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Today in History ~ October 11
Pulaski Day: in United States
Events1492 - Columbus' ships sight land on the horizon (Bahamas)
1521 - Pope Leo X titles King Henry VIII of England "Defender of the Faith"
1674 - Pierre Corneille's "Surena," premieres in Paris
1689 - Peter the Great becomes tsar of Russia
1726 - Benjamin Franklin returns to Philadelphia from England
1776 - Gen Benedict Arnold's Lake Champlain fleet defeated by British but win moral victory [H]
1779 - Polish nobleman Casimir Pulaski was killed while fighting for American independence during the Revolutionary War Battle of Savannah, Ga.
1811 - The first steam-powered ferryboat, the Juliana, was put into operation between New York City and Hoboken, N.J.
1861 - Battle of Dumfries, VA (Quantico Creek)
1863 - Skirmish at Rheatown/Henderson's Mill, Tennessee
1865 - President Johnson paroles CSA VP Alexander Stephens
1868 - Thomas Alva Edison filed papers for his first invention: an Electrical Vote Recorder, to rapidly tabulate floor votes in Congress. Members of Congress rejected it.
1871 - Great Chicago Fire is finally extinguished after 3 days, 300 killed
1881 - David Houston patents roll film for cameras
1887 - A Miles patents elevator
1890 - The Daughters of the American Revolution was founded in Washington, D.C.
1915 - Bulgarian anti Serbian offensive begins
1919 - 1st transcontinental air race ends
1929 - Sean O'Casey's "Silver Tassle," premieres in London
1931 - 100,000 extreme right Germans form "Harzburger Front"
1939 - Albert Einstein writes famous letter to FDR about potentials of atomic bomb.
1942 - -Oct 12] The World War II Sea Battle of Cape Esperance began in the Solomons, resulting in an American victory over the Japanese.
1945 - Chinese civil war begins, Chiang Kai-Shek vs Mao Tse-Tung
1948 - "Where's Charley?" opens at St James Theater NYC for 792 performances
1955 - All Peron feast days abolished in Argentina
1957 - The world's first giant radio telescope began operating at Jodrell Bank, near Manchester, England.
1958 - The lunar probe Pioneer I was launched; it failed to go as far out as planned, fell back to Earth, and burned up in the atmosphere.
1960 - Hurricane ravages East Pakistan (6,000 die)
1962 - Pope John XXIII convened the first session of the Roman Catholic Church's 21st Ecumenical Council, also known as "Vatican II."
1968 - Apollo 7 the first manned Apollo mission, was launched with astronauts Wally Schirra, Donn Fulton Eisele and R. Walter Cunningham aboard,.made 163 orbits in 260 hours
1968 - Panama revolts
1971 - Switzerland recognizes North Vietnam
1972 - Prison uprising at Washington DC jail
1975 - "Saturday Night Live" premieres with guest host George Carlin
1975 - Bill Clinton weds Hillary Rodham
1976 - Mao TseTung widow Jiang Qing & "Gang of Four," arrested & charged with plotting a coup
1979 - Allan McLeod Cormack & Godfrey Newbold Hounsfield win Nobel Prize for medicine for developing CAT scan
1982 - English ship Mary Rose, which sank after launching in 1545, raised at Portsmouth, England
1983 - Last hand cranked telephones US went out of service as 440 telephone customers in Bryant Pond, Maine, were switched over to direct dial
1984 - American Kathryn D. Sullivan begins the first spacewalk by a female astronaut when she exits the space shuttle Challenger.
1984 - August Wilson's "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom," premieres in NYC
1984 - Financier Marc Rich agreed to pay the U.S. government nearly $200 million, the biggest tax fraud penalty in U.S. history.
1985 - President Reagan bans importation of South African Krugerrands
1986 - Reagan & Gorbachev open talks at a summit in Reykjavik, Iceland
1987 - 200,000 gays march for civil rights in Washington
1990 - Center for Urban archaeology opens in NYC South Street Seaport Museum
1991 - Televangelist Jimmy Swaggart seen hustling a prostitute
1991 - Testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee, law professor Anita Hill accused Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas of sexually harassing her; Thomas reappeared before the panel to denounce the proceedings as a "high-tech lynching."
1991, the UN Security Council passed a resolution barring Iraq from pursuing any atomic programs.
1992 - Deion Sanders, plays for Atlanta Falcons (NFL) & Braves (Baseball)
1992 - President Bush, Bill Clinton and Ross Perot squared off in St. Louis for the first 3-way presidential debate and first presidential debate of the 1992 political campaign.
1993 - Armed demonstrators in Port au Prince, Haiti, prevented U.S and Canadian troops from landing.
1994 - The Colorado Supreme Court struck down a law that barred local governments from enacting laws protecting homosexuals from discrimination in employment and housing.
1994 - The Pentagon reported that Iraqi troops were withdrawing from the Iraq-Kuwait border. Their deployment had triggered the deployment of the U.S. Navy and the Marines to the Persian Gulf less than a week earlier.
1995 - OJ Simpson cancels a TV appearance on Dateline
1996 - Roman Catholic Bishop Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo and Jose Ramos-Horta of East Timor won the Nobel Peace Prize for their pro-democracy efforts in troubled East Timor where famine and repression had killed one-third of the entire population.
1998 - Pope John Paul II decreed the first Jewish-born saint of the modern era: Edith Stein, a nun killed in the gas chambers of Auschwitz.
2000 - Texas Governor George W. Bush and Vice President Al Gore met in their second debate, in which they spent the first half politely discussing foreign policy, and the second half clashing over domestic issues.
2000 - Americans James J. Heckman and Daniel L. McFadden won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.
Birthdays Today
1661 - Melchior de Polignac, French diplomat/elect (Anti-Lucretius)
1759 - Mason Locke Weems, preacher (Episcopalian clergyman). Noted seller of books where he would fictionalize history. invented the story of George Washington and the cherry tree
1821 - Angelo Maurizio Gaspare Mariani, composer
1835 - Hunter Holmes McGuire, Med Director (Confederate Army), died in 1900
1844 - Henry John Heinz, founded prepared foods company (57 varieties)
1872 - Harlan Fiske Stone, NH, Supreme Court (1925-41) Chief Justice (41-46)
1884 - Eleanor Roosevelt (First Lady: wife of 32nd U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt; U.S. Delegate to the United Nations)
1885 - Francois Mauriac, France, novelist/poet/playwright (Nobel 1952)
1887 - Willie Hoppe (world champion billiards player: 18.1 balkline [1906, 1908, 1909-1911, 1914-1926, 1927]; 18.2 balkline [1907, 1910-1920, 1923-24, 1927]; three-cushion [1936, 1940-44, 1947-52])
1888 - Piero Coppola, composer
1906 - Charles Revson (cosmetic mogul: founder of the Revlon Co.)
1906 - Dutch (Earl) Clark (College and Pro Football Hall of Famer: coach: Cleveland Rams, Colorado School of Mines, Colorado College; player: Portsmouth/Detroit Spartans)
1910 - Joseph Alsop, political newspaper columnist (Men Around the President)
1912 - Mike Guerra (baseball)
1918 - Jerome Robbins (Rabinowitz) (Academy Award-winning director: West Side Story [1961]; Tony Award-winning choreographer: Fiddler on the Roof [1965], West Side Story [1958], High Button Shoes [1948]; Tony Award-winning director: Fiddler on the Roof [1965], Jerome Robbins' Broadway [1989])
1921 - Knobby (Grant) Warwick (hockey)
1921 - Linda Stirling (Louise Schultz) (actress: Jesse James Rides Again, Rio Grande Raiders, Zorro's Black Whip, Cyclotrode "X")
1925 - Elmore Leonard, US writer (Glitz, Mr Majestyk, Touch, 52 Pick-Up)
1931 - James Morrison (hockey)
1932 - Dottie (Dorothy) West (Marsh) (Grammy Award-winning singer: Here Comes My Baby, Country Sunshine, Is this Me?, Would You Hold It Against Me, Paper Mansions; [w/Don Gibson]: Rings of Gold, There's a Story Goin' Round; [w/Kenny Rogers]: All I Ever Need is You, Every Time Two Fools Collide, What are We Doin' in Love)
1935 - Roy Scheider, actor (Jaws, French Connection, Marathon Man)
1937 - Ron Leibman (Emmy Award-winning actor: Kaz [1978-79]; Pacific Station)
1939 - Maria Bueno (tennis champion: Wimbledon [1959, 1960, 1964], U.S. Open [1959, 1963, 1964, 1966])
1943 - Gene Watson (singer: Fourteen Carat Mind, Love in the Hot Afternoon)
1945 - Robert Gale (medical doctor: co-founder of International Bone Marrow Registry)
1948 - Daryl Hall (Hohl) (singer: group: Hall & Oates: She's Gone, Sara Smile, Rich Girl, Kiss on My List, Private Eyes, You Make My Dreams, I Can't Go For That, Did It in a Minute, Maneater)
1950 - Andre Woolfolk (musician: reeds: group: Earth, Wind and Fire: Shining Star, Sing a Song, Got to Get You into My Life, After the Love Has Gone, Let's Groove, Boogie Wonderland)
1950 - Ron Mayo (football)
1953 - David Morse (actor: St. Elsewhere, Stephen King's The Langoliers, The Getaway, The Brotherhood of the Rose)
1955 - Lindy (Linda) Boone (singer: group: The Boone Family; singer Pat Boone's daughter)
1955 - Norm Nixon (basketball)
1961 - Steve Young (Football: San Francisco '49ers quarterback: Super Bowl XXIII [didn't play], XXIV, XXIX: holds individual Super Bowl record: touchdowns thrown in game [6], fastest touchdown: a 44-yd. pass to Jerry Rice [1 minute, 24 seconds]; Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Los Angeles Express)
1962 - Joan Cusack (actress: Saturday Night Live, Addams Family Values, Broadcast News, Married to the Mob, My Bodyguard, Sixteen Candles, Working Girl, Toys)
1967 - Luke Perry (actor: Beverly Hills 90210, Terminal Bliss, 8 Seconds, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Sweet Trash)
Famous deaths
1303 - Boniface VIII, [Benedetto Gaetani], lawyer/pope (1294-1303), dies
1424 - Jan Zizka, Czech (army)leader (Hussite), dies of plague at 46
1531 - Huldrych Zwingli, Swiss church reformer (Zwinglian), dies
1779 - Casimir Pulaski, General, dies
1809 - Meriwether Lewis, (Lewis & Clark Expedition), of apparent suicide at 35 [H]
1837 - Samuel Wesley, composer (Exultate Deo), dies at 71
1891 - Charles Stewart Parnell, remains buried in Ireland
1896 - Anton Bruckner, Austr composer (Te Deum, Wagner Symphony), dies at 72
1961 - Leonard "Chico" Marx, comedian (Marx Brothers), dies at 74
1963 - Edith Piaf, French singer (No, I don't regret anything), dies at 47
1963 - Jean Cocteau, French author (La Voie Humaine), dies at 73
1971 - Ralph J Bunche, 1st black US diplomat (Nobel 1950), dies at 67
1988 - Bonita Granville, actress (Lone Ranger, Hitler's Children), dies at 55
1991 - Comedian Redd Foxx died in Los Angeles at age 68.
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