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Old 10-06-2009, 04:35 AM   #1441 (permalink)
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October 6, 1938 - Yankees pitcher Lefty Gomez sets record of 6 World Series wins without a loss (1932-1, 1936-2, 1937-2, 1938-1).

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On October 7, 1985 Palestinian gunmen hijacked the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro in the Mediterranean with more than 400 people aboard.
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Old 10-07-2009, 02:38 AM   #1443 (permalink)
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Also on October 7, 1970, Nicole Ari Parker was born...

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Old 10-08-2009, 01:50 AM   #1444 (permalink)
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On October 8th, 1871- The Great Chicago Fire erupted. The blaze destroyed four square miles of the city, killing about 250 people and leaving some 90,000 homeless.
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Old 10-08-2009, 02:42 AM   #1445 (permalink)
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Also on October 8, 1949, Sigourney Weaver was born...

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Old 10-08-2009, 04:19 AM   #1446 (permalink)
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October 8, 1971 - John Lennon releases his megahit Imagine.
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Old 10-09-2009, 02:08 AM   #1447 (permalink)
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On October 9th, 1930- Laura Ingalls became the first woman to fly across the United States as she completed a nine-stop journey from Roosevelt Field in New York to Glendale, Calif.
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Old 10-09-2009, 02:58 AM   #1448 (permalink)
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Also on October 9, 1890, Aimee Semple McPherson was born...

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Old 10-09-2009, 03:46 AM   #1449 (permalink)
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October 9, 1915 - President Woodrow Wilson attends World Series game number two in Philadelphia and becomes the first President to attend any World Series game.

The Red Sox beat the Phillies that day and went on to win the 1915 World Series, four games to one.

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Old 10-10-2009, 01:29 AM   #1450 (permalink)
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On October 10, 1959, Kirsty MacColl was born...

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Old 10-10-2009, 02:20 AM   #1451 (permalink)
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Also on October 10th, 1973, Vice President Spiro T. Agnew pleaded no contest to one count of federal income tax evasion and resigned his office.
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Old 10-11-2009, 04:01 AM   #1452 (permalink)
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On October 11, 1962, Joan Cusack was born...

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Old 10-11-2009, 05:35 AM   #1453 (permalink)
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October 11, 1975 - Saturday Night Live (under a slightly different name) premieres. George Carlin is host.
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Old 10-11-2009, 06:00 AM   #1454 (permalink)
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Also on Oct. 11, 1968, Apollo 7, the first manned Apollo mission, was launched with astronauts Wally Schirra, Donn Fulton Eisele and R. Walter Cunningham aboard.
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Old 10-12-2009, 01:49 AM   #1455 (permalink)
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On October 12th, 1960- Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev disrupted a U.N. General Assembly session by pounding his desk with a shoe during a dispute.
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Old 10-12-2009, 02:11 AM   #1456 (permalink)
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Also on October 12, 1950, Susan Anton was born...

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Old 10-12-2009, 04:05 AM   #1457 (permalink)
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October 12, 1492 - Christopher Columbus arrives in the Bahamas.


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Old 10-13-2009, 02:07 AM   #1458 (permalink)
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On October 13, 1775- The Continental Congress ordered the construction of a naval fleet.
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Old 10-13-2009, 02:57 AM   #1459 (permalink)
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Also on October 13, 1969, Nancy Kerrigan was born...

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Old 10-13-2009, 03:19 AM   #1460 (permalink)
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Georgia Tech was founded in 1885, on this date.
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Old 10-13-2009, 04:06 AM   #1461 (permalink)
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Oct 13, 1884 - Greenwich (GMT) established as universal time meridian of longitude. It was replaced by Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) on January 1, 1972, establishing midnight as hour zero.

GMT is substantially equivalent to Western European Time.
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Old 10-13-2009, 05:58 AM   #1462 (permalink)
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October 13, 1960 World Series: Pittsburgh Pirates second baseman Bill Mazeroski becomes the first person to end a World Series with a home run, as the Pirates beat the New York Yankees, four games to three.
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Old 10-14-2009, 01:48 AM   #1463 (permalink)
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On Oct. 14, 1964, civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. was named winner of the Nobel Peace Prize.
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Also on October 14, 1956, Beth Daniel was born...

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Old 10-14-2009, 03:17 AM   #1465 (permalink)
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October 14, 1947 - Chuck Yeager makes the first recorded supersonic flight (Mach 1.015) in a rocket-powered Bell experimental supersonic aircraft.

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Old 10-15-2009, 01:29 AM   #1466 (permalink)
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On October 15th, 1860 Eleven-year-old Grace Bedell of Westfield, N.Y., wrote a letter to presidential candidate Abraham Lincoln, suggesting he could improve his appearance by growing a beard.
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Old 10-15-2009, 03:14 AM   #1467 (permalink)
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Also on October 15, 1959, Sarah Ferguson was born...

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Old 10-15-2009, 03:42 AM   #1468 (permalink)
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October 15, 1969 - The Moratorium to End the War in Vietnam, a large demonstration against the United States involvement in the Vietnam War, takes place.
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October 16, 1854

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Old 10-16-2009, 01:30 AM   #1470 (permalink)
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On October. 16, 1964- China detonated its first atomic bomb.
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Old 10-16-2009, 04:38 AM   #1471 (permalink)
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October 16, 1988 - Orel Hirshiser is the first MLB pitcher to pitch a shutout game in a playoff series game and a World Series game in the same postseason.



"Hershiser put together one of the best single seasons in pitching history in 1988. That year, he led the league in wins (23), innings (267), and complete games (15). He finished the season with a record 59 consecutive scoreless innings pitched, breaking the mark held by Dodger great Don Drysdale. He also won his first Gold Glove. He was unanimously selected as the Cy Young Award winner, with a record of 23–8 and a 2.26 ERA.

In the 1988 National League Championship Series between Hershiser's Dodgers and the New York Mets, Hershiser not only started Games 1 and 3, but recorded the final out in Game 4 in relief for a save. He then pitched a complete game shutout in Game 7. He was selected MVP of the series.

Hershiser then capped his historic season in the World Series by pitching a complete game shutout in Game 2 and allowing two runs in a complete game in the clinching victory in Game 5, winning the World Series MVP Award.

Hershiser is the only player to receive the Cy Young award, the Championship Series MVP award, and the World Series MVP award in the same season."

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Old 10-17-2009, 06:54 AM   #1472 (permalink)
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October 17, 1961 - The New York Museum of Modern Art hangs Henri Matisse's Le Bateau upside-down. It remained upside-down for 45 days "until a stockbroker named Genevieve Habert noticed the mistake and notified a guard. Habert later informed the New York Times, to which Monroe Wheeler, the art director was notified, and the artwork was rehung properly."



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Old 10-19-2009, 01:54 AM   #1474 (permalink)
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On Oct. 19, 1987, the stock market crashed as the Dow Jones Industrial Average plunged 508 points, or 22.6 percent in value - its second biggest percentage drop.
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Also on October 19, 1945, Jeannie C. Riley was born...

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Look magazine ceased publication with the October 19, 1971 issue. The magazine was the victim of a $5 million loss in revenues in 1970 (with television cutting deeply into its advertising revenues), a slack economy and rising postal rates. Circulation was at 6.5 million when it closed.



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Old 10-20-2009, 01:41 AM   #1477 (permalink)
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On Oct. 20, 1973, in the so-called Saturday Night Massacre, President Nixon abolished the office of special Watergate prosecutor Archibald Cox, accepted the resignation of Attorney General Elliot L. Richardson and fired Deputy Attorney General William B. Ruckelshaus.
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Old 10-20-2009, 03:05 AM   #1478 (permalink)
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Also on October 20, 1931, Mickey Mantle was born...

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On this day in 1977 a chartered plane carrying Lynard Skynard crashed near McComb,Mississippi,killing the lead singer Ronnie Van Zant,guitarist Steve Gaines and backup singer Cassie Gaines.
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Old 10-21-2009, 01:58 AM   #1480 (permalink)
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On Oct. 21, 1879, Thomas Edison invented a workable electric light at his laboratory in Menlo Park, N.J.
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