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Today in History ~ October 15
Events1501 - English crown prince Arthur marries Catharina of Aragon
1520 - King Henry VIII of England orders bowling lanes at Whitehall
1522 - Emperor Charles names Hernan Cortes governor of Mexico
1581 - Commissioned by Catherine De Medici, the 1st ballet "Ballet Comique de la Reine," is staged in Paris
1598 - Spanish general strategist Bernardino de Mendoza occupies Fort Rhine
1641 - Paul de Chomedy de Maisonneuve claims Montreal
1655 - Jews of Lublin are massacred
1660 - Asser Levy granted butchers license (kosher meat) in New Amsterdam
1777 - Tory Mjr James Graves Simcoe appointed commandant of Queen's Rangers to combat American rebels
1783 - Jean Piletre de Rozier makes captive-balloon ascent
1789 - 1st presidental tour-George Washington in New England
1827 - Charles Darwin reaches Christ's Counsel, Cambridge
1842 - Karl Marx becomes editor-in-chief of Rheinische Zeitung
1846 - Dr William Thomas Green Morton 1st public use of ether in Boston
1860 - 11-year-old Grace Bedell of Westfield, N.Y., wrote a letter to presidential candidate Abraham Lincoln, suggesting he could improve his appearance by growing a beard.
1864 - Confederate troops occupy Glasgow, Missouri
1866 - Great fire in Quebec destroys 2,500 houses
1874 - Child labor law takes 12 year olds out of work force
1878 - Edison Electric Light Company incorporated
1880 - Cologne cathedral completed, 633 years after it begun
1883 - Supreme Court Opposes Civil Rights in a narrow decision the Court strikes down a significant part of the Civil Rights Act of 1875, which forbade racial discrimination and segregation in public places.
1892 - US government convinced the Crow Indians to give up 1.8 million acres of their reservation (in the mountainous area of western Montana) for 50 cents per acre. Presidential proclamation opened this land to settlers.
1894 - Capt Alfred Dreyfus arrested accused of espionage
1897 - Aaron/Samuel Bloch carry 1st Mail Pouch
1905 - Claude Debussy's "La Mer," premieres
1905 - US President Grover Cleveland wrote an article for "Ladies Home Journal", joining others in the US who foolishly opposed women voters. The president said, "We all know how much further women go than men in their social rivalries and jealousies... sensible and responsible women do not want to vote."
1914 - ASCAP (American Society of Composers, Authors & Publishers) founded
1914 - Clayton Anti-trust Act passed (union & strike rights)
1924 - Pres Coolidge declares Statue of Liberty a national monument
1928 - German dirigible "Graf Zeppelin" lands in Lakehurst, NJ
1937 - Ernest Hemingway novel "To Have & Have Not" published
1938 - Robert Sherwood's "Abe Lincoln in Illinois," premieres in NYC
1939 - New York Municipal Airport, later renamed LaGuardia Airport, was dedicated.
1940 - -16] Heavy German air raid on London, 400 killed London's Waterloo Station bombed
1941 - 1st mass deportation of German Jews to Eastern Europe
1941 - Japan Tojo regime forms
1946 - Nazi Reichsmarshal Herman Goering, sentenced to death as a war criminal, committed suicide in his prison cell on the eve of his execution.
1948 - China's Red army occupies Chinchov
1951 - "I Love Lucy" debuts on CBS TV. Lucille Ball would be a TV icon for the next 20 years. [H]
1952 - Arthur Laurent's "Time of the Cuckoo," premieres in NYC
1953 - John Patrick's "Teahouse of the August Moon," premieres in NYC
1954 - Hurricane Hazel strikes US & Canada, 348 die
1956 - William J Brennan Jr appointed to Supreme Court
1958 - Tunisia drops diplomatic relations with Egypt
1959 - "Untouchables" premieres
1962 - Byron R White appointed to Supreme Court
1964 - Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev was ousted and replaced by Alexei Kosygin and Leonid Brezhnev.
1966 - President Johnson signed a bill creating the Department of Transportation.
1969 - Bank of America World Headquarters (555 California) dedicated
1969 - NY Met Ron Swoboda's spectacular diving catch of sinking liner with runners at 1st & 3rd in 9th, Mets win in 10th in World Series game
1969 - Vietnam Moratorium Day; millions of peace demonstrators staged activities across the country, including a candlelight march around the White House, as part of a moratorium against the Vietnam War.
1970 - Anwar Sadat elected president of Egypt
1973 - Tanks attack Thailand demonstrating students, 300 killed
1974 - National Guard mobilizes to restore order in Boston school busing
1974 - Nobel prize for chemistry awarded to Paul J Flory (macro molecules)
1975 - Iceland moves intl boundary from 50 to 200 miles
1976 - In the first debate of its kind between vice-presidential nominees, Democrat Walter F. Mondale and Republican Bob Dole faced off in Houston.
1980 - George Brett is forced out of World Series with hemorrhoids
1983 - US Marine sharpshooters kill 5 snipers at Beirut Intl Airport
1984 - Central Intelligence Agency's Information Act passes
1984 - Telephones flew on 20 flights beginning this day -- for those who had credit cards. Costs: $7.50 for a 3 minute call, $1.25 for each additional minute anywhere you wanted to call in the US.
1984 - Astronomers in Pasadena, Calif., displayed the first photographic evidence of another solar system 293-trillion miles from Earth.
1985 - Shelley Taylor of Australia makes fastest swim ever around Manhattan Island, doing it in 6 hours 12 minutes 29 seconds
1987 - Lanford Wilson's "Burn This," premieres in NYC
1989 - Billy Graham is given 1,900th star on Hollywood Blvd
1989 - Hurricane Jerry hit the Texas coast, killing three people.
1990 - Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
1991 - Despite sexual harassment allegations by Anita Hill, the Senate narrowly confirmed Judge Clarence Thomas as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court by vote of 52-48, the closest confirmation vote in court history.
1992 - NYC Subway motorman Robert Ray convicted of manslaughter in death of 5 riders, when he fell asleep drunk while in control of train
1992 - A man who terrorized the Russian city of Rostov-on-Don for more than a decade with a series of more than 50 grisly murders was sentenced to death.
1992 - President Bush, Bill Clinton and Ross Perot held their second debate in Richmond, Va. It was the first presidential debate in history in which the audience questioned the candidates.
1993 - Russia's ousted vice president, Alekandr Rutskoi, and the speaker of the parliament, Ruslan Khasbulatov, were charged with ordering mass disorders in the bloody street fighting between supporters and opponents of President Boris Yeltsin that left almost 200 people dead.
1993 - South Africa's President F.W. de Klerk and African National Congress leader Nelson Mandela were named winners of the 1993 Nobel Peace Prize.
1993 - The Pentagon censured three U.S. Navy admirals who'd organized the Tailhook Association convention in 1991, during which scores of women had been subjected to abuse and indignities by junior officers.
1994 - Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide returned to Haiti three years after being driven into exile by a military coup.
1995 - Iranian-backed guerillas killed six Israeli soldiers in Israel's security zone along the border with Lebanon.
1996 - CSX Corp. announced plans to buy Conrail Inc. for $8.4 billion dollars to create the nation's third-largest railroad.
1997 - Former rep Dan Rostenkowski released from custody for mail fraud
1998 - Talks that would lead to an agreement to revive the stalled Middle East peace process began at the Wye Conference Center in Queenstown, Md.
1999 - The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to the international group Doctors Without Borders (Medecins Sans Frontieres).
2000 - President Clinton left Washington for emergency talks in Egypt with Israeli and Arab leaders.
2001 - A package containing a substance believed to be anthrax was opened in the personal office of Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle.
2002 - The Washington area sniper claimed his ninth fatality, a female FBI analyst, as the massive manhunt continued with authorities on the lookout for two vehicles that could be linked to the two-week rash of apparently random shootings.
2002 - Former ImClone Chief Executive Officer Samuel Waksal pleaded guilty to insider trading as part of an ongoing investigation into the trading of shares from his biotech company, which also involved home decor diva and Waksal friend Martha Stewart.
2002 - The Dow Jones industrials, which hit a five-year low only four trading days earlier, rebounded strongly and by this date had reached 8,255.68, more than 900 points above that low.
Birthdays Today
0070 B.C. - Virgil (poet: The Aeneid)
0070 - Publius Vergilius Maro, Roman leader/poet (Bucolica, Aeneas)
1542 - Djalalud-Din Mohammed Akbar, emperor of India (1556-1605)
1674 - Robert Herrick, Mass, British poet (Together)
1762 - Samuel Adams Holyoke, composer
1818 - Irvin McDowell, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1885
1822 - Alfred Meissner, Austrian physician/writer
1844 - Friedrich Nietzsche, Germany, philosopher (Ubermensch)
1858 - John L. Sullivan (International Boxing Hall of Famer: World Heavyweight champion [1881-1889], Marquis of Queensbury Champion [1885-1892]; last bareknuckle championship fight [75 rounds in 1889]; actor: The Great John L. Sullivan, vaudeville)
1881 - P G Wodehouse, British-American writer (Stiff Upper Lip Jeeves)
1900 - Mervyn LeRoy (director: Gypsy, Mister Roberts, The Bad Seed, The F.B.I. Story, Homecoming, Little Women, Madame Curie, A Majority of One, Quo Vadis, Rose Marie, Random Harvest, Thirty Seconds over Tokyo, Three on a Match)
1901 - Bernard von Brentano, German writer (Big Cats)
1901 - Hermann Abs, director (Deutsche Bank)/Hitler's advisor
1903 - Mule (George) Haas (baseball)
1905 - Charles P Snow, England, novelist/scientist (Death Under Sail)
1908 - John Kenneth Galbraith, economist (Affluent Society-58 Hillman Award)
1908 - Robert Trout (journalist: radio/TV; TV moderator: Presidential Timber; emcee: Who Said That?)
1913 - David Carroll (musician, conductor, arranger: Melody of Love, It's Almost Tomorrow; record producer for The Diamonds, The Platters)
1913 - Klaus Barbie, gestapo chief (Lyon)
1917 - Arthur Schlesinger Jr, Ohio, historian (1946 Pulitzer-Age of Jackson)
1918 - Robert Walker (actor: Bataan, Madame Curie, Since You Went Away, Thirty Seconds over Tokyo; father of actor, Robert Walker, Jr.)
1920 - Chris Economaki (auto sports writer, broadcaster: ABC Sports)
1921 - Mario Puzo (novelist: The Godfather, Fourth K.; screen playwright: The Godfather series, Earthquake, Superman: The Movie, Superman 2, The Cotton Club, Christopher Columbus: The Discovery)
1923 - Italo Calvino, Cuba, author (Winter's Night a Traveler)
1924 - Jose Quintero (director: Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone, Medea)
1924 - Lee (Lido) Iacocca (mechanical engineer, automobile executive: chairperson of Chrysler Corporation, president of Ford Motor Company; author: Iacocca; chairperson: centennial rehabilitation of Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island foundation)
1926 - Evan Hunter, [Ed McBain], American writer (Blackboard Jungle)
1926 - Jean Peters (actress: Three Coins in the Fountain, Apache, Broken Lance, Viva Zapata, It Happens Every Spring)
1926 - Karl Richter, composer/conductor
1926 - Michel Foucault, French philosopher (History of Sexuality)
1927 - Mary Perot Nichols, journalist
1934 - Peter Haskell (actor: Robot Wars, Child's Play, Christina, Bracken's World, The Law and Harry McGraw, Rich Man, Poor Man-Book II, Rituals)
1935 - Bobby Morrow (National Track & Field & Olympic Hall of Famer: Gold Medalist: [3-1936]: 100-meter, 200-meter, 4x100 relay; Sullivan Award [1957])
1937 - Barry McGuire (singer, songwriter: group: The New Christy Minstrels: Green, Green; solo: Eve of Destruction)
1937 - Linda Lavin (Tony Award-winning actress: Broadway Bound [1987]; Alice, Barney Miller, Room for Two)
1938 - Marv Johnson (singer: You Got What it Takes, I Love the Way You Love, Come to Me, I Miss You Baby [How I Miss You])
1942 - Dick Lotz (golfer)
1942 - Penny (Carole) Marshall (actress: Laverne & Shirley, The Odd Couple, The Bob Newhart Show; director: Renaissance Man, Big, A League of Their Own, Awakenings, Jumpin' Jack Flash; sister of director, producer, Garry Marshall)
1945 - Jim Palmer (Baseball Hall of Famer: Baltimore Orioles pitcher: Cy Young Award-winner [1975, 1976]; broadcaster: ABC Sports; spokesperson, model: Jockey underwear)
1946 - Jim Beirne (football)
1946 - Richard Carpenter (musician, composer, singer: Grammy Award-winning group: Carpenters: [They Long to be] Close to You [1970], Best New Artist [1970], LP: The Carpenters [1971]; We've Only Just Begun, Rainy Days and Mondays, Superstar, Goodbye to Love, Yesterday Once More, Sing, Top of the World, Only Yesterday; TV host: Make Your Own Kind of Music)
1951 - Roscoe Tanner (tennis champion: Australian Open [1977])
1953 - Tito (Toriano) Jackson (singer: group: The Jackson Five: I Want You Back, ABC, The Love You Save, I'll be There; brother of Michael, Janet, Jermaine, LaToya)
1959 - Sarah Ferguson -- Duchess of York: 'Fergie'
1965 - Trace Armstrong (football: Chicago Bears)
Famous deaths
1817 - Tadeusz AB Kosciusko, Polish lt-general/freedom fighter, dies
1914 - Aleksander Rozycki, composer, dies at 69
1917 - Gertrude Zelle (Mata Hari), Dutch dancer who had spied for the Germans, was executed by a French firing squad outside Paris. [H]
1942 - Dirk Bannink, nurse/local counciller Deventer, executed
1944 - Philip Mechanicus, journalist, executed in Auschwitz-Birkenau
1945 - Pierre Laval, the puppet prime minister of Nazi-occupied Vichy France, executed at 62
1946 - Hermann Goering, Nazi Reichmarshal founder of the Gestapo and chief of the German air force, poisons himself in prison on the eve of his scheduled execution for war crimes during WWII
1949 - Laszlo Rajk, Hungarian Sect of State/Foreign minister, hanged
1964 - Cole Porter, renowned lyricist and composer (Still of the Night, I've Got You Under My Skin, and hundreds of other classics). Cole Porter music crossed all musical style and format boundaries throughout his long and rich career. died at 73
1965 - Carl Hoff, orch leader (Music Hall), dies at 60
1976 - Carlo Gambino, US gangster, dies at 74
2000 - New York Times movie and drama critic Vincent Canby died at age 76.
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