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Today in History ~ October 28
Ohi Day commemorates Greece's refusal to open its borders to Mussolini's Italian troops.
Events0306 - Marcus Aurelius Valerius Maxentius proclaimed emperor of Rome
0312 - In a battle that marked the beginning of the Christian era in Europe - Constantine's army, wearing the cross, defeated the forces of Maxentius at Mulvian Bridge in Rome. Constantine has been instantly converted when he saw a cross in the sky, with the inscription "In hoc signo vincit" ("In this sign you shall conquer")
1595 - Battle at Giurgevo: Zsigmond Bathory of Transylvania beats Turks
1628 - Hugenot bulwark La Rochelle surrenders to Cardinal Richelieu's holy forces
1636 - Harvard College, now Harvard University, was founded in Massachusetts
1646 - 1st Protestant church assembly for Indians (Massachusetts)
1726 - "Gulliver's Travels" First Sold to Public
1746 - Peruvian cities of Lima & Callao demolished by earthquake, 18,000 die
1776 - Battle of White Plains; Washington retreats to NJ
1790 - NY gives up claims to Vermont for $30,000
1793 - Eli Whitney applies for a patent on cotton gin
1846 - The ill-fated Donner Party of 90 people set out from Springfield, Ill., for California. 42 die
1864 - Battle at Fair Oaks, Virginia, ends after 1554 casualties
1864 - Battle of Wauhatchie, TN
1886 - Statue of Liberty dedicated by Pres Grover Cleveland, it is celebrated by 1st confetti (ticker tape) parade in NYC. Presented to the American people by the French, Lady Liberty is 152 foot tall, weighing 225 tons, resides on Liberty Island (originally Bedloe^Òs Island but President Dwight Eisenhower renamed the Island). The Statue of Liberty is the work of French sculptor, Frederic Auguste Bartholdi.
1891 - Quake strikes Mino-Owari, Japan kills 7,300
1893 - Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky conducted 1st performance of his Symphony Number 6 in B minor, "Pathetique"
1904 - St Louis police try a new investigation method -- fingerprints
1915 - Richard Strauss' Alpine Symphony premieres in Berlin
1919 - Congress passed the Volstead Act, over President Wilson's veto, enforcing the Constitutional Amendment prohibiting the use of alcoholic beverages
1922 - 1st coast-to-coast radio broadcast of a football game
1922 - Benito Mussolini takes control of Italy's government
1927 - Josip Broz (Tito) begins 7 months jail sentence in Croatia
1929 - Dow Jones plummets 38.33 pts (13%) to 260.64
1936 - FDR rededicates Statue of Liberty on its 50th anniversary
1938 - Farewell parade of International Brigade (Barcelona)
1939 - Anti-German demonstrations/strikes in Czechoslovakia
1939 - Spitfire shoots German Heinkel-111 down over Scotland
1940 - Greece successfully resists Italy's attack rejects Italy's ultimatum to surrender
1940 - Meeting between Hitler & Mussolini in Florence
1942 - 6th day battle at El Alamein: British offensive under Montgomery
1946 - German rocket engineers begin work in USSR
1948 - Flag of Israel is adopted
1949 - Eugenie Anderson is 1st woman US ambassador (to Denmark)
1953 - Bud Grant of Winnipeg Blue Bombers (later coach of MN Vikings) intercepts 5 passes (record)
1953 - Red Barber, resigns as Dodger sportscaster to join Yankees
1954 - N Richard Nash's "Rainmaker," premieres in NYC
1954 - Nobel prize for literature awarded to Ernest Hemingway
1958 - Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli, elected Pope, taking name John XXIII
1961 - Ground broken for Municipal (Shea) Stadium for NY Mets
1962 - Nikita Krushchev announced that all Soviet offensive missiles would be removed from Cuba. ending crisis [H]
1965 - Gateway Arch (630' (190m) high) completed in St Louis, Missouri [H]
1965 - Pope Paul VI thoughtfully proclaims Jews not collectively guilty for crucifixion of Christ
1982 - Spain's socialists win/communists lose elections
1985 - The leader of the so-called "Walker family spy ring," John Walker, pleaded guilty to giving U-S Navy secrets to the Soviet Union
1986 - The Statue of Liberty reached the actual 100th anniversary of its dedication, without the hoopla of the July 4th ceremonies.
1988 - Jurors award $147,000 to Tacoma parishioner seduced by her minister
1989 - Oakland A's wrapped up a quake-delayed sweep of the World Series over the San Francisco Giants.
1991 - Two Israeli Jewish settlers were killed by gunmen in the occupied West Bank. Israel blamed the attack on Palestinian radicals opposed to the peace talks.
1992 - Scientists using sonar to map Scotland's Loch Ness made contact with a mysterious object, but declined to speculate what that implies about whether or not legendary monster "Nessie" exists.
1994 - President Clinton visited U.S. troops in Kuwait during a Middle Eastern trip.
1996 - U.S. mediator Dennis Ross left the Israeli-Palestinian peace talks.
2001 - The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed a third New Jersey postal worker had inhalation anthrax infection, bringing the total number to eight, including three people who have died from the most serious form of the disease
2001 - U.S.-led forces resumed air strikes against targets in Afghanistan, bombing the Taliban's southern stronghold of Kandahar.
Birthdays Today
1017 - Henry III, Roman Catholic German emperor (1046-56)
1467 - Desiderius Erasmus (Gerhard Gerhards) (scholar, author: Encomium Moriae [In Praise of Folly])
1510 - Francisco Borgia, great grandson of debauched Pope Alexander VI / theologian/saint
1689 - Michel Mathieu, composer
1789 - Johann Schneider, composer
1793 - Eliphalet Remington, US gun maker
1818 - Ivan Turgenev, Russia, novelist/poet/playwright (Fathers & Sons)
1846 - Auguste Escoffier, king of chefs & chef of kings
1846 - Georges Escoffier ('King of chefs and chefs of Kings': invented Peach Melba; Legion d'Honneur: contribution to international reputation of French cuisine)
1896 - Howard Hanson (Pulitzer Prize-winning composer: Sympony No. 4 [1944]; George Foster Peabody Award [1946]; Laurel Leaf of the American Composers Alliance [1957]; Huntington Hartford Foundation Award [1959]; Priz de Rome [1921]; president: Eastman School of Music)
1896 - Howard Hanson, Wahoo Nebraska, composer/conductor (Nordic)
1897 - Hans Speidel, Nazi chief-staff/NATO-supreme commander
1902 - Elsa Lanchester (actress: Come to the Stable, Witness for the Prosecution, The Bride of Frankenstein, Nanny and the Professor, The John Forsythe Show; wife of actor: Charles Laughton)
1903 - Evelyn A Waugh, London, author (Brideshead Revisited, Scoop)
1907 - Edith Head (Academy Award-winning costume designer: 1949, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1960, 1973)
1907 - Edith Head, fashion designer (MGM)
1914 - Dr. Jonas Salk (medical researcher: Salk polio vaccine; AIDS research)
1914 - Jonas Salk, NYC, medical reseacher (polio vaccine)
1925 - Leonard Starr, comic strip cartoonist (Little Orphan Annie)
1926 - Bowie Kuhn (attorney; baseball commissioner)
1927 - Cleo Laine, Middlesex England, actress/singer (Flesh to a Tiger)
1929 - Dody Goodman (comedienne, actress: Forever Fernwood, Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman, The Jack Paar Show, Punky Brewster, Diff'rent Strokes; TV panelist: Liar's Club)
1929 - Joan Plowright (actress: Avalon, Dennis the Menace, Enchanted April, The Merchant of Venice, Equus, The Entertainer; wife of actor, Lord Lawrence Olivier)
1930 - Bruce Morton (Emmy Award-winning news correspondent: The CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite: Reports from the Lt. Calley Trial [1970-71])
1933 - Suzy Parker (model, actress: The Interns, The Best of Everything, Ten North Frederick, Funny Face)
1934 - Jim Beatty (National Track & Field Hall of Famer: LA Track Club distance runner; Sullivan Award-winner [1962]: AAU indoor-mile champion [1961-63]: 1st person to run an indoor mile under 4 minutes [3:59.9}, outdoor mile [1962])
1937 - Charlie Daniels (CMA Award-winning musician [1979]: guitar, fiddle; singer: group: Charlie Daniels Band: The Devil Went Down to Georgia, Uneasy Rider, Still in Saigon; in film: Urban Cowboy)
1937 - Len Wilkens (Basketball Hall of Famer: St. Louis Hawks, Cleveland Cavaliers; player/coach: Seattle Supersonics: 1979 NBA championship, Portland Trail Blazers; VP/General Mgr.: Seattle Supersonics; coach: Cleveland Cavaliers, Atlanta Hawks)
1939 - Jane Alexander (Quigley) (Emmy Award-winning actress: Playing for Time [1980-81]; Kramer vs. Kramer; The Great White Hope, All the President's Men, Eleanor & Franklin; chairperson: National Endowment for the Arts)
1941 - Curtis Lee (singer: Pretty Little Angel Eyes, Under the Moon of Love)
1944 - Dennis Franz (Emmy Award-winning actor: N.Y.P.D. Blue [1993-94, 1995-96]; Nasty Boys, Hill Street Blues, Chicago Story, Beverly Hills Buntz, The Bay City Blues, Die Hard 2: Die Harder, Body Double, Psycho 2, Dressed to Kill)
1944 - Dennis Franz, Maywood Ill, actor (Buntz-Hill Street Blues, NYPD Blue)
1945 - Don Iverson (golfer)
1945 - Wayne Fontana (Glyn Ellis) (singer: group: The Mindbenders: Game of Love, Um, Um, Um, Um, Um, Um; solo: Come on Home, Pamela Pamela)
1946 - Jim Yarbrough (football)
1947 - Dave Foley (football)
1948 - Rick Reynolds (musician: guitar: group: Black Oak Arkansas: Memories at the Window, Jim Dandy to the Rescue)
1948 - Telma Hopkins (singer: group: Dawn: Candida, Knock Three Times, Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree; actress: A New Kind of Family, Getting By, Family Matters, Bosom Buddies, Gimme a Break, Tony Orlando and Dawn)
1949 - Bruce Jenner (National Track & Field and Olympic Hall of Famer: Olympic Gold Medalist: decathlon winner [1976]; AP Athlete of the Year, Sullivan Award-winner [1976]; sportscaster; Wheaties box star)
1952 - Annie Potts (actress: Designing Women, Love & War, Goodtime Girls, Breaking the Rules, Who's Harry Crumb?, Jumpin' Jack Flash, Ghost Buster series)
1955 - William Henry Gates, Seattle Wash, billionaire CEO (Microsoft)
1960 - Mark Derwin (actor: The Guiding Light, The Young and the Restless)
1964 - Paul Wylie (Olympic medalist: figure skating)
1965 - Jami Gertz (actress: Square Pegs, Sibs, The Lost Boys, Quicksilver, Sixteen Candles, Alphabet City)
1967 - Julia Roberts (actress: Pretty Woman, Mystic Pizza, Steel Magnolias, Dying Young, Hook, The Pelican Brief, I Love Trouble, Mary Reilly, Blood Red, Flatliners)
Famous deaths
1627 - Djehangir/Jahangir, great mogol of India, dies
1704 - John Locke, English philosopher (2 treatises on govt), dies at 72
1768 - Michel Blavet, French court flautist/composer, dies at 68
1965 - Ben Barka, Moroccan opposition leader, kidnapped & murdered in Paris
1987 - Woody Herman, US jazz clarinetist/composer, dies at 74
1993 - Doris Duke, heiress (American Tobacco Co), dies at 80
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