Today in History

6th October 1961
President John F. Kennedy advises American families to build bomb shelters to protect them from atomic fallout in the event of a nuclear war.
Many Americans did prepare for nuclear war by buying up canned goods and building backyard bomb shelters.
Also at the time many home builders offered a bomb shelter as part of new home packages.
 

6th October 1966
The hallucinogenic drug LSD is declared illegal in the United States. LSD is a Schedule I drug making it illegal to manufacture, buy, possess, process or distribute LSD without a DEA license.
 

On This Day In History, October 7th


2001 War in Afghanistan begins
American and British troops began air strikes against Al Qaeda and Taliban targets after the Taliban refused to hand over Osama bin Laden, the mastermind of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, and other Al Qaeda operatives, to the United States. Nicknamed Operation Enduring Freedom, the military strikes were part of the so-called Global War on Terror.

1996 Fox News broadcasts for the first time
The 24-hour news channel with the slogan Fair and Balanced was created by Australian-American businessman and media tycoon, Rupert Murdoch. Today, it is one of the most-watched news channels in the United States.

1959 People on Earth Get the First Glimpse of the Dark Side of the Moon
Soviet spacecraft Luna 3 took pictures of the far side of the Moon. The images sent by the probe covered about 70% of the far side of Earth’s natural satellite and they were instrumental in helping astronomers make the first atlas of the dark side of the Moon. The far or dark side of the Moon is the side of the Moon that cannot be seen from Earth because of the way the Moon orbits around the Earth and rotates on its own axis. Due to lunar libration, people on Earth can see about 59% of the Moon over time.

1944 Auschwitz-Birkenau Sonderkommando Revolt
The short-lived rebellion was staged by prisoners who worked at a crematorium after they learned that the Nazis planned to execute most of the squad. The revolt was quickly put down, and over 450 people were killed.

1919 KLM is formed
The official airline of the Netherlands, Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij N.V., or KLM, is the oldest airline that still operates under its original name. The first flight of the airline took place on May 17, 1920, between London and Amsterdam in a leased airplane.
 
Births On This Day, October 7th 🎂

1982 Jermain Defoe
English footballer

1967 Toni Braxton
American singer-songwriter, producer, actress

1952 Vladimir Putin
Russian politician, 4th President of Russia

1931 Desmond Tutu
South African archbishop, activist, Nobel Prize laureate

1885 Niels Bohr
Danish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate

Deaths On This Day, October 7th 🪦

2012 Heriberto Lazcano Lazcano
Mexican drug lord

1896 Emma Darwin
English wife of Charles Darwin

1849 Edgar Allan Poe
American author, poet

1792 George Mason
American politician

1708 Guru Gobind Singh
Indian guru
 
7th October 1938
Judy Garland records what will prove to be her signature song, "Over the Rainbow" on the MGM soundstage in Beverly Hills, California.
She would perform the number during her live appearances for thirty years, exactly as she had sung it for the film.
 
7th October 1955
Jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald, trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie, and a handful of others were arrested by police backstage at The Music Hall in Houston, Texas. The group were registered and fined on charges of gambling, but many believed that the true motivation behind the arrests was the police department's unwillingness to accept new laws that allowed Black and White people to mix at events.
 
7th October 2005
Culture Club vocalist Boy George was arrested on suspicion of possessing drugs and making a false police report after he called the emergency service number and said his home had been burglarized.
Officers arrived on the scene and discovered a small amount of cocaine next to a computer.

(Wow, he must of been out of his mind on Cocaine)
 
1806
London inventor, Ralph Wedgwood patents his invention, carbon paper
1915
British nurse, Edith Cavell& 34 others were sentenced to death by a German court for running an underground network to free Allied soldiers
1952
debut of 'American Bandstand' is broadcast in Philadelphia, Dick Clark would join the show in 1955 as a substitute host
1971
movie' The French Connection' directed by William Fredkin is released. The story of 2 NYC detectives,{Gene Hackman, Roy Schneider} who try to stop an international heroin ring coming into NYC. The movie had one of the most exciting car chase scenes ever filmed. The movie won 5 Oscars inc picture/director,actor Hackman his 1st Oscar. He was known for doing his own stunts in the movies he appeared in,he did some of the driving in that car chase scene
1991
law professor, Anita Hill acccuses Supreme Court nominee, Clarence Thomas of making sexually inappropiate comments to her
2003
actor turned politican, Arnold Schwarzenegger becomes California's Governor from 2003-2011
2008
music podcast&video streaming service, Spotify is launched by Daniel Ek& Martin Lornetzor
 
This Day In History, October 9th

2012 Assassination Attempt on Malala Yousafzai
The Pakistani education activist was shot at and injured while going back home from school. Malala survived the attack and has since gone on to become one of the leading voices for the education of girls in the world. In 2014, at the age of 17, she received the Nobel Peace Prize along with Kailash Satyarthi, making her the youngest recipient of the prestigious award.

1986 Phantom of Opera makes its theatrical debut
The musical written by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Richard Stilgoe opened at Her Majesty's Theatre in London’s West End. The plot of the musical was inspired by French author Gaston Leroux's novel Le Fantôme de l'Opéra, which follows the life of Erik or the Phantom, a disfigured musical genius. The musical is the longest-running show on Broadway.

1970 Khmer Republic established
The Khmer Republic was formally established under the leadership of General Lon Nol and Prince Sisowath Sirik Matak. These two leaders took power earlier in took power in a coup against Prince Norodom Sihanouk

1962 Ugandan independence
Uganda gained independence from British rule. The country had become a British protectorate in 1894, 32 years after the first European, British John Hanning Speke set foot in the country. Milton Obote became the first prime minister of an independent Uganda.

1874 General Postal Union Created
The precursor the Universal Postal Union, a specialized agency of the United Nations, was formed after 22 countries signed the Treaty of Bern. The treaty regulated international mail and postage. 4 years later, in 1878, the union changed its name to the Universal Postal Union to reflect the growing international membership of the group.
 

Births On This Day, October 9th 🎂

1970 Annika Sörenstam
Swedish golfer

1969 PJ Harvey
English singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer

1966 David Cameron
English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

1940 John Lennon
English singer-songwriter, musician, producer

1888 Nikolai Bukharin
Russian politician

Deaths On This Day, October 9th 🪦

2004 Jacques Derrida
French philosopher

1978 Jacques Brel
Belgian singer-songwriter, actor

1974 Oskar Schindler
Czech/German businessman

1967 Che Guevara
Argentine/Cuban physician, author, intellectual, diplomat, theorist

1958 Pope Pius XII
 
9th October

1779 The first 'Luddite' riots broke out in a lace factory in Loughborough as workers protested against labour-saving machinery which was likely to make them redundant. Similar riots begin at a spinning cotton factory in Manchester. The Luddites were named after ‘General Ned Ludd’ or ‘King Ludd’, a mythical figure who lived in Sherwood Forest and supposedly led the movement.

1799 The sinking of HMS Lutine off the coast of Holland, with the loss of 240 men. The ship's bell was salvaged from the wreck and was later presented to shipping insurers Lloyds of London. The Lutine Bell has been rung ever since to mark a marine disaster.

1897 The first person to drive from Land’s End to John O’Groats completed his journey on this day. John James Henry Sturmey (1857-1930), known as Henry Sturmey, is best known as the joint inventor with William Archer of the Sturmey-Archer three-speed hub for bicycles. He was also a technical editor and journalist heavily involved as a pioneer of the cycling and automotive industries. Sturmey invested heavily in and became closely associated with Daimler as a director and deputy chairman of the company, and he used a Daimler on his 929 mile journey which took 10 days to complete.
 
On This Day In History, October 10th

2010 The Country of Netherlands Antilles is Dissolved
The Caribbean Dutch dependency, also sometimes known as the Dutch Antilles, was formed in 1954. The dissolution came after a series of referendums to become independent states within the Kingdom of the Netherlands were passed on the Islands of Curaçao, St Maarten, Bonaire, and Saba.

1970 Fijian independence
The South Pacific Ocean island country had been ruled by the British since 1874. Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara became the first prime minister of independent Fiji.

1967 Outer Space Treaty is Enforced
Also known as the Treaty on Principles Governing the Activities of States in the Exploration and Use of Outer Space, including the Moon and Other Celestial Bodies, it regulated the exploration and use of outer space and created the field of international space law. The treaty declared that outer space and all celestial bodies were the common heritage of mankind and could not be claimed by any one nation.

1964 The Tokyo Summer Olympics Begin
93 countries participated in the first Olympics to be held in Asia. As a tribute to the horrors of the Second World War, Yoshinori Sakai, who was born in Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, the day an atomic bomb destroyed the city, was chosen as the torchbearer to light the Olympic flame during the opening. The Tokyo Olympics was also the first Olympic Games that used satellites - Syncom 3 in the United States and Relay 1 in Europe - to telecast the games. Some of the games were also broadcast in color for the first time.

1933 United Airlines Boeing 247 explosion
In one of the oldest unsolved cases in aviation history, the airplane which was flying from Newark, New Jersey to Oakland California exploded mid-air and crashed near Chesterton, Indiana. All 7 passengers and crew members died in the incident. To this day, it is not known what and who caused the explosion.
 
Births On This Day, October 10th 🎂

1979 Mýa
American singer-songwriter, producer, dancer, actress

1969 Brett Favre
American football player

1930 Harold Pinter
English playwright, screenwriter, director, actor, Nobel Prize laureate

1861 Fridtjof Nansen
Norwegian explorer, scientist, diplomat, humanitarian, Nobel Prize laureate

1813 Giuseppe Verdi
Italian composer

Deaths On This Day, October 10th 🪦

2010 Solomon Burke
American singer-songwriter

2009 Stephen Gately
Irish singer-songwriter, dancer, actor

2004 Christopher Reeve
American actor

1985 Orson Welles
American actor, director, producer, screenwriter

1875 Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy
Russian poet, author, playwright
 
On This Day In History, October 11th

2000 100th Mission of NASA’s Space Shuttle Program
Also known as the Space Transportation System or STS, the program was the first in the world to employ reusable spacecraft to take people into outer space. The first flight of the space shuttle fleet, which included Columbia, Challenger, Discovery, Atlantis, and Endeavour took place on April 12, 1981. The 100th flight was on space shuttle Discovery and the mission was designated STS-92. It was the 30th time Discovery had flown into space.

1984 First American Woman to walk in Space
Kathryn Dwyer Sullivan undertook a 3.5-hour long spacewalk with fellow astronaut David Leestma while on the Space Shuttle Challenger mission STS-41-G. The spacewalk was performed to demonstrate the possibility of refueling a satellite. STS-41-G was the first flight mission to carry two women astronauts - Sullivan and Sally Ride.

1975 The First Episode of Saturday Night Live Airs
A popular sketch comedy show, SNL, as it is popularly known, was initially called NBC's Saturday Night, and it was created and produced by Lorne Michaels. The original cast members of the show, which usually opens with the slogan “Live from New York, it's Saturday Night!”, included Dan Aykroyd, John Belushi, and Chevy Chase.

1911 Wuchang Uprising
The Wuchang Uprising occurred in Wuchang, China, leading to the fall of the Qing dynasty and the establishment of the Republic of China. This day is celebrated as an important holiday in Taiwan.

1899 Second Boer War Begins
The almost 3-year long conflict was fought between British and Irish troops and the Boers from the Transvaal and Orange Free State. The war began as a result of disagreements between the two sides over the ownership of gold and diamond mines in the region. The two countries were annexed by the British at the end of the war in May 1902. The word Boer is the Afrikaans word for farmer and it was used at that time to refer to Afrikaans-speaking settlers in the region.
 

Births On This Day, October 11th 🎂

1989 Michelle Wie
American golfer

1942 Amitabh Bachchan
Indian actor

1937 Bobby Charlton
English footballer

1884 Eleanor Roosevelt
American politician, humanitarian, 34th First Lady of the United States

1739 Grigory Potemkin
Russian military leader, politician

Deaths On This Day, October 11th 🪦

2008 Jörg Haider
Austrian politician, Governor of Carinthia

2004 Keith Miller
Australian cricketer, pilot

1963 Édith Piaf
French singer-songwriter, actress

1896 Anton Bruckner
Austrian composer

1531 Huldrych Zwingli
Swiss pastor, theologian
 
11th October

1216 King John lost his crown and jewels whilst crossing 'The Wash', on the north-west margin of East Anglia. As recounted by the chronicler Roger of Wendover: “… in crossing the river Wellester, he lost all his carts, waggons, and baggage horses, together with his money, costly vessels, and everything which he had a particular regard for; for the land opened in the middle of the water and caused whirlpools which sucked in every thing, as well as men and horses, so that no one escaped to tell the king of the misfortune. He himself narrowly escaped with his army” Different chroniclers record the story to varying degrees, but it has usually been suggested that amongst John’s lost belongings were the English Crown Jewels.

1521 Pope Leo X conferred the title of 'Defender of the Faith' (Fidei Defensor) on England's Henry VIII for his book supporting Catholic principles.

1899 The start of the Boer War between the British Empire and the Republics of the Orange Free State and the Transvaal in southern Africa.The war began on October 11 1899, following a Boer ultimatum that the British should cease building up their forces in the region. The Boers had refused to grant political rights to non-Boer settlers, known as Uitlanders, most of whom were British, or to grant civil rights to Africans.

1919 The first airline meals were served on a Handley-Page flight from London to Paris. The first meal served on a regular passenger aircraft was a pre-packed lunchbox consisting of sandwiches and fruit, served by "cabin boys" for three shillings.

1982 The Mary Rose, which had been the pride of Henry VIII's English fleet until it sank in the Solent in 1545, was raised, by the Mary Rose Trust. It was one of the most complex and expensive projects in the history of maritime archaeology. She was one of the largest ships in the English navy and was one of the earliest examples of a purpose-built sailing warship. Since the mid-1980s, the hull of the Mary Rose has been kept in a covered dry dock in Portsmouth whilst undergoing conservation.
 
1911
The 1st Major League Baseball MVPS{Most Valuable PLayers} were given to Ty Cobb{ American League} Frank Schulte{National League} the prize was a car
1929
JC Penney opened a store in Mildford, Delaware making it a nationwide company with stores in all 48 states
1950
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission{FCC} issued its 1st license to broadcast in color to CBS
1975
Saturday Night LIve{SNL} a late night sketch comedy show created by Lorne MIchaels debuts on NBC at 11:30pm with comedian, George Carlin as the shows 1st host. The cast known as 'Not Ready For Primetime PLayers' were Chevy Chase{he left after the 1st yr}, Jane Curtin, JOhn Belushi, Dan Aykroyd,Gilda Radner, Laraine Newman, and Garrett Morris
 
12 October 1955
The Chrysler Corporation introduces high fidelity record players for their 1956 line-up of cars.
The unit measured about four inches high and less than a foot wide and mounted under the instrument panel.
The Chrysler Corporation introduces high fidelity record players for their 1956 line-up of cars.
The seven inch discs spun at 16 2/3 rpm and required almost three times the number of grooves per inch as an LP.
A set of 35 classical recordings were available that provided between 45 and 60 minutes of uninterrupted music.
The players would be discontinued in 1961.
 
On This Day In History, October 13th

2012 Mauritanian President injured
Mauritanian President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz was shot at and injured. Official reports suggest that he was mistakenly shot by the military.

2010 Chilean Miners Rescued
The last of the miners trapped in the San José copper–gold mine in Copiapó, Chile, were rescued after 69 days. The ordeal began on August 5, 2010, when the walls of the 121-year-old mine collapsed and trapped 33 miners. All of the miners were rescued safely by the Chilean government with the help of the international community.

1958 Paddington Bear Makes His Debut
The popular children’s literature character first appeared in English author Michael Bond's illustrated book, A Bear Called Paddington. Paddington is a polite Peruvian spectacle bear with a special fondness for marmalade. The success of the first book was followed by 20 more books featuring the lovable bear and a successful toy franchise.

1792 Construction of the White House Begins
The office and residence of the President of the United States was designed by Irish architect James Hoban. It took 8 years for it to become livable and President John Adams became the first president to occupy the building on November 1, 1800

1773 First Spiral Galaxy Discovered
French astronomer, Charles Messier, discovered the Whirlpool Galaxy. Also known as Messier 51a, the galaxy is about 30 million light-years from Earth. A spiral galaxy is a type of galaxy where stars, gasses, and other cosmic dust particles rotate or revolve in a spiral around a central bulge. Astronomers think that the bulge consists of a black hole.
 
Births On This Day, October 13 🎂

1982 Ian Thorpe
Australian swimmer

1973 Matt Hughes
American mixed martial artist

1971 Sacha Baron Cohen
English comedian, actor, screenwriter

1941 Paul Simon
American singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer

1925 Margaret Thatcher
English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom came the first president to occupy the building on November 1, 1800.

Deaths On This Day, October 13th 🪦

1987 Kishore Kumar
Indian singer, actor

1911 Sister Nivedita
Irish social worker, author, teacher

1812 Isaac Brock
English army officer

1282 Nichiren
Japanese monk

54 Claudius
Roman Emperor
 
On This Day In History, October 14th

1994 Two Israelis and a Palestinian Share the Nobel Peace Prize
The Israeli Prime Minister, Yitzhak Rabin and Foreign Minister, Shimon Peres shared the Nobel Peace Prize, which is annually awarded by the Norwegian Nobel Committee based in Oslo, with the President of the Palestinian National Authority, Yasser Arafat. The Award was given out to the two parties for their efforts and work on the Oslo Accords, a series of agreements between the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) and Israel. The Accords created the Palestinian Authority and made it the official governing body to interact with Israel on issues that affect the lives of Palestinians in Israel.

1984 Joseph Kittinger Starts on his Solo Gas Balloon Flight Across the Atlantic
4 days later, on September 18, Kittinger became the first person to traverse the Atlantic in a balloon called the Balloon of Peace. As a member of the US Armed Forces, Kittinger jumped from a height of 102,800 feet on August 16, 1960, becoming the first person in ever to jump from that height.

1947 First Human to Fly Faster than the Speed of Sound
American Air Force test pilot, Chuck Yeager, flew the Bell X-1, an experimental aircraft at Mach 1.07 at an altitude of 45,000 ft. In doing so, he became the first person to break the sound barrier.

1913 Senghenydd Colliery Disaster
In what is considered to be one of the worst mine disasters in recorded history, 440 people were killed when an explosion ripped through the Senghenydd coal mine in Wales.

1926 Winnie-the-Pooh Makes his Literary Debut
The popular children’s book character was created by British author A.A. Milne and first appeared in a collection of short stories called Winnie-the-Pooh. Winnie, a teddy bear, lives in Ashdown Forest, Sussex, England. The book follows his adventures in the forest with his friends Piglet, Owl, Rabbit, and Eeyore.

Winnie and The Queen
 
Births On This Day, October 14th 🎂

1978 Usher
American singer-songwriter, dancer, actor

1930 Mobutu Sese Seko
Congolese politician, President of Zaire

1906 Hannah Arendt
German/American theorist, philosopher

1644 William Penn
English businessman, founder of Pennsylvania

1542 Akbar
Mughal Emperor

Deaths On This Day, October 14th 🪦

2012 Arlen Specter
American politician

1990 Leonard Bernstein
American conductor, pianist, composer

1977 Bing Crosby
American singer, actor

1959 Errol Flynn
Australian actor

1944 Erwin Rommel
German field marshal
 
October 13th - 248th Birthday of the U.S. Navy.

"A 13 October 1775 resolution of the Continental Congress established what is now the United States Navy with 'a swift sailing vessel, to carry ten carriage guns, and a proportionable number of swivels, with eighty men, be fitted, with all possible despatch, for a cruise of three months….'"
usna.edu
 

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