October 15th 1888 - The "From Hell" letter sent by Jack the Ripper is received by the investigators.

1969 Vietnam Moratorium Day; millions nationwide protest the war

1974  National Guard mobilizes to restore order in Boston school busing

October 15th 1997 – On the Black Rock Desert in Nevada, the first supersonic land speed record was set by Royal Air Force pilot Andy Green in the jet-propelled car ThrustSSC when it achieved a speed of 1,228 km/h (763 mph).

October 16th 1978 – Karol Józef Wojtyła, a cardinal from Kraków, Poland, became Pope John Paul II, the first non-Italian pope since the 16th century and the first ever from a Slavic country.

1829 Tremont Hotel, 1st US modern hotel opens (Boston)

1869 Tremont Hotel in Boston becomes the 1st to have indoor plumbing

1916 Margaret Sanger opens 1st birth control clinic (46 Amboy St, Brooklyn)

1946 10 Nazi leaders hanged as war criminals after Nuremberg trials

October 16th 1843 – William Rowan Hamilton first wrote down the fundamental formula for quaternions, carving the equation into the side of Broom Bridge in Cabra, Dublin, Ireland.

October 17th 1888 - Thomas Edison files a patent for the Optical Phonograph (the first movie).

1933 Albert Einstein arrives in the US, a refugee from Nazi Germany

1957 French author Albert Camus awarded Nobel Prize in Literature

October 17th 1604 – Kepler's Star: German astronomer Johannes Kepler observed an exceptionally bright star which had suddenly appeared in the constellation Ophiuchus.

October 17th 1931 - Al Capone convicted of income tax evasion.

October 18th 1922 - The British Broadcasting Company (later Corporation) is founded by a consortium, to establish a nationwide network of radio transmitters to provide a national broadcasting service.

1776 In a NY bar decorated with bird tail, customer orders "cock tail"

1912 Italo-Turkish war ends

1912 1st Balkan War begins

1962 Dr Watson (US) & Drs Crick & Wilkins (Britain) win Nobel Prize for Medicine for work in determining structure of DNA

October 18th 1851 - Herman Melville's Moby-Dick is first published as The Whale by Richard Bentley of London.

October 19th 1864 - Battle of Cedar Creek - Union Army under Philip Sheridan destroys Confederate Army under Jubal Early.

October 19th 1987 - (Black Monday) Dow Jones Industrial Average falls by 22%, 508 points. This is considered a Stock Market Crash

October 19th 1987 - (Black Monday) Dow Jones Industrial Average falls by 22%, 508 points. This is considered a Stock Market Crash

Yes, and that was one of the biggest drops ever suffered by the Dow. It remains the biggest drop in terms of percentage. Why, just within the past couple of weeks, the Dow had two drops of 700+ points!

Yes, and that was one of the biggest drops ever suffered by the Dow. It remains the biggest drop in terms of percentage. Why, just within the past couple of weeks, the Dow had two drops of 700+ points!
...and is being talked about in reflection in the news today.

1781 Cornwallis surrenders at Yorktown at 2 PM; Revolutionary War ends

1960 Martin Luther King Jr arrested in Atlanta sit-in

1960 The US imposes an embargo on exports to Cuba

October 19, 1932
... is the Birthday for...

Robert Reed


RIP MR. MIKE BRADY WHERE EVER YOU ARE!

October 19th 1469 – Ferdinand II of Aragon wedded Isabella of Castile, a marriage that paved the way to the unification of Aragon and Castile into a single country, Spain.

...and is being talked about in reflection in the news today.

I also remember that on October 27th of 1997, just 10 years after the stock market crash, the Dow suffered a drop of 554 points, which beat out the point drop from 10 years earlier, but in terms of percentage, it wasn't all that big.

October 20th 1967 – Roger Patterson and Robert Gimlin filmed an unidentified subject at Six Rivers National Forest in California who they claimed was a bigfoot.

October 21st 1854 – Florence Nightingale and a staff of 38 nurses were sent to the Crimean War.

October 21st 1983 - The metre is defined at the seventeenth General Conference on Weights and Measures in terms of the speed of light as the distance light travels in a vacuum in 1/299,792,458 of a second.

October 22nd 1962 – Cuban Missile Crisis: U.S. President John F. Kennedy announced on television that Soviet nuclear weapons had been discovered in Cuba and that he had ordered a naval "quarantine" of the island nation.

October 22nd 1910 - Dr. Crippen is convicted at the Old Bailey of poisoning his wife and was subsequently hanged at Pentonville Prison in London.

October 22nd 1910 - Dr. Crippen is convicted at the Old Bailey of poisoning his wife and was subsequently hanged at Pentonville Prison in London.


They just had a show on that on that here, some criminologist who took an interest in the case and has put forth some very interesting arguments that Crippen was framed.

www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article4232359.ece

They just had a show on that on that here, some criminologist who took an interest in the case and has put forth some very interesting arguments that Crippen was framed.

www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article4232359.ece
That programme was on in the UK a few months back, I found it curious and interesting, shamed history cannot be changed.

October 23rd 1642 – The Battle of Edgehill, the first pitched battle of the First English Civil War between the Royalists and the Parliamentarians, was fought to an inconclusive result near Edge Hill and Kineton in southern Warwickshire.

October 23rd 1958 – In his comic series Johan and Peewit in the weekly magazine Spirou, Belgian cartoonist Peyo introduced a new set of small sky blue characters known as The Smurfs.

1956 Hungarian Revolution began

October 23rd 2001 - Apple releases the iPod.

October 24th 1945 – The UN Charter, the constitution of the United Nations, entered into force after being ratified by the Republic of China, France, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, the United States, and a majority of the other signatories.

October 24th 1931 - The George Washington Bridge opens to public traffic.

October 24th 1926 - Harry Houdini's last performance, which was at the Garrick Theatre in Detroit, Michigan.

1940  40 hour work week goes into effect (Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938)

1964 Zambia (N Rhodesia) gains independence from Britain (National Day)

1980 Polish government legalizes independent labor union Solidarity

October 24th 1648 – The second treaty of the Peace of Westphalia, the Treaty of Münster, was signed, ending both the Thirty Years' War and the Dutch Revolt, and officially recognizing the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands and Swiss Confederation as independent states.

October 25th 1854 – Charge of the Light Brigade: Lord Cardigan led his cavalry to disaster in the Battle of Balaclava during the Crimean War.

1415 Battle of Agincourt, Welsh longbow defeats the armored knight

1760 George III ascends the British throne

1962 American author John Steinbeck awarded Nobel Prize in literature

October 25th 1922 – The Third Dáil adopted the Constitution of the Irish Free State, based on the requirements of the Anglo-Irish Treaty establishing the first independent Irish state to be recognised by the British.

October 26th 1977 - The last natural case of smallpox was discovered in Merca district, Somalia. The WHO and the CDC consider this date the anniversary of the eradication of smallpox, the most spectacular success of vaccination.

Here is something interesting for October 27th:

150 years ago, on October 27, 1858... Theodore Roosevelt, the 26th President of the United States, was born in New York City.

Exactly 100 years later, on October 27, 1958, Simon LeBon, the lead vocalist of the band Duran Duran, was born in England. (Happy 50th birthday Simon!)

October 27th 1795 – The United States and Spain signed the Treaty of Madrid, defining the boundaries of the United States with the Spanish colonies and guaranteeing the United States navigation rights on the Mississippi River.

October 27th 1904 - The first underground New York City Subway line opens; the system becomes the biggest in United States, and one of the biggest in world.

1938 DuPont announces its new synthetic fiber will be called "nylon"

October 27th 1275 – The earliest recorded usage of the name "Amsterdam" was made on a certificate by Count Floris V of Holland that granted the inhabitants, who had built a bridge with a dam across the Amstel, an exemption from paying the bridge's tolls.

October 28th 1886 – In New York Harbor, U.S. President Grover Cleveland dedicated the Statue of Liberty a gift from France to commemorate the centennial of the United States Declaration of Independence.

October 28th 1929 - Black Monday, a day in the Wall Street Crash of 1929, which also saw major stock market upheaval.

October 28th 1929 - Black Monday, a day in the Wall Street Crash of 1929, which also saw major stock market upheaval.


the more things change the more they remain the same  ::)


1922 Benito Mussolini takes control of Italy's government

1962 Khrushchev orders withdrawal of missiles from Cuba, ending crisis

the more things change the more they remain the same  ::)
Life goes full circle

October 29th 1929 – A catastrophic downturn in the New York Stock Exchange on "Black Tuesday" set off the Great Depression, triggering a chain of bankruptcies and a worldwide economic depression.

October 29th 1969 - The first-ever computer-to-computer link is established on ARPANET, the precursor to the Internet.

October 30th 1960 – Surgeon and scientist Michael Woodruff performed the first successful kidney transplant in the United Kingdom at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary.

October 30th 1938 - Orson Welles broadcasts his radio play of H. G. Wells's The War of the Worlds, causing anxiety in some of the audience in the United States.

October 30th 1952 - Clarence Birdseye sells the first frozen peas

October 30th 1938 - Orson Welles broadcasts his radio play of H. G. Wells's The War of the Worlds, causing anxiety in some of the audience in the United States.


I read it was because some sports event (Baseball?) finished earlier than expected and so many people tuned in after the programme had started and so missed the 'disclaimer' at the beginning.

I read it was because some sports event (Baseball?) finished earlier than expected and so many people tuned in after the programme had started and so missed the 'disclaimer' at the beginning.
The BBC had a drama-documentry on it, shown a long while back.

October 31st 1984 – Indira Gandhi, India's first and to date only female prime minister, was assassinated by two of her own bodyguards, sparking riots in New Delhi and several other cities throughout the country.

1922 Benito Mussolini (Il Duce) becomes premier of Italy

1952 1st thermonuclear bomb detonated-Marshall Islands

1956 Britain, France, and Israel begin to bomb Egypt to reopen the Suez Canal

October 31st 1941 – Sculptor Gutzon Borglum's 60-foot (18 m) busts of U.S. Presidents George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln at Mount Rushmore were completed.

November 1st 1520 – Portuguese maritime explorer Ferdinand Magellan led the first European expedition to navigate the Strait of Magellan, the passage immediately south of mainland South America, connecting the Pacific and the Atlantic Oceans.

November 1st 1512 - The ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, painted by Michelangelo, is exhibited to the public for the first time.

1787 1st free school in NYC (African Free School) opens

1922 Ottoman Empire abolished

1947 The Spruce Goose took its first and only flight.

1913 Burt Lancaster born

1992 Hal Roach (Our Gang) dies

1930 Ras Tafari Makonnen crowned Haile Selassie I, 225th emperor of Solmonic Dynasty

2008 - The U.S. wakes up to its first African American president-elect.  Barak Obama beats John McCain in an historic landslide victory

1872 Susan B Anthony fined $100 for trying to vote

1912: Woodrow Wilson is elected President, defeating incumbent William Howard Taft.

1940: Franklin Roosevelt is elected to a 3rd term as U.S. President, the only time in presidential election history that this would ever happen.

1968: Richard Nixon is elected to his first term as U.S. President, defeating Democratic contender Hubert Humphrey, who was Vice President at the time.

1996: Bill Clinton is reelected to the Presidency, defeating Republican challenger Bob Dole, and Reform candidate Ross Perot (who had run 4 years earlier as in Independent).

1860 Abraham Lincoln (R-Ill-Rep) elected 16th President

1861 Jefferson Davis elected to 6 year term as Confederate President

1913 Mohandas K Gandhi arrested for leading Indian miners march in South Africa

1917 Bolshevik revolution begins with the capture of the Winter Palace

1917 October Revolution (Oct 26 OS) in Russia, Lenin seizes power

1837 Mount Holyoke Seminary in Massachusetts-1st US college founded for women

1938 "Kristallnacht" (Crystal Night)-Nazi stormtroopers attacked Jews

November 9th 1918 – German Emperor William II abdicated, Prince Maximilian of Baden resigned as Chancellor, and Philipp Scheidemann proclaimed the Weimar Republic.

November 9th 1888 - Jack the Ripper kills Mary Jane Kelly, his last known victim.

how did you miss this Philip?


November 9, 1961
Brian Epstein meets the Beatles

how did you miss this Philip?


November 9, 1961
Brian Epstein meets the Beatles
A truly historical day.

21 years ago, I had my tonsils removed.

November 10th 1871 – "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?" – Journalist and explorer Henry Morton Stanley located missing missionary and explorer David Livingstone in Ujiji, near Lake Tanganyika in present-day Tanzania.

how did you miss this Philip?


November 9, 1961
Brian Epstein meets the Beatles


A truly historical day.


He would become the group's manager and guide them to success. Too bad his life was cut short by a sleeping pill overdose :(

November 11th 1918 – Germany and the Allies signed an armistice treaty in a railway carriage in France's Compiègne Forest, ending World War I on the Western Front.

November 12th 1927 – Leon Trotsky was expelled from the Communist Party, leaving Joseph Stalin in undisputed control of the Soviet Union.

November 12th 1990 - Tim Berners-Lee publishes a formal proposal for the World Wide Web

1933 Nazis receive 92% of vote in Germany

November 12th 1982 - Lech Wałęsa, a Solidarity leader, is released from a Polish prison after eleven months.

November 13th 1642 – First English Civil War: The Royalist army engaged the much larger Parliamentarian army at the Battle of Turnham Green near Turnham Green, Middlesex.

November 12th 1990 - Tim Berners-Lee publishes a formal proposal for the World Wide Web
November 13th 1990 - The World Wide Web first began.

November 14th 1922 - The BBC begins radio service in the United Kingdom.

November 14th 1940 – World War II: Coventry Cathedral and much of the city centre of Coventry, England were destroyed by the German Luftwaffe during the Coventry Blitz.

1906 Roosevelt becomes 1st US President to visit a foreign country (Panama)

November 14th 1817 – Bolívar's War: Colombian seamstress Policarpa Salavarrieta was executed by firing squad by the Spanish in Bogotá for working as a spy for the revolutionary forces in New Granada.

November 15th 1985 – Northern Ireland peace process: British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, and the Irish Taoiseach Garret FitzGerald signed the Anglo-Irish Agreement, giving the Irish Government an advisory role in Northern Ireland's government.

November 15th 1988 – The Soviet Buran spacecraft, a reusable vehicle built in response to NASA's Space Shuttle program, was launched, unmanned, on her first and only space flight.

November 15th 1971 - Intel releases world's first commercial single-chip microprocessor, the 4004.

1492  Christopher Columbus notes 1st recorded reference to tobacco

1988 PLO proclaims the State of Palestine, recognizes Israeli existence

1492  Christopher Columbus notes 1st recorded reference to tobacco


We blame him for alll the fuss!

November 16th 1938 – The psychedelic drug LSD was first synthesized by Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann at the Sandoz Laboratories in Basel, Switzerland, as part of a large research program searching for medically useful ergot alkaloid derivatives.

November 16th 1857 - Second relief of Lucknow. The most Victoria Crosses won in a single day with 24.

1933 Roosevelt establishes diplomatic relations with USSR

November 16th 1532 – Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire: Spanish Conquistador Francisco Pizarro orchestrated a surprise attack in Cajamarca, Peru, capturing Sapa Inca Atahualpa.

November 17th 1855 – Explorer David Livingstone became the first European to see Victoria Falls, one of the largest waterfalls in the world, on what is now the Zambia–Zimbabwe border.

November 17th 1558 – Elizabeth I became Queen of England and Ireland, marking the beginning of the Elizabethan era.

November 18th 1307 – William Tell, a legendary marksman in Switzerland, is said to have successfully shot an apple on his son's head with a single bolt from his crossbow.

November 18th 1987 - King's Cross fire: In London, 31 people die in a fire at the city's busiest underground station at King's Cross St Pancras

November 18, 1964 - J Edgar Hoover describes Martin Luther King as "most notorious liar"

November 18, 1964 - J Edgar Hoover describes Martin Luther King as "most notorious liar"



How could he?

November 18th 1978 – Jim Jones led more than 900 members of the Peoples Temple to mass murder/suicide in Jonestown, Guyana, hours after some of its members assassinated U.S. Congressman Leo Ryan.

How could he?


Don't know if you know anything about J. Edgar,  he was the head of our Federal Bureau of Investigation, and a "most notorius liar" himself.  A thorough disgrace.

Don't know if you know anything about J. Edgar,  he was the head of our Federal Bureau of Investigation, and a "most notorius liar" himself.  A thorough disgrace.
...I have heard what about what J. Edgar was into.

...I have heard what about what J. Edgar was into.


;)


http://www.abc.net.au/reslib/200708/r170072_637587.jpg

;)


http://www.abc.net.au/reslib/200708/r170072_637587.jpg
Nuff said!

November 18th 1905 – Prince Carl of Denmark became Haakon VII, the first King of Norway after the personal union between Sweden and Norway was dissolved.

80 years ago, on November 18, 1928, the cartoon character Mickey Mouse made his debut as "Steamboat Willie." More specifically, Walt Disney's first sound-synchronized animated cartoon, "Steamboat Willie" starring Mickey Mouse, premiered in New York.

80 years ago, on November 18, 1928, the cartoon character Mickey Mouse made his debut as "Steamboat Willie." More specifically, Walt Disney's first sound-synchronized animated cartoon, "Steamboat Willie" starring Mickey Mouse, premiered in New York.
Was Mickey Mouse called Mortimer Mouse then?

November 19th 1941 – World War II: The Australian light cruiser HMAS Sydney and the German auxiliary cruiser HSK Kormoran destroyed each other off the coast of Western Australia in the Indian Ocean.

November 19th 1493 – Christopher Columbus became the first European to land on Puerto Rico, an island he named San Juan Bautista after John the Baptist.

November 19th 1998 - Lewinsky scandal: The United States House of Representatives Judiciary Committee begins impeachment hearings against U.S. President Bill Clinton.

November 19, 1863: President Abraham Lincoln delivered his famous Gettysburg Address.

November 20th 1820 – The American whaleship Essex sank 2,000 nautical miles (3,700 km) west of the western coast of South America after it was attacked by a sperm whale.

November 20th 1902 – While discussing how to promote the newspaper L'Auto during a lunch meeting in Paris, sports journalists Henri Desgrange and Géo Lefèvre came up with the idea of holding a cycling race that became known as the Tour de France.

November 20th 1992 - In England, a fire breaks out in the Private Chapel of Windsor Castle, rages for 15 hours, and seriously damages the northwest side of the building (an investigation found that the fire was ignited after a spotlight came into contact with a curtain over an extended period).

November 20 1947 Princess Elizabeth married Philip Mountbatten at Westminster Abbey

November 21st 1977 – God Defend New Zealand became New Zealand's second national anthem, on equal standing with God Save the Queen, which had been the traditional one since 1840.

November 21st

http://www.google.co.uk/logos/magritte08.gif

René Magritte, surrealist artist was born on this day iin 1898.

November 21st 1905 - Albert Einstein's paper, "Does the Inertia of a Body Depend Upon Its Energy Content?", is published in the journal "Annalen der Physik". This paper reveals the relationship between energy and mass. This leads to the mass–energy equivalence formula E = mc².

1877 Tom Edison announces his "talking machine" invention

1877 Tom Edison announces his "talking machine" invention

Did it sell well?

Did it sell well?



They are still ironing out the bugs

They are still ironing out the bugs
...it will be ready on Thursday.

November 22nd 1963 – Lyndon B. Johnson was sworn-in as the 36th President of the United States aboard Air Force One hours after John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas.

^ I remember this all to well

1963  John F Kennedy 35th U.S. President, shot dead in Dallas, Texas

November 22nd 1869 – The Cutty Sark, one of the last sailing clippers ever to be built, was launched at Dumbarton in Scotland.