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 October is: |
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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:
Reformation Sunday - The Sunday before the 31st of October commemorates Reformation Day
, the start of the Protestant Reformation.
Biographies Are Beautiful Day - On the birthday of James Boswell (1740), biographer of
Samuel Johnson, we celebrate all biographies and biographers. Sponsor: Book Marketing
Update.
Black Tuesday - The start of the Great Depression in 1929.
Born on this Day
1463: Alessandro Achillini, Bologna, Italy,
philosopher, physician
1740: Scottish biographer James Boswell
1791: John Elliotson, English physician who
advocated the use of hypnosis in therapy. He was one of the earliest of British physicians
to urge use of the stethoscope.
1815: Singer-composer Daniel Decatur Emmett,
who wrote the words and music for "Dixie." Born in Mount Vernon, Ohio. He was
also the organizer of one of the first minstrel show troupes.
1837: Abraham Kuyper, a Dutch theologian,
statesman, and journalist who led the Anti-Revolutionary Party, an orthodox Calvinist
group, to a position of political power and served as prime minister of The Netherlands
from 1901 to 1905.
1837: Harriet Powers, one of America's most
talented folk-artists. She was a Georgia quilter born as a slave. Using the African
appliqué tradition, she made quilts containing Biblical narratives.
1879: Franz von Papen German statesman and
diplomat who helped Adolf Hitler to become German chancellor in 1933.
1882: Jean Giraudoux, French dramatist,
novelist and diplomat, famous for his book Tiger at the Gates
1884: Fred Lazarus, Jr. American merchandiser
who parlayed his family's small but successful department store into a $1.3 billion
holding company known as Federated Department Stores.
1891: Comedian-singer Fanny Brice. Popular
American singing comedienne who was long associated with the Ziegfeld Follies. She is
especially remembered for her satiric sketches of ballet dancers, fan dancers, and
"vamp" actresses. (Her life was the subject of the show Funny Girl.)
1891: Actor Douglas Montgomery (Harmony Lane,
Little Women)
1897: Joseph G. Goebbels, German Nazi
Propaganda Minister who died of suicide in Hitler’s bunker.
1899: Actor Akim Tamiroff (For Whom the Bell
Tolls, Anastasia, The Bridge of San Luis Rey, Hotel Paradiso, Lord Jim, The Story of Louis
Pasteur)
1905: Albert Brumley, a 19th century hymnodist
who wrote "I'll Fly Away," "Precious Lord," "River of
Memory," and "Rank Stranger."
1921: Bill Maudlin, American cartoonist whose
GI "Willie" and "Joe" characters appeared in Stars and Stripes
newspapers
1922: Composer Neal Hefti (TV's Batman theme,
The Odd Couple theme)
1925: Musician Zoot (John Haley) Sims
(tenor/alto sax with: Benny Goodman Band, Woody Herman Orchestra, Stan Kenton, Gerry
Mulligan, Birdland All-Stars, Jazz at Carnegie Hall)
1926: Opera tenor Jon Vickers
1932: R(onald) B(rooks) Kitaj Ohio born Pop
Art painter
1937: Musician and singer Sonny Osborne (with:
Osborne Brothers: Up this Hill and Down, Rocky Top, Tennessee Hound Dog, Georgia
Pinewoods)
1941: Pittsburgh Steelers linebacker Andy
Russell
1942: Country singer Lee Clayton
1944: Rock musician (Brian Hines) Denny Laine
(The Moody Blues)
1945: Singer Melba Moore (You Stepped into My
Life)
1946: Musician Peter Green (Fleetwood Mac)
1947: Actor Richard Dreyfuss (The Goodbye
Girl, Valley of the Dolls, Jaws, Mr. Holland's Opus, Close Encounters of the Third Kind,
Lost in Yonkers, Nuts, American Graffiti, Down and Out in Beverly Hills, The Graduate,
Postcards from the Edge, In Mama's House)
1948: Actress Kate Jackson (Charlie's Angels)
1961: Singer Randy Jackson (The Jackson Five:
I'll be There; brother of Michael, La Toya, Janet, Jermaine, Tito, etc.)
1965: Rock musician Peter Timmins (Cowboy
Junkies)
1967: Actress Joely Fisher
1967: Rapper Paris
1970: Rock singer SA (311)
1970: Musician Toby Smith (Jamiroquai)
1971: Actress Winona Ryder (Horowitz) (Little Women, Bram Stoker's Dracula, The Age of Innocence, Beetlejuice, Edward Scissorhands, Lucas)
1066: Canterbury submits to
William "the Conqueror"
1185: Betrothal of Henry,
heir to Germany and the Holy Roman Empire, to Constance, daughter of the King of Sicily
1591: Election of Pope
Innocent IX
1618: Sir Walter Raleigh was
beheaded in London. He had been charged with plotting against King James I.
1629: John Winthorp elected
Governor of the Massachusetts Bay colony
1682: The founder of
Pennsylvania, William Penn, landed at what is now Chester, Pennsylvania.
1787: The overture to
"Don Giovanni" was composed under rather remarkable circumstances. The opera was
just hours from its first performance when Mozart was reminded that he still had the
overture to write. Mozart had his wife Constanza make punch and tell him fairy tales.
1813: The great violinist
Paganini debuted. His first gig was at a decent locale Milan's La Scala. Paganini was then
21.
1863: International
Committee of the Red Cross founded.
1901: President McKinley's
assassin, Leon Czolgosz, was electrocuted.
1911: American newspaperman
Joseph Pulitzer died in Charleston, South Carolina.
1923: The Republic of Turkey
was proclaimed.
1923: The musical
"Runnin' Wild," which introduced the Charleston, opened on Broadway.
1927: Russian archaeologist
Peter Kozloff uncovers the tomb of Genghis Khan in the Gobi Desert.
1929: "Black
Tuesday" descended upon the New York Stock Exchange. Prices collapsed amid panic
selling and thousands of investors were wiped out as America's "Great
Depression" began.
1936: Prokofiev's Overture
on Russian Themes was premiered. Prokofiev also composed an Overture on Hebrew Themes and
an American Overture.
1940: Secretary of War Henry
L. Stimson drew the first number -- 158 -- in America's first peacetime military draft.
1945: The first commercially
made ballpoint pens went on sale at Gimbels Department Store in New York City. The pens
sold for $12.50 and racked up a tidy profit of $500,000 in the first month!
1947: Former first lady
Frances Cleveland Preston died in Baltimore at age 83.
1948: Sandy Sadler surprised
the boxing world by knocking out Willie Pep to win the world featherweight boxing title in
the fourth round in New York City.
1956: "Goodnight,
David" "Goodnight, Chet" heard on NBC for 1st time. (Chet Huntley &
David Brinkley, NBC News, team up).
1956: During the Suez Canal
crisis, Israel launched an invasion of Egypt's Sinai Peninsula.
1956: John Cameron Swayze
and "The Camel News Caravan" were replaced by Chet Huntley and David Brinkley on
NBC-TV. The "Huntley-Brinkley Report" clicked so well that the respected newsmen
reported nightly until July of 1970.
1960: A youngster with a
mean punch, Cassius Clay, won his first professional fight in a decision over Tunney
Hunsaker.
1963: Veteran actor, Adolphe
Menjou died at the age of 73.
1964: Thieves steal a jewel
collection--including the world's largest sapphire, the 565- carat "Star of
India," and the 100-carat DeLong ruby--from the Museum of Natural History in New
York. (The Star and most of the other gems were recovered; three men were convicted of
stealing them.)
1966: The National
Organization for Women (NOW) was founded.
1967: The counter-culture
musical "Hair" opened off-Broadway.
1969: The U.S. Supreme Court
orders immediate desegregation, superseding the previous "with all deliberate
speed" ruling.
1970: Neil Diamond received
a gold record for the hit, "Cracklin' Rosie".
1972: Palestinian guerrillas
kill an airport employee and hijack a plane, carrying 27 passengers, to Cuba. They force
West Germany to release 3 terrorists who were involved in the Munich Massacre.
1973: O.J. Simpson set two
NFL records this day. The Buffalo Bills' star running back ran 39 times for 157 yards --
and he rushed for over 1,000 yards in only seven games.
1981: Loretta Lynn, received
a gold record for her album, "Greatest Hits, Vol. 2."
1982: Lindy Chamberlain is
found guilty of murder of her child in a Darwin Court. She was sentenced to life
imprisonment with hard labor. The case is known as The "Dingo Baby Murder
Mystery." Today's
History Focus
1984: Golfing great, Tom
Watson, won his sixth PGA Player of the Year title; the most won by any golfer since the
award was first given in 1948.
1987: Following the
confirmation defeat of Robert H. Bork to serve on the US Supreme Court, President Reagan
announced his choice of Douglas H. Ginsburg, a nomination that fell apart over revelations
of Ginsburg's past marijuana use.
1987: Jazz great Woody
Herman died in Los Angeles at age 74.
1988: The maiden voyage of
the Soviet Union's space shuttle was delayed because of problems with ground equipment.
1989: At least 20,000 East
Berliners observed a minute of silence for those killed while attempting to flee over the
Berlin Wall, the first such public mourning since Communist Party authorities built the
wall in 1961.
1990: The U.N. Security Council voted to hold Saddam Hussein's regime liable for human rights abuses and war damages during its occupation of Kuwait.
1992: A New York City jury
acquitted 17-year-old Lemrick Nelson of murdering Yankel Rosenbaum, an Australian Hasidic
scholar who was killed in rioting that erupted in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn in
August 1991 following the traffic death of a black child who was hit by a Hasidic driver.
(In February 1997, a jury convicted Nelson and Charles Price of violating Rosenbaum's
civil rights.)
1993: President Clinton,
speaking at the Kennedy presidential library in Boston, promoted the North American Free
Trade Agreement, saying President Kennedy would have supported it.
1993: A group of US luge
athletes was attacked by right-wing skinheads in Oberhof, Germany.
1994: A gunman fired more
than two-dozen shots at the White House. Francisco Martin Duran was later convicted of
trying to assassinate President Clinton and was sentenced to 40 years in prison.
1995: Palestinians burned American and Israeli flags and swore revenge for the assassination of Dr. Fathi Shakaki, the leader of the radical Islamic Jihad and a top architect of terror attacks against Israel. (Shakaki was gunned down three days earlier in Malta, reportedly by Israeli intelligence.)
1996: Hundreds of thousands
of New York Yankees fans participated in an enormous blue-and-white ticker-tape parade for
the World Series champions.
1997: Chinese President
Jiang Zemin met with President Clinton at the White House; the two leaders clashed over
China's human rights record, but agreed to end the diplomatic chill between their
countries.
1997: The Baghdad government
barred Americans from the UN disarmament effort in Iraq -- a move that outraged chief
weapons inspector Richard Butler and prompted him to suspend inspections.
1998: The government cleared
the powerful drug tamoxifen as a way for healthy women at very high risk of breast cancer
to cut their odds of getting a tumor
1998: Senator John Glenn, at
age 77, roared back into space aboard the shuttle Discovery, retracing the trail he'd
blazed for America's astronauts 36 years earlier.
1998: Sixty-three people
were killed when fire broke out during a disco party in Goteborg, Sweden.
1998: South Africa's Truth
and Reconciliation Commission condemned both apartheid and violence committed by the
African National Congress. 1998: Sixty-three people were killed when fire broke out during
a disco party in Goteborg, Sweden.
1999: A panel of European Union scientists ruled that British beef was safe for export, rejecting French scientific arguments to continue a ban because of fears of mad cow disease.
1999: Some 3,000 people attended a memorial service in Orlando,
Florida, for golfer Payne Stewart, who was killed along with five other people in the crash of their Learjet.
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