Birthdays and Events for October 19, 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

Credit Union Day - Held on the third Thursday of October. This day spotlights the contributions of he world's credit unions. Sponsor: Credit Union National Association.

Evaluate Your Life Day - Check out your life and see where you are headed. Sponsor Wellness Permission League.

Lightening is Electricity Day - On this day in 1752, Benjamin Franklin proved that lightening is electricity. Today his experiment would probably be labeled as a stupid stunt.

National Mammography Day -

Paint Pretty Day - On the birthday of pop artist Peter Max, paint pretty picture. Max was born in Berlin, Germany on this day in 1937. Sponsor: All My Events.

Yorktown Day - Celebrates the conclusive battle of the Revolutionary War.

Born on this Day

	1562: George Abbot, Archbishop of Canterbury
	1605: English physician and scholar Sir Thomas Browne Author of "The Anatomy of Melancholy." He died on his 78th birthday.
	1748: Martha Jefferson (Wayles) (Wife of 3rd U.S. President Thomas Jefferson, she died 18 years before he became president)
	1810: Abolitionist Cassius Marcellus Clay
	1817: Tom Taylor, British playwright whose play Our American Cousin was being performed at Ford’s Theater when President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Boothe
	1885: Charles Merrill (stock company mogul: founded Merrill-Lynch)
	1895: Historian and city planner Lewis Mumford
	1899: Guatemalan author and diplomat Miguel de Asturias. He won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1967, his novel Viento fuerte cited as drawing heavily on Native American traditions.
	1909: Robert Beatty (actor: Where Eagles Dare, Postmark for Danger, Captain Horatio Hornblower, Against the Wind)
	1911: George Cates (musician: Moonglow/Theme from Picnic, Autumn Leaves [w/Steve Allen]; musical director of Lawrence Welk Show for 25 years)
	1918: Former ambassador to Russia Robert S. Strauss
	1920: Actress LaWanda Page (actress: Sanford and Son, Detective School)
	1921: Actor George Nader
	1923: Columnist Jack Anderson (columnist: Washington Merry-Go-Round, commentator: Mutual, USA Radio Network; author: Stormin' Norman, Japan Conspiracy)
	1931: English spy novelist John Le Carre, whose real name is David Cornwell (author: The Russia House, A Small Town in Germany, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, The Night Manager)
	1932: Robert Reed (actor: The Brady Bunch, The Brady Bunch Hour, The Bradys, The Defenders, Mannix, Nurse, Rich Man, Poor Man-Book I, Roots, The Runaways)
	1937: Artist Peter Max (Finkelstein) (pop artist: psychedelic best-selling poster; designer: postage stamp: Expo '74; 1982 World's Fair official artist)
	1940: Actor Michael Gambon
	1943: Sandy Alomar (baseball: Cleveland Indians catcher: Rookie of the Year [1990])
	1945: Actor John Lithgow
	1945: National Organization for Women President Patricia Ireland
	1945: Singer Jeannie C. Riley(Stephenson) (Grammy Award-winning singer: Harper Valley P.T.A. [1968]; Country Girl, The Girl Most Likely, There Never was a Time, Oh Singer, Good Enough to be Your Wife)
	1952: Talk show host Charlie Chase
	1956: Nino DeFranco (singer: group: The DeFranco Family: Heartbeat - It's a Lovebeat)
	1957: Rock singer-musician Karl Wallinger (World Party)
	1960: Singer Jennifer Holliday
	1962: Evander Holyfield (boxing: World Heavyweight Champion [1990-1992])
	1965: Rock singer-musician Todd Park Mohr (Big Head Todd and the Monsters)
	1967: Amy Carter (First Daughter: daughter of 39th U.S. President Jimmy and Roselyn Carter)
	1972: Rock singer Pras Michel (The Fugees)
	1976: Actor Omar Gooding ("Smart Guy," "Hangin' with Mr. Cooper")
	1980: Actor Benjamin Salisbury ("The Nanny")

Events in History on this day

	0439: The Vandals, led by King Gaiseric, take Carthage in North Africa.
	0615: Election of Deusdedit as Pope
	0946: Death of St. John of Rila
	1216: William Marshal made Regent of England
	1216: King John of England dies at Newark and is succeeded by his nine-year-old son Henry.
	1314: Frederick III chosen King of Germany
	1448: The Ottoman Sultan Murat II defeats Hungarian General Janos Hunyadi at Kosovo, Serbia.
	1453: End of the Hundred Years' War
	1466: The peace of Torun ends the war between the Teutonic knights and their own disaffected subjects in Prussia.
	1739: England declares war on Spain over borderlines in Florida. The War is known as the War of Jenkins� Ear because the Spanish coast guards cut off the ear of British seaman Robert Jenkins.
	1745: Jonathan Swift, feeble and insane, died. His servants allowed the public to pull souvenir hairs from his head.
	1765: The Stamp Act Congress, meeting in New York, drew up a declaration of rights and liberties.
	1781: Major General Lord Charles Cornwallis surrenders to George Washington and Count de Rochambeau at Yorktown, Va. Cornwallis surrendered 7,157 troops, including sick and wounded, and 840 sailors, along with 244 artillery pieces. Losses in this battle had been light on both sides. This effectively ended the American War of Independence.
	1812: Napoleon Bonaparte begins his retreat from Moscow.
	1845: A turning point for Wagner. "Tanhausser" was performed in Dresden under his baton and nobody liked the ending. Wagner, taken aback by this but in no mood to change a note, resolved to write articles to explain his art and convert people to it.
	1864: Confederate General Jubal A. Early attacked Union forces at Cedar Creek, Virginia; the Union troops were able to rally and defeat the Confederates.
	1873: Yale, Princeton, Columbia and Rutgers universities drafted the first code of football rules.
	1901: A Liverpool audience became the first to hear Elgar's "Pomp and Circumstance" march. Elgar actually wrote several marches under that title, and the first two were premiered on this date.
	1914: The U.S. Post Office began using automobiles to pick up and deliver mail.
	1915: The United States recognizes General Venustiano Carranza as the president of Mexico, and imposes an embargo on the shipment of arms to all Mexican territories except those controlled by Carranza.
	1917: The first doughnut is fried by Salvation Army volunteer women for American troops in France during World War I.
	1944: The Navy announced that black women would be allowed into Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service (the WAVES).
	1949: The People's Republic of China formally proclaimed.
	1950: United Nations forces entered the North Korean capital of Pyongyang.
	1951: President Truman signed an act formally ending the state of war with Germany.
	1954: Egypt and Britain conclude a pact on the Suez Canal, ending 72 years of British military occupation. Britain agrees to withdraw its 80,000-man force within 20 months, and Egypt agrees to maintain freedom of canal navigation.
	1960: Canada and the United States agree to undertake a joint Columbia River project to provide hydroelectric power and flood control.
	1973: President Richard Nixon rejects an Appeals Court demand to turn over the Watergate tapes.
	1977: The body of West German industrialist Hanns Martin Schleyer, who had been kidnapped by left-wing extremists, was found in the trunk of a car in Mulhouse, France.
	1977: The supersonic "Concorde" made its first landing in New York City.
	1982: Car maker John DeLorean was arrested in Los Angeles and charged in a $24 million cocaine scheme aimed at salvaging his bankrupt sports car company. He was tried and acquitted.
	1987: US warships destroyed two Iranian oil platforms in the Persian Gulf in retaliation for an Iranian missile attack on a US-flagged tanker off Kuwait.
	1987: The stock market crashed as the Dow Jones Industrial Average, amid frenzied selling, plunged 508 points -- its biggest-ever one-day decline.
	1988: Eight Israeli soldiers were killed in a suicide car bomb attack in south Lebanon.
	1988: Three West Germans were named winners of the Nobel Prize in chemistry; three Americans received the Nobel Prize in physics.
	1988: The Los Angeles Dodgers defeated the Oakland A's, 4-to-3, in game four of the World Series.
	1989: The Guildford Four, convicted for the 1975 IRA bombings of public houses in Guildford and Woolwich, England, are cleared of all charges after fourteen years in prison.
	1989: The Senate rejected a proposed constitutional amendment barring desecration of the American flag.
	1989: Spanish author Camilo Jose Cela was named the recipient of the Nobel Prize for literature.
	1990: Iraq ordered all foreigners in occupied Kuwait to report to authorities or face punishment.�
	1990: The Supreme Soviet voted to approve President Mikhail S. Gorbachev's economic reform plan.�
	1990: The Cincinnati Reds beat the Oakland A's 8-3, taking a 3-0 lead in the World Series.
	1992: President Bush, Democrat Bill Clinton and independent Ross Perot met in their third and final campaign debate, in East Lansing, Michigan.
	1993: US intercepted its first ship bound for Haiti since an oil and weapons embargo was reimposed by United Nations.
	1993: Benazir Bhutto was returned to the premiership of Pakistan.
	1993: The Toronto Blue Jays took a two-games-to-one lead in the World Series by defeating the Philadelphia Phillies, 10-to-3.
	1994: Twenty-two people were killed as a terrorist bomb shattered a bus in the heart of Tel Aviv's shopping district. Entertainer Martha Raye died in Los Angeles at age 78.
	1995: Ignoring a veto threat, the House passed a Republican plan for overhauling Medicare by raising premiums for the elderly and disabled and saving billions from hospital and doctor fees.�
	1996: President Clinton said in his radio address that states would lose a percentage of federal highway aid if they did not bar young people from drinking and driving.
	1996: the Republican radio address, Bob Dole claimed credit for putting Democrats on the defensive over their acceptance of foreign political contributions.
	1997: Special US envoy Dennis Ross arrived in Israel for another round of meetings in an effort to push the Mideast peace process forward.
	1997: The Cleveland Indians defeated the Florida Marlins, 6-to-1, in game two of the World Series, evening the series at one game apiece.
	1998: In Miami, the first class-action lawsuit brought by smokers against the tobacco industry went to trial. (Jurors later found the nation's largest cigarette makers and industry groups had produced a defective and deadly product.)
	1998: Israel suspended negotiations with the Palestinians on issues other than security after a bloody attack at an Israeli bus stop.
	1998: Government lawyers opened their antitrust case against Microsoft Corporation.
	1999: Legislation to overhaul the nation's campaign finance laws fell to a filibuster by Senate Republicans for the fourth straight year.�
	1999: The Atlanta Braves won the National League pennant by beating the New York Mets, 10-9, in Game Six of their 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