Birthdays and Events for October 18, 2000

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

Alaska Day - Celebrates the transfer of Alaska from Russia to he U.S. in 1867. he purchase was made on March 30 of that year.

Black Power Day - In the 1968 Mexico Olympics, Tommie Smith and John Carlos were suspended for giving a black power salute during the victory celebration.

Persons Day - A Canadian celebration commemorating the 1929 ruling by the Judicial Council of England's Privy Council tha declared women persons with rights.

Saint Luke's Feast Day - Patron Saint of Doctors, glassworkers and pain

Born on this Day

	1405: Pius II, (pope from 1458-64. His original name was Enea Silvio Piccolomini. He tried to unite Europe in a crusade against the Turks at a time when they threatened to overrun all of Europe.
	1470: Santes Pagninus, Dominican scholar whose Latin version of the Hebrew Bible—the first since St. Jerome's—greatly aided other 16th-century scriptural translators.
	1547: Justus Lipsius, humanist, classical scholar, writer
	1595: Edward Winslow, English founder of the Plymouth colony in Massachusetts.
	1631: Michael Wigglesworth, British-American clergyman, physician, and author of rhymed treatises expounding Puritan doctrines. See Today's History Focus
	1632: Luca Giordano, Napoli, painter
	1787: Robert Livingston Stevens, U.S. engineer and ship designer who invented the widely used inverted-T railroad rail and the railroad spike.
	1799: Christian Friedrich Schönbein, German chemist who discovered and named ozone (1840) and was the first to describe guncotton (nitrocellulose).
	1889: Novelist Fannie Hurst
	19??: Chuck Cummings (Dakota Motor Co.)
	19??: Lakita Garth (D'Vine)
	1919: Lee Harvey Oswald, conspirator in the assassination of President Kennedy
	1919: Former Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau
	1919: Singer Anita O'Day
	1921: Senate Foreign Relations Chairman Jesse Helms (Republican, North Carolina)
	1926: Rock-and-roll performer Chuck Berry
	1927: Actor George C. Scott
	1928: Sportscaster Keith Jackson
	1933: Actor Peter Boyle
	1939: Football coach Mike Ditka
	1939: Greek actress Mey Oswald
	1947: Singer Laura Nyro
	1947: Actor Joe Morton
	1950: Playwright Wendy Wasserstein
	1951: Actress Pam Dawber
	1951: Author Terry McMilla
	1956: Tennis player Martina Navratilova
	1960: Actor Jean-Claude Van Damme
	1961: Jazz musician Wynton Marsalis
	1961: Actress Erin Moran
	1962: Actor Vincent Spano
	1966: Rock musician Tim Cross (Sponge)
	1968: Tennis player Michael Stich
	1973: Singer Nonchalant
	1974: Rock musician Peter Svenson (The Cardigans)

Events in History on this day

	0629: Death of Clotaire II, King of France
	0707: Death of Pope John VII
	0768: Coronation of Charlemagne and his brother Carloman, as co-rulers of the Franks
	1097: The 1st Crusade lays siege to Antioch
	1417: Death of Pope Gregory XII
	1503: Death of Pope Pius III
	1511: William Sweeting and John Brewster burnt for heresy
	1622: Louis XIII lays siege to Montpellier
	1636: New Book of Canons ordered used in Anglican Churches
	1648: Tthe shoemakers of Boston formed the first labor organization in American history.
	1685 : Edict of Nantes lifted by Louis XIV. The edict, signed at Nantes, France, by King Henry IV in 1598, gave the Huguenots religious liberty, civil rights and security. By revoking the Edict of Nantes, Louis XIV abrogated their religious liberties.
	1767: The boundary between Maryland and Pennsylvania, the Mason-Dixon line, was agreed upon.
	1867: The United States took formal possession of Alaska from Russia.
	1887: Music lovers in Cologne were the first to hear Brahms' last orchestral piece, the Double Concerto.
	1892: The first long-distance telephone line between Chicago and New York was formally opened.
	1898: The American flag was raised in Puerto Rico shortly before Spain formally relinquished control of the island to the US.
	1904: Mahler also in Cologne... conducted the premiere of his own Fifth Symphony. At the time Mahler predicted that in the future conductors would usually take the scherzo too fast.
	1923: Paris had the honor of being the locale for the world premiere of the Prokofiev First Violin Concerto. Koussevitsky conducted and his concertmaster soloed. It's one of the finest concertos ever written for any instrument, full of melody and drama.
	1931: Inventor Thomas Alva Edison died in West Orange, New Jersey, at age 84.
	1939: President Franklin D. Roosevelt bans war submarines from U.S. ports and waters
	1944: Soviet troops invaded Czechoslovakia during World War Two.
	1959: The Soviet Union announced an unmanned space vehicle had taken the first pictures of the far side of the moon.
	1969: The federal government banned artificial sweeteners known as cyclamates (SY'-kluh-maytz) because of evidence they caused cancer in laboratory rats.
	1982: Former first lady Bess Truman died at her home in Independence, Missouri, at age 97.
	1984: President Reagan ordered an investigation of a CIA handbook for Nicaraguan rebels that suggested assassination as a political tactic.
	1987: President Reagan summoned congressional leaders to the White House to announce he had decided on what action to take in response to an Iranian missile attack on a US-flagged tanker off Kuwait two days earlier. (The next day, US destroyers bombarded an Iranian offshore oil rig.)
	1988: South Korean President Roh Tae-woo, in an address to the UN General Assembly, called for a summit with North Korea's president to sign a non-aggression pact. Maurice Allais of France won the Nobel Prize in economics.
	1988: The Oakland A's defeated the Los Angeles Dodgers, 2-to-1, in game three of the World Series.
	1989: After 18 years in power, Erich Honecker was ousted as leader of East Germany; he was succeeded by Egon Krenz.
	1989: The space shuttle "Atlantis" was launched on a five-day mission that included deployment of the "Galileo" space probe on a course for Jupiter.
	1990: Iraq offered to sell its oil to anyone -- including the United States -- for 21 dollars a barrel, the same price level that preceded the invasion of Kuwait.
	1992: The visiting Toronto Blue Jays defeated the Atlanta Braves in game two of the World Series, 5-to-4, evening the series at one game apiece. (The pre-game ceremony was marred by a US Marine Corps color guard that mistakenly presented the Canadian flag upside-down.)
	1993: Two defendants were acquitted of most of the felony charges in the beating of trucker Reginald Denny and other motorists at the start of the 1992 Los Angeles riots; the jury did convict Damian Williams of simple mayhem, Henry Watson of simple assault.
	1994: Defense Secretary William Perry, nearing the end of a visit to China, said Beijing had agreed to brief the Pentagon on its overall military strategy and defense spending plans.
	1995: President Clinton, facing political fallout for telling financial contributors that "I raised your taxes too much," said he had no regrets about the tax increase package he'd signed into law in 1993.
	1996: Democratic Party fund-raiser John Huang was relieved of his duties following days of attacks by the Republicans over what they called improper and possibly illegal contributions.
	1997: A monument honoring American servicewomen was dedicated at Arlington National Cemetery.
	1997: The Florida Marlins beat the Cleveland Indians 7-to-4 in game one of the World Series.
	1997: Coca-Cola Company chairman Roberto Goizueta died in Atlanta at age 65.
	1997: Broadcast journalist Nancy Dickerson died in New York at age 70.
	1998: The New York Yankees defeated the San Diego Padres, 9-to-3, to take a two-games-to-none lead in the World Series.
	1998: Pope John Paul the Second celebrated a Mass at the Vatican marking the 20th anniversary of his election to the papacy.
	1999: Career prosecutor Robert Ray was sworn in to replace Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr and wrap up the wide-ranging investigation of President Clinton and first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton.
	1999: The New York Yankees won a record 36th pennant, beating the Boston Red Sox 6-1 in Game Five of the American League Championship Series.

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Seek him that maketh the seven stars and Orion, and turneth the shadow of death into the morning, and maketh the day dark with night: that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth: The LORD is his name. Amos 5:8

Born on this Day

Events in History on this day

Seek him that maketh the seven stars and Orion, and turneth the shadow of death into the morning, and maketh the day dark with night: that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth: The LORD is his name.

Amos 5:8