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Today in History ~ October 18
Events1016 - Danes defeat Saxons at Battle of Assandun (Ashingdon)
1210 - Pope Innocent III excommunicates German emperor Otto IV
1469 - Isabella married Ferdinand II of Aragon.
1534 - New pursuit of French protestants
1564 - John Hawkins begins 2nd trip to America
1622 - French King Louis XIII & Huguenots sign treaty of Montpellier
1648 - 1st US labor organization forms (Boston Shoemakers)
1685 - Louis XIV revokes Edict of Nantes, outlaws Protestantism, especially Huguenots
1748 - Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle, ends War of Austrian Succession
1752 - Premiere of Jean-Jacques Rousseau's opera "Le Devin du Village"
1767 - Boundary between Maryland and Pennsylvania, Mason Dixon line, agreed upon
1776 - In a NY bar decorated with bird tail, customer orders "cocktail"
1776 - Battle of Pelham: Col John Glover & Marblehead regiment collide with British Forces in Bronx
1855 - Franz Liszt's "Prometheus," premieres
1859 U.S. Marines storm engine house at Harpers Ferry, Virginia (now West Virginia) and capture John Brown [H]
1860 - British troops in Beijing burn to the ground the Yuanmingyuan, the imperial summer palace built by the Manchu emperors (Second Opium War)
1862 - Morgan's raiders capture federal garrison at Lexington, KY
1863 - Battle of Charlestown, WV
1863 - General Sickles visits his troops for the first time since Gettysburg. [H]
1867 - US takes formal possession of Alaska from Russia ($7.2 million)
1878 - Edison makes electricity available for household usage
1887 - Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "A Case of Identity"
1892 - 1st commercial long-distance phone line opens (Chicago-NY)
1898 - American flag was raised in Puerto Rico shortly before Spain formally relinquished control of the island to the United States.
1904 - Mahler's 5th symphony premieres in Cologne
1910 - E.M. Forster publishes "Howard's End"
1912 - Beginning of 1st Balkan War
1913 - Austrian-Hungary demands that Serbia & Albania leave
1918 - Czechoslovakia declares Independence from Austro-Hungarian Empire
1918 - Russian 10th Army drives out White armies of Tsaritsyn (Stalingrad)
1924 - Notre Dame beats Army 13-7, NY Hearld Tribune dubs backfield "The Four Horsemen"
1926 - Frankfurter Zeitung publishes Lenin's political testament
1929 - English courts declared that women were persons in Canada.
1939 - R Rodger's & Lorenz Hart's "Too Many Girls," premieres in NYC
1940 - Kaufman's & Harts "George Washington Slept Here," premier in NYC
1941 - Spy Richard Sorge arrested in Tokyo
1942 - Hitler orders allied commandos to be killed
1943 - US bombing of Bougainville, Solomon Island
1944 - Soviet troops invade Czechoslovakia during WW II
1945 - Nazi War Crimes trial opens in Nuremberg
1946 - Aaron Copland's 3rd Symphony, premieres
1948 - Operation 10 Plagues - Israeli offensive against Egyptian army
1950 - Connie Mack, the "Grand Old Man" of major league baseball, announced he was retiring as manager of the Philadelphia Athletics.
1954 - Hurricane Hazel (3rd of 1954) becomes most severe to hit US
1955 - Track & Field names Jesse Owens all-time track athelete
1955 - University of California discovers anti-proton
1959 - The Soviet Union announced an unmanned space vehicle had taken the first pictures of the far side of the moon.
1960 - In Britain, News Chronicle & Daily Mail merge, & London Evening Star merges with Evening News
1961 - Emergency crisis proclaimed in South Vietnam due to communist attack
1962 - JFK meets Russian minister of Foreign affairs Andrei Gromyko
1962 - Dr Watson (US) & Drs Crick & Wilkins (Britain) win Nobel Prize for Medicine for work in determining structure of DNA
1966 - "Apple Tree" opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 463 performances
1967 - Walt Disney's "Jungle Book" is released
1968 - The U.S. Olympic Committee suspended Tommie Smith and John Carlos for giving a "black power" salute as a protest during a victory ceremony in Mexico City
1969 - Federal government bans use of cyclamates as artificial sweeteners because of evidence they caused cancer in laboratory rats.
1970 - October Crisis in Canada, Pierre Laporte, the Quebec minister of labor, is found strangled to death eight days after his kidnapping by the Quebec Liberation Front (FLQ)
1973 - "Raisin" opens at 46th St Theater NYC for 847 performances
1973 - Congress authorizes bi-centennial quarter, half-dollar & dollar coin
1974 - The jury in the Watergate cover-up trial heard a tape recording in which President Nixon told aide John Dean to try to stop the Watergate burglary investigation before it implicated White House personnel.
1975 - Simon & Garfunkel reunite on SNL, sing "My Little Town"
1979 - Iranian Ayatollah Khomeini orders mass executions to stop
1981 - Poland General Jaruzelski elected party leader
1984 - President Reagan ordered an investigation of a CIA handbook for Nicaraguan rebels that suggested assassination
as a political tactic.
1988 - Israel's supreme court uphold's ban on Meyer Kahane's Kach Party as racist
1989 - East German state/party leader Erich Honecker, resigns
1990 - Iraq, pinched by economic sanctions, offered to sell oil to anyone at half the going price.
1991 - Israel and the Soviet Union agreed to renew full diplomatic relations for first time since 1967.
1991 - Confirmed Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas swore to uphold the Constitution during an oath-taking ceremony at the White House.
1993 - A Los Angeles jury acquitted two black defendants of most charges in the beating of white truck driver Reginald Denny during the 1992 riots.
1992 - Phila Eagle Randall Cunningham sets NFL QB scramble record of 3,683
1996 - Democratic Party fund-raiser John Huang was relieved of his duties following days of attacks by the Republicans over what they called improper and possibly illegal contributions.
2000 President Clinton honored the 17 sailors killed in a suicide bomb attack against the USS Cole as he attended a ceremony at the Norfolk Naval Station in Virginia.
Birthdays Today
1854 - Salomon Andree (explorer: ill-fated North Pole expedition [1897])
1859 - Henri Bergson (Nobel prize-winning [1927] philosopher, author: Creative Evolution)
1889 - Fannie Hurst, novelist (Anatomy of Me)
1898 - Lotte Lenya (Karoline Blamauer) (Tony Award-winning singer, actress: Threepenny Opera [1956]; From Russia with Love, Semi-Tough, Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone)
1902 - Miriam Hopkins (actress: The Children's Hour, The Chase, Carrie, Barbary Coast)
1903 - Ambrose Thibodeaux, cajun accordionist
1906 - James Brooks (artist: Flight: 235 ft. mural at La Guardia National Airport, NY; abstract expressionist exhibit: Ninth Street Exhibition)
1918 - Bobby Troup (actor: Emergency; singer, musician, TV host: Stars of Jazz; married to singer, Julie London)
1919 - Pierre Elliott Trudeau (Prime Minister of Canada {1968-1979])
1922 - Little Orphan Annie, comic strip character
1922 or 1925 - Melina Mercouri (actress: Never on Sunday, Once is Not Enough, Topkapi; Greece's Minister of Culture [1981])
1926 - Chuck (Charles Edward Anderson) Berry (singer: Lifetime Achievement Grammy [1985]; Maybellene, Roll Over Beethoven, School Day, Rock & Roll Music, Sweet Little Sixteen, Johnny B. Goode, My Ding-A-Ling; in film: Rock, Rock, Rock)
1926 - Klaus Kinski, [Nikolas Naksynski], Poland, actor (Little Drummer Girl, Nosferatu)
1927 - George C. Scott (Academy Award-winning actor: Patton [1970]; Anatomy of a Murder, The Day of the Dolphin, The Hanging Tree, Taps, Oklahoma Crude, The Prince and the Pauper, The Murders in the Rue Morgue, Malice)
1928 - Keith Jackson (sportscaster: ABC Sports, Wide World of Sports)
1933 - Forrest Gregg (Pro Football Hall of Famer: Green Bay Packers offensive tackle: Super Bowl I, II; Dallas Cowboys: Super Bowl VI; head coach: Cleveland Browns, Cincinnati Bengals: AFC Coach of the Year [1981]: Super Bowl XVI; Green Bay Packers; Southern Methodist University Athletic Director)
1933 - Peter Boyle (Emmy Award-winning actor: The X-Files [1995-96]; Taxi Driver, While You were Sleeping, Young Frankenstein, Midnight Caller, From Here to Eternity [TV])
1934 - Inger Stevens (Stensland) (actress: The Farmer's Daughter, Madigan, A Guide for the Married Man, Hang 'Em High)
1937 - Boyd Dowler (football: Green Bay Packers wide receiver: Super Bowl I, II)
1939 - Lee Harvey Oswald, assassin (JFK)
1939 - Mike Ditka (Pro & College Football Hall of Famer: Chicago Bears Rookie of the Year [1961]; Philadelphia Eagles; Dallas Cowboys tight end: Super Bowl V, VI; Chicago Bears head coach: Super Bowl XX; TV sports analyst: NBC Sports)
1943 - Willie Horton (baseball: Detroit Tigers outfielder)
1944 - Katherine Kurtz, UK, sci-fi author (Deryni Rising, Saint Camber)
1947 - Laura Nyro (singer: Up on the Roof; songwriter: Wedding Bell Blues, Blowin' Away, And When I Die, Stoney End, Stoned Soul Picnic, Sweet Blindness, Eli's Coming, Time and Love, Save the Country)
1950 - Wendy Wasserstein (writer: The Heidi Chronicles, Bachelor Girls)
1951 - Pam Dawber (actress: Mork & Mindy, My Sister Sam)
1952 - Jerry Royster (baseball: LA Dodgers pitcher)
1956 - Martina Navratilova, Revnice Czech, tennis (Wimbledon 1989,79, 82-87)
1960 - Jean Claude Van Damme (actor: Kickboxer, Universal Soldier, Double Impact, Hard Target, Nowhere to Run, Predator II)
1961 - Erin Moran (actress: Happy Days, Joanie Loves Chachi, The Don Rickles Show, Daktari, Galaxy of Terror, Twirl, Watermelon Man, How Sweet It Is!)
1961 - Wynton Marsalis (Grammy Award-winning musician: jazz/classical trumpet [1984, 1985]: Think of One [1983]; played on: Father & Sons; in orchestra: Sweeney Todd; composer: TV theme song for Shannon's Deal)
Famous deaths
1526 - Lucas Vazquez de Ayllp, Spanish colonialist (settles SC), dies
1545 - John Taverner, English composer (Western Wynde), dies at 55
1676 - Nathaniel Bacon, rallied against Virginian government, killed at 29
1862 - James Creighton, dies of ruptured bladder from hitting HR on Oct 14th
1871 - Charles Babbage dies
1893 - Charles F Gounod, French composer (Faust, Romeo et Julliette), dies at 75
1893 - Lucy [Blackwell-] Stone, US abolitionist/feminist, dies
1931 - Thomas Alva Edison, inventor, dies in West Orange, NJ, at 84 [H]
1948 - [Heinrich A H] Walther von Brauchitsch, German fieldmarshal, dies
1955 - Jose Ortega y Gasset, Spanish philosopher, dies at 72
1973 - Walt Kelly, US comic strip artist (Pogo), dies at 60
1978 - Jacques Mornard, [Ramon Mercader], murderer of Leon Trotsky, dies at 64
1982 - Bess Truman, 1st lady (1945-53), died at her home in Independence, Mo., at age 97.
1982 - Pierre Mendes-France, premier France (1954-55) "Let them drink milk!"
1984 - Jon-Erik Hexum, actor (Bear), dies by a gun loaded with blanks at 26
1985 - Benjamin Moloisi, South African poet, hanged at 30
2000 - Singer-actress Julie London died in Los Angeles at age 74.
2000 - Broadway musical star Gwen Verdon died in Woodstock, Vt., at age 75.
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