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# Posted: 13 Sep 2008 11:17
30th September:
Birthdays --
1921: Deborah Kerr, English born film actress (d. 2007)
1931: Angie Dickinson, American actress
1950: Victoria Tennant, Anglo-American actress
1953: Deborah Allen, American country singer,
1961 Crystal Bernard, American actress
Deaths --
1955: James Dean, American actor (b. 1831)
1888: Catherine Eddowes, English, murdered by Jack the Ripper (b. 1842)
In history --
1399: King Richard II of England abdicates throne
1659: Robinson Crusoe is shipwrecked (according to Defoe)
1928: Discovery of penicillin announced by Alexander Fleming
1929: First manned rocket plane flight (by auto maker Fritz von Opel)
1939: Germany and Russia agree to partition Poland
1960: West Germany signs trade agreement with East Germany
1968: First Boeing 747 rolls out
1990: The USSR and Israel resume diplomatic relations
1993: 6.4 earthquake at Latur, India, 28,000 killed
1997: Microsoft Corp releases Internet Explorer 4.0
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# Posted: 13 Sep 2008 21:00
1st October
Birthdays...
1890 - Stanley Holloway, British actor (d. 1982)
1910 - Bonnie Parker, American outlaw (d. 1934)
1924 - Jimmy Carter, 39th President of the United States, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
1935 - Dame Julie Andrews, British actress and singer
Deaths...
1404 - Pope Boniface IX (b. 1356)
1999 - Lena Zavaroni, Scottish singer and Child star (b. 1963)
In history...
1869 - Austria issues the world's first postcards.
1880 - First electric lamp factory opened by Thomas Edison.
1890 - The Yosemite National Park and the Yellowstone National Park are established by the U.S. Congress.
1908 - Ford puts the Model T car on the market at a price of US$825.
1942 - USS Grouper torpedoes Lisbon Maru not knowing she was carrying British PoWs from Hong Kong
1969 - The Concorde supersonic transport plane breaks the sound barrier for the first time.
2005 - Bombing kills 23 people in Bali.
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# Posted: 13 Sep 2008 22:42
2nd October:
Birthdays --
1847: Paul von Hindenberg, German field marshal and politician (d. 1934)
1869: Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, Indian leader of 'passive' resistance (d. 1948)
1890: Groucho Marx, US comedian (d. 1977)
1904: Graham Greene, English novelist (d. 1991)
Deaths --
1985: Rock Hudson, actor (b. 1925)
1993: Henry Ringling North, circus owner (b. 1909)
1998: Gene Autry, actor/singing cowboy/businessman (b. 1907)
In history --
1187: Sultan Saladin captures Jerusalem from Crusaders
1836: Charles Darwin returns from his voyage on 'HMS Beagle'
1866: J Osterhoudt patents tin can with key opener
1870: Rome becomes the capital city of Italy
1895: First cartoon comic strip is printed in a newspaper
1916: San Diego Zoo founded
1993: President Yeltsin declares a State of Emergency in Moscow
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# Posted: 14 Sep 2008 20:08
3rd October
Birthdays...
1716 - Giovanni Battista Beccaria, Italian physicist (d. 1781)
1916 - James Herriot, English veterinarian and author (d. 1995)
Deaths...
1967 - Malcolm Sargent, English conductor (b. 1895)
1998 - Roddy McDowall, English actor (b. 1928)
2005 - Ronnie Barker, English comic actor (b. 1929)
In history...
1712 - The Duke of Montrose issues a warrant for the arrest of Rob Roy MacGregor.
1778 - British Captain James Cook anchors in Alaska.
1932 - Iraq gains independence from Britain.
1942 - Spaceflight: First successful launch of a V-2 /A4-rocket from Test Stand VII at Peenemünde, Germany: the first man-made object to reach space
1995 - O.J. Simpson found not guilty of the murders of his ex-wife Nicole and her friend Ronald Goldman.
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# Posted: 16 Sep 2008 22:50 - Edited by: CalypsoBelle
4th October:
Birthdays --
1814: Jean-Francois Millet, French painter (d. 1875)
1895: Buster Keaton,US Actor of silent screen era (d. 1966)
1924: Charlton Heston, American actor (d. 2008)
1937: Jackie Collins, British-born novelist
Deaths --
1669: Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, Dutch painter (b. 1606)
1989: Graham Chapman, British comedian/actor (b. 1941)
In history --
1518: Henry VIII's daughter Mary marries French crown prince
1539: King Henry VIII and Anna of Kleef marry
1824: Mexico becomes a republic
1853: The 'Crimean War' begins when Turkey declares war on Russia
1910: Portugal becomes a republic, King Manuel II flees to England
1931: Juan Esteban Montero becomes president of Chile
1932: Anti-semite Julius Gombos forms new government in Hungary
1957: Russia launches the first Earth orbiting satellite, 'Sputnik 1'
1963: Hurricane Flora, kills 6,000 in Cuba and Haiti
1978: Funeral services held for Pope John Paul I
1985: Shi'ite Moslems claim to have killed hostage William Buckley
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# Posted: 17 Sep 2008 00:05
5th October
Birthdays...
1919 - Donald Pleasence, English actor (d. 1995)
1924 - Barbara Kelly, Canadian-born actress (d. 2007)
1930 - Pavel Popovich, Soviet cosmonaut
1951 - Bob Geldof, Irish singer (The Boomtown Rats) and activist
1952 - Clive Barker, English writer
Deaths...
1880 - Jacques Offenbach, German-born composer (b. 1819)
1918 - Roland Garros, French pilot (shot down) (b. 1888)
In history...
1582 - Because of the implementation of the Gregorian calendar this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain
1864 - The Indian city of Calcutta is almost totally destroyed by a cyclone; 60,000 die.
1905 - Wilbur Wright pilots Wright Flyer III in a flight of 24 miles in 39 minutes, a world record that stood until 1908.
1930 - British Airship R101 crashed in France en-route to India on its maiden voyage.
1936 - The Jarrow March sets off for London.
1944 - Suffrage is extended to women in France.
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# Posted: 17 Sep 2008 07:53
6th October
Birthdays..
1289 - King Wenceslaus III of Bohemia (d. 1306)
1820 -Jenny Lind, Swedish soprano (d. 1887)
1908 - Carole Lombard, American actress (d. 1942)
1910 - Barbara Castle, British politician (d. 2002)
1930 - Richie Benaud, Australian cricketer
1942 - Britt Ekland, Swedish actress
1948 - Gerry Adams, Northern Irish politician
Deaths..
1892 - Alfred Lord Tennyson, British poet (b. 1809)
1951 - Will Keith Kellogg, American food manufacturer (b. 1860)
1980 - Hattie Jacques, British comedy actress (b. 1922)
1989 - Bette Davis, American actress (b. 1908)
In history..
1889 - Thomas Edison shows his first motion picture.
1903 - The High Court of Australia sits for the first time.
1927 - Opening of The Jazz Singer, the first prominent talking movie.
1966 - LSD is declared illegal in the United States.
1987 - Fiji becomes a republic.
2007 - Jason Lewis completes the first human-powered circumnavigation of the globe.
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# Posted: 17 Sep 2008 12:57
7th October:
Birthdays --
1900: Heinrich Himmler, head of the Nazi 'SS' and 'Gestapo' (d. 1945)
1931: Rev Desmond Tutu, South african human rights campaigner
1935: Thomas Keneally, author (Schindlers Ark)
Deaths --
929: Charles III, the Simple, King of France (893-922/923) (b. 879)
1849: Edgar Allan Poe, American poet (b. 1809)
1959: Mario Lanza, opera singer (b. 1921)
In history --
1769: Captain Cook discovered New Zealand
1806: Ralph Wedgewood patents carbon paper in London
1913: Henry Ford institutes moving assembly line
1919: The world's oldest airline, KLM, is established in Holland
1931: First infra-red photograph, Rochester, New York
1942: US and British Governments announce establishment of United Nations
1949: German Democratic Republic formed
1950: US forces invade Korea by crossing 38th parallel
1959: Far side of Moon seen for first time, compliments of USSR's Luna 3
1963: John F. Kennedy signs ratification for nuclear test ban treaty
1985: PLO terrorists sieze Italian cruise liner Achille Lauro
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# Posted: 17 Sep 2008 21:33
8th October
Birthdays...
1895 - Juan Perón, President of Argentina (d. 1974)
1920 - Frank Herbert, American writer (d. 1986)
1941 - Jesse Jackson, American clergyman and civil rights activist
1949 - Sigourney Weaver, American actress
Deaths...
1754 - Henry Fielding, English author (b. 1707)
1967 - Clement Attlee, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1883)
1992 - Willy Brandt, Chancellor of Germany, Nobel laureate (b. 1913)
In history...
1967 - Guerrilla leader Che Guevara and his men are captured in Bolivia.
1973 - Yom Kippur War: Gabi Amir's armored brigade attacks Egyptian occupied positions on the Israeli side of the Suez Canal, in hope of driving them away. The attack fails, and over 150 Israeli tanks are destroyed.
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# Posted: 17 Sep 2008 22:19 - Edited by: CalypsoBelle
9th October:
Birthdays --
1835: Camille Saint-Saens, French composer (d. 1921)
1908: Jacques Tati, French actor, screenwriter and director (d. 1982)
1940: John Lennon, English rock musician (d. 1980)
Deaths --
1967: Ernesto "Che" Guevara, Argentinian-born guerrilla (b. 1928)
1995: Alexander Douglas-Home, PM of Britain (1963-64) (b. 1903)
In history --
1514: King Louis XII of France marries Mary Tudor, sister of Henry VIII
1716: England and France sign treaty
1900: 8.3 earthquake shakes Cape Yakataga, Alaska
1940: Winston Churchill elected head of the Conservative party
1963: Uganda becomes a republic within British Commonwealth
1963: Hurricane Flora ravages Cuba and Haiti, kills 6,000
1973: Elvis and Priscilla Presley divorce after 6 years
1984: Kathy Sullivan becomes first American woman to walk in space
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# Posted: 18 Sep 2008 07:11
10th October
Birthdays...
1830 - Queen Isabella II of Spain (d. 1904)
1924 - James Clavell, Australian author (d. 1994)
1930 - Harold Pinter, English playwright, Nobel laureate
Deaths...
1938 - Mustafa Ataturk, founder of The Republic of Turkey
1939 - Eleanor Rigby, a real person whose name may have suggested the title to The Beatles song (b. 1895)
1963 - Édith Piaf, French singer (b. 1915)
1985 - Orson Welles, American director and actor (b. 1915)
2004 - Christopher Reeve, American actor (b. 1952)
In history...
1944 - Holocaust: 800 Gypsy children are systematically murdered at Auschwitz death camp.
1957 - The Windscale fire in Cumbria, UK becomes the world's first major nuclear accident
1964 - The 1964 Summer Olympics opening ceremony at Tokyo, Japan, with first time of live Olympic telecast program by geostationary communication satellite.
1971 - Sold, dismantled and moved to the United States, the London Bridge reopens in Lake Havasu City, Arizona.
1973 - Vice President of the United States Spiro Agnew resigns after being charged with federal income tax evasion
1995 - South African President Nelson Mandela attends Genadendal
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# Posted: 18 Sep 2008 15:54 - Edited by: happyhippy
11th October
Birthdays...
1738 - Arthur Phillip, Governor of New South Wales (d. 1814)
1821 - George Williams, English founder of the YMCA (d. 1905)
1926 - Neville Wran, Premier of New South Wales
1981 - Beau Brady, Australian Actor
Deaths...
1935 - Steele Rudd, Australian author (b. 1868)
2004 - Keith Miller, Australian sportsman (b. 1919)
In History...
1852 - The University of Sydney, Australia's oldest university, is inaugurated in Sydney.
1865 - Paul Bogle led hundreds of black men and women in a march in Jamaica, starting the Morant Bay rebellion.
1942 - World War II: Battle of Cape Esperance - On the northwest coast of Guadalcanal, United States Navy ships intercept and defeat a Japanese fleet on their way to reinforce troops on the island.
2000 - The 100th Space Shuttle mission (STS-92) is flown.
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# Posted: 18 Sep 2008 21:39
12th October
Birthdays...
1537 - King Edward VI of England (d. 1553)
1872 - Ralph Vaughan Williams, English composer (d. 1958)
1929 - Magnús Magnússon, Icelandic television presenter (d. 2007)1935 - Luciano Pavarotti, Italian tenor (d. 2007)
Deaths...
1845 - Elizabeth Fry, British social reformer and philanthropist (b. 1780)
1915 - Edith Cavell, English nurse (b. 1865)
1997 - John Denver, American singer (b. 1943)
In history...
1492 - Christopher Columbus's expedition makes landfall in the Caribbean, specifically in The Bahamas. The explorer believes he has reached East Asia
1692 - The Salem Witch Trials were ended by a letter from Massachusetts Governor William Phips.
1915 - World War I: British nurse Edith Cavell is executed by a German firing squad for helping Allied soldiers escape from Belgium
1928 - An iron lung respirator is used for the first time at Children's Hospital, Boston
1960 - Cold War: Nikita Khrushchev pounds his shoe on a desk at United Nations General Assembly meeting to protest a Philippine assertion of Soviet Union colonialist policy being conducted in Eastern Europe
1964 - The Soviet Union launches the Voskhod 1 into Earth orbit as the first spacecraft with a multi-person crew and the first flight without space suits
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# Posted: 18 Sep 2008 21:54
13th October:
Birthdays --
1921: Yves Montand, French actor and singer (d. 1991)
1925: Margaret Thatcher, former British Prime Minister
1942: Paul Simon, American songwriter/singer
Deaths --
54: Claudius I, Roman Emperor (b. 10 BC)
1974 Ed Sullivan, American television host (b. 1901)
In history --
1399: British King Henry IV's coronation
1884: Greenwich established as universal time meridian of longitude
1914: Garrett Morgan invents and patents gas mask
1943: Italy declares war on former Axis partner, Germany
1964: The world's first Russian three-man spacecraft returns safely to Earth
1987: Shares on the Wall Street stock exchange plunge to record lows
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# Posted: 19 Sep 2008 07:50
14th October
Birthdays...
1633 - James II of England and VII of Scotland (d. 1701)
1882 - Eamon de Valera, Irish politician and patriot (d. 1975)
1890 - Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. general and 34th President of the United States (d. 1969)
1940 - Cliff Richard, English singer
1960 - Steve Cram, English athlete
Deaths...
1959 - Errol Flynn, Australian actor (b. 1909)
1976 - Dame Edith Evans, English actress (b. 1888)
1990 - Leonard Bernstein, American composer and conductor (b. 1918)
In history...
1066 - Norman Conquest: Battle of Hastings - In England on Senlac Hill, seven miles from Hastings, the forces of William the Conqueror defeat the Saxon army and kill King Harold II of England.
1322 - Robert the Bruce of Scotland defeats King Edward II of England at Byland, forcing Edward to accept Scotland's independence.
1586 - Mary I of Scotland goes on trial for conspiracy against Elizabeth I of England
1789 - George Washington proclaims the first Thanksgiving Day.
1867 - The 15th and last Shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate resigns in Japan
1947 - Chuck Yeager flies a Bell X-1 faster than the speed of sound, the first man to do so in level flight
1964 - American civil rights movement leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr becomes the youngest recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
1968 - First live telecast from a manned U.S. spacecraft Apollo 7.
1968 - Jim Hines of the USA becomes the first man ever to break the ten second barrier in the 100 metres Olympic final at Mexico City with a time of 9.95 sec. He would be the only man to do so until 1983.
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# Posted: 19 Sep 2008 14:00 - Edited by: CalypsoBelle
15th October:
Birthdays --
1881: Sir P.G Wodehouse, novelist (d. 1975)
1959: Sarah, The Duchess of York
Deaths --
1917: Mata Hari, Dutch dancer/German spy (b. 1876)
1946: Hermann Goering, Nazi Reichmarshal (b. 1893)
1964: Cole Porter, American composer (b. 1891)
1990: Leonard Bernstein, American composer (b. 1918)
In history --
1815: Napoleon Bonaparte exiled on Island of St Helena
1866: Great fire in Quebec destroys 2,500 houses
1878: Edison Electric Light Company incorporated
1941: First mass deportation of German Jews to Eastern Europe
1962: Amnesty International formed in London
1964: Dr Martin Luther King, Jr. awarded Nobel Peace Prize
1970: Russian passenger flight hijacked to Turkey
1987: Fiji becomes a republic, after belonging to Britain since 1874
1990: Mikhail Gorbachev awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
2003: China becomes the third country to successfully send a person into space
2005: Qinghai-Tibet Railway is completed in China
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# Posted: 19 Sep 2008 14:05
15th October
Birthdays...
1940 - Peter Doherty, Australian immunologist, Nobel laureate
1954 - Peter Bakowski, Australian poet
2005 - Prince Christian of Denmark
Deaths...
1880 - Victorio, Apache leader
1917 - Mata Hari, Dutch dancer and spy (b. 1876)
1981 - Philip Fotheringham-Parker, British racing driver (b. 1907)
In History...
1878 - The Edison Electric Light Company begins operation.
1888 - The "From Hell" letter sent by Jack the Ripper is received by the investigators.
1953 - British nuclear test Totem 1 detonated at Emu Field, South Australia.
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# Posted: 20 Sep 2008 07:46 - Edited by: cybergran
16th October
Birthdays...
1430 - King James II of Scotland (d. 1460)
1854 - Oscar Wilde, Irish writer (d. 1900)
1886 - David Ben-Gurion, first Prime Minister of Israel (d. 1973)
Deaths...
1793 - Marie Antoinette, Queen of France (executed) (b. 1755)
1946 - Nuremberg trial executions
* Hans Frank, German war criminal (b. 1900)
* Wilhelm Frick, German war criminal (b. 1877)
* Alfred Jodl, German military officer (b. 1890)
* Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Austrian SS officer (b. 1903)
* Wilhelm Keitel, German military officer (b. 1882)
* Joachim von Ribbentrop, German politician (b. 1893)
* Alfred Rosenberg, Nazi ideologist (b. 1893)
* Fritz Sauckel, German war criminal (b. 1894)
* Arthur Seyss-Inquart, Austrian Nazi leader (b. 1892)
2007 - Deborah Kerr, Scottish actress (b. 1921)
In history...
1793 - Marie Antoinette, wife of Louis XVI is guillotined at the height of the French Revolution.
1968 - United States athletes Tommie Smith and John Carlos are kicked out of the USA's team for performing a Black Power salute during a medal ceremony.
1973 - Henry Kissinger and Le Duc Tho are awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
1984 - Desmond Tutu is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
1987 - Great Storm of 1987: hurricane force winds to hit much of the South of England killing 23 people
1998 - Former Chilean dictator Gen. Augusto Pinochet is arrested in London on a warrant from Spain requesting his extradition on murder charges
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# Posted: 20 Sep 2008 14:16
17th October:
Birthdays --
1885: Baroness Karen Blixen, Danish author (d. 1962)
1939: Evel Knievel, Record breaker and stunt man
Deaths --
1740: Anna Ivanova Romanova, Empress of Russia (1730-40) (b. 1693)
1849: Frederic F Chopin, Polish/French pianist/composer (b. 1810)
1997: Paul Edwin Zimmer, sci-fi writer (brother to Marion Zimmer Bradley)(b. 1943)
In history --
1651: Future King Charles II flees from England
1707: Johanna S. Bach, German composer, marries his niece Maria Bach
1815: Napoleon arrives in S. Helena
1931: Al Capone convicted of tax evasion, sentenced to 11 years
1933: Albert Einstein arrives in US, a refugee from Nazi Germany
1945: Juan Peron becomes dictator of Argentina
1957: Albert Camus, French author, awarded Nobel Prize in Literature
1970: Anwar Sadat sworn in as president of Egypt
1979: Mother Teresa awarded Nobel Peace Prize
1980: Mount St Helens, in Washington State USA, erupts for the third time in 24 hours
1982: The outlawing of the 'Solidarity' labour movement causes widespread strikes and demonstrations in Poland
1983: Gerard Debreu awarded Nobel Prize for Economy
1984: Bruce Merrifield awarded Nobel Prize for Chemistry
1985: Claude Simon, French author, wins Nobel Prize in Literature
1986: Yitzak Rabin forms Israeli government
1988: James Black, Scottish scientist, awarded Nobel prize for his work on treating angina and blood pressure
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# Posted: 20 Sep 2008 21:59
18th October
Birthdays...
1919 - Pierre Elliott Trudeau, 15th Prime Minister of Canada (d. 2000)
1926 - Chuck Berry, American musician
1939 - Lee Harvey Oswald, purported American assassin of John F. Kennedy (d. 1963)
1960 - Jean-Claude Van Damme, Belgian actor
Deaths...
1541 - Margaret Tudor, Queen of Scotland (b. 1489)
1871 - Charles Babbage, English mathematician and inventor (b. 1791)
1931 - Thomas Edison, American inventor (b. 1847)
In history...
1851 - Herman Melville's Moby-Dick is first published as The Whale by Richard Bentley of London.
1867 - United States takes possession of Alaska after purchasing it from Russia for $7.2 million. Celebrated annually in the state as Alaska Day.
1922 - The British Broadcasting Company (later Corporation) is founded by a consortium, to establish a nationwide network of radio transmitters to provide a national broadcasting service.
1929 - Women are considered "Persons" under Canadian law.
1944 - Adolf Hitler orders the establishment of a German national militia.
1968 - Bob Beamon sets a world record of 8.90m in the long jump at the Mexico City games. This becomes the longest unbroken track and field record in history, standing for 23 years, and is later named by Sports Illustrated magazine as one of the five greatest sporting moments of the 20th century.
2007 - After 8 years in exile, Benazir Bhutto returns to her homeland Pakistan. The same night, suicide attackers blow themselves up near Bhutto's convoy, killing over 100 in the cheering crowd, including 20 police officers. Bhutto escaped uninjured.
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# Posted: 21 Sep 2008 08:56
19th October...
Birthdays...
1810 - Cassius Marcellus Clay, American abolitionist (d. 1903)
1900 - Bill Ponsford, Australian cricketer (d. 1991)
1958 - Tiriel Mora, Australian actor
Deaths...
1216 - King John
1960 - George Wallace, Australian vaudevillian and film comedian
1964 - Nettie Palmer, Australian poet and essayist
In History...
2003 - Mother Teresa is beatified by Pope John Paul II.
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# Posted: 22 Sep 2008 06:19
20th October
Birthdays...
1632 - Sir Christopher Wren, English architect (d. 1723)
1891 - Jomo Kenyatta, [President of Kenya]] (d. 1978)
1971 - Dannii Minogue, Australian singer
Deaths...
1842 - Grace Darling, English heroine (b. 1815)
1994 - Burt Lancaster, American actor (b. 1913)
In history...
1955 - Publication of The Return of the King, being the last part of The Lord of the Rings.
1968 - Former First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy marries Greek shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis
1973 - The Sydney Opera House opens
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# Posted: 22 Sep 2008 07:51
21st October
Birthdays...
1959 - happyhippy
In History ...
1959 _happyhippy was born,she was the youngest of 8 children..
Sorry ladies I couldn't resist,you can redo this day *LOL*
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# Posted: 23 Sep 2008 05:07
What could be more important than the birth of our own happyhippy. Happy Birthday.
22nd October
Birthdays..
1734 - Daniel Boone, American pioneer and hunter (d. 1820)
1811 - Franz Liszt, Hungarian pianist and composer (d. 1886)
1938 - Derek Jacobi, English actor
Deaths...
1906 - Paul Cezanne, French painter (b. 1839)
1995 - Sir Kingsley Amis, English writer (b. 1922)
In history...
1797 - One thousand meters (3,200 feet) above Paris, André-Jacques Garnerin makes the first recorded parachute jump.
1883 - The Metropolitan Opera House in New York City opens with a performance of Gounod's Faust (opera).
1910 - Dr. Crippen is convicted at the Old Bailey of poisoning his wife and was subsequently hanged at Pentonville Prison in London
1962 - Cuban Missile Crisis: US President John F. Kennedy, after internal counsel from Dwight D. Eisenhower, announces that American spy planes have discovered Soviet nuclear weapons in Cuba, and that he has ordered a naval "quarantine" of the island nation.
1964 - Jean-Paul Sartre is awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, but turns down the honour.
1968 - Apollo program: Apollo 7 safely splashes down in the Atlantic Ocean after orbiting the Earth 163 times.
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# Posted: 25 Sep 2008 21:38
23 October
Births:
1835 Adlai Stevenson, 23rd Vice President USA
1925 Johnny Carson, Iowa, comedian and Tonight Show host USA
1940 Edison Pele, Brazil, Soccer player extraodinaire
1942 Anita Roddick, English Cosmetic manufacturer - Body Shop
Deaths:
1915 W G Grace British cricketer
1950 Al Jolson, singer/actor
2003 Madame Chiang Kai-shek, aged 105, widow of former Chinese political leader.
In History:
1914 First plastic surgery is performed in England
1915 25000 women march in New York City demanding the right to vote
1943 Burma Railway opens
1973 Nixon agrees to turn over White House tape recordings to Judge Sirica
1983 400,000 demonstrate in Brussels against cruise missiles.
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# Posted: 25 Sep 2008 22:03
24th October
Birthdays...
1896 - Jack Warner, English actor (d. 1981)
1913 - Tito Gobbi, Italian baritone (d. 1984)
Deaths...
1537 - Jane Seymour, third wife of Henry VIII of England
1922 - George Cadbury, British chocolate and cocoa manufacturer (b. 1839)
1957 - Christian Dior, French fashion designer (b. 1905)
In history...
1901 - Annie Edson Taylor becomes the first person to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel.
1911 - Orville Wright remained in the air 9 minutes and 45 seconds in a glider at Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina setting a new world record that stood for 10 years.
1973 - Yom Kippur War ends
1986 - Nezar Hindawi is sentenced to 45 years in prison, the longest sentence handed down by a British court, for the attempted bombing on an El Al flight at Heathrow. After the verdict, the United Kingdom breaks diplomatic relations with Syria, claiming that Hindawi was helped by Syrian officials.
2003 - Concorde makes its last commercial flight.
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# Posted: 26 Sep 2008 03:07
25th October
Birthdays..
1825 - Johann Strauss II, Austrian composer (d. 1899)
1838 - Georges Bizet, French composer (d. 1875)
1864 - John Francis Dodge, American automobile pioneer (d. 1920)
1881 - Pablo Picasso, Spanish painter and sculptor (d. 1973)
1941 - Helen Reddy, Australian singer
In history..
1760 - George III becomes King of Great Britain.
1854 - The Battle of Balaklava during the Crimean War (Charge of the Light Brigade).
1917 - Traditionally understood date of the October Revolution, involving the capture of the Winter Palace, Petrograd, Russia.
2001 - Windows XP first became available.
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# Posted: 26 Sep 2008 21:36
26th October
Birthdays...
1685 - Domenico Scarlatti, Italian composer (d. 1757)
1952 - Andrew Motion, English poet and Poet Laureate
Deaths...
899 - Alfred the Great, king of Wessex (b. 849)
1966 - Alma Cogan, English singer (b. 1932)
In history..
1863 - The Football Association is formed.
1881 - The Gunfight at the O.K. Corral takes place at Tombstone, Arizona.
1964 - Eric Edgar Cooke becomes last person in Western Australia to be executed
1965 - The Beatles are appointed Members of the Order of the British Empire (MBEs)
1977 - The last natural case of smallpox was discovered in Merca district, Somalia. The WHO and the CDC consider this date the anniversary of the eradication of smallpox, the most spectacular success of vaccination.
1999 - Britain's House of Lords votes to end the right of hereditary peers to vote in Britain's upper chamber of Parliament.
2002 - Moscow Theatre Siege: Approximately 50 Chechen rebels and 150 hostages die when Russian Spetsnaz storm a theater building in Moscow, which had been occupied by the rebels during a musical performance three days before.
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# Posted: 27 Sep 2008 23:59
27th October
Birthdays..
1401 - Catherine of Valois, queen of Henry V of England (d. 1437)
1728 - James Cook, British naval captain and explorer (d. 1779)
1858 - Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of the United States, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1919)
1896 - Edith Brown, survivor of the Titanic (d. 1997)
1917 - Oliver Tambo, South African freedom fighter (d. 1993)
1923 - Roy Lichtenstein, American artist (d. 1997)
1939 - John Cleese, British actor and writer
Deaths..
939 - King Athelstan I of England (b. 895)
1327 - Elizabeth de Burgh, queen of Robert I of Scotland (b. 1289)
1990 - Princess Sophie von Hohenberg, daughter of assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria (b. 1901)
In history..
1275 - Traditional founding of the city of Amsterdam.
1936 - Mrs Wallis Simpson filed for divorce which would eventually allow her to marry King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom, thus forcing his abdication from the throne
1971 - Democratic Republic of the Congo is renamed Zaire.
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# Posted: 28 Sep 2008 18:43
28th October
Birthdays...
1927 - Dame Cleo Laine, British singer
1938 - David Dimbleby, English television commentator
1955 - Bill Gates, American software executive
Deaths...
1646 - William Dobson, English painter (b. 1610)
1998 - Ted Hughes, British poet (b. 1930)
In history...
1636 - A vote of the Great and General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony establishes the first college in what would become the United States, today known as Harvard University
1893 - Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 6 in B Minor, Pathétique, premiered in St. Petersburg, only nine days before the composer's death.
1985 - Mikhail Gorbachev becomes General Secretary of the Communist Party in the Soviet Union.
2006 - Funeral service for the peace of the executed at Bykivnia forest, outside of Kiev, Ukraine, with reburial of 817 Ukrainian civilians (out of some 100,000) executed by Bolsheviks at Bykivnia in 1930s â€" early 1940s.
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