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Gravdigr · 10-27-2016, 10:45 AM

October 27

Today, the United States celebrates Navy Day. Maybe.

Today is also recognized internationally as World Day for Audiovisual Heritage.

There are 58 days until Christmas.

Events

312 – Constantine the Great is said to have received his famous Vision of the Cross.

939 – Æthelstan, the first King of England, died and was succeeded by his half-brother, Edmund I.

1275 – Traditional founding of the city of Amsterdam.

1682 – Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is founded.

1838 – Missouri governor Lilburn Boggs issues the Extermination Order, which orders all Mormons to leave the state or be exterminated.

1870 – Marshal François Achille Bazaine surrenders to Prussian forces at the conclusion of the Siege of Metz along with 140,000 French soldiers in one of the biggest French defeats of the Franco-Prussian War.

1914 – The British lose their first battleship of World War I: The British super-dreadnought battleship HMS Audacious (23,400 tons) is sunk off Tory Island, north-west of Ireland, by a minefield laid by the armed German merchant-cruiser Berlin. The loss was kept an official secret in Britain until 14 November 1918 (three days after the end of the war). The sinking was witnessed and photographed by passengers on RMS Olympic sister ship of RMS Titanic.

1936 – Mrs. Wallis Simpson obtains her divorce decree nisi, which would eventually allow her to marry King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom, thus forcing his abdication from the throne.

1954 – Benjamin O. Davis, Jr. becomes the first African-American general in the United States Air Force.

1962 – Major Rudolf Anderson of the United States Air Force becomes the only direct human casualty of the Cuban Missile Crisis when his U-2 reconnaissance airplane is shot down in Cuba by a Soviet-supplied SA-2 Guideline surface-to-air missile.

1964 – Ronald Reagan delivers a speech on behalf of the Republican candidate for president, Barry Goldwater. The speech launches his political career and comes to be known as "A Time for Choosing".

1964 - 31 year old Salvatore Philip Bono married 18 year old Cherilyn Sarkisian La Piere. For a time they performed together as Caesar and Cleo before changing the name of their act to Sonny and Cher. Their union lasted 12 years.

1969 - Muddy Waters was seriously injured in a car crash in Champagne, Illinois. Three people were killed in the accident.

1973 – A 1.4 kg chondrite-type meteorite strikes in Cañon City, Colorado.

1977 - American musician Roy Estrada known as a founding member of Little Feat and who also worked with Frank Zappa was convicted of sexual assault on a child. Estrada served six years in prison. In January 2012, he pleaded guilty to a charge of continuous sexual abuse of a child which happened in March 2008. In the plea bargain agreement, he was sentenced to 25 years in prison and will not be eligible for parole until he is 93 years old.

1980 - Former T. Rex member Steve Took, choked to death on a cherry stone, after some magic mushrooms he had eaten, numbed all sensation in his throat, he was 31 years old.

1980 - Mark David Chapman bought a five-shot .38 Special handgun for $169. A little over six weeks later, he would use the gun to kill John Lennon outside Lennon's New York City apartment.

1986 – The British government suddenly deregulates financial markets, leading to a total restructuring of the way in which they operate in the country, in an event now referred to as the Big Bang.

1988 – Ronald Reagan suspends construction of the new U.S. Embassy in Moscow because of Soviet listening devices in the building structure.

1992 – United States Navy radioman Allen R. Schindler, Jr. is murdered by shipmate Terry M. Helvey for being gay, precipitating debate about gays in the military that resulted in the United States' "Don't ask, don't tell" military policy.

1994 – Gliese 229B is the first Substellar Mass Object to be unquestionably identified.

1997 – Stock Market mini-crash: Stock markets around the world crash because of fears of a global economic meltdown. The Dow Jones Industrial Average plummets 554.26 points to 7,161.15.

2003 - Scott Weiland singer with Stone Temple Pilots was arrested on his birthday in Hollywood, California, after being involved in a traffic collision. He was charged with driving under the influence of drugs and alcohol, but these charges were later dismissed after the singer successfully completed rehab and underwent subsequent drug tests.

2014 – Britain withdraws from Afghanistan after the end of Operation Herrick, which started on June 20, 2002, after 12 years, four months, and seven days.

Births

1782 – Niccolò Paganini

; 1811 – Isaac Singer (founded the Singer Corporation); 1854 – William Alexander Smith (founded the Boys' Brigade); 1858 – Theodore Roosevelt (26th POTUS); 1872 – Emily Post; 1908 – Lee Krasner

; 1910 – Jack Carson; 1913 – Joe Medicine Crow; 1914 – Dylan Thomas ("Rage, rage against the dying of the light".); 1918 – Teresa Wright (Mrs. Miniver); 1920 – Nanette Fabray♪ ♫; 1922 – Ruby Dee; 1923 – Roy Lichtenstein

; 1923 – Ned Wertimer (the doorman looking for a tip on The Jeffersons); 1926 – H. R. Haldeman; 1932 – Sylvia Plath; 1933 – Floyd Cramer

; 1939 – John Cleese

(Monty Python); 1940 – John 'The Teflon Don' Gotti (mob boss); 1941 – Dick Trickle

; 1942 – Lee Greenwood♪ ♫; 1945 – Carrie Snodgress; 1946 – Ivan Reitman; 1949 – Garry Tallent

(Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band); 1950 – Fran Lebowitz; 1951 – K. K. Downing

(Judas Priest); 1951 – Jayne Kennedy

; 1952 – Roberto Benigni; 1953 – Robert Picardo (the 'Emergency Medical Hologram' on Star Trek: Voyager); 1957 – Peter Marc Jacobson (co-creator The Nanny); 1958 – Simon Le Bon♪ ♫(Duran Duran); 1963 – Marla Maples

[Say what you will about the Donald, the man has stellar taste in women.]; 1967 – Scott Weiland♪ ♫(Stone Temple Pilots); 1984 – Kelly Osbourne

Deaths

939 – Æthelstan; 1975 – Rex Stout; 1980 – Steve Peregrin Took

(Tyrannosaurus Rex, not to be confused with the band T. Rex); 1990 – Xavier Cugat

; 1990 – Ugo Tognazzi; 1992 – Allen R. Schindler, Jr.; 2002 – Tom Dowd♪ ♫(record producer); 2003 – Rod Roddy ("Come on down!"); 2013 – Lou Reed♪ ♫(The Velvet Underground)

10-27-2016, 10:45 AM	#363
Gravdigr The Un-Tuckian Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: South Central...KY that is Posts: 39,517	October 27 Today, the United States celebrates Navy Day. Maybe. Today is also recognized internationally as World Day for Audiovisual Heritage. There are 58 days until Christmas. Events 312 – Constantine the Great is said to have received his famous Vision of the Cross. 939 – Æthelstan, the first King of England, died and was succeeded by his half-brother, Edmund I. 1275 – Traditional founding of the city of Amsterdam. 1682 – Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is founded. 1838 – Missouri governor Lilburn Boggs issues the Extermination Order, which orders all Mormons to leave the state or be exterminated. 1870 – Marshal François Achille Bazaine surrenders to Prussian forces at the conclusion of the Siege of Metz along with 140,000 French soldiers in one of the biggest French defeats of the Franco-Prussian War. 1914 – The British lose their first battleship of World War I: The British super-dreadnought battleship HMS Audacious (23,400 tons) is sunk off Tory Island, north-west of Ireland, by a minefield laid by the armed German merchant-cruiser Berlin. The loss was kept an official secret in Britain until 14 November 1918 (three days after the end of the war). The sinking was witnessed and photographed by passengers on RMS Olympic sister ship of RMS Titanic. 1936 – Mrs. Wallis Simpson obtains her divorce decree nisi, which would eventually allow her to marry King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom, thus forcing his abdication from the throne. 1954 – Benjamin O. Davis, Jr. becomes the first African-American general in the United States Air Force. 1962 – Major Rudolf Anderson of the United States Air Force becomes the only direct human casualty of the Cuban Missile Crisis when his U-2 reconnaissance airplane is shot down in Cuba by a Soviet-supplied SA-2 Guideline surface-to-air missile. 1964 – Ronald Reagan delivers a speech on behalf of the Republican candidate for president, Barry Goldwater. The speech launches his political career and comes to be known as "A Time for Choosing". 1964 - 31 year old Salvatore Philip Bono married 18 year old Cherilyn Sarkisian La Piere. For a time they performed together as Caesar and Cleo before changing the name of their act to Sonny and Cher. Their union lasted 12 years. 1969 - Muddy Waters was seriously injured in a car crash in Champagne, Illinois. Three people were killed in the accident. 1973 – A 1.4 kg chondrite-type meteorite strikes in Cañon City, Colorado. 1977 - American musician Roy Estrada known as a founding member of Little Feat and who also worked with Frank Zappa was convicted of sexual assault on a child. Estrada served six years in prison. In January 2012, he pleaded guilty to a charge of continuous sexual abuse of a child which happened in March 2008. In the plea bargain agreement, he was sentenced to 25 years in prison and will not be eligible for parole until he is 93 years old. 1980 - Former T. Rex member Steve Took, choked to death on a cherry stone, after some magic mushrooms he had eaten, numbed all sensation in his throat, he was 31 years old. 1980 - Mark David Chapman bought a five-shot .38 Special handgun for $169. A little over six weeks later, he would use the gun to kill John Lennon outside Lennon's New York City apartment. 1986 – The British government suddenly deregulates financial markets, leading to a total restructuring of the way in which they operate in the country, in an event now referred to as the Big Bang. 1988 – Ronald Reagan suspends construction of the new U.S. Embassy in Moscow because of Soviet listening devices in the building structure. 1992 – United States Navy radioman Allen R. Schindler, Jr. is murdered by shipmate Terry M. Helvey for being gay, precipitating debate about gays in the military that resulted in the United States' "Don't ask, don't tell" military policy. 1994 – Gliese 229B is the first Substellar Mass Object to be unquestionably identified. 1997 – Stock Market mini-crash: Stock markets around the world crash because of fears of a global economic meltdown. The Dow Jones Industrial Average plummets 554.26 points to 7,161.15. 2003 - Scott Weiland singer with Stone Temple Pilots was arrested on his birthday in Hollywood, California, after being involved in a traffic collision. He was charged with driving under the influence of drugs and alcohol, but these charges were later dismissed after the singer successfully completed rehab and underwent subsequent drug tests. 2014 – Britain withdraws from Afghanistan after the end of Operation Herrick, which started on June 20, 2002, after 12 years, four months, and seven days. Births 1782 – Niccolò Paganini; 1811 – Isaac Singer (founded the Singer Corporation); 1854 – William Alexander Smith (founded the Boys' Brigade); 1858 – Theodore Roosevelt (26th POTUS); 1872 – Emily Post; 1908 – Lee Krasner; 1910 – Jack Carson; 1913 – Joe Medicine Crow; 1914 – Dylan Thomas ("Rage, rage against the dying of the light".); 1918 – Teresa Wright (Mrs. Miniver); 1920 – Nanette Fabray♪ ♫; 1922 – Ruby Dee; 1923 – Roy Lichtenstein; 1923 – Ned Wertimer (the doorman looking for a tip on The Jeffersons); 1926 – H. R. Haldeman; 1932 – Sylvia Plath; 1933 – Floyd Cramer; 1939 – John Cleese(Monty Python); 1940 – John 'The Teflon Don' Gotti (mob boss); 1941 – Dick Trickle; 1942 – Lee Greenwood♪ ♫; 1945 – Carrie Snodgress; 1946 – Ivan Reitman; 1949 – Garry Tallent(Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band); 1950 – Fran Lebowitz; 1951 – K. K. Downing(Judas Priest); 1951 – Jayne Kennedy; 1952 – Roberto Benigni; 1953 – Robert Picardo (the 'Emergency Medical Hologram' on Star Trek: Voyager); 1957 – Peter Marc Jacobson (co-creator The Nanny); 1958 – Simon Le Bon♪ ♫(Duran Duran); 1963 – Marla Maples[Say what you will about the Donald, the man has stellar taste in women.]; 1967 – Scott Weiland♪ ♫(Stone Temple Pilots); 1984 – Kelly Osbourne Deaths 939 – Æthelstan; 1975 – Rex Stout; 1980 – Steve Peregrin Took(Tyrannosaurus Rex, not to be confused with the band T. Rex); 1990 – Xavier Cugat; 1990 – Ugo Tognazzi; 1992 – Allen R. Schindler, Jr.; 2002 – Tom Dowd♪ ♫(record producer); 2003 – Rod Roddy ("Come on down!"); 2013 – Lou Reed♪ ♫(The Velvet Underground) __________________ These statements have not been evaluated by the FDA, EPA, FBI, DEA, CDC, or FDIC. These statements are not intended to diagnose, cause, treat, cure, or prevent any disease. 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