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Today in History ~ October 1
Events1529 - -3] Meeting between Martin Luther & Huldrych Zwingli
1574 - -2] Storm breaks Leiden dike; drowns 20,000 Spanish soldiers
1653 - Russian parliament accepts annexation of Ukraine
1661 - Yachting begins in England; King Charles II beats his brother James
1688 - Prince William III accept invitation of English crown
1746 - Bonnie Prince Charlie flees to France
1768 - English troops under general Gauge lands in Boston
1791 - 1st session of new French legislative assembly
1800 - Spain ceded Louisiana Territory to France in a secret treaty.
1833 - Charles Darwin reaches Rio Tercero Argentina
1837 - Treaty with Winnebago Indians
1863 - 5 Russian warships welcomed in NYC
1864 - Cyclone strikes Calcutta: 70,000 killed
1864 - Confederate spy Rose O'Neal Greenhow drowns off the coast of North Carolina [H]
1867 - Karl Marx' "Das Kapital," published
1880 - John Philip Sousa becomes new director of US Marine Corps Band
1885 - Special delivery mail service began in the United States.
1888 - National Geographic magazine publishes for 1st time
1890 - Congress creates Weather Bureau (stops short of astology, UFOs, and psychics healers)
1890 - Yosemite National Park forms
1892 - University of Chicago opens
1893 - 3rd worst hurricane in US history kills 1,800 (Mississippi)
1895 - Romanians in Costantinople massacred
1896 - The U.S. Post Office established Rural Free Delivery.
1898 - Jews are expelled from Kiev Russia
1903 - The first World Series opened in Boston. The Boston Pilgrims of the American League vs. the Pittsburgh Pirates. The Pirates won, 7-3. However, Boston would go on to win the series, five games to three.
1907 - Plaza Hotel (5th Av & 59th Str, NY) opens
1908 - Henry Ford introduced the Model T automobile to the market. The Model-T came in many colors --all of them black. (costs $825)
1910 - Berkshire Cattle Fair held in Pittsfield Mass (1st state fair)
1918 - Lawrence of Arabia Captures Damascus
1919 - World Series begins as a best of 9 affair, White Sox intentionally throw this series to satisfy gamblers (Black Sox Scandal)
1924 - Paavo Nurmi runs world record 4 mile (19:15.4) & 5 mile (24:06.2)
1931 - Spanish Cortes accept general female suffrage
1932 - Oswald Mosley forms British Union of Fascists
1934 - Adolph Hitler expands German army & navy & creates an air force, violating Treaty of Versailles
1936 - General Francisco Franco, whose army revolt in Morocco had set off the Spanish Civil War, was named leader of the Falange, Spain's fascist party
1937 - Pullman Co formally recognizes Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters
1938 - Germany annexes Sudetenland (1/3 of Czech Republic)
1939 - Churchill calls Soviets "riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma"
1940 - Pennsylvania Turnpike, pioneer toll thruway, opens
1942 - Bell P-59 Airacomet fighter, 1st US jet, makes maiden flight
1942 - Little Golden Books (children books) begins publishing
1943 - Allied forces captured Naples during WW II
1943 - Germans attack Jews in Denmark
1944 - Experiments begin on homosexuals at Buchenwald
1946 - The verdicts were handed down in the Nuremberg war crimes trial. 12 Nazi leaders were sentenced to death by hanging.
1947 - William Wister Haines' "Command Decision," premieres in NYC
1948 - Calif Supreme Court voids state statue banning interracial marriages
1949 - Republic of China (Taiwan) forms on island of Formosa
1949 - Communist Party Chairman Mao Tse-tung raised the first flag of the People's Republic of China during a ceremony in Beijing. (National Day)
1951 - 1st treaty signed by woman ambassador-Eugenie Anderson
1951 - 24th Infantry Regiment, last all-black military unit, deactivated
1957 - B-52 bombers begin full-time flying alert in case of USSR attack
1958 - Britain transfers Christmas Island (south of Java) to Australia
1958 - Inauguration of NASA
1960 - Nigeria gains independence from Britain (National Day)
1961 - A believed extinct volcanco erupts in Tristan da Cunha
1961 - Roger Maris of the New York Yankees hit his 61st home run during a 162-game season, compared to Babe Ruth's 60 home runs during a 154-game season.
1962 - Barbra Streisand signs her 1st recording contract (with Columbia)
1962 - James Meredith became 1st black at University of Mississippi. He was escorted onto the campus by U.S. Marshals, setting off a deadly riot during which two men were killed before the racial violence was quelled by more than 3,000 soldiers. Meredith enrolled the next day.
1964 - Free Speech Movement was launched at the University of California at Berkeley.
1965 - Suharto Crushes Indonesian Coup
1969 - Concorde 001 test flight breaks sound barrier
1969 - Guernsey & Jersey begin issuing their own postage stamps
1971 - Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida opens
1974 - Former Attorney General John Mitchell and four other Nixon administration officials went on trial on Watergate cover-up charges.
1975 - Muhammad Ali TKOs Joe Frazier in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
1979 - Pope John Paul II begins visit of US
1979 - US returns Canal Zone to Panama after 75 years (but not the canal)
1982 - EPCOT Center opens in Orlando Florida
1982 - USSR performs underground nuclear test
1982 - West Germany's Parliament ousts Helmut Schmidt for Helmut Kohl
1983 - Denise Wallace, 18, of Virginia crowned Miss Teen of America
1984 - Gary Trudeau's Doonesbury comic strip resumes after 2-year hiatus
1985 - Israeli air raid on PLO-headquarter at Tunis, 68 killed
1986 - Former President Jimmy Carter's presidential library and museum were dedicated in Atlanta with help from President Reagan.
1988 - Mikhail Gorbachev became president of Soviet Union
1989 - Thousands of East Germans flee to West Germany
1990 - Pres Bush at UN, condemns Iraq's takeover of Kuwait
1990 - Serbs in Croatia proclaim autonomy
1991 - President Bush strongly condemned the military coup in Haiti, suspending U.S. economic and military aid and demanding the immediate return to power of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide.
1992 - A missile accidentally fired by the U.S.S. Saratoga struck a Turkish destroyer in the Aegean Sea, killing nine Turkish sailors.
1992 - Dallas billionaire Ross Perot formally announced his independent candidacy for the presidency.
1993 - Polly Klaas is abducted at knifepoint by an intruder in her Petaluma, California, home during a slumber party with two friends [H]
1994 - The National Hockey League did not open its 1994-95 season as scheduled because owners and players could not agree on a new contract.
1995 - 10 Muslims were convicted of conspiring to conduct a terrorist campaign in the New York City area aimed at forcing the United States to drop its support of Egypt and Israel.
1996 - A federal grand jury indicted Unabomber suspect Theodore Kaczynski in the 1994 mail bomb slaying of an ad executive.
1996 - The minimum wage rose 50 cents to $4.75 an hour.
1996 - NASA began turning over day-to-day shuttle operations to private industry.
1996 - A lawsuit filed by Reform Party candidate Ross Perot, seeking to be allowed into the presidential debates, was dismissed by a federal judge.
1996 - President Clinton, Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President Yasser Arafat met for two days in Washington, D.C., but without any major progress toward peace.
2000 - 27th Olympic games close at Sydney, Australia On the last day of the Sydney Olympics, the U.S. men's basketball team beat France for the gold medal. The United States led the way in the final medal tally, collecting 97 (39 gold, 25 silver and 33 bronze); Russia was second with 88 (32, 28 and 28), China third with 59 (28, 16, 15) and host Australia was fourth, with 58.
2000 - Pope John Paul II declared sainthood for 120 Chinese and foreign missionaries killed in the church's five-century struggle in China. John Paul named three other new saints as well, including former American socialite Katharine Drexel.
2000 - Israeli troops battled Palestinians as riots continued to rage through the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak said peace talks were "on the shelf" and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat called for an emergency Arab summit as renewed violence between Israelis and Palestinians continued.
2001 - New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, addressing the U.N. General Assembly, urged delegates not to remain neutral and to choose civilization over terrorism.
2001 - About 40 people were killed when a militant Muslim group attacked the legislative assembly building in the Indian province of Jammu and Kasmir.
Birthdays Today
1207 - Henry III, king of England (1216-72)
1549 - Anna of H Bartolomaeus, Flemish prioress/founded a nunnery
1644 - Alessandro Stradella, Italian violinist/composer
1644 - Jean Rousseau, composer
1781 - James Lawrence, naval hero (War of 1812-"Don't give up the ship!")
1830 - Jeremiah Cutler Sullivan, Brig Gen (Union volunteers), died in 1890
1834 - Francis Marion Cockrell, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1915
1865 - Paul Abraham Dukas, Paris France, composer (Sorcerer's Apprentice)
1904 - Vladimir Horowitz (piano virtuoso: NY Philharmonic; first played in concert at the age of 20, performing 200 different works at 23 recitals)
1909 - Everette Sloane (actor: Citizen Kane, Marjorie Morningstar, The Enforcer)
1914 - Daniel Joseph Boorstin, author (Empire of Czar, 1974 Pulitzer Prize)
1920 - Walter Matthau (Matuschanskayasky) (Academy Award-winning actor: The Fortune Cookie [1966]; The Odd Couple, Grumpy Old Men, Grumpier Old Men, Dennis the Menace, Kotch, Pete & Tillie, Plaza Suite, The Sunshine Boys, JFK, Fail-Safe, Earthquake)
1921 - James Whitmore (actor: Give 'Em Hell Harry, Kiss Me Kate, Oklahoma!, Planet of the Apes, Tora! Tora! Tora!)
1924 - James Earl Carter, Plains Ga, (D) 39th Pres (1977-1981)
1924 - William Rehnquist, Ws, Supreme Court (1972-86)/chief justice (1987- )
1926 - Max Morath (musician: piano: wrote, performed on NET: The Ragtime Era, Turn of the Century)
1926 - Roger Williams (Louis Weertz) (pianist: Autumn Leaves, Born Free, Near You, Two Different Worlds)
1927 - Tom Bosley (actor: Happy Days, Father Dowling Mysteries, Murder She Wrote, The Dean Martin Show, The Debbie Reynolds Show, Wait Till Your Father Gets Home)
1928 - George Peppard (actor: The A-Team, Banacek, The Carpetbaggers, The Blue Max, Pork Chop Hill, Breakfast at Tiffany's, How the West was Won, Night of the Fox, Bang the Drum Slowly, The Executioner)
1928 - Laurence Harvey (Larushka Skikne) (actor: Room at the Top, Butterfield 8, The Manchurian Candidate, Of Human Bondage)
1930 - Philippe Noiret, Lille France, actor (Soleil, Les Milles, Il Postino)
1932 - Frank Gardner (auto racer)
1933 - Richard Harris (actor: Camelot, The Guns of Navarone, Hawaii, A Man Called Horse, Mutiny on the Bounty, Unforgiven; singer: MacArthur Park, Didn't We; LP: A Tramp Shining)
1935 - Chuck Hiller (baseball)
1935 - Julie Andrews (Julia Wells) (Academy Award-winning actress: Mary Poppins [1964], The Sound of Music, Victor/Victoria, 10, Hawaii; Emmy Award-winner: Victoria Regina: Hallmark Hall of Fame [1961-62]; My Fair Lady, The Boyfriend)
1936 - Edward Villella, Bayside Queens, ballet dancer (NYC Ballet)
1936 - Stella Stevens (Eggleston) (actress: The Poseidon Adventure, Li'l Abner, The Nutty Professor, Flamingo Road, Ben Casey)
1939 - George Archer (golf: Masters Champion [1969])
1943 - Herb Fame (Feemster) (singer: Herb of Peaches & Herb: Reunited)
1944 - Scott McKenzie (Phillip Blondheim) (singer: San Francisco [Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair], Like an Old Time Movie; co-writer: Kokomo [Beach Boys])
1945 - Donny Hathaway (singer: Where is the Love, You've Got a Friend, The Closer I Get to You [w/Roberta Flack])
1945 - Rod Carew (Baseball Hall of Famer: Minnesota Twins 2nd base: Rookie of the Year [1967]; 1st Base: Baseball Writers' Award [1977]; California Angels outfielder)
1949 - Annie Leibovitz, photgrapher (Rolling Stone/Vanity Fair)
1950 - Randy Quaid (actor: The Last Picture Show, Dead Solid Perfect, Days of Thunder, The Paper, Bye Bye Love, Caddyshack 2, National Lampoon's Vacation & Christmas Vacation)
1956 - Vance Law (baseball)
1963 - Mark McGwire, 1st baseman (AL rookie of year 1988, Oakland A's, Cards)
Famous deaths
0290 - [Christian] Bacchus, Roman soldier/martyred saint, killed
0540 - Vedastus St Vaast, 1st bishop of Atrecht/saint, dies
0976 - Al-Hakam II, Moors kalief of Cordoba, dies
1578 - Don Juan d'Austria, Spanish land guardian of Netherlands, dies at 31
1684 - Pierre Corneille, Fr lawyer/dramatist (El Cid, Polyeucte), dies at 42
1704 - Cornelis Dusart, painter/engraver, dies at 44
1708 - John Blow, composer (Venus & Adonis), dies at 59
1868 - Rama IV, [Phra Chomklao Chaoyuhua], king of Thai (1851-68), dies at 63
1876 - Henri-Jerome Bertini, composer, dies at 77
1943 - Henri H Geul, resistance fighter, executed at 27
1943 - Johan Kalshoven, resistance fighter, executed at 20
1943 - Johan Roemer, resistance fighter, executed at 22
1943 - Johan van Mierlo, resistance fighter, executed at 35
1943 - John Charles Boissevain, resistance fighter, executed at 23
1943 - Leo Frijda, resistance fighter, executed at 20
1943 - Louis Boissevain, resistance fighter, executed at 21
1943 - Maarten van/of Gilse, resistance fighter, executed at 27
1943 - Olaf T Thomsen, resistance fighter, executed at 23
1943 - Peter "Pam" Pooters, resistance fighter, executed at 32
1943 - Sape Kuiper, resistance fighter, executed at 19
1943 - Victor van Swieten, resistance fighter, executed at 36
1943 - Walter Brandligt, literature/resistance fighter, executed at 42
1968 - Marcel Duchamp, French painter (Descending an Escalator), dies
1972 - Louis Leakey, English anthropologist, dies at 68
1990 - Curtis E LeMay, USAF General/VP candidate, dies at 83
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