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Births On This Day, October 19th 🎂

1962 Evander Holyfield
American boxer

1958 Michael Steele
American politician, 7th Lieutenant Governor of Maryland

1946 Philip Pullman
English author

1945 John Lithgow
American actor

1944 Peter Tosh
Jamaican singer-songwriter, guitarist

Deaths On This Day, October 19th 🪦

1893 Lucy Stone
American activist

1813 Józef Poniatowski
Polish general

1745 Jonathan Swift
Irish author

1682 Thomas Browne
English author

1216 John, King of England
 

19 October 1812
Indefatigable, the first direct convict transport from Britain to Tasmania arrives in Hobart with 200 convicts.
The transportation of British convicts to Australia came about as a result of the poverty, social injustice, child labour, harsh and dirty living conditions and long working hours that were prevalent in 19th-century Britain.
The Industrial Revolution saw an increase in petty crime due to the displacement of much of the population, leading to pressures on the government to find an alternative to confinement in overcrowded jails.
 
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19 October 1977
The Concorde made its first landing in New York City.
Until that time, The Concorde was banned from landing JFK Airport because of the fear of noise pollution.
Opponents to the aircraft said the the Concorde was the world's noisiest plane and it would go against the trend towards stricter noise standards and quieter airport surrounds.
The High Court ruled to reject the request of the Port Authority that the ban remain.
 
19 October 1967
The American spacecraft Mariner 5 has flew past the planet Venus.
The vision of Venus revealed after Mariner 5's data was analysed was described by Nasa scientists as "a hell-hole".
The planet was revealed as extremely hot and unpleasant, with an atmosphere high in carbon dioxide.
 
19 October 1970
The film Ned Kelly, starring Mick Jagger in the lead role, is released and the critics wasted no time in telling Mick he should stick to singing.
One reviewer wrote: "He looks about as lethal as last week's lettuce."
The movie bombed at the box office.
 
1901
composer, Edward Elgar's 'Pomp&Circumstance March' debuts in Liverpool,Eng
1926
John C.Garand patents semi-automatic rifle
1943
researches at Rutger's Univ in NJ isolated Streptomycin,which is 1st anti-botic remedy for tuberculosis
1990
movie'Dances with Wolves' based on Michael Blake's novel,directed by&starring actor,Kevin Costner is released.The story of a young Civil war soldier,John Dunbar{Costner} who becomes friends with a Sioux Indian tribe becomes one of them.Others in cast, Mary McDonnell, Graham Greene, Rodney E.Grant,Floyd Red Crow Westerman,Tantoo Cardinal. The movie won 7 Oscars inc picture/director{Costner's debut},John Barry's original score. The movie grossed $424.2 mil worldwide. The wolf' 2 Socks' was played by 2 different wolves
 
Oct 19th Birthdays:
1931
John le Carre- English novelist who wrote espionage books 'The Spy who Came in from The Cold, Smiley's People,A Perfect Spy
1932
Robert Reed- actor his 2 best known TV roles,'Kenneth Preston' in courtroom drama' The Defenders, E.G. Marshall played his dad. 'Mike Brady' in ABC sitcom'Brady Bunch',Florence Henderson played his wife' Carol'
1940
Michael Gambon- Irish/English actor 'The Singing Detective', Harry Potter movies, he played' Albus Dumbledore' after Richard Harris died in 2002{he originated the role}
1962
Tracy Chevalier- author' Girl With a Pearl Earring{made into movie starring Colin Firth, Scarlet Johanssen}
A Single Thread,The Lady &The Unicorn, Falling Angels
1977
Jason Reitman- Canadian film maker'Juno,Up in The Air'
Deaths:
1745
Jonathan Swift- Irish author "Gulliver's Travels 77
1978
Gig Young- actor teacher's Pet, They Shoot Horses Don't They,Lovers&Other Strangers 64{suicide}
2010
Tom Bosley-actor best known TV roles 'Howard Cunningham' on ABC sitcom'Happy Days' semi regular character,Sherriff Amos Tupper' in CBS show' Murder She Wrote' 83
 
On This Day In History, October 20th

2011 Muammar Gaddafi is Captured
The deposed leader of Libya, Muammar Gaddafi, is captured by the National Transitional Council Forces. He was killed by the troops soon after.

1982 Luzhniki Disaster
A stampede during a UEFA Cup soccer (football) match between Dutch club Haarlem and the Moscovian football club, Spartak at the Lenin Stadium in Moscow left about 60 people dead.

1973 Sydney Opera House Opens its Doors
The iconic building, which was declared as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO, was designed by Danish architect Jørn Oberg Utzon. Construction on the performing arts center began in March 1959 and cost over $100 million.

1968 Jacqueline Kennedy marries Aristotle Onassis
Former American first lady, Jacqueline Kennedy, married Greek shipping magnate, Aristotle Onassis

1962 War Breaks Out Between India and China
The month-long border dispute began after the Chinese launched a two-pronged attack on the border between the two countries. During the duration of hostilities, China and India did not officially declare war on each other nor cut off any diplomatic ties. The conflict ended with China taking control of Aksai Chin and both countries accepting a de facto border along what is now known as the Line of Control.
 
Births On This Day, October 20th 🎂

1971 Snoop Dogg
American rapper, producer, actor

1958 Viggo Mortensen
American actor

1950 Tom Petty
American singer-songwriter, musician

1931 Mickey Mantle
American baseball player

1859 John Dewey
American philosopher, psychologist

Deaths On This Day, October 20th 🪦

2011 Muammar Gaddafi
Libyan politician, Prime Minister of Libya

1984 Paul Dirac
English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate

1964 Herbert Hoover
American politician, 31st President of the United States

1950 Henry L. Stimson
American statesman, lawyer, politician

1890 Richard Francis Burton
English soldier, geographer, diplomat
 
1917
suffragist, Alice Paul begins her 7th month jail sentence.Her crime she peacefully protested in front of the White House in Washington,DC to support woman's right to vote
1944
U.S. forces under, Gen.Douglas McArthur return to the Phillipines with landing of U.S. Army
1973
U.S. Attorney General,Elliot Richardson,Deputy ATG,William Rucklaus resign after they refused to fire Watergate Special Prosecutor,Archibald Cox. Pres Nixon accepts their resignations,this was later known as the'Saturday Night Massacre'
2019
a Quantis Boeing 787 Dreamliner completes a non stop test flight from NY-Sydney in 19hrs 42min
 
Oct 20th Birthdays:
1890
Jelly Roll Morton-U.S. pioneer jazz pianist
1931
Mickey Mantle- Baseball Hall of Fame outfielder with New York Yankees
1935
Jerry Orbach- multi talented actor Broadway/film/TV He appeared in Broadway shows,'The Fantasticks'60, was the 1st to sing best known song'Try to Remember' other shows,Chicago,42nd St, Promises, Promises. He played Jennifer Grey's father in movie'Dirty Dancing'His best known TV role' Det Lennie Briscoe' in NBC original'Law&Order'
1955
Danny Boyle- British film director- Trainspotting, Slumdog Millionaire
1978
John Krasinski- actor/ writerdirector best known TV role' Jim Halpert' in NBC sitcom'The Office' He co wrote/directed/ starred with his wife, actress,Emily Blunt in movie' A Quiet Place' and sequel
Deaths:
1936
Anne Sullivan- teacher who educated Helen Keller 70
1988
Shiela Scott- British aviator,she completed 1st round the world solo flight by a woman 61
1994
Burt Lancaster- actor' From Here to Eternity, Elmer Gantry, Field of Dreams{played' Doc Graham'} 80
 
On This Day In History, October 21st

2014 Oscar Pistorius Convicted for 5 Years
The South African Paralympic Champion was on trial for the murder of his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp. He was sentenced to a maximum of five years for culpable homicide. He was released on parole for good behavior in October 2015. However, in December 2015, South Africa's Supreme Court of Appeal upgraded the charges to murder and found him guilty of murder.

1983 The 17th General Conference on Weights and Measures Ends
The conference passed a resolution defining a meter as the distance traveled by light in a vacuum during a time interval of about three hundred millionth of a second. Before this, the meter or meter was assigned several different definitions. In 1793, it was defined as one ten-millionth of the distance between the Earth's Equator and the North Pole. In 1960, it was once again redefined by the 11th General Conference of Weights and Measures as equal to “1650763,73 wavelengths in vacuum of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the levels 2p10 and 5d5 of the krypton 86 atom.”

1969 Coup in Somalia
Siad Barre staged a military coup against the government the day after the death of Abdirashid Ali Shermarke, the then-president of Somalia.

1959 The Guggenheim Opens its Doors
The Guggenheim Museum displays works from some of the world’s most celebrated and sought-after contemporary artists. Situated in the Manhattan area of New York, the museum was first opened in 1939 as the Museum of Non-Objective Painting. It was then named the Guggenheim Museum in 1952, after the death of the founder of the foundation that runs it, Solomon R. Guggenheim. The current museum building was designed by American architect Frank Lloyd Wright and was opened to the public on this day.

1943 Provisional Government of Free India Declared by Subhas Chandra Bose
Bose, an exiled Indian nationalist and a key figure in the Indian Independence Movement declared the creation of Azad Hind, or Free India during a mass rally in Singapore. Netaji (leader), as he was fondly called by his followers, was unanimously declared as the Head of State, Prime Minister, and Minister for War of the new government. The government-in-exile did not have any territory to govern until Japan gave them the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, occupied by the Japanese in 1942, to run. A few days later after declaring the existence of Azad Hind, the provisional government joined the Second World War by declaring war on the Allies.
 

Births On This Day, October 21st 🎂

1986 Natalee Holloway
American missing person

1980 Kim Kardashian
American model, actress

1956 Carrie Fisher
American actress, screenwriter, author

1949 Benjamin Netanyahu
Israeli politician, 9th Prime Minister of Israel

1772 Samuel Taylor Coleridge
English poet, philosopher

Deaths On This Day, October 21st 🪦

2014 Gough Whitlam
Australian politician, 21st Prime Minister of Australia

2012 George McGovern
American politician, historian, author

2003 Elliott Smith
American singer-songwriter, guitarist

1969 Jack Kerouac
American author, poet

1805 Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson
English Admiral
 
21 October 1978
I remember this mystery.
Australian pilot Frederick Valentich vanishes in a Cessna 182 over the Bass Strait, after reporting contact with an unidentified aircraft.
A 2013 review of the radio transcripts and other data proposed that the inexperienced Valentich was deceived by the illusion of a tilted horizon for which he attempted to compensate and inadvertently put his aircraft into a downward, so-called "graveyard spiral" which he initially mistook for simple orbiting of the aircraft.
According to the authors, the G-forces of a tightening spiral would decrease fuel flow, resulting in the "rough idling" reported by Valentich.

Ufologists have speculated that extraterrestrials either destroyed Valentich's aircraft or abducted him, asserting that some individuals reported seeing "an erratically moving green light in the sky" and that he was "in a steep dive at the time".
Ufologists believe these accounts are significant because of the "green light" mentioned in Valentich's radio transmissions.
 
21st October

1805 At the Battle of Trafalgar, Nelson gave his famous signal, ‘England expects...’ which flew from the HMS Victory shortly after 11:00 a.m. The British won this important battle against Napoleon’s combined French and Spanish fleets off Cape Trafalgar, south-west of Spain and left Britain's navy unchallenged until the 20th century but Nelson was one of the day’s casualties. Nelson's flagship, Victory is now preserved at Portsmouth.

1958 The first women peers were introduced into the House of Lords.

1960 Britain launched its first nuclear submarine, HMS Dreadnought, at Barrowin-Furness. Launched by Queen Elizabeth II on Trafalgar Day she was commissioned into service with the Royal Navy in April 1963 and continued in service until 1980.

1966 144 people, 116 of them children, were killed in the small Welsh mining village of Aberfan when tons of slush, from a nearby coal slag tip weakened by rain, slid downhill and engulfed the village school, a farm and a row of terraced houses. The tragedy occurred at the beginning of the school day and on the day before the school closed for the half-term holiday. The children are buried in Aberfan's cemetery, on the hillside above the valley.
 
1774
The 1st display of 'Liberty' on a flag was raised by colonists in Taunton,Mass in defiance of British rule in Colonial America
1945
women in France were allowed to vote for the 1st time
1964
movie musical'My Fair Lady' directed by George Cukor is released.The story about Prof Henry Higgins{Rex Harrison,who originated the role on Broadway} who transforms a flower girl,Eliza Doolittle{Audrey Hepburn} into a regal lady to win a bet,other cast members, Stanley Holloway,Wilfrid Hyde-White,Jeremy Brett The movie won 8 Oscars incl picture/director/actor
1977
European Patent Institute is founded, a professional association of European patent attys/international non govt public law corporation
2019
The world's oldest natural pearl 8,000yrs old was discovered during excavations at Marawah Island near Abu Dhabi UAE
 
Oct 21st birthdays:
1772
Samuel Taylor Coleridge- English romantic poet'Rime of the Ancient Marnier'
1833
Alfred Nobel- Swedish chemist who invented dynamite/founder of annual Nobel Prizes
1912
Sir Georg Solti- Hungarian/British conductor of Chicago Symphony '69-'91
1917
Dizzy Gillespie- jazz trumpeter/creator of 'behop&modern jazz
1956
Carrie Fisher- actress/writer best known movie role'Princess Leia' in original 'Star Wars movies.She wrote book'Postcards From The Edge' about a young woman addicted to drugs while trying to get an acting career in the shadow of her famous mother. The movie version'90 starred Meryl Streep, Shirley MacLaine,Gene Hackman,Dennis Quaid. Carrie wrote the screenplay
Deaths:
1969
Jack Kerouac- novelist 'On The Road' 47
2014
Ben Bradlee- U.S. journalist/newspaper exec with Washington Post{during the Watergate scandal} 93
 
On This Day In History, October 22nd

India Launches its First Lunar Mission
The unmanned space probe called Chandrayaan-1 was launched by the Indian Space Research Organisation. The probe successfully landed on the Moon on November 14, 2008, making India the 5th country to land a spacecraft on the Moon.

1957 François Duvalier takes office
François Duvalier, also known as Papa Doc, became the President of Haiti.

1936 End of the Long March in China
The Long March, a 6000-mile journey made by members of the Red Army led by Mao Zedong came to an end. The March was undertaken as a way to escape the Nationalist army of Chiang Kai-shek. The end of the March is also known in China as the “union of the three armies”.

1884 International Meridian Conference Adopts Greenwich, England as the initial longitudinal meridian
26 countries participated in the conference which was held in Washington, D.C. In addition to making the meridian passing through the Observatory of Greenwich as the initial meridian for longitude or 0-degree longitude, the conference also defined a universal day that would “begin for all the world at the moment of mean midnight at the initial meridian, coinciding with the beginning of the civil day and date of that meridian; and is to be counted from zero up to twenty-four hours”.

1797 First Person to Jump With a Parachute
French balloonist André-Jacques Garnerin jumped out of a balloon over Parc Monceau in Paris using a silk parachute that he made himself.
 
Births On This Day, October 22nd 🎂

1973 Ichiro Suzuki
Japanese baseball player

1949 Arsène Wenger
French footballer, manager

1870 Ivan Bunin
Russian author, poet, and Nobel Prize laureate

1844 Louis Riel
Canadian politician

1811 Franz Liszt
Hungarian pianist, composer

Deaths On This Day, October 22nd 🪦

2002 Richard Helms
American diplomat, 8th Director of Central Intelligence

1995 Kingsley Amis
English author, poet, critic

1954 Jibanananda Das
Bengali poet

1906 Paul Cézanne
French painter

741 Charles Martel
Frankish military leader, politician
 
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