Today in History

Sept 28th
1924
The 1st around the world flight was completed by 2 U.S. Army planes.They took off from Seattle,Washington,returned 175 days later,making 57 stops
1955
The 1st World Series televised in color was aired on NBC featuring NY Yankees vs Brooklyn Dodgers
1968
The Beatles single'Hey Jude' goes to #1 on Billboard Charts,stays there for 9 weeks
 

28th September

1745 At the Drury Lane Theatre, London, God Save the King, the national anthem, was sung for the first time. The score used was prepared by Thomas Augustine Arne (1710-1778) leader of the orchestra and composer of Rule Britannia.

1864 'The First International' was founded in London, when Karl Marx proposed the formation of an International Working Men's Association.

1865 Elizabeth Garrett Anderson became the first qualified woman physician in Britain.

1884 Simon Marks, a Polish immigrant, and Yorkshireman Tom Spencer opened their Penny Bazaar in Leeds, setting the foundations for the Marks and Spencer chain.
 
Sept 29th
1907
The construction of the Washington National Cathedral in Washington,DC begins,was completed in 1990
1916
American oil industralist,JOhn D.Rockefeller becomes the world's 1st billionaire
1982
Tylenol capsules laced with cyonide kill 7 people in Chicago
1986
CBS sitcom'Designing Women' '86-'93 debuts The show is about 4 outspoken Southern women who run a interior decorating business in Atlanta called'Sugarbakers' The cast members:
Dixie Carter'Julia Sugarbaker' is the owner,Delta Burke'Suzanne' plays her sister,Jean Smart'Charlene',business manager,Annie Potts'Mary Jo' recent divorcee/friend
 

29th September

1650 Henry Robinson opened the first marriage bureau, in England.

1793 Tennis was mentioned for the first time in an English sporting magazine.

1829 The Metropolitan Police of London, later also known as the Met. was inaugurated and was London's first regular police force, The officers became known as 'bobbies' after Robert Peel, the home secretary who founded the modern police force.

1885 The first practical, public electric tramway in the world was opened in Blackpool.
 
Sept 30th
1898
New York City was established
1946
22 Nazi leaders including Hermann Goering were found guilty of war crimes,sentenced to death or prison at Neumberg War Trails. Goering who was sentenced to death,committed suicide the night before his sentence was to be carried out
1955
actor James Dean was killed in car crash,he was 24
 
30th September

1630 John Billington, one of the original pilgrims who sailed to the New World on the Mayflower, became the first man executed in the English colonies. He was hanged for having shot another man during a quarrel.

1788 Lord Raglan, British field-marshal was born. He lost his arm in battle, thus giving his name to a design of sleeve.

1840 The foundation stone for Nelson's Column was laid in Trafalgar Square.

1936 Pinewood Film Studios opened near Iver, in Buckinghamshire, to provide Britain with a film studio to compete with America's Hollywood Studios in California.
 
Oct 1st
1800
Spain cedes Louisana to France in a secret treaty
1868
'Little Women' by Louisa May Alcott published
1957
1st appearance of 'In God We Trust' on U.S. paper currency
1982
EPCOT Center opens in Orlando,Fla
 
1st October

959 Edgar the Peaceable became king of all England. 'The Peaceable', was not necessarily a comment on the deeds of his life, for he was a strong leader, shown by his seizure of the Northumbrian and Mercian kingdoms from his older brother. His reign though, was a remarkably peaceable one, thanks to draconian laws that involved having one's tongue ripped out, at best, for stealing an apple. Edgar died on 8th July 975 at Winchester in Hampshire.

1957 A vaccine against the strain of influenza that had been sweeping around the world was made available to the British public.

1974 The first McDonalds restaurant opened in London.

1993 RAC patrolman Mervyn Jacobs was called out to jump start a minesweeper. It was not a problem for him. He just ran a 50 foot lead from his van!
 
Oct 2nd
1866
JS Osterhoudt patents tin can with key opener
1902
Beatrix Potter's book'The Tales of Peter Rabbit' is published
1967
Thurgood Marshall is sworn in as 1st black Supreme Court Justice
2016
legendary sportscaster,Vin Scully calls his last Major League Baseball game,LA Dodgers vs San Francisco Giants after a record 67 seasons Dodgers lost 7-1
 
2nd October
1901 The Royal Navy's first submarine, built by Vickers, was launched at Barrow-in-Furness. Admiral Sir Arthur Wilson, the then head of the Royal Navy, described it as "underhand, unfair and damned un-English."

1925 London's first red buses with roofed-in upper decks went into service, but they had been in use in Widnes, Cheshire, since 1909.

1925 John Logie Baird (Scottish born engineer born at Helensburgh) performed the first test of a working television system. Although Baird's electromechanical system was eventually displaced by purely electronic systems, his early successes earned him a prominent place in television's invention.
 
Oct 3rd
1863
Pres Lincoln designates the last Thurs in Nov as Thanksgiving Day
1960
CBS classic sitcom'The Andy Griffith Show' '60-'68 debuts
The show is about widower&sheriff Andy Taylor'{Andy Griffith} who lives in small North Carolina town,Mayberry with his young son'Opie"{Ron Howard}.He is helped by his deputy&cousin'BarneyFife'{Don Knotts}. Andy &Opie live with his "Aunt Bee"{Frances Bavier} Ron Howard is the remaining cast member still with us
2018
At an auction in Edinburgh Scotland,the most expensive whiskey'Macallan Valerio Adami 1926 sold for $1.1 million
 
3rd October

1283 Dafydd ap Gruffydd, Prince of Gwynedd and the last independent ruler of Wales, became the first nobleman to be executed by being hanged, drawn and quartered; for plotting the death of King Edward I.

1952 Britain's first atomic bomb was detonated on the Monte Bello Islands, off W. Australia.

1952 News of the end of tea rationing meant the prospect of unlimited 'cuppas' for the first time in 12 years.

1956 The Bolshoi Ballet performed in Britain, at Covent Garden, for the first time.
 
Oct 4th
1883
The Orient Express leaves on its 1st journey from Paris to Istanbul
1957
classic sitcom'Leave It To Beaver' '57-'63 debuts on CBS,then moved to ABC
The show is about a middle class family"The Cleavers',Ward[Hugh Beaumont},his wife June{Barbara Billingsley} their 2 sons ,"Wally"{Tony Dow} younger brother,Theodore'Beaver'{Jerry Mathers}. Wally's friends were 'Eddie{Ken Osmond},'Lumpy {Frank Bank} Beaver's friends "Larry{Rusty Stevens},Whitey{Stanley Fafara},Gilbert{Stephen Talbot} Eddie was a bully to the younger kids a smart aleck around the adults Tony Dow,Jerry Mathers still alive,sadly Ken Osmond"Eddie" died this yr
2006
Wikileaks founded by internet activist,Julian Assange
 
1535 The first complete English language Bible (the Coverdale Bible) was printed by London printer Miles Coverdale, with translations by William Tyndale and Miles Coverdale.

1911 Britain's first underground escalators were introduced. They connected the District Line and Piccadilly Line platforms at Earl's Court underground station in London.

1958 Aviation history was made when 2 British designed and built De Havilland Comet 4 airliners operated by BOAC (now British Airways) made the first scheduled jet passenger service flights across the North Atlantic.

1963 The Beatles made their first appearance on the ITV show Ready Steady Go!
 
1930 The British airship R101 crashed at the edge of a wood near Beauvais in France en route to India on its maiden voyage, killing 48 of the 54 passengers, including the British Air Minister Lord Thompson who may well have contributed to the disaster. He brought luggage on board equivalent to the weight of about 24 people, and the crash of the 777 foot craft was thought to be a result of overloading.

1936 The start of the Jarrow March. Over 200 unemployed men began walking from Jarrow in north east England to London to protest about the lack of jobs and to deliver a petition to the government, requesting the re-establishment of industry in the town. The closure in 1934 of its main employer, Palmer's shipyard, had left over 70% of the workforce in the town unemployed. The march has become a defining event of the 1930s.

1962 In Britain, an emerging pop group, 'The Beatles' released their first hit record 'Love Me Do'.
 
Australian Explorers

Sunday, October 7, 1798. : Sea explorers Flinders and Bass set out to prove that Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania) is an island.

Matthew Flinders and George Bass were early sea explorers who charted sections of Australia's coastline, adding valuable information to the current charts. In 1798, Bass explored along the southern coast of what would later become the colony of Victoria. His journeys led him to the belief that Van Diemen's Land (later Tasmania) was separate from the mainland. Governor Hunter wished for this theory to be proven conclusively, so he commissioned Flinders and Bass to circumnavigate Van Diemen's Land.

The two men set out at dawn on 7 October 1798. By January of the following year, they had completed their circumnavigation of the island. Governor Hunter subsequently named the stretch of water between the mainland and Van Diemen's Land as "Bass's Strait", later to be known as Bass Strait.

Saturday, October 7, 1854. : Scottish gold miner James Scobie dies, a catalyst to events that will eventually result in the Eureka Stockade.

James Scobie was an unassuming gold miner who came to Australia from Scotland to make his fortune on the Ballarat goldfields. After becoming involved in a fight at the Eureka Hotel, also known as Bentley's Hotel, Scobie died on 7 October 1854.

An inquest into his death absolved the hotel owner, Bentley, and his staff of any wrongdoing. The miners, however, felt that justice had been thwarted, and held a meeting outside the hotel on October 17. Tempers flared, a riot ensued and the hotel was burnt to the ground. As a result of this, more troopers were sent from Melbourne, and miners were subjected to more frequent licence checks, and more frequent clashes between miners and troopers.

Another inquest into Scobie's death was held on 18 November 1854, during which Bentley and two of his staff were found guilty of manslaughter and sentenced to three years' hard labour in the road-gangs. The general dissatisfaction generated by these events was a catalyst in the events leading up to the Eureka stockade of December 3.​

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Oct 7th
1956
A U.S. House subcommittee began investigations of allegedly rigged TV quiz shows
1968
Motion Picture Association adopts film rating system
2008
a music podcast and video streaming service,'Spotify' is launched by Daniel Ek and Martin Lorentzon
 
7th October

1765 Delegates from nine of the American colonies protested against the British Stamp Act, which raised a direct tax on the colonies.

1806 The first carbon paper was patented by its English inventor, Ralph Wedgwood.

1920 The first women were admitted to study for full degrees at Oxford University.

1922 The first royal broadcast was made, by the Prince of Wales, on 2LO, 11 days before it changed its named to the BBC.
 
Sunday, October 8, 1939. : Australian actor and comedian, Paul Hogan, is born.

Paul Hogan was born on 8 October 1939, in the north-western New South Wales town of Lightning Ridge. Initially he worked as a rigger on the Sydney Harbour Bridge, but during the 1970s he developed his own television comedy sketch programme. "The Paul Hogan Show" ran for 60 episodes between 1973 and 1984, and was popular amongst Australians for its larrikin "Aussie" humour. In 1986, Hogan co-produced and starred in "Crocodile Dundee" as a down-to-earth hunter travelling from the Australian Outback to New York City. It remains Australia's most successful film to date.​

Thursday, October 8, 1818. : Oxley discovers and names Port Macquarie.

John Oxley's expedition into the interior in 1818 was for the purpose of following and charting the Macquarie River. His experience in following the Lachlan River the previous year had left him disappointed with the countryside. It had been a flood year, and much of the Lachlan overflowed into marshy tracts, with Oxley declaring the land useless and unusable. This was repeated with the Macquarie. Floods and marshes blocked his way, and he was returning to Sydney when he discovered the rich and fertile Liverpool Plains.

Buoyed by the discovery of good land at last, Oxley continued east, crossed the Great Diving Range and came upon the Hastings River. He and his party followed the river to its mouth, traversing what Oxley described as "excellent and rich country". On 8 October 1818 Oxley reached the seashore at an excellent harbour and river estuary. Oxley named the region Port Macquarie. His discovery was significant for it opened up the interior of New South Wales right through from the coast to the Macquarie River.
 

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