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Today in History ~ October 8
Discoverer's Day (celebrated in Hawaii).
Canadian Thanksgiving Day
Events0451 - Council of Chalcedon (4th ecumenical council) opens
0876 - Battle at Andernach: Louis the Young beats Charles the Bare
1085 - San Marcos minstery in Venice initiated
1604 - Supernova "Kepler's Nova" 1st sighted
1775 - Officers decide to bar slaves & free blacks from Continental Army
1806 - British forces lay siege to French port of Boulogne using Congreve rockets, invented by Sir William Congreve
1815 - General Joachim Murat's forces lands at Pizzo Italy
1818 - 2 English boxers are 1st to use padded gloves
1822 - 1st eruption of Galunggung (Java) sends boiling sludge into valley
1835 - HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin reaches James Island, Galapagos archipelago
1840 - 1st Hawaiian constitution proclaimed.
1856 - Chinese police board British vessel Arrow, arrest 12 Chinese crewmen on suspicion of piracy & lower Brit flag, begins 2nd Anglo-Chinese War
1860 - Telegraph line between Los Angeles and San Francisco opens.
1862 - Confederate invasion of Kentucky stalls when Buell stops Bragg at Perryville. [H]
1862 - Otto von Bismarck becomes German republic chancellor
1871 - The Great Chicago Fire started. It destroyed more than 17,000 buildings, killed more than 250 people and left 100,000 homeless. That same day, a forest fire began at Peshtigo, Wisconsin, eventually burning some 850 square miles and killing about 1,100 people. [H]
1886 - Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Noble Bachelor"
1892 - Sergei Rachmaninoff first publicly performed his piano "Prelude in C-sharp Minor" in Moscow.
1896 - Dow Jones starts reporting an average of industrial stocks.
1897 - Emperor Karl Joseph I names Gustav Mahler director of Vienna Opera
1903 - J M Synge's "In the Shadow of the Glen," premieres in Dublin
1906 - Karl Nessler demonstrates 1st 'permanent wave' for hair, in London
1912 - Montenegro declares war on Turkey, beginning Balkan War
1915 - WWI, battle of Loos ends with virtually no gains for either side. Loss of over one hundred thousand French, British, and German lives in this battle. First use of poisonous gas by the British which drifted back to the British trenches.
1917 - Leon Trotski named chairman of Petrograd Soviet
1918 - Sgt. Alvin York of Tennessee became a World War I hero by single-handedly capturing a hill in the Argonne Forest of France, killing 25 enemy soldiers and capturing 132 others. [H]
1919 - Congress passed the Volstead Act named for Representative Andrew Volsted of Minnesota, it enforced the ban on the sale or consumption of alcoholic beverages. This rang in the era of prohibition, when party-goers whispered passwords through speak-easy doors and flappers ruled the dance floor.
1919 - First Transcontinental Air Race; began with 63 planes competing in the round-trip aerial derby between California and New York Each way took about three days.
1927 - Sea battle at Navarino (Greece freed of Ottoman occupation)
1928 - Cole Porter's musical "Paris," premieres in NYC
1934 - Bruno Hauptmann was indicted for murder in the death of the infant son of Charles A. Lindbergh.
1935 - Ozzie Nelson marries Harriet Hilliard (Ozzie & Harriet)
1938 - G Kaufman & Moss Hart's "Fabulous Invalid," premieres in NYC
1939 - Germany annexes Western Poland
1940 - German troops occupies Romania
1941 - Concentration camp Birkenau begins construction
1942 - Fight at Matanikau, Guadalcanal (John Hersey - Into the Valley)
1944 - "Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet" debuts on CBS radio
1945 - President Truman announced that the secret of the atomic bomb would be shared only with Britain and Canada.
1952 - Chinese offensive in Korea
1953 - Birmingham Alabama, bars Jackie Robinson's Negro-White All-Stars from playing there - Robinson gives in & drops white players from his group
1956 - Don Larsen pitched the first perfect game in World Series history, as the New York Yankees beat the Brooklyn Dodgers, 2-0.
1957 - Brooklyn Dodgers announce move to Los Angeles
1957 - Jack Soble, confessed Soviet spy, sentenced in NYC to 7 years for espionage
1958 - Dr Ake Senning installs 1st pacemaker (Stockholm)
1959 - Conservatives win British election
1961 - US Constellation crashes at Richmond Virginia, 74 die
1965 - London's Post Office Tower opens, tallest building in England
1967 - Argentinian-born Communist revolutionary Ernesto Che Guevara, an important figure in the 1959 Cuban revolution, was killed while leading a guerrilla war in Bolivia.
1970 - Soviet author Alexander Solzhenitsyn was named winner of the Nobel Prize for literature.
1971 - John Lennon releases his megahit "Imagine"
1979 - "Sugar Babies" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 1208 performances
1980 - British Leyland starts selling Mini Metro
1981 - 1st broadcast of "Cagney & Lacey" on ABC-TV
1981 - At the White House, President Reagan greeted former presidents Carter, Ford and Nixon, who were preparing to travel to Egypt for the funeral of Anwar Sadat.
1982 - All labor organizations in Poland, including Solidarity, were banned.
1985 - The hijackers of the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro killed American passenger Leon Klinghoffer.
1990 - US doctors Joseph E Murray & E Donnall Thomas win Nobel Prize
1990 - At least 17 Moslems were killed by Israeli police in rioting on the Temple Mount, the third holiest site in Islam.
1991 - A federal judge in Anchorage, Alaska, approved a five-billion-dollar settlement against Exxon for the Valdez oil spill.
1991 - Former assistant secretary of state Elliott Abrams pleaded guilty to withholding information from Congress in the Iran-Contra scandal.
1991 - The U.S. Senate postponed its vote on Clarence Thomas' Supreme Court nomination to investigate allegations that he'd sexually harassed a former aide, Anita Hill.
1991 - A federal judge in Anchorage, Alaska, approved a $1 billion settlement against Exxon for the Valdez oil spill.
1991 - The Soviet Union agreed to remove an estimated 45,000 troops from Poland by the end of 1992.
1992 - West Indian Poet Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature
1993 - UN lifts remaining economic sanctions against South Africa
1993 - US Justice Department released its report on its handling of the 51-day siege at the Branch Davidian compound near Waco, Texas. It concluded the department and Attorney General Reno made no mistakes and that the cult bore the blame for the fire that destroyed the compound...killing at least 80 people.
1996 - American economist William Vickrey and British professor James Mirrlees were named co-winners of the Nobel economics prize. (The 82-year-old Vickrey died three days later.)
1996 - Pope John Paul II underwent a successful operation to remove his inflamed appendix.
1997 - A major hurricane battered Acapulco, Mexico, and vicinity. The death toll was more than 200, with many more people left homeless.
1997 - Three years after the death of longtime North Korean ruler Kim Il Sung, his son, Kim Jong Il, officially inherited his father's title of general secretary of the Communist Party.
1997 - Evidence that Mars Might Once Have Supported Life Revealed
1998 - The House of Representatives voted 258-176 to begin impeachment hearings against President Clinton.
2000 - Polish President Aleksander Kwasniewski won a second five-year term.
2000 - As the Israeli-Palestinian violence continued, President Clinton asked Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak to hold an urgent summit meeting.
2001 - U.S. transport planes dropped 37,000 meals into areas of Afghanistan where it was feared mass starvation was imminent.
2001 - Former Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Ridge was sworn in as director of the new Office of Homeland Security.
2002 - President Bush invoked the Taft-Hartley Act to get West Coast longshoremen back to work. Employers had shut down the docks 11 days earlier when it appeared contract negotiations were going nowhere.
Birthdays Today
1585 - Heinrich Schutz, composer
1740 - Michel-Julien Mathieu, composer
1870 - Louis Vierne, composer
1890 - Eddie Rickenbacker (aviator: decorated World War I hero; President and CEO of Eastern Airlines [1938-63]) "Ace of Aces" (WW I)
1895 - Juan Peron (President of Argentina [1946-1955] [1973-74]; married to Eva Peron, Vice-President of Argentina who took over as president upon the death of her husband)
1910 - Wally Moses (baseball)
1917 - Billy Conn (International Boxing Hall of Famer: World Light Heavyweight Champion [1939-1941]; film: The Pittsburgh Kid)
1917 - Danny Murtaugh (baseball: Pittsburgh Pirates manager)
1919 - Jack McGrath (auto racer)
1920 - Frank [Patrick] Herbert, US, sci-fi author (Dune)
1922 - Dr. Christiaan Barnard, Pioneering South African heart-transplant surgeon
1930 - Paul Hogan, Australia, actor (Crocodile Dundee, Lightning Jack)
1931 - Pepper (Franklin) Rodgers (football)
1936 - Rona Barrett (Burstein) (gossip columnist: syndicated newspapers, Entertainment Tonight; TV host: The Tomorrow Show)
1938 - Fred Stolle (tennis champion: Australian Open [1965], U.S. Open 1966])
1939 - Paul Hogan (actor: Crocodile Dundee series, Lightening Jack)
1940 - David Carradine (actor: The Long Riders, Bound for Glory, Karate Cop, Field of Fire, Deadly Surveillance, Dune Warriors, The Dying Truth, Gray Lady Down, Boxcar Bertha, Kung Fu, Kung Fu-The Legend Continues, North and South, Book II; son of actor, John Carradine, brother of Keith and Robert)
1941 - Rev. Jesse Jackson (civil rights leader, founder: Rainbow Coalition; U.S. presidential candidate)
1942 - Buzz Clifford (Reese Franklin Clifford III) (singer: Baby Sittin' Boogie)
1943 - Chevy (Cornelius) Chase (Emmy Award-winning comedian, actor: Saturday Night Live [1976]; The Chevy Chase Show, Fletch, Man of the House, Caddyshack I & II, National Lampoon's Vacation series, Three Amigos, The Groove Tube; Emmy Award-winning comedy writer: The Paul Simon Special [1978], Saturday Night Live [1976]; The Groove Tube)
1944 - Ed Kirkpatrick (baseball)
1944 - Susan Raye (singer: I've Got a Happy Heart, Willie Jones)
1946 - Paul Splittorff (baseball: Milwaukee Brewers pitcher)
1948 - Sarah Purcell (TV reporter: Real People)
1949 - Brian Glenwright (hockey)
1949 - Enos Cabell (baseball)
1949 - Sigourney (Susan) Weaver (actress: Gorillas in the Mist, Aliens series, Working Girl, Dave, Ghostbusters series, Annie Hall, The Year of Living Dangerously; daughter of Sylvester Pat Weaver, Today Show creator and author of Best Seat in the House)
1950 - Robert "Kool" Bell (musician: bass guitar, singer: group: Kool and the Gang: Celebration)
1956 - Stephanie Zimbalist (actress: Remington Steele, Centennial, The Gathering, The Awakening; daughter of actor, Efrem Zimbalist, Jr.)
Famous deaths
0705 - Abd al-Malik, kalief of Damascus, dies
1094 - St Mark, the Evangelist, buried in San Marcos minstery in Venice
1651 - Isaac Elsevier, book publisher, dies at 55
1728 - Anne Danican Philidor, French composer, dies at 47
1754 - Henry Fielding, English lawyer/author (Tom Jones), dies at 47
1793 - John Hancock, US merchant/signer (Declaration of Independence), dies at 56
1834 - Francois-Adrien Boiledieu, composer (La Dame Blanche), dies at 58
1865 - Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst, composer, dies at 51
1869 - Franklin Peirce, 14th president (1853-1857), dies in Concord NH at 64
1871 - Mrs. O'Leary's cow
1953 - Kathleen Ferrier, English alto, dies at 41
1967 - Clement R Attlee, premier of Great Britain (1945-51), dies at 84
1967 - Ernesto(Che) Guevara [Serna], Arg/Cuban revolutionary,
1985 - Leon Klinghoffer, hijackers of Achille Lauro threw him off boat
1992 - Willy Brandt, chancellor of W Germany (1969-74), dies of cancer at 78
1995 - Christopher Keene, musician, dies at 48
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