Today in History

1867
United States paid $7.2 million to Russia to get formal possession of Alaska
1962
James Watson U.S. molecular biologist and his British collagues,Francis Crik,Maurice Wilkins win Nobel Prize in Medicine for their work in determining the structure of DNA
1992
Toronto Blue Jays become the 1st non-American baseball team to win the World Series,they beat the Atlanta Braves.
They repeated as champions following year beating Philadelphia Phillies
 
18th October

Died today in 1865...Lord Palmerston ('Pam' to the public), twice British prime minister. Renowned for his witty comments, his last words were said to be, "Die my dear doctor? That's the last thing I shall do."
However as with much of his life, his death at Brocket Hall was surrounded by scandal. Rumours spread that he had died seducing a maid on the billiard table. The official line was that he died of a chill.
 

Trade posted his Mom.
Thee are great people wandering through all of our lives, we never took the time to notice until they were gone. Famous? In our lives, yes.
 
1797
The USS Constitution{Old Ironsides} was launched in Boston,Mass
1917
The 1st U.S.Troops enter combat during WW1 near Nancy,France
1959
The Guggenheim Museum which was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright opens in NYC
 
1883 New York's original Metropolitan Opera House has its grand opening with a performance of the opera "Faust"

1836 Sam Houston inaugurated as 1st elected President of the Republic of Texas
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1707 Four British Royal Navy ships ran aground near the Isles of Scilly. Admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovell and more than 1,400 sailors drowned in one of the worst maritime disasters in the history of Britain. It was later determined that the main cause of the disaster was the navigators' inability to accurately calculate their positions.

1910 American born Doctor Hawley Crippen was convicted at the Old Bailey Central Criminal Court in London of poisoning his wife Cora. Crippen was hanged on November 23rd at Pentonville prison.
 
1910
Blanche Scott becomes the 1st woman to make a public solo airplane flight in Fort Wayne,Indiana
1981
U.S. National debt hits $ 1 trillion
1993
Joe Carter,Toronto Blue Jays outfielder ,hits a walk off home run to win the World Series against Philadelphia Phillies
2015
singer,Adele's single,'Hello' becomes the 1st song with more than 1 million downloads in its 1st week,{1.1}
 
October 24th

1895 The birth of Jack Warner OBE, the English film and television actor who is closely associated with the role of PC George Dixon in the BBC television series Dixon of Dock Green, a part he played until the age of eighty.

1908 Emmeline Pankhurst and her daughter Christabel were sent to prison for ‘inciting the public to rush the House of Commons’. Two Cabinet ministers were witnesses for the defence including Lloyd-George, then Chancellor of the Exchequer.

1922 George Cadbury, the English chocolate manufacturer, died aged 83.

1945 The United Nations was formed with the aim to 'save succeeding generations from the scourge of war.'(That worked well!)

1961 Malta was granted independence from Britain.

1969 British actor Richard Burton bought his wife, American actress Elizabeth Taylor, a 69.42 carat diamond costing more than half a million pounds. Born at Pontrhydyfen, this Richard Burton sculpture (see ©BB picture) is on the Richard Burton Trail in the Afan Forest Park in Neath - Port Talbot
And it,s my sisters 56th birthday...
 


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