October 17th

1995: Keith Moore is sentenced to 6 years for robbing rock star Sting of $9,000,000.

1989: A 6.9 earthquake in the San Francisco Bay Area causes massive destruction and kills 67.

1988: 31 people die when a Ugandan jetliner crashes in fog near Rome.

1979: Mother Teresa was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

1977: West German commandos storm a hijacked Lufthansa in Mogadishu, Somalia freeing all 86 hostages and killing 3 of the 4 hijackers.

1975: The United Nations passes a resolution declaring Zionism to be a form of racism.

1973; A 5 month oil embargo by Arab states (OPEC) against the US and the Netherlands begins.

1967: A Memorial service for Brian Epstein is held at the New London Synagogue.

1961: In the "Battle of Paris" police kill 210 protesting Algerians.

1951: Egyptian army regulars fire on British troops in the Suez.

1943: B-24 Liberators sink U-540 and U-631 in the Battle of the Atlantic.

1933: Albert Einstein arrives in the US as a refugee from Nazi Germany.

1931: Al Capone was convicted of income tax evasion and sentenced to eleven years in prison.

1919: The Radio Corporation of America was created.

1894: The Ohio national guard kills 3 lynchers while rescuing a black man.

1885: Baseball sets all players salaries at $1,000, $2,000 for 1885 season.

1787: Blacks in Boston petition the legislature for equal school facilities.

October 18th

1995: The NHL Winnipeg Jets are sold to Americans who move them to Phoenix.

1992: A 5 - 4 victory by the Toronto Blue Jays over the Atlanta Braves makes them the first non-US team ever to win a World Series Game.

1988: Israel's supreme court uphold's a ban on Kahane`s Kach Party for being racist.

1979: Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini orders mass executions to stop. (They don't!)

1975: Simon and Garfunkel reunite on Saturday Night Live to sing "In My Little Town".

1973: Congress authorizes the US mint to create a bi-centennial quarter, half-dollar and dollar coin.

1969: The Federal government bans the use of the artificial sweeteners "cyclamates".

1968: Circus Circus opens its doors in Las Vegas.

1968: The US Olympic Committee gets ultra anal by suspending both Tommie Smith and John Carlos for giving the "black power" salute as a protest during their medal awards ceremony.

1967: Walt Disney's animated feature film "The Jungle Book" is released.

1962: Drs. Watson (US), Crick and Wilkins (Britain) win the Nobel Prize for Medicine for their work in determining the structure of DNA.

1961: An emergency crisis is proclaimed in South Vietnam due to communist attacks from the north.

1954: The third hurricane of 1954 (Hazel) becomes the most severe to hit the US, to that date.

1945: The war crimes trials begin in Nuremberg.

1944: Soviet troops invade German held Czechoslovakia during the Second World War. They would not leave for 45 years.

1934: Future Chinese leader Mao Tse Tung and his army begins "The Long March".

1925: French General Sarrail orders the bombing of Damascus.

1922: The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) was formed.

1918: Czechoslovakia declares independence from the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

1912: On the same day that the Italo-Turkish war ends, the First Balkan War begins.

1898: The American flag is raised in Puerto Rico.

1878: Thomas Edison makes electricity available for public household usage.

1867: The US takes formal possession of Alaska from Russia after paying $7.2 million for it.

1863: In West Virginia the "Battle of Charlestown" takes place.

1862: Morgan's raiders capture a federal garrison at Lexington, Kentucky.

1767: The "Mason Dixie Line", boundary between Maryland and Pennsylvania is agreed upon.

1016: The Danes defeat the Saxons at the "Battle of Assandun" (Ashingdon).

October 19, 1781


Trapped at Yorktown, Virginia. British General Lord Cornwallis surrenders 8,000 British soldiers and seamen to a larger Franco-American force, effectively bringing an end to the American Revolution.

October 19th

1745 - Died this day, Jonathan Swift, Irish author and satirist, who wrote Gulliver's Travels.

1860 - The first company to manufacture internal combustion engines was formed in Florence, Italy.

1975 - Simon and Garfunkel publicly reunited on Saturday Night Live.

1989 - San Francisco suffered an earthquake measuring 6.9 on the Richter scale.

San Francisco Eathquake

2000 - The Dalai Lama began a three day visit to Northern Ireland to head a peace conference. It was the first time he'd visited Belfast.

October 19th

1997: The 700th World Series home run is hit by Sandy Alomar of the Cleveland Indians.

1993: The UN authorizes an arms, military and police equipment supply embargo against Haiti.

1987: The Great Stock Market Crash of '87. "Black Monday", the Dow Jones Industrial Average falls 508.32 points (22%) in a single session. Four times the previous record.

1987: US warships destroy two Iranian oil platforms in the Persian Gulf.

1983: The Senate establishes Martin Luther King Jr. Day as a federal holiday.

1982: Automaker John DeLorean is arrested on cocaine charges. He is later found not guilty by means of entrapment.

1971: The last issue of "Look" magazine is published.

1967: US space probe "Mariner 5" makes a fly-by of Venus.

1960: The US imposes an embargo on exports to Cuba.

1957: Montreal Canadians hockey legend Maurice "Rocket" Richard becomes the first NHL player to score 500 goals.

1944: Canadian troops liberate the dutch town of Aardenburg.

1935: Mao Tse Tung's army reaches Shanxi.

1932: The British government signs a trade agreement with the Soviet Union.

1926: The Russian Politburo throws out Leon Trotsky and his followers; Trotsky is soon exiled. (Not good enough for them, in 1940 they have Trotsky assasinated in Mexico City.)

1925: The Italian army takes Somalia. (Not a great feat when you consider the fact that Somalia was an unarmed country.)

1914: The US post office's first use of an automobile to collect and deliver mail. (They've been disrupting traffic on rural roads ever since.)

1900: Painter Henry O Tanner wins the Medal of Honor at the Paris Art Exposition.

1879: Thomas Edison demonstrates his electric light bulb to the world for the first time.

1872: At 215 kilograms (473 lbs.), the world's largest gold nugget is found in New South Wales.

1863: The civil war "Battle of Buckland Mills" takes place in Virginia.

1849: Elizabeth Blackwell becomes the first woman in the US to receive a medical degree. (3 cheers for Liz!)

1812: Napoleon begins his retreat from Moscow. (OOPS! Screwed up that time didn't ya, Boney?)

1739: England declares war on Spain. (AGAIN!)

October 20th

1997: Richard Gnida, limo driver in the famous Detroit Red Wings crash, pleads guilty to all charges.

1993: In the highest scoring World Series game ever the Toronto Blue Jays defeat the Phillies 15-14 in 4hours 14minutes.

1992: Mr. Johnson surrenders Monrovia, Liberia and is exiled to Nigeria.

1991: A 7.1 earthquake in Uttar Kashi, India kills 670.

1989: The US Senate impeaches US District Judge Alcee L. Hastings.

1988: Britain ends a suspects right to remain silent in a crackdown on the IRA.

1987: New York subway vigilante gunman Bernhard Goetz is sentenced to 6 months in jail.

1979: The John F. Kennedy Library is dedicated in Boston...Colly is the first person to steal a book from it.

1975: The Supreme Court rules teachers could spank their pupils after giving a warning.

1973: US president Nixon fires Watergate accuser Archibald Cox. Solicitor General Bork, Attorney General Richardson and Deputy Attorney General Ruckelshaus resign.

1971: West German Chancellor Willy Brandt is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

1968: Jacqueline Kennedy marries Aristotle Onassis.

1967: In Meridan Mississippi an all white federal jury convicts 7 men in the murder of 3 civil rights workers in 1964.

1965: The Beatles receive a gold record for "Yesterday".

1960: The first fully mechanized post office is opened in Providence, Rhode Island. (The mail's been getting slower ever since.)

1955: Ira Levin's "No Time for Sergeants" opens on Broadway, starring Andy Griffith.

1952: An emergency crisis is proclaimed in Kenya as attacks by the Mau mau escalate.

1944: 30 city blocks of Cleveland Ohio burns after a liquid gas factory explodes.

1941: Nazi occupiers murder 500 inhabitants of Kragujevac, Serbia.

1939: Tommy Dorsey Orchestra records "All the Things You Are".

1935: 400,000 demonstrate against fascism in Madrid, Spain.

1935: Mao Tse Tung and his Communist forces ended their "Long March" at Yan'an in Shaanxi, China.

1930: The British White Paper is enacted restricting Jews from buying Arab land.

1911: The Helen Hayes Theater (Folies Bergere) opens at 210 W 46th St. In New York.

1908: King Leopold II sells the Congo to Belgium. (As if it was his to sell in the first place.)

1899: The Boer War - Battle at Talana Hill Natal. Attacking British forces are cut to pieces by relentless fire from the Boer's Mauser rifles.

1864: Lincoln formally establishes Thanksgiving as a national holiday. (Turkey farmer's still worship him.)

1847: Little William Nelman poisons his grandpa. (The little creep!)

1822: The first edition of the London Sunday Times is printed.

1818: The 49th parallel is agreed upon as border the between the US and present day Canada.

1817: The first Mississippi "Showboat" leaves Nashville, Tennesee on her maiden voyage.

1803: The US Senate ratifies the Louisiana Purchase.

1714: Georg Ludwig of Hannover House is crowned as King George I.

1603: A Chinese uprising in the Philippines fails after 23,000 are killed.

1097: The first Crusaders arrive in Antioch.

October 21st

1997: Elton John's tribute to Princess Diana breaks a world record when 318 million copies are sold.

1994: Hana bridge in Seoul, Korea collapses. 32 people die.

1991: US hostage Jesse Turner is released from captivity in Beirut after 5 years.

1989: Buck Helm is found alive after being buried 4 days in the aftermath of the San Francisco Bay area earthquake.

1987: The Senate debate begins, rejecting Robert Bork's Supreme Court nomination.

1977: William Bowdler, US ambassador to South Africa is recalled.

1975: The US Coast Guard Academy allows women to enroll for the first time.

1970: The Nobel peace prize is awarded to Norman E. Borlaugh.

1967: Thousands of demonstrators, opposing the Vietnam War, attempt to storm the Pentagon.

1966: 144 students and teaching staff die when a coal waste landslide engulfs a school in Aberfan, South Wales.

1960: The first British nuclear powered submarine, "HMS Dreadnought" is launched.

1959: The Guggenheim Museum, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, opens in New York.

1950: Chinese forces invade Tibet.

1945: Women in France are allowed to vote for the first time.

1944: US troops capture Aachen, the first major German city to fall in World War II.

1938: Japanese troops occupy Canton.

1928: Walter Chrysler completes his purchase of Dodge Brothers Automobile Corporation.

1917: American troops see action on front lines of WW I for the first time.

1915: The first transatlantic radiotelephone message takes place. From Arlington, Virginia to Paris. (The Frenchman is rude and hangs up.)

1914: The Battle of Warsaw ends with a German defeat.

1897: The Yerkes Observatory at the University of Chicago is dedicated.

1868: A severe earthquake, at 7:53 AM, is centered in Hayward, California.

1824: Joseph Aspdin patents Portland cement...nowhere near Portland! (Yorkshire, England)

1805: The legendary "Battle of Trafalgar" is fought. Admiral Nelson is killed but his British fleet goes on to destroy the French and Spanish fleets.

1727: The Russians and Chinese reach an accord to correct their respective boundaries.

1641: A Catholic uprising takes place in Ulster. Thousands of English and Scots are murdered.

1639: The sea battle at Dunes. Lt. Admiral Maarten Tromp's fleet defeats a Spanish Armada under Admiral De Oquendo.

1555: The English parliament refuses to recognize Philip of Spain as king.

1096: Seljuk Turks under Sultan Kilidj Arslan of Nicea slaughter thousands of German (First)Crusaders at Chivitot.

October 22nd

1997: When a dislodged plexiglass sheet falls on her while watching the game, New York Ranger Wayne Gretsky's wife Janet is knocked unconcious and requires two stitches.

1994: A statue of Sam Houston is unveiled in Texas.

1988: Elton John sells out Madison Square Gardens for a record 26th time.

1981: The Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization is decertified.

1981: The US national debt tops $1 trillion.

1979: The deposed Shah of Iran arrives in New York for medical treatment. Muslim Iranian clerics warn of dire consequences to America.

1978: Judy Carne, of "Laugh-in" fame is arrested at Gatwick Airport for drug possession. (2 joints)

1978: At the Vatican, John Paul II is installed as Pope.

1975: The Soviet spacecraft "Venera 9" soft-lands on Venus and transmits data for nearly two hours before succumbing to the Venetian heat.

1973: UN Security Council Resolution 338 orders a cease fire to the Yom Kippur War; none of the combatants heed the edict.

1969: Paul McCartney makes a public appearance to deny the rumors of his death. (Not everyone believes him.)

1964: EMI Records rejects an audition by the rock group "High Numbers", they go on to become "The Who".

1964: French philosopher/author Jean-Paul Sartre refuses the Nobel prize. (He must have realized that it was too good for him.)

1962: US President John F. Kennedy makes a television address to the nation about Russian missile bases in Cuba.

1957: Conrad Adenauer is re-elected as chancellor of West Germany.

1954: West Germany joins the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.

1948: The Egyptian flagship "King Farouk" is sunk by Israeli forces.

1944: The naval fleets of Japan and America steam towards each other at Leyte Gulf in the lead up to what would become the greatest naval battle in history.

1941: Maxwell Anderson's "Candle in the Wind," premieres on Broadway.

1936: The First commercial flight from the US mainland to Hawaii takes place.

1929: One week before "Black Tuesday", leading financial analyst Charles Buckingham III reports to Congress that the stock market is "secure and stable".

1928: In a memo, Henry Ford instructs his engineers to begin studying the feasability of a V-8 engine.

1917: The final German, Austrian and Hungarian troops are enplaced for the "12th (and final) Battle of the Isonzo" which proved to be a total defeat for the Italians.

1913: An explosion at a Dawson, New Mexico coal mine kills 263 mine workers.

1906: 3000 blacks demonstrate and riot in Philadelphia.

1899: In the Boer War, British troops flee Dundee, Natal South Africa.

1897: The world's first car dealer opens in London, England.

1881: The Boston Symphony Orchestra gives its first concert.

1861: The first telegraph line linking the West and East coasts is completed; effectively putting "The Pony Express" out of business.

1836: Sam Houston is inaugurated as the first elected President of the Republic of Texas.

1746: In New Jersey, Princeton University received its charter.



1942: The first ships of the invasion fleet for Oran, Algeria leave Scapa Flow in Scotland.

October 23, 1915 25,000 women march in NYC, demanding right to vote

October 23, 1917 1st Infantry division "Big Red One" shoots 1st US shot in WW I

October 23, 1920 Chicago grand jury indicts Abe Attell, Hal Chase, & Bill Burns as go-betweens in Black Sox World Series scandal


October 23, 1944 Soviet army invades Hungary

October 23, 1954 Britain, England, France & USSR agree to end occupation of Germany

October 23, 1990 Iraq announces release of 330 French hostages

October 23, 1690 Revolt in Haarlem after public ban on smoking

October 23, 1814 1st plastic surgery is performed (England) This one is not true. The Ebers surgical papyrus from Egypt (dated approximately 3500 BCE) included a discussion of nasal reconstruction secondary to rhinectomy for punishment. In 800 BCE, Sushruta performed nasal reconstruction with a pedicled forehead flap. In the 1600s, Tagliacozzi introduced delayed arm-based flaps for nasal reconstruction. In the 1750s, Quelmatz advocated daily digital pressure for septal deformities. In 1845, Diffenbach made external skin incisions to change the shape of the nose. In 1887, Roe performed the first cosmetic rhinoplasty secondary to a pug nose deformity.

The Ebers surgical papyrus from Egypt (dated approximately 3500 BCE) included a discussion of nasal reconstruction secondary to rhinectomy for punishment. In 800 BCE, Sushruta performed nasal reconstruction with a pedicled forehead flap. In the 1600s, Tagliacozzi introduced delayed arm-based flaps for nasal reconstruction. In the 1750s, Quelmatz advocated daily digital pressure for septal deformities. In 1845, Diffenbach made external skin incisions to change the shape of the nose. In 1887, Roe performed the first cosmetic rhinoplasty secondary to a pug nose deformity. The Ebers surgical papyrus from Egypt (dated approximately 3500 BCE) included a discussion of nasal reconstruction secondary to rhinectomy for punishment. In 800 BCE, Sushruta performed nasal reconstruction with a pedicled forehead flap. In the 1600s, Tagliacozzi introduced delayed arm-based flaps for nasal reconstruction. In the 1750s, Quelmatz advocated daily digital pressure for septal deformities. In 1845, Diffenbach made external skin incisions to change the shape of the nose. In 1887, Roe performed the first cosmetic rhinoplasty secondary to a pug nose deformity.

http://www.emedicine.com/plastic/byname/rhinoplasty-basic-open-technique.htm

October 23rd

1997: At 6:11 AM 85% of metro San Francisco experiences a black out which lasts until late afternoon.

1993: 7 people, including 2 small children, are killed by an IRA bomb attack in Belfast.

1991: Clarence Thomas is sworn in as a Supreme Court Justice.

1991: Dr. Jack Kevorkian's suicide machine kills 2 women.

1989: Hungary again becomes an independent republic, after 33 years of Soviet rule.

1988: Robert Bork's supreme court nomination is rejected by the United States Senate.

1983: a suicide terrorist truck bomb kills 243 US military personnel in Beirut.

1978: CBS Records raises its LP prices to $8.98

1975: A major battle between Cuban and South African troops takes place in Angola. Cuban forces are routed.

1973: US President Richard Nixon agrees to turn White House tape recordings over to Judge John J. Sirica in the Watergate affair.

1970: Gary Gabelich sets a world auto speed record of 622.4 mph (1,001 kph).

1962: Adlai Stevenson speaks at UN about the Cuban missile crisis.

1953: France grants Laos its sovereignty. (This after the Laotians had thrown the French out on their asses.)

1944: 60 years ago today the opening shots are fired in "The Battle of Leyte Gulf"; the greatest sea battle in history.

1943: The Burma railway, which would become a strategic line in the battle for control of Burma by Japan, begins operations.

1942: In Egypt at the "Battle of El Alamein", the British launch their famous offensive which pushes back Rommel's "Afrika Corps". The Germans would not threaten Alexandria again for the duration of the war.

1941: Walt Disney releases his animated classic "Dumbo".

1932: The airwaves will never be the same as "The Fred Allen Show" premieres on radio.

1922: Channing Pollock's production "Fool" premieres on Broadway.

1918: Silent movie great Charlie Chaplin (29) marries Mildred Harris (17).

1910: In Madrid the Ritz Hotel opens boasting luxury, opulant decor, 200 chambers and 100 bathtubs.

1864: "The Battle of Westport" (Missouri) Union forces under General Samuel R. Curtis soundly defeat a rebel army commanded by Confederate General Stirling Price.

1854: In an attempt to sell as many papers as possible, "The Times" publishes precise British numbers and positions in the Crimea. Russian spies forward the information.

1805: The tall ship "Aeneus" sinks off the coast of Newfoundland killing 340.

1775: The Continental Congress approves a resolution barring blacks from the army.

1702: At the "Battle in Bay of Vigo" a combined Dutch and English naval fleet destroys the Franco-Spanish fleet.

1668: In Barbados Jews are forbidden to engage in retail trade.

And going WAAAAAAAYY back...

42 B.C.: Marcus Junius Brutus commits suicide after his defeat at the Battle of Philippi. He was a leading conspirator in the assassination of Julius Caesar.

October 24th

1997: Marv Albert is sentenced to 12 months probation in his assault case.

1995: A total solar eclipse, lasting 2 minutes 9 seconds stationary, cuts a swath across South and Southwest Asia.

1989: Televangelist Jim Bakker is sentenced to 50 years in prison for fraud.

1988: Hundreds drown when Typhoon Ruby sinks a Philippine ferry.

1986: Great Britain severs diplomatic relations with Syria.

1980: The Polish government legalizes the independent labor union Solidarity.

1978: Keith Richards is convicted of heroin possession in Toronto. (Again!)

1973: Driving at excessive speed in heavy fog causes a 65 car collision, which kills 9, on the New Jersey Turnpike.

1973: The Yom Kippur War ends with Israel only 65 miles from Cairo and 26 miles from Damascus.

1970: Salvador Allende Gossens is elected president of Chile.

1964: Belgian paratroopers liberate 1,000 white hostages in Stanleyville.

1962: During the Cuban missile crisis the US naval blockade of Cuba begins.

1951: The United Nation publishes its first postage stamps.

1947: A series of forest fires in the New England states burns $30 million worth of timber.

1944: In the Battle of Leyte Gulf the carrier USS Princeton is sunk. US Navy Capt. David McCampbell shoots down 11 Japanese planes.

1939: The Benny Goodman Orchestra records "Let's Dance".

1939: The Nazis require all persons designated as Jews to wear a star of David.

1938: A US Federal law is enacted forbidding child labor in factories.

1931: The George Washington Bridge opens, connecting New York to New Jersey.

1929: "Black Thursday," the stock market crash that led to "The Great Depression". (Dow Jones down 12.8%)

1911: Robert Scott's doomed expedition leaves Cape Evans for the South Pole.

1882: Dr. Robert Koch discovers the germ that causes consumption (tuberculosis).

1871: A drunken mob hangs 18 Chinese in Los Angeles.

1596: At "The Battle at Kerestes" the Ottoman Empire defeats the Austria-Hungary and German army.

1492: In Mecklenburg Germany 24 Jews are burned at the stake.

This post has been edited at member's request.Ron,

October 25th

1994: Susan Smith files a police report claiming her two children were carjacked by a black man.

1990: Evander Holyfield KOs Buster Douglas in the third round to win the heavyweight boxing title.

1986: The International Red Cross is ousted from South Africa after it is discovered that huge amounts of donated funds have been misappropriated.

1984: West German Chancellor Rainer Barzel resigns amid charges of corruption.

1983: The US military invades the Caribbean island nation of Grenada.

1980: Barbra Streisand's single "Woman In Love," goes to #1 on the charts for 3 weeks. (Good tune, Babs!)

1976: Governor Wallace grants a full pardon to Clarence Norris, the last known survivor of nine Scottsboro Boys who were convicted of rape in 1931.

1971: The General Meeting of the United Nations agrees to expel Taiwan and admit the People’s Republic of China as a full member. (Nice to know who your friends are isn’t it, Taiwan?)

1965: The Rolling Stones release "Get Off of My Cloud".

1962: John Steinbeck is awarded the Nobel Prize in literature.

1960: The world’s first electric wrist watch goes on sale.

1955: Austria resumes its sovereignty, after the departure of the last Allied occupation forces, for the first time since the German occupation of 1938.

1955: Tappan sells the first microwave oven.

1953: 26 die when a coal mine in Seraing, Belgium explodes.

1945: Japanese surrender Taiwan to Chinese General Chiang Kai-shek.

1944: “Battle in the Straits of Surigao”. American forces destroy the Japanese naval fleet.

1942: At Guadalcanal the battle for Henderson Field begins.

1941: The Nazis massacre 16,000 Jews in Odessa, Ukraine.

1938: Japanese troops occupy Hankou and Wuhan.

1929: Former Interior Secretary Albert Fall is convicted of accepting a $100,000 bribe.

1918: The CPR Steamship “Princess Sophia”, grounded hard on Alaska’s Vanderbilt Reef for more than 40 hours, slides off the rocks in a fierce storm and sinks taking all 343 persons aboard with her.

1917: The Bolsheviks, led by Vladimir Lenin, seize power in Russia.

1881: "The Gunfight at OK Corral" takes place in Tombstone, Arizona.

1859: 459 die when the merchant vessel “Royal Charter” runs aground at Liverpool.

1854: The infamous “Charge of Light Brigade” takes place at the “Battle of Balaklava” in the Crimean War.

1825: The Erie Canal, linking the Great Lakes and the Atlantic Ocean, opens.

1812: The American frigate “United States” captures the British vessel “Macedonian”.

1760: George III ascends the British throne.

1415: “The Battle of Agincourt,” Welsh archers defeat the armored knights of France.

1147: At “The Battle at Doryleum” an Arab army annihilates Koenraad III's crusaders.

October 26th

1994: Jordan and Israel sign their landmark peace accord.

1988: In Barrow, Alaska a joint US-Soviet effort frees 2 grey whales from an ice locked pool.

1987: The head of the Salvadoran Human Rights Commission is assasinated by a death squad.

1979: Park Chung-hee, President of South Korea is assassinated by KCIA head Kim Jae-kyu. Choi Kyu-ha becomes the acting President. Kim was executed the following May.

1976: Trinidad and Tobago becomes an independant republic.

1976: Zaire army regulars launch a mortar attack across the border into Tanzania killing 2 members of a railway surveying team.

1966: 43 die when the US aircraft carrier "Oriskany" catches fire at the Gulf of Tonken.

1957: "Vatican Radio" begins broadcasting.

1955: British troops occupy the Saudi-Arabic oil field at Boeraimi.

1951: Rocky Marciano defeats Joe Louis at Madison Square Garden for the heavyweight championship of the world.

1942: During "The Battle of Santa Cruz" the USS South Dakota's AA crews shoots down 32 enemy planes.

1936: The first generator goes online at the Boulder Dam.

1922: The Italian government resigns under mounting pressure from the fascists and Benito Mussolini.

1917: The Battle of Caporetto: Italy suffers a catastrophic defeat at the hands of Germany and Austria-Hungary during the First World War.

1916: Margaret Sanger is arrested for obscenity. She was advocating birth control.

1912: The Woolwich Tunnel under the Thames opens.

1905: Norway gains its independence from Sweden.

1863: The International Federation of the Red Cross is formed.

October 27th

2004: The Red Sox beat the curse.

1997: On Wall Street the Dow Jones crashes a record 554 points to 7161.

1988: Pornographer Larry Flynt pays a hired killer 1 million dollars to kill Hugh Hefner, Bob Guccione and Frank Sinatra.

1986: Paul McCartney releases the album "Pretty Little Head".

1982: China announces that its population has surpassed 1 billion people.

1978: Menachin Begin and Anwar Sadat win the Nobel Peace prize.

1971: The Republic of Congo-Kinshasa becomes the Republic of Zaire. (I suppose this is where I’m supposed to cheer, huh? Don’t hold your breath.)

1964: Wearing bell-bottoms to the affair, singers Sonny and Cher are wed.

1962: The United States and the Soviet Union come within 10 minutes of nuclear war at the height of the “Cuban Missile Crisis”.

1960: Legendary singer Ben E. King records his two greatest hits "Spanish Harlem" and "Stand By Me", on the same day.

1959: A rare Eastern Pacific hurricane kills 2,000 people in Western Mexico.

1954: US President Dwight D. Eisenhower offers economic and military aid to South Vietnam President Ngo Dinh Diem.

1947: "You Bet Your Life," starring Groucho Marx premieres on ABC radio.

1944: Tito reaches “Free Belgrade”.

1942: The infamous World War II US aircraft carrier Hornet sinks off Santa Cruz.

1941: In an editorial now famed for its naivete, the Chicago Daily Tribune lists the reasons why there would not be a war with Japan.

1938: The AVG (Flying Tigers) score their first kills against the Japanese Air Force in the skies over Mainland China.

1925: Fred Waller patents a novel new device: Water skis.

1920: Westinghouse radio station KDKA, in East Pittsburgh, begins transmitting.

1919: The Axeman of New Orleans claims his last victim.

1913: US President Wilson states that America will never attack another country. (Ummm, I don’t mean to burst your bubble there Prez, but…!)

1904: The world's first subway, the IRT (Interborough Rapid Transit), opens in New York City. It runs from the Brooklyn Bridge to 145th and Broadway. Subway fare is set at one nickel.

1880: On his 22nd birthday Theodore Roosevelt marries Alice Hathaway Lee.

1871: After the New York Times has exposed his corruption, Boss Tweed (William Macy Tweed) the Democratic leader of Tammany Hall is arrested.

1858: RH Macy & Co. opens its first store on 6th Ave in New York City. Gross receipts are $1,106. 56

1775: The US Navy is created.

1702: English troops plunder St. Augustine Florida.

1644: At “The 2nd Battle at Newbury” The forces of King Charles I defeat the English parliamentary armies.

October 28th

1994: Chrysler produces its last “Big Block” V-8, first introduced in 1959.

1988: Jurors award $147,000 to a Tacoma parishioner who claimed she was seduced by her minister.

1976: A major train collision at Goes, Netherlands results in catastrophic damage but only 7 die.

1970: The US and the Soviet Union sign an agreement to discuss future joint space efforts.

1965: The 630 ft. “Gateway Arch” is completed in St Louis, Missouri.

1965: Pope Paul VI proclaims that Jews are not collectively guilty for Christ’s crucifixion. (Well now, that was terribly decent of him, wasn’t it?)

1962: Khrushchev orders the withdrawal of missiles from Cuba, ending the Cuban Missile Crisis.

1954: Ernest Hemingway wins the Nobel prize for literature.

1940: The Greeks successfully resist Italy's attack and drive back the invaders.

1936: An explosion deep within the Dunnegan Gold Mine, north of Whitehorse, Yukon Territory, traps 137 miners. They are rescued 12 days later.

1922: Fascist Benito Mussolini and his Black Shirts take control of Italy's government.

1918: Czechoslovakia gains its independence as Austria-Hungary breaks up.

1904: St. Louis police try out fingerprints as a new investigation method.

1891: A 7.6 (est.) quake strikes Mino-Owari, Japan killing 7,300.

1886: The Statue of Liberty is dedicated by President Grover Cleveland. The ensuing celebration is the first confetti (ticker tape) parade in New York City.

1793: Eli Whitney applies for a patent on his new invention, the cotton gin.

1746: 18,000 people die when the Peruvian cities of Lima and Callao are demolished by a major earthquake.

October 29th, 1929


Seventy-five years ago today the stock market crashed. On that day -- "Black Tuesday" as it came to be known -- the Dow Jones Industrial Average lost almost 31 points. That doesn't sound like much today, but back then it amounted to a drop of nearly 12 percent. And that was just the beginning. The Dow would eventually bottom out in July of 1932 at 41 points. That's right -- 41. By then investors had lost billions and the country was in the throes of its worst financial crisis ever.

Black Tuesday was a day that triggered monumental changes in America's financial markets -- and in America itself.

~Excerpt, Marketplace: The Crash of 1929

Find Marketplace's complete article by Matthew Algeo here.

October 29th

1994: The New York Lottery pays out over $60 million to a lone jackpot winner.

1988: 2,000 anti-abortion protesters are arrested for blocking clinics throughout the US.

1983: In Holland, over 550,000 demonstrate against the US deployment of cruise missiles in Europe.

1982: Car maker John DeLorean is indicted for trafficking in cocaine.

1975: Peter Sutcliffer, the Yorkshire Ripper, kills his first victim.

1974: A new US Federal law bans discrimination of sex or marital status in credit applications.

1969: The Supreme Court orders an immediate end to all school desegregation in the US.

1966: Lunar Orbiter 1 crashes on the moon at 6.7øN 162øE.

1964: The Star of India and other jewels are stolen in New York.

1958: Boris Pasternak refuses the Nobel prize for literature. (Good thing too, his book sucked!)

1958: Dr F. Mason Sones performs the first coronary angiogram.

1957: A hand grenade explodes in the Israeli Knesset.

1945: The first ball point pen goes on sale, 57 years after it is patented.

1942: An engineering accomplishment extrordinaire, The Alaska Highway is completed.

1942: Nazi's murder 16,000 Jews in Pinsk, Soviet Union.

1932: The famous Trans-Atlantic liner, “Normandie” is launched.

1923: Turkey declares its independence as a successor state to the Ottoman Empire.

1914: Russia declares war on Turkey as Turkish warships storm the Black Sea.

1904: The firs inter-city trucking service begins between Colorado City and Snyder, Texas.

1889: Stanley Park is dedicated in Vancouver, BC.

1727 A severe earthquake strikes in New England causing widespread damage and many deaths. (No accurate records were kept.)

October 30th

1997: 51 year old Shirley Allen is finally captured after a 39 day standoff with Illinois police.

1995: By a margin of less than 1/10th of 1% Quebec votes, at referendum to remain a part of Canada.

1994: A Leftist coalition wins the Marcedonia parliamentary election.

1990: In what has been described by many as the greatest feat in engineering history, England and France complete the "Chunnel".

1980: After more than 150 years and several wars, Honduras and El Salvador finally settle their boundary dispute.

1978: Ugandan troops attack Tanzania. They are virtually annihilated by the Tanzanian Army and Air Force within days.

1975: Juan Carlos assumes dictatorial power in Spain as Franco nears death.

1974: Muhammad Ali KOs George Foreman in the 8th round during the famous “Rumble in the Jungle” fight at Kinshasa, Zaire.

1965: A fireworks explosion in Cartagena, Colombia kills 50 people.

1963: Morocco and Algeria sign a cease fire.

1957: The Soviet Union launches Sputnik II carrying a dog named Laika. While every effort was made to get the dog successfully into space, there were no provisions for returning it to earth.

1954: The Defense Department announces the total elimination of all segregated military regiments.

1952: Clarence Birdseye sells the very first frozen peas.

1948: During an inversion. 20 people die and 6,000 are made ill by smog in Donora, Pennsylvania.

1944: The “Scottish Highlanders” liberate Waalwijk.

1941: a German Kreigsmarine’s U-boat torpedoes The “USS Reuben James”, the US was still neutral in the Second World War at the time.

1939: The USSR and Germany agree on the final partitioning of Poland.

1938: Orson Welles panics a nation with his radio broadcast of "War of the Worlds".

1930: Turkey and Greece sign a treaty of friendship. (It doesn’t last.)

1923: Walter Chrysler announces that his newly formed “Chrysler Corporation” will begin manufacturing automobiles the following year.

1914: In what would become one of history’s greatest bloodbaths, the Allied offensive at Ypres, Belgium begins.

1905: In an attempt to quell rising dissention and defuse a growing grass roots revolution, Russian Tsar Nicholas II grants limited civil liberties in the "October Manifesto”.

1900: The first ever US auto show opens at Madison Square Garden in New York City.

1899: On assignment, British Morning Post reporter Winston Churchill arrives in Capetown, South Africa.

1896: Martha Hughes Cannon of Utah becomes the first female US senator.

1888: John J. Loud patents the ballpoint pen.

1883: Austria-Hungary, Germany and Romania sign a military alliance treaty. Neither Britain, France, Belgium or Russia had a problem with this.

1873: P. T. Barnum's circus, "The Greatest Show on Earth," debuts in New York.

1868: John Menard of Louisiana is the first black elected to Congress. (Way to go, Johnny!!!)

1866: The James gang robs a bank in Lexington, Missouri making off with $2000. In typical James fashion they kill 2 people for no reason.

1862: Dr. Richard Gatling patents his manually operated machine gun. (WOW! Now that’s some kind of doctor, huh?)


1534: The English Parliament passes the “Act of Supremacy”, making King Henry VIII head of the English church - a role formerly held by the Pope.

1503: Queen Isabella of Spain bans violence against indians. (Don’t hold your breath, Izzy!)

1270: The 8th and last crusade is launched. (With about as much success as the previous 7.)

October 31st

1993: Germany’s unemployment rate hits an all time national record of 3.5 million.

1992: The Roman Catholic church reinstates Galileo Galilei after 359 years of excommunication.

1989: France performs a nuclear weapons test at Muruora Island. (Is that the stench of hypocrisy I smell in the air?)

1984: The Puerto Rican tanker “San Francisco” explodes spilling 2 million gallons of oil as the ship burns.

1983: Paul McCartney releases the album "Pipes of Peace".

1980: Julian Nott sets a world hot-air balloon altitude record of 16,806 metres/54,620 feet.

1979: A US DC-10 crashes at Mexico City killing 74.

1974: In a raid gone bad, West German police and members of a large heroin importing ring engage in a gun battle lasting 17 hours. 146 die.

1969: George Harrison's "Something" is released in the UK.

1968: US President Lynden Johnson orders a halt to all bombing of North Vietnam. (OH LYNNIE!!! You’re my hero!!!)

1963: A leaking propane gas cylinder explodes at "Holiday on Ice" in Indiana, killing 64.

1961: Hurricane Hattie smashes into the British Honduras and kills more than 400.

1960: Cyclone “Cora” hits the coast of the Gulf of Bengal, more than 10,000 are left dead.

1959: The USSR and Egypt sign the final contracts for building the Aswan Dam.

1956: Both Britain and France begin bombing Egypt to force the reopening of the Suez Canal.

1956: Brooklyn, NY ends its streetcar service.

1954: The Algerian Revolution against the French begins.

1950: Collazo and Torresola attempt to kill President Truman in Washington, DC.

1943: A massive air assault by the US 8th Air Force disables fighter production in Germany’s Upper Ruhr Valley.

1941: Mount Rushmore is completed in South Dakota.

1940: The last major engagement in “The Battle of Britain” between the RAF and the Luftwaffe.

1932: The Greek government of Venizelos falls amidst widespread civil unrest.

1926: Magician Harry Houdini died in Detroit of gangrene and peritonitis resulting from a ruptured appendix.

1925: In Persia, Cossack officer Reza Chan replaces the sultan Ahmad Shah.

1918: In the last great pandemic, the Spanish-flu virus kills 21,000 in the US in one week.

1908: The games of the 4th Olympiad end in London.

1888: John Boyd Dunlop patents his pneumatic bicycle tire.

1876: In one of history’s greatest disasters a cyclone hits the Bay of Bengal and kills more than 200,000 people.

1846: The Donner party, unable to cross present day “Donner Pass”, constructs a winter camp.

1837: A collision of the riverboats Monmouth and Trement on the Mississippi leaves 300 dead.

1815: Sir Humphrey Davy of London patents the miner's safety lamp.

1795: English poet John Keats was born in London.

1714: The first of the German Georges, Georg Ludwig van Hannover, ascends the English throne and is crowned as King George I.

1541: Michelangelo paints "The Last Judgement" in the Sixteenth Chapel.

834: The first “All Hallows Eve” (Halloween) is observed to honor the saints.

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November 1st

2002: The very first Colt 1873 “Peacemaker” revolver (Serial # 01) is discovered, in working condition, amongst items sold in the estate sale of John Whidley, of Phoenix Az.

2000: A large illicit shipment of plastic explosives from Europe, and destined for New York, is discovered at Toronto’s Pearson International Airport by a bomb detecting dog appropriately named “Boomer”.

1994: Moslem fundamentalist extremists in Mostaganem, Algeria murder 5 children. (OH! They’re SO brave these extremists are!)

1990: The last member of Margaret Thatcher's original government, Deputy PM Howe resigns.

1986: A fire in the Basel factory “Sandoz” causes 30 tons of toxic chemicals to be dumped into the Rhine river.

1983: President Reagan formally establishes Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. day as a federal holiday.

1979: The US Federal government grants Chrysler a $1.5 billion survival loan.

1979: In the United States worst oil spill disaster the tanker “Burmah Agate” spills 10.7 million gallons of oil off Galveston Bay, Texas.

1977: President Carter raises the minimum wages from $2.30 to $3.35 effective Jan 1, 1981.

1971: The Eisenhower dollar is put into circulation.

1969: The Beatles' "Abbey Road," album goes to #1 on the charts and stays there for 11 weeks.

1964: The Vietcong assault on Bien Hoa airport at Saigon.

1959: Patrice Lumumba is arrested in the Belgian Congo.

1957: The world longest suspension bridge, spanning Michigan’s Mackinac Straits, opens.

1955: A time bomb planted aboard a United Airlines DC-6 kills 44 passengers and crew when it explodes above Longmont Colorado.

1954: General Fulgencio Batista is elected President of Cuba.

1954: The US Senate admonishes Sen. Joseph McCarthy because of his slander campaign.

1948: Mao's Red army conquerors Mukden, Manchuria.

1948: President Harry Truman is re-elected in an upset win over Republican challenger Thomas Dewey.

1947: With Howard Hughes at the controls the "Spruce Goose," the largest wooden airplane ever built, makes its first and only flight.

1944: Zeeuws and Flanders are liberated by Allied troops.

1943: US troops land on Bougainville Island in the Solomon Islands.

1941: Japanese marine staff officers Suzuki and Maejima arrive in Pearl Harbor.

1939: The first animal ever conceived by artificial insemination, a rabbit, is born.

1939: The first operational jet plane, the Heinkel He 178, is demonstrated to the German Air Ministry.

1938: Seabiscuit beats War Admiral in a match race at Pimlico.

1932: Wernher von Braun becomes head of Germany’s liquid-fuel rocket program.

1931: Dupont introduces synthetic rubber.

1928: Graf Zeppelin sets an airship distance record of 6,384 kilometres.

1922: After 596 years of existence the Ottoman Empire is abolished.

1920: Eugene O'Neill's "Emperor Jones," premieres in Broadway.

1920: Warren Harding is elected the 29th president of the United States. (BIG mistake there!)

1918: The Yugoslav battleship “Viribus Unitis” is sunk by the Italians.

1914: The naval battle at Coronel, Chile. (Click here for details.)

1894: In Paris Dr. Roux announces a vaccine for diphtheria.

1889: North and South Dakota entered the union as the 39th and 40th states.

1866: The first US Civil Rights Bill passes.

1848: The first US woman's medical school opens in Boston. (Let’s hear it for the girls!)

1783: The Continental Army is dissolved at George Washington's "Farewell Address".

1776: Mission San Juan Capistrano is founded in California. (The swallows have been pleased ever since.)

1765: The Stamp Act goes into effect in all British colonies.

1755: A major earthquake in Lisbon, Spain kills more than 50,000.

1671: France’s King Louis XIV and Roman Catholic German emperor Leopold I sign a secret anti-Dutch treaty. (They wanted their cheese!)

1623: A fire at Plymouth, Massachusetts destroys most of the town.

1611: Shakespeare's romantic comedy "Tempest" is performed for the first time.

1604: Shakespeare's tragedy "Othello" is performed for the fiirt time.

1570: Thousands are killed when a dyke along the North Sea fails and the ensuing flood inundates much of the Netherlands.

1512: Michelangelo's masterpiece on the ceiling of Sistine Chapel is first exhibited.

1349: Looking for scapegoats to blame for the 1347 “Black Death” (Bubonic plague) outbreak, the Duke of Brabant orders the execution of all Jews in Brussels, accusing them of poisoning the wells.

1248: Earl Willem II of Holland is crowned as the Roman Catholic German emperor.

1210: England's King John begins arbitrary imprisonment of Jews.