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Today in History ~ October 7
Events1492 - Columbus misses Florida when he changes course
1520 - 1st public burning of books in Netherlands, in Louvain
1542 - Explorer Cabrillo discovered Catalina Island off Southern California coast
1571 - The Ottoman navy was defeated at the Battle of Lepanto. Spain & Italy destroy Turkish fleet
1690 - English attack Quebec under Louis de Buade
1737 - 40 foot waves sink 20,000 small craft & kill 300,000 (Bengal, India)
1763 - George III of Great Britain issues Proclamation of 1763, closing lands in North America north & west of Alleghenies to white settlement
1765 - Stamp Act Congress convenes in NY
1777 - Americans beat British in 2nd Battle of Saratoga & Battle of Bemis Heights
1780 - British defeated by American militia near Kings Mountain, SC
1806 - Carbon paper patented in London by inventor Ralph Wedgewood
1816 - 1st double decked steamboat, Washington, arrives in New Orleans
1856 - Cyrus Chambers Jr patents folding machine that folds book and newspapers
1864 - Capture of CSS Florida by USS Wachusett at Bahia, Brazil
1864 - -Oct 13th) Battle of Darbytown Road, VA
1868 - Cornell University (Ithaca NY) opens
1870 - Leon Gambetta flees Paris in balloon
1885 - A mudslide in Ponce, Puerto Rico, kills an estimated 500 people in the island's worst disaster this century.
1886 - Spain abolishes slavery in Cuba
1913 - Henry Ford institutes moving assembly line [H]
1916 - In the most lopsided football game on record, Georgia Tech humbled Cumberland University of Lebanon, Tennessee, 222-0.
1919 - Fritz Kreisler's & F Jacobi's "Apple Blossoms," premieres in NYC
1929 - Ramsay MacDonald is 1st British premier to address US Congress
1931 - 1st infra-red photograph, Rochester, NY
1935 - Himmler/Hess and Reinhard Heydrich agree to build concentration camp Dachau
1938 - Germany demands all Jewish passports stamped with letter J
1942 - 1 salvo Katjoesja-rocket destroys Nazi battalion in Stalingrad
1942 - Maxwell Anderson's "Eve of St Mark," premieres in NYC
1942 - US & British government announce establishment of United Nations
1943 - Weill's/Perelman'sNash's musical "One Touch of Venus," premieres in NYC
1944 - Fieldmarshal Rommel gets order to return to Berlin
1944 - Uprising at Auschwitz, Jews burn down crematoria
1944 - Uprising at Birkenau concentration camp
1949 - Less than five months after Great Britain, the United States, and France established the Federal Republic of Germany in West Germany, the Democratic Republic of Germany (East Germany) was proclaimed within the Soviet occupation zone.
1950 - The UN General Assembly approved a US-led UN force to advance north of 38th parallel into North Korea.
1951 - David Ben-Gurion forms Israeli government
1952 - 1st "Bandstand" broadcast in Philadelphia on WFIL-TV (Dick Clark joins in 1955 as a substitute-host)
1955 - Aircraft carrier USS Saratoga at Brooklyn launched
1957 - "American Bandstand" premieres
1958 - Potter Stewart appointed to US Supreme Court
1960 - "Route 66" premieres
1960 - 2nd JFK & Richard Nixon debate
1961 - "Bye Bye Birdie" closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC after 607 performances
1963 - Bobby Baker resigns as Senate Democratic secretary after being charged in a 300-thousand-dollar civil suit with using his influence for personal monetary gains.
1968 - The movie industry adopted a film ratings system for the first time: G (for general audiences), M (for mature audiences), R (no one under 16 admitted without an adult) and X (no one under 16 admitted).
1971 - Disney World opens in Orlando
1975 - US decides John Lennon won't be deported due to UK pot conviction
1981 - Hosni Mubarak became acting-president of Egypt
1982 - "Cats" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 5000+ performances
1982 - Olaf Palme forms Swedish government
1984 - Walter Payton passes Jim Brown as NFL's career rushing leader
1985 - PLO terrorists sieze Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro with 511 passengers and crew off the coast of Egypt and threaten to blow it up unless Israel freed Palestinian prisoners. The hijackers, who surrendered in Port Said two days later, killed an American passenger.
1989 - The Hungarian Communist Party ditched its name and adopted the label of Socialist.
1989 - East Germany celebrated its 40th anniversary as a communist state amid pro-reform demonstrations.
1990 - Israel begins handing out gas masks to its citizens
1991 - Slovenia and Croatia formally declared seccession from Yugoslavia.
1991 - Iran freed U.S. telecommunications engineer John Pattis, ending five years of captivity on charges of spying for the CIA.
1991 - U.N. inspectors discovered an Iraqi nuclear weapons research center intact.
1992 - President Bush and the leaders of Mexico and Canada signed the North American Free Trade Agreement. The pact would create the world's largest trading block.
1992 - A West Virginia Air National Guard cargo plane crashed into a house in Berkeley Springs, W.Va. All six crewmembers were killed, but the home's resident escaped with minor injuries.
1994 - President Clinton announced he was sending the Navy and Marines in response to an Iraqi military build-up along the Iraqi-Kuwaiti border.
1997 - Scientists announced they had found one of the most massive stars known, behind a dense dust cloud in the Milky Way that had previously concealed it. The star was 25,000 light-years from Earth.
1998 - Gay University of Wyoming student Matthew Shepard suffered mortal injuries in a beating and died five days later. Two men were charged with murder.
1999 - American Home Products, the makers of the diet drug combination known as "fen-phen," agreed to a $3.75 billion settlement of a class-action lawsuit stemming from the drugs' use, which was linked to heart valve problems.
2000 - Vojislav Kostunica was sworn in as Yugoslavia's new president.
2001 - n the war on terror, the U.S. and Britain began a series of nightly attacks on targets in Afghanistan on this date, using cruise missiles and long-range bombers in an assault directed at airports, air defenses and communication and command centers.
2001 - In a pre-recorded tape played on this date, Osama bin Laden warned, "America will not live in peace" until peace came to "Palestine" and "until the army of infidels depart the land of Muhammad."
2002 - The sniper terrorizing the Washington area struck again, this time shooting and critically wounding a 13-year old boy as he was being dropped off at school in Bowie, Md.
2002 - President Bush said in a speech that only the removal of Saddam Hussein from power will end the U.S. confrontation with Iraq.
Birthdays Today
1573 - William Laud, English archbishop of Canterbury (1633-45)
1728 - Caesar Rodney, Delaware, judge/signer (Declaration of Independence)
1746 - William Billings, Boston Mass, hymn composer (Rose of Sharon)
1758 - Paul Anton Wineberger, composer
1774 - Ferdinando Orlandi, composer
1798 - Jean B Vuillaume, French violin maker (octobas)
1849 - James Whitcomb Riley, US, poet (Raggedy Man)
1853 - James Whitcomb Riley (poet: When the Frost is on the Punkin', Little Orphant Annie)
1885 - Niels Bohr, Denmark, physicist, expanded quantum physics (Nobel 1922)
1888 - Henry A Wallace, (D/P) 33rd VP (1941-45)/founder Progressive Party
1896 - Elijah Muhammad, US, leader of Nation of Islam
1903 - Louis S B Leakey, archaeologist/anthropologist
1905 - Andy Devine (Jeremiah Schwartz) (actor: The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok, Flipper, Andy's Gang, Whale of a Tale, Myra Breckinridge, How the West was Won, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, The Red Badge of Courage, Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves)
1911 - Jo (Jonathan) Jones (musician: drums: the first to minimize use of base drum, keeping time on top cymbal; piano, reeds, trumpet: played with Count Basie, Bennie Goodman sextet, led trio: LP: The Essential Jo Jones, The Drums, The Main Man, Our Man Papa Jo)
1911 - Vaughn Monroe (singer: Racing with the Moon, Riders in the Sky, There I Go, Rum and Coca Cola, There! I've Said It Again, Let It Snow, Let It Snow! Let It Snow!, Ballerina, They were Doing the Mambo; actor: Meet the People, Carnegie Hall, Singing Guns)
1914 - Alfred Drake (Capurro) (Tony Award-winning actor: Kismet [1954], Kiss Me Kate, Oklahoma)
1914 - Sarah Churchill, London, actress (All Over Town, Royal Wedding)
1917 or 1923 - June Allyson (Ella Geisman) (actress: Best Foot Forward, The Glen Miller Story, Little Women, Strategic Air Command; TV host: The Dupont Show with June Allyson; wife of actor, Dick Powell)
1918 - Frankie Baumholtz (baseball)
1922 - Grady Hatton (baseball)
1922 - Martha Stewart (Haworth) (singer, actress: Those Two)
1926 - Alex Groza (basketball)
1927 - Al Martino (Cini) (singer: Here in My Heart, I Love You Because, I Love You More and More Each Day, Spanish Eyes, Mary in the Morning; actor: The Godfather, The Godfather, Part 3)
1927 - Diana Lynn (Loehr) (actress: Bedtime for Bonzo, The Kentuckian, The Annapolis Story, My Friend Irma, Miracle of Morgan's Creek)
1931 - Desmond Tutu (Nobel Peace Prize-winner [1984]: Archbishop: 1st black Anglican bishop of Johannesburg, S. Africa)
1934 - [Everett] LeRoi Jones, [Amiri Baraka], US writer (Black Music)
1934 - Ulrike Meinhof, German Red Army member
1935 - Thomas M Keneally, Australian writer (Schindler's List)
1938 - Gary Bergman (hockey)
1943 - Jose Cardenal (baseball)
1949 - Chris Morris (football)
1949 - David Hope (musician: bass: group: Kansas: Dust in the Wind)
1950 - Bo (David) Rather (football)
1951 - John Cougar Mellencamp (singer: Jack and Diane, Cherry Bomb, Get a Leg Up, Hurts So Good; LP: American Fool, Uh-Huh, Scarecrow; songwriter: Colored Lights)
1952 - Jacques Richard (hockey)
1953 - Christopher Norris (actress: Trapper John, M.D.)
1955 - Yo-Yo Ma, Paris France, world famous Chinese cellist
1956 - Tico Torres (musician: drums: group: Bon Jovi: You Give Love a Bad Name)
1961 - Judy Landers (actress: B.J. and the Bear, Vegas, Madame's Place)
Famous deaths
0290 - [Christian] Sergius, Roman soldier/martyred saint, decapitated
1488 - Andrea del Verrochio, sculptor/painter/goldsmith, dies at 52
1777 - Simon Fraser, English general, dies in battle
1780 - Patrick Ferguson, English major in SC, dies in battle at 36
1800 - Gabriel, slave revolt leader (Virginia), hanged
1849 - Edgar Allen Poe, poet (Raven), dies in Baltimore at 40
1918 - C Hubert H Parry, Engl musicologist/composer (Jerusalem), dies at 70
1939 - Harvey (William) Cushing, US neurologist, dies at 70
1959 - Mario Lanza, undisciplined opera singer and temperamental movie star, dies at 38 of a heart attack.
1991 - Leo Durocher, baseball coach/manager (Dodgers, Giants), dies at 86
1992 - Allan Bloom, author (Closing of the American Mind), dies at 62
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