| 310 | * | St Eusebius ends his reign as Catholic Pope. | Ref: 5 |
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| 686 | * | Conon begins his reign as Catholic Pope. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1032 | * | Benedict IX begins his first reign as Catholic Pope. | Ref: 69 |
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| 1187 | * | Alberto di Morra is elected Pope Gregory VIII. | Ref: 69 |
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| 1529 | * | The Pope names Henry VIII of England Defender of the Faith after defending the seven sacraments against Luther. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1553 | * | Volumes of the Talmud are burned. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1692 | * | William Penn was deposed as Governor of Pennsylvania. His overtures of gratefulness to James II for permitting religious freedom for dissenters of the Church of England led William and Mary to charge Penn with being a papist. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1751 | * | The first Baptist association in the American South was organized at Charleston, SC. It was formed under the initiative of Oliver Hart, who had left the Philadelphia area to become pastor of the Charleston Baptist Church in 1749. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1770 | * | (Boston Massacre) The eight soldiers appeal from jail to be tried along with their captain. Their request is denied. | Ref: 87 |
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| 1790 | * | The Tricolor is chosen as the official flag of France. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1797 | * | The Constitution (nicknamed "Old Ironsides"), a forty-four-gun U.S. Navy frigate built to fight Barbary pirates off the coast of Tripoli, is launched in Boston Harbor. Ref | |
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| 1837 | * | Under a flag of truce during peace talks, U.S. troops siege the Indian Seminole Chief Osceola in Florida. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1846 | * | Donner Party: Paiute Indians kill 21 oxen with poison arrows. | Ref: 27 |
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| 1867 | * | Many leaders of the Kiowa, Comanche and Kiowa-Apache sign a peace treaty at Medicine Lodge, Kan. Comanche Chief Quanah Parker refused to accept the treaty terms. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1868 | * | $3 million damage in San Francisco earthquake. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1868 | * | Severe earthquake at 7:53 AM, centered in Hayward, Calif. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1872 | * | The U.S. Naval Academy admits John H. Conyers, the first African American to be accepted. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1897 | * | Yerkes Observatory of the University of Chicago is dedicated. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1909 | * | Halley's comet sighted from Cambridge observatory. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1913 | * | Camel brand cigarettes introduced to the public by the R.J. Reynolds company. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1917 | * | Lenin returned secretly to the city to participate in the Central Committee meeting of October 23. | Ref: 90 |
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| 1918 | | A typing speed record was set by Margaret Owen of New York City. Margaret typed 170 words per minute on a manual typewriter. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1923 | * | (Sweet) KKKers riot at an anti-Klan rally. | Ref: 87 |
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| 1925 | * | (Prohibition) The U.S. Treasury Department announces that it had fined 29,620 people for (alcohol) prohibition violations. The fines totaled $5,000,000. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1933 | * | John Dillinger robs the Peru, Indiana, police station arsenal with Pierpont and Dietrich. | Ref: 42 |
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| 1939 | * | First meeting of the Advisory Committee on Uranium (the "Briggs Uranium Committee") in Washington, DC, created at President Roosevelt's order. Lyman Briggs of the Bureau of Standards presides, attendees include Szilard, Wigner, Sachs, Edward Teller, Army Lt. Col. Adamson, and Navy Cmdr. Hoover. Physicists argue for urgent government attention, Adamson is hostile. Teller requests $6000 for research on preliminary uranium-graphite slow neutron experiments, which is grudgingly approved. A report of the meeting is sent to FDR on Nov. 1, but no action results. | Ref: 91 |
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| 1941 | * | Compton holds a meeting in Schenectady, NY with Lawrence, Oppenheimer, George Kistiakowsky, and James Conant (new head of the NDRC), reviewing the MAUD Committee report, and the latest US work. The meeting ends with a consensus of the likely feasibility of a bomb. | Ref: 91 |
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| 1943 | * | First concrete is poured for the K-25 building at Oak Ridge. | Ref: 91 |
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| 1945 | * | Women in France were allowed to vote for the first time. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1960 | * | The fourth -- and last -- debate preceding the presidential election between U.S. Senator John F. Kennedy and U.S. Vice President Richard M. Nixon is televised from New York City. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1965 | * | The Nobel prize for chemistry was awarded to Robert Burns Woodward for “for his outstanding achievements in the art of organic synthesis.” | Ref: 4 |
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| 1969 | | Bloodless coup in Somalia (National Day). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1970 | * | 777 Unification church couples wed in Korea. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1970 | * | Caledonian Airways takes over British United Airways. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1971 | * | (US Supreme Court Justice) President Richard Nixon nominates Lewis F Powell & William H Rehnquist to US Supreme Court, following resignations of Justices Hugo Black & John Harlan. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1973 | * | J Paul Getty III's ear is cut off and mailed to his family as proof that the kidnapping is no hoax. | Ref: 52 |
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| 1973 | * | Baseball manager Dick Williams turned in his last lineup card as skipper as the Oakland A’s won their second straight World Series. Bert Campaneris and Reggie Jackson each hit two-run homers as the A’s defeated the NY Mets 5-2 in game 7, and took the Series four games to three. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1975 | * | Mexico City's 1st major subway accident takes 26 lives. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1976 | * | American Saul Bellow won the Nobel Prize for Literature “for the human understanding and subtle analysis of contemporary culture that are combined in his work.” | Ref: 4 |
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| 1977 | * | US recalls William Bowdler, ambassador to South Africa. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1986 | * | Edward Austin Tracy, an American living in Beirut, was kidnapped in Lebanon | Ref: 62 |
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| 1987 | * | (US Supreme Court Justice) Senate debate begins rejecting Robert Bork's Supreme Court nomination. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1988 | * | A federal grand jury in NY indicted former Philippine President Ferdinand E. Marcos and his wife, Imelda, on charges of fraud and racketeering. Marcos died before he could be brought to trial; his widow, Imelda, was acquitted in 1990. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1989 | * | Rescue workers in Oakland, California, pull longshoreman Buck Helm alive from the wreckage of the Nimitz Freeway, part of which had collapsed during the October 17th earthquake. (However, Helm dies less than a month later.) | Ref: 6 |
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| 2001 | * | Washington postal worker Thomas L. Morris Jr. died of inhaled anthrax; officials closed two postal facilities and began testing thousands of postal employees. | Ref: 70 |
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| -2137 | * | -BC- 1st recorded total eclipse of the sun China. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1520 | * | Magellan enters the strait which bears his name. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1879 | * | After 14 months of experimenting in Menlo Park, NJ, Thomas Alva Edison succeeded in producing a working prototype of the electric, incandescent lamp. It could burn for 13.5 hours. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1915 | | The first transatlantic message is transmitted over radiotelephone. The call was placed from Arlington, Virginia, to the Eiffel Tower in Paris. | Ref: 3 |
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| 1925 | * | The photoelectric cell, the little device that decides when to turn your flood lights on and off, was first demonstrated at the Electric Show in New York City. The light-sensitive cell was used to count objects as they interrupted a light beam. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1948 | * | The first high-speed radio fax was sent. To demonstrate the speed of the line, capable of transmitting one million words per minute, RCA transmitted all 1047 pages of the novel "Gone with the Wind" from a radio station to the Library of Congress in two minutes and twenty-one seconds. | Ref: 3 |
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| 1959 | * | Dr. Wernher Von Braun arrives at NASA. | Ref: 3 |
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| 1975 | * | Venera 9, first craft to orbit the planet Venus launched. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1096 | * | Seljuk Turks at Chivitot slaughter thousands of German crusaders. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1097 | * | The Crusaders first arrive in front of Antioch. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1600 | | Tokugawa Ieyasu defeats his enemies in battle and affirms his position as Japan's most powerful warlord. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1805 | * | A British fleet commanded by Adm. Horatio Nelson defeated a French and Spanish fleet in the Battle of Trafalgar; Nelson, however, was killed. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1861 | * | The Battle of Ball's Bluff, Va. begins, a disastrous Union defeat which sparks Congressional investigations. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1904 | * | Panamanians clash with U.S. Marines in Panama in a brief uprising. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1917 | * | Members of the First Division of the US Army training in Luneville, France, became the first Americans to see action on the front lines of World War One at Sommervillier under French command. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1918 | * | Germany ceases unrestricted U-boat warfare. | |
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| 1939 | * | As war heats up with Germany, the British war cabinet holds its first meeting in the underground war room in London. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1942 | * | Eight American and British officers land from a submarine on an Algerian beach to take measure of Vichy French to the Operation Torch landings.Sub-Task Force Goalpost in the crucible of Operation Torch. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1943 | * | Eight American and British officers land from a submarine on an Algerian beach to take measure of Vichy French to the Operation Torch landings. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1944 | * | During WWII, US troops capture Aachen, the 1st large German city to fall. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1950 | | Chinese forces occupy Tibet. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1950 | * | North Korean Premier Kim Il-sung establishes a new capital at Sinuiju on the Yalu River opposite the Chinese City of Antung | Ref: 2 |
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| 1967 | * | (22nd and 23rd) The "March on the Pentagon," protesting American involvement in Vietnam , draws 50,000 protesters. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1983 | * | The United States sends a ten-ship task force to Grenada.
The United States sends a ten-ship task force to Grenada. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1871 | | First US amateur outdoor athletic games (NY). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1891 | * | A one-mile dirt track opened for harness races at the site of the present-day Tennessee State Fairgrounds in Nashville. The first automobile races was held in 1904, the track was paved and lighted in 1956, and in 1958, NASCAR came to Nashville with the introduction of the NASCAR Winston Cup to be run on a brand-new half-mile oval. The legendary driver Joe Weatherly wins the first Winston Cup. | Ref: 3 |
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| 1905 | * | England Pilgrim Assn beats All NY 11, 7-1 in soccer at Polo Grounds. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1935 | * | Hank Greenberg is elected the American League's Most Valuable Player unanimously. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1950 | * | Tom Powers of Duke scores 6 touchdowns. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1953 | * | Carl ‘Bobo’ Olson beats Randy Turpin in a middleweight boxing match at Madison Square Garden in New York City. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1973 | * | Baseball manager Dick Williams turned in his last lineup card as skipper as the Oakland A’s won their second straight World Series. Bert Campaneris and Reggie Jackson each hit two-run homers as the A’s defeated the NY Mets 5-2 in game 7, and took the Series four games to three. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1974 | * | First Islander shut-out opponent-Billy Smith 5-0 vs Caps. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1975 | * | In the bottom of 12th inning of Game Six at Fenway Park, Red Sox backstop Carlton Fisk hits one of the most dramatic home runs in major league history forcing a seventh game with the Reds. This event was chosen as one of baseball's most memorable moments in 2002. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1976 | * | The Cincinnati Reds beat the NY Yankees in the World Series four games to zip. In game four, played this day, with Johnny Bench slugging two home runs for five RBIs, the Reds rang up a 7-2 victory. It was the Red’s second straight World Series championship. The Reds are the 1st team to win every game through League Championship Series and the World Series. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1976 | * | The New York Knicks retire Willis Reed's uniform no. 19. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1979 | * | Greta Waitz wins woman participation in NYC marathon (02:27:33). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1980 | * | In Game 6 in front of 65,838 fans at Veterans Stadium, the Phillies win their first World Series ever in the 98-year history of the franchise by defeating the Royals, 4-1. Winning pitcher Steve Carlton limits Kansas City to 4 hits in seven innings and Tug McGraw hurls the last two frames to pick up the save. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1984 | * | Steve Jones runs Chicago Marathon in world record 2:08:05. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1985 | * | William ‘The Refrigerator’ Perry of the Chicago Bears led his team to a 23-7 win over the Green Bay Packers. Perry, weighing in at 325 pounds (more than some Frigidaires), became a folk hero as he cut a path for Walter Payton’s two TDs. He then plodded over the goal line himself for another score. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1986 | * | After losing the first two World Series games at home, the Mets beat the Red Sox at Fenway Park, 7-1. Lenny Dykstra's first inning home run marks the third time in history in which the Mets lead off hitter has homered in the initial inning of Game 3 of the Fall Classic. The feat was also accomplished by Tommy Agee (1969) and Wayne Garrett (1973). | Ref: 1 |
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| 1988 | * | Boston Celtics beat Yugoslavia 113-85 in Madrid. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1989 | * | First black owners (Betram Lee & Peter Bynoe) to own a major sports team, purchasing Denver Nuggets for $65m. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1989 | * | Houston becomes first major college team to gain 1000 yards in a game. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1992 | * | The Florida Marlins sign their first Triple-A player in right-handed pitcher Matt Turner. He is assigned to Edmonton and invited to 1993 Spring Training. | Ref: 86 |
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| 1993 | * | Curt Schilling becomes the first Phillies' hurler to pitch a World Series shutout blanking the Blue Jays on five hits, 2-0. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1998 | * | The invincible NY Yankees won their 24th World Series. They beat the San Diego Padres 3-0 this day to take the Series 4-0. It was NY’s second title in three years and its first sweep since 1950. Scott Brosius was MVP after finishing with a .471 batting average, eight hits, two home runs and six runs batted in. Mariano Rivera and Jeff Nelson both pitched in three Yankee games and both finished with a 0.00 ERA. | Ref: 4 |
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| 2000 | * | In the longest World Series game ever played, the Yankees take Game 1 of the Subway Series, thanks to Jose Vizcaino's 12th inning two-out single, defeating the Mets, 4-3 in four hours and fifty-one minutes. The victory surpasses the streak established by the Murderers' Row clubs as the present Bronx Bombers win their 13th consecutive World Series game. | Ref: 1 |
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| 2002 | * | Florida team president David Samson, in an effort to get fans "falling back in love with the Marlins," announces plans which includes free hot dogs and a cozier atmosphere at Pro Player Stadium. The average crowd of 10,038 per home game, more than a third less than the previous season, was next-to-last in the major leagues in attendance this year. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1849 | * | The first tattooed man, James F. O’Connell, was put on exhibition at the Franklin Theatre in New York. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1907 | * | The Merry Widow opened in NY. The play starred Ethel Jackson and Donald Brian. The operetta had been introduced in Europe two years before. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1908 | | A Saturday Evening Post advertisement offered a chance to buy, for the first time, a two-sided record. It was on Columbia. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1924 | * | It was a big night for a big band in New York’s Cinderella Ballroom. The crowd loved the Wolverine Orchestra from Chicago and the guy on the cornet, Bix Beiderbecke, the ‘young man with a horn’. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1938 | * | Quaker City Jazz was recorded on the Bluebird label by Jan Savitt’s orchestra. The tune would become the theme of the band. It was not, however, recorded in the Quaker City of Philadelphia. The song was waxed in New York City. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1940 | | Ernest Hemingway's novel For Whom the Bell Tolls is published. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1957 | * | The Elvis Presley movie, Jailhouse Rock, opened in U.S. theatres. The flick also starred Judy Tyler, Mickey Shaughnessy, Vaughn Taylor, Jennifer Holden, Dean Jones and Anne Neyland and is considered by many to be Elvis’ best film. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1958 | * | Orchestral strings were used for the first time in a rock and roll tune. Buddy Holly recorded It Doesn’t Matter Anymore, written by Paul Anka. Sadly, it would be Holly’s last studio session. The song wasn’t released until after his death in February of 1959. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1959 | * | The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum of contemporary art opens in New York City. | Ref: 3 |
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| 1960 | | Obscenity trial of "Lady Chatterley's Lover" begins in London. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1961 | * | Bob Dylan records his first album in a single day at a cost of $400. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1972 | * | Chuck Berry’s My Ding-a-Ling hit #1 in the U.S. It was number one for two weeks. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1995 | * | Mariah Carey’s Daydream was the number one album in the U.S. The album featured the smash hits Fantasy and One Sweet Day (both debuted on the singles chart at #1). | Ref: 4 |
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| 1997 | * | Elton John’s tribute to Princess Diana, Candle in the Wind 1997, was declared by The Guinness Book of Records to be the biggest-selling single record of all time. In 37 days, the single reached 31.8 million copies sold, eclipsing the previous record held by Bing Crosby’s White Christmas. The Crosby song sold an estimated 30 million copies worldwide -- in 55 years. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1760 | | Katsushika Hokusai, Japanese printmaker, is born. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1772 | * | Poet, author of "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" and "Kubla Khan", Samuel Coleridge is born. | Ref: 68 |
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| 1790 | * | Alphonse-Marie Louis de Lamartine Macon France, writer (Ren‚), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1808 | * | Samuel F. Smith, German physician, is born. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1808 | * | Birth of American Baptist clergyman Samuel Francis Smith. Credited with writing over 100 hymns, Smith is best remembered as the author of "America" ("My Country, 'Tis of Thee"), written at age 23, while a student at Andover Seminary. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1830 | * | Georg von Dollmann, German architect, is born. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1833 | * | Alfred Nobel chemist: invented dynamite; industrialist: revenues from his dynamite factories made Nobel a fortune; philanthropist: his will created the Nobel Prizes, awarded annually for achievements in physics, chemistry, medicine, literature and peace; is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1847 | * | Giuseppe Giacosa, Italian dramatist, is born. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1876 | * | Jay Norwood Darling, American political cartoonist, is born. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1891 | * | Ted Shawn, American dancer, is born. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1892 | * | Birth of James L Kelso, American Presbyterian archaeologist. He participated in digs at the biblical sites of Debir, Bethel and Jericho, and authored the text "Ceramic Vocabulary of the O.T." | Ref: 5 |
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| 1895 | * | Edna Purviance, American silent film-era actress, is born. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1908 | * | Louis L'Amour, American novelist, is born in Jamestown ND. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1908 | * | Alexander Schneider Vilna (Lithuania) Russia, violinist (Budapest String Quartet), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1912 | * | Sir Georg Solti orchestra leader: Chicago Symphony Orchestra; first complete recording of Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen; is born in Budapest Hungary. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1914 | * | Martin Gardner Scientific American math & puzzles columnist, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1917 | * | Musician, trumpeteer, Dizzy (John Birks) Gillespie is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1921 | * | Sir Malcolm Arnold composer: screen scores: David Copperfield, The Chalk Garden, Suddenly, Last Summer, Solomon and Sheba, Island in the Sun, The Bridge on the River Kwai, Trapeze, I Am a Camera, The Belles of St. Trinian’s series, Eye Witness, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1925 | * | Joyce Randolph Detroit Mich, actress (Trixie-Honeymooners), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1926 | * | Bob Rosburg golf: PGA champion [1959]; sportscaster, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1926 | * | Leonard Rossiter Liverpool England, actor (Britannia Hospital), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1928 | * | Whitey (Edward Charles) Ford ‘Chairman of the Board’: Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher: NY Yankees [World Series: 1950, 1953, 1955-1958, 1960-1964/all-star: 1954-1956, 1958-1961, 1964/Cy Young Award: 1961]; pitching coach, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1929 | * | Ursula LeGuin author: The Wind’s Twelve Quarters, A Wizard of Earthsea, Left Hand of Darkness, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1933 | * | Georgia Brown (Lillian Klot) actress: Oliver, Cheers; is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1936 | * | Connie Dierking basketball: Univ. of Cincinnati, Sacramento Kings, San Francisco Warriors, Philadelphia 76ers, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1940 | * | Musician Manfred Mann (Michael Lubowitz) is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1940 | * | Frances Fitzgerald Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, author: Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam | Ref: 4 |
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| 1940 | * | Ted (Theodore Otto) Uhlaender baseball: Minnesota Twins, Cleveland Indians, Cincinnati Reds [World Series: 1972], is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1940 | * | Frances FitzGerald NYC, journalist/author (Fire in the Lake), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1940 | * | Osamu Watanabe Japan, featherweight (Olympic-gold-1964), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1941 | * | Steve Cropper musician: guitar: group: Blues Brothers; Booker T and The MG’s: Green Onions, Hang ’Em High, Time is Tight, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1942 | * | Elvin Bishop musician: guitar, singer: group: Paul Butterfield Blues Band, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1943 | * | Brian Picolo (football: Chicago Bears; subject of film: Brian's Song), is born. | Ref: 3 |
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| 1943 | * | Ron Elliott musician: guitar: group: Beau Brummels: Laugh, Laugh, Just a Little, You Tell Me Why; solo: LP: The Candlestick Maker, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1943 | * | Paula Kelly Jacksonville Fla, dancer/actress (Liz-Night Court), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1945 | * | Kathy Young rocker (Thousand Stars in the Sky), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1946 | * | Lee Loughnane musician: brass: group: Chicago: If You Leave Me Now, Hard to Say I’m Sorry, Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1948 | * | Bill (William Ellis) Russell baseball: LA Dodgers: [all-star: 1973, 1976, 1980/World Series: 1974, 1977, 1978, 1981], is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1949 | | Benjamin Netanyahu is born. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1950 | * | Ronald E. McNair physicist, astronaut: mission specialist aboard the ill-fated Challenger Space Shuttle, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1953 | * | Charlotte Caffey musician: guitar, singer: group: The Go-Gos, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1953 | | Peter Mandelson is born. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1955 | * | Eric Faulkner musician: guitar: group: Bay City Rollers: Saturday Night, Bye Bye Baby, Give Me a Little Love, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1956 | * | Carrie Fisher actress: Star Wars series, The Blues Brothers, daughter of singer Eddie Fisher and actress Debbie Reynolds, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1957 | * | Julian Cope musician: bass, guitar, singer: groups: Crucial Three, Nova Mob, A Shallow Madness, The Teardrop Explodes: Sleeping Gas, Bouncing Babies, Reward, Treason, You Disappear from View; solo: Competition, World Shut Your Mouth, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1957 | * | Steve Lukather musician: guitar: group: Toto: Rosanna, Africa, Hold the Line; songwriter: Turn Your Love Around, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1959 | * | George (Antonio) Bell baseball: Toronto Blue Jays [all-star: 1987, 1990], Chicago Cubs [all-star: 1991], Chicago White Sox, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1971 | * | Jade Jagger, daughter of Mick Jagger, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1976 | * | Jeremy Miller West Covina Calif, actor (Ben-Growing Pains), is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1805 | * | Horatio Nelson, 47, English naval commander, is killed at the Battle of Trafalgar. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1907 | * | Jules Chevalier, French priest, author and founder of the Sacred Heart Missionaries, dies at age 83. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1908 | * | Charles Eliot Norton, American scholar, dies at age 80. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1931 | * | Arthur Schnitzler, Austrian playwright and novelist, dies at age 69. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1965 | * | Bill Black musician: bassist: group: Bill Black Combo: White Silver Sands, Smokie Pt. 2; played in Elvis Presley band, backup for Elvis; dies. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1966 | * | More than 140 people, mostly children, are killed when a coal waste landslide engulfed a school and several houses in south Wales. (TWA, 1967) | Ref: 95 |
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| 1966 | * | Gertrude Hoffman actress (Mrs Odetts-My Little Margie), dies at 95. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1967 | * | Ejnar Hertzsprung Danish astrophysicist, dies at 94. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1969 | * | Jack Kerouac author: On the Road, The Town and the City, The Dharma Bums, The Subterraneans, Doctor Sax, Maggie Cassidy, Lonesome Traveler, Big Sur, Desolation Angels, Visions of Cody; dies. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1970 | * | John T. Scopes, a high school teacher and the focus of the famous 1925 Scopes Monkey Trial where he was convicted of teaching evolution in Tennessee school, dies. | Ref: 17 |
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| 1975 | * | Mexico City's first major subway accident takes 26 lives. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1984 | * | Francois Truffaut director: Fahrenheit 451, The Bride Wore Black; dies at age 52 of brain cancer. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1985 | | Dan White suicide | Ref: 10 |
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| 1987 | | Ying-Chin Ho Taiwan govt official, dies at 88 | Ref: 5 |
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| 1991 | * | 24 die in a fire in Oakland Calif | Ref: 5 |
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| 1995 | * | Vada (Edward) Pinson baseball: Cincinnati Redlegs, Cincinnati Reds [all-star: 1959, 1960/World Series: 1961], SL Cardinals, Cleveland Indians, California Angels, KC Royals; dies. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1995 | * | Maxene (Angelyn) Andrews singer [w/sisters LaVerne and Patti]: group: The Andrews Sisters: Why Talk About Love?, A Simple Melody, Bei Mir Bist Du Schön, Rum and Coca Cola; solo: I Suppose; on Broadway with Patti: Over Here; dies at age 79. | Ref: 68 |
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| 1998 | | Lord (Alan John) Sainsbury dies. | Ref: 10 |
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| 2003 | * | Singer/songwriter Elliott Smith dies in Los Angeles at age 34, apparently from suicide. It appeared he stabbed himself in the chest. (USA Today, p 1D, 10/23/2003) | Ref: 13 |
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| 2003 | * | Louise Day Hicks, 1970s foe of bussing to desegregate schools in Boston, dies at age 87, in Boston MA. (WSJ, p 1, 10/23/2003) | Ref: 33 |
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| 2003 | * | Actor Fred Berry (Rerun-What's Happening?") is found dead in his apartment at age 52. Cause of death is unknown. (USA Today, p 1D, 10/23/2003) | Ref: 13 |
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| 2003 | * | (date unstated) Luis Ferre, champion of Puerto Rico statehood, dies in San Juan at age 99. (WSJ, p A1, 10/22/2003) | Ref: 33 |
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