| 891 | * | Formosus begins his reign as Catholic Pope. | Ref: 69 |
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| 1382 | * | Parliament convened. The House of Commons petitions King Richard to sue for "truce or peace" with the Scots. | |
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| 1520 | * | (Protestant Reformation) German reformer Martin Luther, 36, publishes "Prelude on the Babylonian Captivity of the Church," his famous writing which attacked the entire sacramental system of the Catholic Church. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1683 | * | A band of 13 religious refugees from Krefield, Germany came ashore at Philadelphia -- the first Mennonites to arrive in North America. Their pastor, F. Daniel Pastorius, was considered by many the most learned man in America at the time. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1689 | * | Pietro Ottoboni is elected Pope Alexander VIII. | Ref: 69 |
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| 1696 | | Savoy Germany withdraws from the Grand Alliance. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1786 | * | Mounted militia under Benjamin Logan attack the village of Mackachack from Limestone (Maysville) OH.The aged Moluntha is captured and subsequently murdered during interrogation by Colonel Hugh McGary. | Ref: 61 |
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| 1788 | | The Polish Diet decides to hold a four year session. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1801 | * | Napoleon Bonaparte imposes a new constitution on Holland. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1853 | * | Antioch College, in Yellow Springs, OH, becomes the first public school to admit both men and women. | Ref: 62 |
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| 1863 | * | The first Turkish bath was opened in Brooklyn, NY. Dr. Charles Shepard was the proprietor. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1866 | * | Frank, John, Simon and William Reno rob the Ohio and Mississippi Flyer, near Seymour IN, of $10,000 is the first train robbery of a train in motion. | Ref: 39 |
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| 1876 | * | American Library Association organized in Philadelphia. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1879 | * | (White River Massacre) A reinforcement of 550 soldiers, under the command of General Wesley Merritt, for the Ute Indians to retreat after a brief skirmish. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1884 | * | The Naval War College was established in Newport, R.I. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1890 | * | Mormons abolish polygamy by general conference declaration that the president of the church's declaration of Sep 24 was "authoritative and binding". | Ref: 5 |
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| 1908 | | Austria annexes Bosnia & Herzegovina. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1913 | * | Capt. C. Chandler and Lt. D. Milling awarded Military Aviator Badges. | Ref: 50 |
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| 1923 | * | USSR adopts experimental calendar. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1928 | * | Chiang Kai-Shek becomes president of China. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1935 | * | Market Street Railway starts using trackless trolley coaches | Ref: 5 |
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| 1939 | * | Proclamation by Hitler on the isolation of Jews. | Ref: 35 |
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| 1949 | * | President Truman signs the Mutual Defense Assistance Act totaling $3.1B in military aid to NATO countries. (XDG, p 4A, 10/06/2001) | Ref: 83 |
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| 1949 | * | Berlin airlift ends. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1949 | * | American-born Iva Toguri D'Aquino, convicted as Japanese wartime broadcaster "Tokyo Rose," was sentenced to 10 years in prison and fined $10,000. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1965 | * | Patricia Harris takes post as U.S. Ambassador to Belgium, becoming the first African-American U.S. ambassador. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1966 | * | U.S. Government declares LSD to be illegal. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1967 | * | Haight-Ashbury hippies throw a funeral to mark the end of hippies. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1969 | * | Special Forces Captain John McCarthy is released from Fort Leavenworth Penitentiary, pending consideration of his appeal to murder charges. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1976 | * | In his second debate with Democratic candidate Jimmy Carter, President Gerald R. Ford asserted there was "no Soviet domination of eastern Europe." Ford later conceded that he had misspoken. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1979 | * | Pope John Paul II, on a week-long US tour, became the first pontiff to visit the White House, where he was received by President Carter. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1986 | * | 1,700 female flight attendants won an 18-year lawsuit (which included $37 million in damages) against United Arilines, which had fired them for getting married. | Ref: 59 |
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| 1987 | * | (US Supreme Court Justice) The Senate Judiciary Committee voted 9-5 against the nomination of Robert H. Bork to the Supreme Court. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1991 | * | (US Supreme Court Justice) University of OK professor Anita F. Hill, former aide to U.S. Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas, testified before a Senate committee that Thomas sexually harassed her, and the allegations nearly undid Thomas’ nomination to the High Court. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1997 | * | The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for 1997 was awarded to American biology professor Stanley B. Prusiner “for his discovery of Prions a new biological principle of infection”. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1783 | * | First self-winding clock patented. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1868 | * | Patent for nickel plating awarded to inventor William H. Remington of Boston. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1889 | * | Thomas Edison shows his first motion picture. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1959 | * | Soviet Luna 3, 1st successful photographic spacecraft, impacts Moon. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1987 | * | Microsoft Excel for Windows is released is considered Microsoft's best work up to that point. Ref | |
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| 1990 | * | US 67th manned space mission STS 41 (Discovery 11) launches into orbit, carrying the $207 million Ulysses solar probe into space | Ref: 5 |
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| 1014 | | The Byzantine Emperor Basil earns the title "Slayer of Bulgers" after he orders the blinding of 15,000 Bulgerian troops. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1781 | * | Americans & French begin siege of Cornwallis at Yorktown; last battle of the Revolutionary War. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1917 | * | Peru and Uruguay break with Germany. | Ref: 38 |
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| 1939 | * | In an address to the Reichstag, Adolf Hitler denied having any intention of war against France and Britain. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1941 | * | German troops renew their offensive against Moscow. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1944 | * | The 3rd Canadian Infantry Division begins an attack on the Scheldt's southern shore, to cross the Leopold Canal. | |
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| 1966 | * | Hanoi insists the United States must end its bombings before peace talks can begin. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1973 | * | Israel is taken by surprise when Egypt, Syria, Iraq and Jordan attack on the Jewish holy day of Yom Kippur, beginning the Yom Kippur War. (XDG, p 4A, 10/05/2001) | Ref: 83 |
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| 1857 | * | Paul Charles Murphy becomes the first American International Chess Master at the American Chess Congress held in New York City. | Ref: 72 |
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| 1857 | * | The first major chess tournament was sponsored in New York by the New York Chess Club. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1880 | * | Cincinnati is expelled from the National League, due in part to their selling beer in the ballpark. The club returns to the NL for good in 1890. | Ref: 86 |
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| 1908 | * | Yanks lose 100th game of the year go 51-103 for season. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1910 | * | Braves beat Phillies 20-7. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1919 | * | (Black Sox) Cincinnati wins the fifth game of the World Series 5 to 0. | Ref: 87 |
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| 1923 | * | The first unassisted triple play in NL history occurs when Braves' shortstop Ernie Padgett catches Walter Holke's line drive, doubles up James Tierney at second and tags Cliff Lee for the third out. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1926 | * | In Game 4 of the World Series, Yankee outfielder Babe Ruth hits three home runs in a 10-5 victory over the Cardinals, | Ref: 1 |
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| 1933 | * | After pulling on umpire Charlie Moran's bow tie and letting it snap back, Senator outfielder Heinie Manush is ejected from Game 4 of the Fall Classic. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1936 | * | NY Yankees beat Giants 4 games to 2 in 33rd World Series. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1941 | * | NY Yankees beat Dodgers 4 games to 1, in 38th World Series. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1945 | * | William Sianis was nicknamed "Billy Goat" because he wore a goatee and pigtail and liked to bring his pet goat to sporting events, including Cubs games. He purchases two box seats to Game 4 of the 1945 World Series between the Cubs and Tigers, one for him, one for his goat. When they get to the gate, they are denied entry. Sianis whips off a telegram to the Cubs' owners, the Wrigley family, vowing the Cubs would lose the World Series and never get in another. The Tigers, trailing 2 games to 1 in the series, come back to win in seven games. (USA Today, p 2C, 10/16/2003) | Ref: 13 |
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| 1947 | * | NY Yankees beat Dodgers 4 games to 3, in 44th World Series. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1948 | * | In Game 1, the Boston Braves manage only two hits but beat Bob Feller and the Cleveland Indians, 1-0 to take the early World Series lead. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1959 | * | The largest crowd ever to attend a major league game, 92,706 fans, watch a nail biter as White Sox hurler Bob Shaw beats Sandy Koufax and the Dodgers, 1-0 in Game 5 of the Fall Classic. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1963 | * | The Dodgers complete a four-game World Series sweep of the Yankees as Sandy Koufax wins his second game, 2-1. Frank Howard leads the offense with a home run and a single and NY's first baseman Joe Pepitone's error (loses a thrown ball in white-shirted crowd) leads to the decisive run in the seventh inning. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1966 | * | The Baltimore Oriole’s Jim Palmer became the youngest pitcher (20 years, 11 months) to win a complete-game, World-Series shutout. He defeated Sandy Koufax and the Dodgers in Game Two of the 1966 Series. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1969 | * | The New York Mets win the first National League Championship in their history, defeating the Atlanta Braves at Shea 7-4, to complete a three-game sweep. | Ref: 86 |
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| 1976 | | John Hathaway completes a bicycle tour of every continent in the world & cycling 50,600 miles. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1977 | * | Yankees win AL pennant by rallying for 3 runs in 9th to beat KC Royals 5-3 in 5th & deciding playoff game. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1978 | * | Despite three solo HRs off Yankee ace Catfish Hunter by KS City's third baseman George Brett, the Bombers win Game 3 of the ALCS beating the Royals, 6-5. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1979 | | Harry Drake set long distance footbow shot record of 2,006 yds 1'9". | Ref: 5 |
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| 1980 | * | Frank Howard named manager of the San Diego Padres, as Jerry Coleman returns to the broadcast booth. | Ref: 86 |
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| 1980 | * | In the 163rd game of the season, the Astros beat the Dodgers, 7-1, to capture the National League West division as Houston wins its first title in the franchise's 19-year history. The Dodgers had swept a season-ending three game series with the 'Stros (3-2, 2-1, and 4-3) making the one-game play-off necessary | Ref: 1 |
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| 1982 | * | Auburn's Al Del Greco kicks 6 field goals. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1983 | * | In the second game of the ALCS, Oriole hurler Mike Boddicker throws a five-hitter and strikes out a playoff record 14 batters beating the White Sox, 4-0. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1983 | * | NY Jets announce they are leaving Shea for the Meadowlands. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1983 | * | Buffalo Bill QB Joe Ferguson passes 419 yards with 5 TDs. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1985 | * | Marita Koch of Germany sets 400m women's record (47.6) in Australia. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1985 | * | Yankee Phil Niekro becomes the 18th pitcher to win 300 games & also at 46 becomes the oldest to pitch a shut-out beating Toronto 8-0. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1988 | * | Oakland A's sweep Boston Red Sox in 4 games for AL pennant. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1991 | * | With a policemen watching his every move from the Met dugout and the fear of being arrested at any moment due to false rape allegations, David Cone ties a National League mark for strikeouts as he fans 19 Phillies en route to 7-0 victory in the season's finale. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1995 | * | Mark Lewis hits the 1st ever pinch hit grand slam in playoff history. | |
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| 1999 | * | Todd Stottlemyre scatters 4 hits over 6.2 innings to help the Diamondbacks notch their first post-season win, 7-1, Steve Finley's two-run single in the third puts Arizona ahead to stay. | Ref: 86 |
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| 2000 | * | Reds' officials announce games played the final two seasons at Cinergy Field will be on natural grass. The surface in Cincinnati has been artificial turf since in 1970 when the ballpark opened as Riverfront Stadium. | Ref: 1 |
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| 2000 | * | Chief executive officer John Harrington puts the Red Sox up for sale. Since the death of Jean Yawkey in 1992, the team has been owned by the Jean R.Yawkey Trust. | Ref: 1 |
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| 2001 | * | With the club's 116th win, the Mariners tie 1906 Cubs as the winningest team in major league history. Bret Boone's 37th home run of the season and the shut out pitching of five Seattle pitchers proves to be the difference in the 1-0 historic win over the Rangers. | Ref: 1 |
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| 2001 | * | At Camden Yards in front of a full house including Orioles noteables Frank Robinson, Jim Palmer and Earl Weaver as well as Commissioner Bud Selig and former President Bill Clinton, Cal Ripken plays his 3,001st and final game. After a hitless night for 41-year-old, the final out of the 5-1 loss to Red Sox is made as Cal watches from the on deck circle. | Ref: 1 |
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| 2001 | * | With his 151st pinch hit, Lenny Harris breaks the major league mark for career pinch hits established Manny Mota. Coming off the Met bench to bat for Rey Ordonez, he lines a 1-2 pitch off Expo starter Carl Pavano for a single to become career leader in pinch hits. | Ref: 1 |
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| 2003 | * | The Indianapolis Colts defeat the Tampa Bay Bucanneers 38-35 in overtime after trailing 35-14 with 4 minutes in regulation time. (XDG, p 2B, 10/07/2003) | Ref: 83 |
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| 1766 | * | America’s first matinee idol was seen in the play The Roman Father in Philadelphia. John Henry, a famous Irish actor, was the Tom Hanks of his day. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1825 | * | This was a big day for one Patrick Magee of Ireland. People stood in line and paid a quarter to see him. A big day, indeed. Mr. Magee, considered a giant, was on exhibition in NY. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1847 | | Charlotte Bronte's novel Jane Eyre is published in London. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1886 | * | Fiction: Start of the Sherlock Holmes adventure "The Resident Patient" (BG). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1889 | * | The Moulin Rouge in Paris first opened its doors to the public. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1899 | * | B.H. Irwin began issuing "Live Coals of Fire," official publication of the Fire Baptized Holiness Association of America. Organized in 1898, the denomination was comprised of former Methodists, Quakers and River Brethren. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1917 | * | A new word cropped up in the American lexicon: Jazz. The Literary Digest described jazz as music that caused people to, “shake, jump and writhe in ways to suggest a return to the medieval jumping mania.” | Ref: 4 |
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| 1927 | | The Jazz Singer premiers. The Jazz Singer is popularly believed to be the first talking picture, but technically, 1926's Don Juan, with its use of a music track recorded on phonograph records synchronized to the film, predated the landmark musical. (XDG, p 4A, 10/6/2000) | Ref: 83 |
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| 1937 | | Radio’s Hobby Lobby debuted on CBS. The host was the dean of American hobbyists, Dave Elman. The show’s theme was The Best Things in Life are Free. Sponsors included Fels Naptha soap, Hudson paper products and Colgate Dental Creme. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1940 | * | Zoological Gardens opens on Sloat & Skyline in SF. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1941 | * | Claude Thornhill and his orchestra recorded Autumn Nocturne on Columbia Records. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1948 | * | Tennessee Williams introduced audiences to Summer and Smoke when the curtain rose on Broadway this night. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1960 | * | Steve Lawrence and partner, Eydie Gorme, starred at the new Lotus Club in Washington, DC. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1962 | * | Robert Goulet stepped out of the role of Sir Lancelot after singing/acting the part since 1960. The fabulously successful Broadway musical, Camelot, also starred Richard Burton as King Arthur and Julie Andrews as Queen Guenevere. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1963 | * | Barbra Streisand appears on "The Judy Garland Show". | Ref: 5 |
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| 1965 | * | Supremes release "I Hear a Symphony". | Ref: 5 |
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| 1991 | * | Elizabeth Taylor was married -- for the 8th time -- to construction worker Larry Fortensky. The wedding took place at Michael Jackson’s estate in CA amidst a flurry of paparazzi. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1289 | * | King Wenceslas III, King of Hungary (1301-4), is born. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1552 | * | Birth of Matteo Ricci, an Italian Jesuit who was sent as a missionary to China in 1583. His complete adoption of Chinese customs raised the issue of the limits of "accommodation" to other cultures, in the preaching of the gospel. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1744 | * | James McGill, Scottish-born Canadian fur trader, merchant and politician | Ref: 70 |
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| 1767 | | Henri Christophe of Haiti, is born. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1769 | * | Sir Isaac Brock, British politician and soldier; important figure in War of 1812, is born. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1773 | | King Louis-Phillipe, is born. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1809 | * | John W. Griffiths, the developer of the Clipper ship, is born. | Ref: 62 |
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| 1809 | * | Alfred Tennyson England’s Poet Laureate [1850]: In Memoriam, The Lady of Shalott, The Lotuseaters, The Idylls of the King, Maud, Enoch Arden, Locksley Hall Sixty Years After; is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1820 | * | The Swedish Nightingale Jenny (Johanna) Lind is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1824 | * | Henry Chadwick baseball pioneer, developed first rule book, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1831 | * | Richard Dedekind, mathematician (Nature & Meaning of Numbers), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1846 | * | George Westinghouse inventor: railway braking systems; developer: alternating current [AC] electricity; founder: Westinghouse Electric Company; is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1849 | | Sir Basil Zaharoff arms dealer, "merchant of death", is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1862 | * | Albert Jeremiah Beveridge US, politician/author (Progressive), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1866 | * | Reginald Aubrey Fessenden broadcast first program of voice & music, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1867 | * | George Horace Lorimer, American editor of the Saturday Evening Post, is born. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1882 | * | Karol Szymanowski, Timoshovka Ukraine, composer (Stabatmater), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1884 | * | Lloyd Spooner US, marksman (Olympic-4 gold/1 silver/2 bronze-1920), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1887 | * | Le Corbusier (Charles-Edouard Jeanneret), architect, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1887 | * | Martˇn Luis Guzm n Mexico, novelist (The Eagle & the Serpent), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1888 | | Li Ta-chao cofounder with Mao Tse-tung of Chinese Communist Party, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1895 | * | Caroline Gordon, Kentucky, writer (Green Centuries), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1897 | * | Florence Seibert physician, scientist: developed process that removed all bacteria from water in a single distillation; perfected test used worldwide for tuberculosis; is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1897 | * | Jerome Cowan NYC, actor (Mr Dithers-Blondie, Tab Hunter Show), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1902 | * | Boxer and World Heavyweight Champion Jack Sharkey is born. | Ref: 68 |
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| 1905 | * | Helen Wills Moody International Tennis Hall of Famer, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1906 | * | Janet Gaynor (Laura Gainor) first Academy Award-winning actress [1927-28 3 films]: Seventh Heaven, Street Angel, Sunrise; A Star is Born, The Young in Heart; is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1908 | * | Carol Lombard (Jane Alice Peters), American comediennne and actress who was nominated for an Oscar for My Man Godfrey, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1908 | * | Sammy Price, jazz pianist, is born. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1909 | * | Carol Lombard actress (My Man Godfrey, In Name Only), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1914 | * | Thor Heyerdahl, Norwegian entomologist and adventurer whose Kon-Tiki expedition established the possibility that Polynesians may have originated in South America, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1920 | * | H.R. ‘Bum’ Bright tycoon: oil, real estate, ranching, banking, football team owner: Dallas Cowboys, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1925 | * | Shana Alexander (Ager) journalist: 60 Minutes: Point Counterpoint, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1926 | * | Alan Copeland LA Calif, orch leader/singer (Your Hit Parade), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1927 | * | Paul Badura-Skoda Vienna Austria, pianist (Mozart Interpretation), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1930 | * | Hafez al Assad president (Syria), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1931 | * | Fred Graham attorney, newscaster: CBS News court reporter/law correspondent, Court TV, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1936 | * | Heavyweight wrestling champion Bruno Sammartino is born. Ref | |
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| 1936 | * | Anna Quayle Tony Award-winning actress: Stop the World, I Want to Get Off [1963]; Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Mistress Pamela, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1940 | * | Ellen Travolta Englewood NJ, actress (Louise-Joanie Loves Chachi), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1942 | * | Jerry (Gerald Wayne) Grote baseball: catcher: Houston Colt .45’s, NY Mets [all-star: 1968, 1974/World Series: 1969, 1973], LA Dodgers World Series: 1977, 1978], KC Royals, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1942 | * | Britt Ekland Stockholm Sweden, actress (Wicker Man, Asylum), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1942 | * | Fred Travalena NYC, comedian/impressionist (Buy & Cell), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1943 | * | Michael Durrell Brooklyn NY, actor (Shannon, V, Alice, Chiefs), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1945 | | Don McLean is born. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1946 | * | Millie Small (Smith) singer: My Boy Lollipop; known as ‘The Blue Beat Girl’ in her native Jamaica, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1946 | * | Gene (Eugene Anthony) Clines baseball: Pittsburgh Pirates [World Series: 1971], NY Mets, Texas Rangers, Chicago Cubs, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1946 | * | Gary (Edward) Gentry baseball: pitcher: NY Mets [World Series: 1969], Atlanta Braves, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1947 | * | Klaus Dibiasi Olympic diver: high board gold medalist [1968, 1972, 1976], silver medalist [1964], springboard silver medalist [1968], is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1947 | * | Steve (Steven Jack) Kline baseball: pitcher: NY Yankees, Cleveland Indians, Atlanta Braves, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1948 | * | Wendell Ladner ‘Mr. Excitement’: basketball: Southern Mississippi, Kentucky Colonel, NY Nets, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1949 | * | Bobby Farrell singer: group: Boney M: Daddy Cool, Brown Girl in the Ring, Rivers of Babylon, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1950 | * | Thomas McClary musician: guitar: group: The Commodores, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1950 | * | Ken Payne football: Green Bay Packers, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1951 | * | Kevin Cronin singer: group: REO Speedwagon, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1959 | * | Dennis ‘Oilcan’ (Ray) Boyd baseball: pitcher: Boston Red Sox [World Series: 1986], Montreal Expos, Texas Rangers, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1959 | * | Barry Darsow pro wrestler/actor: Wrestlemania IV, Summerslam, WWF Superstars of Wrestling, Royal Rumble, WCW Saturday Night, Raw is War, WWF Smackdown!, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1960 | * | Jeffrey Trachta Staten Island NY, actor (Thorne-Bold & Beautiful), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1960 | * | Richard Jobson British TV person/rocker (Skids-Scared to Dance), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1963 | * | Elisabeth Shue actress: The Trigger Effect, Leaving Las Vegas, Blind Justice, Heart and Souls, Back to the Future: Part 2 and Part 3, Cocktail, Adventures in Babysitting, The Karate Kid Call to Glory, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1964 | * | Matthew Sweet musician: guitar, singer, songwriter: Girlfriend, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1965 | * | Ruben (Angel) Sierra baseball: Texas Rangers [all-star: 1989 1991, 1992, 1994], Oakland Athletics, NY Yankees, Detroit Tigers, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1536 | * | William Tyndale, the English translator of the New Testament, is strangled and burned at the stake for heresy at Vilvorde, France. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1880 | * | Bemjamin Pierce, US mathemetician, astronomer, founding member of the Smithsonian Institution, dies. | Ref: 17 |
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| 1891 | * | Charles Stewart Parnell, the "Uncrowned King of Ireland," dies in Brighton, England at age 45. | Ref: 68 |
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| 1892 | * | Alfred Lord Tennyson English poet laureate: The Charge of the Light Brigade, In Memoriam; dies at age 83. | Ref: 68 |
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| 1893 | * | Ford Madox Brown, English painter, dies at age 72. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1896 | * | George duMaurier, English caricaturist ('Punch'), dies at age 62. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1898 | * | Catherine Ada "Kate" Kelly, sister of Australian bushranger and folk hero Edward "Ned" Kelly, dies relatively young at the age of 35, and in what could only be described as tragic circumstances. She is reported missing and later presumed dead on this date after her body was found on the 14th in a lagoon at Condobolin Road near Forbes, where she drowned. The Magisterial inquiry was held on 15th October, but didn't throw any light as to how and why it happened. According to the death certificate, there was no evidence. However, it is known that following the death of her sister Maggie, some two years earlier, Kate had become very depressed. Ref | |
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| 1951 | * | W.K. Kellogg, American industrialist and founder of the W.K. Kellogg Company, dies at age 91. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1951 | * | Henry Gurney British high commissioner to Malaya assassinated. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1956 | * | Charles E. Merrill, the American investment banker who helped create the largest brokerage firm in the United States, dies. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1956 | * | Walter Herlihy announcer (Music at Meadowbrook), dies at 42. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1959 | * | Bernard Berenson, American art critic, dies at age 94. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1969 | * | Walter Hagen PGA golfer (US Open 1914, 19), dies at 76. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1972 | * | 22-car train carrying 2,000 pilgrims derails, kills 208 in Mexico. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1973 | * | Gene Krupa drummer: Sing Sing Sing; bandleader: Let Me Off Uptown, Knock Me a Kiss, Chickery Chick, Boogie Blues; films: Some Like it Hot, Ball of Fire, The Gene Krupa Story; died Oct 6, 1973 | Ref: 5 |
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| 1975 | * | Henry Calvin actor (Sgt Garcia-Zorro), dies at 57. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1979 | * | Elizabeth Bishop, American poet/short story writer/Pulitzer Prize (1956), dies at age 68. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1981 | * | Nobel Peace Prize-winner Anwar el-Sadat, the President of Egypt, is assassinated in Cairo, Egypt. Sadat was reviewing a military parade when the attack by Islamic fundamentalists occurred. | Ref: 68 |
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| 1983 | * | Cardinal Terence Cooke, the spiritual head of the Archdiocese of NY, died at age 62. (TWA, 1984) | Ref: 95 |
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| 1985 | * | Nelson Riddle Grammy Award-winning orchestra leader: Cross Country Suite; Lisbon Antigua; arranger: for Frank Sinatra and Nat King Cole; dies. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1986 | * | Nelson Riddle Grammy Award-winning orchestra leader: Cross Country Suite; Lisbon Antigua; arranger: for Frank Sinatra and Nat King Cole; dies. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1989 | * | Bette (Ruth Elizabeth) Davis, Academy Award-winning actress: Dangerous [1935], Jezebel [1938]; Dark Victory, The Letter, The Little Foxes, Now, Voyager, Mr. Skeffington, All About Eve, The Star, What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, dies in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France at age 81. (also TWA, 1990) | Ref: 4 |
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| 1992 | * | Denholm Elliott, English character actor of stage, screen and television, dies at age 70. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1997 | * | Johnny (John Samuel) Vander Meer ‘Double No-Hit’, ‘The Dutch Master’: baseball: pitcher: Cincinnati Reds [only pitcher w/two consecutive no-hitters [1937]/all-star: 1938, 1939, 1942, 1943/World Series: 1940], Chicago Cubs, Cleveland Indians; dies. | Ref: 4 |
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| 2000 | * | Actor Richard Farnsworth commits suicide at age 80 in Lincoln NM. (TWA, 2001) | Ref: 95 |
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| 2002 | | The French oil tanker Limburg was attacked by a small explosives-laden boat off Yemen's coast, killing one Bulgarian crew member. | Ref: 70 |
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| 2002 | * | Prince Claus, the German-born husband of Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands, died in Amsterdam at age 76. | Ref: 70 |
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