This Day in History

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NBC was fined $2.5 million dollars by the Federal Communications Commission.

What on earth for?

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I stumbled on that, too.

Apparently someone at the FCC really liked the Pope.

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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

What on earth for?

Maybe for letting Sineanea on the air in the first place?

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October 4

Today is World Animal Day, a day of action for animal rights and welfare, celebrated on the feast day of St. Francis of Assisi, the patron saint of animals.

World Space Week begins today.

1363 – End of the Battle of Lake Poyang; the Chinese rebel forces of Zhu Yuanzhang defeat that of his rival, Chen Youliang, in one of the largest naval battles in history, involving around 850,000 men total.

1535 – The first complete English-language Bible (the Coverdale Bible) is printed, with translations by William Tyndale and Myles Coverdale.

1582 – Pope Gregory XIII implements the Gregorian calendar. In Italy, Poland, Portugal, and Spain, October 4 of this year is followed directly by October 15.

1795 – Napoleon Bonaparte first rises to national prominence by suppressing armed counter-revolutionary rioters threatening the National Convention.

1876 – Texas A&M University opens as the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas, becoming the first public institution of higher education in Texas.

1883 – First run of the Orient Express.

1883 – First meeting of the Boys' Brigade in Glasgow, Scotland.

1895 – The first U.S. Open Men's Golf Championship administered by the United States Golf Association is played at the Newport Country Club in Newport, Rhode Island.

1918 – An explosion kills more than 100 and destroys the T.A. Gillespie Company Shell Loading Plant in Sayreville, New Jersey. Rail cars loaded with ammunition exploded, breaking windows over 25 miles away. The totality of the event ranked as one of the largest man-made non-nuclear explosions in history.

1927 – Gutzon Borglum begins sculpting Mount Rushmore.

1941 – Norman Rockwell's Willie Gillis character debuts on the cover of The Saturday Evening Post.

1957 – Space Race: Launch of Sputnik 1, the first artificial satellite to orbit the Earth.

1957 - Winners at this years Annual NME readers poll included Pat Boone who was voted the world's No.1 singer, with Elvis Presley voted second.

1961 - Bob Dylan played a showcase at New York's Carnegie Hall. To 53 people.

1970 - US singer Janis Joplin was found dead at the Landmark Hotel in Hollywood after an accidental heroin overdose. Joplin had the posthumous 1971 US No.1 single 'Me And Bobby McGee', and the 1971 US No.1 album 'Pearl'.

1976 – Official launch of the InterCity 125 high speed train. Operating at up to 125 mph, with a top speed of 148 mph, it is currently the fastest diesel-powered train in the world.

1978 - Country singer Tammy Wynette was abducted, beaten and held in her car for two hours by a kidnapper wearing a ski mask. He held a gun on her and forced her to drive 90 miles. She was later released and the kidnapper escaped.

1983 – Richard Noble sets a new land speed record of 633.468 miles per hour (1,019.468 km/h), driving Thrust2 at the Black Rock Desert in Nevada.

1985 – The Free Software Foundation is founded in Massachusetts, United States.

1993 – Russian Constitutional Crisis: In Moscow, tanks bombard the White House in Moscow, a government building that housed the Russian parliament, while demonstrators against President Boris Yeltsin rally outside.

1997 – The second largest cash robbery in U.S. history occurs at the Charlotte, North Carolina office of Loomis, Fargo and Company. A FBI investigation eventually results in 24 convictions and the recovery of approximately 95% of the $17.3 million stolen cash.

2001 – Siberia Airlines Flight 1812: A Sibir Airlines Tupolev Tu-154 crashes into the Black Sea after being struck by an errant Ukrainian S-200 missile. Seventy-eight people are killed.

2004 – SpaceShipOne wins Ansari X Prize for private spaceflight, by being the first private craft to fly into space.

2006 – Wikileaks is launched by Julian Assange.

2010 – The Ajka plant accident in western Hungary releases about a million cubic metres (35 million cubic feet) of liquid alumina sludge. Nine people are killed and 122 injured, and the Marcal and Danube rivers are severely contaminated.

Births

1542 – Robert Bellarmine (namesake of Bellarmine University); 1625 – Jacqueline Pascal; 1626 – Richard Cromwell; 1822 – Rutherford B. Hayes (19th POTUS); 1861 – Frederic Remington; 1880 – Damon Runyon; 1895 – Buster Keaton; 1916 – Jan Murray; 1923 – Charlton Heston ("...from my cold dead hands."); 1929 – Scotty Beckett (Spanky's best friend before Alfalfa); 1929 – Leroy Van Dyke♪ ♫; 1937 – Jackie Collins; 1941 – Roy Blount, Jr.; 1941 – Anne Rice; 1942 – Christopher Stone; 1943 – H. Rap Brown; 1945 – Clifton Davis (That's My Mama); 1946 – Chuck Hagel; 1946 – Susan Sarandon; 1947 – Jim Fielder(Blood, Sweat & Tears); 1948 – Duke Robillard; 1949 – Armand Assante; 1953 – Gil Moore(Triumph); 1956 – Christoph Waltz; 1957 – Bill Fagerbakke('Dauber' on Coach); 1957 – Russell Simmons (founded Def Jam Recordings and Phat Farm); 1959 – Chris Lowe(Pet Shop Boys); 1962 – Jon Secada♪ ♫; 1965 – Micky Ward; 1967 – Liev Schreiber; 1976 – Alicia Silverstone; 1977 – Richard Reed Parry♪ ♫(Arcade Fire); 1989 – Dakota Johnson

Deaths

1226 – Francis of Assisi; 1661 – Jacqueline Pascal; 1669 – Rembrandt; 1904 – Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi(designed the Statue of Liberty); 1946 – Barney Oldfield; 1947 – Max Planck; 1951 – Henrietta Lacks; 1970 – Janis Joplin♪ ♫; 1989 – Secretariat (race horse); 1989 – Graham Chapman (Monty Python); 1994 – Danny Gatton; 1997 – Gunpei Yokoi (created the GameBoy); 2005 - Mike Gibbins(Badfinger); 2014 – Jean-Claude 'Baby Doc' Duvalier; 2014 - Paul Revere Dick(Paul Revere & The Raiders)

[xoxoxoBruce]

And Jimmah Carter declared this National CB Radio day... 10-4.

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October 5

Over 100 countries observe World Teachers' Day today.

610 – Heraclius was crowned Byzantine Emperor, having personally beheaded the previous emperor, Phocas.

1789 – French Revolution: Women March on Versailles to confront Louis XVI of France about his refusal to promulgate the decrees on the abolition of feudalism, to demand bread, and to have the King and his court moved to Paris.

1813 – Battle of the Thames in Canada; Americans defeat British and kill Shawnee leader Tecumseh.

1864 – The Indian city of Calcutta is almost totally destroyed by a cyclone; 60,000 die.

1869 – The Saxby Gale devastates the Bay of Fundy region of Maritime Canada. The storm had reportedly been predicted over a year before by a British naval officer, Lieutenant Stephen Martin Saxby.

1877 – Chief Joseph surrenders his Nez Perce band to General Nelson A. Miles.

1905 – Wilbur Wright pilots Wright Flyer III in a flight of 24 miles in 39 minutes, a world record that stood until 1908.

1914 – World War I: first aerial combat resulting in an intentional fatality.

1936 – Around 200 men marched from Jarrow to London, carrying a petition to the British government requesting the re-establishment of industry in the town.

1945 – Hollywood Black Friday: A six-month strike by Hollywood set decorators turns into a bloody riot at the gates of Warner Brothers' studios.

1947 – The first televised White House address is given by U.S. President Harry S. Truman.

1962 – Dr. No, the first in the James Bond film series, is released.

1962 – The Beatles' first single, "Love Me Do" backed with "P.S. I Love You", is released in the United Kingdom.

1965 - Johnny Cash was arrested crossing the Mexican border into El Paso, Texas after customs officials found 100's of pills in his guitar case. He received a suspended jail sentence and a $1,000 fine.

1966 - Having moved to and living in London, England, Jimi Hendrix, Mitch Mitchell and Noel Redding played together for the first time.

1966 – Near Detroit, Michigan, there is a partial core meltdown at the Enrico Fermi demonstration nuclear breeder reactor.

1968 – Police baton civil rights demonstrators in Derry, Northern Ireland – considered to mark the beginning of The Troubles.

1969 – The first episode of Monty Python's Flying Circus airs on BBC One.

1970 – The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is founded.

1970 – British Trade Commissioner James Cross is kidnapped by members of the FLQ terrorist group, triggering the October Crisis in Canada.

1974 – Guildford pub bombings: bombs planted by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) kill four British soldiers and one civilian.

1982 – Chicago Tylenol murders: Johnson & Johnson initiates a nationwide product recall in the United States for all products in its Tylenol brand after several bottles in Chicago are found to have been laced with cyanide, resulting in seven deaths.

1986 – Israeli secret nuclear weapons are revealed. The British newspaper The Sunday Times runs Mordechai Vanunu's story on its front page under the headline: "Revealed — the secrets of Israel's nuclear arsenal".

1990 – After one hundred and fifty years The Herald broadsheet newspaper in Melbourne, Australia, is published for the last time as a separate newspaper.

1999 – The Ladbroke Grove rail crash in west London kills 31 people.

2001 – Barry Bonds surpasses Mark McGwire's single-season home run total with his milestone 71st* and 72nd* home runs.

Births

1829 – Chester A. Arthur (21st POTUS); 1864 – Louis Lumière (co-inventer of the moving picture); 1882 – Robert H. Goddard (rocket man); 1902 – Larry Fine (The Three Stooges); 1902 – Ray Kroc (McDonald's); 1905 – John Hoyt; 1907 – Mrs. Miller♪ ♫; 1917 – Allen Ludden; 1919 – Donald Pleasence; 1922 – Bil Keane (created comic strip The Family Circus); 1924 – Bill Dana; 1924 – Bob Thaves (created comic strip Frank & Ernest); 1925 – Gail Davis (Annie Oakley); 1936 – Václav Havel; 1937 – Barry Switzer; 1938 – Johnny Duncan♪ ♫; 1938 – Teresa Heinz (yeah, that Heinz); 1943 – Steve Miller(The Steve Miller Band); 1945 – Brian Connolly♪ ♫(Sweet); 1947 – Brian Johnson♪ ♫(AC/DC); 1949 – Peter Ackroyd; 1950 – Jeff Conaway; 1951 – Karen Allen (Raiders of the Lost Ark); 1951 – Bob Geldof ('Pink' in Pink Floyd - The Wall); 1952 – Clive Barker; 1952 – Harold Faltermeyer(wrote the theme Axel F. for Beverly Hills Cop, and wrote Top Gun Anthem for Top Gun); 1957 – Bernie Mac; 1958 – Neil deGrasse Tyson; 1959 – Maya Lin(designed the Vietnam Veterans Memorial); 1960 – Daniel Baldwin; 1962 – Michael Andretti; 1965 – Mario Lemieux; 1967 – Guy Pearce; 1975 – Kate Winslet; 1976 – J. J. Yeley; 1978 – Morgan Webb(X-Play hostess from TechTV); 1980 – Paul Thomas(Good Charlotte); 1983 – Jesse Eisenberg

Deaths

1813 – Tecumseh; 1927 – Sam Warner (Co-founded Warner Bros); 1933 – Renée Adorée; 1941 – Louis Brandeis; 1981 – Gloria Grahame; 1983 – Earl Tupper (Tupperware); 1986 – Hal B. Wallis; 1992 – Eddie Kendricks♪ ♫(one of The Temptations); 1996 – Seymour Cray (founded CRAY Inc); 2003 – Timothy Treadwell (eaten by a grizzly bear); 2004 – Rodney Dangerfield; 2009 – Mike Alexander; 2011 – Steve Jobs; 2011 – Charles Napier; 2013 – Butch Warren; 2016 - Rod Temperton(Heatwave, wrote 'Thriller', 'Rock With You', 'Off The Wall')

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"*" and "*"

LOL, poor bastard. It's like his nickname now.

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I wondered if anyone would remember those asterisks.

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October 6

Today is German-American Day in the United States, celebrating German-American heritage by commemorating the landing of thirteen German families in Philadelphia in 1683.

1539 – Spanish conquistador Hernando de Soto and his army enter the Apalachee capital of Anhaica (present-day Tallahassee, Florida) by force.

1683 – German immigrant families found Germantown in the colony of Pennsylvania, marking the first major immigration of German people to America.

1723 – Benjamin Franklin arrives in Philadelphia at the age of 17.

1876 – The American Library Association was founded.

1889 – American inventor 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 "talkie" movie.

1939 – World War II: Germany's invasion of Poland ends with the surrender of Independent Operational Group Polesie after the Battle of Kock! Yep, it was a Kock fight.

1973 – Egypt launches a coordinated attack with Syria against Israel leading to the Yom Kippur War.

1976 – Cubana de Aviación Flight 455 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean shortly after taking off from Bridgetown, Barbados, after two bombs, placed on board by terrorists with connections to the CIA, exploded. All 73 people on board are killed.

1977 – The first prototype of the Mikoyan MiG-29, designated 9-01, makes its maiden flight.

1979 – Pope John Paul II becomes the first pontiff to visit the White House.

1981 – Egyptian President Anwar Sadat is murdered by Islamic extremists.

1985 – PC Keith Blakelock is murdered as riots erupt in the Broadwater Farm suburb of London.

1995 – 51 Pegasi is discovered to be the second major star apart from the Sun to have a planet orbiting around it.

2007 – Jason Lewis completes the first human-powered circumnavigation of the globe.

Births

1744 – James McGill (no, not Slippin' Jimmy, there was another one); 1820 – Jenny Lind♪ ♫; 1846 – George Westinghouse (invented the railway air brake); 1906 – Janet Gaynor; 1908 – Carole Lombard; 1914 – Thor Heyerdahl; 1925 – Shana Alexander ("Jane you ignorant slut."); 1935 – Bruno Sammartino; 1940 – Ellen Travolta (John's sister); 1942 – Fred Travalena; 1949 – Lonnie Johnson (80+ patents, invented the Super Soaker); 1949 – Les Moonves (Chairman, President, & CEO of CBS); 1951 – Kevin Cronin♪ ♫(REO Speedwagon); 1954 – David Hidalgo(Los Lobos); 1955 – Tony Dungy; 1959 – Oil Can Boyd; 1963 – Elisabeth Shue (Leaving Las Vegas); 1964 – Matthew Sweet♪ ♫; 1966 – Tommy Stinson(The Replacements); 1973 – Ioan Gruffudd; 1978 – Ricky Hatton; 1982 – Paul Smith♪ ♫; 1986 – Olivia Thirlby (Dredd)

Deaths

1892 – Alfred, Lord Tennyson; 1951 – Will Keith Kellogg (yeah, that Kellogg); 1962 – Tod Browning; 1980 – Hattie Jacques; 1981 – Anwar Sadat; 1985 – Nelson Riddle♪ ♫; 1989 – Bette Davis; 1992 – Denholm Elliott (Raiders of the Lost Ark); 1992 – Bill O'Reilly (no, not the asshole from Fox News Channel, this one played cricket); 1999 – Gorilla Monsoon; 2000 – Richard Farnsworth

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October 7

1542 – Explorer Cabrillo discovers Santa Catalina Island off of the California coast.

1691 – The English royal charter for the Province of Massachusetts Bay is issued.

1763 – King George III of the United Kingdom issues the Royal Proclamation of 1763, closing aboriginal lands in North America north and west of the Alleghenies to white settlements.

1777 – American Revolutionary War: The Americans defeat the British in the Second Battle of Saratoga, also known as the Battle of Bemis Heights.

1780 – American Revolutionary War: Battle of Kings Mountain: American Patriot militia defeat Loyalist irregulars led by British major Patrick Ferguson in South Carolina. [Ferguson was extremely confident in his position on top of King's Mountain. He is reported to have said he was on King's Mountain, that he was king of that mountain, and that God Almighty could not drive him from it. Apparently, he was right. He's still there today. He was shot out of his saddle, dragged by his horse, at least six other Patriots fired into his body (which was found with 8 bullet holes in it), was stripped of his clothing, and urinated upon, before being buried in an ox hide near where he fell.]

1800 – French corsair Robert Surcouf, commander of the 18-gun ship La Confiance, captures the British 38-gun Kent inspiring the traditional French song Le Trente-et-un du mois d'août.

1826 – The Granite Railway begins operations as the first chartered railway in the U.S.

1864 – American Civil War: Bahia incident: USS Wachusett illegally captures the CSS Florida Confederate raider while in port in Bahia, Brazil in violation of Brazilian neutrality.

1868 – Cornell University holds opening day ceremonies; initial student enrollment is 412, the highest at any American university to that date.

1916 – Georgia Tech defeats Cumberland University 222–0 in the most lopsided college football game in American history.

1919 – KLM, the flag carrier of the Netherlands, is founded. It is the oldest airline still operating under its original name.

1940 – World War II: The McCollum memo proposes bringing the United States into the war in Europe by provoking the Japanese to attack the United States.

1955 – American poet Allen Ginsberg performs his poem Howl for the first time at the Six Gallery in San Francisco.

1959 – U.S.S.R. probe Luna 3 transmits the first ever photographs of the far side of the Moon.

1985 – The MS Achille Lauro is hijacked by Palestine Liberation Front.

1985 – The Mameyes landslide kills close to 300 in the worst landslide in North American history.

1988 – An Iñupiat hunter discovers three gray whales trapped under the ice in Barrow, Alaska, US; the situation becomes a multinational effort to free the whales.

1993 – The flood of '93 ends at St. Louis, Missouri, 103 days after it began, as the Mississippi River falls below flood stage.

1996 – The Fox News Channel begins broadcasting.

1998 – Matthew Shepard, a gay student at the University of Wyoming, is found tied to a fence after being savagely beaten by two young adults in Laramie, Wyoming.

2001 – The Global War on Terrorism begins as a result of the September 11 attacks. The U.S. invasion of Afghanistan initiates with an air assault and covert operations on the ground.

2008 – Asteroid 2008 TC3 impacts the Earth over Sudan.

Births

1728 – Caesar Rodney; 1849 – James Whitcomb Riley; 1870 – Uncle Dave Macon♪ ♫; 1885 – Niels Bohr; 1897 – Elijah Muhammad; 1900 – Heinrich Himmler; 1905 – Andy Devine; 1911 – Vaughn Monroe♪ ♫; 1917 – June Allyson; 1927 – Al Martino♪ ♫(The Godfather); 1929 – Graeme Ferguson (co-founded the IMAX Corporation); 1942 – Joy Behar; 1943 – Oliver North; 1945 – Kevin Godley(10cc, Godley & Creme); 1949 - David Hope(Kansas); 1951 – John Mellencamp♪ ♫; 1952 – Vladimir Putin (rascal); 1953 – Tico Torres(Bon Jovi); 1955 – Yo-Yo Ma; 1959 – Dylan Baker; 1959 – Simon Cowell (British asshole); 1967 – Toni Braxton♪ ♫; 1968 – Thom Yorke♪ ♫(Radiohead); 1975 – Tim Minchin "Atticus Fetch' on Californication); 1976 – Taylor Hicks♪ ♫(American Idol winner season #5); 1986 – Bree Olson (porn actress, Penthouse Pet)

Deaths

1780 – Patrick Ferguson; 1849 – Edgar Allan Poe; 1894 – Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.; 1950 – Willis Haviland Carrier (invented modern a/c); 1956 – Clarence Birdseye (founder of the modern frozen food industry); 1959 – Mario Lanza♪ ♫

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October 8

There 77 days until Christmas.

1480 – Great stand on the Ugra river, a standoff between the forces of Akhmat Khan, Khan of the Great Horde, and the Grand Duke Ivan III of Russia, which results in the retreat of the Tataro-Mongols and the eventual disintegration of the Horde.

1645 – Jeanne Mance opened the Hôtel-Dieu de Montréal, the first lay hospital in North America.

1862 – American Civil War: Battle of Perryville: Union forces under General Don Carlos Buell halt the Confederate invasion of Kentucky by defeating troops led by General Braxton Bragg at Perryville, Kentucky.

1871 – Four major fires break out on the shores of Lake Michigan in Chicago, Illinois, Peshtigo, Wisconsin, Holland, Michigan, and Manistee, Michigan including the Great Chicago Fire, and the much deadlier Peshtigo Fire.

1918 – World War I: In action near Pittem, Belgium, USMC 2nd Lieutenant aviator Ralph Talbot of Weymouth, Massachusetts becomes the first-ever USMC aviator to earn the Medal of Honor.

1918 – World War I: In the Argonne Forest, in France, United States Corporal Alvin C. York kills 28 German soldiers and captures 132, for which he is awarded the Medal of Honor.

1921 – KDKA in Pittsburgh's Forbes Field conducts the first live broadcast of a football game.

1956 – New York Yankees's Don Larsen pitched the only perfect game in a World Series.

1978 – Australia's Ken Warby sets the current world water speed record of 317.60 mph at Blowering Dam, Australia.

1982 – Cats opens on Broadway and runs for nearly 18 years before closing on September 10, 2000.

2001 – In response to the September 11 attacks, U.S. President George W. Bush announced the creation of the Office of Homeland Security, with former Pennsylvania Governor Tom Ridge as its director.

Births

1890 – Eddie Rickenbacker; 1920 – Frank Herbert; 1936 – Rona Barrett; 1939 – Harvey Pekar; 1940 – Paul Hogan; 1941 – Jesse Jackson; 1943 – Chevy Chase; 1943 – R. L. Stine; 1946 – Dennis Kucinich; 1948 – Johnny Ramone; 1949 – Sigourney Weaver; 1950 – Robert "Kool" Bell; 1955 – Bill Elliott; 1955 – Darrell Hammond; 1956 – Stephanie Zimbalist; 1964 – CeCe Winans; 1965 – Matt Biondi; 1965 – C. J. Ramone; 1968 – Emily Procter; 1970 – Matt Damon; 1980 – Nick Cannon; 1985 – Bruno Mars; 1993 – Molly Quinn

Deaths

1793 – John Hancock; 1869 – Franklin Pierce; 1944 – Wendell Willkie; 1953 – Nigel Bruce; 1983 – Joan Hackett; 1992 – Willy Brandt; 2011 – Al Davis; 2011 – Roger Williams; 2015 – Paul Prudhomme

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October 9

Today is World Post Day, recognizing the importance of the postal services.

Fire Prevention Week begins today in the United States, and Canadia.

The United States, Iceland, & Norway observe today as Leif Erikson Day, celebrating the Norse explorer who led the first Europeans thought to have set foot in North America.

Events

1410 – The first known mention of the Prague astronomical clock.

1604 – Supernova 1604, the most recent supernova to be observed in the Milky Way.

1804 – Hobart, capital of Tasmania, is founded.

1812 – War of 1812: In a naval engagement on Lake Erie, American forces capture two British ships: HMS Detroit and HMS Caledonia.

1874 – General Postal Union is created as a result of the Treaty of Bern.

1919 – Black Sox Scandal: The Cincinnati Reds win the World Series.

1936 – Generators at Boulder Dam (later renamed to Hoover Dam) begin to generate electricity from the Colorado River and transmit it 266 miles to Los Angeles.

1963 – In northeast Italy, over 2,000 people are killed when a large landslide behind the Vajont Dam causes a giant wave of water to overtop it.

1967 – A day after being captured, Marxist revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara is executed for attempting to incite a revolution in Bolivia.

1969 – In Chicago, the United States National Guard is called in for crowd control as demonstrations continue in connection with the trial of the "Chicago Eight" that began on September 24.

1970 – The Khmer Republic is proclaimed in Cambodia.

1980 – Pope John Paul II shakes hands with the Dalai Lama during a private audience in Vatican City.

2012 – Members of the Pakistani Taliban make a failed attempt to assassinate an outspoken schoolgirl, Malala Yousafzai.

Births

1859 – Alfred Dreyfus; 1873 – Charles Rudolph Walgreen (founded Walgreens); 1890 – Aimee Semple McPherson; 1911 – Joe Rosenthal; 1920 – Jason Wingreen (voice of 'Boba Fett' in The Empire Strikes Back); 1922 – Philip "Fyuvsh" Finkel; 1939 – O. V. Wright♪ ♫; 1940 – John Lennon♪ ♫; 1941 – Trent Lott; 1944 – John Entwistle(The Who); 1944 – Nona Hendryx♪ ♫(Labelle); 1948 – Jackson Browne; 1949 – Rod Temperton(Heatwave); 1952 – Sharon Osbourne; 1953 – Tony Shalhoub (Monk); 1954 – Scott Bakula (Quantum Leap, NCIS: New Orleans); 1954 – John O'Hurley ('J. Peterman' on Seinfeld); 1957 – Ini Kamoze (sang rapped "Here Comes The Hotstepper"); 1958 – Alan Nunnelee; 1958 – Mike Singletary; 1964 – Guillermo del Toro; 1966 – David Cameron; 1969 – PJ Harvey♪ ♫; 1969 – Steve McQueen (no, not that one, this one directed 12 Years A Slave); 1970 – Annika Sörenstam; 1975 – Sean Lennon♪ ♫; 1993 – Scotty McCreery♪ ♫

Deaths

1941 – Helen Morgan♪ ♫; 1967 – Che Guevara; 1967 – Joseph Pilates (yeah, that Pilates); 1974 – Oskar Schindler (yeah, the one with the list); 1987 – Clare Boothe Luce; 1988 – Felix Wankel (of Wankel engine fame); 2000 – David Dukes (the actor, not the racist); 2005 – Louis Nye; 2007 – Carol Bruce ('Mother Carlson' on WKRP In Cincinnati); 2014 – Jan Hooks

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World Post Day so be sure to post to a thread today

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October 10

Today is marked as World Mental Health Day, so, go crazy.

Today is also World Homeless Day, so go home if you have one.

World Porridge Day, also today, raises awareness, and funds, to aid starving children in developing countries.

Events

1780 – The Great Hurricane of 1780 kills 20,000–30,000 in the Caribbean.

1845 – In Annapolis, Maryland, the Naval School (later renamed the United States Naval Academy) opens with 50 midshipman students and seven professors.

1846 – Triton, the largest moon of the planet Neptune, is discovered by English astronomer William Lassell.

1871 – Chicago burns after a barn accident. The fire lasts from October 8 to October 10.

1897 – German chemist Felix Hoffmann discovers an improved way of synthesizing acetylsalicylic acid (aspirin).

1902 - The Gibson Mandolin-Guitar Mfg. Co. Ltd. was formed, in Kalamazoo Michigan.

1913 – United States President Woodrow Wilson triggers the explosion of the Gamboa Dike, ending construction on the Panama Canal.

1928 – Chiang Kai-shek becomes Chairman of the Republic of China.

1933 – United Airlines Boeing 247 mid-air explosion: A United Airlines Boeing 247 is destroyed by sabotage, the first such proven case in the history of commercial aviation.

1939 - The real Eleanor Rigby died in her sleep of unknown causes at the age of 44.

1957 – The Windscale fire in Cumbria, U.K. is the world's first major nuclear accident.<--Interesting read.

1964 – The opening ceremony of the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan, is broadcast live in the first Olympic telecast relayed by geostationary satellite.

1970 – In Montreal, a national crisis hits Canada when Quebec Vice-Premier and Minister of Labour Pierre Laporte becomes the second statesman kidnapped by members of the FLQ terrorist group.

1971 – Sold, dismantled and moved to the United States, London Bridge reopens in Lake Havasu City, Arizona.

1978 - Joe Perry and Steven Tyler from Aerosmith were injured after a cherry bomb was thrown on stage during a gig in Philadelphia. The group performed behind a safety fence for the rest of the tour.

1979 - The Rose, starring Bette Midler as a self-destructive 1960s rock star, (transparently based on Janis Joplin) premiered in Los Angeles. The film was nominated for four Academy Awards including Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Frederic Forrest), Best Actress in a Leading Role (Bette Midler, in her screen debut), Best Film Editing and Best Sound.

1980 - The funeral of Led Zeppelin's drummer, John Bonham, took place. ‘Bonzo’ was found dead at guitarist Jimmy Page's house of what was described as asphyxiation, after inhaling his own vomit after excessive vodka consumption, (40 shots in 4 hours) aged 32.

1985 – United States Navy F-14 fighter jets intercept an Egyptian plane carrying the hijackers of the Achille Lauro cruise ship, and force it to land at a NATO base in Sigonella, Sicily where they are arrested.

2010 – The Netherlands Antilles are dissolved as a country.

2014 - Former professional basketball player and Harlem Globetrotter Rico Harris disappears after visiting his mother's home in Alhambra, California. Aside from an accidental cell phone video, after extensive searches, no trace of the 6' 9", 300 lb. forward has been found.

Births

1813 – Giuseppe Verdi♪ ♫; 1819 – Heinrich Joseph Dominicus Denzinger; 1825 – Paul Kruger; 1858 – Maurice Prendergast; 1900 – Helen Hayes; 1917 – Thelonious Monk; 1924 – James Clavell; 1924 – Ed Wood; 1926 – Oscar Brown♪ ♫; 1926 – Richard Jaeckel; 1927 – Dana Elcar (MacGyver); 1933 – Jay Sebring (Manson Family victim); 1940 – Winston Churchill (no, not that one, this one's his grandson); 1941 – Peter Coyote; 1945 - Alan Cartwright(Procol Harum); 1946 – Charles Dance; 1946 – John Prine♪ ♫; 1946 – Ben Vereen♪ ♫; 1948 – Cyril Neville(Neville Bros.); 1950 – Nora Roberts; 1953 – Midge Ure♪ ♫(Ultravox, Thin Lizzy, co-wrote Do They Know It's Christmas?); 1954 – David Lee Roth♪ ♫(Van Halen); 1958 – Tanya Tucker♪ ♫; 1959 – Julia Sweeney; 1959 – Bradley Whitford (The West Wing); 1963 – Daniel Pearl; 1965 – Chris Penn (Reservoir Dogs); 1965 – Rebecca Pidgeon♪ ♫; 1966 – Bai Ling; 1969 – Brett Favre; 1973 – Mario Lopez; 1974 – Dale Earnhardt, Jr.; 1976 – Bob Burnquist; 1979 – Mýa♪ ♫

Deaths

1659 – Abel Tasman; 1759 – Granville Elliott; 1872 – William H. Seward; 1911 – Jack Daniel (yeah, that one); 1913 – Adolphus Busch (yeah, that one); 1935 – Gustave Loiseau; 1963 – Édith Piaf♪ ♫; 1964 – Eddie Cantor♪ ♫; 1985 – Yul Brynner; 1985 – Orson Welles; 1998 – Marvin Gay, Sr. (father and murderer of Marvin Gaye); 2001 – Eddie Futch; 2004 – Christopher Reeve; 2010 – Solomon Burke♪ ♫("I was young. Girls were coming from every angle. I couldn't love them all. But I tried."); 2010 – Joan Sutherland♪ ♫; 2012 – Alex Karras (NFL, Webster, 'Mongo' in Blazing Saddles); 2015 – Steve Mackay (The Stooges)