Good morning ALL. Happy birthday to Andy Cole Notable birthday: Paul Robinson Gary Mason 1940 Peter C. Doherty, veterinary surgeon, medical researcher; shared 1995 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine; named Australian of the Year 1997. 1942 Penny Marshall, actress, producer, director; Laverne of Laverne & Shirley TV sitcom (1976-83); directed Big (1988), the first film directed by a woman to gross over $100 million in US box office receipts. 1944 William David Trimble, Baron Trimble; British politician who served as First Minister of Northern Ireland (1998–2002); shared 1998 Nobel Peace Prize for his role in negotiating the Good Friday Agreement. 1954 Princess Friederike of Hanover. 2005 Prince Christian of Denmark, Count of Monpezat. History today: 1529 Ottoman armies under Suleiman end their siege of Vienna and head back to Belgrade. 1582 The Gregorian (or New World) calendar is adopted in Italy, France, Spain, and Portugal; and the preceding ten days are lost to history. 1783 Francois Pilatre de Rozier makes the first manned flight in a hot air balloon. The first flight was let out to 82 feet, but over the next few days the altitude increased up to 6,500 feet. 1813 During the land defeat of the British on the Thames River in Canada, the Indian chief Tecumseh, now a brigadier general with the British Army (War of 1812), is killed. 1863 For the second time, the Confederate submarine H L Hunley sinks during a practice dive in Charleston Harbor, this time drowning its inventor along with seven crew members. 1878 Thomas A. Edison founds the Edison Electric Light Co. 1880 Victorio, feared leader of the Minbreno Apache, is killed by Mexican troops in northwestern Chihuahua, Mexico. 1892 An attempt to rob two banks in Coffeyville, Kan., ends in disaster for the Dalton gang as four of the five outlaws are killed and Emmet Dalton is seriously wounded. 1894 Captain Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish army officer, is arrested for betraying military secrets to Germany. 1914 Congress passes the Clayton Anti-Trust Act, which labor leader Samuel Gompers calls "labor's charter of freedom." The act exempts unions from anti-trust laws; strikes, picketing and boycotting become legal; corporate interlocking directorates become illegal, as does setting prices which would effect a monopoly. 1924 German ZR-3 flies 5000 miles, the furthest Zeppelin flight to date. 1941 Odessa, a Russian port on the Black Sea which has been surrounded by German troops for several weeks, is evacuated by Russian troops. 1945 Vichy French Premier Pierre Laval is executed by a firing squad for his wartime collaboration with the Germans. 1950 President Harry Truman meets with General Douglas MacArthur at Wake Island to discuss U.N. progress in the Korean War. 1964 Nikita Khrushchev is replaced by Leonid Brezhnev as leader of the Soviet Union. 1966 Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale establish the Black Panther Party, an African-American revolutionary socialist political group, in the US. 1969 Rallies for The Moratorium to End the War in Vietnam draw over 2 million demonstrators across the US, a quarter million of them in the nation's capital. 1987 The Great Storm of 1987 strikes the UK and Europe during the night of Oct 15-16, killing over 20 people and causing widespread damage. 1989 Canadian hockey player Wayne Gretzky makes his 1,851st goal, breaking the all-time scoring record in the National Hockey League. 1990 Mikhail Gorbachev, leader of the USSR, receives Nobel Peace Prize for his work in making 1997 Andy Green of the UK becomes the first person to break the sound barrier in the Earth's atmosphere, driving the ThrustSSC supersonic car to a record 763 mph (1,228 km/h). 2003 On this day in 2003: Stevie given armband. 2003 China launches its first manned space mission, Shenzhou 2007 New Zealand police arrest 17 people believed to be part of a paramilitary training camp. 2008 Dow Jones Industrial Average plummets 733.08 points, the second-largest percentage drop in the Dow's history. 2011 Protests break out in countries around the globe, under the slogan "United for Global Democracy."
It's a day in celebration of the white canes blind people use. Not to be confused with black canes you use in the bedroom to spank people with. Although I suppose if you're blind you can use your white cane to spank people with because you can't tell if it is black or white.
Good morning ALL. Notable birthday: 30 - King James II of Scotland (d. 1460) Daniel Gerroll, London, actor (Big Business) Peter Bowles John Mayer Angela Lansbury History today: 1958: Historic Sheerness docks to close 1986: Soviets launch space station Mir 1813 - Battle of Leipzig, largest battle in Europe prior to WWI, Napoleon's forces defeated by Prussia, Austria & Russia 1900 - Great Britain and Germany sign the Anglo-German Treaty, in which they agree to maintain the territorial integrity of China and support the 'open door' policy called for by US secretary of State 1923 - Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio founded 1934 - Mao Zedong & 25,000 troops begin 6,000 mile Long March 1978 - Polish Cardinal Karol Wojtyla elected Pope John Paul II 1998 - Former Chilean dictator Gen. Augusto Pinochet is arrested in London on a warrant from Spain requesting his extradition on murder charges. 1993: Two boys charged with toddler's murder
Just a heads; it's my second born's fifth birthday tomorrow. I expect to see his name in the forthcoming list
Happy birthday to Sir Gerrez JrII Notable birthday: Vicki Hodge, London England, actress (Confessions of a Sex Maniac) Catholic Missionary Mother Teresa History today: Capone goes to prison 1933 Due to rising anti-Semitism and anti-intellectualism in Hitler's Germany, Albert Einstein immigrates to the United States. He makes his new home in Princeton, N.J. 1941 The U.S. destroyer Kearney is damaged by a German U-boat torpedo off Iceland; 11 Americans are killed. 1956 The nuclear power station Calder Hall is opened in Britain. Calder Hall is the first nuclear station to feed an appreciable amount of power into a civilian network. 1972 Peace talks between Pathet Lao and Royal Lao government begin in Vietnam. 1989 The worst earthquake in 82 years strikes San Francisco bay area minutes before the start of a World Series game there. The earthquake registers 6.9 on the Richter scale–67 are killed and damage is estimated at $10 billion. 1994 Dmitry Kholodov, a Russian journalist, assassinated while investigating corruption in the armed forces; his murkier began a series of killings of journalists in Russia. 2001 Rehavam Ze'evi, Israeli tourism minister and founder of the right-wing Moledet party, assassinated by a member of the Popular Front of the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP); he was the first Israeli minister ever assassinated. 2003 Taipei 101 is completed in Taipei, becoming the world's tallest high-rise.
Happy wear something gaudy day! (tomorrow is "No Beard Day" - so you might want to shave your beards off tonight... and remember to tell yer misses to do the same)
