| -43 | * | -BC- Lyons, France founded by Lucius Plancus. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1639 | * | First pippin apples eaten in America in Boston. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1774 | * | Colonel Andrew Lewis defeats the Shawnees under Chief Cornstalk at the Battle of Point Pleasant (now in West Virginia). | Ref: 61 |
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| 1789 | * | In Versailles France, Joseph Guillotin says the most humane way of carrying out a death sentence is decapitation by a single blow of a blade. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1802 | * | First non indian settlement in Oklahoma. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1806 | * | (day unspecified) General Wilkinson receives Aaron Burr's ciphered July letter, as well as one from Senator Jonathan Dayton asking, "Are your numerous associates ready?" Burr's messenger, Samuel Swarthout, tells Wilkinson that Burr will lead 7,000 armed men on an attack against the Mexican provinces. Wilkinson decides to actively oppose Burr's plans. He prepares New Orleans for a possible attack and sends a messenger to inform the President of Burr's plans. He says Burr's troops will sail from New Orleans on February 1 and land in Vera Cruz, to begin a march to Mexico City. Meanwhile, Burr, Alston, and Blennerhassett meet in Lexington, Kentucky. Newspapers in the West begin discussing Burr's schemes. Some denounce him as a traitor, and accuse him of plotting the breakup of the Union. | Ref: 87 |
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| 1825 | * | The Stockton and Darlington Railroad opens for regular passenger service (Ref: Cornwall, F.L., "History of Railroads", Chartwell Books Inc, 1976). | |
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| 1839 | * | (day unspecified) Professor Josiah Gibbs locates interperter, James Covey, and the Africans from the Amistad are able to tell their story; teaching Africans the English language and Christianity began; Cinque and others file charges of assualt and false imprisonment against Ruiz and Montes. | Ref: 87 |
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| 1840 | * | (day unspecified) Former President John Quincy Adams is persuaded to join Roger Baldwin in arguing the case for the Africans before the Supreme Court. | Ref: 87 |
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| 1845 | * | The Naval School (now called US Naval Academy) opens at Annapolis. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1854 | * | US Assay Office in New York City, NY opens. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1863 | * | The first telegraph line to Denver is completed. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1868 | | Cuba revolts for independence against Spain. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1868 | | Declaration of the plan of Yara in Cuba. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1874 | * | Fiji becomes a British possession. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1886 | * | Griswold Lorillard (of Lorillard tobacco fame) wore a tailless dress coat that was tailored in England. He wore it to the country club at Tuxedo Park, NY; therefore, the name: tuxedo. The rest is formal fashion history. The tux would later replace the tailcoat. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1903 | * | Emmeline Pankhurst begins her quest for female equality in Britain forming Union in Manchester. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1913 | | Gamboa Dam in Panama blown up; Atlantic & Pacific waters mix. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1933 | * | At Rio de Janeiro, nations of the Western Hemisphere sign a non-aggression and conciliation treaty. President Roosevelt adopts a "good neighbor" policy toward Latin America and announces a policy of nonintervention in Latin American affairs at the December 7th International American Conference at Montevideo, Uruguay. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1933 | * | Dreft, the first synthetic laundry detergent, went on sale. Ten years later, Dreft was the sponsor of The Dreft Star Playhouse. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1934 | * | A New Jersey grand jury indicts Bruno Hauptmann on murder and kidnapping charges of Charles A. Lindbergh, Jr.1935 0102 (Lindbergh) The Hauptmann trial begins in Flemington, New Jersey for the murder and kidnapping of Charles A. Lindbergh, Jr. | Ref: 87 |
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| 1934 | * | (Scottsboro Boys) (day unspecified) Two lawyers are charged with attempting to bribe Victoria Price in order to change her testimony. | Ref: 87 |
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| 1938 | * | Germany completed its annexation of Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1938 | * | (Scottsboro Boys) (day unspecified) Pardon Board denies the pardon applications of Norris, Weems, and Roy Wright. | Ref: 87 |
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| 1938 | * | (Scottsboro Boys) (day unspecified) Governor Graves interviews Scottsboro boys. | Ref: 87 |
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| 1942 | * | (day unspecified) Groves puts Du Pont in charge of the plutonium production project. | Ref: 91 |
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| 1942 | * | (day unspecified) Conant recommends to Bush that information exchange withBritain, already largely one-way (UK -> US), be sharply restricted. Bush passes this recommendation to Roosevelt. As a result the US loses access to British work in gaseous diffusion, which seriously delays successful plant completion. | Ref: 91 |
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| 1942 | * | (day unspecified) Centrifuge separation is abandoned due to technical problems. | Ref: 91 |
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| 1943 | * | Chiang Kai-shek takes oath of office as president of China. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1943 | * | Site preparation starts for the B-100 plutonium production reactor at Hanford. | Ref: 91 |
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| 1944 | * | (Scottsboro Boys) (day unspecified) Norris is returned to prison. | Ref: 87 |
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| 1946 | * | (Scottsboro Boys) (day unspecified) Andy Wright is returned to Kilby prison. | Ref: 87 |
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| 1957 | * | President Dwight D. Eisenhower apologized to Komla Agbeli Gbdemah, the finance minister of Ghana, after the official had been refused service in a Dover, Del., restaurant. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1961 | * | In the first expansion draft in National League history, the New York Mets spend $1.8 million to draft 22 players at the Netherland-Hilton Hotel in Cincinnati. | Ref: 86 |
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| 1961 | * | Otis M Smith appointed to Michigan Supreme Court. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1962 | * | (Berlin Wall) The Senate votes by voice to authorize the President to use force in Germany after the building of the Berlin Wall. (USA Today, p 5A, 10/08/2002) | Ref: 13 |
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| 1963 | * | Treaty banning atmospheric nuclear tests signed by US, UK, USSR. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1967 | * | (Chicago 7) (day unspecified) Abbie Hoffman is arrested while attempting to measure the Pentagon. | Ref: 87 |
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| 1970 | * | Quebec Labor Minister Pierre Laporte was kidnapped by the Quebec Liberation Front, a militant separatist group. (Laporte's body was found about a week later.) | Ref: 70 |
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| 1970 | * | Fiji became independent after nearly a century of British rule. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1971 | * | London Bridge officially re-opens in Lake Havasu, Arizona, U.S.A.;total cost $6.9 million. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1973 | * | Spiro T. Agnew resigns as Vice President. Agnew was forced to resign after a Justice Dept. investigation uncovered evidence of corruption during his years in Maryland politics; his alleged acceptance of bribes overlapped with his tenure as Vice President. He pleaded no contest to the charge of federal income tax evasion. He was sentenced to three years' probation and fined $10,000; and he was disbarred in 1974 by the Maryland court of appeals. (XDG, p 4A, 10/10/2000) | Ref: 83 |
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| 1973 | * | President Richard Nixon names Gerald Ford as the new vice president. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1978 | * | President Jimmy Carter signed a bill authorizing the $1 Susan B. Anthony coin. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1979 | | Panama assumes sovereignty over Canal Area (ie Canal Zone). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1982 | * | Pope John Paul II canonizes Rev M Kolbe, who volunteered to die in place of another inmate at Auschwitz concentration camp, a saint. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1983 | | Israel's Knesset votes 60-53 to endorse Yitzhak Shamir as PM. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1985 | * | US fighter jets force Egyptian plane carrying hijackers of Italian ship Achille Lauro to land in Italy, gunmen are placed in custody. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1986 | * | Israel Prime Minister Shimon Peres resigns. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1986 | * | 7.5 Earthquake strikes San Salvador, El Salvador. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1991 | * | Greyhound Bus ends bankruptcy | Ref: 5 |
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| 1992 | | Floriade (Flower Show) closes at the Hague, Netherlands. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1996 | * | University of Chicago professor Robert E. Lucas won the Nobel Prize in economics for demonstrating how people's fears and expectations can frustrate policymakers' efforts to shape the economy. | Ref: 6 |
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| 1997 | * | Jodie Williams, key organizer of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines, won the Nobel Peace Prize. And what did she say was her secret weapon for organizing 1,000 different human rights and arms control groups on six continents? “E-mail.” | Ref: 4 |
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| 1998 | * | A NY judge awarded $185,000 in damages to a white former prosecutor who was falsely accused by advisers to Tawana Brawley of taking part in the alleged rape of the black woman. | Ref: 70 |
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| 2000 | | Portugal's governing Socialist Party was returned to power by a comfortable margin in a general election. | Ref: 6 |
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| 2001 | * | President George W. Bush released a list of 22 most-wanted terror suspects, including Osama bin Laden. | Ref: 70 |
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| 2003 | * | Shirin Ebadi of Iran is announced as this year's winner of the Nobel Peace Prize. (New York Times, p 4, 10/19/2003) | |
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| 2003 | * | (I-270 Sniper) A woman driving north on US 23 north of I-270 had a flat tire. She didn't know the tire had been shot until she took the tire to be repaired. (XDG, p 2A, 12/03/2003) | Ref: 83 |
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| 1604 | * | The new star (supernova) is first observed in Padua. | |
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| 1846 | * | Neptunian moon Triton discovered by William Lassel. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1865 | * | The billiard ball was patented by John Wesley Hyatt. Mr. Hyatt won $10,000 in a contest. He was the first person to come up with a substitute for the ivory ball (in use at the time). | Ref: 4 |
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| 1889 | * | O.B. Brown patented a "projecting device" combining a magic lantern and a phenakistiscope. The first true movie projector. | Ref: 73 |
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| 1947 | * | US Patent Office issued a patent on the Norden Bombsight applied for 17 years earlier. | Ref: 50 |
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| 1960 | * | Mars 1960A - USSR Mars Probe fails to reach Earth Orbit. | Ref: 40 |
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| 1980 | * | Very Large Array (VLA) radio telescope network dedicated | Ref: 62 |
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| 1990 | * | US 67th manned space mission STS 41 (Discovery 11) returns from space | Ref: 5 |
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| 1991 | * | The space shuttle "Discovery" landed safely at Edwards Air Force Base in CA, ending a virtually flawless four-day mission. | Ref: 6 |
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| 732 | * | At Tours, France, Charles Martel kills Abd el-Rahman and halts the Muslim invasion of Europe. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1733 | * | France declares war on Austria over the question of Polish succession. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1794 | * | Russian General Alexander Vasilyevich Suvorov crushes the rebel Polish army at Maciejowice, Poland. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1911 | | Revolution in China begins with a bomb explosion and the discovery of revolutionary headquarters in Hankow. The revolutionary movement spread rapidly through west and southern China, forcing the abdication of the last Ch'ing emperor, six-year-old Henry Pu-Yi. By October 26, the Chinese Republic will be proclaimed, and on December 4, Premier Yuan Shih-K'ai will sign a truce with rebel general Li Yuan-hung. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1914 | * | German forces route Belgians in Antwerp Belgium (WW I) | Ref: 5 |
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| 1940 | * | St. Paul's Cathedral in London bombed by Germans. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1941 | * | Soviet troops halt the German advance on Moscow. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1944 | * | (through the 29th) Soviet troops capture Riga. | Ref: 36 |
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| 1966 | * | U.S. Forces launch Operation Robin, in Hoa Province south of Saigon in South Vietnam, to provide road security between villages. | Ref: 2 |
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| 2001 | * | (Afghan Conflict) AF MSG Evander Andrews dies in a heavy equipment accident in Qatar, in support of the Afghan operation. (USA Today, p 7A, 1/21/2002) | Ref: 13 |
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| 2002 | * | The House voted 296-133 to give President George W. Bush the broad authority he'd sought to use military force against Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein, with or without U.N. support. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1857 | * | American Chess Association formed (NYC). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1904 | * | Yanks 2 games out play first place Red Sox on final day doubleheader game winner Chesbro loses the 1st game & chance at pennant. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1908 | * | Baseball Writers Association, formed. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1920 | * | Second baseman Bill Wambganss of Cleveland executes an unassisted triple play against Brooklyn, in the World Series. (2003 Sports Illustrated Almanac, ISBN 1-929049-55-2) | |
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| 1920 | * | Phoenix Cardinals (then in Chicago) play first NFL game, a 0-0 tie. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1920 | * | Outfielder Elmer Smith becomes the first player to hit a grand slam in World Series history as the Indians defeat the Dodgers and Burleigh Grimes, 8-1. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1921 | * | NFL Decatur Staleys become Chicago Staleys, win 14-10. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1923 | * | In the first post season game ever played at Yankee Stadium, veteran Giant outfielder Casey Stengel breaks a 4-4 deadlock in the top of the ninth inning with an inside-the-park HR off Joe Bush. It is the first World Series game to be broadcast nationally. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1923 | * | NY Giants & NY Yankees become first teams to play each other for 3 consecutive World Series, also 1st played at Yankee Stadium (World Series #20). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1924 | * | With the score tied at 3-3 and one out in the bottom of the 12th, Senator backstop Muddy Ruel lifts a high catchable foul popl-up which Giant catcher Hank Gowdy misses as he stumbles over his own mask. Given a second chance, Ruel then doubles and eventually scores the winning run. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1926 | * | St Louis Cards beat NY Yankees, 4 games to 3 in 23rd World Series. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1931 | * | St Louis Cards beat Phila A's, 4 games to 3 in 28th World Series. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1931 | * | AJ Bennett hits H Garbarino for first scoring pass in Canada's Big 4. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1937 | * | NY Yankees beat Giants 4 games to 1 in 34th World Series. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1945 | * | Detroit Tigers beat Chicago Cubs, 4 games to 3 in 42nd World Series. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1948 | * | The largest crowd ever to attend an American League game, 86,288 fans, jam Cleveland's Municipal Stadium to witness Boston Brave hurler Warren Spahn beat Bob Feller and the Indians, 11-5 in Game 5 of the Fall Classic. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1951 | * | Hank Bauer’s bases-loaded triple in Game 6 propelled the NY Yankees to a 4-3 win and their third straight world championship, 4 games to 2. It was Joe DiMaggio’s final game (his 51st World Series game). | Ref: 4 |
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| 1957 | * | Braves' Lew Burdette beats Yankees for 3rd time in 1 world series (World Series #54). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1957 | * | Milwaukee Braves beat NY Yankees, 4 games to 3 in 53rd World Series. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1960 | * | Ron Stewart of Ottawa rushes for CFL-record 287 yards. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1964 | * | 18th modern Olympic games opens in Tokyo. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1968 | * | Two of the season’s best pitchers were on the mound for game seven of the World Series between the Detroit Tigers and the St. Louis Cardinals. It was Mickey Lolich against Bob Gibson, with Lolich winning and being named Series MVP in the process. The Tigers were only the third team to win a world championship after being down three games to one. The clubs combined for ninety-nine strikeouts in sixty-three innings of play. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1968 | * | Lee Evans of the US sets 400 meter record at 43.86. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1968 | * | Cardinal fireballer Bob Gibson sets mark for total strikeouts (35) in a World Series, but loses the seventh and deciding game to Tigers, 4-1. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1970 | * | Boog Powell, Ellie Hendricks and Brooks Robinson homer to power the Orioles over Reds at Riverfront Stadium in the first game of the World Series. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1971 | * | First game played at Philadelphia's Veteran Stadium, Phils win 4-1. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1973 | * | In the fifth and deciding game, Mets win National League pennant beating Reds, 9-2. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1974 | | Canadian John Hathaway begins 2-yr ride of 50,600 miles. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1976 | | NJ Meadowlands' Giant's Stadium opens. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1976 | * | Greece's 98 year-old Dimitrion Yordanidis, is oldest man to compete in a marathon; he finishes in 7:33. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1977 | * | It was all over but the pantyhose commercials for Joe Namath, as he ended his playing career -- on ABC’s Monday Night Football. It was a game that saw his new team, the LA Rams, tangle with the Chicago Bears. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1978 | * | Yanks & Dodgers play in 75th World Series. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1979 | * | Nordiques' Real Cloutier sets NHL record of a hat trick in first game. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1980 | * | Yanks lose 4-2 & are swept by Royals in the AL Championship series | Ref: 5 |
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| 1981 | * | The Montreal Expos win their first National League East division title. Playing the first-half title-holding Phillies, Warren Cromartie grabs a line drive at first base at Philadelphia's Veterans' Stadium to clinch the best-of-five division series 3 games to 2. | Ref: 86 |
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| 1982 | * | The Brewers become the first team to overcome an 0-2 start in a best of a five-game LCS and take the American League pennant by winning the remaining three games against Angels. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1991 | * | The Oakland A's swept to the American League pennant and their third straight World Series by defeating the Boston Red Sox, 3-to-1. | Ref: 6 |
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| 1993 | * | Frank Thomas is selected as the American League's Most Valuable player. The first baseman batted .317 with 41 home runs and knocked in 128 runs for the division-winning White Sox. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1995 | * | Gary Kasparov retained his PCA (Professional Chess Association) title by defeating Indian superstar Viswanathan Anand. The match had lasted nearly a month. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1999 | * | Scoring more than 19 NFL teams, the Red Sox establish a major league record for most runs and biggest margin of victory in a post-season game as they rout the Indians, 23-7 to tie the 5-game series at two games apiece. | Ref: 1 |
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| 2000 | * | In a 2-0 Seattle victory, the Mariners (9) and Yankees (13) combined for 22 strikeouts to set an ALCS record in Game 1 of the series. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1928 | * | You’re the Cream in My Coffee ... comes from Hold Everything, which opened on Broadway this day. It ran for 413 performances. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1932 | | Two of radio’s earliest efforts at soap operas were heard for the first time. Judy and Jane, sponsored by Folger’s Coffee, and Betty and Bob, sponsored by General Mills, had listeners glued to their radios into the early 1940s. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1935 | * | George Gershwin's opera "Porgy & Bess" opens on Broadway. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1937 | | The Mutual Broadcasting System debuted Thirty Minutes in Hollywood. 48 sponsors shared the cost of the program that aired in 72 cities nationwide. It was the first Mutual co-op radio show. George Jessel and Norma Talmadge starred. Music was provided by the Tommy Tucker Orchestra. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1940 | * | Moonlight and Roses, by Lanny Ross, was recorded on the Victor label. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1947 | * | "Allegro" opens at the Majestic Theater on Broadway. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1957 | | Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged" is published. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1958 | * | The television show "77 Sunset Strip" debuts. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1961 | | Catch-22 is published. | Ref: 62 |
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| 1965 | * | The Red Baron made his first appearance in the Peanuts comic strip with the defender of all good, Snoopy. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1968 | * | George Harrison forms Singsong Ltd. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1970 | * | Neil Diamond reached the #1 spot on the pop music charts for the first time with Cracklin’ Rosie. In 1972, Diamond would reach a similar pinnacle with Song Sung Blue. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1975 | * | Elizabeth Taylor marries her sixth husband Richard Burton the second time. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1978 | | British pop magazine "Smash Hits," first published. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1979 | * | Fleetwood Mac receives a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1987 | * | Bruce Springsteen releases his 9th album "Tunnel of Love". | Ref: 5 |
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| 1560 | * | Birth of Jacob Arminius, the Dutch theologian from whose writings and doctrines Protestants opposed to Calvinism have since been called "Arminians." | Ref: 5 |
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| 1684 | * | Jean-Antoine Watteau, French painter, is born. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1731 | * | Henry Cavendish, English physicist who measured the density and mass of the Earth, is born. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1738 | * | Benjamin West, American painter (Death of General Wolfe), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1770 | * | Benjamin Wright, American engineer; directed construction of Erie Canal, is born. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1813 | * | Giuseppe Verdi, composed operas (Rigoletto, Aida, Otello), is born in Le Roncole, Italy. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1825 | * | Paulus Kruger Pres of South African Republic (1883), Boer leader, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1830 | * | Queen Isabella II Queen of Spain (1833-68), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1834 | * | Aleksis Kivi Finland, playwright (Kullervo, Seitsem„n Veljest„), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1838 | * | Birth of Theodore Zahn, German Lutheran Bible and patristics scholar. Author of many monographs and commentaries, Zahn's leading work was his 3-volume "Introduction to the New Testament" (1899; 1909). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1841 | * | Birth of William A. Ogden, American sacred composer. A student of Lowell Mason, Ogden became a well-known music teacher, and penned the hymns "Bring Them In" and "He is Able to Deliver Thee." | Ref: 5 |
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| 1851 | * | Birth of W. Robertson Nicoll, Scottish theologian. At one time editor of five periodicals, his most enduring achievement was "The Expositor's Greek Testament," a series of 50 volumes of commentaries he edited and published between 1888-1905. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1859 | * | Maurice Prendergas, American-born Canadian painter, is born. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1861 | * | Fridtjof Nansen Norweg Arctic explorer/humanitarian (Nobel 1922), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1892 | * | Ivo Andric Yugoslavia, novelist (Bridge on the Drina, Nobel '61), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1895 | * | Lin Yo-t'ang China, writer (My Country & My People), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1900 | * | Actress Helen Hayes (Brown) (First Lady of the American Theater) is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1901 | * | Alberto Giacometti, Swiss sculptor and painter, is born. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1901 | * | Frederick Douglass Patterson, American educator; president of Tuskegee Institute (1935-53) and founder of United Negro College Fund, is born. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1903 | | Vernon Duke is born. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1906 | * | Paul Creston [Giuseppe Guttoveggio], NY, composer (Creative Harmony), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1908 | * | John Green NYC, composer (Body & Soul, Guy Lombardo's arranger), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1910 | * | Price Daniel (Gov/Sen-D-TX), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1913 | * | Johnny Downs Brooklyn NY, actor (Manhattan Showcase), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1913 | | Claude Simon is born. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1914 | * | Ivory Joe Hunter singer, musician: piano: Since I Met You Baby, I Almost Lost My Mind, I Need You So; songwriter: Ain’t That Loving You Baby, My Wish Come True, Blues at Sunrise; died Nov 8, 1974 | Ref: 4 |
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| 1918 | * | Bobby Byrne Columbus Ohio, orch leader (Club Seven), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1924 | * | James Clavell, novelist (Shogun, Noble House), is born. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1926 | * | Richard (Hanley) Jaeckel, NY, actor (3:10 to Yuma, Sands of Iwo Jima), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1930 | * | Adlai Stevenson III (D-Sen-Ill), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1930 | * | Harold Pinter England, playwright (Homecoming, Servant), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1933 | * | Daniel Massey London, actress (Vault of Horror), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1937 | * | Bruce Devlin golf: 8 PGA Tour titles, 3-time Australian PGA champ, Australian Open champ: 1960, desiged over 140 courses, TV commentator: NBC, ESPN, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1941 | * | Laurence Henry Tribe Shanghai China, Harvard Law professor, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1941 | * | Dallas Smith hockey: Pittsburgh Hornets, Portland Buckaroos, San Francisco Seals, Oklahoma City Blazers, Boston Bruins, NY Rangers, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1943 | * | Joe Don Looney football: Univ. of OK, NY Giants, Baltimore Colts, Detroit Lions, Washington Redskins, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1946 | * | Ben Vereen, Miami Fla, actor/dancer (Pippin, Roots, Webster), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1946 | * | Charles Dance actor: Undertow, The Surgeon, Last Action Hero, Alien 3, China Moon, The Phantom of the Opera, White Mischief, The Jewel in the Crown, For Your Eyes Only, is born in England. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1946 | * | Pete Mahovlich hockey: NHL: Detroit Red Wings, Montreal Canadiens, Pittsburgh Penguins, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1946 | * | John Prine singer, songwriter, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1946 | * | (Fury) Gene Tenace baseball: Oakland Athletics [World Series: 1972, 1973, 1974/all-star: 1975], SD Padres, SL Cardinals [World Series: 1982], Pittsburgh Pirates, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1949 | * | Jessica Harper actress: Eat a Bowl of Tea, Blue Iguana, My Favorite Year, Pennies from Heaven, Stardust Memories, Phantom of the Paradise, The Innocent and the Damned, It’s Garry Shandling’s Show, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1950 | * | Dennis Holmes actor (Mike-Laramie), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1953 | * | Gus Williams NBA guard (Golden State, Seattle, Washington), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1953 | * | Midge Ure rocker (Dear God, Ultravox-We Came to Dance), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1955 | * | David Lee Roth rock singer (Van Halen-Jump), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1956 | * | Melissa Belote, Olympic gold medalist:100-meter & 200-meter backstroke [world record: 2:19:19], 4x100 meter medley relay [1972], is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1956 | * | Tennis champion Martina Navratilova is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1958 | * | John M Grunsfeld Chicago Ill, PhD/astronaut, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1958 | * | Tanya Tucker, Seminole TX, country singer/actress (Follow that Car), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1959 | * | Chris Lowe rocker (Pet Shop Boys-Left to My Own Devices), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1959 | * | Bradley Whitford actor: The West Wing, Adventures in Babysitting, Scent of a Woman, Black Tie Affair, Billy Madison, In the Line of Duty: Blaze of Glory, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1961 | * | Martin Kemp rocker (Spandau Ballet-True), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1963 | * | Rebecca Pidgeon actress: Heist, Homicide, The Winslow Boy, State and Main, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1964 | * | Maxi Gnauck German DR, uneven parallel bars (Olympic-gold-1980), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1966 | * | Kevin Paige vocalist (Don't Shut Me Out), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1969 | * | Brett Favre, football: Southern MS; Atlanta Falcons, Green Bay Packers quarterback, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1971 | * | Tiffany Mynx (Shannon Cummings), actress: X-rated films, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1973 | * | Mario Lopez San Diego CA, actor (Slater-Saved by the Bell), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1978 | * | Jodi Lyn O’Keefe, actress: Nash Bridges, Halloween H20: 20 Years Later, Whatever It Takes, Teacher’s Pet, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1979 | * | Mya (Marie Harrison) singer: LPs: Mya, Fear Of Flying; in films: Bulworth, The Rugrats Movie, Moulin Rouge!, Atlantis: The Lost Empire), is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1982 | * | Eddie J Peck Lynchburg Pa, actor (Sutton-Wildside), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 19 | * | Germanicus, the best loved of Roman princes, dies of poisoning. On his deathbed he accuses Piso, the governor of Syria, of poisoning him. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1774 | * | Pucksinwah, the adopted father of Blue Jacket, dies in battle against white settlers near modern Wheeling, WV in what has come to be called Lord Dunmore's War. | Ref: 57 |
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| 1777 | * | Shawnee Chief Cornstalk, his son Elinipsico and a village sub chief named Red Hawk are taken prisoner and subsequently murdered at Fort Randolf, KY while under a flag of truce. | Ref: 57 |
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| 1780 | * | Great Hurricane of 1780 kills 20,000 to 30,000 in Caribbean. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1797 | * | (Declaration of Independence) Carter Braxton, farmer, signer of the Declaration of Independence, dies. | Ref: 68 |
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| 1857 | * | Thomas Crawford, American sculptor of "Freedom" figure on top of the Capitol dome, dies at age 43. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1872 | * | US Secretary of State who negotiated the purchase of Alaska from Russia for $7,200,000 [Seward's Folly], dies at age 71. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1877 | * | Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer is buried at West Point in NY. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1886 | * | David L Yule first Jewish US senator, dies. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1888 | * | Teetotalers excursion train crushed, killing 64 (Mud Run Pa). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1913 | * | Adolphus Busch brewer: founder of Anheuser-Busch, the world’s largest beer brewery; dies at age 74. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1925 | * | James Buchanan Duke, American tobacco magnate, dies at age 68. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1933 | * | 18,000 cotton workers went on strike in Pixley, California. Four were killed before a pay-hike was finally won. | Ref: 59 |
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| 1948 | * | Ted Horn auto racer: shares record for most consecutive national titles [three, 1946-1948]; never finished worse than fourth during a 9-race stretch [1936-1948]; is killed in a crash at DuQuoin, IL State Fairgrounds. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1959 | * | Prince Friedrich of Liechtenstein, dies. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1964 | * | Russ Case orch leader (Julius La Rosa Show), dies at 52. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1964 | * | Eddie Cantor (Iskowitz) ‘banjo eyes’: actor, singer: If You Knew Susie like I Know Susie, Alabamy Bound, Dinah, Ida, Makin’ Whoopee, Ma He’s Makin’ Eyes at Me, dies at age 72. | Ref: 68 |
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| 1970 | * | Edouard Daladier, the French politician who was a signer of the Munich Pact of 1938, dies. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1976 | * | Connee Boswell singer (Pete Kelly's Blue), dies at 68. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1978 | * | Ralph H Metcalfe (Rep-D-Ill), dies at 68. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1978 | | Jacques Brel dies. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1978 | * | Ralph Marterie ‘Caruso of the trumpet’: musician, bandleader: Pretend, Caravan, Skokiaan; dies. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1980 | * | 4,500 die when a pair of earthquakes strike NW Algeria. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1981 | * | Anwar Sadat's funeral service is held in Cairo. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1983 | * | Sir Ralph Richardson, English actor, dies at age 80. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1985 | * | Orson Welles actor (Citizen Kane), dies at 70. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1985 | * | Yul Brynner actor (King & I), dies of cancer at 70 in New York City. | Ref: 68 |
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| 1990 | * | Dick Jorgensen NFL referee, dies at 56 | Ref: 5 |
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| 1990 | * | Wally (Wallace) Moses baseball: Philadelphia Athletics [all-star: 1937], Chicago White Sox [all-star: 1945], Boston Red Sox [World Series: 1946]; dies. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1991 | * | Ex-postal worker Joseph Harris kills 4 postal workers. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1998 | * | Former Defense Secretary and presidential adviser Clark M. Clifford died at age 91. | Ref: 70 |
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| 2000 | * | Six college students getting out of their cars or walking along a highway on their way to a fraternity party at TX A-and-M University were struck and killed by a pickup truck whose driver who had fallen asleep. | Ref: 6 |
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| 2000 | * | Sirimavo Bandaranaike Ceylon Prime Minister: first woman prime minister in the world; dies. | Ref: 4 |
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| 2003 | * | Marie Marcus, jazz pianist and protegee of Fats Waller, dies in Hyannis MA at age 89. (NY Times, p 30, 10/19/2003) | |
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