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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:
Wild Foods Day - An average acre of land has over 50 edible wild plants! Have a banquet
outside, especially on the last Saturday in October. Sponsor: Nature Center, Fall Creek
State Park.
Bodybuilder's Day - On the birthday of Charles Atlas, the original 97 pound weakling, we
celebrate all who strengthen their bodies. Charles was born as Angelo Siciliano in Italy
on this day in 1893.
John Adams's Birthday - The 2nd president of the United States. Born on this day in 1735.
Born on this Day
1451:Christopher Columbus, discoverer of
America (uncertain date)
1735: John Adams, second president of the
United States
1751: Playright Richard Sheridan (The Critic,
School for Scandal, The Rivals)
1839: French Impressionist painter Alfred
Sisley
1871: English philosopher H.A. Prichard
1871: French poet Paul Valery
1885: Poet Ezra Pound (Hugh Selwyn Mauberly,
The Pisan Cantos) Today's History Focus
1886: Southern American novelist, poet, and
short story writer Elizabeth Madox Roberts
1894: Strongman Charles Atlas (Angelo Siciliano)
1895: American physiologist Dickinson Woodruff
Richards, shared the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1956 with Werner Forssmann
and André F. Cournand.
1895: German bacteriologist and pathologist
Gerhard Domagk, awarded the 1939 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for his discovery
(announced in 1932) of the antibacterial effects of Prontosil, the first of the
sulfonamide drugs.
1896: Actress Ruth Gordon (Jones) (Rosemary's
Baby, Every Which Way but Loose, Harold and Maude)
1900: Finnish-born Swedish physiologist,
Ragnar Arthur Granit who was a corecipient (with George Wald and Haldan
Hartline) of the
Nobel Prize.
1907: Actress Sue Carol (Evelyn Lederer) (The
Lone Star Ranger, Walking Back, Captain Swagger)
1913: Actress Ruth Hussey (O'Rourke) (Stars
and Stripes Forever, Northwest Passage, The Philadelphia Story, Madame X, Another Thin
Man)
1915: Broadcast journalist Fred Friendly
1928: American microbiologist, Daniel Nathans
corecipient with Hamilton Othanel Smith of the United States and Werner Arber of
Switzerland of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1978.
1932: Director Louis Malle (Pretty Baby,
Atlantic City, Aurevoir Les Enfants, Goodbye Children, Crackers, The Fire Within)
1934: Actor Hamilton Camp
1937: Movie director Claude Lelouch
1939: Rock singer Grace Slick
1939: Songwriter Eddie Holland part of the
writing team Holland-Dozier-Holland (Where Did Our Love Go, Baby Love, Stop! In the Name
of Love, I Hear a Symphony, You Keep Me Hangin' On, Reach Out, I'll Be There)
1939: Singer Grace Slick (Wing) (with the
group: Jefferson Airplane, Jefferson Starship, Starship: Somebody to Love, White Rabbit,
Rejoice, Miracles, Count on Me, Runaway, We Built this City, Sara)
1940: Actor Ed Lauter
1945: Actor, director and producer Henry
Winkler
1947: Musician Timothy B. Schmit (The Eagles)
1951: Actor Harry Hamlin (L.A. Law, Studs Lonigan, Laguna Heat, Clash of the Titans, Dinner at Eight, Murder So Sweet, Under
Investigation, Save Me)
1953: Actor Charles Martin Smith
1954: Country singer T. Graham Brown
1958: Actor Kevin Pollak
1960: Rock singer Joey Belladonna (Anthrax)
1963: Rock singer-musician Jerry DeBorg (Jesus
Jones)
1967: Rock singer-musician Gavin Rossdale
(Bush)
1970: Actress Nia Long
1976: Country singer Kassidy Osborn (SHeDAISY)
0298: Death of St. Marcellus
the Centurion
1270: The seventh crusade
ends by the treaty of Barbary.
1270: 8th & last Crusade
is launched
1300: Edward, King of
England, signs a truce and abandons his invasion of Scotland
1422: Death of Charles VI,
King of France
1485: King Henry VII crated
the Yeoman of theGuard, the "Beefeaters."
1536: Lutheranisim becomes
the official religion of Denmark
1586: Anna Kleiss burned for
witchcraft
1611: Death of Charles IX,
King of Sweden
1617: Death of St. Alphonsus
Rodriguez
1650: In a court case, the
members of the Society of Friends were first called Quakers because of the admonition of
their founder George Fox to "quake and termble at the word of God."
1817: Simon Bolivar
established the independent government of Venezuela.
1822: The
"Unfinished" was begun. Franz Schubert completed two movements of the B minor
symphony and made sketches for a scherzo. But he never completed it, apparently because he
was having something of a nervous collapse after discovering he had syphilis.
1826: Beethoven finished the
new finale of his Opus 135 quartet. He wrote on the score, "Must it be? It must
be," a phrase that listeners say they can hear in the music.
1894: Daniel M. Cooper of
Rochester, New York patented the time clock. Timecards were inserted into the machine. The
time clock would then stamp the time on the card -- to record the actual time (assuming
the time clock was set correctly) employees started and ended work.
1912: John Sherman,
Vice-President of the United States, died in office. Also, he had been nominated by the
Republicans for a second term. But his death came before the General Election. The
republican National Committee named Nicholas Murray Butler to be the candidate.
1918: Turkey signs an
armistice with the Allies, agreeing to end hostilities at noon October 31.
1922: Mussolini sends his
black shirts into Rome. The Fascist takeover is almost without bloodshed. The next day,
Mussolini is made prime minister.
1925: John Baird used a tea
chest, a biscuit box, darning needles, piano wire, motorcycle lamp lenses, old electric
motors, cardboard scanning discs and glue, string and sealing wax to build the TV
transmitter that beamed TV to London for the 1st time.
1929: It was announced that
John D. Rockefeller was buying sound, common stocks to help stem the massive sell-off
going on at the New York Stock Exchange. It didn't help. More than 10.7 million shares had
been dumped the previous day and the market was in a free fall.
1938: Orson Welles triggered
a national panic with a realistic radio dramatization of a Martian invasion, based on
H.G.
Wells' "War of the Worlds."
1941: More than a month
before the United States entered World War II, an American destroyer, the Reuben James,
was torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine.
1944: The Martha Graham
ballet "Appalachian Spring," with music by Aaron Copland, premiered at the
Library of Congress, with Graham in a leading role.
1945: The US government
announced the end of shoe rationing.
1953: General George C.
Marshall was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Dr. Albert Schweitzer received the Peace Prize
for 1952.
1958: Due to great pressure
from the Soviet government, Boris Pasternak refused the Nobel Prize for literature. His
signature work is the novel Doctor Zhivago.
1961: The Soviet Union
tested a hydrogen bomb with a force estimated at 58 megatons.
1961: The Soviet Party
Congress unanimously approved a resolution ordering the removal of Josef Stalin's body
from Lenin's tomb.
1964: Roy Orbison went gold
with his hit single, "Oh, Pretty Woman."
1972: 45 people were killed
when an Illinois Central Gulf commuter train collided with another train in Chicago's
South Side.
1972: Elton John gave a
command performance for the Queen of England.
1974: Muhammad Ali knocked
out George Foreman in the eighth round of a 15-round bout in Kinshasa, Zaire, to regain
his world heavyweight title.
1975: As dictator Francisco
Franco lay near death, Prince Juan Carlos assumed power in Spain.
1979: President Carter
announced his choice of federal appeals judge Shirley Hufstedler to head the newly created
Department of Education.
1984: Barry Manilow opened
at Radio City Music Hall, New York. His concerts sold out to the tune of $1.9 million
dollars - besting the previous record set by Diana Ross -- by $100,000.
1987: President Reagan
announced that Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev would visit Washington the following
December for a summit, during which the two leaders would sign a treaty banning
intermediate-range nuclear missiles.
1988: Responding to
Republican attempts to pin the term "liberal" on him, Democrat Michael Dukakis
declared on the campaign trail, "Yes, I am a liberal, in the tradition of Franklin
Roosevelt, Harry Truman and John Kennedy."
1989: Mitsubishi Estate
Company, a major Japanese real estate concern, announced it was buying 51 percent of
Rockefeller Group Incorporated of New York.
1990: The Iraqi News Agency quoted Saddam Hussein as saying Iraq was making final preparations for war, and that he expected an attack by the United States and its allies within days.
1990: In the Persian Gulf, 10 American sailors died when a steam pipe ruptured aboard the U.S.S. Iwo Jima; in Saudi Arabia, a Marine was killed in an accident while driving in the desert.
1992: Iran-Contra special
prosecutor Lawrence E. Walsh released an excerpt of notes taken by former Defense
Secretary Caspar Weinberger in January 1986 which suggested then-Vice President Bush was
fully aware of the Reagan administration's arms-for-hostages deal with Iran. (Bush said
despite the notes, he was not aware until December 1986 that the arrangement was an actual
arms-for-hostages swap.)
1993: Martin Fettman,
America's first veterinarian in space, chopped the heads off six rats and performed the
world's first animal dissections in space, aboard the shuttle "Columbia."
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: By a vote of 50.6 percent to 49.4 percent, Federalists prevailed over separatists in Quebec in a secession referendum.
1996: After a four-hour
trial, a Chinese court sentenced pro-democracy activist Wang Dan to eleven years in prison
for "conspiring to subvert the Chinese government."
1997: A jury in Cambridge,
Massachusetts, convicted British au pair Louise Woodward of second-degree murder in the
death of eight-month-old Matthew Eappen. (The judge, Hiller B. Zobel, later reduced the
verdict to manslaughter and set Woodward free.)
1997: Confronting some of
his harshest critics, Chinese President Jiang Zemin defended his country's human rights
record before members of Congress.
1997: Movie director Samuel
Fuller died in Hollywood at age 86.
1998: In Nicaragua, a
mudslide caused by Hurricane Mitch killed at least 2,000 people on the slopes of the
Casitas volcano in Posoltega.
1999: Fifty-five people were killed in a fire at an illegal bar in Inchon, South Korea.
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