Today in History

Oct 2nd Birthdays:
1897 Bud Abbott- comedian with comedy partner, Lou Costello 'Who's On First'....
1904
Graham Greene-British novelist 'Brighton Rock, The Power&The Glory
1945
Don McLean -singer/songwriter' American Pie, Vincent{Starry, Starry Night}
1951
Sting{Gordon Sumner} singer/songwriter, bassist w group'The Police' Roxanne, Every Breathe You Take, solo career, 'Englishman in New York, Fields of Gold, All This Time, Desert Rose'
Deaths:
1985
Rock Hudson- actor 'Pillow Talk, A Farewell to Arms, Ice Station Zebra,59{ 1st well know actor to die of AIDS}
2016
Neville Mariner- British conductor with Academy of St Martins in the Field 92
 

On This Day In History, October 3rd

1995 OJ Simpson acquitted in the killings of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Lyle Goldman
The former football player had been accused of murdering his ex-wife and her friend on June 13, 1994. The high-profile case and the subsequent trial of Simpson captured widespread media and public attention in the United States and around the world.

1952 UK tests its first atomic bomb
Called Operation Hurricane the test was conducted near the Montebello Islands in Western Australia. The operation made the UK the third country to have nuclear weapons, the United States and the Soviet Union were the first two.

1932 Iraq gains independence from the United Kingdom
The West Asian country came under British control in 1920, after the end of the First World War. After taking control of the country, the British installed the deposed Syrian King Faisal I as the King of Iraq.

1863 National Thanksgiving Day proclamation
American president Abraham Lincoln proclaimed the last Thursday of November as Thanksgiving Day. The holiday has been celebrated annually since that year.

1849 Edgar Allen Poe seen in public for the last time
The Baltimore, Maryland-based American poet and author, best known for his poem The Raven was found sick and delirious on the streets and taken to Washington College Hospital, where he died a few days later. He was 40 years old at the time of his death.
 
Births On This Day, October 3rd 🎂

1984 Ashlee Simpson
American singer-songwriter, actress

1969 Gwen Stefani
American singer-songwriter, actress, fashion designer

1954 Al Sharpton
American minister, talk show host, activist

1954 Stevie Ray Vaughan
American singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer

1925 Gore Vidal
American author, screenwriter, actor

Deaths On This Day, October 3rd 🪦

2005 Ronnie Barker
English comedian, actor

1967 Woody Guthrie
American singer-songwriter, musician

1931 Carl Nielsen
Danish violinist, composer, conductor

1896 William Morris
English poet, designer

1226 Francis of Assisi
Italian friar, saint
 

3 October 1952
Britain conducted its first nuclear weapon trial on the Montebello Islands off the Western Australian coast.
The bomb was detonated inside of a frigate anchored in a bay of the uninhabited Montebello Islands 120 kilometres off the coast of Western Australia. Britain thereby became the world’s third nuclear power, joining the United States and the Soviet Union.
This test had been authorised by the Menzies Government in the context of the Cold War and Australia’s long-standing position as an integral part of the British Empire then Commonwealth.
 
3 October 1995
O J Simpson found not guilt of murdering his ex wife and her boyfriend.

After the trial, Goldman's father filed a civil suit against Simpson.
On February 4, 1997, the jury unanimously found Simpson responsible for the deaths of both Goldman and Brown.
The Goldman family was awarded damages totalling $33.5 million, but have received only a small portion of that monetary figure.
 
3 October 1992
Sinead O'Connor did her career some major damage when she appeared on US TV's Saturday Night Live and held up an 8" x 10" colour photo of Pope John Paul II, ripped it into pieces and said, "Fight the real enemy."
Catholic groups expressed outrage at the act and called it patently offensive to people of all religious beliefs.
 
1849
author, Edgar Allan Poe was found in a gutter in Baltimore, MD in a delirous state under mysterious circumstances. Its the last time he was seen in public before he died
1942
Triple Crown winner,'Whirlaway' with jockey, George Woolf wins Jockey Club Gold Cup at Belmont Park. He became the 1st throughbred to amass more than $500,000 in Lifetime earnings
1960
CBS sitcom' The Andy Griffith Show' debuts,series is set in Mayberry, North Carolina. Sheriff Andy Taylor{Andy Griffith} a widower, with his young son'Opie'{Ron Howard}live with his Aunt Bee{Francis Bavier} housekeeper/ foster mom to Opie. Andy's inept,hyper tense deputy'Barney Fife'{Don Knotts} who is also his cousin The show ran until 1968
1990
One yr after the Berlin Wall was torn down,East&West Germany come together at the Brandenberg Gate to celebrate 'Unity Day'
2018
the most expensive bottle of whisky ever sold at auction took place in Edinborough,Scotland, Macallan Valerio Adami 1926 sold for $1.1 mill
 
Oct 3rd Birthdays:
1916
James Heriott- British veterinarian/writer 'All Creatures Great&Small'
1941
Chubby Checker- singer/ songwriter' The Twist, Limbo Rock'
1949
Lindsay Buckingham- guitarist,singer/songwriter w group Fleetwood Mac' 'Go Your Own Way'
1969
Gewn Stefani-singer/songwriter with group 'No Doubt' "Just a Girl, Don't Talk'
Deaths:
1867
Elias Howe- inventor of sewing machine 68
1936
John Heisman- U. S football coach who legalized forward pass, originated the center snap.The Heisman Trophy which goes to the best college football player is named in his honor 66
1967
Woody Guthrie- folk singer/ songwriter' This Land Is Your Land' /peace activist 55
1998
Roddy McDowall- British actor' Planet of the Apes, Cleopatra 70
2004
Janet Leigh- actress Harper, Pete Kelly's Blues, Psycho 77
 
On This Day In History, October 4th

1992 End of the Mozambican Civil War
The 15-year-long civil war was fought between the Mozambique Resistance Movement and the Mozambican government. The conflict, which began in 1977, just a couple of years after the War of Independence against the Portuguese, resulted in massive losses of human life and property. The civil war ended with the signing of the Rome General Peace Accords by both of the warring parties.

1966 Lesotho independence
Lesotho gained independence from British rule.

1957 World's first artificial satellite launched
The Soviet Union launched Sputnik from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Baikonur Cosmodrome is the world’s oldest and largest space launch facility still in operation. The successful launch of Sputnik spurred the Space Race – a race between Cold War rivals USSR and US to gain supremacy in spaceflight.

1895 First US Open for Golf
The now annual event was played at the Newport Country Club in Newport, Rhode Island, for the first time. 11 people played the 36-hole competition in a single day. Horace Rawlins, a 21-year-old Englishman won the tournament and took home a trophy and $150 cash.

1582 Last day of the Julian Calendar in Catholic countries
The next day, the Gregorian calendar took effect in Italy, Poland, Portugal, and Spain by the order of Pope Gregory XIII. The calendar was put in place to realign events like equinoxes and solstices with the calendar, ensuring that Easter is always celebrated around the Northern Hemisphere's spring equinox. Because of the new calendar, several days were skipped, and October 4 was followed by October 15. Today, the Gregorian calendar is the most used calendar around the world.
 
Births On This Day, October 4th 🎂

1988 Derrick Rose
American basketball player

1973 Abyss
American wrestler

1946 Chuck Hagel
American politician

1895 Buster Keaton
American actor, director, producer

1822 Rutherford B. Hayes
American politician, 19th President of the United States

Deaths On This Day, October 4th 🪦

1982 Glenn Gould
Canadian pianist, composer

1974 Anne Sexton
American poet

1970 Janis Joplin
American singer-songwriter

1951 Henrietta Lacks
American patient, HeLa cells derived from her cervical cancer

1669 Rembrandt
Dutch painter
 
4 October 1985
Space Shuttle Atlantis, the forth orbiter in America's Space Shuttle fleet, begins its first mission in space.
During its operational lifetime, Atlantis will orbit the earth a total of 4,848 times, traveling nearly 126,000,000 miles or more than 525 times the distance from the Earth to the Moon.
 
4 October 1957
First Artificial Satellite
The Soviet Union beats the United States into space by launching Sputnik 1.
At 184 pounds, it is the world's first artificial satellite.
This basketball-sized object circles the planet once every hour and 36 minutes as it transmits radio signals back to Earth.
Although its mission ends after only 22 days, it is considered to be a major accomplishment.
 
4 October 1956
Great Britain performs nuclear test at Maralinga Australia
The fission bomb codenamed Marcoo, tested at Maralinga at 4.30 pm on 4 October 1956, was a ground-burst explosion.
In other words, it was exploded at ground level.
 
4 October 1978
Tammy Wynette, the Country music singer was abducted, beaten and held in her car for two hours by a kidnapper wearing a ski mask.
He held a gun on her and forced her to drive 90 miles from Nashville, Tennessee.
She was later released and the kidnapper escaped.
 
1537
The 1st complete English language Bible'Matthew Bible' with translations by William Tyndale, Miles Coverdale is published
1675
pocket watch is patent by Dutch mathematician, Christiaan Hyguens
1931
cartoon strip' Dick Tracy by Chester Gould debuts
1949
United Nations headquarters in NYC is dedicated
1957
CBS sitcom' Leave it To Beaver' debuts, about a middle class family,the'Cleavers', dad 'Ward'{Hugh Beaumont} his wife'June{Barbara Billlingsley} their 2 sons, 'Wally{Tony Dow},'Theodore' akaBeaver''{Jerry Mathers} about the kid's lives ,Beaver's friends,"Whitey&Larry, Wally's friends 'Lumpy&Eddie Haskell. Eddie{Ken Osmond} was polite to adults but a bully to younger kids. June always wore pearls whatever she was doing The show ended in 1963. Jerry Mathers is the remaining cast member still alive. Tony Dow died couple months ago
 
Oct 4th Birthdays;
1895
Buster Keaton- actor/director/ comedian "The General,Navigator, Steamboat,Jr
1923
Charlton Heston- actor, The 10 Commandments, Ben-Hur, Will Penny, PLanet of the Appes
1941
Anne Rice- gothic novelist 'Interview with a Vampire'
1967
Liev Schrieber- actor Spotlight, Sum of all Fears, Salt, Showtime TV show' Ray Donavan'
Deaths:
1890
Catherine Booth- co founder of Salvation Army 61
1904
Frederic-Auguste Bartholdi- French sculptor, best known work designing the Statue of Liberty 70
1970
Janis Joplin- rock&blues singer/ songwriter' Pieces of My Heart, me &Bobby McGee' 27{heroin overdose}
1982
Glenn Gould- Canadian classical pianist 50{stroke}
1989
Secretariat- throughbred horse won the Triple Crown in 1973 19
2014
Paul Revere- lead singer/songwriter of 60's band'Paul Revere&The Raiders' 'Kicks, Hungry' 76{cancer}
 
On This Day In History, October 5th

2000 Bulldozer Revolution in the former Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
President Slobodan Milosevic was overthrown after hundreds of thousands of protesters gathered in Belgrade to protest against recently held elections. While largely peaceful, the protesters burnt down the Parliament building. Milosevic resigned and stepped down from his office two days later.

1984 First Canadian to go into space
Marc Garneau flew as the payload specialist on STS-41-G, the 6th flight of NASA’s Space Shuttle Challenger. The flight that launched on this day was also the first space mission to have 2 women - Sally Ride and Kathryn Sullivan.

1969 Monty Python’s Flying Circus makes its debut
The British sketch comedy series lasted for a year on the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). The show was a commentary on daily life in Britain and had several recurring themes and characters played by Eric Idle, Graham Chapman John Cleese, Michael Palin, Terry Gilliam, and Terry Jones. The sketches are often thought to have had a strong influence on television comedy around the world.

1962 James Bond makes his theatrical debut
The fictional British spy with the code name 007 was featured on the big screen for the first time in Dr. No. Based on the 1958 Ian Fleming novel of the same name, the movie starred Sean Connery as James Bond.

1947 First televised presidential speech in the United States
Harry Truman, the 33rd President of the US, called on Americans to use less grain to help Europe which was still reeling from the effects of the Second World War. He asked people to avoid eating meat on Tuesdays and eggs and poultry on Thursdays and to consume 1 less slice of bread every day.
 
Births On This Day, October 5th 🎂

1975 Kate Winslet
English actress, singer

1958 Neil deGrasse Tyson
American astrophysicist

1936 Václav Havel
Czech politician, 1st President of the Czech Republic

1882 Robert H. Goddard
American physicist, inventor

1829 Chester A. Arthur
American politician, 21st President of the United States

Deaths On This Day, October 5th 🪦

2011 Steve Jobs
American businessman, co-founded Apple Inc., Pixar

1941 Louis Brandeis
American jurist

1927 Sam Warner
American film producer co-founded Warner Bros.

1880 Jacques Offenbach
German/French composer

1813 Tecumseh
American tribal leader
 
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