Today in History

Births On This Day, October 26th 🎂

1973 Seth MacFarlane
American animator, voice actor, singer

1959 Evo Morales
Bolivian politician, 80th President of Bolivia

1947 Hillary Clinton
American politician, 67th United States Secretary of State, 44th First Lady of the United States

1919 Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
Shah of Iran

1916 François Mitterrand
French politician, 21st President of France

Deaths On This Day, October 26th 🪦

1979 Park Chung-hee
Korean general, politician, 3rd President of South Korea

1952 Hattie McDaniel
American actress

1944 Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom
1902 Elizabeth Cady Stanton
American activist

899 Alfred the Great
English king
 

1858
Hamilton Smith patents rotary washing machine in Pittsburgh, PA
1916
nurse/ sex educator, Margaret Sanger is arrested for obscenity{ advocating birth control} She opened a birth control clinic in Brooklyn,NY She served 30 days in jail
1950
Catholic missionary nun,Mother Teresa opens Missionaries of Charity in Calcutta, India
1988
Operation Breakthrough' a joint U.S- Russian effort to free 3 Grey Whales who were stuck in ice packed Artic near Barrow,Alaska,holes were cut to allow the whales to breathe.One whale did not survive,the other two were freed
2017
oldest known tsumani victim,6,000 yrs old was discovered by scientists due to sediment near Aitape,Papua New Guinea
 
Oct 26th Birthdays:
1942
Bob Hoskins- British actor' Long ,Good Friday, Who Framed Roger Rabbit,Neverland
1945
Pat Conroy- novelist 'Prince of Tides, The Great Santini
1953
Lauren Tewes- actress, best known TV role' Julie 'on ABC show' The Love Boat'
1962
Cary Elwes-British actor' Princess Bride, Twister, Glory
1967
Keith Urban- Australian country singer/ songwriter' Somebody Like You,The Fighter,he's married to actress Nichole Kidman
Deaths:
1902
Elizabeth Cady Stanton- womens rights activist 86
1952
Hattie MacDaniel- actress became the 1st Africian-American to win best supporting actress Oscar for her role in movie' Gone With the Wind' 57
1990
William S.Paley Pres/CEO of CBS Network '28-'90 89{heart attack}
1999
Hoyt Axton- singer/ songwriter 'Joy to the World, No,NO Song, I've Never Been to Spain 61{heart attack}
2019
Robert Evans- film producer 'Love Story, Chinatown 89
 
On This Day In History, October 27th

1999 Shooting in the Armenian Parliament
8 people, including the country’s prime minister, Vazgen Sargsyan, and Speaker Karen Demirchyan, were killed when armed gunmen shot at the members of the Armenian National Assembly. The gunmen claimed that they were there to carry out a coup and that the prime minister was their target. The siege ended after the Armenian troops surrounded the parliament building and the gunmen surrendered.

1991 Turkmenistan Declares Independence from the Soviet Union
The Central Asian country had been a separate republic of the USSR since 1925. Saparmurat Niyazov, the head of the country under the Soviets, continued ruling the country under the title of President for Life until his death in 2006. The day is annually celebrated in the country as Independence Day.

1904 New York City Subway Begins Operations
The oldest underground subway system in the United States, construction of the transit system began in 1902. Today, the NYC subway is one of the world’s largest and most used rapid transit systems in the world.

1838 State of Missouri Passes the Extermination Order
Governor Lilburn Boggs signed Missouri Executive Order 44 as a result of the Battle of Crooked River which took place a few days earlier on October 24-25. The fight occurred between Mormon forces and a Missouri state militia and it resulted in 4 fatalities. The executive order ruled that ‘all Mormons were to be treated as enemies and that they must be exterminated or driven out of the state for the public peace.' The order forced members of the Church of Latter-Day Saints to migrate from Missouri to Illinois.

1682 City of Philadelphia Founded
The historical city in the State of Pennsylvania was founded by English entrepreneur, William Penn. Penn received the land as a payment to fulfill a debt that King Charles II owed to Penn’s father. Philadelphia is the only UNESCO-declared World Heritage City in the United States and it was temporarily the capital of the United States in the 1800s.
 
Births On This Day, October 27th 🎂

1984 Irfan Pathan
Indian cricketer

1952 Francis Fukuyama
American philosopher

1932 Sylvia Plath
American poet

1920 K. R. Narayanan
Indian politician, 10th President of India

1858 Theodore Roosevelt
American politician, 26th President of the United States, Nobel Prize laureate

Deaths On This Day, October 27th 🪦

2013 Lou Reed
American singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer

1975 Rex Stout
American author

1605 Akbar
Mughal Emperor

1553 Michael Servetus
Spanish theologian, physician, cartographer

939 Æthelstan
English king
 
1925
Fred Waller, a snow skiing/boat enthusiast patents water skiis
1975
covers of both Newsweek,Time Magazines feature singer/ songwriter,Bruce Springsteen
1988
movie ET: Extra Terrestrial is released on home video, 14 million were pre sold
1995
movie' Leaving Las Vegas' based on novel by John O'Brien directed by Mike Figgis is released. The story of a alcoholic who loses his family because of his addiction,moves to Las Vegas where he intends to drink himself to death. He has a romantic relationship with a local prostitute It stars Nicholas Cage, Elizabeth Shue, Julian Sands,Richard Lewis. Cage won Best Actor Oscar
2019
actor, Wes Studi receives honorary Oscar, he becomes the 1st native american to receive the award. He is of Cherokee descent, has appeared in movies' Dances with Wolves,The Last of the Mohicans In an statement the Academy said they chose him for 'portraying strong Native American characters with poignancy,authencity'
 
Oct 27th Birthdays:
1811
Isaac Singer inventor of sewing machine
1911
Leif Erickson- actor' On the Waterfront', best known TV role' Big John Cannon' in NBC western' The High Chaparral '67-'71
1939
John Cleese- British actor/ comedian' Monty Python Movies, A Fish Called Wanda
1947
Terry Anderson- U.S. journalist who was held hostage in Lebanon from '85-'91
Deaths:
1973
Rocky Lane- U. S. western cowboy, was the voice of talking horse' Mr Ed' in sitcom of same name 64
2013
Lou Reed singer/ songwriter with 'Velvet Underground' 71
 
On This Day In History, October 28th

2007 Argentina Elects its First Female President
Former First Lady of Argentina, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, won the elections with over 45% of all votes cast. She was re-elected to the office again in 2011, this time with over 50% of the votes cast. Kirchner was not the first woman to serve as Argentina’s president, but she was the first one to be elected. Isabel Martínez de Perón served as the country’s head of state after her husband, President Juan Perón, died in office. When she was sworn in to replace her husband on July 1, 1974, she then became the first woman to be a president of any country to date.

1995 Fire Breaks Out between Two Metro Stations in Baku
Thought to be one of the deadliest subway disasters in history, the fire started as a result of old and faulty wiring. Over 300 people traveling in a train between Ulduz and Narimanov stations in Azerbaijan’s capital city were killed as smoke filled the subway tunnels.

1938 Germany expels Polish Jews
Germany expelled about 17000 Polish Jews and sent them to Poland which refused to take them in.

1919 US Congress Passes the Volstead Act
The act enumerated ways to enforce Prohibition. Prohibition was put in place in the country by the 18th Amendment to the Constitution. The amendment made it illegal to produce, sell, or transport alcohol in the US except for medical or religious purposes. The act was named after Andrew Volstead, the Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee who was one of the sponsors of the bill. Prohibition ended with the ratification of the 21st Amendment in December 1933.

1918 Czechoslovakia Gains Independence
The Central European country had been a part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire since the late 1700s. At the end of the First World War, with the end of the Empire on the horizon, nationalists under the leadership of Thomas Masaryk pushed for independence. Masaryk became the country’s first president in November 1918. On January 1, 1993, Czechoslovakia peacefully broke up into two countries – the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic.
 
Births On This Day, October 28th 🎂

1974 Joaquin Phoenix
American actor

1967 Julia Roberts
American actress

1956 Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Iranian politician, 6th President of Iran

1955 Bill Gates
American businessman co-founded Microsoft

1914 Jonas Salk
American biologist, physician

Deaths On This Day, October 28th 🪦

1998 Ted Hughes
English poet

1929 Bernhard von Bülow
German politician, Chancellor of Germany

1900 Friedrich Max Müller
German philologist, orientalist

1708 Prince George of Denmark

1704 John Locke
English philosopher, physician
 
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Holidays on This Day, October 28th 🍹🌴

Establishment of the Independent Czecho-Slovak State- Slovakia

Independent Czechoslovak State Day- Czechia

Nevada Day- USA

Ochi Day- Cyprus

Public Service Holiday- Brazil
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Ochi Day - Cyprus -
It didn't happen just in Cyprus, all of Greece was affected - "Ohi" means "NO" in Greek. On October 28, 1940, Metaxas, the prime minister of Greece rejected (said "Ochi") Italian dictator Mussolini from having Axis forces entering Greece, and war ensued. Thus, Greece entered World War II. "Ohi" Day is celebrated by Greeks on the 28th of October. Greek Americans even celebrate it in the US. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ohi_Day
 
28th October


1664 Formed in the reign of King Charles II on October 28, 1664 as the Duke of York and Albany's Maritime Regiment of Foot (or Admiral's Regiment), the name Marines first appeared in the records in 1672 and in 1802 they were titled the Royal Marines by King George III.

1831 English physicist Michael Faraday demonstrated the dynamo, founding the science of electro-magnetism.

1893 HMS Havock, the Royal Navy's first destroyer, went on trials.

1958 The State Opening of Parliament was televised for the first time.

2014 105 year old Sir Nicholas Winton, who saved 669 children, most of them Jews, from the Nazis was awarded the Czech Republic's highest state honour, the Order of the White Lion. He was aged 29 when he arranged trains to take the children out of occupied Czechoslovakia and for foster families to meet them in London.
 

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