Today in History

1924
The 1st Little Orphan Annie comic strip appeared in the NYC Daily News
1961
movie' Breakfast at Tiffany's directed by Blake Edwards from a story by Truman Capote is released. Its the story of a young woman in NYC who works as an expensive escort searching a for a rich old man to marry. She meets a young man,who moves into her apt building with an older wealthy woman who wants to be a writer. The movie stars,Audrey Hepburn, George Peppard, Patrica Neal, Buddy Ebsen. The movie won 2 Oscars for score by Henry Mancini, song' Moon River'{Mancini,Johnny Mercer-lyrics}
1962
Beatles 1st single' Love Me Do' hits the music charts, peaked at #17
1970
PBS- Public Broadcast System becomes a U.S. national network which is commerical free
2017
NYTimes publishes its investigation into sexual harrassment behavoir of Hollywood movie producer, Harvey Weinstein
 
Oct 5th Birthdays:
1902
Ray Kroc- U.S. fast food businessman{Mac Donald's}
1919
Allen Ludden- U.S. personality, host of game show' Passwords'
1943
Steve Miller- singer/ songwriter 'The Joker, Abracadabra
1950
Jeff Conaway- actor/ singer best known TV role' Bobby' on NBC sitcom' Taxi' played' Kenicki' in movie Grease'
1965
Patrick Roy- retired Hockey Hall of Fame goalie with Montreal Canadiens won Vezina Trophy 3 x-best goalie in NHL
1975
Kate Winslet- British actress, 'Titantic, Sense&Sensibilty, Revoluntary Road, The Reader- won Best actress Oscar
Deaths:
1986
Hal Wallis- film producer Casablanca, Maltese Falcon, Barefoot in the Park 87
2004
Rodney Dangerfield- comedian with tag line 'I Get No Respect' 82
2011
Stve Jobs -co founder of Apple, Inc 56
 
On This Day In History, October 6th

2007 First successful human-powered attempt to circumnavigate the world
Englishman Jason Lewis set out on the journey, also called Expedition 360 on July 12, 1994, from Greenwich, London. The over 46,000-mile expedition around the world took him 4,833 days, during which he used only human-powered modes of transportation including bicycles, roller blades, and a pedal-powered boat.

1995 First exoplanet orbiting a Sun-like star discovered
Swiss astronomers Didier Queloz and Michel Mayor announced they discovered the exoplanet called 51 Pegasi B or Bellerophon. The Jupiter-like exoplanet orbits a star called 51 Pegasi, which has a magnitude of 5.49. 51 Pegasi B takes 4.23 Earth days to orbit around its star.

1981 Assassination of Anwar Sadat
The third president of Egypt, Sadat was killed by members of the terrorist group Takfir Wal-Hajira during a parade held to commemorate the 8th anniversary of Operation Badr - a military operation where Egyptian forces crossed the Suez Canal and overran the Bar Lev Line in Israel. The military operation started the Yom Kippur War between Israel and a coalition of Arab states. The assassination is thought to be a result of Sadat’s efforts to bring peace to the region which started with the Camp David Accords in 1978.

1976 Coup in Thailand
Admiral Sangad Chaloryu staged a coup ousting the civilian government of Seni Pramoj.

1908 Bosnian crisis
Emperor Franz Joseph of Austria-Hungary declared the annexation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, which had been nominally under the rule of the Ottoman Empire. The takeover raised tensions within the Balkan region in Europe and threatened to end in a war.
 
Births On This Day, October 6th 🎂

1985 Mitchell Cole
English footballer

1955 Tony Dungy
American football player, coach

1930 Hafez al-Assad
Syrian general, politician, 20th President of Syria

1846 George Westinghouse
American engineer, inventor

1769 Isaac Brock
English army officer

Deaths On This Day, October 6th 🪦

1992 Bill O'Reilly
Australian cricketer

1989 Bette Davis
American actress

1981 Anwar Sadat
Egyptian politician, 3rd President of Egypt, Nobel Prize laureate

1892 Alfred, Lord Tennyson
English poet

1542 Thomas Wyatt
English poet
 
1921
the worldwide association for writers, International Pen opens in London
1948
paleonanthroplogist, Mary Leakey discovers a partial fossil skull of Proconsul Africanus,ancestor of apes&humans on Rusinga Island, Kenya
1966
LSD{lysergic acid diethylamide} is declared illegal in Calif, other states follow
1987
George Michael's single' Faith' is released,spends 4 weeks at #1 The album of the same name is Michael's best selling ever ,sold 25 million copies worldwide
2010
Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger launch Instragram
 
Oct 6th Birthdays;
1905
Helen Wills Moody- U.S. tennis player won 11 Grand Slam titles
1940
John Warnock- U.S. businessman/computer scientist,co founder of Adobe Systems
1951
Kevin Cronin-singer/songwriter with band REO Speedwagon 'I Cant Fight This Feeling,Keep On Loving You'
Deaths:
1892
Alfred Tennyson- British poet 'The Charge of the Light Brigade' 83
1969
Walter Hagen- U.S. golfer won 11 major titles 76{throat cancer}
1985
Nelson Riddle- Grammy winning conductor/arranger for Columbia Records, he worked with Frank Sinatra, Ellen Fitzgerald, Dean Martin 64
1996
Ted Bissell-actor best known TV role' Donald' boyfriend of 'Anne Marie'{Marlo Thomas} on TV show'That Girl' 61
2015
Billy Joe Royal- country/pop singer' Down In the Boondocks' 73
 
7 October 1977
English town of Felixstowe is invaded by 90 sets of Swedish Twins.
For scientific reasons, ninety pairs of Swedish identical twins, all dressed in identical clothing, descended on the town and went shopping. Ranging in age from 11 to 80, the whole thing was devised by Sune Dahlström, who was also a twin and was part of a project called called the Swedish Twin Register.
Looking into links between the environment and twinny behaviour, the group of lookalikes cruised to Suffolk aboard the Tor Scandinavia before being set free and encouraged to spend in Felixstowe’s hippest boutiques.
It was hoped that the siblings might have picked different clothing for themselves and exhibited some kind of individuality.
Why Felixstowe was chosen, rather than a Swedish destination which would be a lot closer and a lot cheaper, is lost to the annals of science.
But no matter what the final conclusions were: it was weird.
 
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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 rotate 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
 
Holidays on This Day, October 7th 🍹🌴

Bridge Public Holiday- Argentina

Children's Day- Singapore

Day off for The Prophet's Birthday- Fiji

Dwadashi (Dashain)- Nepal

Election Day Holiday- Lesotho
 
1806
London inventor, Ralph Wedgwood patents carbon paper
1915
British nurse, Edith Cavell is sentenced to death with 34 others by a German court martial for running underground network freeing Allied soliders
1952
the 1st' Bandstand' is broadcast in Philadelphia on TV station,WFIL-TV.Dick Clark joins the show in 1955 as a substitute host
1971
movie' The French Connection directed by William Friedkin is released,story 2 maverick narcotics cops 'Popeye Doyle'{Gene Hackman} 'Buddy Russo'{Roy Schneider} who are determine to stop an international heroin ring in NYC The Movie won 5 Oscars inc picture/director,actor[Hackman} it had one of the most exciting car chase scenes 26 blocks ever on film. Hackman liked to do his own stunts.In that scene,he was behind the was behind the wheel for most of it, stunt driver Bill Hickman did the rest
1998
gay student, Matthew Sheppard a student at the Univ of Wyoming was found tied to a fence savegedly beaten. His killers, 21 yr olds Aaron Mckinley, Russell Henderson were sentenced to 2 consective life terms in prison
2008
music podcast/video streaming service, Spotify is launched by Daniel Ek,Martin Lorentzon
 
Oct 7th Birthdays:
1905
Andy Devine- character actor, Stagecoach, Red Badge of Courage,The Over the Hill Gang
1931
Desmond Tutu- Anglican Archbishop of South Africa/activist
1951
John Mellencamp- singer/songwriter/co founder of 'Farm Aid' "Jack&Diane, Small Town'
1952
Mary Badham- actress, best known movie role' Scout' in '62 movie' To Kill a Mockingbird'
1976
Taylor HIcks- singer/songwriter, winner of'American Idol' in '06
Deaths:
1849
Edgar Allan Poe- poet/writer'The Pit&The Pendulum 40
1950
Willis Carrier- U.S. engineer who developed modern air conditioning 73
1988
Billy Daniels- African-American singer' That Old Black Magic' 73
1993
Agnes de Mille- Tony&Emmy winning dancer/ choregrapher- Rodeo, Oklahoma 88
 
On This Day In History, October 8th

1956 The first perfect game in Major League Baseball World Series
New York Yankees’ Don Larsen pitched the only no-hitter game against the Brooklyn Dodgers in the history of the World Series.

1948 World’s first internal pacemaker implanted
A 43-year-old man called Arne Larsson was the recipient of the pacemaker which worked only for a few hours. However, Larsson lived long after the pacemaker stopped working. He died in 2001 at the age of 86.

1919 World’s first transcontinental air race
63 airplanes – 15 from San Francisco and 48 from New York – took part in this 5400-mile round-trip race. The winner, Lieutenant Belvin Maynard, took 3 days and 21 hours to return to New York.

1912 First Balkan war begins
Montenegro started the conflict by declaring war on the Ottoman Empire. A few days later Greece, Bulgaria, and Serbia joined the war and created the Balkan League. The 7-month long war ended with a decisive Balkan League victory. Dissatisfaction over the spoils of the war led to the Second Balkan War a year later.

1871 Great Chicago fire begins
The fire that destroyed most of Chicago’s business district began in a barn on the evening of October 8, 1871. A very dry summer and early autumn fanned the fire, which raged for 2 days. It killed over 300 people and destroyed property worth millions of dollars.
 
Births On This Day, October 8th 🎂

1985 Bruno Mars
American singer-songwriter, producer, actor

1970 Matt Damon
American actor, screenwriter, producer

1943 Chevy Chase
American comedian, actor

1939 Harvey Pekar
American author

1895 Juan Perón
Argentine military officer, politician, 29th President of Argentina

Deaths On This Day, October 8th 🪦

1992 Willy Brandt
German politician, 4th Chancellor of Germany, Nobel Prize laureate

1967 Clement Attlee
English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

1936 Premchand
Indian author

1869 Franklin Pierce
American politician, 14th President of the United States

1793 John Hancock
American politician, 1st Governor of Massachusetts
 
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