Today In History
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From Bend it Like Beckham to ER. Parminder Nagra has made it as an actress.
Nevertheless, I would still do ungodly things to her. She's so cute and fragile looking.
1536 - Anglican priest William Tyndale was captured at Antwerp where he was ********* and burnt. He is credited with making the first English translation of the Bible.
1683 - The first Mennonites arrived in America aboard the Concord. The German and Dutch families settled in an area that is now a neighborhood in Philadelphia, PA.
1846 - Inventor George Westinghouse was born. He was the founder of Westinghouse Electric Company and invented railway braking systems.
1847 - "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Bronte was first published in London.
1848 - The steamboat SS California left New York Harbor for San Francisco via Cape Horn. The steamboat service arrived on February 28, 1849. The trip took 4 months and 21 days.
1857 - The American Chess Congress held their first national chess tournament in New York City.
1863 - The first Turkish bath was opened in Brooklyn, NY, by Dr. Charles Shepard.
1866 - The Reno Brothers pulled the first train robbery in America near Seymour, IN. The got away with $10,000.
1880 - The National League kicked the Cincinnati Reds out for selling ****.
1884 - The Naval War College was established in Newport, RI.
1889 - In Paris, the Moulin Rouge opened its doors to the public for the first time.
1889 - The Kinescope was exhibited by Thomas Edison. He had patented the moving picture machine in 1887.
1890 - Polygamy was outlawed by the Mormon Church.
1927 - "The Jazz Singer" opened in New York starring Al Jolson. The film was based on the short story "The Day of Atonement" by Sampson Raphaelson.
1928 - War-torn China was reunited under the Nationalist leader Chiang Kai-Shek.
1937 - "Hobby Lobby" debuted on CBS radio.
1939 - Adolf Hitler denied any intention to wage war against Britain and France in an address to Reichstag.
1948 - "Summer and Smoke" by Tennessee Williams opened on Broadway.
1949 - Iva Toguri D'Aquino was sentenced to 10 years in prison and fined $10,000 for war crimes. The conviction was for being Japanese wartime broadcaster "Tokyo Rose."
1949 - U.S. president Harry Truman signed the Mutual Defense Assistance Act. The act provided $1.3 billion in the form of military aid to NATO countries.
1954 - E.L. Lyon became the first male nurse for the U.S. Army.
1961 - U.S. president John F. Kennedy advised American families to build or buy bomb shelters to protect them in the event of a nuclear exchange with the Soviet Union.
1962 - Robert Goulet began the role of Sir Lancelot in "Camelot".
1972 - South of Saltillo, Mexico, a train derailed ******* 208 people and injuring 1,200.
1973 - Egypt and Syria attacked Israel in an attempt to win back territory that had been lost in the third Arab-Israel war. Support for Israel led to a devastating oil embargo against many nations including the U.S. and Great Britain on October 17, 1973. The war lasted 2 weeks.
1979 - Pope John Paul II became the first pontiff to visit the White House.
1981 - Egyptian president Anwar-el Sadat was assassinated at a military rally in Cairo. Muslim extremists were responsible the other eight deaths that occurred during the ******. Hosni Mubarak became president.
1986 - A Soviet nuclear submarine sank in the Atlantic Ocean about 1,200 miles from New York.
1989 - Two workers for the Swiss Red Cross were ********* by terrorists in Lebanon.
1991 - Elizabeth Taylor married Larry Fortensky. The ceremony was held at Michael Jackson's estate near Los Angeles, CA. It was Taylor's 8th marriage and Fortensky's 3rd.
1991 - Cable News Network aired a videotape of American hostage Terry Anderson that had been made in Beirut, Lebanon.
1992 - Ross Perot appeared in his first paid broadcast on CBS-TV after entering the U.S. presidential race.
1998 - Imelda Marcos was acquitted by the Philippine Supreme Court on the charge of graft. The ruling overturned the guilty verdict that had been found in 1993.
2004 The top U.S. arms inspector in Iraq, Charles Duelfer, reported finding no evidence Saddam Hussein's regime had produced weapons of mass destruction after 1991.
2007 Pakistan's Gen. Pervez Musharraf won a presidential election boycotted by most of his opponents.
Current Birthdays
Jeremy Sisto turns 34 years old today.
66 Britt Ekland
Actress
66 Fred Travalena
Comedian
62 Millie Small
Singer
58 Thomas McClary
R&B musician
57 Kevin Cronin
Rock musician (REO Speedwagon)
54 David Hidalgo
Rock musician (Los Lobos)
53 Tony Dungy
Football coach
45 Elisabeth Shue
Actress
44 Matthew Sweet
Rock singer
42 Jacqueline Obradors
Actress
42 Tim Rushlow
Country singer
42 Tommy Stinson
Rock musician
37 Emily Mortimer
Actress
35 Ioan Gruffudd
Actor
Historic Birthdays
Helen Wills-Moody
10/6/1905 - 1/1/1998
American athlete
16 Wenceslas III
10/6/1289 - 8/4/1306
King of Hungary (1301-4)
69 James McGill
10/6/1744 - 12/19/1813
Scottish-born Canadian fur trader, merchant and politician
43 Sir Isaac Brock
10/6/1769 - 10/13/1812
British politician and soldier; important figure in War of 1812
67 Jenny Lind
10/6/1820 - 11/2/1887
Swedish singer
67 George Westinghouse
10/6/1846 - 3/12/1914
American industrial engineer
70 George Horace Lorimer
10/6/1867 - 10/22/1937
American editor of the Saturday Evening Post
54 Karol Szymanowski
10/6/1882 - 3/29/1937
Polish composer
77 Le Corbusier
10/6/1887 - 8/27/1965
Swiss-born French architect
77 Janet Gaynor
10/6/1906 - 9/14/1984
American actress
33 Carole Lombard
10/6/1908 - 1/16/1942
American actress
1683 - The first Mennonites arrived in America aboard the Concord. The German and Dutch families settled in an area that is now a neighborhood in Philadelphia, PA.
1846 - Inventor George Westinghouse was born. He was the founder of Westinghouse Electric Company and invented railway braking systems.
1847 - "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Bronte was first published in London.
1848 - The steamboat SS California left New York Harbor for San Francisco via Cape Horn. The steamboat service arrived on February 28, 1849. The trip took 4 months and 21 days.
1857 - The American Chess Congress held their first national chess tournament in New York City.
1863 - The first Turkish bath was opened in Brooklyn, NY, by Dr. Charles Shepard.
1866 - The Reno Brothers pulled the first train robbery in America near Seymour, IN. The got away with $10,000.
1880 - The National League kicked the Cincinnati Reds out for selling ****.
1884 - The Naval War College was established in Newport, RI.
1889 - In Paris, the Moulin Rouge opened its doors to the public for the first time.
1889 - The Kinescope was exhibited by Thomas Edison. He had patented the moving picture machine in 1887.
1890 - Polygamy was outlawed by the Mormon Church.
1927 - "The Jazz Singer" opened in New York starring Al Jolson. The film was based on the short story "The Day of Atonement" by Sampson Raphaelson.
1928 - War-torn China was reunited under the Nationalist leader Chiang Kai-Shek.
1937 - "Hobby Lobby" debuted on CBS radio.
1939 - Adolf Hitler denied any intention to wage war against Britain and France in an address to Reichstag.
1948 - "Summer and Smoke" by Tennessee Williams opened on Broadway.
1949 - Iva Toguri D'Aquino was sentenced to 10 years in prison and fined $10,000 for war crimes. The conviction was for being Japanese wartime broadcaster "Tokyo Rose."
1949 - U.S. president Harry Truman signed the Mutual Defense Assistance Act. The act provided $1.3 billion in the form of military aid to NATO countries.
1954 - E.L. Lyon became the first male nurse for the U.S. Army.
1961 - U.S. president John F. Kennedy advised American families to build or buy bomb shelters to protect them in the event of a nuclear exchange with the Soviet Union.
1962 - Robert Goulet began the role of Sir Lancelot in "Camelot".
1972 - South of Saltillo, Mexico, a train derailed ******* 208 people and injuring 1,200.
1973 - Egypt and Syria attacked Israel in an attempt to win back territory that had been lost in the third Arab-Israel war. Support for Israel led to a devastating oil embargo against many nations including the U.S. and Great Britain on October 17, 1973. The war lasted 2 weeks.
1979 - Pope John Paul II became the first pontiff to visit the White House.
1981 - Egyptian president Anwar-el Sadat was assassinated at a military rally in Cairo. Muslim extremists were responsible the other eight deaths that occurred during the ******. Hosni Mubarak became president.
1986 - A Soviet nuclear submarine sank in the Atlantic Ocean about 1,200 miles from New York.
1989 - Two workers for the Swiss Red Cross were ********* by terrorists in Lebanon.
1991 - Elizabeth Taylor married Larry Fortensky. The ceremony was held at Michael Jackson's estate near Los Angeles, CA. It was Taylor's 8th marriage and Fortensky's 3rd.
1991 - Cable News Network aired a videotape of American hostage Terry Anderson that had been made in Beirut, Lebanon.
1992 - Ross Perot appeared in his first paid broadcast on CBS-TV after entering the U.S. presidential race.
1998 - Imelda Marcos was acquitted by the Philippine Supreme Court on the charge of graft. The ruling overturned the guilty verdict that had been found in 1993.
2004 The top U.S. arms inspector in Iraq, Charles Duelfer, reported finding no evidence Saddam Hussein's regime had produced weapons of mass destruction after 1991.
2007 Pakistan's Gen. Pervez Musharraf won a presidential election boycotted by most of his opponents.
Current Birthdays
Jeremy Sisto turns 34 years old today.
66 Britt Ekland
Actress
66 Fred Travalena
Comedian
62 Millie Small
Singer
58 Thomas McClary
R&B musician
57 Kevin Cronin
Rock musician (REO Speedwagon)
54 David Hidalgo
Rock musician (Los Lobos)
53 Tony Dungy
Football coach
45 Elisabeth Shue
Actress
44 Matthew Sweet
Rock singer
42 Jacqueline Obradors
Actress
42 Tim Rushlow
Country singer
42 Tommy Stinson
Rock musician
37 Emily Mortimer
Actress
35 Ioan Gruffudd
Actor
Historic Birthdays
Helen Wills-Moody
10/6/1905 - 1/1/1998
American athlete
16 Wenceslas III
10/6/1289 - 8/4/1306
King of Hungary (1301-4)
69 James McGill
10/6/1744 - 12/19/1813
Scottish-born Canadian fur trader, merchant and politician
43 Sir Isaac Brock
10/6/1769 - 10/13/1812
British politician and soldier; important figure in War of 1812
67 Jenny Lind
10/6/1820 - 11/2/1887
Swedish singer
67 George Westinghouse
10/6/1846 - 3/12/1914
American industrial engineer
70 George Horace Lorimer
10/6/1867 - 10/22/1937
American editor of the Saturday Evening Post
54 Karol Szymanowski
10/6/1882 - 3/29/1937
Polish composer
77 Le Corbusier
10/6/1887 - 8/27/1965
Swiss-born French architect
77 Janet Gaynor
10/6/1906 - 9/14/1984
American actress
33 Carole Lombard
10/6/1908 - 1/16/1942
American actress
1765 - Nine American colonies sent a total of 28 delegates to New York City for the Stamp Act Congress. The delegates adopted the "Declaration of Rights and Grievances."
1777 - During the American Revolution the second Battle of Saratoga began.
1868 - Cornell University was inaugurated in Ithaca, NY.
1913 - For the first time, Henry Ford's entire Highland Park automobile factory was run on a continuously moving assembly line when the chassis was added to the process.
1918 - The Georgia Tech football team defeated Cumberland College 222-0. Georgia Tech carried the ball 978 yards and never threw a pass.
1939 - "Kate Hopkins, Angel of Mercy" was heard for the first time on CBS radio.
1940 - "Portia Faces Life" debuted on the NBC Red network.
1949 - The German Democratic Republic (East Germany) was formed.
1950 - The U.S.-led U.N. ****** crossed the 38th parallel and entered North Korea. China in November proved their threat to enter the war by sending several hundred thousand troops over the border into North Korea.
1951 - The Western Hills Hotel in Fort Worth, TX, became the first hotel to feature all foam-rubber mattresses and pillows.
1956 - A U.S. House subcommittee began investigations of allegedly rigged TV quiz shows.
1963 - U.S. President Kennedy signed a nuclear test ban treaty with Britain and the Soviet Union.
1968 - The Motion Picture Association of America adopted the film-rating system that ranged for "G" to "X."
1981 - The Egyptian parliament, after the assassination of Anwar Sadat, named Vice President Hosni Mubarak the next president of Egypt.
1985 - Four Palestinian terrorists hijacked the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro off the coast of Egypt. There were 440 people onboard. They surrendered after two days and ******* American passenger Leon Klinghoffer.
1985 - 91 people were ****** in Ponce, Puerto Rico, by a mudslide.
1989 - In Budapest, Hungary's Communist Party renounced Marxism in favor of democratic socialism.
1992 - In Peru, a secret military tribunal sentenced Abimael Guzman to life in prison without parole. He was the leader of the Shining Path guerrilla movement.
1993 - U.S. President Clinton sent more troops, heavy armor, and naval firepower to Somalia.
1994 - U.S. President Clinton dispatched an aircraft carrier to the Persian Gulf when Iraqi troops were spotted moving toward Kuwait. The U.S. Army was also put on alert.
1995 - More than 80 people were ****** in Indonesia when an earthquake with a magnitude of 7 on the Richter Scale hit.
1998 - The U.S. government filed an antitrust suit that alleged Visa and MasterCard inhibit competition by preventing banks from offering other cards.
1999 - American Home Products Corp. agreed to pay up to $4.83 billion to settle claims that the fen-phen diet **** caused dangerous problems with heart valves.
2000 - Vojislav Kostunica took the oath of office as Yugoslavia's first popularly elected president.
2001 - Barry Bonds (San Francisco Giants) hit his 73rd home run of the season and set a new major league record.
2001 - The U.S. and Great Britain began airstrikes in Afghanistan in response to that state's support of terrorism and Osama bin Laden. The act was the first military action taken in response to the terrorist attacks on the U.S. on September 11, 2001.
2003 - In California, Arnold Schwarzenegger was elected governor in the recall election of Governor Gray Davis.
2003 - Randy Quaid received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
2004 - Billy Bob Thornton got a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Current Birthdays
Desmond Tutu turns 77 years old today.
81 Al Martino
Singer
65 Oliver North
Former National Security Council aide
63 Kevin Godley
Rock musician (10cc)
61 Jill Larson
Actress ("All My ********")
59 Kieran Kane
Country singer
58 Dick Juaron
Football coach
57 John Mellencamp
Rock singer, musician
56 Mary Badham
Actress ("To **** a Mockingbird")
55 Christopher Norris
Actor
55 Tico Torres
Rock musician (Bon Jovi)
53 Yo-Yo Ma
Cellist
51 Michael W. Smith
Gospel singer
50 Dylan Baker
Actor
49 Simon Cowell
TV personality ("American Idol")
49 Charlie Marinkovich
Rock musician (Iron Butterfly)
46 Dale Watson
Country singer
47 Tony Sparano
Football coach
45 Ann Curless
Singer
41 Toni Braxton
R&B singer
40 Thom Yorke
Rock singer, musician (Radiohead)
39 Leeroy Thornhill
Musician, dancer
38 Nicole Ari Parker
Actress
33 Damian Kulash
Rock musician (OK Go)
32 Taylor Hicks
Singer ("American Idol")
32 Charles Woodson
Football player
30 Omar Benson Miller
Actor
23 Evan Longoria
Baseball player
Historic Birthdays
Elijah Muhammad
10/7/1897 - 2/25/1975
American leader of the Nation of Islam (1934-75)
71 William Laud
10/7/1573 - 1/10/1645
English Archbishop of Canterbury (1633-45)
66 James Witcomb Riley
10/7/1849 - 7/22/1916
American poet
50 George Cram Cook
10/7/1873 - 1/14/1924
American writer
77 Niels Henrik David Bohr
10/7/1885 - 11/18/1962
American scientist
77 Henry Agard Wallace
10/7/1888 - 11/18/1965
American vice president (1941-5); Progressive Party candidate for president (1948)
44 Heinrich Himmler
10/7/1900 - 5/23/1945
German National Socialist politician, administrator and military commander
73 Joe Jo Jones
10/7/1911 - 9/3/1985
American musician
77 Alfred Drake
10/7/1914 - 7/25/1992
American singer
1777 - During the American Revolution the second Battle of Saratoga began.
1868 - Cornell University was inaugurated in Ithaca, NY.
1913 - For the first time, Henry Ford's entire Highland Park automobile factory was run on a continuously moving assembly line when the chassis was added to the process.
1918 - The Georgia Tech football team defeated Cumberland College 222-0. Georgia Tech carried the ball 978 yards and never threw a pass.
1939 - "Kate Hopkins, Angel of Mercy" was heard for the first time on CBS radio.
1940 - "Portia Faces Life" debuted on the NBC Red network.
1949 - The German Democratic Republic (East Germany) was formed.
1950 - The U.S.-led U.N. ****** crossed the 38th parallel and entered North Korea. China in November proved their threat to enter the war by sending several hundred thousand troops over the border into North Korea.
1951 - The Western Hills Hotel in Fort Worth, TX, became the first hotel to feature all foam-rubber mattresses and pillows.
1956 - A U.S. House subcommittee began investigations of allegedly rigged TV quiz shows.
1963 - U.S. President Kennedy signed a nuclear test ban treaty with Britain and the Soviet Union.
1968 - The Motion Picture Association of America adopted the film-rating system that ranged for "G" to "X."
1981 - The Egyptian parliament, after the assassination of Anwar Sadat, named Vice President Hosni Mubarak the next president of Egypt.
1985 - Four Palestinian terrorists hijacked the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro off the coast of Egypt. There were 440 people onboard. They surrendered after two days and ******* American passenger Leon Klinghoffer.
1985 - 91 people were ****** in Ponce, Puerto Rico, by a mudslide.
1989 - In Budapest, Hungary's Communist Party renounced Marxism in favor of democratic socialism.
1992 - In Peru, a secret military tribunal sentenced Abimael Guzman to life in prison without parole. He was the leader of the Shining Path guerrilla movement.
1993 - U.S. President Clinton sent more troops, heavy armor, and naval firepower to Somalia.
1994 - U.S. President Clinton dispatched an aircraft carrier to the Persian Gulf when Iraqi troops were spotted moving toward Kuwait. The U.S. Army was also put on alert.
1995 - More than 80 people were ****** in Indonesia when an earthquake with a magnitude of 7 on the Richter Scale hit.
1998 - The U.S. government filed an antitrust suit that alleged Visa and MasterCard inhibit competition by preventing banks from offering other cards.
1999 - American Home Products Corp. agreed to pay up to $4.83 billion to settle claims that the fen-phen diet **** caused dangerous problems with heart valves.
2000 - Vojislav Kostunica took the oath of office as Yugoslavia's first popularly elected president.
2001 - Barry Bonds (San Francisco Giants) hit his 73rd home run of the season and set a new major league record.
2001 - The U.S. and Great Britain began airstrikes in Afghanistan in response to that state's support of terrorism and Osama bin Laden. The act was the first military action taken in response to the terrorist attacks on the U.S. on September 11, 2001.
2003 - In California, Arnold Schwarzenegger was elected governor in the recall election of Governor Gray Davis.
2003 - Randy Quaid received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
2004 - Billy Bob Thornton got a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Current Birthdays
Desmond Tutu turns 77 years old today.
81 Al Martino
Singer
65 Oliver North
Former National Security Council aide
63 Kevin Godley
Rock musician (10cc)
61 Jill Larson
Actress ("All My ********")
59 Kieran Kane
Country singer
58 Dick Juaron
Football coach
57 John Mellencamp
Rock singer, musician
56 Mary Badham
Actress ("To **** a Mockingbird")
55 Christopher Norris
Actor
55 Tico Torres
Rock musician (Bon Jovi)
53 Yo-Yo Ma
Cellist
51 Michael W. Smith
Gospel singer
50 Dylan Baker
Actor
49 Simon Cowell
TV personality ("American Idol")
49 Charlie Marinkovich
Rock musician (Iron Butterfly)
46 Dale Watson
Country singer
47 Tony Sparano
Football coach
45 Ann Curless
Singer
41 Toni Braxton
R&B singer
40 Thom Yorke
Rock singer, musician (Radiohead)
39 Leeroy Thornhill
Musician, dancer
38 Nicole Ari Parker
Actress
33 Damian Kulash
Rock musician (OK Go)
32 Taylor Hicks
Singer ("American Idol")
32 Charles Woodson
Football player
30 Omar Benson Miller
Actor
23 Evan Longoria
Baseball player
Historic Birthdays
Elijah Muhammad
10/7/1897 - 2/25/1975
American leader of the Nation of Islam (1934-75)
71 William Laud
10/7/1573 - 1/10/1645
English Archbishop of Canterbury (1633-45)
66 James Witcomb Riley
10/7/1849 - 7/22/1916
American poet
50 George Cram Cook
10/7/1873 - 1/14/1924
American writer
77 Niels Henrik David Bohr
10/7/1885 - 11/18/1962
American scientist
77 Henry Agard Wallace
10/7/1888 - 11/18/1965
American vice president (1941-5); Progressive Party candidate for president (1948)
44 Heinrich Himmler
10/7/1900 - 5/23/1945
German National Socialist politician, administrator and military commander
73 Joe Jo Jones
10/7/1911 - 9/3/1985
American musician
77 Alfred Drake
10/7/1914 - 7/25/1992
American singer
1871 - The Great Fire of Chicago broke out destroying about 17,450 buildings. About 250 people were ****** and 90,000 were left homeless.
1871 - Peshtigo, WI, was destroyed by a forest fire. Over 1,100 people were ****** by the fire that eventually burned across 6 counties.
1895 - The Berliner Gramophone Company was founded in Philadelphia, PA.
1904 - "Little Johnny Jones" opened in Hartford, CT.
1915 - During World War I, the Battle of Loos concluded.
1918 - U.S. Corporal Alvin C. York almost single-handedly ****** 25 German soldiers and captured 132 in the Argonne Forest in France. York had originally tried to avoid being drafted as a conscientious objector. After this event his was promoted to sergeant and was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor.
1919 - The first transcontinental air race in the U.S. began.
1934 - Bruno Hauptmann was indicted for the ****** of the ****** *** of Charles A. Lindbergh.
1935 - "The O’Neills" debuted on CBS radio.
1938 - The cover of "The Saturday Evening Post" portrayed Norman Rockwell.
1944 - "The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet" debuted on CBS radio.
1945 - U.S. President Truman announced that only Britain and Canada would be given the secret to the atomic bomb.
1950 - U.N. ****** crossed into North Korea from South Korea.
1952 - "The Complete Book of Etiquette" was published for the first time.
1956 - Donald James Larsen (New York Yankees) pitched the first perfect game in the history of the World Series.
1957 - Jack Soble, a confessed Soviet spy, was sentenced to seven years in prison for espionage.
1957 - The Brooklyn Baseball Club announced that it had accepted a deal to move the Dodgers to Los Angeles.
1966 - The U.S. Government declares that LSD is dangerous and an ******* substance.
1970 - Soviet author Alexander Solzhenitsyn won the Nobel Prize for literature.
1979 - "Sugar Babies" opened at the Mark Hellinger Theatre on Broadway.
1981 - U.S. President Reagan greeted former Presidents Carter, Ford and Nixon to the White House. The group was preparing to leave for Egypt to attend the funeral of Anwar Sadat.
1982 - In Poland, all labor organizations, including Solidarity, were ******.
1991 - A slave burial site was found by construction workers in lower Manhattan. The "Negro Burial Ground" had been closed in 1790. Over a dozen skeletons were found.
1993 - The U.S. government issued a report absolving the FBI of any wrongdoing in its final assault in Waco, TX, on the Branch Davidian compound. The fire that ended the siege ****** as many as 85 people.
1996 - Pope John Paul II underwent a successful operation to remove his inflamed appendix.
1998 - Taliban ****** attacked Iranian border posts. Iran said that three border posts were destroyed before the Taliban ****** were ****** to retreat. The Taliban of Afghanistan denied the event occurred.
1998 - Canada and Netherlands were voted into the U.N. Security Council.
2001 - Tom Ridge, former Governor of Pennsylvania, was sworn in as director of the new U.S. department of Homeland Security.
2001 - Rush Limbaugh announced to his listeners that he was totally deaf in his left ear and had only partial hearing in his right ear. The condition had happened in a three month period.
2001 - Two Russian cosmonauts made the first spacewalk to be conducted outside of the international space station without a shuttle present.
2002 - A federal judge approved U.S. President George W. Bush's request to reopen West Coast ports, to end a caustic 10-day labor lockout. The lockout was costing the U.S. economy an estimated $1 billion to $2 billion a day.
2003 - China announced that it would have a human crew orbit the Earth briefly on October 15.
2003 - Vietnam and the United States reached a tentative agreement that would allow the first commercial flights between the two countries since the end of the Vietnam War.
2003 - It was announced that Vivendi Universal and General Electric Co. had reached an agreement to merge. The name for the combined company was NBC Universal.
2003 - Siegfried Fischbacher and his manager announced that the "Siegfried and Roy" show at the Mirage was canceled permanently. It was also said that if Roy Horn survived, after a tiger ****** on October 3, the duo would continue to work together.
2004 - The first-ever direct presidential elections were held in Afghanistan.
2004 - At Alderson Federal Prison Camp, WV, Martha Stewart began her five-month prison sentence. The sentence was imposed for Stewart lying about a stock sale.
Current Birthdays
Chevy Chase turns 65 years old today.
72 Rona Barrett
Entertainment reporter
70 Fred Stolle
Tennis Hall of Famer
69 Paul Hogan
Actor ("Crocodile Dundee" movies)
68 Fred Cash
R&B singer (The Impressions)
67 Jesse Jackson
Civil rights leader
65 R.L. Stine
Author
64 Susan Raye
Country singer
60 Sarah Purcell
TV personality
59 Sigourney Weaver
Actress
58 Robert "Kool" Bell
R&B singer (Kool & the Gang)
56 Edward Zwick
Director, producer
55 Ricky Lee Phelps
Country musician
54 Michael Dudikoff
Actor
53 Darrell Hammond
Comedian ("Saturday Night Live")
52 Stephanie Zimbalist
Actress
47 Mitch Marine
Rock musician
45 Steve Perry
Rock singer (Cherry Poppin' *******)
44 Ian Hart
Actor
44 CeCe Winans
Gospel, R&B singer
43 C.J. Ramone
Rock musician (The Ramones)
42 Teddy Riley
R&B singer, producer
40 Emily Procter
Actress ("CSI: Miami")
38 Matt Damon
Actor
29 Kristanna Loken
Actress
29 Byron Reeder
R&B singer (Mista)
28 Nick Cannon
Actor
15 Angus T. Jones
Actor ("Two and a Half Men")
Historic Birthdays
Edward V. Rickenbacker
10/8/1890 - 7/23/1973
American World War I fighter pilot and aviation industrialist
87 Heinrich Schutz
10/8/1585 - 11/6/1672
German composer
74 Edmund Steadman
10/8/1833 - 1/18/1908
American poet and banker
66 John Milton Hay
10/8/1838 - 7/1/1905
American politician; U.S. secretary of state (1898-1905)
78 Juan D. Peron
10/8/1895 - 7/1/1974
Argentinian president (1946-55, 1973-4)
65 Frank Herbert
10/8/1920 - 2/11/1986
American writer
1871 - Peshtigo, WI, was destroyed by a forest fire. Over 1,100 people were ****** by the fire that eventually burned across 6 counties.
1895 - The Berliner Gramophone Company was founded in Philadelphia, PA.
1904 - "Little Johnny Jones" opened in Hartford, CT.
1915 - During World War I, the Battle of Loos concluded.
1918 - U.S. Corporal Alvin C. York almost single-handedly ****** 25 German soldiers and captured 132 in the Argonne Forest in France. York had originally tried to avoid being drafted as a conscientious objector. After this event his was promoted to sergeant and was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor.
1919 - The first transcontinental air race in the U.S. began.
1934 - Bruno Hauptmann was indicted for the ****** of the ****** *** of Charles A. Lindbergh.
1935 - "The O’Neills" debuted on CBS radio.
1938 - The cover of "The Saturday Evening Post" portrayed Norman Rockwell.
1944 - "The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet" debuted on CBS radio.
1945 - U.S. President Truman announced that only Britain and Canada would be given the secret to the atomic bomb.
1950 - U.N. ****** crossed into North Korea from South Korea.
1952 - "The Complete Book of Etiquette" was published for the first time.
1956 - Donald James Larsen (New York Yankees) pitched the first perfect game in the history of the World Series.
1957 - Jack Soble, a confessed Soviet spy, was sentenced to seven years in prison for espionage.
1957 - The Brooklyn Baseball Club announced that it had accepted a deal to move the Dodgers to Los Angeles.
1966 - The U.S. Government declares that LSD is dangerous and an ******* substance.
1970 - Soviet author Alexander Solzhenitsyn won the Nobel Prize for literature.
1979 - "Sugar Babies" opened at the Mark Hellinger Theatre on Broadway.
1981 - U.S. President Reagan greeted former Presidents Carter, Ford and Nixon to the White House. The group was preparing to leave for Egypt to attend the funeral of Anwar Sadat.
1982 - In Poland, all labor organizations, including Solidarity, were ******.
1991 - A slave burial site was found by construction workers in lower Manhattan. The "Negro Burial Ground" had been closed in 1790. Over a dozen skeletons were found.
1993 - The U.S. government issued a report absolving the FBI of any wrongdoing in its final assault in Waco, TX, on the Branch Davidian compound. The fire that ended the siege ****** as many as 85 people.
1996 - Pope John Paul II underwent a successful operation to remove his inflamed appendix.
1998 - Taliban ****** attacked Iranian border posts. Iran said that three border posts were destroyed before the Taliban ****** were ****** to retreat. The Taliban of Afghanistan denied the event occurred.
1998 - Canada and Netherlands were voted into the U.N. Security Council.
2001 - Tom Ridge, former Governor of Pennsylvania, was sworn in as director of the new U.S. department of Homeland Security.
2001 - Rush Limbaugh announced to his listeners that he was totally deaf in his left ear and had only partial hearing in his right ear. The condition had happened in a three month period.
2001 - Two Russian cosmonauts made the first spacewalk to be conducted outside of the international space station without a shuttle present.
2002 - A federal judge approved U.S. President George W. Bush's request to reopen West Coast ports, to end a caustic 10-day labor lockout. The lockout was costing the U.S. economy an estimated $1 billion to $2 billion a day.
2003 - China announced that it would have a human crew orbit the Earth briefly on October 15.
2003 - Vietnam and the United States reached a tentative agreement that would allow the first commercial flights between the two countries since the end of the Vietnam War.
2003 - It was announced that Vivendi Universal and General Electric Co. had reached an agreement to merge. The name for the combined company was NBC Universal.
2003 - Siegfried Fischbacher and his manager announced that the "Siegfried and Roy" show at the Mirage was canceled permanently. It was also said that if Roy Horn survived, after a tiger ****** on October 3, the duo would continue to work together.
2004 - The first-ever direct presidential elections were held in Afghanistan.
2004 - At Alderson Federal Prison Camp, WV, Martha Stewart began her five-month prison sentence. The sentence was imposed for Stewart lying about a stock sale.
Current Birthdays
Chevy Chase turns 65 years old today.
72 Rona Barrett
Entertainment reporter
70 Fred Stolle
Tennis Hall of Famer
69 Paul Hogan
Actor ("Crocodile Dundee" movies)
68 Fred Cash
R&B singer (The Impressions)
67 Jesse Jackson
Civil rights leader
65 R.L. Stine
Author
64 Susan Raye
Country singer
60 Sarah Purcell
TV personality
59 Sigourney Weaver
Actress
58 Robert "Kool" Bell
R&B singer (Kool & the Gang)
56 Edward Zwick
Director, producer
55 Ricky Lee Phelps
Country musician
54 Michael Dudikoff
Actor
53 Darrell Hammond
Comedian ("Saturday Night Live")
52 Stephanie Zimbalist
Actress
47 Mitch Marine
Rock musician
45 Steve Perry
Rock singer (Cherry Poppin' *******)
44 Ian Hart
Actor
44 CeCe Winans
Gospel, R&B singer
43 C.J. Ramone
Rock musician (The Ramones)
42 Teddy Riley
R&B singer, producer
40 Emily Procter
Actress ("CSI: Miami")
38 Matt Damon
Actor
29 Kristanna Loken
Actress
29 Byron Reeder
R&B singer (Mista)
28 Nick Cannon
Actor
15 Angus T. Jones
Actor ("Two and a Half Men")
Historic Birthdays
Edward V. Rickenbacker
10/8/1890 - 7/23/1973
American World War I fighter pilot and aviation industrialist
87 Heinrich Schutz
10/8/1585 - 11/6/1672
German composer
74 Edmund Steadman
10/8/1833 - 1/18/1908
American poet and banker
66 John Milton Hay
10/8/1838 - 7/1/1905
American politician; U.S. secretary of state (1898-1905)
78 Juan D. Peron
10/8/1895 - 7/1/1974
Argentinian president (1946-55, 1973-4)
65 Frank Herbert
10/8/1920 - 2/11/1986
American writer
1635 - Roger Williams, founder of Rhode Island, was banished from Massachusetts because he had spoken out against punishments for religious offenses and giving away land that belonged to the Indians. Williams had founded Providence, Rhode Island as a place for people to seek religious freedom.
1701 - The Collegiate School of Connecticut was chartered in New Haven. The name was later changed to Yale.
1776 - A group of Spanish missionaries settled in what is now San Francisco, CA.
1781 - The last major battle of the American Revolutionary War took place in Yorktown, VA. The American ******, led by George Washington, defeated the British troops under Lord Cornwallis.
1812 - During the War of 1812 American ****** captured two British brigs, the Detroit and the Caledonia.
1855 - Isaac Singer patented the sewing machine motor.
1855 - Joshua C. Stoddard received a patent for his calliope.
1858 - Mail service via stagecoach between San Francisco, CA, and St. Louis, MO, began.
1872 - Aaron Montgomery started his mail order business with the delivery of the first mail order catalog. The firm later became Montgomery Wards.
1876 - Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas Watson made their longest telephone call to date. It was a distance of two miles.
1888 - The public was admitted to the Washington Monument for the first time.
1914 - During World War I, German ****** captured Antwerp, Belgium.
1919 - The Cincinnati Reds won the World Series. The win would be later tainted when 8 Chicago White Sox were charged with throwing the game. The incident became known as the "Black Sox" scandal.
1930 - Aviator Laura Ingalls landed in Glendale, CA, to complete the first solo transcontinental flight across the U.S. by a woman.
1935 - "Cavalcade of America" was first broadcast on CBS radio.
1936 - The first generator at Boulder Dam began transmitting electricity to Los Angeles, CA. The name of the dam was later changed to Hoover Dam.
1940 - St. Paul's Cathedral in London was bombed by the Nazis. The dome was unharmed in the bombing.
1943 - "Land of the Lost" debuted on ABC radio.
1946 - "The Iceman Cometh" opened in New York City, NY.
1946 - The first electric blanket went on sale in Petersburg, VA.
1947 - The Broadway show, "High Button Shoes", opened.
1963 - Over 2,000 people were ****** in northeast Italy when the Vaiont Dam was overrun by water. The incident was caused by landslide that occurred behind the dam.
1967 - Che Guevara was executed by Bolivian soldiers for attempting to incite a revolution in Bolivia.
1974 - Oskar Schindler died in Frankfurt, Germany. Schindler is credited with saving the lives of about 1,200 Jews during the Holocaust.
1975 - Andrei Sakharov was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. The Soviet scientist is known as the "****** of the hydrogen bomb."
1983 - Helen Moss joined the Brownies at the age of 83. She became the oldest person to become a member.
1985 - The hijackers of the Achille Lauro cruise liner surrendered after the ship arrived in Port Said, Egypt.
1986 - U.S. District Judge Harry E. Claiborne became the fifth federal official to be removed from office through impeachment. The U.S. Senate convicted Claiborne of "high crimes and misdemeanors."
1986 - Joan Rivers debuted her new "The Late Show" on the FOX network.
1986 - The musical "Phantom of the Opera" by Andrew Lloyd Webber opened in London.
1989 - The official Soviet news agency Tass reported an unidentified flying object. The report included a trio of tall aliens that had visited the city of Voronzh.
1991 - The play revival "On Borrowed Time" opened.
1994 - The U.S. sent troops and warships to the Persian Gulf in response to Saddam Hussein sending thousands of troops and hundreds of tanks toward the Kuwaiti border.
1995 - Saboteurs tinkered with a stretch of railroad track in Arizona. An Amtrak train derailed ******* one and injuring a hundred.
2000 - Brett Hull (Dallas Stars) scored his 611th National Hockey League (NHL) goal. The goal allowed him to pass his ******, Bobby Hull, on the all time scoring list bringing him to number 9.
2001 - Prosecutors in Miami, FL, announced that they would seek a prison sentence if O.J. Simpson was convicted in his road rage trial. Jury selection began for the trial just after the announcement.
2003 - Britain's Queen Elizabeth II knighted Roger Moore and made Sting a CBE (Commander of the British Empire).
Current Birthdays
Annika Sorenstam turns 38 years old today
86 Fyvush Finkel
Actor
67 Trent Lott
U.S. senator, R-Miss.
64 Nona Hendryx
R&B singer
60 Jackson Browne
Rock singer
58 Gary Frank
Actor
57 Richard Chaves
Actor
57 Robert Wuhl
Actor
56 Sharon Osbourne
TV personality ("The Osbournes")
55 Tony Shalhoub
Actor ("Monk," "Wings")
54 Scott Bakula
Actor ("Star Trek: Enterprise," "Quantum Leap")
54 James Fearnley
Rock musician (The Pogues)
54 John O'Hurley
Actor
50 Mike Singletary
Football Hall of Famer
50 Michael Pare
Actor
48 Kenny Garrett
Jazz saxophonist
47 Kurt Neumann
Rock singer, musician (The BoDeans)
44 Gary Bennett
Country singer
44 Guillermo del Toro
Director ("Pan's Labyrinth")
39 P.J. Harvey
Rock singer
35 Tommy Shane Steiner
Country singer
33 Sean Lennon
Rock musician
30 Randy Spelling
Actor
29 Brandon Routh
Actor ("Superman Returns")
27 Zachery Ty Bryan
Actor ("Home Improvement")
16 Tyler James Williams
Actor ("Everybody Hates Chris")
Historic Birthdays
Bruce Catton
10/9/1899 - 8/28/1978
American historian
72 Robert de Sorbon
10/9/1201 - 8/15/1274
French theologian
79 King Charles X
10/9/1757 - 11/6/1836
French king (1824-30)
86 Camille Saint-Saens
10/9/1835 - 12/16/1921
French composer
66 Leonard Wood
10/9/1860 - 8/7/1927
American medical officer and governor general of the Philippines (1921-7)
66 Charles R. Walgreen
10/9/1873 - 12/11/1939
American pharmacist
53 Aimee Semple McPherson
10/9/1890 - 9/27/1944
Canadian-born American evangelist
75 Walter O'Malley
10/9/1903 - 8/9/1979
American lawyer
1701 - The Collegiate School of Connecticut was chartered in New Haven. The name was later changed to Yale.
1776 - A group of Spanish missionaries settled in what is now San Francisco, CA.
1781 - The last major battle of the American Revolutionary War took place in Yorktown, VA. The American ******, led by George Washington, defeated the British troops under Lord Cornwallis.
1812 - During the War of 1812 American ****** captured two British brigs, the Detroit and the Caledonia.
1855 - Isaac Singer patented the sewing machine motor.
1855 - Joshua C. Stoddard received a patent for his calliope.
1858 - Mail service via stagecoach between San Francisco, CA, and St. Louis, MO, began.
1872 - Aaron Montgomery started his mail order business with the delivery of the first mail order catalog. The firm later became Montgomery Wards.
1876 - Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas Watson made their longest telephone call to date. It was a distance of two miles.
1888 - The public was admitted to the Washington Monument for the first time.
1914 - During World War I, German ****** captured Antwerp, Belgium.
1919 - The Cincinnati Reds won the World Series. The win would be later tainted when 8 Chicago White Sox were charged with throwing the game. The incident became known as the "Black Sox" scandal.
1930 - Aviator Laura Ingalls landed in Glendale, CA, to complete the first solo transcontinental flight across the U.S. by a woman.
1935 - "Cavalcade of America" was first broadcast on CBS radio.
1936 - The first generator at Boulder Dam began transmitting electricity to Los Angeles, CA. The name of the dam was later changed to Hoover Dam.
1940 - St. Paul's Cathedral in London was bombed by the Nazis. The dome was unharmed in the bombing.
1943 - "Land of the Lost" debuted on ABC radio.
1946 - "The Iceman Cometh" opened in New York City, NY.
1946 - The first electric blanket went on sale in Petersburg, VA.
1947 - The Broadway show, "High Button Shoes", opened.
1963 - Over 2,000 people were ****** in northeast Italy when the Vaiont Dam was overrun by water. The incident was caused by landslide that occurred behind the dam.
1967 - Che Guevara was executed by Bolivian soldiers for attempting to incite a revolution in Bolivia.
1974 - Oskar Schindler died in Frankfurt, Germany. Schindler is credited with saving the lives of about 1,200 Jews during the Holocaust.
1975 - Andrei Sakharov was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. The Soviet scientist is known as the "****** of the hydrogen bomb."
1983 - Helen Moss joined the Brownies at the age of 83. She became the oldest person to become a member.
1985 - The hijackers of the Achille Lauro cruise liner surrendered after the ship arrived in Port Said, Egypt.
1986 - U.S. District Judge Harry E. Claiborne became the fifth federal official to be removed from office through impeachment. The U.S. Senate convicted Claiborne of "high crimes and misdemeanors."
1986 - Joan Rivers debuted her new "The Late Show" on the FOX network.
1986 - The musical "Phantom of the Opera" by Andrew Lloyd Webber opened in London.
1989 - The official Soviet news agency Tass reported an unidentified flying object. The report included a trio of tall aliens that had visited the city of Voronzh.
1991 - The play revival "On Borrowed Time" opened.
1994 - The U.S. sent troops and warships to the Persian Gulf in response to Saddam Hussein sending thousands of troops and hundreds of tanks toward the Kuwaiti border.
1995 - Saboteurs tinkered with a stretch of railroad track in Arizona. An Amtrak train derailed ******* one and injuring a hundred.
2000 - Brett Hull (Dallas Stars) scored his 611th National Hockey League (NHL) goal. The goal allowed him to pass his ******, Bobby Hull, on the all time scoring list bringing him to number 9.
2001 - Prosecutors in Miami, FL, announced that they would seek a prison sentence if O.J. Simpson was convicted in his road rage trial. Jury selection began for the trial just after the announcement.
2003 - Britain's Queen Elizabeth II knighted Roger Moore and made Sting a CBE (Commander of the British Empire).
Current Birthdays
Annika Sorenstam turns 38 years old today
86 Fyvush Finkel
Actor
67 Trent Lott
U.S. senator, R-Miss.
64 Nona Hendryx
R&B singer
60 Jackson Browne
Rock singer
58 Gary Frank
Actor
57 Richard Chaves
Actor
57 Robert Wuhl
Actor
56 Sharon Osbourne
TV personality ("The Osbournes")
55 Tony Shalhoub
Actor ("Monk," "Wings")
54 Scott Bakula
Actor ("Star Trek: Enterprise," "Quantum Leap")
54 James Fearnley
Rock musician (The Pogues)
54 John O'Hurley
Actor
50 Mike Singletary
Football Hall of Famer
50 Michael Pare
Actor
48 Kenny Garrett
Jazz saxophonist
47 Kurt Neumann
Rock singer, musician (The BoDeans)
44 Gary Bennett
Country singer
44 Guillermo del Toro
Director ("Pan's Labyrinth")
39 P.J. Harvey
Rock singer
35 Tommy Shane Steiner
Country singer
33 Sean Lennon
Rock musician
30 Randy Spelling
Actor
29 Brandon Routh
Actor ("Superman Returns")
27 Zachery Ty Bryan
Actor ("Home Improvement")
16 Tyler James Williams
Actor ("Everybody Hates Chris")
Historic Birthdays
Bruce Catton
10/9/1899 - 8/28/1978
American historian
72 Robert de Sorbon
10/9/1201 - 8/15/1274
French theologian
79 King Charles X
10/9/1757 - 11/6/1836
French king (1824-30)
86 Camille Saint-Saens
10/9/1835 - 12/16/1921
French composer
66 Leonard Wood
10/9/1860 - 8/7/1927
American medical officer and governor general of the Philippines (1921-7)
66 Charles R. Walgreen
10/9/1873 - 12/11/1939
American pharmacist
53 Aimee Semple McPherson
10/9/1890 - 9/27/1944
Canadian-born American evangelist
75 Walter O'Malley
10/9/1903 - 8/9/1979
American lawyer
1845 - The United States Naval Academy opened in Annapolis, MD.
1865 - The billiard ball was patented by John Wesley Hyatt.
1886 - The tuxedo dinner jacket made its U.S. debut in New York City.
1887 - Thomas Edison organized the Edison Phonograph Company.
1911 - China's Manchu dynasty was overthrown by revolutionaries under Sun Yat-sen.
1913 - U.S. President Woodrow Wilson triggered the explosion of the Gamboa Dike that ended the construction of the Panama Canal.
1928 - "Hold Everything" opened on Broadway.
1932 - "Betty and Bob" began on radio.
1932 - "Judy and Jane" began on radio.
1933 - Dreft, the first synthetic detergent, went on sale.
1937 - The Mutual Broadcasting System debuted "Thirty Minutes in Hollywood".
1938 - **** Germany completed its annexation of Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland.
1943 - Chaing Kai-shek took the oath of office as the president of China.
1957 - U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower apologized to Komla Agbeli Gbdemah, the finance minister of Ghana, after the official had been refused service in a Dover, DE, restaurant.
1959 - Pan American World Airways announced the beginning of the first global airline service.
1963 - A dam burst in Italy ******* 3,000 people.
1965 - The Red Baron made his first appearance in the "Peanuts" comic strip.
1970 - Pierre Laporte, the labor minister of Quebec, was ********* by the Quebec Liberation Front (FLQ) during the October Crisis in Canada. He was found eight days later ********* to death.
1973 - U.S. Vice President Spiro Agnew resigned after being charged with federal income tax evasion.
1973 - Fiji became independent after of nearly a century of British rule.
1977 - Joe Namath played the last game of his National Football League (NFL) career.
1978 - The U.S. bill authorizing the Susan B. Anthony dollar was signed by U.S. President Jimmy Carter.
1985 - U.S. fighter jets ****** an Egyptian plane to land in Italy so that the hijackers of the Italian cruise ship Achilles Lauro could be arrested.
1986 - An estimated 1,500 people were ****** when an earthquake measuring 7.5 on the Richter Scale struck San Salvador, El Salvador.
1987 - Tom McClean finished rowing across the Atlantic Ocean. It set the record at 54 days and 18 hours.
1991 - The United States cut all foreign aid to Haiti in reaction to a military coup that ****** President Jean-Claude Aristide into exile.
1994 - Lt. Gen. Raoul Cedras resigned as Haiti's commander-in-chief of the army and pledged to leave the country.
1994 - Iraq announced it was withdrawing its ****** from the Kuwaiti border. No signs of a pullback were observed.
1995 - Gary Kasparov won a chess championship against Viswanathan Anand that had lasted about a month.
1997 - The Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, opened to the public. Architect Frank Gehry designed the 450 ft. long and 98 ft. wide building.
2001 - U.S. President George W. Bush presented a list of 22 most wanted terrorists.
2003 - Rush Limbaugh annouced that he was addicted to painkillers and that he was going to check into a rehab center
2004 Actor Christopher Reeve, who became a quadriplegic after a May 1995 ***** riding accident, died at age 52.
2005 Angela Merkel struck a power-sharing deal that made her the first woman and the first politician from the ex-communist East to serve as Germany's chancellor
Current Birthdays
Brett Favre turns 39 years old today.
78 Harold Pinter
Nobel Prize-winning playwright
67 Peter Coyote
Actor
62 Charles Dance
Actor
62 John Prine
Rock, country singer
62 Ben Vereen
Actor, dancer
60 Cyril Neville
Rock singer, musician (The Neville Brothers)
59 Jessica Harper
Actress
55 Midge Ure
Singer, musician
54 David Lee Roth
Rock singer (Van Halen)
50 Tanya Tucker
Country singer
49 Julia Sweeney
Actress, comedian ("Saturday Night Live")
49 Bradley Whitford
Actor ("The West Wing")
47 Martin Kemp
Rock musician (Spandau Ballet)
45 Jim Glennie
Rock musician (James)
43 Rebecca Pidgeon
Actress
41 Mike Malinin
Rock musician (Goo Goo Dolls)
39 Wendi McLendon-Covey
Actress ("Reno 911!")
34 Dale Earnhardt Jr.
Auto racer
30 Jodi Lyn O'Keefe
Actress
29 Mya
R&B singer
24 Cherie
R&B singer
19 Aimee Teegarden
Actress ("Friday Night Lights")
Historic Birthdays
Thelonious Monk
10/10/1917 - 2/17/1982
American jazz pianist and composer
36 Jean-Antoine Watteau
10/10/1684 - 7/18/1721
French painter
78 Henry Cavendish
10/10/1731 - 2/24/1810
American chemist
82 Benjamin West
10/10/1738 - 3/11/1820
American painter
71 Benjamin Wright
10/10/1770 - 8/24/1842
American engineer; directed construction of Erie Canal
87 Giuseppe Verdi
10/10/1813 - 1/27/1901
Italian operatic composer
73 Queen Isabella II
10/10/1830 - 4/9/1904
Spanish queen (1833-68)
64 Maurice Prendergast
10/10/1859 - 2/1/1924
American-born Canadian painter
92 Helen Hayes
10/10/1900 - 3/17/1993
American actress
64 Alberto Giacometti
10/10/1901 - 1/11/1966
Swiss sculptor
86 Frederick Douglass Patterson
10/10/1901 - 4/26/1988
American educator; president of Tuskegee Institute (1935-53) and founder of United Negro College Fund
1865 - The billiard ball was patented by John Wesley Hyatt.
1886 - The tuxedo dinner jacket made its U.S. debut in New York City.
1887 - Thomas Edison organized the Edison Phonograph Company.
1911 - China's Manchu dynasty was overthrown by revolutionaries under Sun Yat-sen.
1913 - U.S. President Woodrow Wilson triggered the explosion of the Gamboa Dike that ended the construction of the Panama Canal.
1928 - "Hold Everything" opened on Broadway.
1932 - "Betty and Bob" began on radio.
1932 - "Judy and Jane" began on radio.
1933 - Dreft, the first synthetic detergent, went on sale.
1937 - The Mutual Broadcasting System debuted "Thirty Minutes in Hollywood".
1938 - **** Germany completed its annexation of Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland.
1943 - Chaing Kai-shek took the oath of office as the president of China.
1957 - U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower apologized to Komla Agbeli Gbdemah, the finance minister of Ghana, after the official had been refused service in a Dover, DE, restaurant.
1959 - Pan American World Airways announced the beginning of the first global airline service.
1963 - A dam burst in Italy ******* 3,000 people.
1965 - The Red Baron made his first appearance in the "Peanuts" comic strip.
1970 - Pierre Laporte, the labor minister of Quebec, was ********* by the Quebec Liberation Front (FLQ) during the October Crisis in Canada. He was found eight days later ********* to death.
1973 - U.S. Vice President Spiro Agnew resigned after being charged with federal income tax evasion.
1973 - Fiji became independent after of nearly a century of British rule.
1977 - Joe Namath played the last game of his National Football League (NFL) career.
1978 - The U.S. bill authorizing the Susan B. Anthony dollar was signed by U.S. President Jimmy Carter.
1985 - U.S. fighter jets ****** an Egyptian plane to land in Italy so that the hijackers of the Italian cruise ship Achilles Lauro could be arrested.
1986 - An estimated 1,500 people were ****** when an earthquake measuring 7.5 on the Richter Scale struck San Salvador, El Salvador.
1987 - Tom McClean finished rowing across the Atlantic Ocean. It set the record at 54 days and 18 hours.
1991 - The United States cut all foreign aid to Haiti in reaction to a military coup that ****** President Jean-Claude Aristide into exile.
1994 - Lt. Gen. Raoul Cedras resigned as Haiti's commander-in-chief of the army and pledged to leave the country.
1994 - Iraq announced it was withdrawing its ****** from the Kuwaiti border. No signs of a pullback were observed.
1995 - Gary Kasparov won a chess championship against Viswanathan Anand that had lasted about a month.
1997 - The Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, opened to the public. Architect Frank Gehry designed the 450 ft. long and 98 ft. wide building.
2001 - U.S. President George W. Bush presented a list of 22 most wanted terrorists.
2003 - Rush Limbaugh annouced that he was addicted to painkillers and that he was going to check into a rehab center
2004 Actor Christopher Reeve, who became a quadriplegic after a May 1995 ***** riding accident, died at age 52.
2005 Angela Merkel struck a power-sharing deal that made her the first woman and the first politician from the ex-communist East to serve as Germany's chancellor
Current Birthdays
Brett Favre turns 39 years old today.
78 Harold Pinter
Nobel Prize-winning playwright
67 Peter Coyote
Actor
62 Charles Dance
Actor
62 John Prine
Rock, country singer
62 Ben Vereen
Actor, dancer
60 Cyril Neville
Rock singer, musician (The Neville Brothers)
59 Jessica Harper
Actress
55 Midge Ure
Singer, musician
54 David Lee Roth
Rock singer (Van Halen)
50 Tanya Tucker
Country singer
49 Julia Sweeney
Actress, comedian ("Saturday Night Live")
49 Bradley Whitford
Actor ("The West Wing")
47 Martin Kemp
Rock musician (Spandau Ballet)
45 Jim Glennie
Rock musician (James)
43 Rebecca Pidgeon
Actress
41 Mike Malinin
Rock musician (Goo Goo Dolls)
39 Wendi McLendon-Covey
Actress ("Reno 911!")
34 Dale Earnhardt Jr.
Auto racer
30 Jodi Lyn O'Keefe
Actress
29 Mya
R&B singer
24 Cherie
R&B singer
19 Aimee Teegarden
Actress ("Friday Night Lights")
Historic Birthdays
Thelonious Monk
10/10/1917 - 2/17/1982
American jazz pianist and composer
36 Jean-Antoine Watteau
10/10/1684 - 7/18/1721
French painter
78 Henry Cavendish
10/10/1731 - 2/24/1810
American chemist
82 Benjamin West
10/10/1738 - 3/11/1820
American painter
71 Benjamin Wright
10/10/1770 - 8/24/1842
American engineer; directed construction of Erie Canal
87 Giuseppe Verdi
10/10/1813 - 1/27/1901
Italian operatic composer
73 Queen Isabella II
10/10/1830 - 4/9/1904
Spanish queen (1833-68)
64 Maurice Prendergast
10/10/1859 - 2/1/1924
American-born Canadian painter
92 Helen Hayes
10/10/1900 - 3/17/1993
American actress
64 Alberto Giacometti
10/10/1901 - 1/11/1966
Swiss sculptor
86 Frederick Douglass Patterson
10/10/1901 - 4/26/1988
American educator; president of Tuskegee Institute (1935-53) and founder of United Negro College Fund
1759 - Parson Mason Weems was born. He is remembered for his fictitious stories that he presented as fact. He was responsible for the story about George Washington cutting down his ******'s cherry tree.
1776 - During the American Revolution the first naval battle of Lake Champlain was fought. The ****** under Gen. Benedict Arnold suffered heavy losses.
1779 - Casimir Pulaski, a Polish nobleman, was ****** while fighting during the Revolutionary War Battle of Savannah, GA. He was fighting for American independence.
1809 - Meriwether Lewis committed suicide along the Natchez Trace in Tennessee at an inn called Grinder's Stand.
1811 - The Juliana, the first steam-powered ferryboat, was put into operation by the inventor John Stevens. The ferry went between New York City, NY, and Hoboken, NJ.
1869 - Thomas Edison filed for a patent on his first invention. The electric machine was used for counting votes for the U.S. Congress, however the Congress did not buy it.
1881 - David Henderson Houston patented the first roll film for cameras.
1890 - The ********* of the American Revolution was founded in Washington, DC.
1899 - The Boer War began in South Africa between the British and the Boers of the Transvaal and Orange Free State.
1929 - JCPenney opened a store in Milford, DE, making it a nationwide company with stores in all 48 states.
1932 - In New York, the first telecast of a political campaign was aired.
1936 - The radio show, "Professor Quiz", aired for the first time.
1939 - U.S. President Roosevelt was presented with a letter from Albert Einstein that urged him to develop the U.S. atomic program rapidly.
1942 - The Battle of Cape Esperance, during World War II, began in the Solomons.
1958 - Pioneer 1, a lunar probe, was launched by the U.S. The probe did not reach its destination and fell back to Earth and burned up in the atmosphere.
1968 - Apollo 7 was launched by the U.S. The first manned Apollo mission was the first in which live television broadcasts were received from orbit. Wally Schirra, Don Fulton Eisele and R. Walter Cunningham were the astronauts aboard.
1971 - Hugh Downs left the "Today" show and "Concentration". He later became the host of ABC's "20/20".
1975 - "Saturday Night Live" was broadcast for the first time. George Carlin was the guest host.
1975 - Bill Clinton and Hillary Rodham were married in Fayetteville, AR.
1976 - The "Gang of Four" of China was charged with plotting a coup and were arrested and imprisoned.
1983 - The last hand-cranked telephones in the U.S. went out of service. The 440 telephone customers of Bryant Pond, ME, were switched to direct-dial service.
1984 - Construction began on the Kamric/Cinergy Futursonics Studio in Houston, TX.
1984 - American Kathryn D. Sullivan became the first female astronaut to space walk. She was aboard the space shuttle Challenger.
1984 - Mario Lemieux (Pittsburgh Penguins) made his debut in the National Hockey League (NHL) against the Boston Bruins. He scored a goal on his first shot on his first NHL shift.
1994 - U.S. troops in Haiti took control of the National Palace.
1994 - Iraqi troops began moving away from the Kuwaiti border.
1994 - The Colorado Supreme Court declared that the anti-gay rights measure in the state was unconstitutional.
2002 - In Cedar Grove, WI, ten people were ****** when more than two dozen vehicles crashed on a foggy highway
Current Birthdays
Jane Krakowski turns 40 years old today.
83 Elmore Leonard
Author
82 Earle Hyman
Actor
81 William Perry
Former defense secretary
71 Ron Leibman
Actor
65 Gene Watson
Country singer
58 Catlin Adams
Actress, director
58 Patty Murray
U.S. senator, D-Wash.
58 Andrew Woolfolk
R&B musician (Earth, Wind and Fire)
55 Paulette Carlson
Country singer
55 David Morse
Actor
52 Stephen Spinella
Actor ("24")
47 Steve Young
Football Hall of Famer
46 Joan Cusack
Actress
46 Scott Johnson
Rock musician (Gin Blossoms)
44 Michael J. Nelson
TV writer, host ("Mystery Science Theater 3000")
43 Sean Patrick Flanery
Actor
43 Orlando Hernandez
Baseball player
42 Luke Perry
Actor
42 Todd Snider
Folk singer, songwriter
38 U-God
Rapper (Wu-Tang Clan)
37 MC Lyte
Rapper
33 NeeNa Lee
R&B singer
32 Emily Deschanel
Actress ("Bones")
23 Michelle Trachtenberg
Actress ("Buffy the Vampire Slayer")
Historic Birthdays
Eleanor Roosevelt
10/11/1884 - 11/7/1962
American First Lady (1933-44), diplomat and social reformer
64 James Barry
10/11/1741 - 2/22/1806
Irish painter
62 John Thadeus Delane
10/11/1817 - 11/22/1879
British editor
73 Harlan Fisk Stone
10/11/1872 - 4/22/1946
American jurist; associate justice (1925-41) and chief justice (1941-6) of U.S. Supreme Court
84 Francois Mauriac
10/11/1885 - 9/1/1970
French writer
68 Charles Revson
10/11/1906 - 8/24/1975
American business entrepeneur; founded Revlon cosmetics line
78 Joseph W. Alsop Jr.
10/11/1910 - 8/28/1989
American journalist
79 Jerome Robbins
10/11/1918 - 7/29/1998
American choreographer
1776 - During the American Revolution the first naval battle of Lake Champlain was fought. The ****** under Gen. Benedict Arnold suffered heavy losses.
1779 - Casimir Pulaski, a Polish nobleman, was ****** while fighting during the Revolutionary War Battle of Savannah, GA. He was fighting for American independence.
1809 - Meriwether Lewis committed suicide along the Natchez Trace in Tennessee at an inn called Grinder's Stand.
1811 - The Juliana, the first steam-powered ferryboat, was put into operation by the inventor John Stevens. The ferry went between New York City, NY, and Hoboken, NJ.
1869 - Thomas Edison filed for a patent on his first invention. The electric machine was used for counting votes for the U.S. Congress, however the Congress did not buy it.
1881 - David Henderson Houston patented the first roll film for cameras.
1890 - The ********* of the American Revolution was founded in Washington, DC.
1899 - The Boer War began in South Africa between the British and the Boers of the Transvaal and Orange Free State.
1929 - JCPenney opened a store in Milford, DE, making it a nationwide company with stores in all 48 states.
1932 - In New York, the first telecast of a political campaign was aired.
1936 - The radio show, "Professor Quiz", aired for the first time.
1939 - U.S. President Roosevelt was presented with a letter from Albert Einstein that urged him to develop the U.S. atomic program rapidly.
1942 - The Battle of Cape Esperance, during World War II, began in the Solomons.
1958 - Pioneer 1, a lunar probe, was launched by the U.S. The probe did not reach its destination and fell back to Earth and burned up in the atmosphere.
1968 - Apollo 7 was launched by the U.S. The first manned Apollo mission was the first in which live television broadcasts were received from orbit. Wally Schirra, Don Fulton Eisele and R. Walter Cunningham were the astronauts aboard.
1971 - Hugh Downs left the "Today" show and "Concentration". He later became the host of ABC's "20/20".
1975 - "Saturday Night Live" was broadcast for the first time. George Carlin was the guest host.
1975 - Bill Clinton and Hillary Rodham were married in Fayetteville, AR.
1976 - The "Gang of Four" of China was charged with plotting a coup and were arrested and imprisoned.
1983 - The last hand-cranked telephones in the U.S. went out of service. The 440 telephone customers of Bryant Pond, ME, were switched to direct-dial service.
1984 - Construction began on the Kamric/Cinergy Futursonics Studio in Houston, TX.
1984 - American Kathryn D. Sullivan became the first female astronaut to space walk. She was aboard the space shuttle Challenger.
1984 - Mario Lemieux (Pittsburgh Penguins) made his debut in the National Hockey League (NHL) against the Boston Bruins. He scored a goal on his first shot on his first NHL shift.
1994 - U.S. troops in Haiti took control of the National Palace.
1994 - Iraqi troops began moving away from the Kuwaiti border.
1994 - The Colorado Supreme Court declared that the anti-gay rights measure in the state was unconstitutional.
2002 - In Cedar Grove, WI, ten people were ****** when more than two dozen vehicles crashed on a foggy highway
Current Birthdays
Jane Krakowski turns 40 years old today.
83 Elmore Leonard
Author
82 Earle Hyman
Actor
81 William Perry
Former defense secretary
71 Ron Leibman
Actor
65 Gene Watson
Country singer
58 Catlin Adams
Actress, director
58 Patty Murray
U.S. senator, D-Wash.
58 Andrew Woolfolk
R&B musician (Earth, Wind and Fire)
55 Paulette Carlson
Country singer
55 David Morse
Actor
52 Stephen Spinella
Actor ("24")
47 Steve Young
Football Hall of Famer
46 Joan Cusack
Actress
46 Scott Johnson
Rock musician (Gin Blossoms)
44 Michael J. Nelson
TV writer, host ("Mystery Science Theater 3000")
43 Sean Patrick Flanery
Actor
43 Orlando Hernandez
Baseball player
42 Luke Perry
Actor
42 Todd Snider
Folk singer, songwriter
38 U-God
Rapper (Wu-Tang Clan)
37 MC Lyte
Rapper
33 NeeNa Lee
R&B singer
32 Emily Deschanel
Actress ("Bones")
23 Michelle Trachtenberg
Actress ("Buffy the Vampire Slayer")
Historic Birthdays
Eleanor Roosevelt
10/11/1884 - 11/7/1962
American First Lady (1933-44), diplomat and social reformer
64 James Barry
10/11/1741 - 2/22/1806
Irish painter
62 John Thadeus Delane
10/11/1817 - 11/22/1879
British editor
73 Harlan Fisk Stone
10/11/1872 - 4/22/1946
American jurist; associate justice (1925-41) and chief justice (1941-6) of U.S. Supreme Court
84 Francois Mauriac
10/11/1885 - 9/1/1970
French writer
68 Charles Revson
10/11/1906 - 8/24/1975
American business entrepeneur; founded Revlon cosmetics line
78 Joseph W. Alsop Jr.
10/11/1910 - 8/28/1989
American journalist
79 Jerome Robbins
10/11/1918 - 7/29/1998
American choreographer
1492 - Christopher Columbus, an Italian explorer, sighted Watling Island in the Bahamas. He believed that he had found Asia while attempting to find a Western ocean route to India. The same day he claimed the land for Isabella and Ferdinand of Spain.
1792 - The first monument honoring Christopher Columbus was dedicated in Baltimore, MD.
1810 - Bavarian Crown Prince Ludwig married Princess Therese of Saxony-Hildburghausen. The royalty invited the public to attend the event which became an annual celebration that later became known as Oktoberfest.
1860 - Inventor Elmer Sperry was born on this day. He held patents on more than 400 inventions. The most important being the Sperry Automatic Pilot.
1892 - In celebration of the 400th anniversary of the Columbus landing the original version of the Pledge of Allegiance was first recited in public schools.
1895 - In Newport, RI, the first amateur golf tournament was held.
1915 - Former U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt criticized U.S. citizens who identified themselves by dual nationalities.
1915 - British nurse Edith Cavell was executed by a German firing squad for helping Allied soldiers escape from Belgium during World War I.
1920 - Construction of the Holland Tunnel began. It opened on November 13, 1927. The tunnel links Jersey City, NJ and New York City, NY.
1933 - John Dillinger, bank robber, escaped from a jail in Allen County, OH. The sheriff was ****** by his gang as they helped Dillinger escape.
1933 - The U.S. Department of Justice acquired Alcatraz Island from the U.S. Army.
1937 - "Mr. Keen, Tracer of Lost Persons" debuted on radio.
1938 - Filming began on "The Wizard of Oz."
1942 - During World War II, Attorney General Francis Biddle announced that Italian nationals in the United States would no longer be considered enemy aliens.
1945 - Private First Class Desmond T. Doss was presented with the Congressional Medal of Honor for outstanding bravery as a medical corpsman. He was the first conscientious objector in American history to win the award.
1950 - The Kefauver Crime Commission convened in New York to investigate interstate organized crime.
1960 - Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev pounded a shoe on his desk during a dispute at a U.N. General Assembly.
1961 - The first video memoirs by a U.S. president were made. Walter Cronkite interviewed Dwight D. Eisenhower.
1964 - The Soviet Union launched Voskhod 1 into orbit around the Earth. It was the first space flight to have a multi-person crew and the first flight to be performed without space suits.
1972 - During the Vietnam War, a racial brawl broke out aboard the U.S. aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk. Nearly 50 sailors were injured.
1976 - China announced that Hua Guo-feng was named to succeed the late Mao Tse-tung as chairman of the Communist Party.
1984 - An attempt on British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's life was unsuccessful, but did take the lives of five people. The bomb had been planted by the I.R.A.
1988 - Federal prosecutors announced that the Sundstrand Corp. would pay $115 million dollars to settle with the Pentagon for overbilling airplane parts over a five-year period.
1989 - The U.S. House of Representatives approved a statutory federal ban on the destruction of the American flag.
1993 - The play "Mixed Emotions" opened at the John Golden Theatre.
1994 - Haitian military leader Raoul Cedras was granted political asylum by Panama.
1994 - The Magellan space probe ended its four-year mission to Venus for the purpose of mapping.
1997 - The St. Francis Basilica and 15th-century bell tower above Foligno city hall in Italy were damaged by 3 earthquakes.
1998 - The U.S. House of Representatives ****** the Online Copyright Bill.
1999 - Rob Reiner received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
1999 - In Pakistan, Pervez Musharraf seized power in a bloodless coup that toppled Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif. The Supreme Court ruled that the coup was legal but insisted that a civilian government be restored within three years.
2000 - In Aden, Yemen, the USS Cole, a U.S. Navy destroyer, experienced a large explosion while refueling. The explosion was the result of a terrorist ****** using a small boat. 17 crewmembers were ****** and at least 39 were injured.
2000 - In Denver, CO, the U.S. District Court denied Timothy McVeigh's request for a new trial.
2001 - A special episode of America's Most Wanted was aired that focused on 22 wanted terrorists. The show was specifically requested by U.S. President George W. Bush.
2001 - A car bomb exploded in Madrid, Spain, that injured 17 people. Basque separatists claimed responsibility.
2002 - In Bali, Indonesia, over 180 people were ****** and over 300 were injured when a bomb was detonated in a nightclub district.
2006 - The Dow Jones industrial average advanced over 11,900 for the first time.
1792 - The first monument honoring Christopher Columbus was dedicated in Baltimore, MD.
1810 - Bavarian Crown Prince Ludwig married Princess Therese of Saxony-Hildburghausen. The royalty invited the public to attend the event which became an annual celebration that later became known as Oktoberfest.
1860 - Inventor Elmer Sperry was born on this day. He held patents on more than 400 inventions. The most important being the Sperry Automatic Pilot.
1892 - In celebration of the 400th anniversary of the Columbus landing the original version of the Pledge of Allegiance was first recited in public schools.
1895 - In Newport, RI, the first amateur golf tournament was held.
1915 - Former U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt criticized U.S. citizens who identified themselves by dual nationalities.
1915 - British nurse Edith Cavell was executed by a German firing squad for helping Allied soldiers escape from Belgium during World War I.
1920 - Construction of the Holland Tunnel began. It opened on November 13, 1927. The tunnel links Jersey City, NJ and New York City, NY.
1933 - John Dillinger, bank robber, escaped from a jail in Allen County, OH. The sheriff was ****** by his gang as they helped Dillinger escape.
1933 - The U.S. Department of Justice acquired Alcatraz Island from the U.S. Army.
1937 - "Mr. Keen, Tracer of Lost Persons" debuted on radio.
1938 - Filming began on "The Wizard of Oz."
1942 - During World War II, Attorney General Francis Biddle announced that Italian nationals in the United States would no longer be considered enemy aliens.
1945 - Private First Class Desmond T. Doss was presented with the Congressional Medal of Honor for outstanding bravery as a medical corpsman. He was the first conscientious objector in American history to win the award.
1950 - The Kefauver Crime Commission convened in New York to investigate interstate organized crime.
1960 - Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev pounded a shoe on his desk during a dispute at a U.N. General Assembly.
1961 - The first video memoirs by a U.S. president were made. Walter Cronkite interviewed Dwight D. Eisenhower.
1964 - The Soviet Union launched Voskhod 1 into orbit around the Earth. It was the first space flight to have a multi-person crew and the first flight to be performed without space suits.
1972 - During the Vietnam War, a racial brawl broke out aboard the U.S. aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk. Nearly 50 sailors were injured.
1976 - China announced that Hua Guo-feng was named to succeed the late Mao Tse-tung as chairman of the Communist Party.
1984 - An attempt on British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's life was unsuccessful, but did take the lives of five people. The bomb had been planted by the I.R.A.
1988 - Federal prosecutors announced that the Sundstrand Corp. would pay $115 million dollars to settle with the Pentagon for overbilling airplane parts over a five-year period.
1989 - The U.S. House of Representatives approved a statutory federal ban on the destruction of the American flag.
1993 - The play "Mixed Emotions" opened at the John Golden Theatre.
1994 - Haitian military leader Raoul Cedras was granted political asylum by Panama.
1994 - The Magellan space probe ended its four-year mission to Venus for the purpose of mapping.
1997 - The St. Francis Basilica and 15th-century bell tower above Foligno city hall in Italy were damaged by 3 earthquakes.
1998 - The U.S. House of Representatives ****** the Online Copyright Bill.
1999 - Rob Reiner received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
1999 - In Pakistan, Pervez Musharraf seized power in a bloodless coup that toppled Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif. The Supreme Court ruled that the coup was legal but insisted that a civilian government be restored within three years.
2000 - In Aden, Yemen, the USS Cole, a U.S. Navy destroyer, experienced a large explosion while refueling. The explosion was the result of a terrorist ****** using a small boat. 17 crewmembers were ****** and at least 39 were injured.
2000 - In Denver, CO, the U.S. District Court denied Timothy McVeigh's request for a new trial.
2001 - A special episode of America's Most Wanted was aired that focused on 22 wanted terrorists. The show was specifically requested by U.S. President George W. Bush.
2001 - A car bomb exploded in Madrid, Spain, that injured 17 people. Basque separatists claimed responsibility.
2002 - In Bali, Indonesia, over 180 people were ****** and over 300 were injured when a bomb was detonated in a nightclub district.
2006 - The Dow Jones industrial average advanced over 11,900 for the first time.
1066 - The Battle of Hastings occurred in England. The Norman ****** of William the Conqueror defeated King Harold II of England.
1568 - Mary, Queen of Scots, went on trial in England. She was accused of conspiring against Queen Elizabeth I. Mary was ******** the following February.
1644 - William Penn was born. Penn was the colonist that founded the Pennsylvania colony for Quakers.
1879 - Thomas Edison signed an agreement with Jose D. Husbands for the sale of Edison telephones in Chile.
1887 - Thomas Edison and George E. Gouraud reached an agreement for the international marketing rights for the phonograph.
1890 - Dwight David 'Ike' Eisenhower was born. He became the Supreme Commander of Allied ****** in World War II and eventually the 34th U.S. President.
1912 - Theodore Roosevelt was shot while campaigning in Milwaukee, WI. Roosevelt's wound in the chest was not serious and he continued with his planned speech. William Schrenk was captured at the scene of the shooting.
1922 - Lieutenant Lester James Maitland set a new airplane speed record when he reached a speed of 216.1 miles-per-hour.
1926 - The book "Winnie-the-Pooh," by A.A. Milne, made its debut.
1928 - The first televised wedding took place in Des Plains, IL. James Fowlkes and Cora Dennison were married in a radio studio.
1930 - Ethel Merman debuted on Broadway in "Girl Crazy."
1933 - **** Germany announced that it was withdrawing from the League of Nations.
1934 - "Lux Radio Theater" began airing on the NBC Blue radio network.
1936 - The first SSB (Social Security Board) office opened in Austin, TX. From this point, the Board's local office took over the assigning of Social Security Numbers.
1943 - The Radio Corporation of America finalized the sale of the NBC Blue radio network. Edward J. Noble paid $8 million for the network that was renamed American Broadcasting Company.
1944 - German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel committed suicide rather than face execution after being accused of conspiring against Adolf Hitler and the execution that would follow.
1944 - During World War II, the Second British Parachute Brigade liberated the city of Athens.
1947 - Over Rogers Dry Lake in Southern California, pilot Chuck Yeager flew the Bell X-1 rocket plane and became the first person to break the sound barrier.
1954 - C.B. DeMille's "The Ten Commandments", starring Charlton Heston, began filming in Egypt. The epic had a cast of 25,000 people.
1960 - U.S. presidential candidate John F. Kennedy first suggested the idea of a Peace Corps.
1961 - "How to Succeed in Business without Really Trying" opened on Broadway.
1962 - The Cuban Missile Crisis began when U.S. reconnaissance aircrafts photographed Soviet construction of intermediate-range missile sites in Cuba.
1964 - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his non-violent resistance to racial prejudice in America. He was the youngest person to receive the award.
1968 - The first live telecast to come from a manned U.S. spacecraft was transmitted from Apollo 7.
1970 - Anwar el-Sadat became president of Egypt following the death of President Nasser.
1979 - The first national homosexual rights march took place in Washington, DC, involving over 100,000 people.
1984 - George ‘Sparky’ Anderson became the first baseball manager to win 100 games and a World Series in both leagues. (MLB)
1986 - Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev charged that the U.S. wanted to "***** the Soviet Union economically" with the arms race in space.
1987 - Jessica McClure, 18 months old, fell down an abandoned well in Midland, TX. The rescue took 58 hours.
1992 - In Russia, Andrei Chikatilo, was sentenced to death after being convicted of 52 serial killings.
1993 - In Haiti, Justice Minister Guy Malary was assassinated by gunmen who were supporters of ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide.
1995 - An armed gunman seized control of bus of tourists in Moscow's Red Square. The next day commandos stormed the bus freeing the four remaining hostages and ******* the gunman.
1998 - The FBI charged Eric Robert Rudolph with 6 bombings including the 1996 Olympic bombing in Atlanta. Rudolph was not in custody at the time the charges were filed.
1998 - Kendall Francois pled innocent on charges of ******* eight women in New York.
2000 - A Saudi Arabian Airlines flight was hijacked just after takeoff from Jiddah, Saudi Arabia. The plane was taken to Baghdad, Iraq, where the two men surrendered peacefully after negotiations.
2001 - Toys "R" Us introduced the new version of Geoffrey the giraffe in a 60-second commercial before WABC-TV aired Disney's "The Emperor's New Groove."
2002 - Britain stripped power from the Catholic and Protestant politicians of Northern Ireland. Britain resumed sole responsibility for running Northern Ireland.
Current Birthdays
Usher turns 30 years old today
98 John Wooden
Hall of Fame basketball coach
92 C. Everett Koop
Former surgeon general
81 Roger Moore
Actor
71 Carroll Ballard
Director
70 John Dean
Former White House counsel
70 Melba Montgomery
Country singer
69 Ralph Lauren
Fashion designer
68 Cliff Richard
Singer
64 Udo Kier
Actor
62 Justin Hayward
Rock musician (The Moody Blues)
56 Harry Anderson
Actor ("Night Court")
55 Greg Evigan
Actor ("My Two ****")
52 Beth Daniel
Golf Hall of Famer
52 Arleen Sorkin
TV personality ("America's Funniest People")
50 Thomas Dolby
Rock singer, musician
47 Joe Girardi
New York Yankees manager
43 Karyn White
R&B singer
38 Jon Seda
Actor
38 Doug Virden
Country musician
34 Natalie Maines
Country singer (Dixie Chicks)
33 Shaznay Lewis
Actress, singer
27 Jordan Brower
Actor
Historic Birthdays
Dwight David Eisenhower
10/14/1890 - 3/28/1969
34th president of the United States and supreme commander of World War II Allied ****** in Europe
62 Sir Peter Lely
10/14/1618 - 12/7/1680
English painter
67 James II
10/14/1633 - 9/16/1701
English king (1685-8)
73 William Penn
10/14/1644 - 7/30/1718
English Quaker and advocate for religious liberty; founded American colony of Pennsylvania
58 George Grenville
10/14/1712 - 11/13/1770
English first lord of the Treasury (1763-5)
62 Francis Lightfoot Lee
10/14/1734 - 1/11/1797
American revolutionary leader; signed Declaration of Independence
48 Ferdinand VII
10/14/1784 - 9/29/1833
Spanish king (1808, 1813-33)
67 Elwood Haynes
10/14/1857 - 4/13/1925
American industrialist
92 Eamon de Valera
10/14/1882 - 8/29/1975
Irish politician and patriot; prime minister (1932-48; 1951-4; 1957-9) and president (1959-73)
99 Lillian Gish
10/14/1893 - 2/27/1993
American actress
67 e. e. cummings
10/14/1894 - 9/3/1962
American poet
1568 - Mary, Queen of Scots, went on trial in England. She was accused of conspiring against Queen Elizabeth I. Mary was ******** the following February.
1644 - William Penn was born. Penn was the colonist that founded the Pennsylvania colony for Quakers.
1879 - Thomas Edison signed an agreement with Jose D. Husbands for the sale of Edison telephones in Chile.
1887 - Thomas Edison and George E. Gouraud reached an agreement for the international marketing rights for the phonograph.
1890 - Dwight David 'Ike' Eisenhower was born. He became the Supreme Commander of Allied ****** in World War II and eventually the 34th U.S. President.
1912 - Theodore Roosevelt was shot while campaigning in Milwaukee, WI. Roosevelt's wound in the chest was not serious and he continued with his planned speech. William Schrenk was captured at the scene of the shooting.
1922 - Lieutenant Lester James Maitland set a new airplane speed record when he reached a speed of 216.1 miles-per-hour.
1926 - The book "Winnie-the-Pooh," by A.A. Milne, made its debut.
1928 - The first televised wedding took place in Des Plains, IL. James Fowlkes and Cora Dennison were married in a radio studio.
1930 - Ethel Merman debuted on Broadway in "Girl Crazy."
1933 - **** Germany announced that it was withdrawing from the League of Nations.
1934 - "Lux Radio Theater" began airing on the NBC Blue radio network.
1936 - The first SSB (Social Security Board) office opened in Austin, TX. From this point, the Board's local office took over the assigning of Social Security Numbers.
1943 - The Radio Corporation of America finalized the sale of the NBC Blue radio network. Edward J. Noble paid $8 million for the network that was renamed American Broadcasting Company.
1944 - German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel committed suicide rather than face execution after being accused of conspiring against Adolf Hitler and the execution that would follow.
1944 - During World War II, the Second British Parachute Brigade liberated the city of Athens.
1947 - Over Rogers Dry Lake in Southern California, pilot Chuck Yeager flew the Bell X-1 rocket plane and became the first person to break the sound barrier.
1954 - C.B. DeMille's "The Ten Commandments", starring Charlton Heston, began filming in Egypt. The epic had a cast of 25,000 people.
1960 - U.S. presidential candidate John F. Kennedy first suggested the idea of a Peace Corps.
1961 - "How to Succeed in Business without Really Trying" opened on Broadway.
1962 - The Cuban Missile Crisis began when U.S. reconnaissance aircrafts photographed Soviet construction of intermediate-range missile sites in Cuba.
1964 - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his non-violent resistance to racial prejudice in America. He was the youngest person to receive the award.
1968 - The first live telecast to come from a manned U.S. spacecraft was transmitted from Apollo 7.
1970 - Anwar el-Sadat became president of Egypt following the death of President Nasser.
1979 - The first national homosexual rights march took place in Washington, DC, involving over 100,000 people.
1984 - George ‘Sparky’ Anderson became the first baseball manager to win 100 games and a World Series in both leagues. (MLB)
1986 - Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev charged that the U.S. wanted to "***** the Soviet Union economically" with the arms race in space.
1987 - Jessica McClure, 18 months old, fell down an abandoned well in Midland, TX. The rescue took 58 hours.
1992 - In Russia, Andrei Chikatilo, was sentenced to death after being convicted of 52 serial killings.
1993 - In Haiti, Justice Minister Guy Malary was assassinated by gunmen who were supporters of ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide.
1995 - An armed gunman seized control of bus of tourists in Moscow's Red Square. The next day commandos stormed the bus freeing the four remaining hostages and ******* the gunman.
1998 - The FBI charged Eric Robert Rudolph with 6 bombings including the 1996 Olympic bombing in Atlanta. Rudolph was not in custody at the time the charges were filed.
1998 - Kendall Francois pled innocent on charges of ******* eight women in New York.
2000 - A Saudi Arabian Airlines flight was hijacked just after takeoff from Jiddah, Saudi Arabia. The plane was taken to Baghdad, Iraq, where the two men surrendered peacefully after negotiations.
2001 - Toys "R" Us introduced the new version of Geoffrey the giraffe in a 60-second commercial before WABC-TV aired Disney's "The Emperor's New Groove."
2002 - Britain stripped power from the Catholic and Protestant politicians of Northern Ireland. Britain resumed sole responsibility for running Northern Ireland.
Current Birthdays
Usher turns 30 years old today
98 John Wooden
Hall of Fame basketball coach
92 C. Everett Koop
Former surgeon general
81 Roger Moore
Actor
71 Carroll Ballard
Director
70 John Dean
Former White House counsel
70 Melba Montgomery
Country singer
69 Ralph Lauren
Fashion designer
68 Cliff Richard
Singer
64 Udo Kier
Actor
62 Justin Hayward
Rock musician (The Moody Blues)
56 Harry Anderson
Actor ("Night Court")
55 Greg Evigan
Actor ("My Two ****")
52 Beth Daniel
Golf Hall of Famer
52 Arleen Sorkin
TV personality ("America's Funniest People")
50 Thomas Dolby
Rock singer, musician
47 Joe Girardi
New York Yankees manager
43 Karyn White
R&B singer
38 Jon Seda
Actor
38 Doug Virden
Country musician
34 Natalie Maines
Country singer (Dixie Chicks)
33 Shaznay Lewis
Actress, singer
27 Jordan Brower
Actor
Historic Birthdays
Dwight David Eisenhower
10/14/1890 - 3/28/1969
34th president of the United States and supreme commander of World War II Allied ****** in Europe
62 Sir Peter Lely
10/14/1618 - 12/7/1680
English painter
67 James II
10/14/1633 - 9/16/1701
English king (1685-8)
73 William Penn
10/14/1644 - 7/30/1718
English Quaker and advocate for religious liberty; founded American colony of Pennsylvania
58 George Grenville
10/14/1712 - 11/13/1770
English first lord of the Treasury (1763-5)
62 Francis Lightfoot Lee
10/14/1734 - 1/11/1797
American revolutionary leader; signed Declaration of Independence
48 Ferdinand VII
10/14/1784 - 9/29/1833
Spanish king (1808, 1813-33)
67 Elwood Haynes
10/14/1857 - 4/13/1925
American industrialist
92 Eamon de Valera
10/14/1882 - 8/29/1975
Irish politician and patriot; prime minister (1932-48; 1951-4; 1957-9) and president (1959-73)
99 Lillian Gish
10/14/1893 - 2/27/1993
American actress
67 e. e. cummings
10/14/1894 - 9/3/1962
American poet
1815 - Napoleon Bonaparte began his exile on the remote island of St. Helena in the Atlantic Ocean.
1844 - German philosopher Friedich Wilhelm Nietzsche was born.
1860 - Grace Bedell, 11 years old, wrote a letter to presidential candidate Abraham Lincoln. The letter stated that Lincoln would look better if he would grow a beard.
1883 - The U.S. Supreme Court struck down part of the Civil Rights Act of 1875. It allowed for individuals and corporations to discriminate based on race.
1892 - The U.S. government announced that the land in the western Montana was open to settlers. The 1.8 million acres were bought from the Crow Indians for 50 cents per acre.
1914 - The Clayton Antitrust Act was ****** by the U.S. Congress.
1917 - Mata Hari was executed by a French firing squad. Hari was a Dutch dancer that had spied for Germany.
1931 - "Cat and the Fiddle" opened in New York for the first of 395 performances.
1937 - "To Have and Have Not" by Ernest Hemingway was published for the first time.
1939 - New York Municipal Airport was dedicated. The name was later changed to La Guardia Airport.
1945 - Pierre Laval, the former premier of Vichy France, was executed for treason.
1946 - Hermann Goering, a **** war criminal and founder of the Gestapo, poisoned himself just hours before his scheduled execution.
1951 - "I Love Lucy" premiered on CBS-TV.
1953 - "Teahouse of the August Moon" opened on Broadway. It ran for 1,027 performances.
1962 - The Cuban Missile Crisis began. It was on this day that U.S. intelligence personnel analyzing data discovered Soviet medium-range missle sites in Cuba. On October 22 U.S. President John F. Kennedy announced that he had ordred the naval "quarantine" of Cuba.
1964 - It was announced that Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev had been removed from power. He was replaced with Alexei N. Kosygin.
1966 - U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signed a bill creating the Department of Transportation.
1973 - "Tomorrow" debuted on NBC-TV.
1983 - U.S. Marines ****** five snipers who had pinned them down in Beirut International Airport.
1989 - South African officials released eight prominent political prisoners.
1989 - Wayne Gretzky, while playing for the Los Angeles Kings, surpassed Gordie Howe's NHL scoring record of 1,850 career points.
1993 - U.S. President Clinton sent warships to enforce trade sanctions that had been imposed on Haitian military rulers.
1993 - South Africa's President F.W. de Klerk and African National Congress President Nelson Mandela were named winners of the Nobel Peace Prize for their efforts to end the apartheid system in South Africa.
1997 - British Royal Air ***** pilot Andy Green broke the land-speed record by driving a jet-powered car faster than the speed of sound.
1997 - The Cassini-Huygens mission was launched from Cape Canaveral, FL. On January 14, 2005, a probe sent back pictures of Saturn's moon Titan during and after landing.
1998 - Typhoon Zeb ****** 24 people and drove 100,000 more from their homes when it hit the Philippines.
1998 - The U.N. condemned the U.S. economic embargo on Cuba for the seventh year in a row.
1998 - James Woods received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
2001 - NASA's Galileo spacecraft ****** within 112 miles of Jupiter's moon Io.
2002 ImClone Systems founder Sam Waksal pleaded guilty in New York in the biotech company's insider trading scandal. (He was later sentenced to more than seven years in prison.)
2003 China launched its first manned space mission.
2005 Iraqis voted to approve a constitution
Current Birthdays
Elena Dementieva turns 27 years old today.
84 Lee Iacocca
Former Chrysler chairman
77 Freddy Cole
Jazz pianist
73 Barry McGuire
Rock singer
71 Linda Lavin
Actress ("Alice")
66 Penny Marshall
Actress, director
66 Don Stevenson
Rock musician (Moby Grape)
63 Jim Palmer
Baseball Hall of Famer
62 Victor Banerjee
Actor
62 Richard Carpenter
Singer, musician (The Carpenters)
55 Tito Jackson
Singer (The Jackson Five)
54 Jere Burns
Actor
53 Tanya Roberts
Actress
49 Sarah Ferguson
Duchess of York
49 Emeril Lagasse
TV chef
46 Mark Reznicek
Rock musician
40 Vanessa Marcil
Actress
39 Paige Davis
TV host ("Trading Spaces")
39 Dominic West
Actor ("The Wire")
38 Eric Benet
R&B singer
38 Ginuwine
R&B singer
29 Chris Olivero
Actor ("Kyle XY")
27 Keyshia Cole
R&B singer
16 Vincent Martella
Actor ("Everybody Hates Chris")
Historic Birthdays
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
10/15/1844 - 8/25/1900
German philosopher
48 Virgil
10/15/70 BC - 9/21/19 BC
Roman poet
39 Evangelista Torricelli
10/15/1608 - 10/25/1647
Italian physicist and mathematician
71 Allan Ramsay
10/15/1686 - 1/7/1758
Scottish poet
65 James Tissot
10/15/1836 - 8/8/1902
French artist
59 John Lawrence Sullivan
10/15/1858 - 2/2/1918
American professional boxer
89 Edith Bolling Galt Wilson
10/15/1872 - 12/28/1961
American first lady (1915-1921)
77 Marie C. C. Stopes
10/15/1880 - 10/2/1958
Scottish scientist and advocate of birth control
93 Sir P. G. Wodehouse
10/15/1881 - 2/14/1975
English comic novelist, short story writer, lyricist and playwright
50 S.S. VanDine
10/15/1888 - 4/11/1939
American critic, editor and author of popular detective novels
86 Mervyn LeRoy
10/15/1900 - 9/13/1987
American film director
1844 - German philosopher Friedich Wilhelm Nietzsche was born.
1860 - Grace Bedell, 11 years old, wrote a letter to presidential candidate Abraham Lincoln. The letter stated that Lincoln would look better if he would grow a beard.
1883 - The U.S. Supreme Court struck down part of the Civil Rights Act of 1875. It allowed for individuals and corporations to discriminate based on race.
1892 - The U.S. government announced that the land in the western Montana was open to settlers. The 1.8 million acres were bought from the Crow Indians for 50 cents per acre.
1914 - The Clayton Antitrust Act was ****** by the U.S. Congress.
1917 - Mata Hari was executed by a French firing squad. Hari was a Dutch dancer that had spied for Germany.
1931 - "Cat and the Fiddle" opened in New York for the first of 395 performances.
1937 - "To Have and Have Not" by Ernest Hemingway was published for the first time.
1939 - New York Municipal Airport was dedicated. The name was later changed to La Guardia Airport.
1945 - Pierre Laval, the former premier of Vichy France, was executed for treason.
1946 - Hermann Goering, a **** war criminal and founder of the Gestapo, poisoned himself just hours before his scheduled execution.
1951 - "I Love Lucy" premiered on CBS-TV.
1953 - "Teahouse of the August Moon" opened on Broadway. It ran for 1,027 performances.
1962 - The Cuban Missile Crisis began. It was on this day that U.S. intelligence personnel analyzing data discovered Soviet medium-range missle sites in Cuba. On October 22 U.S. President John F. Kennedy announced that he had ordred the naval "quarantine" of Cuba.
1964 - It was announced that Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev had been removed from power. He was replaced with Alexei N. Kosygin.
1966 - U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signed a bill creating the Department of Transportation.
1973 - "Tomorrow" debuted on NBC-TV.
1983 - U.S. Marines ****** five snipers who had pinned them down in Beirut International Airport.
1989 - South African officials released eight prominent political prisoners.
1989 - Wayne Gretzky, while playing for the Los Angeles Kings, surpassed Gordie Howe's NHL scoring record of 1,850 career points.
1993 - U.S. President Clinton sent warships to enforce trade sanctions that had been imposed on Haitian military rulers.
1993 - South Africa's President F.W. de Klerk and African National Congress President Nelson Mandela were named winners of the Nobel Peace Prize for their efforts to end the apartheid system in South Africa.
1997 - British Royal Air ***** pilot Andy Green broke the land-speed record by driving a jet-powered car faster than the speed of sound.
1997 - The Cassini-Huygens mission was launched from Cape Canaveral, FL. On January 14, 2005, a probe sent back pictures of Saturn's moon Titan during and after landing.
1998 - Typhoon Zeb ****** 24 people and drove 100,000 more from their homes when it hit the Philippines.
1998 - The U.N. condemned the U.S. economic embargo on Cuba for the seventh year in a row.
1998 - James Woods received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
2001 - NASA's Galileo spacecraft ****** within 112 miles of Jupiter's moon Io.
2002 ImClone Systems founder Sam Waksal pleaded guilty in New York in the biotech company's insider trading scandal. (He was later sentenced to more than seven years in prison.)
2003 China launched its first manned space mission.
2005 Iraqis voted to approve a constitution
Current Birthdays
Elena Dementieva turns 27 years old today.
84 Lee Iacocca
Former Chrysler chairman
77 Freddy Cole
Jazz pianist
73 Barry McGuire
Rock singer
71 Linda Lavin
Actress ("Alice")
66 Penny Marshall
Actress, director
66 Don Stevenson
Rock musician (Moby Grape)
63 Jim Palmer
Baseball Hall of Famer
62 Victor Banerjee
Actor
62 Richard Carpenter
Singer, musician (The Carpenters)
55 Tito Jackson
Singer (The Jackson Five)
54 Jere Burns
Actor
53 Tanya Roberts
Actress
49 Sarah Ferguson
Duchess of York
49 Emeril Lagasse
TV chef
46 Mark Reznicek
Rock musician
40 Vanessa Marcil
Actress
39 Paige Davis
TV host ("Trading Spaces")
39 Dominic West
Actor ("The Wire")
38 Eric Benet
R&B singer
38 Ginuwine
R&B singer
29 Chris Olivero
Actor ("Kyle XY")
27 Keyshia Cole
R&B singer
16 Vincent Martella
Actor ("Everybody Hates Chris")
Historic Birthdays
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
10/15/1844 - 8/25/1900
German philosopher
48 Virgil
10/15/70 BC - 9/21/19 BC
Roman poet
39 Evangelista Torricelli
10/15/1608 - 10/25/1647
Italian physicist and mathematician
71 Allan Ramsay
10/15/1686 - 1/7/1758
Scottish poet
65 James Tissot
10/15/1836 - 8/8/1902
French artist
59 John Lawrence Sullivan
10/15/1858 - 2/2/1918
American professional boxer
89 Edith Bolling Galt Wilson
10/15/1872 - 12/28/1961
American first lady (1915-1921)
77 Marie C. C. Stopes
10/15/1880 - 10/2/1958
Scottish scientist and advocate of birth control
93 Sir P. G. Wodehouse
10/15/1881 - 2/14/1975
English comic novelist, short story writer, lyricist and playwright
50 S.S. VanDine
10/15/1888 - 4/11/1939
American critic, editor and author of popular detective novels
86 Mervyn LeRoy
10/15/1900 - 9/13/1987
American film director
1701 - The Collegiate School was founded in Killingworth, CT. The school moved to New Haven in 1745 and changed its name to Yale College.
1758 - Author Noah Webster was born. He was a teacher and journalist whose name is associated with the word "dictionary."
1793 - During the French Revolution, Queen Marie Antoinette was ********.
1829 - The first modern hotel in America opened. The Tremont Hotel had 170 rooms that rented for $2 a day and included four meals.
1846 - Ether, the painkiller, was used for the first time. The **** was invented by dentist William T. Morton.
1859 - Abolitionist John Brown led a raid on Harper's Ferry, VA (now located in West Virginia).
1869 - A hotel in Boston became the first in the U.S. to install indoor plumbing.
1898 - Supreme Court Justice William Orville Douglas was born. He served for 36 years on the U.S. Supreme Court.
1916 - Margaret Sanger opened the first birth control clinic in New York City, NY.
1923 - Walt Disney contracted with M.J. Winkler to distribute the Alice Comedies. This event is recognized as the start of the Disney Company.
1928 - Marvin Pipkin received a patent for the frosted electric light bulb.
1939 - "Right To Happiness" debuted on the NBC-Blue network.
1939 - "The Man Who Came to Dinner" opened on Broadway.
1941 - The Nazis advanced to within 60 miles of Moscow. Romanians entered Odessa, USSR, and began exterminating 150,000 Jews.
1942 - The ballet "Rodeo" premiered in New York City.
1943 - Chicago's new subway system was officially opened with a ribbon cutting ceremony.
1944 - "The Robe," by Lloyd Douglas, was published for the first time.
1945 - "His Honor the Barber" debuted on NBC Radio.
1946 - 10 **** war criminals were hanged after being condemned by the Nuremberg trials.
1955 - Mrs. Jules Lederer replaced Ruth Crowley in newspapers using the name Ann Landers.
1962 - U.S. President Kennedy was informed that there were missile bases in Cuba, beginning the Cuban missile crisis.
1964 - China detonated its first atomic bomb becoming the world's fifth nuclear power.
1967 - NATO headquarters opened in Brussels.
1970 - Anwar Sadat was elected president of Egypt to succeed Gamal Abdel Nassar.
1973 - Henry Kissinger and Le Duc Tho were named winners of the Nobel Peace Prize. The Vietnamese official declined the award.
1987 - Rescuers freed Jessica McClure from the abandoned well that she had fallen into in Midland, TX. The was trapped for 58 hours.
1989 - U.S. President Bush signed the Gramm-Rudman budget reduction law that ordered federal programs be cut by $16.1 billion.
1990 - Comedian Steve Martin and his wife Victoria Tennant visited U.S. soldiers in Saudi Arabia.
1990 - The play "Stand Up Tragedy" closed after only 13 performances.
1991 - George Hennard crashed his truck into a Luby's Cafeteria in Killeen, TX and began a shooting rampage in which he ****** 23 people before taking his own life.
1993 - The U.N. Security Council approved the deployment of U.S. warships to enforce a blockade on Haiti to increase pressure on the controlling military leaders.
1994 - German Chancellor Helmut Kohl was re-elected to a fourth term.
1995 - The "Million Man March" took place in Washington, DC.
1997 - Charles M. Schulz and his wife Jeannie announced that they would give $1 million toward the construction of a D-Day memorial to be placed in Virginia.
2000 - It was announced that Chevron Corp. would be buying Texaco Inc. for $35 billion. The combined company was called Chevron Texaco Corp. and became the 4th largest oil company in the world.
2002 - It was reported that North Korea had told the U.S. that it had a secret nuclear weapons program in ********* of an 1994 agreement with the U.S.
2002 - The Arthur Andersen accounting firm was sentenced to five years probation and fined $500,000 for obstructing a federeal investigation of the energy company Enron.
Current Birthdays
Angela Lansbury turns 83 years old today.
81 Gunter Grass
Nobel Prize-winning author
71 Tony Anthony
Actor
68 Barry Corbin
Actor
65 C.F. Turner
Rock musician (Bachman Turner Overdrive)
62 Suzanne Somers
Actress ("Three's Company")
61 Bob Weir
Rock musician (Grateful Dead, Ratdog)
61 David Zucker
Producer, director
60 Jim Ed Norman
Producer, record company executive
57 Daniel Gerroll
Actor
56 Christopher Cox
Securities and Exchange Commission chairman
50 Tim Robbins
Actor
49 Gary Kemp
Actor, musician (Spandau Ballet)
48 Bob Mould
Rock musician (Husker Du)
47 Randy Vasquez
Actor ("JAG")
46 Flea
Rock musician (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
40 Todd Stashwick
Actor
39 Roy Hargrove
Jazz musician
39 Terri J. Vaughn
Actress
39 Wendy Wilson
Singer (Wilson Phillips)
37 B-Rock
Rapper (B-Rock and the Bizz)
33 Kellie Martin
Actress
31 John Mayer
Rock musician
28 Sue Bird
Basketball player
28 Jeremy Jackson
Actor ("Baywatch")
27 Brea Grant
Actress ("Heroes")
Historic Birthdays
Eugene Gladstone O'Neill
10/16/1888 - 11/27/1953
American dramatist
69 Albrecht Von Haller
10/16/1708 - 12/12/1777
Swiss biologist
84 Noah Webster
10/16/1758 - 5/28/1843
American lexicographer
46 Oscar Wilde
10/16/1854 - 11/30/1900
Irish dramatist
87 David Ben-Gurion, aka David Green
10/16/1886 - 12/1/1973
Israeli statesman; first prime minister and secretary of defense (1948-53, 1955-63)
31 Michael Collins
10/16/1890 - 8/22/1922
Irish revolutionary leader and statesman
81 William Orville Douglas
10/16/1898 - 1/19/1980
American associate justice of the United States Supreme Court (1939-75)
51 Ford Lee Buck Washington
10/16/1903 - 1/31/1955
American jazz musician
1758 - Author Noah Webster was born. He was a teacher and journalist whose name is associated with the word "dictionary."
1793 - During the French Revolution, Queen Marie Antoinette was ********.
1829 - The first modern hotel in America opened. The Tremont Hotel had 170 rooms that rented for $2 a day and included four meals.
1846 - Ether, the painkiller, was used for the first time. The **** was invented by dentist William T. Morton.
1859 - Abolitionist John Brown led a raid on Harper's Ferry, VA (now located in West Virginia).
1869 - A hotel in Boston became the first in the U.S. to install indoor plumbing.
1898 - Supreme Court Justice William Orville Douglas was born. He served for 36 years on the U.S. Supreme Court.
1916 - Margaret Sanger opened the first birth control clinic in New York City, NY.
1923 - Walt Disney contracted with M.J. Winkler to distribute the Alice Comedies. This event is recognized as the start of the Disney Company.
1928 - Marvin Pipkin received a patent for the frosted electric light bulb.
1939 - "Right To Happiness" debuted on the NBC-Blue network.
1939 - "The Man Who Came to Dinner" opened on Broadway.
1941 - The Nazis advanced to within 60 miles of Moscow. Romanians entered Odessa, USSR, and began exterminating 150,000 Jews.
1942 - The ballet "Rodeo" premiered in New York City.
1943 - Chicago's new subway system was officially opened with a ribbon cutting ceremony.
1944 - "The Robe," by Lloyd Douglas, was published for the first time.
1945 - "His Honor the Barber" debuted on NBC Radio.
1946 - 10 **** war criminals were hanged after being condemned by the Nuremberg trials.
1955 - Mrs. Jules Lederer replaced Ruth Crowley in newspapers using the name Ann Landers.
1962 - U.S. President Kennedy was informed that there were missile bases in Cuba, beginning the Cuban missile crisis.
1964 - China detonated its first atomic bomb becoming the world's fifth nuclear power.
1967 - NATO headquarters opened in Brussels.
1970 - Anwar Sadat was elected president of Egypt to succeed Gamal Abdel Nassar.
1973 - Henry Kissinger and Le Duc Tho were named winners of the Nobel Peace Prize. The Vietnamese official declined the award.
1987 - Rescuers freed Jessica McClure from the abandoned well that she had fallen into in Midland, TX. The was trapped for 58 hours.
1989 - U.S. President Bush signed the Gramm-Rudman budget reduction law that ordered federal programs be cut by $16.1 billion.
1990 - Comedian Steve Martin and his wife Victoria Tennant visited U.S. soldiers in Saudi Arabia.
1990 - The play "Stand Up Tragedy" closed after only 13 performances.
1991 - George Hennard crashed his truck into a Luby's Cafeteria in Killeen, TX and began a shooting rampage in which he ****** 23 people before taking his own life.
1993 - The U.N. Security Council approved the deployment of U.S. warships to enforce a blockade on Haiti to increase pressure on the controlling military leaders.
1994 - German Chancellor Helmut Kohl was re-elected to a fourth term.
1995 - The "Million Man March" took place in Washington, DC.
1997 - Charles M. Schulz and his wife Jeannie announced that they would give $1 million toward the construction of a D-Day memorial to be placed in Virginia.
2000 - It was announced that Chevron Corp. would be buying Texaco Inc. for $35 billion. The combined company was called Chevron Texaco Corp. and became the 4th largest oil company in the world.
2002 - It was reported that North Korea had told the U.S. that it had a secret nuclear weapons program in ********* of an 1994 agreement with the U.S.
2002 - The Arthur Andersen accounting firm was sentenced to five years probation and fined $500,000 for obstructing a federeal investigation of the energy company Enron.
Current Birthdays
Angela Lansbury turns 83 years old today.
81 Gunter Grass
Nobel Prize-winning author
71 Tony Anthony
Actor
68 Barry Corbin
Actor
65 C.F. Turner
Rock musician (Bachman Turner Overdrive)
62 Suzanne Somers
Actress ("Three's Company")
61 Bob Weir
Rock musician (Grateful Dead, Ratdog)
61 David Zucker
Producer, director
60 Jim Ed Norman
Producer, record company executive
57 Daniel Gerroll
Actor
56 Christopher Cox
Securities and Exchange Commission chairman
50 Tim Robbins
Actor
49 Gary Kemp
Actor, musician (Spandau Ballet)
48 Bob Mould
Rock musician (Husker Du)
47 Randy Vasquez
Actor ("JAG")
46 Flea
Rock musician (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
40 Todd Stashwick
Actor
39 Roy Hargrove
Jazz musician
39 Terri J. Vaughn
Actress
39 Wendy Wilson
Singer (Wilson Phillips)
37 B-Rock
Rapper (B-Rock and the Bizz)
33 Kellie Martin
Actress
31 John Mayer
Rock musician
28 Sue Bird
Basketball player
28 Jeremy Jackson
Actor ("Baywatch")
27 Brea Grant
Actress ("Heroes")
Historic Birthdays
Eugene Gladstone O'Neill
10/16/1888 - 11/27/1953
American dramatist
69 Albrecht Von Haller
10/16/1708 - 12/12/1777
Swiss biologist
84 Noah Webster
10/16/1758 - 5/28/1843
American lexicographer
46 Oscar Wilde
10/16/1854 - 11/30/1900
Irish dramatist
87 David Ben-Gurion, aka David Green
10/16/1886 - 12/1/1973
Israeli statesman; first prime minister and secretary of defense (1948-53, 1955-63)
31 Michael Collins
10/16/1890 - 8/22/1922
Irish revolutionary leader and statesman
81 William Orville Douglas
10/16/1898 - 1/19/1980
American associate justice of the United States Supreme Court (1939-75)
51 Ford Lee Buck Washington
10/16/1903 - 1/31/1955
American jazz musician
1777 - American troops defeated British ****** in Saratoga, NY. It was the turning point in the American Revolutionary War.
1880 - Founder of the Kraft Food Company, Charles Kraft was born.
1888 - The first issue of "National Geographic Magazine" was released at newsstands.
1917 - The Radio Corporation of America (RCA) was formed.
1931 - Al Capone was convicted on income tax evasion and was sentenced to 11 years in prison. He was released in 1939.
1933 - "News-Week" appeared for the first time at newsstands. The name was later changed to "Newsweek."
1933 - Dr. Albert Einstein moved to Princeton, NJ, after leaving Germany.
1939 - "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington" premiered.
1945 - Ava Gardner and Artie Shaw were married.
1945 - Colonel Juan Peron became the dictator of Argentina after staging a coup in Buenos Aires.
1973 - The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) began an oil-embargo against several countries including the U.S. and Great Britain. The incident stemmed from Western support of Israel when Egypt and Syria attacked the nation on October 6, 1973. The embargo lasted until March of 1974.
1978 - U.S. President Carter signed a bill that restored full U.S. citizenship rights to Confederate President Jefferson Davis.
1979 - ****** Teresa of India was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
1987 - U.S. first lady Nancy Reagan underwent a modified radical mastectomy at Bethesda Naval Hospital in Maryland.
1989 - An earthquake measuring 7.1 on the Richter Scale hit the San Francisco Bay area in California. The quake caused about 67 deaths, 3,000 injuries, and damages up to $7 billion.
1994 - Israel and Jordan initialed a draft peace treaty.
1994 - The Angolan government and rebels agreed to a peace treaty that ended their 19 years of civil war.
1997 - The remains of revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara were laid to rest in his adopted Cuba, 30 years after his execution in Bolivia.
2000 - In New York City, Madame Tussaud's Wax Museum opened to the public. The 42nd Street location joined Tussaud's other exhibitions already in London, Hong Kong, Amsterdam and Las Vegas.
2000 - Patrick Roy (Colorado Avalanche) achieved his 448th victory as a goalie in the NHL. Roy ****** Terry Sawchuck to become the record holder for career victories.
2001 - Israel's tourism minister was ******. A radical Palestinian faction claimed that it had carried out the assassination to avenge the ******* of its leader by Israel 2 months earlier.
2001 - Pakistan placed its armed ****** on high alert because of troop movements by India in the disputed territory of Kashmir. India said that the movements were part of a normal troop rotation.
2001 - The U.S. Capitol building was closed because of an outside threat. The Capitol building and all House office buildings were closed for inspection following the discovery of anthrax in a Senate office building.
2001 - Italian priest Giuseppe "Beppe" Pierantoni was ********* by the terrorist group the "Pentagon." He was released on April 8, 2002.
2003 - In the U.S., the Food and **** Administration approved a ****, known as memantine, to help people with Alzheimer's symptoms.
2003 - In Taipei, Taiwan, construction crews finished 1,676-foot-tall-building called Taipei 101. The building was planned to open for business in 2004.
2003 - In northwest England, the Carnforth railway station reopened as a heritage center.
Current Birthdays
Alan Jackson turns 50 years old today.
91 Marsha Hunt
Actress
82 Julie Adams
Actress
82 Beverly Garland
Actress
78 Jimmy Breslin
Newspaper columnist
67 Earl Thomas Conley
Country singer
66 Jim Seals
Singer (Seals & Crofts)
66 Gary Puckett
Singer
61 Michael McKean
Actor ("This is Spinal Tap," "Laverne and Shirley")
60 Margot Kidder
Actress
60 George Wendt
Actor ("Cheers")
53 Sam Bottoms
Actor
48 Rob Marshall
Director ("Chicago")
46 Mike Judge
Animator ("Beavis and Butthead")
45 Fred LeBlanc
Rock singer, musician (Cowboy Mouth)
45 Norm Macdonald
Actor, comedian ("Saturday Night Live")
40 Ziggy Marley
Reggae musician
39 Ernie Els
Golfer
37 Chris Kirkpatrick
Singer ('N Sync)
36 Eminem
Rapper
36 Sharon Leal
Actress ("Boston Public")
34 Matthew Macfadyen
Actor ("MI-5")
31 Sergio Andrade
Rock musician
Historic Birthdays
Rita Hayworth
10/17/1918 - 5/14/1987
American film actress
54 Johann Gerhard
10/17/1582 - 8/17/1637
German theologian
75 Frederick Childe Hassam
10/17/1859 - 8/27/1935
American painter
73 Ernest Goodpasture
10/17/1886 - 9/20/1960
American pathologist
90 Jean Arthur
10/17/1900 - 6/19/1991
American actress
37 Nathanael West
10/17/1903 - 12/22/1940
American author
65 Pope John Paul I
10/17/1912 - 9/28/1978
Pope of the Roman Catholic Church (1978)
81 Jerry Siegel
10/17/1914 - 1/28/1996
American cartoonist
89 Arthur Miller
10/17/1915 - 2/10/2005
Pulitzer Prize-winning American playwright
45 Montgomery Clift
10/17/1920 - 7/23/1966
American film actor
1880 - Founder of the Kraft Food Company, Charles Kraft was born.
1888 - The first issue of "National Geographic Magazine" was released at newsstands.
1917 - The Radio Corporation of America (RCA) was formed.
1931 - Al Capone was convicted on income tax evasion and was sentenced to 11 years in prison. He was released in 1939.
1933 - "News-Week" appeared for the first time at newsstands. The name was later changed to "Newsweek."
1933 - Dr. Albert Einstein moved to Princeton, NJ, after leaving Germany.
1939 - "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington" premiered.
1945 - Ava Gardner and Artie Shaw were married.
1945 - Colonel Juan Peron became the dictator of Argentina after staging a coup in Buenos Aires.
1973 - The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) began an oil-embargo against several countries including the U.S. and Great Britain. The incident stemmed from Western support of Israel when Egypt and Syria attacked the nation on October 6, 1973. The embargo lasted until March of 1974.
1978 - U.S. President Carter signed a bill that restored full U.S. citizenship rights to Confederate President Jefferson Davis.
1979 - ****** Teresa of India was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
1987 - U.S. first lady Nancy Reagan underwent a modified radical mastectomy at Bethesda Naval Hospital in Maryland.
1989 - An earthquake measuring 7.1 on the Richter Scale hit the San Francisco Bay area in California. The quake caused about 67 deaths, 3,000 injuries, and damages up to $7 billion.
1994 - Israel and Jordan initialed a draft peace treaty.
1994 - The Angolan government and rebels agreed to a peace treaty that ended their 19 years of civil war.
1997 - The remains of revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara were laid to rest in his adopted Cuba, 30 years after his execution in Bolivia.
2000 - In New York City, Madame Tussaud's Wax Museum opened to the public. The 42nd Street location joined Tussaud's other exhibitions already in London, Hong Kong, Amsterdam and Las Vegas.
2000 - Patrick Roy (Colorado Avalanche) achieved his 448th victory as a goalie in the NHL. Roy ****** Terry Sawchuck to become the record holder for career victories.
2001 - Israel's tourism minister was ******. A radical Palestinian faction claimed that it had carried out the assassination to avenge the ******* of its leader by Israel 2 months earlier.
2001 - Pakistan placed its armed ****** on high alert because of troop movements by India in the disputed territory of Kashmir. India said that the movements were part of a normal troop rotation.
2001 - The U.S. Capitol building was closed because of an outside threat. The Capitol building and all House office buildings were closed for inspection following the discovery of anthrax in a Senate office building.
2001 - Italian priest Giuseppe "Beppe" Pierantoni was ********* by the terrorist group the "Pentagon." He was released on April 8, 2002.
2003 - In the U.S., the Food and **** Administration approved a ****, known as memantine, to help people with Alzheimer's symptoms.
2003 - In Taipei, Taiwan, construction crews finished 1,676-foot-tall-building called Taipei 101. The building was planned to open for business in 2004.
2003 - In northwest England, the Carnforth railway station reopened as a heritage center.
Current Birthdays
Alan Jackson turns 50 years old today.
91 Marsha Hunt
Actress
82 Julie Adams
Actress
82 Beverly Garland
Actress
78 Jimmy Breslin
Newspaper columnist
67 Earl Thomas Conley
Country singer
66 Jim Seals
Singer (Seals & Crofts)
66 Gary Puckett
Singer
61 Michael McKean
Actor ("This is Spinal Tap," "Laverne and Shirley")
60 Margot Kidder
Actress
60 George Wendt
Actor ("Cheers")
53 Sam Bottoms
Actor
48 Rob Marshall
Director ("Chicago")
46 Mike Judge
Animator ("Beavis and Butthead")
45 Fred LeBlanc
Rock singer, musician (Cowboy Mouth)
45 Norm Macdonald
Actor, comedian ("Saturday Night Live")
40 Ziggy Marley
Reggae musician
39 Ernie Els
Golfer
37 Chris Kirkpatrick
Singer ('N Sync)
36 Eminem
Rapper
36 Sharon Leal
Actress ("Boston Public")
34 Matthew Macfadyen
Actor ("MI-5")
31 Sergio Andrade
Rock musician
Historic Birthdays
Rita Hayworth
10/17/1918 - 5/14/1987
American film actress
54 Johann Gerhard
10/17/1582 - 8/17/1637
German theologian
75 Frederick Childe Hassam
10/17/1859 - 8/27/1935
American painter
73 Ernest Goodpasture
10/17/1886 - 9/20/1960
American pathologist
90 Jean Arthur
10/17/1900 - 6/19/1991
American actress
37 Nathanael West
10/17/1903 - 12/22/1940
American author
65 Pope John Paul I
10/17/1912 - 9/28/1978
Pope of the Roman Catholic Church (1978)
81 Jerry Siegel
10/17/1914 - 1/28/1996
American cartoonist
89 Arthur Miller
10/17/1915 - 2/10/2005
Pulitzer Prize-winning American playwright
45 Montgomery Clift
10/17/1920 - 7/23/1966
American film actor
1469 - Ferdinand of Aragon married Isabella of Castile. The marriage united all the dominions of Spain.
1685 - King Louis XIV of France revoked the Edict of Nantes, which had established the legal toleration of the Protestant population.
1767 - The Mason-Dixon line was agreed upon. It was the boundary between Maryland and Pennsylvania.
1842 - Samuel Finley Breese Morse laid his first telegraph cable.
1860 - British troops burned the Yuanmingyuan at the end of the Second Opium War.
1867 - The U.S. took formal possession of Alaska from Russia. The land was purchased of a total of $7 million dollars (2 cents per acre).
1873 - The first rules for intercollegiate football were drawn up by representatives from Rutgers, Yale, Columbia and Princeton Universities.
1892 - The first long-distance telephone line between Chicago, IL, and New York City, NY, was opened.
1898 - The American flag was raised in Puerto Rico only one year after the Caribbean nation won its independence from Spain.
1929 - The Judicial Committee of England’s Privy Council ruled that women were to be considered as persons in Canada.
1931 - Inventor Thomas Alva Edison died at the age of 84.
1943 - The first broadcast of "Perry Mason" was presented on CBS Radio. The show went to TV in 1957.
1944 - Czechoslovakia was invaded by the Soviets during World War II.
1944 - "Forever Amber", written by Kathleen Windsor, was first published.
1950 - Connie Mack announced that he was going to retire after 50 seasons as the manager of the Philadelphia Athletics.
1956 - NFL commissioner Bert Bell disallowed the use of radio-equipped helmets by NFL quarterbacks.
1958 - The first computer-arranged marriage took place on Art Linkletter's show.
1961 - Henri Matiss' "Le Bateau" went on display at New York's Museum of Modern Art. It was discovered 46 days later that the painting had been hanging upside down.
1967 - The American League granted permission for the A's to move to Oakland. Also, new franchises were awarded to Kansas City and Seattle.
1968 - Two black athletes, Tommie Smith and John Carlos, were suspended by the U.S. Olympic Committee for giving a "black power" salute during a ceremony in Mexico City.
1969 - The U.S. government ****** artificial sweeteners due to evidence that they caused cancer.
1970 - Quebec's minister of labor was found ********* to death after eight days of being held captive by the Quebec Liberation Front (FLQ).
1971 - After 34 years, the final issue of "Look" magazine was published.
1977 - A German special ****** team stormed a hijacked Lufthansa airliner and ****** all four hijackers and freed 86 hostages. The Palestinian hijackers had demanded the release of members of the Red Army Faction.
1977 - Reggie Jackson tied Babe Ruth's record for hitting three homeruns in a single World Series game. Jackson was only the second player to achieve this.
1983 - General Motors agreed to hire more women and minorities for five years as part of a settlement with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
1985 - South African authorities hanged black activist Benjamin Moloise. Moloise had been convicted of ********* a police officer.
1989 - Egon Krenz became the leader of East Germany after Erich Honecker was ousted. Honeker had been in power for 18 years.
1989 - The space shuttle Atlantis was launched on a mission that included the deployment of the Galileo space probe.
1990 - Iraq made an offer to the world that it would sell oil for $21 a barrel. The price level was the same as it had been before the invasion of Kuwait.
1997 - A monument honoring U.S. servicewomen, past and present, was dedicated at Arlington National Cemetery.
2001 - In New York, four defendants were convicted for the 1998 bombings of two U.S. embassies in Africa.
2001 - It was announced that a New Jersey letter carrier and an employee in the office of CBS news anchorman Dan Rather's office had tested positive for skin anthrax.
2006 The Dow Jones industrial average ****** 12,000 for the first time before pulling back to close at 11,992.68.
2007 Former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto returned to Pakistan, ending eight years of self-imposed exile; a suicide bombing in a crowd welcoming her ****** more than 140 people, but Bhutto escaped unhurt.
Current Birthdays
Ne-Yo turns 29 years old today.
82 Chuck Berry
Rock musician
80 Keith Jackson
Sportscaster
70 Dawn Wells
Actress ("Gilligan's Island")
69 Mike Ditka
Hall of Fame football coach, sportscaster
61 Joe Morton
Actor
57 Pam Dawber
Actress ("Mork and Mindy")
57 Terry McMillan
Author
55 Vickie Winans
Gospel singer
52 Martina Navratilova
Tennis Hall of Famer
48 Erin Moran
Actress ("Happy Days")
48 Jean-Claude Van Damme
Actor
47 Wynton Marsalis
Trumpeter
46 Vincent Spano
Actor
42 Tim Cross
Rock musician (Sponge)
35 Nonchalant
R&B singer
34 Peter Svensson
Rock musician (The Cardigans)
30 Wesley Jonathan
Actor
28 Josh Gracin
Country singer ("American Idol")
27 Jesse Littleton
Country musician (Marshall Dyllon)
21 Zac Efron
Actor ("High School Musical" movies)
19 Joy Lauren
Actress ("Desperate Housewives")
17 Tyler Posey
Actor
Historic Birthdays
Pierre Elliott Trudeau
10/18/1919 - 9/28/2000
Prime minister of Canada
58 Pope Pius II
10/18/1405 - 8/14/1464
Italian Pope of the Roman Catholic Church (1458-64)
59 Edward Winslow
10/18/1595 - 5/8/1655
English founder of Plymouth Colony
72 Luca Giordano
10/18/1632 - 1/3/1705
Italian painter
70 Canaletto
10/18/1697 - 4/20/1768
Italian painter
68 Robert L. Stevens
10/18/1787 - 4/20/1856
American poet
68 Christian Friedrich Schonbein
10/18/1799 - 8/29/1868
German chemist
81 Henri Bergson
10/18/1859 - 1/4/1941
French philosopher
81 Lotte Lenya
10/18/1898 - 11/27/1981
Austrian singer and actress
73 Melina Mercouri
10/18/1920 - 3/6/1994
Greek actress
1685 - King Louis XIV of France revoked the Edict of Nantes, which had established the legal toleration of the Protestant population.
1767 - The Mason-Dixon line was agreed upon. It was the boundary between Maryland and Pennsylvania.
1842 - Samuel Finley Breese Morse laid his first telegraph cable.
1860 - British troops burned the Yuanmingyuan at the end of the Second Opium War.
1867 - The U.S. took formal possession of Alaska from Russia. The land was purchased of a total of $7 million dollars (2 cents per acre).
1873 - The first rules for intercollegiate football were drawn up by representatives from Rutgers, Yale, Columbia and Princeton Universities.
1892 - The first long-distance telephone line between Chicago, IL, and New York City, NY, was opened.
1898 - The American flag was raised in Puerto Rico only one year after the Caribbean nation won its independence from Spain.
1929 - The Judicial Committee of England’s Privy Council ruled that women were to be considered as persons in Canada.
1931 - Inventor Thomas Alva Edison died at the age of 84.
1943 - The first broadcast of "Perry Mason" was presented on CBS Radio. The show went to TV in 1957.
1944 - Czechoslovakia was invaded by the Soviets during World War II.
1944 - "Forever Amber", written by Kathleen Windsor, was first published.
1950 - Connie Mack announced that he was going to retire after 50 seasons as the manager of the Philadelphia Athletics.
1956 - NFL commissioner Bert Bell disallowed the use of radio-equipped helmets by NFL quarterbacks.
1958 - The first computer-arranged marriage took place on Art Linkletter's show.
1961 - Henri Matiss' "Le Bateau" went on display at New York's Museum of Modern Art. It was discovered 46 days later that the painting had been hanging upside down.
1967 - The American League granted permission for the A's to move to Oakland. Also, new franchises were awarded to Kansas City and Seattle.
1968 - Two black athletes, Tommie Smith and John Carlos, were suspended by the U.S. Olympic Committee for giving a "black power" salute during a ceremony in Mexico City.
1969 - The U.S. government ****** artificial sweeteners due to evidence that they caused cancer.
1970 - Quebec's minister of labor was found ********* to death after eight days of being held captive by the Quebec Liberation Front (FLQ).
1971 - After 34 years, the final issue of "Look" magazine was published.
1977 - A German special ****** team stormed a hijacked Lufthansa airliner and ****** all four hijackers and freed 86 hostages. The Palestinian hijackers had demanded the release of members of the Red Army Faction.
1977 - Reggie Jackson tied Babe Ruth's record for hitting three homeruns in a single World Series game. Jackson was only the second player to achieve this.
1983 - General Motors agreed to hire more women and minorities for five years as part of a settlement with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
1985 - South African authorities hanged black activist Benjamin Moloise. Moloise had been convicted of ********* a police officer.
1989 - Egon Krenz became the leader of East Germany after Erich Honecker was ousted. Honeker had been in power for 18 years.
1989 - The space shuttle Atlantis was launched on a mission that included the deployment of the Galileo space probe.
1990 - Iraq made an offer to the world that it would sell oil for $21 a barrel. The price level was the same as it had been before the invasion of Kuwait.
1997 - A monument honoring U.S. servicewomen, past and present, was dedicated at Arlington National Cemetery.
2001 - In New York, four defendants were convicted for the 1998 bombings of two U.S. embassies in Africa.
2001 - It was announced that a New Jersey letter carrier and an employee in the office of CBS news anchorman Dan Rather's office had tested positive for skin anthrax.
2006 The Dow Jones industrial average ****** 12,000 for the first time before pulling back to close at 11,992.68.
2007 Former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto returned to Pakistan, ending eight years of self-imposed exile; a suicide bombing in a crowd welcoming her ****** more than 140 people, but Bhutto escaped unhurt.
Current Birthdays
Ne-Yo turns 29 years old today.
82 Chuck Berry
Rock musician
80 Keith Jackson
Sportscaster
70 Dawn Wells
Actress ("Gilligan's Island")
69 Mike Ditka
Hall of Fame football coach, sportscaster
61 Joe Morton
Actor
57 Pam Dawber
Actress ("Mork and Mindy")
57 Terry McMillan
Author
55 Vickie Winans
Gospel singer
52 Martina Navratilova
Tennis Hall of Famer
48 Erin Moran
Actress ("Happy Days")
48 Jean-Claude Van Damme
Actor
47 Wynton Marsalis
Trumpeter
46 Vincent Spano
Actor
42 Tim Cross
Rock musician (Sponge)
35 Nonchalant
R&B singer
34 Peter Svensson
Rock musician (The Cardigans)
30 Wesley Jonathan
Actor
28 Josh Gracin
Country singer ("American Idol")
27 Jesse Littleton
Country musician (Marshall Dyllon)
21 Zac Efron
Actor ("High School Musical" movies)
19 Joy Lauren
Actress ("Desperate Housewives")
17 Tyler Posey
Actor
Historic Birthdays
Pierre Elliott Trudeau
10/18/1919 - 9/28/2000
Prime minister of Canada
58 Pope Pius II
10/18/1405 - 8/14/1464
Italian Pope of the Roman Catholic Church (1458-64)
59 Edward Winslow
10/18/1595 - 5/8/1655
English founder of Plymouth Colony
72 Luca Giordano
10/18/1632 - 1/3/1705
Italian painter
70 Canaletto
10/18/1697 - 4/20/1768
Italian painter
68 Robert L. Stevens
10/18/1787 - 4/20/1856
American poet
68 Christian Friedrich Schonbein
10/18/1799 - 8/29/1868
German chemist
81 Henri Bergson
10/18/1859 - 1/4/1941
French philosopher
81 Lotte Lenya
10/18/1898 - 11/27/1981
Austrian singer and actress
73 Melina Mercouri
10/18/1920 - 3/6/1994
Greek actress
1765 - In the U.S., The Stamp Act Congress met and drew up a declaration of rights and liberties.
1781 - British General Charles Lord Cornwallis surrendered to U.S. General George Washington at Yorktown, Virginia. It was to be the last major battle of the American Revolutionary War.
1812 - Napoleon Bonaparte's French ****** began their retreat out of Russia after a month of chasing the retreating Russian army.
1885 - Charles Merrill, founder of Merrill-Lynch, was born.
1914 - In the U.S., government owned vehicles were first used to pick up mail in Washington, DC.
1915 - The U.S. recognized General Venustiano Carranza as the president of Mexico. The U.S. imposed embargo to all parts of Mexico except where Carranza was in control.
1933 - Basketball was introduced to the 1936 Olympic Games by the Berlin Organization Committee.
1937 - "Woman's Day" was published for the first time.
1937 - "Big Town" made its debut on CBS.
1943 - The Moscow Conference of Foreign Ministers began in Russia during World War II. Delegates from the U.S.S.R., Great Britain, the U.S., and China met to discuss war aims and cooperation between the nations.
1944 - The play "I Remember ****" opened on Broadway. Marlon Brando made his debut with his appearance.
1944 - The U.S. Navy announced that black women would be allowed into Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service (WAVES).
1950 - The United Nations ****** entered the North Korean capital of Pyongyang.
1951 - U.S. President Truman singed an act officially ending the state of war with Germany.
1959 - Patty Duke, at the age of 12, made her Broadway debut in "The Miracle Worker." The play lasted for 700 performances.
1960 - The United States imposed an embargo on exports to Cuba covering all commodities except medical supplies and certain food products.
1969 - U.S. Vice President Spiro Agnew referred to anti-Vietnam War protesters "an effete corps of impudent snobs."
1974 - The news program "Weekend" debuted on NBC.
1977 - The Concorde made its first landing in New York City.
1983 - The U.S. Senate approved a bill establishing a national holiday in honor of Martin Luther King Jr.
1984 - Four U.S. employees of the CIA were ****** in El Salvador when their plane crashed.
1987 - The Dow Jones industrial average dropped 508 points. It was the worst one-day percentage decline, 22.6%, in history.
1989 - The Guilford Four were cleared of all charges and released after 14 years in prison. The charges were from the 1975 IRA bombings of public houses in Guildford and Woolrich, England.
1989 - The U.S. Senate rejected a proposed constitutional amendment that barred the desecration of the American flag.
1993 - Benazir Bhutto was returned to the premiership of Pakistan.
1998 - In Washington, DC, Microsoft went on trial to defend against an antitrust case.
1998 - Fires in Nigeria swept through villages ******* 500 people.
1998 - Former heavyweight champion Mike Tyson got his boxing license back after he had lost it for biting Evander Holyfield's ear during a fight.
2001 - Two U.S. Army Rangers were ****** in a helicopter crash in Pakistan. The deaths were the first American deaths of the military campaign in Afghanistan.
2001 - It was reported that a New Jersey postal worker and a New York Post employee had tested positive for skin anthrax.
2002 - In York, PA, former mayor Charlie Robertson was acquitted and two other men were convicted in the shotgun ****** of a young black woman during race riots in 1969.
2003 - In London, magician David Blaine emerged from a clear plastic box that had been suspended by a crane over the banks of the Thames River. He survived only on water for 44 days. Blaine had entered the box on September 5.
2006 - The Dow Jones industrial average ended the day at 12,011.73. It was the first close above 12,000.
Current Birthdays
John Lithgow turns 63 years old today.
90 Robert S. Strauss
Former U.S. ambassador to Russia
77 John le Carre
Author
71 Peter Max
Artist
68 Michael Gambon
Actor
63 Patricia Ireland
Feminist activist
63 Jeannie C. Riley
Country singer
56 Charlie Chase
Talk show host
51 Karl Wallinger
Rock musician (World Party)
48 Jennifer Holliday
R&B singer
46 Evander Holyfield
Boxer
44 Ty Pennington
TV host ("Extreme Makeover: Home Edition")
43 Todd Park Mohr
Rock musician (Big Head Todd and the Monsters)
42 Jon Favreau
Actor
41 Amy Carter
******** of former President Jimmy Carter
39 Trey Parker
TV producer ("South Park")
38 Chris Kattan
Actor, comedian ("Saturday Night Live")
36 Pras Michel
Singer (The Fugees)
32 Omar Gooding
Actor
32 Cyndi Thomson
Country singer
32 Michael Young
Baseball player
31 Jason Reitman
Writer, director ("Thank You for Smoking," "Juno")
28 Benjamin Salisbury
Actor ("The Nanny")
Historic Birthdays
Charles E. Merrill
10/19/1885 - 10/6/1956
American financier
77 Sir Thomas Browne
10/19/1605 - 10/19/1682
English physican and author
33 Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson
10/19/1748 - 9/6/1782
American wife of Thomas Jefferson
74 (James Henry) Leigh Hunt
10/19/1784 - 8/28/1859
English essayist, critic, journalist and poet
82 Edmund Beecher Wilson
10/19/1856 - 3/3/1939
American biologist
75 Alfred Dreyfus
10/19/1859 - 7/12/1935
French army officer tried for treason in famous trial
91 Auguste Lumiere
10/19/1862 - 4/10/1954
French inventor
1781 - British General Charles Lord Cornwallis surrendered to U.S. General George Washington at Yorktown, Virginia. It was to be the last major battle of the American Revolutionary War.
1812 - Napoleon Bonaparte's French ****** began their retreat out of Russia after a month of chasing the retreating Russian army.
1885 - Charles Merrill, founder of Merrill-Lynch, was born.
1914 - In the U.S., government owned vehicles were first used to pick up mail in Washington, DC.
1915 - The U.S. recognized General Venustiano Carranza as the president of Mexico. The U.S. imposed embargo to all parts of Mexico except where Carranza was in control.
1933 - Basketball was introduced to the 1936 Olympic Games by the Berlin Organization Committee.
1937 - "Woman's Day" was published for the first time.
1937 - "Big Town" made its debut on CBS.
1943 - The Moscow Conference of Foreign Ministers began in Russia during World War II. Delegates from the U.S.S.R., Great Britain, the U.S., and China met to discuss war aims and cooperation between the nations.
1944 - The play "I Remember ****" opened on Broadway. Marlon Brando made his debut with his appearance.
1944 - The U.S. Navy announced that black women would be allowed into Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service (WAVES).
1950 - The United Nations ****** entered the North Korean capital of Pyongyang.
1951 - U.S. President Truman singed an act officially ending the state of war with Germany.
1959 - Patty Duke, at the age of 12, made her Broadway debut in "The Miracle Worker." The play lasted for 700 performances.
1960 - The United States imposed an embargo on exports to Cuba covering all commodities except medical supplies and certain food products.
1969 - U.S. Vice President Spiro Agnew referred to anti-Vietnam War protesters "an effete corps of impudent snobs."
1974 - The news program "Weekend" debuted on NBC.
1977 - The Concorde made its first landing in New York City.
1983 - The U.S. Senate approved a bill establishing a national holiday in honor of Martin Luther King Jr.
1984 - Four U.S. employees of the CIA were ****** in El Salvador when their plane crashed.
1987 - The Dow Jones industrial average dropped 508 points. It was the worst one-day percentage decline, 22.6%, in history.
1989 - The Guilford Four were cleared of all charges and released after 14 years in prison. The charges were from the 1975 IRA bombings of public houses in Guildford and Woolrich, England.
1989 - The U.S. Senate rejected a proposed constitutional amendment that barred the desecration of the American flag.
1993 - Benazir Bhutto was returned to the premiership of Pakistan.
1998 - In Washington, DC, Microsoft went on trial to defend against an antitrust case.
1998 - Fires in Nigeria swept through villages ******* 500 people.
1998 - Former heavyweight champion Mike Tyson got his boxing license back after he had lost it for biting Evander Holyfield's ear during a fight.
2001 - Two U.S. Army Rangers were ****** in a helicopter crash in Pakistan. The deaths were the first American deaths of the military campaign in Afghanistan.
2001 - It was reported that a New Jersey postal worker and a New York Post employee had tested positive for skin anthrax.
2002 - In York, PA, former mayor Charlie Robertson was acquitted and two other men were convicted in the shotgun ****** of a young black woman during race riots in 1969.
2003 - In London, magician David Blaine emerged from a clear plastic box that had been suspended by a crane over the banks of the Thames River. He survived only on water for 44 days. Blaine had entered the box on September 5.
2006 - The Dow Jones industrial average ended the day at 12,011.73. It was the first close above 12,000.
Current Birthdays
John Lithgow turns 63 years old today.
90 Robert S. Strauss
Former U.S. ambassador to Russia
77 John le Carre
Author
71 Peter Max
Artist
68 Michael Gambon
Actor
63 Patricia Ireland
Feminist activist
63 Jeannie C. Riley
Country singer
56 Charlie Chase
Talk show host
51 Karl Wallinger
Rock musician (World Party)
48 Jennifer Holliday
R&B singer
46 Evander Holyfield
Boxer
44 Ty Pennington
TV host ("Extreme Makeover: Home Edition")
43 Todd Park Mohr
Rock musician (Big Head Todd and the Monsters)
42 Jon Favreau
Actor
41 Amy Carter
******** of former President Jimmy Carter
39 Trey Parker
TV producer ("South Park")
38 Chris Kattan
Actor, comedian ("Saturday Night Live")
36 Pras Michel
Singer (The Fugees)
32 Omar Gooding
Actor
32 Cyndi Thomson
Country singer
32 Michael Young
Baseball player
31 Jason Reitman
Writer, director ("Thank You for Smoking," "Juno")
28 Benjamin Salisbury
Actor ("The Nanny")
Historic Birthdays
Charles E. Merrill
10/19/1885 - 10/6/1956
American financier
77 Sir Thomas Browne
10/19/1605 - 10/19/1682
English physican and author
33 Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson
10/19/1748 - 9/6/1782
American wife of Thomas Jefferson
74 (James Henry) Leigh Hunt
10/19/1784 - 8/28/1859
English essayist, critic, journalist and poet
82 Edmund Beecher Wilson
10/19/1856 - 3/3/1939
American biologist
75 Alfred Dreyfus
10/19/1859 - 7/12/1935
French army officer tried for treason in famous trial
91 Auguste Lumiere
10/19/1862 - 4/10/1954
French inventor
1740 - Maria Theresa became the ruler of Austria, Hungary and Bohemia with the death of her ******, Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI.
1774 - The new Continental Congress, the governing body of America’s colonies, ****** an order proclaiming that all citizens of the colonies "discountenance and discourage all ***** racing and all kinds of gaming, cock fighting, exhibitions of shows, plays and other expensive diversions and entertainment."
1803 - The U.S. Senate approved the Louisiana Purchase.
1818 - The U.S. and Great Britain established the boundary between the U.S. and Canada to be the 49th parallel.
1827 - The Battle of Navarino took place during the Greek War for Independence.
1873 - A Hippodrome was opened in New York City by showman Phineus T. (P.T.) Barnum.
1892 - The city of Chicago dedicated the World's Columbian Exposition.
1903 - A joint commission ruled in favor of the U.S. concerning a dispute over the boundary between Canada and the District of Alaska.
1910 - A baseball with a cork center was used in a World Series game for the first time.
1930 - "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" debuted on NBC radio.
1935 - Mao Zedong arrived in Hanoi after his Long March that took just over a year. He then set up the Chinese Communist Headquarters.
1942 - Pierre Laval told the French labor that they must serve in Germany.
1944 - Allied ****** invaded the Philippines.
1944 - During World War II, the Yugoslav cities of Belgrade and Dubrovnik were liberated.
1947 - Hollywood came under scrutiny as the House Un-American Activities Committee opened hearings into alleged Communist influence within the motion picture industry.
1952 - The Mau Mau uprising against white settlers began in Kenya.
1955 - "No Time for Sergeants" opened on Broadway.
1957 - Walter Cronkite began hosting "The 20th Century." The show aired until January 4, 1970.
1967 - Seven men were convicted in Meridian, MS, on charges of ********* the civil rights of three civil rights workers. Of the men convicted one was a Ku Klux Klan leader and another was a sheriff's deputy.
1968 - Jackie Lee Bouvier Kennedy married Aristotle Onassis.
1976 - More than 70 people were ****** when the Norwegian tanker Frosta collided with the ferryboat George Prince on the Mississippi River.
1979 - The John F. Kennedy Library in Boston was dedicated.
1984 - The U.S. State Department reduced the number of Americans assigned to the U.S. embassy in Beirut, Lebanon.
1986 - American mercenary Eugene Hasenfus was formally charged by the Nicaraguan government on several charges including terrorism.
1993 - Attorney General Janet Reno warned the TV industry to limit the ******** in their programs.
1995 - Britain, France and the U.S. announced a treaty that ****** atomic blasts in the South Pacific.
2003 - A 40-year-old man went over Niagara Falls without safety devices and survived. He was charged with illegally performing a stunt.
Current Birthdays
Viggo Mortensen turns 50 years old today.
76 William Christopher
Actor ("M*A*S*H")
71 Wanda Jackson
Country singer
71 Juan Marichal
Baseball Hall of Famer
62 Elfriede Jelinek
Nobel Prize-winning author
56 Melanie Mayron
Actress
53 Sheldon Whitehouse
U.S. senator, D-R.I.
50 Tom Petty
Rock singer, musician
44 David Ryan
Rock musician
44 Jim Sonefeld
Rock musician (Hootie & The Blowfish)
41 Doug Eldridge
Rock musician (Oleander)
37 Snoop Dogg (Calvin Broadus)
Rapper
37 Dannii Minogue
Rock singer
32 Jeff Loberg
Country musician
29 John Krasinski
Actor ("The Office")
23 Jennifer Nicole Freeman
Actress ("My Wife and ****")
Historic Birthdays
John Dewey
10/20/1859 - 6/1/1952
American philosopher
89 Andrea Della Robbia
10/20/1435 - 8/4/1525
Italian sculptor
90 Sir Christopher Wren
10/20/1632 - 2/25/1723
English architect
88 Daniel Sickles
10/20/1825 - 5/3/1914
American politician, soldier, diplomat
37 Arthur Rimbaud
10/20/1854 - 11/10/1891
French poet
79 Charles Edward Ives
10/20/1874 - 5/19/1954
American composer
71 Bela Lugosi
10/20/1882 - 8/16/1956
Hungarian actor
82 Sir James Chadwick
10/20/1891 - 7/24/1974
English physicist
81 Dame Anna Neagle
10/20/1904 - 6/3/1986
English actress and dancer
63 Mickey Mantle
10/20/1931 - 8/13/1995
American professional baseball player
47 Lewis Grizzard
10/20/1946 - 3/20/1994
American columnist
1774 - The new Continental Congress, the governing body of America’s colonies, ****** an order proclaiming that all citizens of the colonies "discountenance and discourage all ***** racing and all kinds of gaming, cock fighting, exhibitions of shows, plays and other expensive diversions and entertainment."
1803 - The U.S. Senate approved the Louisiana Purchase.
1818 - The U.S. and Great Britain established the boundary between the U.S. and Canada to be the 49th parallel.
1827 - The Battle of Navarino took place during the Greek War for Independence.
1873 - A Hippodrome was opened in New York City by showman Phineus T. (P.T.) Barnum.
1892 - The city of Chicago dedicated the World's Columbian Exposition.
1903 - A joint commission ruled in favor of the U.S. concerning a dispute over the boundary between Canada and the District of Alaska.
1910 - A baseball with a cork center was used in a World Series game for the first time.
1930 - "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" debuted on NBC radio.
1935 - Mao Zedong arrived in Hanoi after his Long March that took just over a year. He then set up the Chinese Communist Headquarters.
1942 - Pierre Laval told the French labor that they must serve in Germany.
1944 - Allied ****** invaded the Philippines.
1944 - During World War II, the Yugoslav cities of Belgrade and Dubrovnik were liberated.
1947 - Hollywood came under scrutiny as the House Un-American Activities Committee opened hearings into alleged Communist influence within the motion picture industry.
1952 - The Mau Mau uprising against white settlers began in Kenya.
1955 - "No Time for Sergeants" opened on Broadway.
1957 - Walter Cronkite began hosting "The 20th Century." The show aired until January 4, 1970.
1967 - Seven men were convicted in Meridian, MS, on charges of ********* the civil rights of three civil rights workers. Of the men convicted one was a Ku Klux Klan leader and another was a sheriff's deputy.
1968 - Jackie Lee Bouvier Kennedy married Aristotle Onassis.
1976 - More than 70 people were ****** when the Norwegian tanker Frosta collided with the ferryboat George Prince on the Mississippi River.
1979 - The John F. Kennedy Library in Boston was dedicated.
1984 - The U.S. State Department reduced the number of Americans assigned to the U.S. embassy in Beirut, Lebanon.
1986 - American mercenary Eugene Hasenfus was formally charged by the Nicaraguan government on several charges including terrorism.
1993 - Attorney General Janet Reno warned the TV industry to limit the ******** in their programs.
1995 - Britain, France and the U.S. announced a treaty that ****** atomic blasts in the South Pacific.
2003 - A 40-year-old man went over Niagara Falls without safety devices and survived. He was charged with illegally performing a stunt.
Current Birthdays
Viggo Mortensen turns 50 years old today.
76 William Christopher
Actor ("M*A*S*H")
71 Wanda Jackson
Country singer
71 Juan Marichal
Baseball Hall of Famer
62 Elfriede Jelinek
Nobel Prize-winning author
56 Melanie Mayron
Actress
53 Sheldon Whitehouse
U.S. senator, D-R.I.
50 Tom Petty
Rock singer, musician
44 David Ryan
Rock musician
44 Jim Sonefeld
Rock musician (Hootie & The Blowfish)
41 Doug Eldridge
Rock musician (Oleander)
37 Snoop Dogg (Calvin Broadus)
Rapper
37 Dannii Minogue
Rock singer
32 Jeff Loberg
Country musician
29 John Krasinski
Actor ("The Office")
23 Jennifer Nicole Freeman
Actress ("My Wife and ****")
Historic Birthdays
John Dewey
10/20/1859 - 6/1/1952
American philosopher
89 Andrea Della Robbia
10/20/1435 - 8/4/1525
Italian sculptor
90 Sir Christopher Wren
10/20/1632 - 2/25/1723
English architect
88 Daniel Sickles
10/20/1825 - 5/3/1914
American politician, soldier, diplomat
37 Arthur Rimbaud
10/20/1854 - 11/10/1891
French poet
79 Charles Edward Ives
10/20/1874 - 5/19/1954
American composer
71 Bela Lugosi
10/20/1882 - 8/16/1956
Hungarian actor
82 Sir James Chadwick
10/20/1891 - 7/24/1974
English physicist
81 Dame Anna Neagle
10/20/1904 - 6/3/1986
English actress and dancer
63 Mickey Mantle
10/20/1931 - 8/13/1995
American professional baseball player
47 Lewis Grizzard
10/20/1946 - 3/20/1994
American columnist
1797 - "Old Ironsides," the U.S. Navy frigate Constitution, was launched in Boston's harbor.
1805 - The Battle of Trafalgar occurred off the coast of Spain. The British defeated the French and Spanish fleet.
1849 - The first tattooed man, James F. O’Connell, was put on exhibition at the Franklin Theatre in New York City, NY.
1858 - The Can-Can was performed for the first time in Paris.
1879 - Thomas Edison invented the electric incandescent lamp. It would last 13 1/2 hours before it would burn out.
1917 - The first U.S. soldiers entered combat during World War I near Nancy, France.
1918 - Margaret Owen set a typing speed record of 170 words per minute on a manual typewriter.
1925 - The photoelectric cell was first demonstrated at the Electric Show in New York City, NY.
1925 - The U.S. Treasury Department announced that it had fined 29,620 people for prohibition (of *******) violations.
1927 - Construction began on the Geoge Washington Bridge.
1944 - During World War II, the German city of Aachen was captured by U.S. troops.
1945 - Women in France were allowed to vote for the first time.
1950 - Chinese ****** invaded Tibet.
1959 - The Guggenheim Museum was opened to the public in New York. The building was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.
1966 - In south Wales, 140 people were ****** by a coal waste landslide engulfed a school and several houses.
1967 - Thousands of demonstrators marched in Washington, DC, in opposition to the Vietnam War.
1980 - The Philadelphia Phillies won their first World Series.
1983 - The Pentagon reported that 2,000 Marines were headed to Grenada to protect and evacuate Americans living there.
1986 - Pro-Iranian kidnappers in Lebanon claimed that they had ******** American writer Edward Tracy. He was not released until August of 1991.
1986 - The U.S. ordered 55 Soviet diplomats to leave. The action was in reaction to the Soviet Union expelling five American diplomats.
1988 - Former Philippine President Ferdinand E. Marcos and his wife, Imelda, were indicted in New York on fraud and racketeering charges. Marcos died before his trial and Imelda was acquitted in 1990.
1991 - Jesse Turner, an American hostage in Lebanon, was released after nearly five years of being imprisoned.
1993 - The play "The Twilight of the Golds" opened.
1994 - North Korea and the U.S. signed an agreement requiring North Korea to halt its nuclear program and agree to inspections.
1994 - Rosario Ames, the wife of CIA agent Aldrich Ames, was sentenced to five years in prison for her role in her husband's espionage.
1998 - 68 people were arrested in Indonesia for the ******* spree that left nine suspected ********* dead.
1998 - The New York Yankees set a major league baseball record of 125 victories for the regular and postseason combined.
1998 - Cancer specialist Dr. Jane Henney became the FDA's first female commissioner.
2003 - The U.S. Senate voted to ban what was known as partial birth abortions.
2003 - North Korea rejected U.S. President Bush's offer of a written pledge not to ****** in exchange for the communist nation agreeing to end its nuclear weapons program.
Current Birthdays
Willis McGahee turns 27 years old today.
83 Joyce Randolph
Actress ("The Honeymooners")
80 Whitey Ford
Baseball Hall of Famer
68 Manfred Mann
Rock musician
67 Steve Cropper
Rock musician (Booker T. & the MG's)
66 Elvin Bishop
Singer
66 Judy Sheindlin
TV personality ("Judge Judy")
63 Everett McGill
Actor
62 Lee Loughnane
Rock musician (Chicago)
59 Benjamin Netanyahu
Former Israeli prime minister
55 Charlotte Caffey
Rock musician (The Go Go's)
52 Carrie Fisher
Actress, author
51 Julian Cope
Rock singer
51 Steve Lukather
Rock musician (Toto)
49 Ken Watanabe
Actor ("Letters from Iwo Jima")
38 Che Colovita Lemon
Rock musician
37 Nick Oliveri
Rock musician
35 Charlie Lowell
Rock musician (Jars of Clay)
32 Jeremy Miller
Actor ("Growing Pains")
30 Will Estes
Actor ("American Dreams")
28 Kim Kardashian
TV personality
26 Matt Dallas
Actor ("Kyle XY")
Historic Birthdays
Dizzy Gillespie
10/21/1917 - 1/6/1993
American jazz musician
61 Samuel Taylor Coleridge
10/21/1772 - 7/25/1834
English poet
? Samuel F. Smith
10/21/1808 - 11/16/1895
Boston-born Baptist minister and hymn writer ("America" (My Country 'Tis of Thee"))
64 Georg von Dollmann
10/21/1830 - 3/31/1895
German architect
63 Alfred Bernhard Nobel
10/21/1833 - 12/10/1896
Swedish chemist
58 Giuseppe Giacosa
10/21/1847 - 9/1/1906
Italian dramatist
85 Jay Norwood Darling
10/21/1876 - 2/12/1962
American political cartoonist
80 Ted Shawn
10/21/1891 - 1/9/1972
American dancer
62 Edna Purviance
10/21/1895 - 1/13/1958
American silent film-era actress
84 Sir George Solti
10/21/1912 - 9/5/1997
Hungarian conductor
1805 - The Battle of Trafalgar occurred off the coast of Spain. The British defeated the French and Spanish fleet.
1849 - The first tattooed man, James F. O’Connell, was put on exhibition at the Franklin Theatre in New York City, NY.
1858 - The Can-Can was performed for the first time in Paris.
1879 - Thomas Edison invented the electric incandescent lamp. It would last 13 1/2 hours before it would burn out.
1917 - The first U.S. soldiers entered combat during World War I near Nancy, France.
1918 - Margaret Owen set a typing speed record of 170 words per minute on a manual typewriter.
1925 - The photoelectric cell was first demonstrated at the Electric Show in New York City, NY.
1925 - The U.S. Treasury Department announced that it had fined 29,620 people for prohibition (of *******) violations.
1927 - Construction began on the Geoge Washington Bridge.
1944 - During World War II, the German city of Aachen was captured by U.S. troops.
1945 - Women in France were allowed to vote for the first time.
1950 - Chinese ****** invaded Tibet.
1959 - The Guggenheim Museum was opened to the public in New York. The building was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.
1966 - In south Wales, 140 people were ****** by a coal waste landslide engulfed a school and several houses.
1967 - Thousands of demonstrators marched in Washington, DC, in opposition to the Vietnam War.
1980 - The Philadelphia Phillies won their first World Series.
1983 - The Pentagon reported that 2,000 Marines were headed to Grenada to protect and evacuate Americans living there.
1986 - Pro-Iranian kidnappers in Lebanon claimed that they had ******** American writer Edward Tracy. He was not released until August of 1991.
1986 - The U.S. ordered 55 Soviet diplomats to leave. The action was in reaction to the Soviet Union expelling five American diplomats.
1988 - Former Philippine President Ferdinand E. Marcos and his wife, Imelda, were indicted in New York on fraud and racketeering charges. Marcos died before his trial and Imelda was acquitted in 1990.
1991 - Jesse Turner, an American hostage in Lebanon, was released after nearly five years of being imprisoned.
1993 - The play "The Twilight of the Golds" opened.
1994 - North Korea and the U.S. signed an agreement requiring North Korea to halt its nuclear program and agree to inspections.
1994 - Rosario Ames, the wife of CIA agent Aldrich Ames, was sentenced to five years in prison for her role in her husband's espionage.
1998 - 68 people were arrested in Indonesia for the ******* spree that left nine suspected ********* dead.
1998 - The New York Yankees set a major league baseball record of 125 victories for the regular and postseason combined.
1998 - Cancer specialist Dr. Jane Henney became the FDA's first female commissioner.
2003 - The U.S. Senate voted to ban what was known as partial birth abortions.
2003 - North Korea rejected U.S. President Bush's offer of a written pledge not to ****** in exchange for the communist nation agreeing to end its nuclear weapons program.
Current Birthdays
Willis McGahee turns 27 years old today.
83 Joyce Randolph
Actress ("The Honeymooners")
80 Whitey Ford
Baseball Hall of Famer
68 Manfred Mann
Rock musician
67 Steve Cropper
Rock musician (Booker T. & the MG's)
66 Elvin Bishop
Singer
66 Judy Sheindlin
TV personality ("Judge Judy")
63 Everett McGill
Actor
62 Lee Loughnane
Rock musician (Chicago)
59 Benjamin Netanyahu
Former Israeli prime minister
55 Charlotte Caffey
Rock musician (The Go Go's)
52 Carrie Fisher
Actress, author
51 Julian Cope
Rock singer
51 Steve Lukather
Rock musician (Toto)
49 Ken Watanabe
Actor ("Letters from Iwo Jima")
38 Che Colovita Lemon
Rock musician
37 Nick Oliveri
Rock musician
35 Charlie Lowell
Rock musician (Jars of Clay)
32 Jeremy Miller
Actor ("Growing Pains")
30 Will Estes
Actor ("American Dreams")
28 Kim Kardashian
TV personality
26 Matt Dallas
Actor ("Kyle XY")
Historic Birthdays
Dizzy Gillespie
10/21/1917 - 1/6/1993
American jazz musician
61 Samuel Taylor Coleridge
10/21/1772 - 7/25/1834
English poet
? Samuel F. Smith
10/21/1808 - 11/16/1895
Boston-born Baptist minister and hymn writer ("America" (My Country 'Tis of Thee"))
64 Georg von Dollmann
10/21/1830 - 3/31/1895
German architect
63 Alfred Bernhard Nobel
10/21/1833 - 12/10/1896
Swedish chemist
58 Giuseppe Giacosa
10/21/1847 - 9/1/1906
Italian dramatist
85 Jay Norwood Darling
10/21/1876 - 2/12/1962
American political cartoonist
80 Ted Shawn
10/21/1891 - 1/9/1972
American dancer
62 Edna Purviance
10/21/1895 - 1/13/1958
American silent film-era actress
84 Sir George Solti
10/21/1912 - 9/5/1997
Hungarian conductor
42 B.C. - Marcus Junius Brutus committed suicide after his defeat at the Battle of Philippi. He was a leading conspirator in the assassination of Julius Caesar.
1864 - During the U.S. Civil War, Union ****** led by Gen. Samuel R. Curtis defeated the Confederate ****** in Missouri that were under Gen. Stirling Price.
1869 - John (William) Heisman was born. He is recognized as one of the greatest innovators of the game of football.
1910 - Blanche S. Scott became the first woman to make a public solo airplane flight.
1915 - The first U.S. championship horseshoe tourney was held in Kellerton, IA.
1915 - Approximately 25,000 women demanded the right to vote with a march in New York City, NY.
1929 - In the U.S., the Dow Jones Industrial Average plunged starting the stock-market crash that began the Great Depression.
1930 - J.K. Scott won the first miniature golf tournament. The event was held in Chattanooga, TN.
1942 - During World War II, the British began a major offensive against Axis ****** at El Alamein, Egypt.
1944 - During World War II, the Battle of Leyte Gulf began.
1946 - The United Nations General Assembly convened in New York for the first time.
1956 - Hungarian citizens began an uprising against Soviet occupation. On November 4, 1956 Soviet ****** enter Hungar and eventually suppress the uprising.
1956 - NBC broadcasted the first videotape recording. The tape of Jonathan Winters was seen coast to coast in the U.S.
1958 - Russian poet and novelist Boris Pasternak was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature. He was ****** to refuse the honor due to negative Soviet reaction. Pasternak won the award for writing "Dr. Zhivago".
1962 - During the Cuban Missile Crisis, the U.S. naval "quarantine" of Cuba was approved by the Council of the Organization of American States (OAS).
1962 - The U.S. Navy reconnaissance squadron VFP-62 began overflights of Cuba under the code name "Blue Moon."
1971 - The U.N. General Assembly voted to expel Taiwan and seat Communist China.
1973 - U.S. President Richard M. Nixon agreed to turn over the subpoenaed tapes concerning the Watergate affair.
1978 - China and Japan formally ended four decades of hostility when they exchanged treaty ratifications.
1980 - The resignation of Soviet Premier Alexei N. Kosygin was announced.
1983 - At Beirut International Airport, a suicide bomber destroyed a U.S. Marine compound and ****** 241 U.S. Marines and sailors. 58 French paratroopers were ****** in a near-simultaneous ******.
1984 - "NBC Nightly News" aired footage of the severe drought in Ethiopia.
1985 - U.S. President Reagan arrived in New York to address the U.N. General Assembly.
1989 - In Boston, MA, Charles Stuart claimed he and his pregnant wife, Carol, had been shot in their car by a black robber. Carol Stuart and her prematurely delivered baby died. Charles Stuart later died, an apparent suicide, after he was implicated in the ****** of his wife and *****.
1989 - Hungary became an independent republic, after 33 years of Soviet rule.
1992 - Japanese Emperor Akihito became the first Japanese emperor to stand on Chinese soil.
1992 - A former French health official was sentenced to four years in prison for allowing 1,200 hemophiliacs to receive AIDS-tainted *****.
1993 - Joe Carter (Toronto Blue Jays) became only the second player to end the World Series with a homerun.
1995 - Russian President Boris Yeltsin and U.S. President Bill Clinton agree to a joint peacekeeping effort in the war-torn Bosnia.
1996 - The civil trial of O.J. Simpson opened in Santa Monica, CA. Simpson was later found liable in the deaths of his ex-wife, Nicole and her friend, Ronald Goldman.
1998 - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Chairman Yasser Arafat reach a breakthrough in a land-for-peace West Bank accord.
1998 - Japan nationalized its first bank since World War II.
1998 - Dr. Barnett Slepian, a doctor who performed legal abortions, was ****** at his home in suburban Buffalo, NY, by sniper fire through his kitchen window. James Kopp was charged with second-degree ******.
2000 - Universal Studios Consumer Products Group (USCPG) and Amblin Entertainment announced an unprecedented and exclusive three-year worldwide merchandising program with Toys "R" Us, Inc. The deal was for the rights to exclusive "E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial" merchandise starting in fall 2001. The film was scheduled for re-release in the spring of 2002.
Current Birthdays
Jim Bunning turns 77 years old today.
72 Philip Kaufman
Director ("Invasion of the Body Snatchers")
68 Pele
Soccer player
66 Michael Crichton
Author
65 Barbara Ann Hawkins
R&B singer (The Dixie Cups)
62 Mel Martinez
U.S. senator, R-Fla.
57 Michael Rupert
Actor
54 Ang Lee
Director
52 Dianne Reeves
Jazz singer
52 Dwight Yoakam
Country singer
49 Sam Raimi
Director
49 Weird Al Yankovic
Musical parodist
46 Doug Flutie
Football player
44 Robert Trujillo
Rock musician (Metallica)
43 Al Leiter
Baseball player, sportscaster
42 Brian Nevin
Rock musician (Big Head Todd and the Monsters)
42 David Thomas
R&B singer (Take 6)
40 Junior Bryant
Country singer, musician
36 Jimmy Wayne
Country singer
34 Eric Bass
Rock musician (Shinedown)
33 Keith Van Horn
Basketball player
32 Ryan Reynolds
Actor
30 John Lackey
Baseball player
23 Masiela Lusha
Actress ("George Lopez")
22 Briana Evigan
Actress
22 Jessica Stroup
Actress ("90210")
Historic Birthdays
John William Heisman
10/23/1869 - 10/3/1936
American collegiate football coach
14 Peter II
10/23/1715 - 1/29/1730
Emperor of Russia (1727-30)
57 Pierre Larousse
10/23/1817 - 1/3/1875
French encyclopaedist
78 Adlai Ewing Stevenson
10/23/1835 - 6/14/1914
American lawyer and U.S. vice president (1893-7)
77 Frederick Lanchester
10/23/1868 - 3/8/1946
English engineer
101 William Coolidge
10/23/1873 - 2/3/1975
American inventor and engineer
77 Felix Bloch
10/23/1905 - 9/10/1983
Swiss-born American physicist
70 Frank Rizzo
10/23/1920 - 7/16/1991
American politician; mayor of Philadelphia (1972-80)
1864 - During the U.S. Civil War, Union ****** led by Gen. Samuel R. Curtis defeated the Confederate ****** in Missouri that were under Gen. Stirling Price.
1869 - John (William) Heisman was born. He is recognized as one of the greatest innovators of the game of football.
1910 - Blanche S. Scott became the first woman to make a public solo airplane flight.
1915 - The first U.S. championship horseshoe tourney was held in Kellerton, IA.
1915 - Approximately 25,000 women demanded the right to vote with a march in New York City, NY.
1929 - In the U.S., the Dow Jones Industrial Average plunged starting the stock-market crash that began the Great Depression.
1930 - J.K. Scott won the first miniature golf tournament. The event was held in Chattanooga, TN.
1942 - During World War II, the British began a major offensive against Axis ****** at El Alamein, Egypt.
1944 - During World War II, the Battle of Leyte Gulf began.
1946 - The United Nations General Assembly convened in New York for the first time.
1956 - Hungarian citizens began an uprising against Soviet occupation. On November 4, 1956 Soviet ****** enter Hungar and eventually suppress the uprising.
1956 - NBC broadcasted the first videotape recording. The tape of Jonathan Winters was seen coast to coast in the U.S.
1958 - Russian poet and novelist Boris Pasternak was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature. He was ****** to refuse the honor due to negative Soviet reaction. Pasternak won the award for writing "Dr. Zhivago".
1962 - During the Cuban Missile Crisis, the U.S. naval "quarantine" of Cuba was approved by the Council of the Organization of American States (OAS).
1962 - The U.S. Navy reconnaissance squadron VFP-62 began overflights of Cuba under the code name "Blue Moon."
1971 - The U.N. General Assembly voted to expel Taiwan and seat Communist China.
1973 - U.S. President Richard M. Nixon agreed to turn over the subpoenaed tapes concerning the Watergate affair.
1978 - China and Japan formally ended four decades of hostility when they exchanged treaty ratifications.
1980 - The resignation of Soviet Premier Alexei N. Kosygin was announced.
1983 - At Beirut International Airport, a suicide bomber destroyed a U.S. Marine compound and ****** 241 U.S. Marines and sailors. 58 French paratroopers were ****** in a near-simultaneous ******.
1984 - "NBC Nightly News" aired footage of the severe drought in Ethiopia.
1985 - U.S. President Reagan arrived in New York to address the U.N. General Assembly.
1989 - In Boston, MA, Charles Stuart claimed he and his pregnant wife, Carol, had been shot in their car by a black robber. Carol Stuart and her prematurely delivered baby died. Charles Stuart later died, an apparent suicide, after he was implicated in the ****** of his wife and *****.
1989 - Hungary became an independent republic, after 33 years of Soviet rule.
1992 - Japanese Emperor Akihito became the first Japanese emperor to stand on Chinese soil.
1992 - A former French health official was sentenced to four years in prison for allowing 1,200 hemophiliacs to receive AIDS-tainted *****.
1993 - Joe Carter (Toronto Blue Jays) became only the second player to end the World Series with a homerun.
1995 - Russian President Boris Yeltsin and U.S. President Bill Clinton agree to a joint peacekeeping effort in the war-torn Bosnia.
1996 - The civil trial of O.J. Simpson opened in Santa Monica, CA. Simpson was later found liable in the deaths of his ex-wife, Nicole and her friend, Ronald Goldman.
1998 - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Chairman Yasser Arafat reach a breakthrough in a land-for-peace West Bank accord.
1998 - Japan nationalized its first bank since World War II.
1998 - Dr. Barnett Slepian, a doctor who performed legal abortions, was ****** at his home in suburban Buffalo, NY, by sniper fire through his kitchen window. James Kopp was charged with second-degree ******.
2000 - Universal Studios Consumer Products Group (USCPG) and Amblin Entertainment announced an unprecedented and exclusive three-year worldwide merchandising program with Toys "R" Us, Inc. The deal was for the rights to exclusive "E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial" merchandise starting in fall 2001. The film was scheduled for re-release in the spring of 2002.
Current Birthdays
Jim Bunning turns 77 years old today.
72 Philip Kaufman
Director ("Invasion of the Body Snatchers")
68 Pele
Soccer player
66 Michael Crichton
Author
65 Barbara Ann Hawkins
R&B singer (The Dixie Cups)
62 Mel Martinez
U.S. senator, R-Fla.
57 Michael Rupert
Actor
54 Ang Lee
Director
52 Dianne Reeves
Jazz singer
52 Dwight Yoakam
Country singer
49 Sam Raimi
Director
49 Weird Al Yankovic
Musical parodist
46 Doug Flutie
Football player
44 Robert Trujillo
Rock musician (Metallica)
43 Al Leiter
Baseball player, sportscaster
42 Brian Nevin
Rock musician (Big Head Todd and the Monsters)
42 David Thomas
R&B singer (Take 6)
40 Junior Bryant
Country singer, musician
36 Jimmy Wayne
Country singer
34 Eric Bass
Rock musician (Shinedown)
33 Keith Van Horn
Basketball player
32 Ryan Reynolds
Actor
30 John Lackey
Baseball player
23 Masiela Lusha
Actress ("George Lopez")
22 Briana Evigan
Actress
22 Jessica Stroup
Actress ("90210")
Historic Birthdays
John William Heisman
10/23/1869 - 10/3/1936
American collegiate football coach
14 Peter II
10/23/1715 - 1/29/1730
Emperor of Russia (1727-30)
57 Pierre Larousse
10/23/1817 - 1/3/1875
French encyclopaedist
78 Adlai Ewing Stevenson
10/23/1835 - 6/14/1914
American lawyer and U.S. vice president (1893-7)
77 Frederick Lanchester
10/23/1868 - 3/8/1946
English engineer
101 William Coolidge
10/23/1873 - 2/3/1975
American inventor and engineer
77 Felix Bloch
10/23/1905 - 9/10/1983
Swiss-born American physicist
70 Frank Rizzo
10/23/1920 - 7/16/1991
American politician; mayor of Philadelphia (1972-80)
2137 B.C. - Chinese Royal astronomers, Ho and Hsi, were executed after not predicting a solar eclipse caused panic in the streets of China.
1400 - Geoffrey Chaucer died at the age of 57. He was the first poet to be buried in Westminster Abbey.
1415 - In Northern France, England won the Battle of Agincourt over France during the Hundred Years' War. Almost 6000 Frenchmen were ****** while fewer than 400 were lost by the English.
1760 - George III took the British throne after the death of King George II, his grandfather.
1812 - During the War of 1812, the U.S. frigate United States captured the British vessel Macedonian.
1854 - The Charge of the Light Brigade took place during the Crimean War. The British were winning the Battle of Balaclava when Lord James Cardigan received an order to ****** the Russians. He took his troops into a valley and suffered 40 percent caualties. Later it was revealed that the order was the result of confusion and was not given intentionally.
1870 - The first U.S. trademark was given. The recipient was the Averill Chemical Paint Company of New York City.
1881 - The founder of "Cubism," Pablo Picasso, was born in Malaga, Spain.
1888 - Richard Byrd, the first person to see the North Pole, was born.
1917 - The Bolsheviks (Communists) under Vladimir Ilyich Lenin seized power in Russia.
1918 - The Canadian steamship Princess Sophia hit the reef off the coast of Alaska. Nearly 400 people died.
1920 - King Alexander of Greece died from ***** poisoning that resulted from a bite from his pet monkey.
1929 - Alber B. Fall, of U.S. President Harding's cabinet, was found guilty of taking a bribe. He was sentenced to a year in prison and fined $100,000.
1931 - The George Washington Bridge opened to traffic.
1939 - "The Time of Your Life," by William Saroyan, opened in New York.
1951 - In Panmunjom, peace talks concerning the Korean War resumed after 63 days.
1954 - A U.S. cabinet meeting was televised for the first time.
1955 - The microwave oven, for home use, was introduced by The Tappan Company.
1958 - U.S. Marines withdrew form Beirut, Lebanon. They had been sent in on July 25, 1958, to protect the nation's pro-Western government.
1960 - The Accutron watch by the Bulova Watch Company was introduced.
1962 - U.S. Ambassador Adlai Stevenson presented photographic evidence to the United Nations Security Council. The photos were of Soviet missile bases in Cuba.
1962 - American author John Steinbeck was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature.
1971 - The U.N. General Assembly voted to expel Taiwan and admit mainland China.
1983 - U.S. troops and soldiers from six Caribbean nations invaded Grenada to restore order and provide protection to U.S. citizens after a recent coup within Grenada's Communist (pro-Cuban) government.
1990 - It was announced by U.S. Defense Secretary Dick Cheney that the Pentagon was planning to send 100,000 more troops to Saudi Arabia.
1994 - Susan Smith of Union, SC, claimed that a black carjacker had driven off with her two sons. Smith was later convicted of drowning her ******** in a nearby lake.
1999 - Golfer Payne Stewart and five others were ****** when their Learjet crashed in South Dakota. The plane flew uncontrolled for four hours before the crash.
2000 - AT&T Corp. announced that it would restructure into a ****** of four separately traded companies (consumer, business, broadband and wireless).
2001 - It was announced that scientists had unearthed the remains of an ancient crocodile which lived 110 million years ago. The ******, found in Gadoufaoua, Niger, grew as long as 40 feet and weighed as much as eight metric tons.
2002 Sen. Paul Wellstone, D-Minn., 58, was ****** in a plane crash in northern Minnesota.
2003 Florida State's Bobby Bowden became the winningest coach in major college football history with his 339th victory as the Seminoles beat **** Forest 48-24.
2005 U.S. military deaths in Iraq reached 2,000.
Current Birthdays
Ciara turns 23 years old today
91 Lee MacPhail
Hall of Fame baseball executive
85 Bobby Thomson
Baseball player
80 Jeanne Cooper
Actress ("The Young and the Restless")
80 Marion Ross
Actress ("Happy Days")
71 Jeanne Black
Country singer
68 Bobby Knight
Hall of Fame college basketball coach
67 Anne Tyler
Author
64 Jon Anderson
Rock singer (Yes)
64 Taffy Danoff
Singer (Starland Vocal Band)
61 Glenn Tipton
Rock musician (Judas Priest)
60 Dave Cowens
Bsaketball Hall of Famer
59 Brian Kerwin
Actor
53 Matthias Jabs
Rock musician (The Scorpions)
51 Nancy Cartwright
Actress ("The Simpsons")
50 Mark Miller
Country singer (Sawyer Brown)
46 Chad Smith
Rock musician (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
45 Tracy Nelson
Actress ("****** Dowling Mysteries")
44 Michael Boatman
Actor ("Spin City")
44 Kevin Michael Richardson
Actor
40 Speech
Singer
38 Adam Goldberg
Actor
38 Adam Pascal
Actor, singer
38 Ed Robertson
Rock musician (Barenaked Ladies)
38 Chely Wright
Country singer
37 Pedro Martinez
Baseball player
37 Midori
Violinst
37 Craig Robinson
Actor ("The Office")
35 Michael Weston
Actor
28 Mehcad Brooks
Actor ("Desperate Housewives")
28 Ben Gould
Actor
27 Young Rome
R&B singer
24 Katy Perry
Singer
Historic Birthdays
Pablo Ruiz Picasso
10/25/1881 - 4/8/1973
Spanish-born painter and sculptor
85 Samuel Heinrich Schwabe
10/25/1789 - 4/11/1875
German astronomer
20 Evariste Galois
10/25/1811 - 5/31/1832
French mathematician
73 Johann Strauss, Jr.
10/25/1825 - 6/3/1899
Austrian composer
36 Georges Bizet
10/25/1838 - 6/3/1875
French composer
79 Henry Norris Russell
10/25/1877 - 2/18/1957
American astronomer
68 Richard Evelyn Byrd
10/25/1888 - 3/11/1957
American naval officer
37 Floyd Bennett
10/25/1890 - 4/25/1928
American aviator
88 Charles Coughlin
10/25/1891 - 10/27/1979
American Roman Catholic priest and radio commentator
95 Henry Steele Commager
10/25/1902 - 3/2/1998
American writer and educator
30 Eddie Lang
10/25/1902 - 3/26/1933
American musician
84 Jack Kent Cooke
10/25/1912 - 4/6/1997
American businessman and sports team owner
83 Minnie Pearl
10/25/1912 - 3/4/1996
American country singer and entertainer
1400 - Geoffrey Chaucer died at the age of 57. He was the first poet to be buried in Westminster Abbey.
1415 - In Northern France, England won the Battle of Agincourt over France during the Hundred Years' War. Almost 6000 Frenchmen were ****** while fewer than 400 were lost by the English.
1760 - George III took the British throne after the death of King George II, his grandfather.
1812 - During the War of 1812, the U.S. frigate United States captured the British vessel Macedonian.
1854 - The Charge of the Light Brigade took place during the Crimean War. The British were winning the Battle of Balaclava when Lord James Cardigan received an order to ****** the Russians. He took his troops into a valley and suffered 40 percent caualties. Later it was revealed that the order was the result of confusion and was not given intentionally.
1870 - The first U.S. trademark was given. The recipient was the Averill Chemical Paint Company of New York City.
1881 - The founder of "Cubism," Pablo Picasso, was born in Malaga, Spain.
1888 - Richard Byrd, the first person to see the North Pole, was born.
1917 - The Bolsheviks (Communists) under Vladimir Ilyich Lenin seized power in Russia.
1918 - The Canadian steamship Princess Sophia hit the reef off the coast of Alaska. Nearly 400 people died.
1920 - King Alexander of Greece died from ***** poisoning that resulted from a bite from his pet monkey.
1929 - Alber B. Fall, of U.S. President Harding's cabinet, was found guilty of taking a bribe. He was sentenced to a year in prison and fined $100,000.
1931 - The George Washington Bridge opened to traffic.
1939 - "The Time of Your Life," by William Saroyan, opened in New York.
1951 - In Panmunjom, peace talks concerning the Korean War resumed after 63 days.
1954 - A U.S. cabinet meeting was televised for the first time.
1955 - The microwave oven, for home use, was introduced by The Tappan Company.
1958 - U.S. Marines withdrew form Beirut, Lebanon. They had been sent in on July 25, 1958, to protect the nation's pro-Western government.
1960 - The Accutron watch by the Bulova Watch Company was introduced.
1962 - U.S. Ambassador Adlai Stevenson presented photographic evidence to the United Nations Security Council. The photos were of Soviet missile bases in Cuba.
1962 - American author John Steinbeck was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature.
1971 - The U.N. General Assembly voted to expel Taiwan and admit mainland China.
1983 - U.S. troops and soldiers from six Caribbean nations invaded Grenada to restore order and provide protection to U.S. citizens after a recent coup within Grenada's Communist (pro-Cuban) government.
1990 - It was announced by U.S. Defense Secretary Dick Cheney that the Pentagon was planning to send 100,000 more troops to Saudi Arabia.
1994 - Susan Smith of Union, SC, claimed that a black carjacker had driven off with her two sons. Smith was later convicted of drowning her ******** in a nearby lake.
1999 - Golfer Payne Stewart and five others were ****** when their Learjet crashed in South Dakota. The plane flew uncontrolled for four hours before the crash.
2000 - AT&T Corp. announced that it would restructure into a ****** of four separately traded companies (consumer, business, broadband and wireless).
2001 - It was announced that scientists had unearthed the remains of an ancient crocodile which lived 110 million years ago. The ******, found in Gadoufaoua, Niger, grew as long as 40 feet and weighed as much as eight metric tons.
2002 Sen. Paul Wellstone, D-Minn., 58, was ****** in a plane crash in northern Minnesota.
2003 Florida State's Bobby Bowden became the winningest coach in major college football history with his 339th victory as the Seminoles beat **** Forest 48-24.
2005 U.S. military deaths in Iraq reached 2,000.
Current Birthdays
Ciara turns 23 years old today
91 Lee MacPhail
Hall of Fame baseball executive
85 Bobby Thomson
Baseball player
80 Jeanne Cooper
Actress ("The Young and the Restless")
80 Marion Ross
Actress ("Happy Days")
71 Jeanne Black
Country singer
68 Bobby Knight
Hall of Fame college basketball coach
67 Anne Tyler
Author
64 Jon Anderson
Rock singer (Yes)
64 Taffy Danoff
Singer (Starland Vocal Band)
61 Glenn Tipton
Rock musician (Judas Priest)
60 Dave Cowens
Bsaketball Hall of Famer
59 Brian Kerwin
Actor
53 Matthias Jabs
Rock musician (The Scorpions)
51 Nancy Cartwright
Actress ("The Simpsons")
50 Mark Miller
Country singer (Sawyer Brown)
46 Chad Smith
Rock musician (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
45 Tracy Nelson
Actress ("****** Dowling Mysteries")
44 Michael Boatman
Actor ("Spin City")
44 Kevin Michael Richardson
Actor
40 Speech
Singer
38 Adam Goldberg
Actor
38 Adam Pascal
Actor, singer
38 Ed Robertson
Rock musician (Barenaked Ladies)
38 Chely Wright
Country singer
37 Pedro Martinez
Baseball player
37 Midori
Violinst
37 Craig Robinson
Actor ("The Office")
35 Michael Weston
Actor
28 Mehcad Brooks
Actor ("Desperate Housewives")
28 Ben Gould
Actor
27 Young Rome
R&B singer
24 Katy Perry
Singer
Historic Birthdays
Pablo Ruiz Picasso
10/25/1881 - 4/8/1973
Spanish-born painter and sculptor
85 Samuel Heinrich Schwabe
10/25/1789 - 4/11/1875
German astronomer
20 Evariste Galois
10/25/1811 - 5/31/1832
French mathematician
73 Johann Strauss, Jr.
10/25/1825 - 6/3/1899
Austrian composer
36 Georges Bizet
10/25/1838 - 6/3/1875
French composer
79 Henry Norris Russell
10/25/1877 - 2/18/1957
American astronomer
68 Richard Evelyn Byrd
10/25/1888 - 3/11/1957
American naval officer
37 Floyd Bennett
10/25/1890 - 4/25/1928
American aviator
88 Charles Coughlin
10/25/1891 - 10/27/1979
American Roman Catholic priest and radio commentator
95 Henry Steele Commager
10/25/1902 - 3/2/1998
American writer and educator
30 Eddie Lang
10/25/1902 - 3/26/1933
American musician
84 Jack Kent Cooke
10/25/1912 - 4/6/1997
American businessman and sports team owner
83 Minnie Pearl
10/25/1912 - 3/4/1996
American country singer and entertainer
1774 - The First Continental Congress of the U.S. adjourned in Philadelphia.
1825 - The Erie Canal opened in upstate New York. The 363-mile canal connected Lake Erie and the Hudson River at a cost of $7,602,000.
1854 - Charles William Post was born. He was the inventor of "Grape Nuts," "Postum" and "Post Toasties."
1858 - H.E. Smith patented the rotary-motion washing machine.
1881 - The "Gunfight at the OK Corral" took place in Tombstone, AZ. The fight was between Wyatt Earp, his two brothers and Doc Holiday and the Ike Clanton Gang.
1905 - Norway gained independence from Sweden.
1914 - Jackie Coogan was born. He became the first ***** to appear in a full-length movie, "The ***."
1942 - The U.S. ship Hornet was sunk in the Battle of Santa Cruz during World War II.
1944 - During World War II, the Battle of Leyte Gulf ended. The battle was won by American ****** and brought the end of the Pacific phase of World War II into sight.
1949 - U.S. President Harry Truman raised the minimum wage from 40 to 75 cents an hour.
1951 - Winston Churchill became the prime minister of Great Britain.
1955 - New York City's "The Village Voice" was first published.
1957 - The Soviet Union announced that defense minister Marchal Georgi Zhukov had been relieved of his duties.
1958 - Pan American Airways flew its first Boeing 707 jetliner from New York City to Paris.
1962 - The Soviet Union made an offer to end the Cuban Missile Crisis by taking their missile bases out of Cuba if the U.S. agreed to not invade Cuba and would remove Jupiter missiles in Turkey.
1967 - The Shah of Iran crowned himself and his Queen after 26 years on the Peacock Throne.
1970 - "Doonesbury," the comic strip by Gary Trudeau, premiered in 28 newspapers across the U.S.
1972 - U.S. National security adviser Henry Kissinger declared, "Peace is at hand" in Vietnam.
1975 - Anwar Sadat became the first Egyptian president to officially visit to the United States.
1977 - The experimental space shuttle Enterprise successfully landed at Edwards Air ***** Base in California.
1979 - South Korean President Park Chung-hee was shot to death by Kim Jae-kyu, the head of the Korean Central Intelligence Agency.
1980 - Israeli President Yitzhak Navon became the first Israeli head of state to visit Egypt.
1984 - "Baby Fae" was given the heart of baboon after being born with a severe heart defect. She lived for 21 days with the ****** heart.
1985 - Approximately 110,000 people marched past the U.S. and Soviet embassies in London to pressure the two countries to end their arms race.
1988 - Roussel Uclaf, a French pharmaceutical company, announced it was halting the worldwide distribution of RU-486. The pill is used to induce abortions. The French government made the company reverse itself two days later.
1988 - Two whales were freed by Soviet and American icebreakers. The whales had been trapped for nearly 3 weeks in an Arctic ice pack.
1990 - The U.S. State Department issued a warning that terrorists could be planning an ****** on a passenger ship or aircraft.
1990 - William S. Paley died at the age of 89. He was the founder of CBS Inc.
1990 - Wayne Gretzky became the first NHL player to reach 2,000 points.
1991 - Former Washington Mayor Marion Barry arrived at a federal correctional institution in Petersburg, VA, to begin serving a six-month sentence for ******* possession.
1992 - General Motors Corp. Chairman Robert Stempel resigned after the company recorded its highest losses in history.
1992 - In Canada, voters rejected the Charlottetown accord, which was designed to unify the country.
1993 - Deborah Gore Dean was convicted of 12 felony counts of defrauding the U.S. government and lying to the U.S. Congress. Dean was a central figure in the Reagan-era HUD scandal.
1994 - Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin of Israel and Prime Minister Abdel Salam Majali of Jordan signed a peace treaty.
1995 - Alec Baldwin got into a fight with a paparazzi in front of his home when he and his wife Kim Bassinger were bringing their first baby home from the hospital.
1995 - Mario Lemieux (Pittsburgh Penguins) scored his 500th National Hockey League (NHL) career goal against the New York Islanders in his 605th game. He became the second-fastest player to attain the plateau. Wayne Gretzky had reached 600 goals by his 575th NHL game.
1996 - Federal prosecutors cleared Richard Jewell as a suspect in the Olympic park bombing.
1998 - A French lab found a nerve agent on an Iraqi missile warhead.
2001 - It was announced that Fort Worth's Lockheed Martin won a defense contract for $200 billion over 40 years. The contract, for the "joint strike fighter," was the largest defense contract in history.
2002 - Russian authorities pumped a gas into a theater where separatist rebels held over 800 hostages. The gas ****** 116 hostages and all 50 hostage-takers were ****** by the gas or gunshot wounds
Current Birthdays
Tom Cavanagh turns 40 years old today.
72 Shelley Morrison
Actress ("Will and Grace")
66 Bob Hoskins
Actor
63 Pat Conroy
Author
63 Jaclyn Smith
Actress ("Charlie's Angels")
62 Pat Sajak
TV game show host ("Wheel of Fortune")
61 Hillary Rodham Clinton
U.S. senator, D-N.Y.
57 Bootsy Collins
Musician
57 Maggie Roche
Singer (The Roches)
57 Julian Schnabel
Director
56 James Pickens Jr.
Actor ("Grey's Anatomy")
55 Keith Strickland
Rock musician (The B-52's)
54 D. W. Moffett
Actor
52 Rita Wilson
Actress
47 Dylan McDermott
Actor ("The Practice")
46 Cary Elwes
Actor
45 Natalie Merchant
Rock singer (10,000 Maniacs)
41 Keith Urban
Country singer
37 Anthony Rapp
Actor ("Rent")
31 Jon Heder
Actor ("Napoleon Dynamite")
30 Mark Barry
Singer (BB Mak)
24 Sasha Cohen
Figure skater
Historic Birthdays
Mahalia Jackson
10/26/1911 - 1/27/1972
American gospel singer
71 Domenico Scarlatti
10/26/1685 - 7/23/1757
Italian composer
34 Georges Jacques Danton
10/26/1759 - 4/5/1794
French Revolutionary leader
? Henry Deringer
10/26/1786 - 2/28/1868
American gunsmith
59 Charles William Post
10/26/1854 - 5/9/1914
U.S. manufacturer of breakfast cereals
81 Richard Dudley Sears
10/26/1861 - 4/8/1943
American tennis champion
86 John S. Knight
10/26/1894 - 6/16/1981
American journalist and publisher
83 Beryl Markham
10/26/1902 - 8/3/1986
British aviator, ***** trainer and breeder, and writer
91 Jack Sharkey
10/26/1902 - 8/17/1994
Hall-of-fame heavyweight boxer
60 Primo Carnera
10/26/1906 - 6/29/1967
Italian-born U.S. heavyweight boxer
77 Charlie Barnet
10/26/1913 - 9/4/1991
American musician
69 Jackie Coogan
10/26/1914 - 3/1/1984
American silent film actor; played "The ***"
79 Francois Mitterand
10/26/1916 - 1/8/1996
French president (1981-95)
60 Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
10/26/1919 - 7/27/1980
Iranian Shah (1941-79)
1825 - The Erie Canal opened in upstate New York. The 363-mile canal connected Lake Erie and the Hudson River at a cost of $7,602,000.
1854 - Charles William Post was born. He was the inventor of "Grape Nuts," "Postum" and "Post Toasties."
1858 - H.E. Smith patented the rotary-motion washing machine.
1881 - The "Gunfight at the OK Corral" took place in Tombstone, AZ. The fight was between Wyatt Earp, his two brothers and Doc Holiday and the Ike Clanton Gang.
1905 - Norway gained independence from Sweden.
1914 - Jackie Coogan was born. He became the first ***** to appear in a full-length movie, "The ***."
1942 - The U.S. ship Hornet was sunk in the Battle of Santa Cruz during World War II.
1944 - During World War II, the Battle of Leyte Gulf ended. The battle was won by American ****** and brought the end of the Pacific phase of World War II into sight.
1949 - U.S. President Harry Truman raised the minimum wage from 40 to 75 cents an hour.
1951 - Winston Churchill became the prime minister of Great Britain.
1955 - New York City's "The Village Voice" was first published.
1957 - The Soviet Union announced that defense minister Marchal Georgi Zhukov had been relieved of his duties.
1958 - Pan American Airways flew its first Boeing 707 jetliner from New York City to Paris.
1962 - The Soviet Union made an offer to end the Cuban Missile Crisis by taking their missile bases out of Cuba if the U.S. agreed to not invade Cuba and would remove Jupiter missiles in Turkey.
1967 - The Shah of Iran crowned himself and his Queen after 26 years on the Peacock Throne.
1970 - "Doonesbury," the comic strip by Gary Trudeau, premiered in 28 newspapers across the U.S.
1972 - U.S. National security adviser Henry Kissinger declared, "Peace is at hand" in Vietnam.
1975 - Anwar Sadat became the first Egyptian president to officially visit to the United States.
1977 - The experimental space shuttle Enterprise successfully landed at Edwards Air ***** Base in California.
1979 - South Korean President Park Chung-hee was shot to death by Kim Jae-kyu, the head of the Korean Central Intelligence Agency.
1980 - Israeli President Yitzhak Navon became the first Israeli head of state to visit Egypt.
1984 - "Baby Fae" was given the heart of baboon after being born with a severe heart defect. She lived for 21 days with the ****** heart.
1985 - Approximately 110,000 people marched past the U.S. and Soviet embassies in London to pressure the two countries to end their arms race.
1988 - Roussel Uclaf, a French pharmaceutical company, announced it was halting the worldwide distribution of RU-486. The pill is used to induce abortions. The French government made the company reverse itself two days later.
1988 - Two whales were freed by Soviet and American icebreakers. The whales had been trapped for nearly 3 weeks in an Arctic ice pack.
1990 - The U.S. State Department issued a warning that terrorists could be planning an ****** on a passenger ship or aircraft.
1990 - William S. Paley died at the age of 89. He was the founder of CBS Inc.
1990 - Wayne Gretzky became the first NHL player to reach 2,000 points.
1991 - Former Washington Mayor Marion Barry arrived at a federal correctional institution in Petersburg, VA, to begin serving a six-month sentence for ******* possession.
1992 - General Motors Corp. Chairman Robert Stempel resigned after the company recorded its highest losses in history.
1992 - In Canada, voters rejected the Charlottetown accord, which was designed to unify the country.
1993 - Deborah Gore Dean was convicted of 12 felony counts of defrauding the U.S. government and lying to the U.S. Congress. Dean was a central figure in the Reagan-era HUD scandal.
1994 - Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin of Israel and Prime Minister Abdel Salam Majali of Jordan signed a peace treaty.
1995 - Alec Baldwin got into a fight with a paparazzi in front of his home when he and his wife Kim Bassinger were bringing their first baby home from the hospital.
1995 - Mario Lemieux (Pittsburgh Penguins) scored his 500th National Hockey League (NHL) career goal against the New York Islanders in his 605th game. He became the second-fastest player to attain the plateau. Wayne Gretzky had reached 600 goals by his 575th NHL game.
1996 - Federal prosecutors cleared Richard Jewell as a suspect in the Olympic park bombing.
1998 - A French lab found a nerve agent on an Iraqi missile warhead.
2001 - It was announced that Fort Worth's Lockheed Martin won a defense contract for $200 billion over 40 years. The contract, for the "joint strike fighter," was the largest defense contract in history.
2002 - Russian authorities pumped a gas into a theater where separatist rebels held over 800 hostages. The gas ****** 116 hostages and all 50 hostage-takers were ****** by the gas or gunshot wounds
Current Birthdays
Tom Cavanagh turns 40 years old today.
72 Shelley Morrison
Actress ("Will and Grace")
66 Bob Hoskins
Actor
63 Pat Conroy
Author
63 Jaclyn Smith
Actress ("Charlie's Angels")
62 Pat Sajak
TV game show host ("Wheel of Fortune")
61 Hillary Rodham Clinton
U.S. senator, D-N.Y.
57 Bootsy Collins
Musician
57 Maggie Roche
Singer (The Roches)
57 Julian Schnabel
Director
56 James Pickens Jr.
Actor ("Grey's Anatomy")
55 Keith Strickland
Rock musician (The B-52's)
54 D. W. Moffett
Actor
52 Rita Wilson
Actress
47 Dylan McDermott
Actor ("The Practice")
46 Cary Elwes
Actor
45 Natalie Merchant
Rock singer (10,000 Maniacs)
41 Keith Urban
Country singer
37 Anthony Rapp
Actor ("Rent")
31 Jon Heder
Actor ("Napoleon Dynamite")
30 Mark Barry
Singer (BB Mak)
24 Sasha Cohen
Figure skater
Historic Birthdays
Mahalia Jackson
10/26/1911 - 1/27/1972
American gospel singer
71 Domenico Scarlatti
10/26/1685 - 7/23/1757
Italian composer
34 Georges Jacques Danton
10/26/1759 - 4/5/1794
French Revolutionary leader
? Henry Deringer
10/26/1786 - 2/28/1868
American gunsmith
59 Charles William Post
10/26/1854 - 5/9/1914
U.S. manufacturer of breakfast cereals
81 Richard Dudley Sears
10/26/1861 - 4/8/1943
American tennis champion
86 John S. Knight
10/26/1894 - 6/16/1981
American journalist and publisher
83 Beryl Markham
10/26/1902 - 8/3/1986
British aviator, ***** trainer and breeder, and writer
91 Jack Sharkey
10/26/1902 - 8/17/1994
Hall-of-fame heavyweight boxer
60 Primo Carnera
10/26/1906 - 6/29/1967
Italian-born U.S. heavyweight boxer
77 Charlie Barnet
10/26/1913 - 9/4/1991
American musician
69 Jackie Coogan
10/26/1914 - 3/1/1984
American silent film actor; played "The ***"
79 Francois Mitterand
10/26/1916 - 1/8/1996
French president (1981-95)
60 Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
10/26/1919 - 7/27/1980
Iranian Shah (1941-79)
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