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Today in History ~ October 5
Events0610 - Heraclitus' fleet takes Constantinople
1450 - Jews are expelled from Lower Bavaria by order of Ludwig IX
1568 - Conference of York begins: trial against Mary Stuart
1568 - Willem of Orange's army occupies Brabant
1572 - Spanish army under Alva's son Don Frederik plunders Mechelen
1582 - Gregorian calendar introduced in Italy, other Catholic countries
1750 - Carlo Goldoni's "Il Teatro Comica," premieres in Venice
1762 - Gluck's opera "Orfeo Ed Euridice" is produced (Vienna)
1813 - Battle of Thames near Ontario, Canada; Americans defeat Tecumseh and the British [H]
1823 - Carl Maria von Weber visits Beethoven
1833 - Charles Darwin moves with Parana to Santa Fe, Bajada Argentina
1862 - Federal fleet occupies Galveston, Texas
1863 - Confederate sub David damages Union ship Ironsides
1864 - Battle of Allatoona, 1/3 of Union troops die repulsing South
1864 - Most of Calcutta destroyed by cyclone (approx 60,000 die)
1877 - Chief Joseph surrenders to US General Nelson A. Miles in the Bear Paw mountains of Montana, ending Nez Perce War.
1892 - The Dalton Gang, notorious for its train robberies, was practically wiped out while attempting to rob a pair of banks in Coffeyville, Kansas. [H]
1905 - Orville/Wilbur Wright's "Flyer III" flight 38.5 km in 38.3"
1910 - Portugal was declared a republic.
1911 - Italian troops occupy Tripoli (but not the Halls of Montezuma)
1916 - Corporal Adolf Hitler is wounded in WW I
1918 - Germany's Hindenburg Line was broken as World War I neared an end.
1921 - The World Series was broadcast on radio for the first time. Sports writer Grantland Rice was at the microphone
1924 - 1st Little Orphan Annie strip appears in NYC Daily News
1931 - Clyde Pangborn and Hugh Herndon completed the first non-stop flight across the Pacific Ocean, arriving in Washington state some 41 hours after leaving Japan.
1937 - President Franklin Roosevelt called for a "quarantine" of aggressor nations.
1942 - 5,000 Jews of Dubno Russia massacred
1943 - US air raid on Wake Island
1945 - "Meet the Press" premieres on radio
1947 - President Truman delivered the first televised White House address. The address televised to several east coast cities.
1953 - Earl Warren was sworn in as the 14th chief justice of the United States, succeeding Fred M. Vinson.
1960 - Eastern AL Electra turbo-prop crashed in Boston Harbor (61 die)
1962 - Beatles release their 1st record "Love Me Do"
1965 - Pope Paul VI made an unprecedented 14-hour visit to New York to plead for world peace before the United Nations.
1968 - Battles between Catholic demonstrators & police in Londonderry
1969 - Embarrassing breach of the US air defense capability, when a Cuban defector enters US air space undetected and lands his Soviet-made MiG-17 at Homestead Air Force Base near Miami, Florida, where the presidential aircraft Air Force One is waiting to return President Richard M. Nixon to DC.
1969 - Monty Python's Flying Circus begins airing on BBC
1970 - PBS becomes a network
1970 - Quebec separatists kidnap British trade commissioner James Cross
1975 - Democratic Senator Frank Church of Idaho charged that the CIA tried to kill Cuban President Fidel Castro during the administrations of three US presidents.
1978 - Isaac Bashevis Singer wins Nobel Prize for literature
1981 - President Ronald Reagan signed a resolution granting honorary American citizenship to Swedish diplomat and World War II hero Raoul Wallenberg, credited with saving about 100,000 Hungarians, most of them Jews, from the Nazis. He is the second honarary American (Winston Churchill was the first) [H]
1983 - Lech Walesa wins Nobel Peace Prize
1984 - US Aid of Nicaragua's Contras uncovered when soldiers from Nicaragua's Communist government shot down a US cargo plane found to be carrying military supplies to aid the Contras, who were waging a war against the ruling Sandinista government.
1986 -Former U.S. Marine Eugene Hasenfus was captured after his plane carrying arms for the Nicaraguan rebels was shot down over Nicaragua. Nicaragua's Sandinista government would try and convict Hasenfus, but then pardon him a couple of months later.
1988 - Chilean population agrees at referendum against Pinochet regime
1988 - Israel bans Meir Kahane's Kach Party on grounds of racism
1988, Democrat Lloyd Bentsen lambasted Republican Dan Quayle during their vice-presidential debate, telling Quayle, "Senator, you're no Jack Kennedy."
1989 - The Dalai Lama, exiled god-king of Tibet, won the Nobel Peace Prize for non-violent efforts to free his homeland from China.
1989 - TV evangelist Jim Bakker was convicted on all 24 counts of fraud and conspiracy for fleecing his PTL flock.
1990 - Cincinnati jury acquits art gallery of obscenity (Robert Mappelthorpe photos)
1991 - Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, responding to unilateral U.S. action, announced cuts in nuclear weapons that would reduce the number of strategic warheads to 5,000 in seven years.
1992 - NY senator Alphonse D'Amato fillerbusters for 15 hours 20 mins
1992 - For the first time in his administration, Congress overrode President Bush's veto of a bill to re-regulate the cable television industry.
1992 - The last of the three pathologists who conducted the autopsy on President Kennedy broke his silence and dismissed the conspiracy theories.
1993 - Last honor guard at Lenin's mausoleum
1993 - In a plea agreement, Jack Russ, former House sergeant-at-arms, admitted committing three felonies in connection with the House banking scandal.
1993 - President Clinton ordered the resumption in nuclear testing after China broke the informal moratorium and exploded a nuclear device beneath its western desert.
1994 - A total of 53 members of a secretive religious cult were found dead -- the victims of murder or suicide--over a two-day period in Switzerland and in Quebec, Canada.
1995 - President Clinton announced the warring parties in Bosnia had agreed to a cease-fire, to begin Oct. 10. However, it didn't begin until Oct. 12.
1996 - Already under fire for his drug policies, President Clinton revealed that a secret FBI memorandum said the government's anti-drug strategy "had never been properly organized." Clinton argued that the problems predated his administration.
1999 - MCI WorldCom Inc. announced that it had agreed to buy the Sprint Corp. in a $129 billion deal that would be the largest corporate acquisition ever.
2000 - Hundreds of thousands of Yugoslavians rose up and overthrew the Belgrade government. The next day, defeated presidential incumbent Slobodan Milosevic resigned, ending 13 years of rule.
Birthdays Today
1703 - Jonathan Edwards, US, theologian/philosopher (Original Sin)
1713 - Denis Diderot, France, philosopher/writer
1804 - Robert Parker Parrott, Inventor (Parrot Gun -- 1st machine gun), died in 1877
1830 - Chester A. Arthur (21st U.S. President [1881-1885])
1902 - Ray Kroc (entrepreneur: founder of McDonald's)
1908 - Joshua Logan (director: Paint Your Wagon, Camelot, Ensign Pulver, Fanny, South Pacific, Sayonara, Bus Stop, Picnic)
1918 - Allen Ludden (TV host: Password, The G.E. College Bowl, Liar's Club)
1919 - Donald Pleasance (actor: You Only Live Twice, Fantastic Voyage, Tale of Two Cities, The Adventures of Robin Hood)
1923 - Glynis Johns (actress: Mary Poppins, The Ref, A Little Night Music, The Sundowners, Coming of Age, Glynis)
1923 - Philip Berrigan, militant priest (Chicago 7)
1924 - Bill Dana (comedian, actor: The Steve Allen Show, The Bill Dana Show: "My name, Jose Jimenez.")
1925 - Gail Davis (Grayson) (actress: On Top of Old Smoky, Blue Canadian Rockies, Cow Town, Brand of Fear, Winning of the West)
1925 - Merlin Volzke (jockey)
1926 - Gottfried Michael Koenig, composer
1929 - Richard Gordon, Jr. (NASA astronaut)
1930 - Skip (George) Homeier (actor: Starbird and Sweet William, Cry Vengeance, The Gunfighter, The Halls of Montezuma, The Interns)
1933 - Diahann Carroll (actress: Julia, Dynasty, Lonesome Dove: The Series)
1933 - Diane Cilento (actress: Winner Takes All, The Agony and the Ecstasy, Tom Jones, Negatives, Hombre, The Naked Edge)
1935 - Margie Singleton (singer: Keeping Up with the Joneses [w/Faron Young], Eyes of Love, Old Records; TV performer: Louisiana Hayride)
1936 - Odie (Adrian) Smith (basketball)
1936 - Vaclav Havel (government official: President: Republic of Czechoslovakia)
1938 - Johnny Duncan (singer: She Can Put Her Shoes Under My Bed [Anytime], Slow Dancing, He's Out of My Life, Hello Mexico [And Adios Baby to You]; with Janie Fricke: It Couldn't Have Been Any Better, Thinkin' of a Rendezvous, Stranger, Come a Little Bit Closer)
1943 - Steve Miller (singer, songwriter: group: The Steve Miller Band: The Joker, Rock'n Me, Fly Like an Eagle, Jet Airliner, Abracadabra, Take the Money and Run)
1945 - Robert Holmes (football: Kansas City Chiefs running back: Super Bowl IV)
1948 - Brian Connolly (singer: group: Little Willy, The Sweet: Funny Funny, Co-Co, Wig Wam Bam, Blockbuster, Jell Raiser, Ballroom Blitz, Teenage Rampage, Fox on the Run)
1949 - B.W. Stevenson (singer: Shambala; songwriter: My Maria)
1949 - Jeff Conaway (actor: Taxi, The Patriot, Sunset Strip, A Time to Die, Almost Pregnant, Bounty Hunter 2002, The Dirty Dozen: The Fatal Mission, Grease, Pete's Dragon)
1951 - Karen Allen (actress: Ghost in the Machine, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Backfire, National Lampoon's Animal House, Starman)
1952 - Aaron James (basketball)
1954 - Bob Geldof (singer, songwriter: group: Boomtown Rats: Looking After No. 1, She's So Modern, Rat Trap, I Don't Like Mondays, This is the World Calling, Love like a Rocket; organized fund-raising group: Band Aid)
1965 - Mario Lemieux (hockey: Pittsburgh Penguins scoring star: Calder Trophy [1984], Art Ross Trophy [1986, 1993], Hart Memorial Trophy: [1988, 1993], Stanley Cup winner [1991, 1992]: holds record for points scored in a game [8]: Conn Smythe Trophy [1991, 1992])
Famous deaths
0578 - Justinus II, Byzantine emperor (565-78),
1285 - Philippe III, the Stout, King of France (1270-85),
1813 - Tecumseh, Shawnee Indian chief/English Gen, was killed while fighting on the side of the British during the War of 1812 (Battle of Thames)
1880 - Jacques Offenbach, German/Fr composer (La Belle Helene, Orpheus, Tales of Hoffman), dies at 61
1899 - Johann Nepomuk Fuchs, composer, dies at 57
1902 - Throngs filled Paris streets for the funeral of French author Emile Zola.
1940 - Silvestre Revueltas, Mexican composer: Cuauhnahuac/Planos, dies at 40
1941 - Louis D Brandeis, 1st Jewish Supreme Court Judge (1916-39), died in Washington, D.C., at age 84.
1944 - Joseph B "Aristide" Maillol, French sculptor/graphic artist,
1956 - Joseph Erlanger, US doctor (shock therapy-Nobel 1944),
1990 - Meir Kahane, founder of Jewish defense league, assassinated at 58
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