This day in history...

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Tue Oct 16, 2007 7:26 am

Deaths which occurred on October 16:
1793 Marie Antoinette queen of France, beheaded in France
1849 George Washington Williams Penns, 1st major black historian
1946 Arthur Seyss-Inquart Austrian chancellor (1930s), dies at 54
1951 Liaquat Ali Khan PM of Pakistan, assassinated by Said Akbar
1972 Leo G Carroll actor (Topper, Man From Uncle), dies at 80
1978 Dan Dailey actor (Gov Drinkwater-Governor & JJ), dies at 63
1981 Moshe Dayan Israel's general, dies at 66
1983 George Liberace violinist (Liberace Show), dies at 72
1984 Ken Carpenter TV announcer (Lux Video Theater), dies at 84
1984 Peggy Ann Garner actress, dies at 53 of cancer
1985 Claude Stroud actor (Hobart-Ted Knight Show, Duke), dies at 78
1987 Dana Suesse songwriter (You Ought to be in Pictures), dies at 75
1989 Cornel Wilde actor, dies
1990 Art Blakey jazz drummer (Jazz Messengers), dies of cancer at 71

Post by **noreply66** » Tue Oct 16, 2007 10:47 pm

In 1793, during the French Revolution,Marie Antoinette,the Queen of France,was beheaded.

In 1946, 10 Nazi war criminals condemned during the Nuremberg trials were hanged.

In 1957, Britians Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip began a visit to the United States with a stopover at the site of the Jamestown settlement in Virginia.

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Wed Oct 17, 2007 7:34 am

Deaths which occurred on October 17:
1806 Jean Jacques Dessalines Emperor of Haiti, dies
1887 Gustav Kirchoff discoverer of the laws of spectroscopy, dies
1910 Julia Ward Howe composer (Battle Hymn of the Republic), dies at 91
1990 Ralph Abernathy civil rights leader, dies
1991 Tennessee Ernie Ford country singer (16 Tons), dies at 72

Post by **noreply66** » Wed Oct 17, 2007 10:00 pm

In 1807, Britain declared it would continue to reclaim British-born sailors from American ships and ports regardless of whether they held U.S. citizenship.

In 1907, Guglielmo Marconi began offering limited commercial wireless telegraph service between Nova Scotia and Ireland.

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Thu Oct 18, 2007 6:20 am

Birthdates which occurred on your SELECTED date of October 18:
1697 Canaletto Venetian painter (Venicei A Regatta on Grand Canal)
1777 Heinrich von Kleist Germany, dramatist/poet (Penthesilea)
1785 Thomas Love Peacock English author (Headlong Hall)
1859 Henri Bergson France, philosopher (Creative Evolution-Nobel 1927)
1877 Florence Dahl Walrath humanitarian, founded Cradle society
1878 James Truslow Adams historian (Pul-1921-Founding of New England)
1889 Fannie Hurst novelist (1019?)
1893 Sir Sidney Holland NZ, PM of New Zealand (1949-57)
1898 Lotte Lenya Vienna Austria, actor/singer (Appointment, Semi-Tough)
19-- Mark LaMura actor (All My Children)
1915 Victor Sen Yung SF Calif, actor (Bonanza, Bachelor Family)
1918 Bobby Troup Harrisburg Pa, pianist/actor (Emergency, Acapulco)
1919 Pierre Elliot Trudeau (L) 15th Canadian PM (1968-79, 1980-84)
1921 Jesse Helms (Sen-R-NC) right-wing
1922 Little Orphan Annie comic strip character
1922 Richard Stankiewicz US sculptor (1974 Akston Award, 1966 Brandeis)
1924 Allyn Ferguson San Jose Calif, orch leader (Andy Williams Show)

Post by **noreply66** » Fri Oct 19, 2007 11:48 am

In 1812, French forces under Napoleon Bonaparte began their retreat from Moscow.

In 1950,during the Korean War,United Natons forces entered the North Korean capital of Pyongyang.

In 1977, the body of West German industrialist Hanns Martin Schleyer,who had been kidnapped by left-wing extremists,was found in Mulhouse,France.

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Sun Oct 21, 2007 8:51 am

Deaths which occurred on October 21:
1805 Adm Horatio Nelson dies in the Battle of Trafalgar
1831 Nat Turner 19 associates, hung
1966 Gertrude Hoffman actress (Mrs Odetts-My Little Margie), dies at 95
1967 Ejnar Hertzsprung Danish astrophysicist, dies at 94
1984 Francois Truffaut director, dies at 52 of brain cancer
1987 Ying-Chin Ho Taiwan govt official, dies at 88

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Mon Oct 22, 2007 8:36 am

Birthdates which occurred on October 22:
1811 Franz Liszt Raiding, Hungary, romantic composer/virtuoso pianist
1845 Sarah Bernhardt France, silent film actress (Camille, Queen Elizabeth)
1870 Ivan Bunin Russia, poet/novelist (Gentleman from SF-Nobel 1933)
1880 Joe Carr Ohio, NFL hall of famer/NFL president (1921-39)
1885 Giovanni Martinelli Montagnana Italy, opera singer (NY Met)
1887 John Reed journalist who reported on Mexican, Russian revolutions
1896 Charles Glenn King biochemist (discovered vitamin C)
1898 Damaso Alonso Spanish poet (Hijos de la ira)
19-- Barrie Youngfellow Cleve Ohio, actress (Jan-It's a Living)
19-- Bobby Blotzner rock drummer (Ratt-Round & Round)
19-- Judith Blazer actress (As the World Turns)
1905 Constance Bennett actress (Easiest Way, Ladies in Love)
1905 Karl Jansky discovered cosmic radio emissions in 1932
1906 Sidney Kingsley author (Darkness at Noon)
1907 Jimmie Foxx baseball HR hitter (Detroit Tigers)
1915 Harry Hickox Big Springs Tx, (Herb-Please Don't Eat the Daisies)
1916 Sid Miller Shenandoah Pa, actor (Donald O'Connor Texaco Show)
1917 Joan Fontaine Tokyo Japan, actress (Gunga Din, Ivanhoe, Rebecca)
1919 Doris Lessing novelist (Golden Notebook)
1920 Mitzi Green NYC, actress (Little Orphan Annie, So This is Hollywood)
1920 Timothy Leary Harvard prof, LSD taker
1922 John Chafee (Sen-R-RI)
1923 Pete Pihos NFL end (Phil Eagles)
1925 Robert Rauschenberg US, painter (Gloria)
1929 Dory Previn pop singer (Love Be My Cover)
1933 Donald H Peterson Winona Mississippi, Col USAF/astronaut (STS 6)
1934 Donald McIntyre Auckland NZ, Bass-Baritone (Wotan-Das Rheingold)
1935 Judy Devlin Hashman 10 time badminton champ (1957-67)
1938 Christopher Lloyd Stamford Ct, actor (Taxi, Back to the Future)
1938 Derek Jacobi London England, actor (Lanner-Strauss Family)
1939 Tony Roberts NYC, actor (Annie Hall, Edge of Night, Lucie Arnaz Show)
1942 Annette Funicello Utica NY, actress (Mickey Mouse Club)
1943 Catherine Deneuve [Dorleac], Paris, actress (Repulsion, Hunger)
1943 Paul Zukofsky Brooklyn NY, violinist (Cappricio)
1945 Leslie West [Weinstein] rocker (Mountain-Mississippi Queen)
1947 Lee Meredith [Judith Lee Sauls], River Edge NJ, actress (Producers)
1948 John Peterson US, Middleweight (Olympic-gold-1976)
1952 Jeff Goldblum Pitts Pa, actor (The Fly, Thank God it's Friday)
1952 Patti Davis aka Patricia Ann Reagan, 1st daughter (House of Secrets)
1961 Barbara Potter Ct, tennis player (changed shirt on Wimbledon Court)
1961 Leonard Marshall NFL defensive end (NY Giants)
1963 Brian Boitano US, figure skater (Olympic-gold-1988)
1963 Cherie Witter Everett Wash, playmate (February, 1985)
1966 Valeria Golino Naples Italy, actress (Rain Man, Little Flames)
1980 Michael Fishman actor (DJ-Roseanne)

Post by **noreply66** » Mon Oct 22, 2007 1:52 pm

In 1797, French balloonist Andre-Jacques Garnerin made the first parachute descent landing safely from a height of about 3,000 feet over Paris.

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Tue Oct 23, 2007 8:06 am

Deaths which occurred on October 23:
1903 Francis Ellingwood Abbot theologian (Scientific Theism), dies at 66
1915 W.G. Grace British cricketer, dies
1978 Maybelle Carter country singer (Johnny Cash Show), dies at 69
1983 Jessica Savitch Margate NJ, newscaster (NBC Weekend), dies at 36
1983 Tamara Shayne actress, dies at 80 of a heart attack
1984 David Gorcey dead end kid actor, dies at 63 in a diabetic coma
1984 Oskar Werner actor, dies of a heart attack at 61

Post by **noreply66** » Wed Oct 24, 2007 1:30 pm

In 1537, Jane Seymore,the third wife of England's King Henry VIII, died 12 days after giving birth to Prince Edward , later King Edward VI.

In 1648, the Peace of Westphalia ended the Thirty Years War and effectively destroyed the Holy Roman Empire.

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Thu Oct 25, 2007 8:42 am

Birthdates which occurred on October 25:
1759 Baron Grenville (Whig) British PM (1806-07)
1800 Thomas Babington Macaulay England, poet/historian (Ivry, Naaseby)
1825 Johann Strauss (the younger) composer (Waltz King)
1838 Georges Bizet France, composer (Carmen)
1843 Gleb Uspensky Russia, author (Power of the Soil)
1869 John Heisman pioneering football coach/trophy namesake
1877 Henry Norris Russell astronomer (Hertzsprung-Russell diagram)
1881 Pablo Picasso Spain, artist (3 Dancers, Guernica)
1884 Eduardo Barrios Chile, novelist (The Love-Crazed Boy)

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Fri Oct 26, 2007 7:55 am

Deaths which occurred on October 26:
901 King Alfred the Great, die
1868 B F Randolph SC state senator, assassinated
1909 Prince Ito of Japan is assassinated by a Korean
1962 Louise Beavers actress (Beulah-Beulah), die at 64
1979 Park Chung-hee South Korean President is assassinated
1984 Sue Randall actress (Miss Landers-Leave it to Beaver), dies at 49
1990 William Paley CEO (CBS), dies at 89 from a heart attack
1991 Lori Rae Matthews crushed to death by an artist's 485 lb umbrella

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Sun Oct 28, 2007 8:12 pm

Birthdates which occurred on October 28:
1017 Henry III Holy Roman emperor (1046-56)
1585 Cornelius Otto Jansen France, Roman Catholic reform leader
1810 Brig Gen Adley H Gladden La, killed at Shiloh
1818 Ivan Turgenev Russia, novelist/poet/playwright (Fathers & Sons)
1842 Anna Elizabeth Dickinson orator (Joan of Arc of the Civil War)
1846 Auguste Escoffier king of chefs & chef of kings
1896 Howard Hanson Wahoo Nebraska, composer/conductor (Nordic)
19-- Dennis Parker [Wade Nichols] actor/porno star (Edge of Night)
19-- Rose Alaio actor (Guiding Light)
1902 Elsa Lanchester Lewisham London, actress (Bride of Frankenstien)
1903 Evelyn Waugh London, author (Brideshead Revisited)
1907 Edith Head fashion designer (MGM)
1907 Lew Parker actor (Lou Marie-That Girl)
1910 Marie Dollinger Germany, dropped baton in 1936 Olympic sprint
1914 Dr Jonas Salk NYC, medical researcher, made polio a fear of the past
1926 Bowie Kuhn baseball commissioner (1969-1984)
1927 Cleo Laine Middlesex England, singer (Flesh to a Tiger)
1929 Dody Goodman Columbus Ohio, actress (Mary Hartman!, Max Duggan)
1929 Joan Plowright England, actress (Brimstone & Treacle)
1934 Jim Beatty track runner (1st sub 4 minute indoor mile)
1936 Charlie Daniels country music star (Devil Went Down to Georgia)
1937 Lenny Wilkins NBA player, coach (Seattle, Cleveland)
1939 Jane Alexander Mass, actress (The Betsy, Kramer vs Kramer)

Post by **noreply66** » Mon Oct 29, 2007 1:17 pm

In 1618, Sir Walter Raleigh, the English countier, military adventurer and poet, was executed in London.

In 1923, the Republic of Turkey was proclaimed.

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Tue Oct 30, 2007 9:56 am

Birthdates which occurred on October 30:
1735 John Adams Braintree, Mass (F) 2nd pres (1797-1801)
1751 Richard Brinsley Sheridan playwright (School for Scandal)
1821 Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoevski Russian novelist & short-story writer
1830 John S Bowen Major-General (Confederate)
1871 Paul Valâ€šry France, poet/essayist/critic (La Jeune)
1873 Francisco Madero Mexico, revolutionary, president (1911-13)
1885 Ezra Pound Hailey, Idaho, poet (Cantos)
1887 Eduardo Ciannelli Italy, actor (Waldo-Johnny Staccato)
1893 Charles Atlas body builder
1896 Ruth Gordon Mass, actress (Rosemary's Baby, Harold & Maude)
19-- Danny Goldman NYC, actor (Nick-The Good Life)
19-- Kristina Malandro actress (Felicia Jones-General Hospital)
1907 Gyâ€rgy R nki Budapest Hungary, composer (HÂ¢emberek)
1907 Renzo Cesana Rome Italy, TV host (First Date, Continental)
1914 Marion Ladewig Mich, bowler (9 time woman bowler of year 1950-63)
1917 Ruth Hussey Providence RI, actress (Another Thin Man, Phila Story)
1918 Ted Williams Red Sox hitter (AL MVP '46, '49; Trip Crown '42, '47)
1919 Jane Randolph singer, backup for Tony Orlando (Dawn)
1924 Hannelore Weygrand German FR, equestrian dressage (Oly-silver-1956)
1928 Ernest Flatt choreographer (Carol Burnett Show)
1928 William Campbell Newark NJ, actor (Jerry-Cannonball, Luke-Dynasty)
1931 Dick Gautier LA Calif, actor (Hymie-Get Smart, Mr Terrific)
1932 Louis Malle France, director (Atlantic City, Black Moon, Viva Maria)
1934 Hamilton Camp London, actor (Andrew-He & She)

Post by **noreply66** » Tue Oct 30, 2007 1:20 pm

In 1961, the Soviet Union tested a hydrogen bomb, the "Tsar Bomba," with a force estimated at about 50 megatons.

In 1961, the Soviet Party Congress unanimously approved a resolution ordering the removal of Josef Stalin's body from Lenin's tomb.

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Tue Oct 30, 2007 11:11 pm

Religious History
1536 Thirteen years after Lutheran ministers came to bring spiritual renewal to its people, Denmark adopted Lutheranism as its official state religion.
1738 English founder of Methodism John Wesley explained in a letter: 'By a "Christian," I mean one who so believes in Christ as that sin hath no more dominion over him.'
1768 The Wesley Chapel on John Street in New York City was dedicated. It was the first Methodist church building to be erected in the American colonies, and was restored in 1817, and again in 1840.
1902 Pope Leo XIII published the apostolic letter "Vigilantiae," which officially established the Pontifical Commission of Biblical Studies. Created to safeguard the authority of Scripture from outside secular criticism, in 1904 the Commission was empowered to confer academic degrees.
1976 Dr. Joseph H. Evans was elected president of the United Church of Christ. It made him the first African-American leader of this predominantly white denomination.

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Wed Oct 31, 2007 9:04 am

Birthdates which occurred on October 31:
1620 John Evelyn British diarist (Life of Mrs Godolphin)
1632 Jan Vermeer Holland, painter (Procuress, The Astronomer)
1795 John Keats London, England, romantic poet (Ode to a Grecian Urn)
1815 Karl Weierstrass Germany, mathematician (theory of functions)
1860 Juliette Gordon Low Girl Scout founder
1887 Chiang Kai-shek Chekiang Province, China, pres of Nationalist China
1887 Edouard Lalonde Canada, NHLer (Mont Candiens)/lacrosse player
1888 Sir George Hubert Wilkins Aust, polar explorer (Flying the Arctic)
1893 Sara Allgood Dublin Ireland, actress (Jane Eyre, Spiral Staircase)
1896 Ethel Waters Chester Pa, actress (Beulah)/singer (Stormy Weather)
1897 Wilbur (Pete) Henry NFL tackle (Canton, NY Giants, Pottsville)
19-- Bobby Ellerbee Upson County Ga, actor (In the Beginning)
19-- Brian Mitchell Seattle Wash, actor (Trapper John MD)
19-- Lynda Goodfriend Miami Fla, actress (Lori Beth-Happy Days)
1902 Eduard Franz Milwaukee Wisc, actor (Zorro)
1902 Willie Shaw race car driver (Indy 500-1937, 39, 40)
1906 Louise Talma Arcachon France, composer (Summer Sounds)
1912 Dale Evans Uvalde Tx, cowgirl (Roy Rogers Show)
1920 Dick Francis Wales, jockey/novelist (Whip Hand, High Stakes)
1922 Barbara Bel Geddes NYC, actress (Vertigo, Miss Ellie-Dallas, Caught)
1923 Hicks B Waldron Amsterdam NY, CEO (Avon)
1926 Shirley Dinsdale SF Calif, ventriloquist (Judy Splinters)
1927 Lee Grant [Lyova Haskell Rosenthal], NYC, actress (Shampoo, Landlord)

Post by **noreply66** » Wed Oct 31, 2007 1:52 pm

On Oct. 31,1517, Martin Luther posted the 95 Theses on the floor of the Wittenberg Palace church, marking the start of the Protestant reformation in Germany.

In 1967, Nguyen Van Thieu took the oath of office as the first president of South Vietnam's second republic.