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 October is: |
Clergy
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:
Can-Can Day - his dance was first performed on this day in 1858.
Electric Light Birthday - Thomas Edison invented a successful electric light on this day
in 1879.
National Biomedical Research Day
Saint Ursula and Her Companions Fast Day - Patron saint of teachers of girls.
Born on this Day
1581: Zampieri Domenichino, Italian artist.
1760: Japanese painter Katsushka Hokusai An
ingraver and printmaker whose color prints are still quite popular tiday.
1772: Poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge (The Rime
of the Ancient Mariner, Kubla Khan)
1833: Alfred Bernhard Nobel, created dynamite
and Peace Prizes.
19??: Rich Mullins (Rich Mullins)
19??: Charles Lowell (Jars of Clay)
1912: Hungarian-born conductor Sir Georg Solti
(1st complete recording of Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen)
1917: Dizzy (John Birks) Gillespie, trumpeter,
a creator of modern jazz
1926: Bob Rosburg (golf: PGA champion [1959];
sportscaster)
1928: Baseball Hall-of-Famer Whitey (Edward)
Ford (Cy Young Award [1961])
1929: Author Ursula LeGuin (The Wind's Twelve
Quarters, A Wizard of Earthsea, Left Hand of Darkness)
1933: Actress Georgia Brown (Lillian Klot)
(Oliver, Cheers)
1936: Basketball player Connie Dierking
1939: Baseball player Ted Uhlaender
1940: Rock singer Manfred Mann (Michael
Lubowitz)(Do Wah Diddy Diddy, The Mighty Quinn)
1941: Musician Steve Cropper (Booker T. &
the MG's)
1942: Singer Elvin Bishop
1943: Musician Ron Elliott (guitar: Beau Brummels)
1943: Football player Brian Picolo (Chicago
Bears: subject of film: Brian's Song)
1945: Actor Everett McGill
1946: Musician Lee Loughnane (Chicago)
1949: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu
1953: Musician Charlotte Caffey (The Go-Go's)
1954: Tennis player, Linda Tuero
1955: Musician/guitarist, Eric Faulkner
1956: Steven Curtis Chapman
1956: Actress-author Carrie Fisher
1957: Singer Julian Cope
1957: Musician/Guitarist/songwriter, Steve
Lukather (Toto)
1970: Rock musician Che Colovita Lemon
(Jimmie's Chicken Shack)
1976: Actor Jeremy Miller ("Growing
Pains")
1977: Actor Will Estes ("Kirk")
0635: Death of St. Fintan of Taghmon
1066: Dover submits to William "the
Conqueror"
1096: French and German members of the 1st
Crusade defeated by the Turks.
1187: Election of Pope Gregory VIII
1422: Death of Charles VI, King of France
1520: Magellan enters the strait which bears
his name
1529: Henry VIII of England is named Defender
of the Faith by the Pope after defending the seven sacraments against
Luther.
1596: The Sieur de Beaumont accused of
witchcraft
1600: Tokugawa Ieyasu defeats his enemies in
battle and affirms his position as Japan’s most powerful warlord.
1621: All exports from the colonies must have
customs paid in England
1641: Ulster "Massacre"
1663: John Harlow fined 50 lbs of tobacco for
missing church in Warwick, Virginia.
1790: The Tricolor is chosen as the official
flag of France.
1797: The US Navy frigate
"Constitution," also known as "Old Ironsides," was
launched in Boston's harbor.
1805: Vice Admiral Horatio Lord Nelson wins
his greatest victory over a Franco- Spanish fleet in the Battle of
Trafalgar, fought off Cape Trafalgar, Spain. Nelson is fatally wounded in
the battle, but lives long enough to see victory.
1837: Under a flag of truce during peace
talks, U.S. troops siege the Indian Seminole Chief Osceola in Florida.
1858: "Orpheus in the Underworld"
premiered in Paris. Jacques Offenbach's operetta made the CAN-CAN popular.
It also continues a lot of the music you know from "Gaite Parisienne,"
the orchestral suite that might just as well be called "Offenbach's
Greatest Hits."
1867: Many leaders of the Kiowa, Comanche and
Kiowa-Apache sign a peace treaty at Medicine Lodge, Kan. Comanche Chief
Quanah Parker refused to accept the treaty terms.
1879: After 14 months of experiments, Thomas
Edison invented a workable electric light at his laboratory in Menlo Park,
New Jersey.
1923: The world's first planetarium opens in
Munich.
1944: During World War Two, US troops captured
the German city of Aachen
1959: The Guggenheim Museum opened to the
public in New York.
1960: Democrat John F. Kennedy and Republican
Richard M. Nixon clashed in their fourth and final presidential debate.
1966: More than 140 people, mostly children,
were killed when a coal waste landslide engulfed a school and several houses
in south Wales. Today's History
Focus
1967: The "March on the Pentagon,"
protesting American involvement in Vietnam , draws 50,000 protesters. .
1969: Willy Brandt is elected Chancellor of
West Germany.
1971: President Nixon nominated Lewis F.
Powell and William H. Rehnquist to the US Supreme Court.
1983: The United States sends a ten-ship task
force to Grenada.
1986: Pro-Iranian kidnappers in Lebanon
claimed to have abducted American Edward Tracy (he was released in August
1991).
1987: The debate began in the Senate on the
nomination of Judge Robert H. Bork to the US Supreme Court. (Two days later,
the Senate voted 58-to-42 to reject the nomination.)
1988: A federal grand jury in New York
indicted former Philippine President Ferdinand E. Marcos and his wife,
Imelda, on charges of fraud and racketeering. (Marcos died before he could
be brought to trial; his widow, Imelda, was acquitted in 1990.)
1989: Rescue workers in Oakland, California,
pulled longshoreman Buck Helm alive from the wreckage of the Nimitz Freeway,
part of which had collapsed during the October 17th earthquake. (However,
Helm died less than a month later.)
1990: A Palestinian stabbed three Israelis to death during a rampage in a Jerusalem neighborhood in retaliation for the police killings of 17 Arabs on the Temple Mount.
1991: American hostage Jesse Turner was freed
by his kidnappers in Lebanon after nearly five years in captivity.
1992: A report prepared for the Los Angeles
police commission found that the city was unprepared to handle the rioting
that broke out the previous spring, and had responded inadequately.
1992: The Toronto Blue Jays won game four of
the World Series, defeating the Atlanta Braves 2-to-1.
1992: Singer Madonna's book "Sex"
was released.
1993: NATO ministers endorsed a US plan to
form limited partnerships with Russia and other former East bloc foes, but
stopped short of offering full membership.
1993: The Senate rejected curbs on President
Clinton's right as commander-in-chief to send troops to Haiti.
1993: The Philadelphia Phillies beat the
Toronto Blue Jays, 2-to-0, in game five of the World Series; Toronto still
led the Series, three games to two.
1994: Thirty-two people were killed when a
section of bridge collapsed in Seoul, South Korea.
1994: United States and North Korea signed an
agreement requiring the communist nation to halt its nuclear program and
agree to inspections.
1995: Rioting inmates surrendered control of a prison dormitory in Greenville,
Illinois, ending a one-day uprising that began after the government ordered federal prisons locked down nationwide.
1995: The Atlanta Braves won game one of the World Series, defeating the visiting Cleveland Indians 3-2.
1995: Maxene Andrews of the Andrews Sisters died in Hyannis, Mass., at age 79.
1996: President Clinton's "don't ask,
don't tell" policy on gays in the military survived its first Supreme
Court test.
1996: Arnoldo Aleman claimed victory over
Daniel Ortega in Nicaragua's presidential election.
1996: The Atlanta Braves took a
two-games-to-none lead in the World Series, defeating the New York Yankees
4-to-0.
1997: Reversing months of strong opposition,
the Clinton administration endorsed a revised Republican bill to restructure
the Internal Revenue Service and shift the burden of proof from the taxpayer
to the government in court-contested cases.
1997: The Florida Marlins beat the Cleveland
Indians, 14-to-11, in game three of the World Series.
1998: The New York Yankees swept the San Diego
Padres, winning game four of the World Series, 3-to-0.
1998: A radical environmental group, the Earth
Liberation Front, claimed responsibility for fires that caused $12 million
in damage at the nation's busiest ski resort in Vail, Colorado.
1998: Dr. Jane Henney was confirmed as FDA
commissioner.
1998: President Clinton signed a $520 billion
spending package that was shipped to him just before the 105th Congress
slipped into history.
1999: France's highest court upheld the conviction of Maurice Papon, the former Vichy official who had fled France rather than face prison for his role in sending Jews to Nazi death camps; Papon was captured in Switzerland and deported the following day.
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