Today in History

Oct 10th Birthdays:
1813
Giuseppi Verdi- Italian opera composer 'Rigoletto, La Traviata
1900
Helen Hayes- actress stage/screen/ TV, the 1st female to be a EGOT{Emmy,Grammy, Oscar, Tony} winner. Best Actress Emmy in '53 in episode of Schilitz Playhouse of Stars, Grammy for spoken word' Great Documents', Best Actress Oscar 'The Sin of Madelon Claudet'32, Tony for play'Happy Birthday' 47
1930
Harold Printer- British playwright/screenwriter The Homecoming, Servant
1950
Nora Roberts- novelist writes romance,other books. She writes under alias 'JD Robb' an ongoing cop series 'In Death' set in the future,the books start in yr 2058
1974
Dale Earnhardt Jr, auto racer
Deaths:
1963
Edith Piaf- French singer 47
1983
Sir Ralph Richardson- British actor 'Dr Zhivago, The Heiress, Witness for the Prosecution, Time Bandits, 80
2004
Christopher Reeve- actor 'Superman, Somewhere in Time 52
2010
Dame Joan Sutherland- Australian operatic soprano 83
 

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 the 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 a 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
 

1881
David Houston patents roll film for cameras
1929
JC Penney dept store opens in Midford, Del making it a nation wide company located in all 48 states
1950
FCC{ Federal Communications Commission} issues 1st license to broadcast TV in color to CBS
1975
SNL{Saturday Night Live} a sketch comedy show created by TV producer, Lorne Michaels debuts on NBC from Studio 8H at Rockefeller Center.The original comedy members:'Not Ready For Prime Time Players:'75-'80
John Belushi, Jane Curtin, Chevy Chase{he left after the 1st yr}, Gilna Radner,Dan Aykroyd,Lorraine Newman, Garrett Morris.Each show has a guest host,with musical guest, opening has actor say'Live From NY its Sat Night' comedian George Carlin was 1st host
1979
Allan Cormack&Godfrey Hounsfield win Noble Prize for Medicine for developing CAT Scan
2018
world's longest flight flies from Singapore to Newark, NJ airport takes 17hrs 52 min
 
Oct 11th Birthdays:
1906
Charles Revson- cosmetic magnate 'Revlon'
1918
Jerome Robbins- Tony/ Oscar winning theatre ballet choreographer/director' Peter Pan,West Side Story
1953
David Morse- actor, best known TV role' Dr Jack Morrison' on NBC medical show' St Elsewhere'
1976
Emily Deschannel- actress best known TV role' Dr Temperance Brennan' on Fox series' Bones'
Deaths:
1961
Chico Marx- comedian with Marx brothers 74
1988
Wayland Flowers- ventriloquist 'Madame' 48{ AIDS}
1991
Redd Foxx- comedian/actor TV show 'Sanford&Son' 68{heart attack}
 
On This Day In History, October 12th

1979 Douglas Adam’s Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Hits the Bookstores
The first in a “trilogy of five”, the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, or H2G2, is a popular comedy science fiction novel that was first created as a radio show in 1978 for BBC Radio 4. The show and the book follow the intergalactic adventures of Arthur Dent, who escapes the Earth’s destruction. He is accompanied by several other characters including an alien called Ford Prefect, Marvin the depressed robot, and the Vogons who are responsible for destroying the Earth.

1968 Equatorial Guinea Gains Independence
The African republic was part of the Spanish Empire since the late 1700s. Known as Spanish Guinea, the country became independent and changed its name to Equatorial Guinea under the leadership of President Francisco Macías Nguema. In 1972, Nguema proclaimed himself president for life.

1964 First Multi-Person Space Flight
Soviet spacecraft Voskhod 1 carried 3 cosmonauts for the first time to space. It was also the first time the crew did not wear any space suits for the duration of the flight.

1960 Nikita Khrushchev's Famous Shoe Pounding Incident
The First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union removed his shoe and pounded it on the table during a UN General Assembly meeting in New York. The incident was thought to be a response to comments about freedoms in Eastern Europe made by the Filipino delegate, Lorenzo Sumulong.

1492 Christopher Columbus Steps Foot on the New World
Two months after he had set sail from Spain with crews on 3 ships – the Santa María, the Pinta, and the Santa Clara, Columbus spotted land that he believed was Japan. He had, in fact, stepped foot on what is now the Bahamas. Claiming that he was the first one to set sight on the lands, he declared the lands as being owned by the Spanish empire.
 
Births On This Day, October 12th 🎂

1968 Hugh Jackman
Australian actor, producer

1875 Aleister Crowley
English magician, author

1866 Ramsay MacDonald
Scottish politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

1798 Pedro I of Brazil

1537 Edward VI of England

Deaths On This Day, October 12th 🪦

1999 Wilt Chamberlain
American basketball player

1997 John Denver
American singer-songwriter, guitarist, actor

1971 Dean Acheson
American lawyer, politician, 51st United States Secretary of State

1946 Joseph Stilwell
American general

1870 Robert E. Lee
American general
 
1609
children's rhyme' Three Blind Mice' from a book is published in London edited by Thomas Ravenscroft
1892
U.S. 'Pledge of Alligence' is 1st recited in Public schools during Columbus Day
1931
Christ the Redemeer Statue opens standing 98 fr{30 m} on top of Mount Corcovado overlooking Rio de Janerio. It was built by engineer, Heitor da Silvia Costa
1999
The 6th billionth person in the world was born, Adnan Mevic in Sarajevo, Bosnia,he is now 23
2017
long lost bust of Napoleon by sculptor, Auguste Rodin was found in town hall in Madison,NJ est worth $4million
 
Oct 12th Birthdays
1872
Ralph{pronounced' Rafe"} Vaughan Williams- English composer 'The Lark Ascending' '1914, Fantasia on Greensleeves' 1928
1947
Chris Wallace- veteran TV journalist, was at Fox News for 15 yrs,now at CNN His dad was also journalist, Mike Wallace from CBS "60 min'
1955
Jane Silberry- Canadian singer/songwriter 'Calling All Angels'
1962
Chris Botti- jazz/pop trumpet player
1968
Adam Rich- actor best known TV role' Nicholas', on ABC drama' Eight Is Enough'
Deaths:
1914
Margaret E. Knight- U.S. inventor of flat bottomed paper bag 76
1969
Sonja Henie- Norweigan figure skater, winner of Olympic gold medal ladies titles in '28,'32,'36 57
1989
Jay Ward- cartoonist 'Rocky&Friends, Bullwinkle' 69
1997
John Denver singer/ songwriter/ activist 'Leaving on a Jet Plane, Annie's Song, Sunshine on My Shoulder,Calypso 53{plane crash}
 
Sixty years ago today, the Pacific Northwest was hit by what has become known as the "Columbus Day Storm". That evening, a hurricane swept through our area, taking down thousands of trees, power lines and buildings. I was still in High School and we had a football game that night. The wind took down our field lights (and those of many other area schools) my Grandparents barn collapsed as did many others in the area.

It took years to clean up all the fallen timber around the Northwest. Communities were without power for weeks and rural roads were blocked cutting off many small towns.
 
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 were 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 13th 🎂

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 U

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
 
13th October

1399 Henry IV (the first King of the House of Lancaster) was crowned king of England.

1884 Greenwich was chosen as the universal time meridian of longitude from which standard times throughout the world are calculated.

1940 Princess Elizabeth, aged 14, made her first radio broadcast to child evacuees.

1954 Chris Chataway, the 23-year-old Oxford blue, broke the 5,000 metres world record by five seconds in what was described as one of the most remarkable races seen on a British track. He beat European champion Vladimir Kuts after a nail-biting finish in the London v Moscow match at White City athletics stadium in West London.His time was recorded as 13 mins 51.6 secs.
 
1792
Old Farmer's Almanac 1st published/edited by Robert Thomas
1950
movie' All About Eve' directed by Joseph Mankiewicz is released. The movie is about cycnical look at life in the theatre. It stars Bette David, Anne Baxter, George Sanders, Gary Merrill, Celeste Holm It won 6 Oscars inc picture/ director, supp actor{Sanders}. Its based on a story by Mary Orr'The Wisdom of Eve'
1983
1st U.S.cellular network, Ameritech Mobile Comm{now Cingular} is launched in Chicago
2010
after spending 69 days underground in a cave in San Jose, Chile after a mining accident, 33 miners are rescued all alive
 
Oct 13th Birthdays:
1921
Yves Montand- French actor 'Z, Grand Prix, Napoleon
1925
Margaret Thatcher- 1st female British Prime Minister '79-'90
1944
Robert Lamm- keyboardist, one of co-founders of group'Chicago', Beginnings, Does Anybody Know What Time It Is, Saturday in the Park
1962
Jerry Rice- NFL Pro Football Hall of Fame Wide receiver with SF 49'ers
1970
Paul Potts- British pop/opera singer winner of TV show contest,'Britain's Got Talent' '07
Deaths:
1945
Milton S. Hershey- U.S chocolate tycoon 'Hershey Chocolate Company 86
1966
Clifton Webb- actor, 'Cheaper by The Dozen, Razor's Edge, Laura 76
2002
Stephen Ambrose- U. S. historian, 'Undaunted Courage, Band of Brothers 66
 

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