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Today in History ~ October 27
Turkmenistan Independence Day
Events1492 - Christopher Columbus discovers Cuba and claims it for Spain
1523 - English troops occupy Montalidier France
1553 - Michael Servetus was condemned to death for blasphemy.
1605 - Spanish army under General Spinola occupies Wachtendonk
1644 - 2nd Battle at Newbury: King Charles I beats parliamentary armies
1651 - English troops occupy Limerick Ireland
1659 - William Robinson and Marmaduke Stevenson, two Quakers who came from England in 1656 to escape religious persecution, were executed in the Massachusetts Bay Colony for their outlawed religious beliefs.
1688 - King James II fires premier Robert Spencer
1702 - English troops plunder St Augustine, Florida
1787 - New York newspaper published the first of 77 essays explaining the new Constitution and urging its ratification. The essays - by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John Jay - were later published as "The Federalist Papers."
1795 - A treaty with Spain settled Florida's northern boundary and gave navigation rights on the Mississippi River to the United States.
1810 - US annexes West Florida from Spain
1858 - RH Macy and Company opens 1st store, (6th Ave-NYC) Gross receipts $1106
1864 - Battle of Boydton Plank Road, VA (Burgess' Mill, Southside Railroad)
1864 - Battle of Fair Oaks, Va near Richmont
1864 - Battle of Newtonia, MI
1864 - Confederate ship Albemarle torpedoed/sinks
1864 - Siege of Petersburg, VA
1867 - Garibaldi marches on Rome
1871 - Boss Tweed (William Macy Tweed), Democratic leader of Tammany Hall, arrested after NY Times exposes his corruption
1880 - Theodore Roosevelt marries Alice Hathaway Lee, on his 22nd birthday
1893 - Hurricane hits coast between Savannah Ga & Charleston SC
1904 - World's 1st subway, IRT (Interborough Rapid Transit), opens in NYC, subway/bus fare is set at one nickel (Bkln bridge-145 and Broadway)
1913 - Pres Wilson says US will never attack another country
1914 - British battleship Audacious sunk by mine
1916 - 1st published reference to "jazz" appears (Variety)
1919 - Axeman of New Orleans claims last victim
1919 - Volstead Act becomes law (prohibition) after Congress overrides President Wilson's veto
1920 - League of Nations moves headquarters in Geneva
1922 - 1st commemoration of Navy Day
1925 - Water skis patented by Fred Waller
1940 - De Gaulle sets up the Empire Defense Council [H]
1941 - Chicago Daily Tribune editorializes there will not be war with Japan
1941 - Nazis direct evacuation of gypsy ghetto in Belgrade
1942 - 5th day of battle at El Alamein: heavy battles/Australian advance
1944 - Tito reaches free Belgrade
1946 - The travel show "Geographically Speaking," sponsored by Bristol-Myers, became the first television program with a commercial sponsor.
1947 - "You Bet Your Life," with Groucho Marx, premieres on ABC radio
1948 - Israel recaptures Nizzanim in Negev
1954 - B O Davis Jr becomes 1st black general in USAF
1954 - Pres Eisenhower offers aid to S Vietnam pres Ngo Dinh Diem
1954 -Marilyn Monroe and Joe DiMaggio were divorced, reportedly after a blowup over her famous "skirt scene" in "The Seven Year Itch," in which a blast of air lifts her skirt.
1958 - Gen Ayub Khan succeeds Iskander Mirza as president of Pakistan
1960 - Singer Ben E King records "Spanish Harlem" & "Stand By Me"
1961 - 1st Saturn launch vehicle makes an unmanned flight test
1961 - Outer Mongolia & Mauritania become 102nd & 103rd members of UN
1962 - "Beyond the Fringe" opens at John Golden Theater NYC for 673 performances (Starring Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, Jonathan Miller, Alan Bennett)
1962 - Black Saturday - Russian nuclear missile crisis in Cuba [H]
1964 - Congo rebel leader Christopher Gbenye holds 60 Americans/800 Belgians
1964 - Singers Sonny & Cher wed, Cher wore bell-bottoms
1966 - UN deprives South Africa of Namibia
1967 - 4 people from Baltimore pour blood on selective service records
1967 - Expo '67 closes in Montreal, Canada
1968 - 19th Olympic games close at Mexico City, Mexico
1969 - Ralph Nader sets up a consumer organization knowns as Nader's Raiders
1974 - Chantal Langlace runs female world record marathon (2:46:24)
1975 - Covers of both Time & Newsweek picture rock singer Bruce Springsteen
1977 - NASA launches space vehicle S-200
1978 - Begin and Sadat win Nobel Peace prize
1981 - The National Labor Relations Board withdrew recognition of the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization for an illegal strike by its members.
1982 - China announces its population at 1 billion people plus
1984 - Wash State's Rueben Mayes sets col football rec of 357 yards rushing
1985 - Billy Martin is fired by Yankees for 4th time
1985 - Hurricane Juan ravages US Gulf states & east coast, 49 die
1985 - Thieves steal 9 paintings, including 5 Monets & 2 Renoirs
1986 - Paul McCartney release "Pretty Little Head"
1987 - South Korean voters overwhelmingly approved a new constitution
1991 - Poland held its first fully free parliamentary elections.
1992 - Israeli tanks rolled into Lebanon as air force jets staged renewed raids in an effort to crush Muslim fundamentalist guerrillas.
1992 - Great Britain issues postage stamp on 100th anniversary of Tolkien's birth
1993 - Southern California was hit by dozens of brush fires -- the worst in six years. Hundreds of homes were destroyed and thousands of people were forced to flee the flames.
1994 - The Justice Department announced that the U.S. prison population topped the one-million mark for the first time in history.
1997 - Dow Jones crashes record 554 pts to 7161
1997 - Intel Corp buys part of Digital Equipment for $700 million
1997 - Microsoft argues it should be "free from govt interference"
1997 - US releases a redesigned $50 bill
1998 - Hurricane Mitch, one of the strongest Atlantic storms ever recorded, began its four-day siege of Central America, causing at least 10,000 deaths.
2002 - Diplomatic sources said the immobilizing gas Russian officials used to free hundreds of hostages from the Chechen- held Moscow theatre was responsible for the deaths of at least two of the 118 hostages killed in the rescue mission. Officials said the gas was not the sole cause of any deaths.
Birthdays Today
1728 - James Cook, Scotland, captain/explorer, discovered Sandwich (Hawaiian) Islands
1782 - Niccolo Paganini, Genoa It, composer/violin virtuoso (Princess Lucca)
1811 - Issac Merrit Singer, inventor (practical home sewing machine)
1858 - Theodore Roosevelt (26th U.S. President [1901-09]; 1st president to ride in a car, submerge in a submarine and fly in a plane; initiated the National Monument System) Nobel 1906)
1872 - Emily Post, authority on social behavior/writer (Etiquette)
1896 - Edith Haisman, Titanic survivor
1910 - Fred De Cordova (Emmy Award-winning producer: The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson [1975-76, 1976-77, 1977-78, 1978-79, 1991-92]; director: Bedtime for Bonzo, Frankie and Johnny, I'll Take Sweden)
1910 - Fred de Cordova, film/TV producer (Tonight Show)
1911 - Leif Erickson (William Anderson) (actor: The High Chaparral, Force Five, On the Waterfront, Rocky 3, Tea and Sympathy, Waikiki Wedding)
1914 - Dylan Thomas (playwright: The Three Weird Sisters, Under Milkwood; poet: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog, Adventures in the Skin Trade)
1922 - Nanette Fabray (Fabares) (Emmy Award-winning actress: Caesar's Hour [1955, 1956], One Day at a Time, Westinghouse Playhouse, Our Gang series; aunt of actress, Shelley Fabares)
1922 - Ralph Kiner (Baseball Hall of Famer: Pittsburgh Pirates outfielder: National League's first $100,000: led league in home runs [1946-52], Chicago Cubs, Cleveland Indians; broadcaster: NY Mets)
1923 - Roy Lichenstein (sculptor; artist: Blam)
1924 - Ruby Dee (Ruth Wallace) (Emmy Award-winning actress: Hallmark Hall of Fame: Decoration Day [1990-91]; Peyton Place, Zora is My Name, Do the Right Thing, A Raisin in the Sun, The Jackie Robinson Story, All God's Children, Gore Vidal's Lincoln, Roots: The Next Generation)
1925 - Warren M Christopher, US, lawyer/minister of Foreign affairs (1993- )
1928 - Kyle Rote (College Football Hall of Famer: Southern Methodist University; New York Giants running back; sportscaster)
1930 - Bill George (Pro Football of Famer: Chicago Bears middle linebacker: All-Pro [1955-62]; LA Rams)
1932 - Kathy Cornelius (McKinnon) (golf champion: U.S. Open [1956])
1932 - Sylvia Plath, [Victoria Lucas], US, poet (Colossus, 3 Women, Bell Jar)
1933 - Floyd Cramer (pianist: Last Date, On the Rebound, San Antonio Rose)
1934 - Frederick Barclay, British hotel magnate/multi-millionaire
1939 - John Cleese (Emmy Award-winning actor: guest performer: Cheers [1986-87]; A Fish Called Wanda, Monty Python's Flying Circus, Splitting Heirs, Life of Brian, Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book, Silverado, The Big Picture)
1941 - Dave Costa (football)
1942 - Lara Parker (actress: Foxfire Light, The Solitary Man, Race with the Devil, Night of Dark Shadows)
1942 - Lee (Melvin) Greenwood (CMA Male Vocalist of the Year [1983, 1984]: Dixie Road, Hearts Aren't Made to Break [They're Made to Love], Going, Going, Gone, Mornin' Ride, I Don't Mind the Thorns [If You're the Boss], God Bless the U.S.A.; musician: sax, piano: band leader: Trick)
1945 - John Williams (football: Baltimore Colts guard: Super Bowl III, V)
1945 - Mike Lum (baseball: Atlanta Braves)
1946 - Carrie Snodgress (actress: Diary of a Mad Housewife, 8 Seconds, The Solitary Man, Woman with a Past, Pale Rider, Chill Factor)
1947 - Terry Anderson (news correspondent: kidnapped by Lebanese terrorists in Beirut [1985], released [1991])
1951 - Jayne Kennedy (broadcaster: NFL Today; Speak Up America)
1952 - Pete Cusick (football)
1958 - Simon LeBon (singer: group: Duran Duran: Planet Earth, Hungry like the Wolf, Save a Prayer, Rio, Is there Something I Should Know, Union of the Snake, Wild Boys)
Famous deaths
1439 - Albrecht II von Habsburg, king of Bohemia/Hungary/Germany, dies at 42
1955 - Clark Griffith, baseball player/manager (NY Yankees), dies at 85
1962 - Fatso Marco, comedian (Milton Berle Show), dies at 56
1977 - James M Cain, US writer (Postman Always Rings Twice), dies at 85
1990 - Elliott Roosevelt, son of FDR, dies at 80
1990 - CBS founder William S. Paley died at age 89.
1990 - Rumba king Xavier Cugat died at age 90.
1996 - James Aubrey Turner, scientist, dies at 57
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