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July 15
This Day in History...
Mariner 4, an unmanned space probe launched by NASA in 1964, flew by Mars and returned close-up pictures of its surface on this day in 1965, the pictures proving that the planet's rumoured canals were actually illusions. http://cache.eb.com/eb/image?id=425&rendTypeId=4 Craters in southern Amazonis Planitia on Mars http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/imgcat/midres/m04_05b.gif Historic Events:
Today's Birthday: Born this day in 1606 was Dutch painter and printmaker Rembrandt—one of the greatest storytellers in the history of art, known for his exceptional ability to render people in their various moods and dramatic guises. http://cache.eb.com/eb/image?id=3732&rendTypeId=4 Portrait historié as Isaac and Rebecca (better known as The Jewish Bride), oil on canvas by Rembrandt van Rijn, 1667; in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Other Notables:
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On June 16, 1969, Apollo II blasted off from Cape Kennedy, FL, on the first manned mission to the surface of the moon...
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July 16th
A Capital City
http://memory.loc.gov/pnp/thc/5a5100...0/5a51187r.jpg Washington, D.C. views. Panoramic View of Washington, including U.S Capitol, Theodor Horydczak, photographer, circa 1920-1950. Washington as It Was: Photographs by Theodor Horydczak, 1923-1959 On July 16, 1790, the Residence Act, which stipulated that the president select a site on the Potomac River as the permanent capital of the United States following a ten-year temporary residence in Philadelphia, was signed into law. In a proclamation issued on January 24, 1791, President George Washington announced the permanent location of the new capital, an area of land at the confluence of the Potomac and Eastern Branch (Anacostia) rivers that would eventually become the District of Columbia. Soon after, Washington commissioned French engineer Pierre-Charles L'Enfant to create a plan for the city. http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasure...es/tlc0290.jpg Plan of the City Intended for the Permanent Seat of the Government, by Pierre Charles L'Enfant, Manuscript map on paper, 1791. American Treasures of the Library of Congress L'Enfant arrived in Georgetown on March 9, 1791, and submitted his report and plan to the president in August. It is believed that this plan is the one preserved in the Library of Congress. L'Enfant's plan was greatly influenced by the traditions of Baroque landscape architecture and his projections of a future city population of 800,000. Its scheme of broad radiating avenues connecting significant focal points, its open spaces, and its grid pattern of streets oriented north, south, east, and west is still the gold standard against which all modern land use proposals for the Nation's capital are considered. The glorious vistas and dramatic landscape of today's Washington are a result of L'Enfant's careful planning. From the steps of the U.S. Capitol one can gaze down the mall to the Washington Monument and on to the Lincoln Memorial. |
Most cool factitudes, Gentlemen. http://i195.photobucket.com/albums/z.../icon_wink.gif
May it prosper and cater to the masses. |
On July 17, 1821, Spain ceded Florida to the United States...
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July 18
This Day in History...
The first volume of Mein Kampf, the political manifesto written by Adolf Hitler that became the bible of Nazism in Germany's Third Reich, was published this day in 1925, and two years later the second volume appeared. Historic Events:
Today's Birthday... http://cache.eb.com/eb/image?id=75567&rendTypeId=4 South African black nationalist and statesman Nelson Mandela, whose long imprisonment (1962–90) and ascension to the presidency (1994–99) symbolized the aspirations of his country's black majority, was born this day in 1918. Other Notables:
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July 18
On this day in 1817, Jane Austen died, at the age of forty-one. She had been increasingly ill over the previous year and a half, probably from a hormonal disorder like Addison's Disease.
Novels:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...usten_1870.jpg Born: 16 December 1775 Steventon, Hampshire, England Died: 18 July 1817 (age 41) Winchester, Hampshire, England http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...Chawton%29.jpg "Cottage" where Jane Austen lived during the last 8 years of her life (today a museum). |
On July 19, 1553, 15-year-old Lady Jane Grey was deposed as Queen of England after claiming the crown for nine days. King Henry VIII's daughter Mary was proclaimed Queen...
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On July 20, 1976, America's Viking I robot spacecraft made a first-ever landing on Mars...
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On July 21, 1944, American forces landed on Guam during World War II...
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On July 22, 1934, a man identified as bank robber John Dillinger was shot to death by federal agents outside Chicago's Biograph Theater...
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On July 23, 1952, Egyptian military officers led by Gamal Abdel Nasser launched a successful coup against King Farouk...
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On July 24, 1866, Tennessee became the first state to be readmitted to the Union after the Civil War...
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I heard the news today ...on July 24, 1965 the Beach Boys released their song "California Girls"
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On July 25, 1952, Puerto Rico became a self-governing commonwealth of the United States...
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On July 26, 1947, President Truman signed the National Security Act, creating the Department of Defense, the National Security Council, and the Joint Chiefs of Staff...
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On July 27, 1974, the House Judiciary Committee voted 27 - 11 to recommend President Nixon's impeachment on a charge that he had personally engaged in a "course of conduct" designed to obstruct justice in the Watergate case...
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On this day in 1890, Vincent Van Gogh shot himself in a wheat field outside Auvers-sur-Oise, in France; he died two days later, at the age of thirty-seven.
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On July 28, 1945, a U. S. Army bomber crashed into the 79th floor of the Empire State Building, killing 14 people...
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On July 29, 1890, artist Vincent van Gogh, 37, died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in Auvers-sur-Oise, France...
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July 30
This Day in History...
http://cache.eb.com/eb/image?id=81674&rendTypeId=4 Otto von Bismarck—who, as prime minister of Prussia (1862–73, 1873–90), used ruthlessness and moderation to unify Germany, founding the German Empire (1871) and serving as its first chancellor (1871–90)—died this day in 1898. Historic Events:
Today's Birthday: Henry Moore, born this day in 1898, was an English sculptor whose organically shaped, abstract figures in bronze and stone constitute the major 20th-century manifestation of the humanist tradition in sculpture. http://cache.eb.com/eb/image?id=28285&rendTypeId=4 (Henry Moore in his studio, mid-1960s) Other Notables: Emily Brontë: author of Wuthering Heights (1818) Henry Ford: inventor who popularized mass production with the Ford Motor Company, Model-T car (1863) Laurence Fishburne (46), Lisa Kudrow (44), Hilary Swank (33): actors |
On July 31, 1948, President Harry Truman helped dedicate New York International Airport (later John F. Kennedy International Airport) at Idlewild Field...
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On August 1, 1936, the Olympic games opened in Berlin with a ceremony presided over by Adolf Hitler...
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On August 2, 1876, "Wild Bill" Hickock was shot and killed while playing poker at a saloon in Deadwood, Dakota Territory...
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uncle phil & all,
being I'm from Philadelphia, I'm sorry I missed saying this yesterday, and I would certainly prefer remembering this history rather than the reminder about A.H. above: “Dick Clark’s American Bandstand” premiered on August 1, 1957 and was an instant hit. It debuted nationally on August 5th-9th of that same year on ABC-TV. The first song played on the show was Jerry Lee Lewis’ “Whole Lotta Shakin Goin’ on. The first guests to appear on the Dick Clark hosted show was Billy Williams and the Chordettes. B.B. King also performed live in the first show and was the only performer who did not lip synch. The “American Bandstand” theme song was written by Barry Manilow and Bruse Sussman. The music was written by Charles Albertine. The Philadelphia “Bandstand” began as a local dance show in October of 1952 on WFIL-Channel 6. It was decided in August of ’57 that the show needed a fresh face, which was Dick Clark, as television was becoming a popular medium. Dick Clark was 26yo at that time. |
On August 3, 1936, the U. S. State Department urged Americans in Spain to leave because of that country's civil war...
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On August 4, 1735, freedom of the press was established with an acquittal of John Peter Zenger. The writer of the New York Weekly Journal had been charged with seditious libel by the royal governor of New York. The jury said that "the truth is not libelous."
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On August 5, 1962, actress Marilyn Monroe, 36, was found dead in her Los Angeles home; her death was ruled a probable suicide from an overdose of sleeping pills...
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On August 6, 1926, Warner Brothers premiered its Vitaphone sound-on-disc movie system in New York with a showing of "Don Juan" featuring musical and sound effects...
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On August 7, 1964, Congress passed the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, giving president Lyndon Johnson broad powers in dealing with North Vietnamese attacks on U. S. forces...
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On August 8, 1974, President Richard M. Nixon announced he would resign following damaging new revelations in the Watergate scandal...
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August 9
This Day in History...
During the Roman Civil War of 49–45 BC, Julius Caesar's troops on this day in 48 decisively defeated the army of Pompey at the Battle of Pharsalus, causing Pompey to flee to Egypt, where he was subsequently murdered. The second atomic bomb dropped on Japan by the United States in World War II struck the city of Nagasaki. to be continued...:oogle: |
omidelilah... four days never happened. :paranoid:
EDIT EDIT EDIT: August 10... Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida—a Spanish painter whose style was a variant of Impressionism and whose best works, painted in the open air, vividly portray the sunny seacoast of Valencia—died this day in 1923. http://cache.eb.com/eb/image?id=69608&rendTypeId=4 Two Sisters, Valencia, oil on canvas by Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida, 1909; in the Art Institute of Chicago. August 11... American painter Jackson Pollock, a leading exponent of Abstract Expressionism who received great fame and serious recognition for his radical poured, or “drip,” technique, died this day in 1956 in an automobile accident. http://cache.eb.com/eb/image?id=38524&rendTypeId=4 Jackson Pollock painting in his studio on Long Island, New York, 1950. August 12... On this day in 1877, American inventor Thomas Alva Edison made perhaps his most original discovery, the phonograph, and his early recordings were indentations embossed into a sheet of tinfoil by a vibrating stylus. http://cache.eb.com/eb/image?id=156&rendTypeId=4 Thomas Alva Edison demonstrating his tinfoil phonograph, photograph by Mathew Brady, 1878. August 13... Film director Sir Alfred Hitchcock—a master of suspense who used innovative techniques and a sound grasp of human psychology to create such immensely popular movies as Psycho (1960)—was born in London this day in 1899. http://cache.eb.com/eb/image?id=11009&rendTypeId=4 Sir Alfred Hitchcock |
thanks for carrying my water, js...i'll be back tomorrow morning...
On August 14, 1935, President Franklin Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act int law... |
August 14
This Day in History...
lite http://cache.eb.com/eb/image?id=20215&rendTypeId=4 Cologne Cathedral, lit up at night, and the Hohenzollern rail and pedestrian bridge over the Rhine River, Cologne, Germany. Originally started in 1248, construction of the cathedral (Kölner Dom) in Cologne, Germany—the largest Gothic church in northern Europe and the city's major landmark—was finally completed on this day in 1880. Today's Birthday... Happy birthday to romance novelist Danielle Steel, who turns 60 today. The author of some 70 bestselling novels, Steel has had a book on the New York Times bestseller list for nearly 400 consecutive weeks; when her books reached 381 weeks on the NYT bestseller list, she received an entry in Guinness World Records. Steel wrote her first book when she was 19 years old. She still types on a 1946 Olympia manual typewriter. "Sometimes, if you aren't sure about something, you just have to jump off the bridge and grow your wings on the way down." — Danielle Steel |
On August 15, 1969, the Woodstock Music and Art Fair opened in upstate New York...
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On August 16, 1977, Elvis Presley died at his Graceland estate in Memphis, TN, at age 42...
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sorry i missed yesterday...
On August 18, 1227, Mongol ruler Genghis Khan died... |
On August 19, 1934. a plebiscite in Germany approved the vesting of sole executive power in Adolf Hitler...
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On August 20, 1953, the Soviet Union publicly acknowledged it had tested a hydrogen bomb...
On August 21, 1878, the American Bar Association was founded in Saratoga, NY... |
On August 22, 1989, Black Panther co-founder Huey P. Newton was shot to death in Oakland, CA...
On August 23, 1965, not a whole hell of a lot happened at the Noth Pole... |
On August 24, 1814, British forces invaded Washington, DC, setting fire to the Capitol and the White House, among other buildings...
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on this day...
Thomas Edison patented the motion picture camera. |
On August 25, 1967, George Lincoln Rockwell, founder of the American Nazi Party, was shot to death at a shopping center in Arlington, VA...
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On August 26, 1961, the original Hockey Hall of Fame was opened in Toronto, Canada...
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according to wiki, on 26 August:
55 BC - Julius Caesar invades Britain. |
August 26, 1920: The 19th Amendment, guaranteeing women the right to vote, is formally adopted into the U.S. Constitution
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On August 27, 1928, the Kellogg-Briand Pact was signed in Paris, outlawing war and providing for the peaceful settlement of disputes...
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On August 28, 1968, police and anti-war demonstrators clashed in the streets of Chicago as the Democratic national convention nominated Hubert H. Humphrey for president...
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On this day, in 1916 Germany declared war on Romania, and Italy in turn declared war on Germany.
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On August 29, 1877, the second president of The Church of the Latter-Day Saints, Brigham Young, died in Salt Lake City, UT, at age 76...
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On August 30, 1963, the "Hot Line" communications link between Washington and Moscow went into operation...
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On August 31 in history, not a whole hell of a lot happened that was even marginally noteworthy...
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On September 1, 1905, Alberta and Saskatchewan entered Cofederation as the eighth and ninth provinces of Canada, eh...
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On September 2, 1901, Vice President Theodore Roosevelt offered the advice, "Speak softly and carry a big stick" in a speech at the Minnesota State Fair...
On September 3, 1967, Nguyen Van Thieu was elected president of South Vietnam under a new constitution... |
On September 4, 1957, Ford Motor Company began selling its ill-fated Edsel...
On September 5, 1957, the novel "On the Road," by Jack Kerouac, was first published by Viking Press... |
On September 6, 1941, Jews over the age of 6 in German-occupied areas were ordered to wear the yellow Star of David...
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On September 6, 1860, Jane Addams was born.
And social work was never the same again once she got her hands on it. Thank goodness. |
On September 7, 1927, American television pioneer Philo T. Farnsworth succeeded in transmitting the image of a line through purely electronic means with a device called an "image dissector..."
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On September 8, 1974, President Ford granted an unconditional pardon to former President Nixon...
On September 9, 1948, The People's Democratic Republic of Korea was created... |
On September 10, 1963, 20 black students entered Alabama public schools following a stand-off between federal authorities and Governor George C. Wallace...
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On September 11, 1857, the Mountain Meadows Massacre took place in present-day southern Utah as a 120-member Arkansas immigrant party was slaughtered by Mormon settlers...
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i think something happened in the US 6 years ago, but i can't remember
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On September 12, 1977, South African black student leader Steven Biko died while in police custody, triggering an international outcry...
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Alas, sarcasm doesn't translate well to the computer screen.
I never heard of Mountain Meadows until this year, I guess because of the 150 year anniversary or something...and I went to school in Utah and took several Utah history courses, with no mentions of it. |
On September 13, 1948, Republican Margaret Chase Smith of Maine was elected to the U. S. Senate, becoming the first woman to serve in both houses of congress...
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On September 14, 1982, Princess Grace of Monaco, formerly actress Grace Kelly, died at age 52 of injuries from a car crash the day before...
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On September 15, 1935, the Nuremberg Laws deprived German Jews of their citizenship...
On September 16, 1498, Tomas de Torquemada, notorious for his role in the Spanish Inquisition, died in Avila, Spain... |
On September 17, 1920, the American Professional Football League - a precursor of the National Football League - was formed in Canton, OH...
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ON September 18, 1983, KISS was first seen without their makeup on MTV.
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On September 19, 1783, Jacques Etienne Montgolfier launched a duck, a sheep, and a rooster aboard a hot-air balloon at Versailles in France...
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On September 20, 1870, Italian troops took control of the Papal States, leading to the unification of Italy...
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On September 21, 1964, Malta gained independence from Britain...
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30 years ago today, Fonzie jumped the shark.
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On Sepwember 22, 1792, the first French Republic was proclaimed...
On September 23, 1957, nine black students who had entered Little Rock Central High School in Arkansas were forced to withdraw because of a white mob outside... |
September 24
This Day in History...
On this day in 1957, racial desegregation took centre stage when federal troops were dispatched to Little Rock, Arkansas, to maintain order and enforce the right of black students to attend the local public high school. http://cache.eb.com/eb/image?id=71327&rendTypeId=4 African American students walk onto the campus of Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, escorted by the National Guard, September 1957. Historic Events:
http://cache.eb.com/eb/image?id=74980&rendTypeId=4 American puppeteer Jim Henson, born this day in 1936, was the creator of the Muppets (a meld of “marionettes” and “puppets”), whose characters included Kermit the Frog, Miss Piggy, Big Bird, and the Cookie Monster. Other Notables:
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On September 25, 1890, Mormon President Wilford Woodruff issued a manifesto in which the practice of polygamy was renounced...
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On September 26, 1914, the Federal Trade Commission was established...
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On September 27, 1964, the government publicly released the report of the Warren Commission, which found that Lee Harvey Oswald had acted alone in assassinating President Kennedy...
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On September 28, 1850, flogging was abolished as a form of punishment in the U. S. Navy...
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On September 29, 1957, the Brooklyn Dodgers played their last game before moving to Los Angeles, losing to the Phillies, 2 - 1, in Philadelphia...
On September 30, 1949, the Berlin Airlift came to an end... |
On October 1, 1971, Walt Disney World opened in Orlando, FL...
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October 1
This Day in History...
lite In Beijing, with most of the Chinese mainland held by the communist People's Liberation Army, its dynamic leader, Mao Zedong, proclaimed the establishment of the People's Republic of China on this day in 1949. http://cache.eb.com/eb/image?id=82295&rendTypeId=4 Mao Zedong, 1965. Today's Birthday... http://cache.eb.com/eb/image?id=7113&rendTypeId=4 Born this day in 1924, Jimmy Carter served as the 39th U.S. president (1977–81) during a turbulent time at home and abroad, and he later received the Nobel Prize for Peace in 2002 for his humanitarian work. |
On October 2, 1780, British spy John Andre was hanged in Tappan, NY...
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On October 3, 1995, the jury in the O. J. Simpson murder trial announced its verdicts, finding the former football star not guilty of the 1994 slayings of his former wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and Ronald Goldman...
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On October 4, 1957, the Space Age began as the Soviet Union launched Sputnik I, the first artificial satellite, into orbit...
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On October 5, 1947, President Truman delivered the first televised White House address...(and yes, it was 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue...)
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On October 7, 1849, author Edgar Allan Poe died in Baltimore, MD, at age 40...
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On October 8, 1956, Don Larson pitched the only perfect game in a World Series to date as the New York Yankees beat the Brooklyn Dodgers in Game 5, 2 - 0...
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On October 9, 1446, the Korean alphabet, created under the aegis of King Sejong, was first published...
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On October 10, 1973, Vice President Spiro T. Agnew, accused of accepting bribes, pleaded no contest to one count of federal income tax evasion, and resigned his office...
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On October 11, 1975, "NBC Saturday Night" (later "Saturday Night Live") made its debut with guest host George Carlin...
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On October 12, 1997, singer John Denver was killed in the crash of his privately built aircraft in Monterey Bay, CA...
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October 14
This Day in History...
lite At the Battle of Hastings, fought this day in 1066, King Harold II of England was defeated by the invading army of William, duke of Normandy, in the Norman Conquest, establishing Normans as rulers of England. http://cache.eb.com/eb/image?id=13177&rendTypeId=4 English axman in combat with Norman cavalry during the Battle of Hastings, detail from the 11th-century Bayeux Tapestry, Bayeux, France. Giraudon/Art Resource, New York Today's Birthday... http://cache.eb.com/eb/image?id=71332&rendTypeId=4 Dwight D. Eisenhower, born this day in 1890, served as Supreme Allied Commander in western Europe during World War II, overseeing the Normandy Invasion in June 1944, and was elected to two terms (1953–61) as U.S. president. |
On October 15, 1917, Mata Hari was executed by a French firing squad. She was a Dutch dancer who had spied for Germany...
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On October 16, 1793, during the French Revolution, Queen Marie Antoinette was beheaded...
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On October 17, 1917, the Radio Corporation of America (RCA) was formed...
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On October 18, 1767, the Mason-Dixon line was agreed upon. It was the boundary between Maryland and Pennsylvania...
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