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Today in History ~ October 25
Saint Crispin's Day
Events1131 - Crowning of Louis VII the Young, King of France
1147 - Battle at Doryleum: Arabs beat Konrad III's crusaders
1415 - Battle of Agincourt, Welsh longbow defeats armored French knights
1492 - Christopher Columbus & ship Santa Maria land in Dominican Republic
1521 - Emperor Charles V bans wooden buildings in Amsterdam
1555 - Emperor Charles V puts son Philip II in charge of Netherlands/Naples/Milan
1596 - Spanish fleet sails from Lisbon to Ireland
1621 - Gov Bradford of US colony Plymouth disallows sport on Christmas Day
1760 - Britain's King George III succeeded his late grandfather, George II.
1764 - John Adams marries Abigail Smith (marriage lasts 54 years)
1812 - U.S. frigate United States captured the British vessel Macedonian during the War of 1812.
1825 - The Erie Canal, America's first man-made waterway, was opened, linking the Great Lakes and the Atlantic Ocean.
1854 - During the battle of Balaklava, in the Crimean War. 670 British cavalrymen made the famous "Charge of the Light Brigade" against a heavily fortified Russian position. They were totally wiped out. French General Bosquet remarked - "It is magnificient, but it is not war."
1861 - Battle of Wilson's Creek, MI (Springfield)
1864 - Skirmish at Mine Creek, KS & Turkeytown, AL
1870 - Postcards 1st used in US
1875 - Peter Tchaikowsky's 1st Piano Concerto premieres in Boston
1885 - Johannes Brahms' 4th Symphony in E, premieres
1902 - Santa Maria Guatemala hit by Earthquake; about 6,000 die
1903 - Senate begins investigating Teapot Dome scandals of Harding administration
1906 - US inventor Lee de Forest patents "Audion," a 3-diode amplification valve which proved a pioneering development in radio & broadcasting
1917 - In Russia, Bolsheviks led by Vladimir Lenin seizes power
1918 - Canadian steamship "Princess Sophia" hit a reef off Alaska, 398 die
1923 - Senate committee publishes 1st report on Teapot Dome scandal
1929 - Former Interior Sec Albert Fall convicted of accepting $100,000 bribe in connection with the Elk Hills Naval Oil Reserve in California.(Teapot Dome scandal)
1932 - Mussolini promises to remain dictator for 30 years
1939 - George Kaufman's/Moss Hart's "Man Who Came to Dinner," premieres in NYC
1939 - William Saroyan's "Time of Your Life," premieres in NYC
1941 - 16,000 Jews massacred in Odessa, Ukraine
1941 - Germany attacks Moscow
1942 - 3rd day of battle at El Alamein: British offensive
1942 - Battle of Henderson Field, Guadalcanal begins
1942 - Fieldmarshal Erwin Rommel back in North-Africa
1943 - Burma railroad completed & opens
1944 - Battle in Straits of Surigao: Japanese fleet destroyed
1944 - First kamikaze attack of the war begins [H]
1945 - Japanese surrender Taiwan to Genalissimo Chiang Kai-shek
1950 - Sukarno appointed president of Republic Indonesia
1951 - Peace talks aimed at ending the Korean conflict resumed in Panmunjom after 63 days.
1955 - Austria resumed its sovereignty after departure of last Allied occupation forces, for 1st time since German occupation of 1938
1955 - Tappan sells 1st microwave oven
1960 - 1st electronic wrist watch placed on sale, NYC
1960 - Cuba nationalizes all remaining US businesses
1962 - American author John Steinbeck awarded Nobel Prize in literature
1962 - U.S. ambassador Adlai E. Stevenson presented photographic evidence of Soviet missile bases in Cuba to the U.N. Security Council.
1962 - John F. Kennedy demands USSR and Zorin answer regarding Cuban missile bases saying "I am prepared to wait for my answer until hell freezes over"
1963 - Anti-Kennedy "WANTED FOR TREASON" pamphlets scattered in Dallas
1964 - Viking Jim Marshall runs 66 yards in wrong direction for a safety
1968 - Chicago recognizes Jean Baptiste Pointe de Sable as its 1st settler
1970 - George Blanda, 43 years old, replaced Daryle Lamonica, the Oakland Raiders injured quarterback. Three touchdown passes (19, 43 and 44 yards) later the Raiders had an easy victory over the Pittsburgh Steelers, 31-14. That was just the start...
1971 - U.N. General Assembly voted to admit mainland China and expel Taiwan.
1974 - Air Force fires 1st ICBM
1974 - Dmitri Shostakovitch' 15th String Quartet premieres in Leningrad
1976 - Gov Wallace grants full pardon to Clarence Norris, last known survivor of 9 Scottsboro Boys who were convicted in 1931 rape
1981 - George Steinbrenner scuffles with 2 fans in a hotel elevator
1983 - US supported by six Caribbean nations invades Grenada, a country 1/2,000 its population; at the order of President Reagan, who said the action was needed to protect U.S. citizens there. 19 Americans died in the fighting.
1984 - Hepatitis virus is discovered
1986 - Michael Sergio Parachutes into Shea Stadium during game 6 of WS
1986 - The International Red Cross ousted South African delegates from a Geneva meeting because of Pretoria's policy of apartheid. It was the first such ejection in the organization's 123 years.
1990 - NY Daily News, the nation's largest general-circulation daily newspaper, goes on strike (lasts through March, 1991)
1990 - Independence leaders declared Kazakhstan a sovereign republic.
1991 - Israel named a hard-line delegation to the Middle East peace conference.
1993 - Canadian voters ousted the Progressive Conservative party of Prime Minister Kim Campbell and gave the Liberal Party, led by Jean Chretien of Quebec, a firm majority in Parliament.
1994 - Susan Smith reported to police in Union, S.C., that her two young boys had been taken in a carjacking. Nine days later, she confessed she'd rolled the car into a lake, drowning the children. [H]
1995 - "Victor/Victoria," opens at Marquis Theater NYC for 738 performances
1995 - Seven high school students were killed when their school bus was hit by a commuter train in the Chicago suburb of Fox River Grove, Ill.
1996 - Federal judge Richard Matsch granted Oklahoma City bombing defendants Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols separate trials.
1999 - Golfer Payne Stewart and five others were killed when their Learjet flew uncontrolled for four hours before crashing in South Dakota; Stewart was 42.
2000 - Laboring in the frigid murk of the Barents Sea, divers found and removed the first bodies from the wreckage of the nuclear submarine Kursk, which sank on Aug. 12 with the loss of all 118 sailors aboard.
2000 - AT&T announced it would break itself into four separate businesses in a bid to renew investor support.
Birthdays Today
1360 - Louis, founder of house of Anjou
1692 - Elisabeth Farnese, princess of Parma/queen of Spain
1800 - Thomas Babington Macaulay, England, poet/historian
1825 - Johann Baptist Strauss, (the younger), Austria, ('The Waltz King': composer: On the Beautiful Blue Danube, Emperor Waltz, Tales from the Vienna Woods, Wine, Women and Song; operettas: Die Fledermaus, A Night in Venice, The Gypsy Baron)
1838 - Georges Alexandre-Cesar-Leopold Bizet, France, composer (Carmen, The Pearl Fishers, The Young Girl of Perth)
1869 - August Otto Halm, composer
1881 - Pablo Picasso, Malaga Spain, artist ((artist: founder of cubism: Guernica, Ma Jolie, 3 Dancers)
1888 - Richard E Byrd, Virginia, admiral/polar explorer 1st to see North Pole (1926)
1889 - Abel Gance, French film pioneer/actor (Napoleon, J'accuse)
1892 - Leo G. Carroll (actor: The Prize, The Parent Trap, North by Northwest, Father of the Bride, Forever Amber, Bahama Passage, Topper, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., The Girl from U.N.C.L.E., Going My Way)
1902 - Henry Steele Commager, Pitts Pa, historian (Atlas of Civil War)
1912 - Minnie Pearl (Sarah Ophelia Colley) (comedienne: "Howdee!": On Stage America, Hee Haw, Grand Ole Opry; singer: Giddyup Go-Answer; CMA Hall of Famer)
1914 - John Berryman, American poet (Friends & Associates)
1924 - Billy Barty (comedian: The Spike Jones Show, Ford Festival, Club Oasis; actor: Circus Boy, Snow White, Willow, Tough Guys, Rumpelstiltskin, Roustabout, The Amazing Dobermans, Day of the Locust)
1926 - Galina Vishnevskaya, Leningrad, soprano (Madama Butterfly)
1926 - Jimmy Heath (musician: reeds: group: Heath Brothers: LP: Marchin' On, Passin' Thru, Live at the Public Theatre, In Motion, Expressions of Life, Brotherly Love; band leader: LP: The Thumper, Really Big, The Quota, Triple Threat, Swamp Seed, On the Trail)
1927 - Barbara Cook (Tony Award-winning actress, singer: The Music Man [1957]; Flahooley, Oklahoma, Carousel, Plain and Fancy, Candide, The Gay Life, She Loves Me, Any Wednesday, Funny Girl, The Gershwin Years)
1927 - Bud (Franklin) Held (National Track & Field Hall of Famer: 1st [1953] to throw javelin more than 260 feet; his record: 268' 2 1/2" [1955]; javelin designer)
1928 - Marion Ross (actress: Happy Days, Brooklyn Bridge, Mr. Novak, Life with Father, The Gertrude Berg Show, Forever Female, Grand Theft Auto)
1928 - Tony Franciosa (Papaleo) (actor: A Hatful of Rain, Death Wish 2, The Drowning Pool, A Face in the Crowd, The Long Hot Summer, Stagecoach, The Name of the Game, Matt Helm, Wheels, Valentine's Day, Search, Finder of Lost Loves)
1934 - Earl Ingarfield (hockey)
1937 - Jeanne (Gloria) Black (singer: He'll Have to Stay)
1937 - Zelmo Beaty (basketball)
1940 - Bobby Knight (Basketball Hall of Famer: coach: Indiana University, West Point; Pan-American games; player: Ohio State University NCAA championship team)
1941 - Ann Tyler (author: The Accidental Tourist, Searching for Caleb, Morgan's Passing, Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant)
1942 - Helen Reddy (singer: I Don't Know How to Love Him, Delta Dawn, Leave Me Alone (Ruby Red Dress), Peaceful, Keep on Singing, Angie Baby, You & Me Against the World, I Am Woman)
1944 - Jon Anderson (singer: group: Yes: Roundabout; solo: LP: Olias of Sunhollow, Song of Seven; duo: Jon and Vangelis: I Hear You Now, I'll Find My Way Home)
1944 - Taffy Danoff (Nivert) (singer: group: Starland Vocal Band: Afternoon Delight)
1948 - Dan Gable (Olympic Hall of Famer: lightweight wrestling division gold medalist [1972]; wrestling coach: University of Iowa)
1948 - Dan Issel (Basketball Hall of Famer: Kentucky Colonels: Rookie of the Year [1970-71]; Denver Nuggets: player, head coach)
1949 - Brian Kerwin (actor: Lobo, The Young and the Restless, The Chisholms, The Blue and the Gray, Switched at Birth, Murphy's Romance, A Real American Hero)
1951 - Greg Stemrick (football)
1951 - Ransom Wilson, Tuscaloosa Alabama, flutist (Soliste NY)
1963 - Tracy Nelson (actress: Father Dowling Mysteries, Square Pegs, Glitter, Down and Out in Beverly Hills, Yours, Mine & Ours)
1971 - Midori, violinist
Famous deaths
1047 - Magnus I Godhi, king of Norway/Denmark (1035-47), dies
1154 - King Steven of England (1135-54), dies
1400 - Geofrey Chaucer, author (Canterbury Tales), dies in London
1415 - Edward, duke of York, dies at 45
1760 - George II (August), king of Great-Britain (1727-60), dies at 76
1878 - Ludwig Wilhelm Maurer, composer, dies at 89
1920 - Alexander, king of Greece (1917-20), dies after ape bite at 27
1957 - Umberto "Albert" Anastasia, US gangster, dies while taking a shave in Manhattan hotel at 55
1961 - Peter Jensen, co-inventer (loud speaker), dies at 75
1981 - Ariel Durant, US author (Story of Civilization), dies at 83
1985 - Morton Downey, singer (Star of the Family), dies at 83
1989 - Mary McCarthy, author (Group), dies, at 77
1991 - Rock-and-roll impresario Bill Graham was killed in a helicopter crash in Sonoma County, Calif.
1993 - Francisco Velis, El Salvador guerilla leader (FMLN), murdered
1993 - Vincent Price, actor (Raven, Fly), dies of lung cancer at 82
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