| -3761 | * | -BC- Origin of Jewish Mundane Era. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1571 | * | Miguel de Cervantes (author: Don Quixote) is wounded three times (twice in the chest, once in the hand leaving it lame) at the naval battle at Lepanto. | Ref: 34 |
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| 1763 | * | George III signes the Proclamation of 1763, which restricted settlement west of the Appalachians and reserved land for the Indians. Virginians resented limitations on western lands. | |
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| 1765 | * | Delegates from nine of the American colonies meet in NY to discuss the Stamp Act Crisis and colonial response to it. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1826 | * | The Granite Railway (1st chartered railway in US) begins operations. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1846 | * | Donner Party: Lewis Kesberg turns out old Mr. Hardcoop out of his wagon. No one else can take him in. He is last seen sitting by the road, no longer able to walk. Joseph Reinhardt and Augustus Spitzer later report that he has been killed by Indians. | Ref: 27 |
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| 1868 | * | Cornell University was inaugurated in Ithaca, N.Y. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1870 | * | French Minister of the Interior Leon Gambetta escapes besieged Paris by balloon, reaching the French provisional government in Tours. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1871 | * | 16-hour fire injures 30 of Chicago's 185 firefighters. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1886 | * | Spain abolishes slavery in Cuba. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1900 | | The term "orienteering" is first used for an event. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1916 | * | Adolf Hitler is wounded in the leg during World War I. | Ref: 34 |
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| 1924 | * | 160 consecutive days of 100ø at Marble Bar, Australia begins. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1925 | * | (Sweet) The NAACP contacts Clarence Darrow and asks him to represent Sweet and the other defendants in their upcoming trial. | Ref: 87 |
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| 1938 | * | Germany demands all Jewish passports stamped with the letter J. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1943 | * | While WWII was raging, the American Council of Volunteer Agencies for Foreign Service was formed. It was as an interfaith venture to bring Protestant, Catholic and Jewish agencies involved in international relief together under one roof. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1944 | * | A revolt by Sonderkommando (Jewish slave laborers) at Auschwitz-Birkenau results in complete destruction of Crematory IV. | Ref: 35 |
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| 1949 | * | Iva Toguri D'Aquino, better known as Tokyo Rose, is sentenced to 10 years in prison for treason. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1949 | * | USAF officials reported immediate availability of atomic bombs if use is ordered. | Ref: 50 |
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| 1949 | * | German Democratic Republic (East Germany) is formed from the Russian occupation zone (National Day). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1951 | | The Western Hills Hotel in Fort Worth, TX became the first hostelry to feature all foam-rubber mattresses and pillows. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1957 | * | A fire in the Windscale plutonium production reactor (later called Sellafield) north of Liverpool, England, spreads radioactive iodine and polonium through the countryside and into the Irish Sea. Livestock in the immediate area were destroyed, along with 500,000 gallons of milk. At least 30, and possibly as many as 1,000, cancer deaths were subsequently linked to the accident. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1958 | * | (US Supreme Court Justice) Potter Stewart appointed to US Supreme Court. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1960 | * | Democratic presidential candidate John F. Kennedy and his Republican opponent Richard M. Nixon hold the second of their broadcast debates. (XDG, p 4A, 10/7/2000) | Ref: 83 |
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| 1963 | * | President Kennedy signed the documents of ratification for a nuclear test ban treaty with Britain and the Soviet Union. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1963 | * | Bobby Baker resigns as Senate Democratic secretary. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1967 | * | (Mississippi Burning) The trial of the Neshoba County conspirators begins. | Ref: 87 |
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| 1974 | * | Police stop the car of Senator Wilbur Mills, stripper Fanne Fox jumps into fountain | Ref: 62 |
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| 1975 | * | U.S. Military academies go coed. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1977 | * | Maryland Governor Marvin Mandel sent to prison on fraud charges | Ref: 62 |
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| 1981 | * | Egypt's parliament named Vice President Hosni Mubarak to succeed the assassinated Anwar Sadat. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1988 | * | Latvian flag raised in Riga for first time since annexation by USSR. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1989 | | Hungary's Communist Party renounced Marxism in favor of democratic socialism during a party congress in Budapest. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1990 | * | Israel begins handing out gas masks to its citizens. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1991 | * | Child star Adam Rich arrested for stealing hypodermics | Ref: 5 |
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| 1993 | * | Toni Morrison was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature. She was the first black woman to received the award and one of America’s most significant novelists of the twentieth century. She is the Author of six major Novels, The Bluest Eye, Sula, Song of Solomon, Tar Baby, Beloved and Jazz. Song of Solomon won the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1977 and Beloved won the Pulitzer Prize in 1988. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1995 | * | A crowd of over 100,000 people were sitting or standing in Central Park to see Pope John Paul II. The pontiff’s message at the outdoor mass was geared to the role of young people in the church and the world. “You young people will live most of your lives in the next century,” he said. “You must help the holy spirit to shape the social, moral and spiritual character.” | Ref: 5 |
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| 1998 | * | Matthew Shepard, a gay student at the University of Wyoming, was beaten, robbed and left tied to a wooden fence post outside of Laramie; he died five days later. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1999 | * | American Home Products Corp. resolved one of the biggest product liability cases ever by agreeing to pay up to $4.83 billion to settle claims that the fen-phen diet drug combination caused dangerous heart valve problems. | Ref: 70 |
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| 2000 | * | Vojislav Kostunica took the oath of office as Yugoslavia's first popularly elected president, closing the turbulent era of Slobodan Milosevic. | Ref: 70 |
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| 2002 | * | The Nobel Prize for Medicine is awarded jointly to Sydney Brenner of the Molecular Sciences Institute in Berkley, CA; H. Robert Horvitz, of MIT; and John E. Sulston of England's Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute. (USA Today, p. 18A, 10/08/2002) | Ref: 13 |
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| 2002 | * | (DC Sniper) 8:09AM A Washington DC serial sniper shoots, but does not kill, his 8th victim, a 13-year old boy, outside a middle school in Prince George's County, MD. The 13-year old boy was wounded. He is the first child and the second victim to be wounded. Six others have been killed. (USA Today, p 1A, 10/08/2002) | Ref: 13 |
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| 2002 | * | President G.W. Bush calls for war against Iraq, specifically Saddam Hussein, in a 30-minute speech intended to build support in Congress. (USA Today, p 1A, 10/08/2002) | Ref: 13 |
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| 2002 | * | Former WorldCom accounting director Buford Yates pleads guilty to conspiracy and fraud charges in helping WorldCom hide more than $5B in expenses. Yates is the second former WorldCom executive (after former controller David Myers) to plead guilty to such charges. (USA Today, p 1A, 10/08/2002) | Ref: 13 |
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| 2003 | * | Bernard Koth, president of Loyola University in New Orleans, resigned due to a church rule that states "if a sexual allegation involving a minor is credible, the accused should be removed immediately". Knoth denies allegations of misconduct at an alleged 1986 incident at Jesuit prep school in Indianapolis. There are no allegations pending from Loyola where Knoth has been president since 1995. (USA Today, p 3A, 10/08/2003) | Ref: 13 |
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| 2003 | * | The Swedish Royal Academy announces three winners of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Physics: Russian-American Alexi Abrikosov, 75, Russian Vitaly Ginsburg, 87, for their work on super-conductors and British-American Anthony Leggett for his work with superfluidity of Helium-3. (USA Today, p 7D, 10/08/2003) | Ref: 13 |
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| 2003 | * | Two men abduct the wife of Judd Gregg (Sen-R-NH) at knife-point and released her after she drove them to a bank machine and withdrew an unspecified amount of money. (USA Today, p 3A, 10/08/2003) | Ref: 13 |
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| 2003 | * | (California Recall) Actor Arnold Schwarzenegger wins the California governorship as Californians recall sitting Governor Gray Davis. (USA Today, p 1A, 10/08/2003) | Ref: 13 |
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| 2003 | * | A federal appeals court orders the Federal Trade Commission to begin enforcing the National Do Not Call Registry, a registry that offers citizens protection against unwanted telemarketing calls. (USA Today, p 1B, 10/08/2003) | Ref: 13 |
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| 2003 | * | The first case of West Nile Virus in Greene County OH is reported in an unnamed 25-year old male who is recuperating at home. (XDG, p 1A, 10/07/2003) | Ref: 83 |
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| 1805 | * | Lewis & Clark: Near what is now Orofino, Idaho, the expedition pushes its five new canoes into the Clearwater River, and for the first time since leaving St. Louis has a river's current at its back. | Ref: 65 |
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| 1816 | * | First double decked steamboat, the Washington, arrived in New Orleans. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1919 | * | First London-Amsterdam airline service begins (Brit Aerial Transport). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1931 | * | First infra-red photograph, Rochester, NY. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1958 | * | The newly established National Aeronautics and Space Administration officially named its manned space flight experiments Project Mercury. The program lasted for four and two thirds years and accomplished six successful manned flights. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1959 | * | Luna 3 - USSR Lunar Far Side Flyby returns a photograph of the far side of the Moon. | Ref: 40 |
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| 1985 | * | 21st Space Shuttle Mission (51-J)-Atlantis 1 lands at Edwards AFB. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1571 | | In the last great clash of galleys, the Ottoman navy is defeated at Lepanto, Greece, by a Christian naval coalition under the overall command of Spain's Don Juan de Austria. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1777 | * | The second Battle of Saratoga begins in the American Revolution. British forces under General John Burgoyne will surrender 10 days later. (XDG, p 4A, 10/7/2000) | Ref: 70 |
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| 1780 | * | Colonial patriots slaughter a loyalist group at the Battle of King's Mountain in South Carolina. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1908 | | Crete revolts against Turkey & aligns with Greece. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1940 | * | Nazis invade Romania (Jewish pop. 34,000). | Ref: 35 |
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| 1943 | * | The Japanese execute approximately 100 American POWs on Wake Island. | |
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| 1950 | * | The United Nations General Assembly approves an advance of U.N. forces to the 38th parallel in the Korean Conflict. | Ref: 5 |
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| 2001 | | US and British forces attack al-Qa'eda training camps and Taliban military installations in Afghanistan in a series of coordinated attacks at 12:27 PM, EST. (USA Today, p. 3A, 10/08/2001) | Ref: 13 |
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| 1904 | * | New York Highlander Happy Jack Chesbro defeats Boston, 3-2 to notch his 41st victory of the season. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1916 | * | Georgia Tech kills Cumberland College (of Lebanon, TN) in a football game 222-0. This is the most lopsided football score in history. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1919 | * | (Black Sox) Chicago wins the sixth game of the World Series 5 to 4. | Ref: 87 |
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| 1927 | * | Yank Herb Pennock retires first 22 Pirates in world series game (World Series #24). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1933 | * | NY Giants beat Washington Senators, 4 games to 1 in 30th World Series. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1935 | * | In Game 6, the Tigers win their first World Series as Goose Goslin singles home Mickey Cochrane in the bottom of the ninth inning beating the Cubs, 4-3. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1950 | * | NY Yankees sweep Phila Phillies in 47th World Series. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1952 | * | NY Yankees beat Dodgers 4 games to 3 in 49th World Series Yankees tie their own record of 4 consecutive World Series wins. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1961 | * | Cassius Clay KOs Alex Miteff in the 6th round in Louisville KY. | Ref: 96 |
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| 1964 | * | The third set of brothers meet in a World Series. Ken Boyer of the St Louis Cardinals meets younger brother Cletis of the New York Yankees. (Lipman, David, "Ken Boyer", ©1967) | |
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| 1964 | * | NY Yankees make 14th appearance in last 16 & 29th in 61 World Series. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1965 | * | Robert Mitera’s tee shot, aided by a 50-m.p.h. tailwind, traveled 447 yards to the pin, and dropped in for the longest hole-in-one in golf history. This at the 10th hole of the Miracle Hills Country Club, Omaha, Nebraska. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1972 | * | (Long Island) First season game at Nassau Coliseum, Flames-3, Islanders-2. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1977 | * | Trailing by two runs in Game 3 of the NLCS, the Dodgers rally for three runs with none on and two outs in the ninth to take a one-run lead. Los Angeles goes on to beat the Phillies, 6-5. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1978 | * | Ron Cey scores in the 10th inning on Bill Russell's game winning single and gives the Dodgers their second straight NL pennant. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1981 | * | The Toronto Blue Jays' Bobby Mattick resigns as Field Manager to become Executive Co-Ordinator, Baseball Operations. | Ref: 86 |
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| 1981 | * | In first Eastern Division championship Yanks beat Brewers 5-3. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1984 | * | The Padres win the NLCS as Tony Gwynn's seventh inning two-run double breaks a 3-3 tie. The Cubs had a 2-0 game advantage as well as 3-0 lead in the deciding Game 5, but were unable to end the thirty-nine year World Series appearance drought. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1984 | * | Walter Payton passes Jim Brown as NFL's career rushing leader. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1985 | * | Lynnette Woodward becomes the first female Harlem Globetrotter | Ref: 5 |
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| 1988 | * | The Yankees replace manager Billy Martin with Dallas Green. 'Billy the Kid' will compile a 1253-1013 (.553) record piloting the Tigers, Twins, Yankees, A's and Rangers during his 19-year managerial career. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1988 | * | Robin Givens files for divorce after an 8-month marriage to Mike Tyson. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1989 | * | Rickey Henderson steals a record 8 bases in a play off (5 games). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1996 | * | Vince Naimoli and St. Petersburg Mayor David Fischer preside over the official groundbreaking ceremony for the 15- month, $63 million Tropicana Field renovations. | Ref: 86 |
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| 1998 | * | The Colorado Rockies introduce Jim Leyland as the club's second manager. The skipper comes to the Rockies from Florida, where he led the Marlins to the 1997 world championship. | Ref: 86 |
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| 1998 | * | (thru the 14th) The San Diego Padres race out to a 3 games to none lead en route to beating the Braves in 6 games in the N.L.C.S. Hitchcock wins Games 3 and 6, allowing one run on 5 hits in the 2 starts to earn series MVP honors. | Ref: 86 |
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| 2001 | * | On the last day of the season, Rickey Henderson bloops a double down the right field line off Rockie hurler John Thomson to become the 25th major leaguer to collect 3000 career base hits. Tony Gwynn, who is playing in his last major league game and is also a member of the 3000 hit club, meets the Padre outfielder at home plate in front of a sell out crowd QualComm Park . | Ref: 1 |
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| 2001 | * | Barry Bonds extends his major league record for home runs in season to 73 as he drives a 3-2 first inning knucleball off Dodger Dennis Spriner over the right field fence. The blast also secures two more major league records for the Giants' left fielder as he surpasses Babe Ruth (1920 .847) with a .863 season slugging percentage and bests Mark McGwire (1998 one HR every 7.27 AB) by homering in every 6.52 at-bats. | Ref: 1 |
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| 2001 | * | Rookie C.C. Sabathia picks up his 17th win of the season against the Toronto Blue Jays. Sabathia passed Herb Score, who won 16 in 1955, for the most wins by a Cleveland Indians' rookie. | |
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| 2002 | * | USA Today (p 1C, 10/08/2002) reports that New York Knicks guard Latrell Sprewell has been fined $250,000 and told to stay away from the Knicks until he can make a "positive contribution" to the team. The fine was for not reporting a broken shooting hand two weeks earlier. This latest incident is only one of many past conflicts between Sprewell and the Knicks. | Ref: 13 |
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| 2003 | * | Jackie Robinson is voted the Congressional Gold Medal by the House of Representatives. Identical legislation is pending in the Senate. (USA Today, p 1C, 10/08/2003) | Ref: 13 |
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| 1922 | | The first radio network -- of sorts -- debuted. It was a network of just two stations. WJZ in Newark, NJ teamed with WGY in Schenectady, NY to bring the World Series game direct from the Polo Grounds in NY. Columnist Grantland Rice was behind the microphone for that broadcast. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1939 | | Kate Hopkins, Angel of Mercy was heard for the first time on CBS radio. Tom Hopkins, Kate’s husband, was played by eventual Beat the Clock host Clayton ‘Bud’ Collyer. The 15-minute radio drama was written by Chester McCraken and Gertrude Berg (writer and Emmy Award-winning actress of The Goldbergs, a popular radio and TV series in the 1940s & 1950s). The announcer for the four-year run of Angel of Mercy was Ralph Edwards of future This is Your Life fame. And the sponsor was Maxwell House of coffee fame. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1940 | * | Artie Shaw and his Orchestra recorded Hoagy Carmichael's "Stardust" for RCA Victor. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1940 | | Portia Faces Life debuted on the NBC Red network. This radio soap opera centered around the life of Portia Blake Manning, an attorney and a widow with a young son. And we thought this concept was unique to TV nighttime soaps of the 1990s... Portia Faces Life was extremely popular, and therefore, had many sponsors -- none of which were soap. The sponsors included Post Toasties, Grape Nuts Flakes, Grape Nuts Wheat Meal, Maxwell House coffee, Jell-O desserts and La France bleach. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1948 | * | The divorce of Bella Siegal and Jerry Siegal (one of the creators of Superman), is granted. (Daniels, Les, "Superman", 1998, ISBN 0-8118-2162-5) | |
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| 1950 | * | The Frank Sinatra Show debuted. It was the crooner’s first plunge into TV, the beginning of a $250,000 per year, five-year contract. Ben Blue, The Blue Family, the Whippoorwills and Axel Stordahl’s orchestra were regulars on the show. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1954 | * | Marian Anderson became the first black singer hired by the Metropolitan Opera in NY. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1955 | * | The religious drama 'Crossroads' first aired over ABC television. An anthology which dramatized true experiences of clergymen of all denominations, the program ran for two years. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1955 | * | Allen Ginsberg, Kenneth Rexroth and 4 other poets meet in SF garage; beat generation is born. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1956 | * | A U.S. House subcommittee began investigations of allegedly rigged TV quiz shows. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1957 | * | First Bandstand (later, American Bandstand) broadcast | Ref: 5 |
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| 1959 | * | A U.S. House subcommittee began investigations of allegedly rigged TV quiz shows. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1960 | * | "Route 66" premieres. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1967 | * | Beatles turn down $1 million NY concert offer by Sid Berstein. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1968 | * | The Motion Picture Association of America adopted its film-rating system. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1969 | * | Put on your headband, love beads, surfer’s cross and give the peace sign. It was on this day that The Youngbloods hit, Get Together, passed the million-selling mark to achieve gold record status. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1973 | * | From the I Wonder How it Would Be Today Department: 40,000 football fans failed to use their pro-football tickets, opting instead to watch games on TV since legislation was signed lifting blackout rules of games. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1982 | * | The Andrew Lloyd Webber-Tim Rice musical "Cats," featuring the popular song "Memory," opened on Broadway. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1988 | * | WNBC 660 final transmission, WFAN moves from 1050 to 660 & WUKQ begins on 1050 at 5:30 PM (NYC radio). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1989 | * | Radio talk show host Larry King weds Julie Alexander. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1995 | * | Alanis Morrissette’s Jagged Little Pill album made it to number one on the Billboard 200 chart. The album, in its fifteenth week on the chart, featured these tracks: All I Really Want, You Oughta Know, Perfect, Hand in My Pocket, Right Through You, Forgiven, You Learn, Head Over Feet, Mary Jane, Ironic, Not the Doctor, Wake Up. Jagged Little Pill was #1 for two weeks. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1543 | * | The German painter Hans Holbein is born. | Ref: 62 |
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| 1573 | * | William Laud, English Archbishop of Canterbury (1633-45), is born. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1728 | * | (Declaration of Independence) Caesar Rodney, judge, signer of the Declaration of Independence, is born in Dover, DE. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1746 | * | William Billings, Boston Mass, hymn composer (Rose of Sharon), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1810 | * | Birth of Henry Alford, Anglican scholar. He was a member of the 1881 ERV Bible translation committee, but is better remembered today for writing the hymn "Come, Ye Thankful People, Come." | Ref: 5 |
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| 1832 | * | Birth of Charles Converse, American lawyer and sacred composer. Converse penned the hymn tune CONVERSE, to which we sing today "What a Friend We Have in Jesus." | Ref: 5 |
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| 1849 | * | James Whitcomb Riley US, poet (The Raggedy Man), is born. | Ref: 68 |
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| 1866 | * | Martha McChesney Berry US, founded Berry School for Children, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1870 | * | Uncle Dave Macon entertainer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1873 | * | George Cram Cook, American writer, is born. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1879 | * | Joe Hill Jevla Sweden, organizer (IWW)/songwriter (Union Scab)/martyr, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1885 | * | Niels Bohr Denmark, physicist, expanded quantum physics (Nobel 1922), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1887 | * | Jack Mulhall, Wappinger Falls NY, actor (Ken Murray Show), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1888 | * | Henry Agard Wallace, 33rd American vice president (1941-5); Progressive Party candidate for president (1948), is born. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1889 | * | Clarence Muse Balt Md, actor (Sam-Casablanca), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1897 | * | Elijah Muhammad, American leader of the Nation of Islam (1934-75), is born. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1898 | * | Alfred Wallenstein Chicago IL, conductor (Chic Symph 1922-29), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1900 | * | Heinrich Himmler, head of the Nazi SS and organizer of extermination camps in Eastern Europe, is born. | Ref: 68 |
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| 1901 | * | Frank X Boucher Ottawa, All-star NHL center (Ottawa, NY Rangers), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1904 | * | Chuck Klein Indpls In, Phila Phillies (43 HRs in 1929), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1905 | * | Actor Andy Devine (Jeremiah Schwartz) is born in Flagstaff AZ. | Ref: 24 |
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| 1906 | * | James E Webb head of NASA (1961-68), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1907 | * | Helen MacInnes, writer, is born. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1911 | * | Vaughn Monroe Akron Oh, singer/orch leader (Vaughn Monroe Show), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1911 | * | ‘Papa’ Jo (Jonathan) Jones musician: drums: the first to minimize use of bass drum, keeping time on top cymbal; piano, reeds, trumpet: played with Count Basie, Bennie Goodman sextet, led trio: LPs: The Essential Jo Jones, The Drums, The Main Man, Our Man Papa Jo; is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1914 | * | Sarah Churchill actress (All Over Town, Royal Wedding), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1914 | * | Alfred Drake (Capurro) Tony Award-winning actor: Kismet [1954]; Kiss Me Kate, Oklahoma; is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1916 | * | Walt W Rostow economist (Politics & Stages of Growth), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1917 | * | June Allyson (Ella Geisman) actress: Best Foot Forward, The Glen Miller Story, Little Women, Strategic Air Command; TV host: The Dupont Show with June Allyson; wife of actor Dick Powell, is born in the Bronx. | Ref: 68 |
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| 1917 | * | Helmut Dantine Vienna Austria, actor (Shadow of the Cloak), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1918 | * | Frankie (Conrad) Baumholtz baseball: Cincinnati Reds, Chicago Cubs, Philadelphia Phillies; is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1919 | * | Erik Elms„ter Sweden, first to compete in summer & winter Oly (1948), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1919 | * | Gabriel Dell Barbados, actor (Steve Allen Show), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1922 | * | Grady (Edgebert) Hatton baseball: Cincinnati Reds, Cincinnati Redlegs [all-star: 1952], Boston Red Sox, Chicago White Sox, Baltimore Orioles, SL Cardinals, Chicago Cubs, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1922 | * | Martha Stewart Bardwell Ky, singer/actress (Daisy Kenyon, Doll Face), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1923 | * | June Allyson | Ref: 10 |
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| 1926 | * | Alex Groza basketball: Univ. of Kentucky; USA Men’s Basketball Olympic basketball team [1948]; banned by NBA for accepting bribes at Univ. of Kentucky; brother of football Hall of Famer Lou Groza; is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1926 | * | Diana Lynn (Dolores ‘Dolly’ Loehr), actress (Annapolis Story, Easy Come Easy Go), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1927 | * | R.D. (Ronald David) Laing psychiatrist, author; is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1927 | * | Al Martino, Phila, singer (Here in My Heart)/actor (Godfather), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1931 | * | Desmond Tutu Nobel Peace Prize-winner [1984]: Archbishop: first black Anglican bishop of Johannesburg, S. Africa, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1933 | * | Paul B Price Cataret NJ, actor (Busting Loose), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1934 | * | Leroi Jones (Imamu Amiri Baraka), playwright, is born. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1934 | * | Willie Naulls NBA star (NY Knicks), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1935 | * | Thomas Keneally, novelist, author of Schindler's Ark, the basis for the film Schindler's List, is born. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1936 | * | Charles Dutoit symphony orchestra conductor/director: Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal, Orchestre National de France, NHK Symphony Orchestra, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1938 | * | Gary Bergman hockey: NHL: Detroit Red Wings, Minnesota North Stars, Kansas City Scouts; is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1938 | * | Robert Drivas Chicago, actor (Cool Hand Luke, Illustrated Man), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1943 | * | Oliver North U.S. military: Marine Corps Lt. Col.: center of Iran-contra Affair; radio personality, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1943 | * | Jose (Rosario Domec) Cardenal baseball: SF Giants, California Angels, Cleveland Indians, SL Cardinals, Milwaukee Brewers, Chicago Cubs, Philadelphia Phillies, NY Mets, KC Royals [World Series: 1980]; NY Yankees outfield coach, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1945 | * | Kevin Godley musician: drums, singer: group: 10cc:, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1949 | * | David Hope musician: bass: group: Kansas, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1950 | * | Bo (David) Rather football: Miami Dolphins, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1951 | * | John Cougar Mellencamp Seymour IN, rocker (Jack & Diane), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1952 | * | Jacques Richard hockey: NHL: Atlanta Flames, Buffalo Sabres, Quebec Nordiques, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1952 | * | Ludmila Tourischeva USSR, gymnast (Olympic-gold-1972), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1953 | * | Christopher Norris NYC, actress (Summer of '42, Eat My Dust), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1953 | * | Tico Torres musician: drums: group: Bon Jovi: You Give Love a Bad Name, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1954 | * | -Tico Torres drummer (Bon Jovi-You Give Love a Bad Name), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1955 | * | Yo-Yo Ma Paris France, world famous Chinese cellist, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1956 | * | James Van Patten Brooklyn NY, actor (Bo-Chisholms), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1958 | * | Kim Morris San Diego Ca, playmate (Mar, 1986), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1959 | * | Dylan Baker actor: Planes, Trains & Automobiles, Radioland Murders, Disclosure, Murder One, The Invisible Man, Random Hearts, Thirteen Days, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1961 | * | Judy Landers Phila, actress (Vega$, BJ & the Bear, Madame's Place), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1967 | * | Toni Braxton | Ref: 10 |
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| 1968 | * | Toni Braxton Grammy Award-winning singer: Another Sad Love Song [1993], Breathe Again [1994], Un-Break My Heart, You're Makin’ Me High [1996], is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1974 | * | Alexander Polinsky SF CA, actor (Adam-Charles in Charge), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 336 | * | St Mark ends his reign as Catholic Pope. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1612 | * | (Giovanni) Battista Guarini, Italian poet and dramatist, dies at age 73. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1737 | * | 40 foot waves sink 20,000 small craft & kill 300,000 (Bengal, India). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1849 | * | Edgar Allan Poe, aged 40, dies a tragic death in Baltimore. Never able to overcome his drinking habits, he was found in a delirious condition outside a saloon that was used as a voting place. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1894 | * | Oliver Wendell Holmes Cambridge, MA, physician/author (Old Ironsides), dies at age 85. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1913 | * | Benjamin Altman, American merchant; founded B. Altman department store chain, dies at age 73. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1922 | * | Marie Lloyd (Matalida Alice Wood) British musical entertainer known for her impersonations, dies. | Ref: 17 |
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| 1925 | * | Baseball pitcher Christy Mathewson dies of gas wounds received in World War I. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1931 | * | Daniel Chester French sculptor: public monuments: Minute Man statue in Concord, MA, Abraham Lincoln seated in the Lincoln Memorial, Washington DC; dies at age 81. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1939 | * | Harvey Cushing, American surgeon; pioneered important neurosurgery techniques, dies at age 70. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1950 | * | Willis Haviland Carrier developed air-conditioning equipment, dies at age 70. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1956 | * | 69 Clarence Birdseye 12/9/1886 10/7/1956 American businessman and pioneer of frozen foods | Ref: 70 |
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| 1959 | * | Mario Lanza (Alfred Cocozza) actor: That Midnight Kiss, The Great Caruso, Because You’re Mine, The Student Prince; singer: Be My Love, The Loveliest Night of the Year, Because You’re Mine, dies at 38 of a heart attack. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1963 | * | Hurricane Flora hits Haiti & Dominican Republic, kills 7,190. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1966 | * | Johnny Kidd (Frederick Heath) singer, songwriter: Please Don’t Touch; group: Johnny Kidd & The Pirates: You’ve Got What It Takes, Shakin’ All Over, Restless, Linda Lu, A Shot of Rhythm and Blues, I’ll Never Get Over You, Hungry for Love, Always and Ever; is killed in a car crash near Manchester, England. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1967 | * | Sir Norman Angell, English economist and Nobel Peace Prize winner, dies at age 93. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1985 | * | Terrorists hijacked an Italian cruise ship, Achille Lauro, demanding the release of prisoners held by Israel. Of the four hundred people on board, only Leon Klinghoffer, wheelchairbound, was shot to death; an example that the four Palestinian gunmen meant business. They surrendered two days later to the Egyptians who promised them free passage out of their country. When Klinghoffer’s body was returned to his native NY City, NY Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan said that Leon Klinghoffer died “because he was an American, because he was a Jew and because he was a free man.” | Ref: 5 |
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| 1988 | * | Billy Daniels singer, dies of cancer at 73. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1990 | * | John "Cat" Thompson basketball hall of famer, dies at 84. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1991 | * | Leo Durocher, baseball player & manager, "Nice guys finish last" dies at 86 | Ref: 68 |
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| 1992 | * | Allan Bloom author: The Closing of the American Mind, Love and Friendship; dies at age 62. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1993 | * | Cyril Cusack actor: Far and Away, My Left Foot, The Tenth Man, 1984, True Confessions, Les Miserables, The Day of the Jackal, Sacco & Vanzetti, King Lear, Harold and Maude, David Copperfield, The Taming of the Shrew, Fahrenheit 451, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, Waltz of the Toreadors, The Elusive Pimpernel, Odd Man Out, Late Extra; dies. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1993 | * | Agnes de Mille, American dancer and choreographer, dies at age 88. | Ref: 70 |
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| 2001 | * | Herbert L. Block, the Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist known as "Herblock" whose acid pen drove two angry presidents to cancel their subscriptions to The Washington Post (Eisenhower and Nixon), dies of pneumonia at age 91 at Sibley Memorial Hospital in Washington. Ref | |
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| 2001 | * | At least 114 people were killed after an SAS MD 87 airliner collided with a private jet, a twin-engine Cessna Citation II, during its takeoff roll on an airport runway in Milan, Italy. Four airport groundworkers were missing. Ref | |
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| 2003 | * | Eleanor Lambert, publicist who presided over the Best Dressed List dies at age 100, in New York. (WSJ, p A1, 10/08/2003) | Ref: 33 |
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