10-10-2005, 05:06 AM
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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 Konstantinovich Tolstoy, Novelist & Poet.
1961 ~ Joseph Heller’s Catch-22 published.
1966 ~ Simon and Garfunkel released the album Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme.
1970 ~ A crisis hit Canada when Quebec Vice-Premier Pierre Laporte became the second statesman kidnapped by members of the FLQ terrorist group.
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-14 fightess intercepted the Egyptian plane carrying the “Achille Lauro” cruise ship hijackers and forced it to land at a NATO base in Sicily where they were arrested.
1985 ~ Death of Yul Brynner, Actor and Orson Welles, Director & Actor.
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