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September 29th
1714 ~ George, Elector of Hanover, arrived in Greenwich to assume the British throne as King George I. (Thanks dm383!)
1901 ~ Birthday of Enrico Fermi, Italian physicist. Awarded the 1938 Nobel Prize in Physics. 1957 ~ The New York Giants played their last game at the Polo Grounds. 1960 ~ Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev disrupted a meeting of the UN General Assembly. 1962 ~ Alouette 1, the first Canadian satellite was launched. 1973 ~ Death of W. H. Auden, English poet. 1975 ~ Birthday of Ava Vincent, Porn Actress. 1978 ~ Death of Pope John Paul, who reigned just 33 days. 2004 ~ The asteroid 4179 Toutatis passed within 964,000 miles of Earth. 2008 ~ The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 777.68 points, the largest single-day point loss in its history. |
September 30th
1882 ~ Birthday of Hans Geiger, German physicist & co-inventor of the Geiger counter.
1913 ~ Death of Rudolf Diesel, German inventor. 1924 ~ Birthday of Truman Capote, Author (In Cold Blood). 1938 ~ British, French, German and Italian leaders agreed that Nazi Germany would be allowed to annex Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland. 1954 ~ The submarine USS Nautilus was commissioned as the first nuclear reactor powered vessel. 1955 ~ Death of James Dean, American actor. 1982 ~ Birthday of Tory Lane, Porn Actress. 1991 ~ President Jean-Bertrand Aristide of Haiti was forced from office. 1999 ~ Japan's second worst nuclear accident occurred at a uranium reprocessing facility in Tokai-mura, northeast of Tokyo. 2005 ~ The Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten printed the controversial drawings of Muhammad. |
October 1st
1905 ~ The Julliard School of Music was founded in New York City.
1939 ~ British Prime Minister Winston Churchill during a radio broadcast described the Soviet Union as ''a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma''. 1949 ~ The People's Republic of China was formed with Mao Zedong as its head. 1961 ~ The New York Yankees' Roger Maris hit his 61st home run of the season. 1968 ~ The cult horror movie "Night of the Living Dead" had its world premiere in Pittsburgh. 1971 ~ Walt Disney World opened in Orlando, Florida. Eventually it would become the largest, man-made, tourist attraction in the world. 1976 ~ Birthday of Dora Venter, Hungarian Porn Actress. 1979 ~ The U.S. returned sovereignty of the Panama canal to Panama. The Canal is a truly remarkable engineering achievement. 1982 ~ Birthday of Reese Rideout, Porn Actor. 2009 ~ The Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, assumed the last judicial functions of the House of Lords. |
October 2nd
1187 ~ Saladin captured Jerusalem after 88 years of Crusader rule.
1836 ~ Charles Darwin returned to England after a 5-year journey aboard the HMS Beagle collecting data he will later use to develop his theory of evolution. 1869 ~ Birthday of Mahatma Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, Indian political leader. 1890 ~ Birthday of Groucho Marx, American comedian and actor. 1935 ~ Italy invaded Abyssinia (Ethiopia). 1951 ~ Birthday of Sting, English musician & actor. 1967 ~ Thurgood Marshall sworn in as the first African-American justice of United States Supreme Court. 1985 ~ Death of Rock Hudson, Actor. 1987 ~ Death of Peter Medawar, Brazilian-born scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. 1993 ~ Hardline Communists riot in Moscow. |
October 3rd
1873 ~ Birthday of Emily Post, etiquette advisor.
1900 ~ Birthday of Thomas Wolfe, American novelist. 1916 ~ Birthday of James Herriot, veterinarian, author. 1922 ~ Rebecca L. Felton, D-Ga., became the first woman to be seated in the U.S. Senate. She was appointed to serve out the remaining term of Sen. Thomas E. Watson. 1925 ~ Birthday of Gore Vidal, author. 1967 ~ Death of Woody Guthrie, folk musician. 1973 ~ Frank Robinson was named major league baseball's first black manager when he was put in charge of the Cleveland Indians. 1990 ~ The re-unification of Germany. East Germany ceased to exist. 1995 ~ A jury found O.J. Simpson not guilty of murder in the 1994 slayings of his former wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and Ronald Goldman. 1997 ~ Attorney General Janet Reno said she had found no evidence that President Bill Clinton broke the law with White House coffees and overnight stays for big contributors. |
October 4th
1903 ~ Birthday of John Vincent Atanasoff, inventor of the digital electronic computer.
1941 ~ Birthday of Anne Rice, Author. 1943 ~ Birthday of H. Rap Brown, civil rights activist & murderer. 1957 ~ Launch of Sputnik I, the first artificial satellite to orbit the Earth. 1982 ~ Death of Glenn Gould, Canadian pianist. 1983 ~ The first Hooters restaurant opened in Clearwater, Florida. 1989 ~ Death of Secretariat, Triple Crown Winner. 1993 ~ Russian President Boris Yeltsin ordered the army to begin storming the Russian parliament building. 2002 ~ John Walker Lindh, the “American Taliban”, received a 20-year sentence. 2004 ~ The SpaceShipOne rocket plane broke through Earth's atmosphere for the second time in five days to capture a $10 million prize. |
October 5th
1805 ~ Death of Charles Cornwallis, British general.
1813 ~ Death of Tecumseh, American Indian leader. 1882 ~ Birthday of Robert Goddard, rocket scientist. 1902 ~ Birthday of Ray Kroc, founder of McDonald's Corporation. 1936 ~ Birthday of Václav Havel, playwright, president of the Czech Republic. 1947 ~ President Harry Truman gave the first televised White House address. 1969 ~ “Monty Python's Flying Circus” made its debut on BBC Television. 1972 ~ Montreal, Quebec: British Trade Commissioner James Cross was kidnapped by members of the FLQ terrorist group. 1994 ~ Forty eight members of a Swiss cult die in a mass suicide. 2000 ~ Mass demonstrations in Belgrade led to the resignation of Slobodan Milosevic. |
October 6th
1846 ~ Birthday of George Westinghouse, Engineer & Inventor.
1892 ~ Death of Alfred Tennyson, British poet laureate. 1914 ~ Birthday of Thor Heyerdahl, Norwegian explorer, leader of the “Kon-Tiki” expedition. 1927 ~ Opening of “The Jazz Singer”, the first talking movie. 1948 ~ Birthday of Gerry Adams, Irish politician. 1973 ~ Egyptian troops cross the Suez Canal, starting the Yom Kippur War. 1977 ~ Maiden flight of the prototype of the MiG-29. 1981 ~ Anwar al-Sadat was assassinated. 1989 ~ Death of Bette Davis, Actress. TY Oldfart! :thumb: 1995 ~ The first extrasolar planet was discovered orbiting 51 Pegasi, in the constellation of Pegasus. |
October 7th
1571 ~ The Ottoman Empire was defeated at the battle of Lepanto.
1849 ~ Death of Edgar Allan Poe, American writer. 1885 ~ Birthday of Niels Bohr, Physicist, awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 1922. 1908 ~ Crete revolts against the Ottoman Empire and aligns with Greece. 1931 ~ Birthday of Desmond Tutu, South African archbishop and anti-apartheid activist, awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1984. 1955 ~ Birthday of Yo-Yo Ma, Cellist. 1985 ~ The “Achille Lauro” was hijacked by Palestinian terrorists. 1986 ~ Birthday of Bree Olson, Porn Actress. 2001 ~ The U.S. began its air offensive against al-Qaeda and the Taleban in Afghanistan. 2003 ~ California governor Gray Davis was recalled from office and replaced by Arnold Schwarzenegger. |
October 8th
1871 ~ The Great Chicago Fire destroyed about 17,450 buildings, killed about 250 people and left another 90,000 homeless.
1949 ~ Birthday of Sigourney Weaver, Actress. 1952 ~ The UK suffered its worst peacetime rail accident. 1961 ~ In London, the Post Office Tower opened. 1969 ~ Birthday of Julia Ann, Porn Actress. 1982 ~ Solidarity, and all other labor organizations in Poland, were banned. 1992 ~ Death of Willy Brandt, German politician. 2003 ~ Arnold Schwarzenegger was elected governor of California. 2004 ~ Martha Stewart went to jail. 2004 ~ Death of Jacques Derrida, French philosopher. |
October 9th
1804 ~ Hobart, Tasmania, was founded.
1835 ~ Birthday of Camille Saint-Saëns, Composer. 1940 ~ Birthday of John Lennon, Musician & Songwriter. 1942 ~ The Statute of Westminster Adoption Act formalized Australian autonomy. 1948 ~ Birthday of Jackson Brown (Doctor My Eyes, The Pretender, Running On Empty). 1961 ~ Ray Charles' "Hit the Road Jack" reached #1. 1967 ~ Guerrilla leader Che Guevara was executed in Bolivia. 1970 ~ Birthday of Savannah, Porn Actress. 1974 ~ Death of Oskar Schindler, businessman. 1999 ~ The last flight of the SR-71, "Blackbird". |
October 10th
1813 ~ Birthday of Giuseppe Verdi, Italian composer.
1845 ~ In Annapolis, Maryland, the Naval School (later renamed the United States Naval Academy) opened with 50 midshipmen students and seven professors. 1875 ~ Death of Aleksey Tolstoy, Novelist & Poet. 1970 ~ A crisis hit Canada when Quebec Vice-Premier Pierre Laporte became the second statesman kidnapped by members of the FLQ terrorist group. 1971 ~ London Bridge reopens in Lake Havasu City, Arizona. 1973 ~ Vice President Spiro T. Agnew pleaded no contest to one count of federal income tax evasion and resigned. 1975 ~ Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor remarried. 1980 ~ UK PM Margaret Thatcher gave a defiant speech at the Tory party conference "… I have only one thing to say: You turn if you want to. The lady's not for turning!" 1985 ~ U.S. Navy F-14s intercepted the plane carrying the “Achille Lauro” cruise ship hijackers and forced it to land at a NATO base in Sicily where they were arrested. 2010 ~ Death of Joan Sutherland, Australian soprano. |
October 11th
1844 ~ Birthday of Henry Heinz, food manufacturer.
1896 ~ Death of Anton Bruckner, Austrian composer. 1899 ~ In South Africa, a war between the UK and the Boers of the Transvaal and Orange Free State began. 1961 ~ Death of Chico Marx, comedian. 1962 ~ Pope John XXIII convened the Second Vatican Council. 1968 ~ Launch of Apollo 7, the first manned Apollo mission. 1971 ~ Death of Chesty Puller, the most decorated U.S. Marine. 1975 ~ Saturday Night Live debuted with George Carlin as the host. 1976 ~ China's "Gang of Four" was arrested. 2002 ~ The U.S. Senate joined the House in approving the use of America's military against Iraq. |
October 12th
1870 ~ Death of Gen. Robert E. Lee, Leader.
1957 ~ Birthday Kristen Bjorn, English Porn Actor, director, and producer . 1968 ~ Summer Olympics open in Mexico City. 1977 ~ Four Palestinians hijacked a Lufthansa Airlines flight to Somalia and demanded release of 11 members of the Red Army Faction. 1984 ~ UK PM Margaret Thatcher narrowly escaped an IRA bomb attack. 1970 ~ Birthday of Julian, Porn actor. 1986 ~ Presidents Reagan and Gorbachev failed to agree on Star Wars at a disarmament summit in Reykjavik. 1999 ~ Death of Wilt Chamberlain, American basketball player. 2000 ~ Terrorists attacked the USS Cole in the Yemeni port of Aden. 2002 ~ A terrorist bomb at a Bali nightclub killed 202 people, mainly Australians. |
October 13th
54 ~ Death of Claudius, Roman Emperor.
1307 ~ All Knights Templar in France were arrested by agents of the French king, to be later tortured into admitting heresy. 1812 ~ Death of Sir Isaac Brock, British general (killed in the Battle of Queenston Heights). 1925 ~ Birthday of Margaret Thatcher, UK PM. 1943 ~ Italy changes alliances from the Axis to the Allies. 1954 ~ Birthday of Mordechai Vanunu, Israeli nuclear technician. 1982 ~ Birthday of Ian Thorpe, Australian swimmer. 1988 ~ The UK government lost the Spycatcher battle 1990 ~ Death of Lê Ðức Thọ, Vietnamese general & politician, awarded one half of the 1973 Nobel Peace Prize. 1992 ~ The UK government announced plans to close one third of the coal mines. |
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