October 28

Lead me in thy truth, and teach me: for thou art the God of my salvation; on thee do I wait all the day.

– Psalm 25:5

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:

Make A Difference Day - Do something nice for others. This day is celebrated on the fourth Saturday in October. Set aside this day for community service. Sponsor: USA Weekend Magazine.

Wild Foods Day - An average acre of land has more than 50 edible wild plants. Have a banquet outside on this last Saturday in October. Sponsor: Nature Center, Fall Creek State Park, Pikeville, TN.

Saint Jude Feast Day - Patron saint of lost causes and desperate situations. He is also the patron saint of police.

Statue of Liberty Day - The Statue of Liberty was dedicated in 1886 in New York harbor. The cornerstone was laid on August 5, 1884.

Born on this Day

• 1017: Henry II "the Black," Holy Roman Emperor
  

• 1466: Erasmus, scholar, author of "In Praise of Folly"
  

• 1585: Cornelius Otto Jansen, French Roman Catholic reform leader
  

• 1793: Rifle maker Eliphalet Remington.
  

• 1820: Author and composer of the Christmas hymn, "We Three Kings of Orient Are" John H. Hopkins.
  

• 1846: 'King of chefs and chefs of Kings' Georges Escoffier
  

• 1896: Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Howard Hanson
  

• 1902: Actress Elsa Lanchester (Come to the Stable, Witness for the Prosecution, The Bride of Frankenstein, Nanny and the Professor, The John Forsythe Show; wife of actor: Charles Laughton).
  

• 1903: English novelist Evelyn Waugh.
  

• 1907: Edith Head fashion designer, Oscar winner.
  

• 1914: Dr. Jonas Salk, a developer of the polio vaccine.
  

• 1915: Actress Dody Goodman (some sources list 1929.)
  

• 1926: Former baseball commissioner Bowie Kuhn
  

• 1929: Actress Dody Goodman (Forever Fernwood, Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman, The Jack Paar Show, Punky Brewster, Diff'rent Strokes)
  

• 1929: Actress Joan Plowright (Avalon, Dennis the Menace, Enchanted April, The Merchant of Venice, Equus, The Entertainer; wife of actor, Lord Lawrence Olivier)
  

• 1930: Emmy Award-winning news correspondent Bruce Morton
  

• 1933: Actress Suzy Parker (The Interns, The Best of Everything, Ten North Frederick, Funny Face)
  

• 1934: National Track & Field Hall of Famer Jim Beatty
  

• 1936: Country music singer/song writer Charlie Daniels (Devil Went Down to Georgia)
  

• 1937: Basketball Hall of Famer Len Wilkens
  

• 1939: Actress Jane Alexander (Quigley) (Playing for Time, Kramer vs. Kramer; The Great White Hope, All the President's Men, Eleanor & Franklin)
  

• 1941: Singer Curtis Lee (Pretty Little Angel Eyes, Under the Moon of Love)
  

• 1943: Actor Dennis Franz (N.Y.P.D. Blue, Nasty Boys, Hill Street Blues, Chicago Story, Beverly Hills Buntz, The Bay City Blues, Die Hard 2: Die Harder, Body Double, Psycho 2, Dressed to Kill)
  

• 1945: Pop singer Wayne Fontana
  

• 1946: Football player Jim Yarbrough
  

• 1948: Actress Telma Hopkins (A New Kind of Family, Getting By, Family Matters, Bosom Buddies, Gimme a Break)
  

• 1949: Olympic Gold Medal winner Bruce Jenner. (decathalete 1976)
  

• 1952: Actress Annie Potts (Mary Jo-Designing Women)
  

• 1953: Actress Lauren Tewes (Julie McCoy-Love Boat)
  

• 1955: Billionaire CEO Microsoft Bill Gates
  

• 1957: Rock musician Stephen Morris (New Order)
  

• 1958: Country singer-musician Ron Hemby (The Buffalo Club)

• 1958: Rock singer-musician William Reid (The Jesus & Mary Chain)
  

• 1960: Actor Mark Derwin (The Guiding Light, The Young and the Restless)
  

• 1962: Actress Daphne Zuniga
  

• 1963: Actress Lauren Holly
  

• 1964: Olympic silver medal figure skater Paul Wylie
  

• 1965: Actress Jami Gertz (Square Pegs, Sibs, The Lost Boys, Quicksilver, Sixteen Candles, Alphabet City)
  

• 1967: Actress Julia Roberts (Pretty Woman, Mystic Pizza, Steel Magnolias, Dying Young, Hook, The Pelican Brief, I Love Trouble, Mary Reilly, Blood Red, Flatliners)
  

• 1968: Country singer-musician Caitlin Cary (Whiskeytown)
  

• 1969: Actor Jeremy Davies ("Saving Private Ryan") 
  

• 1972: Country singer Brad Paisley 
  

• 1974: Actor Joaquin (Leaf) Phoenix 

Events in History on this day
  

• 0312: In a battle that marked the beginning of the Christian era in Europe, Constantine's army, wearing the cross, defeated the forces of Maxentius at Mulvian Bridge in Rome. Roman emperor Constantine, 32, after trusting in a vision he had seen of the cross, inscribed with the words, "In this sign conquer," Constantine was converted and became the first Roman emperor to embrace the Christian faith.
  

• 0969: After a prolonged siege, the Byzantines end 300 years of Arab rule in Antioch.
  

• 1216: Henry III of England crowned.
  

• 1348: Third Wave of the Black Death hits Europe
  

• 1412: Death of Margaret, Queen of Scandanavia
  

• 1492: Columbus discovers Cuba
  

• 1628: After a fifteen-month siege, the Huguenot town of La Rochelle surrenders to royal forces.

• 1636: Harvard College was founded in Massachusetts.
  

• 1646: John Eliot, apostle to the New England Indians, preached his first sermon, in the Indians' language
  

• 1793: Eli Whitney applied for a patent for his cotton gin (the patent was granted the following March).
  

• 1831: Michael Faraday demonstrated the first electric dynamo in England.
  

• 1886: The Statue of Liberty, a gift from the people of France, was dedicated in New York Harbor by President Cleveland. Today's History Focus
  

• 1901: Race riots sparked by Booker T. Washington's visit to the White House kill 34.
  

• 1904: St. Louis Police try a new investigation method - fingerprints.
  

• 1919: Congress enacted the Volstead Act, which provided for enforcement of Prohibition, over President Wilson's veto.
  

• 1922: Fascism came to Italy as Benito Mussolini took control of the government.
  

• 1922: WEAF in New York broadcast the first collegiate football game heard coast to coast. Princeton played the University of Chicago at Stagg Field in the Windy City. The broadcast was carried on phone lines to New York City, where the transmission began.
  

• 1924: Fewer than 20 people paid to see an exhibition baseball game between the Chicago White Sox and the New York Giants in Dublin, Ireland. Newspapers reported that attendance was off because church services were going on at the time. The Sox won 8-4.
  

• 1927: Pan Am Airways launches the first scheduled international flight.
  

• 1936: President Roosevelt rededicated the Statue of Liberty on its 50th anniversary.
  

• 1940: Italy invaded Greece during World War Two.
  

• 1946: The flying cowboy was heard on ABC Radio for the first time. "Sky King", starring Jack Lester, then Earl Nightingale and, finally, Roy Engel as Sky. Beryl Vaughn played Sky's niece, Penny; Jack Bivens was Chipper and Cliff Soubier was the foreman. "Sky King" was sponsored by Mars candy.
  

• 1950: Jack Benny took his well-known radio show [on radio for 20 years] to television without missing a beat. The show premiered in black and white and lasted for 27 years into the age of color TV.
  

• 1954: Ernest Hemingway was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature
  

• 1955: Buddy Holly, a local kid from Lubbock, Texas, opened a concert for Marty Robbins and Elvis Presley.
  

• 1958: The Roman Catholic patriarch of Venice, Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli, was elected pope, taking the name John the 23rd.
  

• 1961: Brian Epstein, a record store owner in London, was asked by a customer for a copy of the record, "My Bonnie", by a group known as The Silver Beatles. He didn't have it in stock, so he went to the Cavern Club to check out the group. He signed to manage them in a matter of days and renamed them The Beatles.
  

• 1961: Groundbreaking ceremonies were held for the Municipal Stadium at the site of the New York World's Fair in Flushing, NY. The name was later changed to Shea Stadium, after New York Commissioner, William A. Shea.
  

• 1962: Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev informed the United States that he had ordered the dismantling of Soviet missile bases in Cuba.
  

• 1973: Secretariat raced into history, by winning the Canadian International Stakes in Toronto. It was the last race run by this magnificent thoroughbred.
  

• 1965: the Gateway Arch (630 feet high) completed in St. Louis, Missouri.
  

• 1974: Rhoda Morgenstern made TV history when she married Joe Girard on "Rhoda." The CBS show was a spin-off from the hugely successful "The Mary Tyler Moore Show."
  

• 1976: Former Nixon aide John D. Ehrlichman entered a federal prison camp in Safford, Arizona, to begin serving his sentence for Watergate-related convictions.
  

• 1987: During a debate in Houston that included the six Republican presidential contenders, Vice President George Bush argued that as President Reagan's "co-pilot," he knew how to "land the plane in a storm."
  

• 1988: A French pharmaceutical company that manufactured the abortion pill RU-486 announced it would resume distribution of the drug after the government of France demanded it do so.
  

• 1989: The Oakland A's won the earthquake-interrupted World Series, completing a four-game sweep of the San Francisco Giants.
  

• 1989: Twenty people were killed in the crash of a commuter plane on the island of Hawaii. 
  

• 1989: Mitsubishi Estate Company, a major Japanese real estate concern, announced it was buying 51 percent of Rockefeller Group Incorporated of New York. 
  

• 1990: In a surprise move, Iraq said it was halting gasoline rationing imposed earlier in response to global economic sanctions. 
  

• 1992: Less than a week before Election Day, President Bush continued to emphasize that voters could not trust Bill Clinton in the White House; for his part, Clinton accused Bush of abusing the powers of the presidency.
  

• 1993: Ousted Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, speaking at the United Nations, called for a blockade of all air and sea trade to Haiti to force out its military leaders. 
  

• 1994: President Clinton visited Kuwait, where he praised US ground forces sent in response to an Iraqi threat, and all but promised the troops they'd be home by Christmas. 
  

• 1994: Pope John Paul the Second named 30 new cardinals, including the archbishops of Baltimore and Detroit and the first-ever from Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina and two former East-bloc states, Albania and Belarus. 
  

• 1995: The Atlanta Braves defeated the Cleveland Indians, 1-0, to win the World Series in Game 6. 
  

• 1995: The Senate approved a GOP package of spending slashes and tax reductions, 52-47. 
  

• 1996: Richard Jewell, cleared of committing the Olympic park bombing, held a news conference in Atlanta in which he thanked his mother for standing by him and lashed out at reporters and investigators who had depicted him as the bomber.
  

• 1996: Comedian Morey Amsterdam died in Los Angeles at age 81.
  

• 1997: A day after plunging 554 points, the stock market roared back, posting a 337-point recovery, with more than one billion shares traded. 
  

• 1998: In London, the High Court ruled that former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet was immune from prosecution in British courts (however, the House of Lords later overturned the decision, saying Pinochet's arrest could stand).
  

• 1999: Five Republican presidential hopefuls debated such issues as abortion, health care and taxes in their second meeting in less than a week; once again, front-runner George W. Bush was absent from the gathering in New Hampshire. 
  

• 1999: The House passed, 218-211, the last spending bill of the year, which President Clinton said he would veto.    
  

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