Today in History

Births On This Day, October 18th 🎂

1987 Zac Efron
American actor, singer

1984 Lindsey Vonn
American skier

1960 Jean-Claude Van Damme
Belgian martial artist, actor, director

1921 Jesse Helms
American politician

1919 Pierre Trudeau
Canadian politician, 15th Prime Minister of Canada

Deaths On This Day, October 18th 🪦

1973 Leo Strauss
German/American philosopher

1931 Thomas Edison
American businessman, who invented the light bulb, phonograph

1871 Charles Babbage
English mathematician, and engineer, invented the Different engine

1744 Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough

1541 Margaret Tudor
English wife of James IV of Scotland
 

Oct 19th:
1901
composer, Edward Elgar's compostion' Pomp&Circumstance March debuts in Liverpool, Eng
1926
John C Garland patents semi-automatic rifle
1957
Montreal Canadien hockey player, Maurice Richard scores his 500th goal against the Chicago Blackhawks.He played for the Canadiens for 18yrs 1942-1960
1990
movie' Dances with Wolves' based on book by Michael Blake is released directed by actor Kevin Costner. The story is about a young Civil War soldier{Costner} who befriends a Sioux Indian tribe overtime becomes one of them. Others cast members, Mary McDonnell, Graham Greene, Rodney A. Grant,Floyd Red Crow Westerman, Tantoo Cardinal
The movie won 7 Oscars inc picture,director{Costner's debut} screenplay, score by John Barry
2005
Saddam Hussein goes on trial in Bagdad for crimes against humanity.He&his 7 co defendants were found guilty. Saddam was sentenced to death, executed by hanging in Dec 2006
 
On This Day In History, October 20th

2011 Muammar Gaddafi is Captured
The deposed leader of Libya, Muammar Gaddafi, is captured by the National Transitional Council Forces. He was killed by the troops soon after.

1982 Luzhniki Disaster
A stampede during a UEFA Cup soccer (football) match between Dutch club Haarlem and the Moscovian football club, Spartak at the Lenin Stadium in Moscow left about 60 people dead.

1973 Sydney Opera House Opens its Doors
The iconic building, which was declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO, was designed by Danish architect Jørn Oberg Utzon. Construction on the performing arts centre began in March 1959 and cost over $100 million.

1968 Jacqueline Kennedy marries Aristotle Onassis
Former American First Lady, Jacqueline Kennedy, married Greek shipping magnate, Aristotle Onassis

1962 War Breaks Out Between India and China
The month-long border dispute began after the Chinese launched a two-pronged attack on the border between the two countries. During the duration of hostilities, China and India did not officially declare war on each other nor cut off any diplomatic ties. The conflict ended with China taking control of Aksai Chin and both countries accepting a de facto border along what is now known as the Line of Control.
 


Births On This Day, October 20th 🎂

1971 Snoop Dogg
American rapper, producer, actor

1958 Viggo Mortensen
American actor

1950 Tom Petty
American singer-songwriter, musician

1931 Mickey Mantle
American baseball player

1859 John Dewey
American philosopher, psychologist

Deaths On This Day, October 20th 🪦

2011 Muammar Gaddafi
Libyan politician, Prime Minister of Libya

1984 Paul Dirac
English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate

1964 Herbert Hoover
American politician, 31st President of the United States

1950 Henry L. Stimson
American statesman, lawyer, politician

1890 Richard Francis Burton
English soldier, geographer, diplomat
 
On This Day In History, October 21st

2014 Oscar Pistorius Convicted for 5 Years
The South African Paralympic Champion was on trial for the murder of his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp. He was sentenced to a maximum of five years for culpable homicide. He was released on parole for good behaviour in October 2015. However, in December 2015, South Africa's Supreme Court of Appeal upgraded the charges to murder and found him guilty of murder.

1983 The 17th General Conference on Weights and Measures Ends
The conference passed a resolution defining a meter as the distance travelled by light in a vacuum during a time interval of about three hundred millionth of a second. Before this, the meter or metre was assigned several different definitions. In 1793, it was defined as one ten-millionth of the distance between the Earth's Equator and the North Pole. In 1960, it was once again redefined by the 11th General Conference of Weights and Measures as equal to “1650763,73 wavelengths in vacuum of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the levels 2p10 and 5d5 of the krypton 86 atom.”

1969 Coup in Somalia
Siad Barre staged a military coup against the government the day after the death of Abdirashid Ali Shermarke, the then-president of Somalia.

1959 The Guggenheim Opens its Doors
The Guggenheim Museum displays works from some of the world’s most celebrated and sought-after contemporary artists. Situated in the Manhattan area of New York, the museum was first opened in 1939 as the Museum of Non-Objective Painting. It was then named the Guggenheim Museum in 1952, after the death of the founder of the foundation that runs it, Solomon R. Guggenheim. The current museum building was designed by American architect Frank Lloyd Wright and was opened to the public on this day.

1943 Provisional Government of Free India Declared by Subhas Chandra Bose
Bose, an exiled Indian nationalist and a key figure in the Indian Independence Movement declared the creation of Azad Hind or Free India during a mass rally in Singapore. Netaji (leader), as he was fondly called by his followers, was unanimously declared as the Head of State, Prime Minister, and Minister for War of the new government. The government-in-exile did not have any territory to govern until Japan gave them the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, occupied by the Japanese in 1942, to run. A few days later after declaring the existence of Azad Hind, the provisional government joined the Second World War by declaring war on the Allies.
 
Births On This Day, October 21st 🎂

1986 Natalee Holloway
American missing person

1980 Kim Kardashian
American model, actress

1956 Carrie Fisher
American actress, screenwriter, author

1949 Benjamin Netanyahu
Israeli politician, 9th Prime Minister of Israel

1772 Samuel Taylor Coleridge
English poet, philosopher

Deaths On This Day, October 21st 🪦

2014 Gough Whitlam
Australian politician, 21st Prime Minister of Australia

2012 George McGovern
American politician, historian, author

2003 Elliott Smith
American singer-songwriter, guitarist

1969 Jack Kerouac
American author, poet

1805 Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson
English Admiral
 
Oct 22nd:
1746
Princeton Univ in NJ receives its charter
1879
Thomas Edison perfects the carbonized cotton filament light bulb
1926
magician/escape artist, Harry Houdini dies 9 days after being suckered punched in the stomach by boxer J.Gordon Whitehead in Houdini's dressing room at Princess Theatre in Montreal
1962
Pres John F.Kennedy makes live TV address about Soviet missile bases in Cuba.He imposes a naval blockade on Cuba which is the start of the Cuban Missile Crisis
2002
Google Play is launched, offical app for Android operating system
2009
Microsoft releases Windows 7
2012
Lance Armstrong, winner of 7 Tour de France cycling races from 1999-2005 is officially stripped of the titles,banned from competitive cycling for life.He used performance enhancing drugs& blood transfusions
 
On This Day In History, October 23rd

2002 Dubrovka Theater Hostage Crisis
About 50 Chechen rebels led by Movsar Barayev took over the Dubrovka Theater in Moscow during the performance of Nord-Ost, a musical. The rebels took about 850 hostages and demanded the withdrawal of Russian troops from Chechnya. The siege lasted for about 3 days and ended after Russian security forces released a chemical gas in the theater. All of the rebels and about 170 hostages died during the siege.

2001 Apple announces the first iPod Player
The iPod is the world's best-selling portable media player. Already 6 years after its initial launch, Apple announced that 100 million devices had been sold. The company has been criticized for its aggressive policies forcing users to use only original batteries and preventing them from freely sharing content with others.

1998 Swatch Announces Internet Time
The Swiss watch company invented a new unit of time called the .beat, which corresponds to 1 minute and 26.4 seconds. Under the Internet Time system, a day is divided into 1000 beats.

1983 Beirut Barracks Bombing
Two bombs exploded in front of American and French barracks during the Lebanese Civil War, killing about 300 French and American military personnel. Islamic Jihad took responsibility for the bombings.

1964 Jean-Paul Sartre Turns Down Nobel Prize
The French existentialist philosopher and writer published a letter in the newspaper Le Figaro to explain why he did not want to accept the Nobel Prize for Literature he had been awarded the day before on October 22. In his letter, he said he did not want to take sides in the East and West struggle of the Cold War, by accepting an award that was given out by Western institutions.
 

Births On This Day, October 23rd 🎂

1959 "Weird Al" Yankovic
American singer-songwriter, comedian, actor

1957 Paul Kagame
Rwandan politician, 6th President of Rwanda

1942 Michael Crichton
American author, screenwriter, director, producer

1940 Pelé
Brazilian footballer

1925 Johnny Carson
American television host

Deaths On This Day, October 23rd 🪦

2000 Yokozuna
American wrestler

1957 Christian Dior
French fashion designer founded S.A.

1950 Al Jolson
Lithuanian/American singer, actor

1921 John Boyd Dunlop
Scottish businessman, co-founded Dunlop Rubber

1915 W. G. Grace
English cricketer
 
On This Day In History, October 24th

2007 China Launches Chang'e 1
It was the first spacecraft of China’s Lunar Exploration Program, which is responsible for sending unmanned robotic space probes to the Moon and the lunar orbit in order to better understand Earth’s largest natural satellite. The space probe crashed into the lunar surface on March 2, 2009, after orbiting the Moon for over a year.

1964 Zambian independence
The African country gained independence from British rule with the passage of the Zambia Independence Act 1964 by the UK Parliament.

1945 United Nations founded
The U.N. charter was ratified by the then 5 permanent members and 46 member states.

1930 Coup in Brazil
President Washington Luís was deposed by the heads of the armed forces just 4 years after he came to office. The coup prevented President-elect Júlio Prestes from coming to power and the military junta instead installed Getúlio Vargas as the de facto President of the country. The coup was in part a response to the government’s “coffee with milk policy”, which allowed governance power to be alternated between the coffee producing state of São Paulo and the milk producing state of Minas Gerais. This policy led to a rebellion in some parts of the country, which in turn prompted the army to take action against the government.

1926 Last performance of Houdini
The world famous escape artist performed for the last time at the Garrick Theater in Detroit, Michigan.
 
Births On This Day, October 24th 🎂

1985 Wayne Rooney
English footballer

1981 Tila Tequila
American model, actress, singer

1966 Roman Abramovich
Russian businessman, politician

1962 Dave Blaney
American race car driver

51 Domitian
Roman Emperor

Deaths On This Day, October 24th 🪦

2005 Rosa Parks
American activist

1972 Jackie Robinson
American baseball player

1945 Vidkun Quisling
Norwegian soldier, politician, traitor

1944 Louis Renault
French businessman co-founded Renault

1601 Tycho Brahe
Danish astronomer, chemist
 
25th October 1974
The Pointer Sisters, Anita, Bonnie and Ruth, became the first group of African American women to sing at the Grand Ole Opry.
They performed the Country-flavored tune, Fairytale.
The song would go on to win a Grammy Award for Best Country Song, making the group the first Black women to receive a Grammy in a Country music category.
 
Oct 28th:
1636
Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts was founded by a vote by Mass General Court
1858
R.H. Macy&Company, opened its 1st store in NYC
1941
movie' How Green Was My Valley' based on the novel by Richard Llewellyn directed by Jhn Ford is released. The story of Welsh coal miners and families. It stars Walter Pidgeon, Donald Crisp,Maureen O'Hara,Anna Lee, Roddy McDowall,Barry Fitzgerald. The movie won 5 Oscars inc picture/director, supp actor{Crisp}
1965
Gateway Arch in St. Louis, Missouri is completed after 4 yrs of construction. The graceful 630 ft high ribbon of stainless steel symbolically marks the gateway from Eastern U.S. to the West. It was designed by architect, Eero Saarinen
2021
Facebook founder, Mark Zuckerberg announces the name change to META
 
30th October 1997
The Bee Gees walk off the stage after host Clive Anderson insults them during the BBC1-TV show Clive Anderson, All Talk.
Maurice Gibb would later recall: "We don't mind being ripped apart, but don't rip the songs apart. That's something, 'cause they're like our kids. You know, you don't do that."
 
Oct 30th
1873
PT Barnum's circus, The Greatest Show on Earth' debuts in NYC
1894
Daniel Cooper patents time clock
1938
radio broadcast of H.G. Wells 'The War of the Worlds' narrated by actor, Orson Welles causes panic for many U.S. residents around the country
1987
singer/songwriter, George Michael's debut solo album' Faith' is released,featuring hit singles, Faith, Father Figure, One More Try, Monkey'. It sold over 25 million copies,one of the best selling albums of all time. It was #1 on billboard music charts for 12 weeks
2012
Walt Disney, Co buys Lucasfilm,LTD and the rights to' Star Wars'& Indiana Jones film franchises for $4.05 billion
2020
new DNA study of dogs suggests they were humans 1st domesticated animals 11,000yrs ago at the end of Bronze Age
 
Nov 6th:
1879
Canada celebrates 1st Thanksgiving Day
1928
Col Jacob Schick patents 1st electric razor
1947
NBC's 'Meet The Press' debuts,public affairs program,originating in Washington,DC is the longest running TV show in U.S.
1974
LA Dodger, Mike Marshall becomes the 1st relief pitcher to win CY Young Award. He made 106 appearances, pitched 208 1/3 innings,finished 83 games. His record was 15-12 with 2.42 ERA{ earned run avg},21 saves. He received 17/24 1st place votes
1996
movie' The English Patient' based on novel by Michael Ondaatje is released directed by Anthony Minghilla
The story of a man{Ralph Fiennes} who is badly burned in a WWII plane crash in Africian desert. A Canadian nurse{Juliette Binoche} tends to him in an abandoned monastary in Italy.,other actors in cast, Wilem DeFoe, Colin Firth, Kristen Scott Thomas. The movie won 9 Academy Awards inc pic/director, supp actress,Binoche
 
7th November

1917 The Bolsheviks overthrow Russia's provisional government in the world's first organised revolution.

1940 Roosevelt proposes a plan for renting US ships and equipment to Britain - the birth of 'Lend-Lease'.

1945 The world air speed record of 469 m.p.h. was broken at Herne Bay when two Gloster Meteor jet-propelled aircraft both averaged over 600 m.p.h. Group Captain H.J. Wilson, R.A.F., averaged 606 m.p.h. and Mr. Eric Greenwood [Chief Test Pilot of the Gloster Aircraft Company] 603 m.p.h.

1956 The UN General Assembly passes a resolution calling on Britain, France and Israel to withdraw from Suez.

1974 Lord Lucan mysteriously disappeared following the murder of his children's nanny and a serious assault on his wife.

1990 Mary Robinson became the first woman President of the Irish Republic.
 
On This Day In History, November 9th

2009 20th anniversary of the fall of Berlin Wall
On this day, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, the last soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev and Polish ex-president and Noble Prize winner Lech Walesa walked through Brandenburg Gate in Berlin to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.

1994 Darmstadtium created for the first time
The heavily radioactive element with an atomic number of 110 and symbol Ds, was created at Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung (Institute for Heavy Ion Research) in Darmstadt, Germany, the city after which the element is named.

1985 Youngest person to become World Chess Champion
22-year-old Russian Gary Kasparov won the 13th World Chess Championship against Anatoly Karpov to become the youngest World Chess Champion.

1967 Rolling Stone makes its debut
The biweekly popular culture magazine was founded by Jann Simon Wenner in San Francisco. The magazine launched the careers of many famous authors and published the early versions of Hunter S. Thompson's Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.

1938 Night of broken glass
A pogrom against Jewish businesses, synagogues, and Jews in Germany and Austria was carried out by Sturmabteilung troops and civilians. The series of attacks that killed about 70 people and put 30,000 jews in prison is known as night of broken glass or Kristallnacht
 

Births On This Day, November 9th 🎂

1974 Alessandro Del Piero
Italian footballer

1970 Chris Jericho
American/Canadian wrestler, singer-songwriter, actor

1934 Carl Sagan
American astronomer, author

1928 Anne Sexton
American poet

1918 Spiro Agnew
American politician, 39th Vice President of the United States

Deaths On This Day, November 9th🪦

2005 K. R. Narayanan
Indian politician, 10th President of India

2004 Stieg Larsson
Swedish writer

1970 Charles de Gaulle
French general, politician, President of France

1953 Ibn Saud
Saudi Arabian king

1940 Neville Chamberlain
English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
 
On This Day In History, November 10th

1969 Sesame Street premieres
Sesame Street, the long-running American children's television series, premiered on TV stations.

1951 North American Numbering Plan begins
The plan standardized distance calling and gave phone numbers in cities a fixed 3-digit prefix, also called an area code. This made making long-distance calls faster and easier and without the involvement of an operator. The first call under the plan was made between the mayors of Englewood, New Jersey and Alameda, California.

1903 Windshield wiper patented
The US Patent Office granted inventor Mary Anderson a patent for automatic windshield wipers - a device that is used to remove or wipe the front and back windshields in automobiles.

1898 Wilmington riots begin
Thought to be one of the only incidents of insurrection against a local government in the United States, the Wilmington Race Riots of 1898 or the Wilmington Massacre of 1898 began after an election voted in a biracial city council. In retaliation, white supremacists overthrew the council, destroyed a lot of property and killed many black people in the city over the course of a few days.

1775 US Marine Corps is created
The elite military force capable of operating on land, sea and air was founded in Philadelphia during the American Revolutionary War. A resolution of the Second Continental Congress formed two battalions of Continental Marines that became the forerunners of today's marine corps
 
Births On This Day, November 10th 🎂

1968 Tracy Morgan
American comedian, actor

1960 Neil Gaiman
English author, illustrator, screenwriter

1928 Ennio Morricone
Italian composer, conductor

1759 Friedrich Schiller
German poet, playwright, historian

1483 Martin Luther
German monk, priest, leader of the Protestant Reformation

Deaths On This Day, November 10th 🪦

2015 Helmut Schmidt
German politician, 5th Chancellor of Germany

2007 Norman Mailer
American author, journalist

1982 Leonid Brezhnev
Soviet politician

1938 Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
Turkish army officer, politician, 1st President of Turkey

1917 Harry Trott
Australian cricketer
 
1969 Sesame Street premieres
Sesame Street, the long-running American children's television series, premiered on TV stations.
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When I first saw that show on our tv in our country, good old England, I loved Americans from that day forward. You lot have such an extraordinary influence over our psyches.😇
 


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