This Day in History

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October 5

Today is World Teachers' Day, so, learn somebody something.


Events

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.

1877 – Chief Joseph ["From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever."] surrenders his Nez Perce band to General Nelson A. Miles.

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.

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.

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October 10

1871 - Mrs. O'Leary's cow tips over a lantern.

1913 - Woodrow Wilson blows a dyke.

1971 - London Bridge opens to traffic, in an arid zona.

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1871 - Mrs. O'Leary's cow tips over a lantern.

That's a lie, she was framed, they always blame the corpse.

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Cowrpse?

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October 11



1975 - Saturday Night Live debuts on NBC.

1976 - George Washington is posthumously appointed to the rank of General of the Armies.

2001 - The Polaroid Corporation files for federal bankruptcy protection.

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October 12

1945 – World War II: Desmond Doss



is the first conscientious objector to receive the U.S. Medal of Honor.


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1979 – The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy,



the first of five books in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy comedy science fiction series by Douglas Adams is published.

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October 17



1989 – The 6.9 Mw Loma Prieta earthquake shakes the San Francisco Bay Area and the Central Coast with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent). Sixty-three people were killed.

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October 19



2005 – Saddam Hussein goes on trial in Baghdad for crimes against humanity.

[Glinda]

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October 17



1989 – The 6.9 Mw Loma Prieta earthquake shakes the San Francisco Bay Area and the Central Coast with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent). Sixty-three people were killed.

I remember that day well. I missed the whole fucking thing!

At the time, I was living in San Leandro (just a few miles north of the ^^ that ^^). About an hour before the earthquake, I boarded a plane to Chicago for a long-deserved vacation.

As we were reaching altitude, the pilot made an announcement:

Ladies and gentlemen, you're all probably wondering about the score at Candlestick Park right now. I do not have that information, but we have just received word that a massive earthquake has hit the Bay Area. The only confirmed report of damage we have at this time is that the Bay Bridge has collapsed.

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October 24

1929 – "Black Thursday" stock market crash on the New York Stock Exchange.

1946 – A camera on board the V-2 No. 13 rocket takes the first photograph of Earth from outer space.

1949 – The cornerstone of the United Nations Headquarters



is laid.

2002 – Police arrest spree killers John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo, ending the Beltway sniper attacks in the area around Washington, D.C.

2003 – Concorde



makes its last commercial flight.

2008 – "Bloody Friday" saw many of the world's stock exchanges experience the worst declines in their history, with drops of around 10% in most indices.

2015 – A driver, arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence (DUI), crashes into the Oklahoma State Homecoming parade in Stillwater, Oklahoma, killing four people and injuring 34.

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November 5

1995 – André Dallaire attempts to assassinate Prime Minister Jean Chrétien of Canada. He is thwarted when the Prime Minister's wife locks the door.

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November 10


Shine yer buttons, Stimpy!! We got a ball to go to!!!



1775 - From the halls of Montezuma...

1871 - "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?"



1975 - Does any one know where the love of God goes
When the waves turn the minutes to hours?
The searchers all say they'd have made Whitefish Bay
If they'd put fifteen more miles behind her
They might have split up or they might have capsized
They may have broke deep and took water
And all that remains is the faces and the names
Of the wives and the sons and the daughters

~The Wreck of The Edmund Fitzgerald

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December 12



1985 – Arrow Air Flight 1285, a McDonnell Douglas DC-8, crashes after takeoff in Gander, Newfoundland, killing all 256 people on board, including 236 members of the United States Army's 101st Airborne Division.

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December 14

Today is Forty-Seven Ronin Remembrance Day.<---Extremely interesting read.

557 – Constantinople is severely damaged by an earthquake.

1911 – Roald Amundsen's team, comprising himself, Olav Bjaaland, Helmer Hanssen, Sverre Hassel, and Oscar Wisting, becomes the first to reach the South Pole.

1940 – Plutonium (specifically Pu-238) is first isolated at Berkeley, California.

1972 – Apollo program: Eugene Cernan is the last person to walk on the moon, after he and Harrison Schmitt complete the third and final extravehicular activity (EVA) of the Apollo 17 mission.

1994 – Construction begins on the Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze river.

2012 – Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting: Twenty-eight people, including the gunman, are killed in Sandy Hook, Connecticut.

[xoxoxoBruce]

It was Yamamoto Tsunetomo, author of the Hagakure, who asked the well known question: "What if, nine months after Asano's death, Kira had died of an illness?" His answer was that the forty-seven rōnin would have lost their only chance at avenging their master. Even if they had claimed, then, that their dissipated behavior was just an act, that in just a little more time they would have been ready for revenge, who would have believed them? They would have been forever remembered as cowards and drunkards—bringing eternal shame to the name of the Asano clan. The right thing for the rōnin to do, wrote Yamamoto, was to attack Kira and his men immediately after Asano's death. The rōnin would probably have suffered defeat, as Kira was ready for an attack at that time—but this was unimportant.

No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making some other poor dumb bastard die for his country.