 1:16 am
1091 – T8/F4 tornado strikes the heart of London.
Did they have the technical know-how on how to measure a tornado back then?
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/17/10 at 1:17 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.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/17/10 at 1:17 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.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/17/10 at 1:17 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)
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/17/10 at 1:18 am
1604 – Kepler's Star: German astronomer Johannes Kepler observes a supernova in the constellation Ophiuchus.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/17/10 at 1:18 am
1610 – French king Louis XIII is crowned in Rheims.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/17/10 at 1:20 am
1660 – Nine Regicides, the men who signed the death warrant of Charles I, are hanged, drawn and quartered.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/17/10 at 1:20 am
1662 – Charles II of England sells Dunkirk to France for 40,000 pounds.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/17/10 at 1:21 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 10/17/10 at 1:21 am
1777 – American troops defeat the British in the Battle of Saratoga.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/17/10 at 1:21 am
1781 – General Charles Cornwallis offers his surrender to the American revolutionists at Yorktown, Virginia.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/17/10 at 1:21 am
1797 – Treaty of Campo Formio is signed between France and Austria
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/17/10 at 1:22 am
1800 – Britain takes control of the Dutch colony of Curaçao.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/17/10 at 1:22 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 10/17/10 at 1:22 am
1814 – London Beer Flood occurs in London, killing nine.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/17/10 at 1:23 am
1888 – Thomas Edison files a patent for the Optical Phonograph (the first movie).
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/17/10 at 1:23 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 10/17/10 at 1:23 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 10/17/10 at 1:24 am
1917 – First British bombing of Germany in World War I.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/17/10 at 1:24 am
1931 – Al Capone convicted of income tax evasion.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/17/10 at 1:25 am
1933 – Albert Einstein, fleeing Nazi Germany, moves to the U.S..
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/17/10 at 1:25 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 10/17/10 at 1:25 am
1941 – German troops execute the male population of the villages Kerdyllia in Serres, Greece and burn the houses down.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/17/10 at 1:25 am
1943 – Burma Railway (Burma-Thailand Railway) is completed.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/17/10 at 1:26 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. This is known to the Peronists as the Día de la lealtad (Loyalty Day). It's considered the founding day of Peronism.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/17/10 at 1:26 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 10/17/10 at 1:26 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 10/17/10 at 1:26 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 10/17/10 at 1:27 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 10/17/10 at 1:27 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 10/17/10 at 1:27 am
1966 – Botswana and Lesotho join the United Nations.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/17/10 at 1:28 am
1968 – Black American athletes make a silent protest against racism at the Olympics
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/17/10 at 1:29 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 10/17/10 at 1:32 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 10/17/10 at 1:32 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 10/17/10 at 1:32 am
1979 – Mother Teresa awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/17/10 at 1:32 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 10/17/10 at 1:33 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 10/17/10 at 1:34 am
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 10/17/10 at 1:35 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 10/17/10 at 1:35 am
2000 – Train crash at Hatfield, north of London, leading to collapse of Railtrack.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/17/10 at 1:35 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 10/17/10 at 1:36 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.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c9/Taipei101.portrait.altonthompson.jpg/250px-Taipei101.portrait.altonthompson.jpg
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Written By: nally on 10/17/10 at 1:44 am
1989 – Loma Prieta earthquake (7.1 on the Richter scale) hits the San Francisco Bay Area and causes 57 deaths directly (and 6 indirectly).
...and has an effect on the World Series, which was played between the Oakland A's and San Francisco Giants. Game Three was scheduled to start in San Fran, but had to be delayed for more than a week following the disaster.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/17/10 at 1:55 am
...and has an effect on the World Series, which was played between the Oakland A's and San Francisco Giants. Game Three was scheduled to start in San Fran, but had to be delayed for more than a week following the disaster.
That makes a change from rain stopped play
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/17/10 at 1:56 am
1970 - Anwar Sadat sworn in as president of Egypt
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/17/10 at 2:11 am
1969 - Plastic Ono Band's "Cold Turkey" is released in UK
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/17/10 at 5:07 am
1855 - Bessemer steelmaking process patented
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/17/10 at 5:07 am
1831 - Felix Mendelssohn's 1st Piano concert in G, premieres
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/17/10 at 5:09 am
1885 - Baseball sets all players salaries at $1,000-$2,000 for 1885 season
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/17/10 at 5:10 am
1975 - Bee Gees Maurice Gibb weds Yvonne Spencely
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/17/10 at 6:31 am
1960 - "Tenderloin" opens at 46th St Theater NYC for 216 performances
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/17/10 at 6:32 am
1960 - US & Britain sign accord for nuclear sub bases
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/17/10 at 6:34 am
1972 - Chuck Berry's "My Ding-a-ling," is #1
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/18/10 at 2:45 pm
1081 – Byzantine–Norman wars: The Normans under Robert Guiscard, Duke of Apulia and Calabria, defeated the Byzantines outside the city of Dyrrhachium, the Byzantine capital of Illyria.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/18/10 at 2:45 pm
1356 – The most significant earthquake to have occurred in Central Europe in recorded history destroyed Basel, Switzerland, and caused much destruction in a vast region extending into France and Germany.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/18/10 at 2:46 pm
1851 – Moby-Dick, a novel by American writer Herman Melville, was first published as The Whale.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/18/10 at 2:46 pm
1922 – The British Broadcasting Company was incorporated by a consortium to establish a network of radio transmitters to provide a national broadcasting service in the United Kingdom.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/18/10 at 2:46 pm
1954 – The first commercial transistor radio, the Regency TR-1, was introduced in Indianapolis, Indiana, US.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/18/10 at 2:46 pm
2007 – A suicide attack on a motorcade carrying former Prime Minister of Pakistan Benazir Bhutto in Karachi resulted in at least 139 deaths and 450 injuries.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/18/10 at 2:47 pm
1968 – The U.S. Olympic Committee suspends Tommie Smith and John Carlos for giving a "black power" salute during a victory ceremony at the Mexico City games.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/18/10 at 2:48 pm
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 10/18/10 at 2:48 pm
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 10/19/10 at 12:05 pm
202 BC – Second Punic War: At the Battle of Zama, Roman legions under Scipio Africanus defeat Hannibal Barca, leader of the invading Carthaginian army.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/19/10 at 12:05 pm
439 – The Vandals, led by King Gaiseric, take Carthage in North Africa.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/19/10 at 12:05 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 10/19/10 at 12:05 pm
1453 – The French recapture of Bordeaux brings the Hundred Years' War to a close, with the English retaining only Calais on French soil.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/19/10 at 12:06 pm
1466 – The Thirteen Years War ends with the Second Treaty of Thorn.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/19/10 at 12:06 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 10/19/10 at 12:07 pm
1512 – Martin Luther becomes a doctor of theology (Doctor in Biblia).
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/19/10 at 12:07 pm
1649 – New Ross town, Co. Wexford, Ireland, surrenders to Oliver Cromwell.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/19/10 at 12:08 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 10/19/10 at 12:10 pm
1789 – Chief Justice John Jay is sworn in as the first Chief Justice of the United States.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/19/10 at 12:11 pm
1812 – Napoleon I of France retreats from Moscow.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/19/10 at 12:11 pm
1813 – The Battle of Leipzig concludes, giving Napoleon Bonaparte one of his worst defeats.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/19/10 at 12:12 pm
1822 – In Parnaíba; Simplício Dias da Silva, João Cândido de Deus e Silva and Domingos Dias declare the independent state of Piauí.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/19/10 at 12:12 pm
1864 – Battle of Cedar Creek – Union Army under Philip Sheridan destroy the Confederate Army under Jubal Early.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/19/10 at 12:12 pm
1864 – St. Albans Raid – Confederate raiders launch an attack on Saint Albans, Vermont from Canada.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/19/10 at 12:12 pm
1873 – Yale, Princeton, Columbia, and Rutgers universities draft the first code of American football rules.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/19/10 at 12:13 pm
1904 – Polytechnic University of the Philippines founded as Manila Business School through the superintendence of the American C.A. O'Reilley.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/19/10 at 12:13 pm
1912 – Italy takes possession of Tripoli, Libya from the Ottoman Empire.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/19/10 at 12:14 pm
1914 – The First Battle of Ypres begins.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/19/10 at 12:14 pm
1917 – The Love Field in Dallas, Texas is opened.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/19/10 at 12:14 pm
1921 – Portuguese Prime Minister António Granjo and other politicians are murdered in a Lisbon coup.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/19/10 at 12:15 pm
1933 – Germany withdraws from the League of Nations.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/19/10 at 12:16 pm
1933 – Germany withdraws from the League of Nations.
I wonder why?
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/19/10 at 12:16 pm
1935 – The League of Nations places economic sanctions on fascist Italy for its invasion of Ethiopia.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/19/10 at 12:17 pm
1943 – Streptomycin, the first antibiotic remedy for tuberculosis, is isolated by researchers at Rutgers University.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/19/10 at 12:17 pm
1944 – United States forces land in the Philippines.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/19/10 at 12:17 pm
1950 – The People's Liberation Army takes control of the town of Qamdo; this is sometimes called the "Invasion of Tibet".
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/19/10 at 12:17 pm
1950 – The People's Republic of China joins the Korean War by sending thousands of troops across the Yalu river to fight United Nations forces.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/19/10 at 12:17 pm
1954 – First ascent of Cho Oyu
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/19/10 at 12:18 pm
1959 – The first discothèque opens.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/19/10 at 12:18 pm
1969 – The first Prime Minister of Tunisia in twelve years, Bahi Ladgham, is appointed by President Habib Bourguiba.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/19/10 at 12:18 pm
1973 – President Richard Nixon rejects an Appeals Court decision that he turn over the Watergate tapes.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/19/10 at 12:18 pm
1974 – Niue becomes a self-governing colony of New Zealand.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/19/10 at 12:19 pm
1976 – Battle of Aishiya in Lebanon.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/19/10 at 12:19 pm
1983 – Maurice Bishop, Prime Minister of Grenada, is overthrown and executed in a military coup d'état led by Bernard Coard.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/19/10 at 12:19 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.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/19/10 at 12:20 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.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/19/10 at 12:20 pm
1987 – Black Monday - the Dow Jones Industrial Average falls by 22%, 508 points.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/19/10 at 12:20 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.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/19/10 at 12:20 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.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/19/10 at 12:20 pm
2003 – Mother Teresa is beatified by Pope John Paul II.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/19/10 at 12:21 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.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/19/10 at 12:21 pm
2004 – Care International aid worker Margaret Hassan is kidnapped in Iraq.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/19/10 at 12:21 pm
2005 – Saddam Hussein goes on trial in Baghdad for crimes against humanity.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/19/10 at 12:21 pm
2005 – Hurricane Wilma becomes the most intense Atlantic hurricane on record with a minimum pressure of 882 mb.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/19/10 at 12:21 pm
2007 – Philippines. Amidst corruption controversies hounding the Arroyo administration, a bomb explosion rocked Glorietta 2, a shopping mall in Makati. The blast killed 11 and injured more than 100 people.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/19/10 at 12:25 pm
1933 - Berlin Olympic Committee vote to introduce basketball in 1936
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/19/10 at 12:26 pm
1995 - "Hello Dolly!" opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC for 118 performances
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/19/10 at 2:53 pm
1988 - Britain bans broadcast interviews with IRA members
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/19/10 at 2:53 pm
1988 - Senate passes bill curbing ads during children`s TV shows
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/19/10 at 2:54 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.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/19/10 at 2:54 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.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/19/10 at 2:55 pm
1720 - Birth of John Woolman, American Quaker reformer. His "Journal," written from 1756-72, greatly influenced 19th century abolitionists.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/19/10 at 2:55 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.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/19/10 at 2:55 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.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/19/10 at 2:56 pm
1981 - LA Dodgers beat Montreal Expos for NL pennant
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/20/10 at 1:02 pm
1548 – The city of Nuestra Señora de La Paz (Our Lady of Peace) was founded by Alonso de Mendoza by appointment of the king of Spain and Holy Roman Emperor, Charles V.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/20/10 at 1:03 pm
1740 – Maria Theresa takes the throne of Austria. France, Prussia, Bavaria and Saxony refuse to honour the Pragmatic Sanction and the War of the Austrian Succession begins.