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Today in History ~ October 9
Leif Erikson Day in Iceland Every year the people of Iceland celebrate their native son Leif Erikson (born there in 960 A.D.) and his discovery of North America in the year 1000.
Events1000 - Leif Ericson discovers "Vinland"
1192 - Richard Coeur de Lion leaves Jerusalem in disguise
1290 - Last of 16,000 English Jews expelled by King Edward I, leaves
1635 - Religious dissident Roger Williams was banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony. (He became a founder of Rhode Island.) [H]
1701 - The Collegiate School of Connecticut - later Yale University - was chartered.
1776 - A group of Spanish missionaries founded Mission Dolores in present-day San Francisco.
1781 - General George Washington commences a bombardment of the Lord Cornwallis's encircled British forces at Yorktown, Virginia (Battle of Yorktown - Revolutionary War) Cornwallis had no choice but to surrender his 9,000 troops.
1804 - Hobart, Tasmania founded
1812 - Victory for Americans on Lake Erie (War of 1812); Lieutenant Jesse Duncan Elliot capture two British brigs, the Detroit and Caledonia.
1855 - Isaac Singer patents sewing machine motor
1855 - Joshua Stoddard of Worcester, Mass patents 1st calliope
1863 - Battle of Brady Station, VA (Culpeper Court House, Bristoe Station)
1864 - Battle of Tom's Brook -- Confederate cavalry that harassed Sheridan's campaign is wiped by Custer & Merrit's cavalry divisions
1865 - 1st US underground pipeline for carrying oil is laid in Pennsylvania
1867 - The Russians formally transferred Alaska to the US. The U.S. had bought Alaska for $7.2 million in gold.
1872 - Aaron Montgomery starts his mail-order business
1876 - First telephone conversation over outdoor wires
1888 - Washington Monument opens for public admittance
1890 - Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Red-Headed League"
1894 - The first magic lantern feature, a precursor to cinema, was shown
1914 - German troops take Antwerp in World War I crushing the resistance of over 100,000 Belgian troops and violating Belgian neutrality.
1915 - Belgrade, Serbia surrenders to Central leaders
1915 - Woodrow Wilson becomes 1st pres to attend a World Series game
1926 - NBC (National Broadcasting Corporation) forms
1928 - Marcel Pagnol's "Topaz," premieres in Paris
1929 - G Kaufman's & R Lardner's musical "June Moon," premieres NYC
1930 - Laura Ingalls became the first woman to fly across the United States as she completed a nine-stop journey from Roosevelt Field in New York to Glendale, Calif.
1934 - King Alexander of Yugoslavia was assassinated by a Croatian terrorist during a state visit to France.
1936 - The first generator at Boulder (later Hoover) Dam began transmitting electricity to Los Angeles.
1938 - Copland's ballet "Billy the Kid," premieres in Chicago
1940 - German blitz destroyed the altar St. Paul's Cathedral, which has stood in London for over three hundred years. [H]
1942 - Chicago bootlegger Roger "The Terrible" Touhy, escapes from Illinois' Stateville Prison by climbing the guard's tower.
1944 - British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin begin a nine-day conference in Moscow
1946 - 1st electric blanket manufactured; sold for $39.50
1946 - Eugene O'Neill's drama "The Iceman Cometh" opened at the Martin Beck Theater in New York.
1947 - "High Button Shoes" opens at Century Theater NYC for 727 performances
1953 - Conrad Adenauer elected West German chancellor
1958 - Pope Pius XII died. (He was succeeded by Pope John XXIII.)
1959 - Lee Harvey Oswald arrives in Southampton
1961 - US members of communist party obliged to report themselves to Police
1961 - Volcano eruptions on Tristan de Cunha in the South Atlantic
1963 - British premier Harold MacMillan, resigns
1963 - Dam in Piave valley Italy, breaks' about 2,000 die
1963 - Hurricane Flora ravages Cuba & Haiti, kills 6,000
1965 - Beatles' "Yesterday," single goes #1 & stays #1 for 4 weeks
1970 - Khmer Republic (Cambodia) declares independence
1974 - Frank Robinson became 1st Black baseball manager (Cleve Indians)
1974 - Race riot in Boston due to "busing"
1975 - Soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov, father of the Soviet hydrogen bomb, became the first Soviet citizen to win the Nobel Peace Prize.
1980 - 1st consumer use of home banking by computer (Knoxville Tn)
1983 - 4 South Korean government ministers assassinated in Rangoon Burma
1983 - James Watt, facing Senate condemnation for a racially insensitive remark, resigned as President Reagan's interior secretary.
1985 - Central Park's Strawberry Fields, dedicated
1985 - The hijackers of the Achille Lauro cruise liner surrendered after the ship arrived in Port Said, Egypt.
1986 - "Phantom of the Opera" premeires in London
1986 - Senate convicted US District Judge Harry E Claiborne of tax cheating, making him only the fifth U.S. judge to be impeached and removed from office.
1989 - The Soviet news agency Tass, under Mikhail Gorbachev's policy of increasing openness in society, reported that a spaceship of some kind, complete with a trio of tall aliens, had visited a park in the city of Voronezh in the Soviet Union.
1990 - David Hackett Souter, sworn in as Supreme Court Justice
1990 - First Reparation Payments Received by Japanese-Americans
1990 - Saddam threatens to hit Israel with a new missile
1990 - President Bush, having vetoed one budget continuing resolution and allowing the government's spending authority to expire, signed a second measure preventing a virtual government shutdown.
1991 - President Bush declared "total confidence" in his nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court, Clarence Thomas, who was accused of sexual harassment by former aide Anita Hill.
1992 - Great meteorite seen from Kentucky to NY
1992 - NASA announced that the Pioneer spacecraft was apparently lost after orbiting Venus for 14 years.
1992 - The White House said an American citizen working along the Iraq-Kuwait border had been seized by the Iraqis. Baghdad announced the next day they'd freed the man.
1994 - Austrian parliamentary election (23% extreme-right)
1995 - Newly acquitted O.J. Simpson agreed to a live one-hour interview with NBC News. He pulled out two days later, saying he feared he was being "set up."
1995 - An Amtrak passenger train derailed in a remote area of Arizona southwest of Phoenix, killing one member of the crew and injuring about 100 more people. Authorities later said the track had been sabotaged.
1996 - Two Americans and a Briton shared the Nobel Prize in chemistry while three Americans won the physics prize.
1996 - In the opening game of the American League Championship series, 12-year-old Jeffrey Maier turned a probable fly out into a game-tying home run by reaching over the right-field wall at Yankee Stadium and sweeping the ball into the stands with his baseball glove (the Yankees won, 5-4 in 11 innings).
1997 - Nobel prize for literature awarded to Dario Fo
1997 - Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi resigned after Communist members of Parliament withdrew their support for his coalition government.
2000 - Arvid Carlsson of Sweden and Americans Paul Greengard and Eric Kandel won the Nobel Prize in medicine.
2001 - The Pentagon reported the destruction of seven terrorist training camps in Afghanistan and, claiming control of the skies over Afghanistan, launched heavy air strikes against Taliban garrisons and troop encampments.
2002 - The Washington area sniper claimed a seventh victim with the slaying of a man at a gas station near Manassas, Va.
Birthdays Today
1201 - Robert de Sorbon, founded Sorbonne University, Paris
1261 - Dionysius, the Justified, king of Portugal (1279-1325)
1547 - Miguel de Cervantes, novelist (Don Quixote)
1757 - Charles X, last Bourbon king of France (1824-30); deposed
1813 - Giuseppe Verdi, Italian composer (Traviata, Rigoletto, Aida)
1822 - George Sykes, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1880
1858 - Gerard L F Philips, Dutch engineer/manufacturer (Philips)
1859 - Alfred Dreyfus, accused and railroaded Jewish French officer (Dreyfus Affair)
1875 - Reynaldo Hahn, composer
1889 - Rube (Richard) Marquard (Baseball Hall of Famer: New York Giants, played in 3 World Series; Brooklyn Dodgers, Cincinnati Reds, Boston Braves)
1890 - Aimee Semple McPherson, evangelist (Pentecostal)/radio preacher
1890 - Alfred Julius Swan, composer
1891 - Otto Schnering (Candy bar mogul: founded Curtiss Candy Co.: Baby Ruth, Butterfinger bars)
1899 - Bruce Catton, US, historian/writer (Civil War)
1903 - Walter O'Malley (baseball executive: owner: Brooklyn/LA Dodgers)
1905 - Howard St. John (actor: I Died a Thousand Times, L'il Abner, The Tender Trap, Lover Come Back, Hank, The Investigator)
1908 - Jacques Tati (Tatischeff) (Academy Award-winning director: Mon Oncle [1958])
1914 - Edward Andrews (actor: Broadside, Supertrain, Advice and Consent, Elmer Gantry, Sixteen Candles, Tea and Sympathy)
1918 - E Howard Hunt, Hamburg NY, involved in Watergate break-in
1918 - Walter Burkemo (golf; PGA champion [1953])
1922 - Fyvush Finkel, actor (Middle Ages, Picket Fences)
1923 - Donald Sinden (actor: The Children, The Captain's Table, Doctor in the House, Simba)
1924 - Arnold Risen (basketball)
1933 - Bill Tidy, English cartoonist (Fosdyke Saga)
1933 - Oville Moody (golf: U.S. Open champion [1969])
1937 - Brian Blessed, English actor (King Arthur, High Road to China, Hamlet, Henry V)
1940 - Joe Pepitone (baseball: NY Yankees first baseman: World Series [1963 & 1964])
1940 - John Lennon (singer, songwriter: see "Imagine" Day [above])
1940 - John Winston Lennon Composer; musician; one fourth of the idolized rock group, The Beatles; husband of Yoko Ono , father of Julian (from his first wife) and Sean.
1943 - Jim Merritt (baseball)
1944 - Freddie Patek (baseball: Boston Red Sox)
1944 - John Entwistle (musician: bass, French horn: group: The Who: My Generation, Happy Jack, Pinball Wizard, See Me, Feel Me; solo: LPs: Smash Your Head Against the Wall, Whistle Rhymes, Rigor Mortis, Mad Dog, Too Late the Hero)
1947 - Bob Moose (baseball: Pittsburgh Pirates)
1948 - Jackson Browne (songwriter, singer: Doctor My Eyes, Running on Empty, Somebody's Baby, The Pretender, Lawyers in Love)
1949 - Martin Imhof (football)
1950 - Brian Downing (baseball: California Angels)
1958 - Mike Singletary (football: Chicago Bears middle linebacker: Super Bowl XX; UPI NFC Defensive Player of the Year [1984, 1985])
1975 - Sean Lennonson of John Lennon and Yoko Ono
1981 - Zachery Ty Bryan (actor: Home Improvement)
Famous deaths
1562 - Gabriel Fallopius, Modena Italy, anatomist (discovered fallopian tubes), dies
1906 - Joseph F Glidden, inventor (barbed wire), dies
1912 - Millie & Christine, Siamese twins, dies at 61
1949 - Viktor Alexandrovich Uspensky, composer, dies at 70
1958 - Pius XII, [Eugenio Pacelli], Pope (1939-58), dies at 82
1967 - Latin American guerrilla leader Che Guevara was executed while attempting to incite revolution in Bolivia.
1968 - Pierre Mulele, Congolese rebel leader, executed
1974 - Oskar Schindler, the German businessman credited with saving 1,200 Jews from the Holocaust, died at the age of 66.
1978 - Jacques Brel, Belgian chansonnier, buried on Atuama, dies at 49
1982 - Anna Freud, Austria/Engl psychoanalyst/daughter of Sigmund, dies at 86
1987 - Clare A Booth Luce, US diplomat/journalist, dies at 84
1988 - Felix Wankel, developer of Wankel rotary engine,
1995 - Alec Douglas-Home, PM of Britain (1963-64),
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