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Today in History ~ October 4
Events1518 - Henry VIII's daughter Mary marries French crown prince
1535 - 1st full English translation of the Bible printed in Switzerland
1539 - King Henry VIII & Anne of Cleves marry
1636 - In Massachusetts the Plymouth Colony's 1st law drafted
1648 - Peter Stuyvesant establishes America's 1st volunteer firemen
1675 - Christian Huygens patents pocket watch
1712 - Utrecht banishes poor Jews
1777 - An unpleasant surprise for Americans occurred, when the army of General George Washington was defeated by the British in a battle at Germantown, Pennsylvania (outside of Philadelphia).
1824 - Mexico becomes a republic
1830 - Belgium formed itself into an independent state.
1854 - Abraham Lincoln made his 1st political speech at Illinois State Fair
1862 - Battle of Corinth ends
1880 - University of California founded in Los Angeles
1881 - Edward Leveaux patents automatic player piano
1883 - Orient Express' 1st run, linking Istanbul, Turkey to Paris by rail
1890 - Mormons in Utah renounced polygamy.
1895 - The first U.S. Open golf tournament was held, at the Newport Country Club in Rhode Island.
1897 - George Bernard Shaw's "The Devil's Disciple," premieres in NYC
1900 - Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Problem of Thor Bridge"
1904 - 1st day of NYC subway, 350,000 people ride 9.1 mile tracks
1909 - Cunard liner "Lusitania" crosses the Atlantic in four days, 15 hours and 52 minutes.
1909 - The first airship race in the United States begins in St. Louis, Missouri, with four hydrogen-filled dirigibles,
1911 - 1st public elevator (London's Earl's Court Metro Station)
1915 - Dinosaur National Monument in Colorado & Utah established
1921 - League of Nations refuses to assist starving Russians
1931 - The comic strip "Dick Tracy," created by Chester Gould, made its debut.
1931 - Herbert Hoover convenes a meeting of thirty U.S. business leaders
1933 - First issue of Esquire magazine is published
1939 - Last Polish troops surrender to German Wehrmacht
1940 - 12 German aircrafts shot down above England
1940 - Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini conferred at Brenner Pass in the Alps, where the Nazi leader sought Italy's help in fighting the British
1942 - German assault on Tractor factory in Stalingrad
1943 - Corsica freed by Free French
1943 - German occupiers forbid flying of kites (6 month jail sentence)
1949 - United Nations' permanent NYC headquarters is dedicated
1955 - Rev Sun Young Moon leaves prison in Seoul
1957 - "Leave It to Beaver," debuts on CBS
1957 - The Space Age began as the Soviet Union launched Sputnik, the first man-made satellite, into orbit. [H]
1958 - The first transatlantic passenger jetliner service was begun by British Overseas Airways Corp. with flights between London and New York.
1963 - -8] Hurricane Flora, kills 6,000 in Cuba & Haiti
1964 - President Johnson issues the order to reactivate North Vietnamese coastal raids by South Vietnamese boats as part of Oplan 34A
1965 - Pope Paul VI becomes 1st Pope to visit Western Hemisphere (UN)
1966 - Pope calls for end to the Vietnam War
1970 - Herbert Schmidtz makes highest parachute jump from a tower by leaping from a 1,984 ft TV mast in Tulsa, Oklahoma
1976 - Earl Butz resigned as agriculture secretary with an apology for what he called the "gross indiscretion" in the wake of a controversy over a joke he'd made about blacks.
1976 - Supreme Court lifts 1972 ban on death penalty for convicted murderers
1978 - Funeral services held at the Vatican for Pope John Paul I.
1981 - Meadowlands Arena opens in East Rutherford, NJ
1982 - Helmut Kohl elected chancellor of German FR
1983 - After nearly twenty years of domination by Americans, Briton Richard Noble raced to a new one-mile land speed record (633.468 mph ) in his jet-powered Thrust 2 vehicle.
1985 - Shiite Moslems claim to have killed hostage William Buckley
1988 - Jim Bakker is indicted on federal charges [H]
1990 - Regional elections held in what is East Germany
1990 - For the first time in nearly six decades, German lawmakers met in the Reichstag for the first meeting of reunified Germany's parliament.
1991 - In Madrid, Spain, 26 nations, including the United States, signed the Antarctic Treaty, which imposed a 50-year ban on oil exploration and mining in Antarctica.
1992 - The Mozambique government signs a cease-fire with leaders of the Mozambican National Resistance (MNR), ending a 16 year civil war.
1992 - As many as 250 people were killed when an El Al 747 cargo plane crashed into an apartment building on the out-skirts of Amsterdam, Netherlands.
1993 - Defense Secretary Les Aspin decided to keep Adm. Frank Kelso as Chief of Naval Operations, despite his involve ment in the "Tailhook Scandal."
1993 - Troops and tanks of president Yelsin occupy Russian White House (Parliament)
1993 - President Clinton ordered several hundred more American troops to Somalia, after the deaths of three Marines in Mogadishu.
1995 - Pope John Paul II visited the United States for the fourth time.
1995 - Hurricane Opal cut a path of destruction through the Florida Panhandle, Alabama, Georgia and North Carolina.
1996 - A judge in Philadelphia issued an injunction preventing Major League baseball umpires from striking for the remainder of the postseason over an incident in which Roberto Alomar of the Baltimore Orioles spat on umpire John Hirschbeck.
1997 - Hundreds of thousands of Christian men gathered on the Mall in Washington, D.C., to reaffirm their faith and to pledge to preserve the structure of the family. The rally was organized by Promise Keepers, an evangelical group founded by former football coach Bill McCartney.
2000 - Amid fresh bloodshed in the West Bank and Gaza, Secretary of State Madeleine Albright brought Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat together for talks in Paris.
2000 - In an apparent attempt to buy time for Slobodan Milosevic, Yugoslavia's highest court invalidated parts of the presidential election after thousands of opposition supporters forced police to back off from seizing a strikebound mine.
2001 - The Labor Department reported 528,000 new claims for unemployment, a nine-year high.
2001 - A Siberian Airlines jetliner exploded and plunged into the Black Sea, killing all 64 passengers and 12 crew members. The U.S. said later evidence showed the plane had been hit by a missile fired during a Ukranian military training exercise.
2001 - Rickey Henderson of the San Diego Padres scored his 2,246th run, breaking Ty Cobb's major league record.
Birthdays Today
1289 - Louis X, the Stubborn, king of France (1314-16)
1515 - Lucas Cranach, the Younger, German painter
1542 - Roberto Bellarmino, Italian Jesuit theologian/diplomat/saint
1626 - Richard Cromwell, lord protector of England (1658-59)
1772 - Francois-Louis Pierne, composer
1787 - Francois P G Guizot, French historian/politician
1810 - Alexander Walewski, French earl/foreign minister/ Napoleon I's son
1822 - Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Delaware Ohio, (R) 19th pres (1877-81).
1832 - William Griggs, inventor (photo chromo lithography)
1861 - Frederic Remington, US, artist/sculptor of American West
1862 - Edward L. Stratemeyer (author: see "Stratemeyer" Day [above])
1877 - Pancho Villa, [Doroteo Arango], Mexico, revolutionary rebel
1880 - Damon Runyon, US journalist/writer (Guys & Dolls is based on his writings)
1881 - [Heinrich AH] Walther von Brauchitsch, German fieldmarshal
1884 - Damon Runyan (journalist; script writer: Guys and Dolls)
1892 - Engelbert Dollfuss, Austrian Fascist chancellor killed by Nazis
1895 - Buster (Joseph) Keaton 'The Great Stone Face" (actor: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Hollywood Clowns, Man in the Silk Hat, It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, When Comedy was King, Sunset Boulevard, God's Country, Doughboys, The Saphead; grandfather of actor Michael Keaton)
1895 - Hattie McDaniel, actress (Gone With the Wind, Academy Award)
1895 - Richard Sorge, German spy for USSR in Tokyo (WW II)
1903 - Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Austrian Nazi (SS/SD), successor top Reinhard Heydrich. Hanged in 1946.
1910 - Frank Crosetti (baseball)
1917 - Jan Murray (Murry Janofsky) (TV host: Dollar a Second, Treasure Hunt, Songs for Sale, Sing It Again, Go Lucky, Blind Date; comedian: Jan Murray Time)
1924 - Charleton Heston (Charles Carter) (Academy Award-winning actor: Ben-Hur [1959]; In the Mouth of Madness, A Thousand Heroes, Tombstone, El Cid, Earthquake, The Ten Commandments, Planet of the Apes, Khartoum, Airport '75, Midway, Omega Man, Antony & Cleopatra, True Lies)
1927 - Rip (John) Repulski (baseball)
1928 - Alvin Toffler (author: Future Shock, Power Shift, The Third Wave)
1929 - Leroy Van Dyke (singer: Walk on By, Auctioneer, If a Woman Answers; film: What am I Bid?)
1932 - Felicia Farr (actress: Charley Varrick, Kotch, Kiss Me Stupid)
1934 - Sam Huff (Pro Football Hall of Famer: New York Giants middle linebacker: All Pro 1958, 1959; Washington Redskins; subject of TV special: The Violent World of Sam Huff)
1935 - Jimmy Orr (football: Baltimore Colts wide receiver: Super Bowl III, V)
1941 - Anne Rice, New Orleans LA, author (Interview with a Vampire)
1941 - Jackie Collins (author: Hollywood Wives, Hollywood Husbands, Rockstar, Lady Boss, American Star, Lucky, Chances; sister of actress, Joan Collins)
1941 - Jerrel Wilson (football: Kansas City Chiefs punter: Super Bowl I, IV)
1941 - Lori Saunders (Hines) (actress: Petticoat Junction, Dusty's Trail)
1945 - Clifton Davis (actor: That's My Mama, Amen, Love, American Style, The Melba Moore-Clifton Davis Show, Dream Date, Don't Look Back: The Story of Leroy 'Satchel' Paige)
1946 - Susan Sarandon (Tomaling) (Academy Award-winning actress: Dead Man Walking [1995]; Little Women, Atlantic City, Thelma and Louise, Lorenzo's Oil, Witches of Eastwick, Bull Durham, The Client, Search for Tomorrow)
1947 - James Fielder (musician: bass: groups: Buffalo Springfield; Mothers of Invention; Blood, Sweat & Tears: Spinning Wheel You've Made Me So Very Happy, And When I Die)
1947 - Jim McFarland (football)
1948 - Cedrick Hardman (football: Oakland Raiders defensive end: Super Bowl XV)
1949 - Armand Assante (actor: Mambo Kings, Hoffa, 1492: Conquest of Paradise, Blind Justice, Fatal Instinct, Trial by Jury, Private Benjamin, Jack the Ripper, The Lords of Flatbush)
1949 - Mike Adamle (football, broadcaster: ABC Sports)
1950 - Ed Halicki (baseball)
1951 - Len Robinson (basketball)
1980 - Jimmy Workman (actor: The Addams Family, Addams Family Values)
Famous deaths
1226 - St. Francis of Assisi, founder of the Franciscans and one of history's most famous nature lovers
1582 - Theresa of Avila, Spanish mystic writer/saint, dies
1590 - Cujacius, [Jacques Cujas], French lawyer, dies at 68
1669 - Rembrandt H van Rijn, painter/etcher (Steel Masters, Night Watch), dies
1859 - Karl Baedeker, German tour guide (Die Schweiz), dies at 57
1904 - Frederic Auguste Bertholdi, French sculptor (Statue of Liberty)
1910 - Scottish surgeon Joseph Bell. He was the real-life model for Arthur Conan Doyle's character Sherlock Holmes.
1912 - Gen Zeledon, Nicaraguan opponent of US occupation, is executed
1947 - Max KEL Planck, German physicist ( Nobel 1918),
1970 - Janis Joplin, rock singer (Down on Me), dies of a drug overdose at 27. "Bye, bye-bye, baby, bye-bye...It seems you just got lost somewhere out in the world"
1972 - Louis S B Leakey, archaeologist/anthropologist, dies at 68
1982 - Glenn H Gould, eccentric Canadian pianist, dies at 50
1989 - Graham Chapman, comedian (Monty Python), dies of cancer at 48
1991 - Leonard C Odell, wrote 7,000 Burma Shave poems, dies at 83 (Burma Shave!)
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