Today in History

11th October

1216 King John lost his crown and jewels whilst crossing 'The Wash', on the north-west margin of East Anglia.

1738 The birth of Arthur Phillip, English admiral and first governor of New South Wales, who founded the first penal colony at Sydney.

1821 The birth, in Dulverton, Somerset, of George Williams the founder of the YMCA (Young Men's Christian Association). As a young man, he described himself as a 'careless, thoughtless, godless, swearing young fellow' but he eventually became a devout Christian.

1919 The first airline meals were served on a Handley-Page flight from London to Paris. They were pre-packed lunch boxes at 3 shillings each (15p).

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.
 
1881
David Houston patents roll film for cameras
1929
JC Penney becomes a nationwide company in all 48 states when it opens store# 1252 in Milford, Delaware
1950
U. S. FCC{Federal Communications Commission} issues its 1st license to broadcast TV in color to CBS
1979
Allan McLeod& Godfrey Newbold Hounsfeld receive Nobel Prize in Medicine for developing CAT Scan
2018
the world's longest flight from Singapore-Newark,NJ airport takes 17 hrs,52 mins
 

This day in History October 12th

1931 Johnny Weissmuller is chosen to play Tarzan

1962 The Columbus Day Storm strikes Northern California, Oregon, Washington and British Columbia

1978 Sid Vicious Arrested For Murder

1984 Conservative Party Conference Bombing Grand Hotel in Brighton

2000 The USS Cole was attacked by two suicide terrorists
 
12th October

1845 The death of Elizabeth Fry, English prison reformer, social reformer and, as a Quaker, a Christian philanthropist. She was a major driving force behind new legislation to make the treatment of prisoners more humane. Since 2001, she has been depicted on the Bank of England £5 note.

1915 British nurse Edith Cavell was executed by a German firing squad during World War I. She treated soldiers from both sides of the conflict without discrimination and helped around 200 Allied soldiers escape from German-occupied Belgium, for which she was arrested. She was also accused of spying, found guilty by a court-martial and sentenced to death. Her execution received worldwide condemnation.

1936 The leader of the British Union of Fascists, Oswald Mosley, led a controversial anti-Jewish march down the Mile End Road in London which was a predominantly Jewish area of the capital.

1986 Queen Elizabeth II became the first British monarch to visit China.
 
1900
The 1st modern submarine is commissioned by U.S. Navy USS Holland. Its named after its designer/engineer John Phillip Holland
1960
Soviet leader, Nikita Khrushev bangs his shoe at his desk during the United Nations General Assembly in NYC
1968
Summer Olympic Games XXl are held in Mexico City,the 1st Olympics for Latin America
2017
a long lost bust of Napeolon Bonaparte by sculptor,Auguste Roden was found in borough hall in Madison,NJ.estimated at $4 mill
2019 Calif becomes 1st state to pass a law banning sale& manufacture of new fur products
 
1792
Old Farmer's Almanac is 1st published
1884
Greenwich in London is established as universal time meridan of longitude
1983
Ameritech Mobile Communications{now known as Cingular} launches 1st U. S. cellular network in Chicago,Ill
1988
Shroud of Turin revered by many Christians as the burial cloth of Christ is shown in carbon dating tests to be a fake from the Middle Ages
 
14th October

1066 The Battle of Hastings was fought, on Senlac Hill, near Pevensey. An English army, commanded by King Harold, was defeated by the invasion force of William of Normandy. Harold was killed and Edgar the Ætheling was proclaimed king, but never crowned. William I 'The Conqueror' and the first Norman King of England, was subsequently crowned at Westminster Abbey on 25th December 1066.

1644 The Birth of William Penn, the English Quaker leader who founded a Quaker colony named Pennsylvania in his honour.

1929 The world's largest airship, the R101, made its maiden voyage.

1939 The Royal Navy battleship, HMS Royal Oak, was torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine while at harbour in Scapa Flow, off the northern coast of Scotland, a little more than a month after the start of World War II. 810 British seamen were killed.

1986 An historic moment for Queen Elizabeth II as she became the first British monarch to walk along the Great Wall of China.
 
1884
George Eastman patents paper strip photographic film
1892
author Arthur Conan Doyle publishes'The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes',a collection of 12 stories
1998
Eric Robert Rudolph is charged with 6 bombings including the '96 Centennial Olympic Park bombing in Atlanta, Georgia. He was sentenced in Aug '05 is serving 2 consectutive life sentences. He's at a super maxium prison in Colorado
 
This day in History October 15th

1924 Chinese Tong Wars in New York

1928 "Graf Zeppelin" completes its transatlantic flight from Europe to America

1940 Charlie Chaplin's satirical comedy The Great Dictator opens

1973 Iceland / Britain Cod Wars

1987 The Great Storm of 1987 Strikes UK

2003 Staten Island Ferry Accident
 
15th October

1666 Samuel Pepys recorded in his diary that Charles II had started wearing the first known waistcoat. The King was so overweight that he left the bottom button undone, a fashion custom followed to this day.

1927 Britain's Public Morals Committee attacked the use of contraceptives, on the basis that they caused 'poor hereditary stock'.

1953 The British nuclear test Totem 1 was detonated at Emu Field in South Australia. The main purpose of the trial was to determine the limit on the amount of plutonium-240 which could be present in a bomb and thus aid the British government's weapons programme.

1961 The human rights organization Amnesty International was established in London.
 
1878
Edison Electric Light Company incorporated
1894
Capt Alfred Dreyfus is arrested and accused of espionage in France
1917
Dutch exotic dancer,Mata Hari is executed by firing squad for spying for Germany during WWI at Vincennes near Paris
1937
Ernest Hemmingway's novel'To Have &Have Not' is published
2011
Legoland,world's largest legoland theme park opens in Winter Haven,Fla
2018
U. S. retailer, Sears files banckruptcy
 
1829
The 1st U.S. modern hotel,Tremont Hotel opens in Boston,Mass, had running water and indoor plumbing. It was razed in 1895 replaced with an office building
1923
Disney Brothers Cartoon Company is established
1968
at the Mexico City Summer Olympic Games, 2 U.S. runners,Tommie Smith,John Carlos famously gave 'black power salute'{raising their fists} to protest racism/injustice to African Americans
1976
Rick Dees, a nationally acclaimed radio personality, released his parody song'Disco Duck' which mocked the 'disco craze' that was sweeping the country at the time. It debuted #1 on Billboard charts,stayed in Top 10 for 10 weeks
1984
South African archbishop/activist,Desmond Tutu wins Nobel Peace Prize
 
This day in History October 17th

1931 Scarface Al Capone found guilty of income tax evasion

1943 415-km Thailand Burma railroad ( Death Railway ) between Bangkok, Thailand and Rangoon, Burma is completed

1968 Black Power Salute Olympics

2003 Taipei 101 become the World's tallest highrise building
 
1907
Guglilemo Marconi's company begins 1st commerical transatlantic wireless service between Glace Bay,Nova Scotia Canada,Clifden,Ireland
1919
Radio Corporation of America {RCA} is created as a subsidary of General Electric
1943
Burma railway is completed which was built by Allied POW's and Asian laborers for Japanese Army's use
1979
Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Mother Theresa for her work among the poor in Calcutta, India
1992
The 1st Major League Baseball World Series with a non -American team,Toronto Blue Jays.They played against the Atlanta Braves,beat them 4 games to 2,winning their 1st World Series. They won again in 1993 .
 
Tish said:
1928 Okeechobee Hurricane Strikes Florida
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I grew up listening to my Great-uncle's stories of this one. He had a ranch on the north shore of the lake, the worst damage was on the south side. He took his boat across the lake to help with rescue efforts, but said it was mostly body recovery. His stories come back to me every time a hurricane threatens.

The body count was never complete, just estimates, most in the thousands. He always said about 5,000. Many of the victims were poor migrant laborers without proper food or housing before the storm.
moviequeen1 said:
1992
The 1st Major League Baseball World Series with a non -American team,Toronto Blue Jays.
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Always wondered how Canadians think of themselves. Americans or not? Canada is a much a part of North America as the US. Lots of Canadians here, maybe one can say.
 
17th October

1091 A tornado struck London. It was Britain's earliest reported tornado. The wooden London Bridge was demolished, and the church of St. Mary-le-Bow in the city of London was badly damaged. Other churches in the area were demolished, as were over 600, mostly wooden, houses. Amazingly only two deaths were recorded.

1855 A steel-making process was patented, by Englishman Sir Harry Bessemer.

1973 The start of a major world oil crisis when oil producing Arab states increased prices by 70 per cent and cut production in protest at US support for Israel in the Yom Kippur War.

1980 The Queen made history by becoming the first British monarch to make a state visit to the Vatican, when she met Pope John Paul II.
 
Alligatorob said:
I grew up listening to my Great-uncle's stories of this one. He had a ranch on the north shore of the lake, the worst damage was on the south side. He took his boat across the lake to help with rescue efforts, but said it was mostly body recovery. His stories come back to me every time a hurricane threatens.

The body count was never complete, just estimates, most in the thousands. He always said about 5,000. Many of the victims were poor migrant laborers without proper food or housing before the storm.

Always wondered how Canadians think of themselves. Americans or not? Canada is a much a part of North America as the US. Lots of Canadians here, maybe one can say.
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That is so heartbreaking.
I always thought of Canadians as Canadians, not Americans.
 
This day in History October 18th

1898 The us takes formal possession of the Island of Puerto Rico

1922 The British Broadcasting Company Is Formed

1954 Texas Instruments announces the Regency TR-1 Transistor radio

1968 Bob Beamon breaks the world long jump record In Mexico
 

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