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Appreciation Month National AIDS Awareness Month National Breast Cancer Awareness Month National Car Care Month National Caramel Month National Communicate With Your Kid Month National Cookie Month National Crime Prevention Month |
Celebrate Today:
Alvin C. York Day - In 1918, Sergeant Alvin York single-handedly killed 25 German
soldiers and captured another 132 during World War I. This is the greatest single military
action by an individual.
Take a Fall Day - Celebrated on the birthday of actor comedian Chevy Chase. Chase was
born as Cornelius Crane on this day in the year 1943 in New York City. Take a fall in
Chevy's honor.
National Children's Day - By presidential proclamation this day is held on the second
Sunday in October.
Born on this Day
1585: Renaissance composer Heinrich Schütz in Kostritz, Saxony.
1608: John Clarke, the founder of Newport, Rhode Island, and one of the
champions of religious liberty in the colonies, was born in Suffolk, England. See Today's History Focus
1869: J. Frank Duryea, with his brother, invented 1st auto built &
operated in the US.
1890: World War I flying ace Eddie Rickenbacker
1895: Argentinian dictator Juan Perón
1905: English film star Elsa Lanchester . Her husband was Charles
Laughton. She starred in the 1835 horror classic Bride of Frankenstein, in which in the
prologue she also played Mary Shelley.
1922: Pioneering South African heart-transplant surgeon Dr. Christian
Barnard
1936: Entertainment reporter Rona Barrett
1939: Australian film star Paul Hogan.
1940: Rhythm-and-blues singer Fred Cash (The Impressions)
1941: Reverend Jesse Jackson
1943: Comedian Chevy Chase
1943: Author R.L. Stine ("Goosebumps")
1944: Country singer Susan Raye
1948: TV personality Sarah Purcell
1949: Actress Sigourney Weaver (Susan) She took her professional name
from a name in a list of Gatsby's guests in Fitzgerald's novel The Great Gatsby.
1950: Rhythm-and-blues singer Robert "Kool" Bell (Kool &
the Gang)
1951: Rock singer Johnny Ramone
1953: Country singer-musician Ricky Lee Phelps
1954: Actor Michael Dudikoff
1956: Actress Stephanie Zimbalist
1961: Rock musician Mitch Marine (Tripping Daisy)
1963: Rock singer Steve Perry (Cherry Poppin' Daddies)
1965: Rock musician C.J. Ramone (The Ramones)
1966: Singer-producer Teddy Riley
1970: Actor-screenwriter Matt Damon
1979: Rhythm-and-blues singer Byron Reeder (Mista)
0451: 4th Ecumenical Council opened (Council of Chalcedon)
0622: Muhammad enters Medina
0705: Death of Caliph Abd al-Malik, in Damascus
1085: St Mark's Cathedral in Venice was consecrated.
1179: Death of Odo de Saint-Amand, 8th Master of the
Templars
1191: Prince John Plantagenet picked to replace Longchamp
as head of the English government while King Richard I was in Palestine
1869: The 14th president of the United States, Franklin
Pierce, died in Concord, New Hampshire.
1871: The Great Chicago Fire erupted while another deadly
blaze broke out in Peshtigo, Wisconsin. Over 4 square miles of Chicago was distroyed. The
fire continued to burn for three days. Over 250 people died, 90,000 were left homeless
when one-third of the city was destroyed.
1892: Sergei Rachmaninoff first publicly performed his
piano "Prelude in C-sharp Minor" in Moscow.
1896: Dow Jones starts reporting an average of industrial
stocks.
1918: Sgt. Alvin York of Tennessee became a World War I
hero by single-handedly capturing a hill in the Argonne Forest of France, killing 20 enemy
soldiers and capturing 132 others.
1919: Congress passed the Volstead Act, prohibiting the
sale or consumption of alcoholic beverages.
1934: Bruno Hauptmann was indicted for murder in the death
of the infant son of Charles and Anne Lindbergh.
1935: Wedding bells pealed this day for a singer and a
bandleader who tied the knot, making radio history together. The bandleader was Ozzie
Nelson and the singer was Harriet Hilliard.
1944: The first broadcast of The Adventures of Ozzie &
Harriet was heard on the CBS Radio Network. The show would continue on radio until 1953
and on ABC-TV from 1952 to 1966. This event coincided with Ozzie and Harriet Nelson's
ninth wedding anniversary.
1945: President Truman announced that the secret of the
atomic bomb would be shared only with Britain and Canada.
1956: Don Larsen pitched the only perfect game ever in the
World Series as the New York Yankees beat the Brooklyn Dodgers, 2-0.
1957: The Brooklyn Baseball Club announced it was
accepting an offer to move the Dodgers from New York to Los Angeles.
1967: Argentinian-born Communist revolutionary Ernesto Che Guevara, an important figure in the
1959 Cuban revolution, was killed while leading a
guerrilla war in Bolivia.
1970: Soviet author Alexander Solzhenitsyn was named
winner of the Nobel Prize for literature.
1981: At the White House, President Reagan greeted former
presidents Carter, Ford and Nixon, who were preparing to travel to Egypt for the funeral
of Anwar Sadat.
1982: All labor organizations in Poland, including
Solidarity, were banned.
1983: The Baltimore Orioles won the American League
championship, defeating the Chicago White Sox 3-0. Meanwhile, the Philadelphia Phillies
beat the Los Angeles Dodgers 7-2 for the National League title.
1984: In an address to the U.N. General Assembly, the
president of El Salvador, Jose Napoleon Duarte, unexpectedly offered to hold peace talks
with leftist guerrillas.
1984: Anne Murray won the Country Music Association's
Album of the Year Award for "A Little Good News." Murray was the first woman to
win this award.
1985: The hijackers of the Italian cruise ship
"Achille Lauro" killed American passenger Leon Klinghoffer, dumping his body and
wheelchair overboard.
1986: State Department spokesman Bernard Kalb resigned
over a reported effort by the Reagan administration to mislead the news media about Libya.
1987: U-S helicopter gunships in the Persian Gulf sank
three Iranian patrol boats after an American observation helicopter was fired on. (Two of
six Iranian crewmen taken from the water later died.)
1988: Pope John Paul the Second journeyed to eastern
France, where he addressed the Council of Europe and the European Court of Human Rights.
1989: The Oakland A's won the American League pennant for
the second year in a row by defeating the Toronto Blue Jays.
1990: The House approved a revised deficit-reducing budget
plan, and both chambers of Congress approved stopgap legislation to end a government
shutdown.
1990: Israeli police opened fire on rioting Palestinians
on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, killing 17.
1990: American doctors Joseph E. Murray and E. Donnall
Thomas were named recipients of the Nobel Prize for medicine.
1991: The U.S. Senate postponed its vote on Clarence
Thomas' Supreme Court nomination to investigate allegations that he'd sexually harassed a
former aide, Anita Hill.
1992: West Indian poet Derek Walcott was named winner of
the Nobel Prize in literature.
1992: Former West German Chancellor Willy Brandt died in
Unkel, Germany, at age 78.
1993: The government issued a report absolving the FBI of
wrongdoing in its final assault in Texas on the Branch Davidian compound, which went up in
flames, killing as many as 85 people.
1994: President Clinton, responding to the massing of
Iraqi troops near the Kuwaiti border, warned Saddam Hussein not to misjudge "American
will or American power" as he ordered additional U.S. forces to the region.
1995: On the final day of his fourth U.S. pilgrimage, Pope
John Paul II celebrated Mass at Oriole Park in Baltimore.
1996: Pope John Paul the Second underwent a successful
operation to remove his inflamed appendix.
1996: American economist William Vickrey and British
professor James Mirrlees were named co-winners of the Nobel economics prize. (The
82-year-old Vickrey died just three days later.)
1997: Scientists reported the Mars Pathfinder had yielded
what could be the strongest evidence yet that Mars might once have been hospitable to
life.
1997: The House opened its own set of hearings on campaign
fund-raising abuses.
1997: Gueorgui Makharadze, a diplomat from the Republic of
Georgia, pleaded guilty in Washington to charges stemming from a car crash that killed
Maryland teen-ager Jovianne Waltrick.
1998: Portuguese novelist Jose Saramago won the Nobel
Literature Prize.
1998: The House triggered an open-ended impeachment
inquiry against President Clinton in a momentous 258-176 vote; 31 Democrats joined the
Republican majority in opening the way for nationally televised impeachment hearings.
1999: A damage award to State Farm auto insurance
customers swelled to nearly $1.2 billion after a judge in Illinois ruled that the nation's
largest auto insurer committed fraud by using generic auto-body repair parts. (The $730
million award of actual and punitive damages came on top of a jury's $456 million verdict
in the same class-action lawsuit.)
1999: President Clinton dedicated a new U.S. embassy in
Ottawa, Canada.
1999: Laila Ali, the 21-year-old daughter of Muhammad Ali,
made her professional boxing debut by knocking out opponent April Fowler 31 seconds after
the opening bell in Verona, N.Y.
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