Post by farmgal on Oct 8, 2012 12:29:43 GMT -5
October 9 is the 283th day of this leap year in the Gregorian calendar.
There are 83 days remaining until the end of the year.
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1000 Leif Ericson discovers "Vinland" (possibly New England). When Leif and his crew left Markland and found land again, they landed and built some houses. They found the area pleasant: there were plenty of large salmon in the river and the climate was mild, with little frost in the winter and green grass year-round. They remained at this place over the winter. The sagas mention that one of Leif's men, Tyrkir, possibly a Hungarian, found wild grapes, and that Leif accordingly named the country Vinland after them.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leif_Ericson
1558 Mérida is founded in Venezuela.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%A9rida,_Venezuela
1635 Religious dissident Roger Williams banished from Massachusetts Bay Colony. Puritan minister Roger Williams was found guilty of spreading "newe & dangerous opinions" and banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Before leaving England in 1630, Williams had seen heretics whipped, imprisoned, and burned at the stake. He called for religious freedom, a serious threat to the social order, and avoided arrest only by fleeing to Boston.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Williams_(theologian)
1701 Collegiate School of CT (Yale U), chartered in New Haven. Yale University is thethird oldest institution of higher learning in the United States, located in New Haven, CT. It was founded by Congregationalists in 1701 as the Collegiate School of Connecticut and at the time adhered to orthodox Puritanism. After being located in Branford and other sites in the area, the school settled in New Haven in 1716. The name was changed to Yale College in 1718.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yale_University
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1775 Lord Dartmouth orders British officers to North Carolina On this day in 1775, just a few short months after commanding British soldiers during the Battle of Bunker Hill, General Sir William Howe writes to the British-appointed secretary of state for the American colonies, Lord Dartmouth, to inform him of his belief that the British army should be evacuated from Boston to Rhode Island. From there, British forces could move expeditiously to the southern colonies, without having to go around Cape Cod. As Lord Dartmouth had previously received reports that men were needed in the southern colonies from the likes of Josiah Martin, the royal governor of North Carolina, and John Murray, the royal governor of South Carolina, he ordered General Howe to send officers stationed in Boston to North Carolina to assist Martin in the southern campaign.
Martin had been directing Loyalist efforts in North Carolina from his ship Cruiser anchored in the Cape Fear River since a Patriot attack on his home in April 1775. When the residents of Mecklenburg County effectively declared their independence from the crown that May, Martin had sent a copy of their resolves to Britain, requested military supplies from Howe’s predecessor, General Thomas Gage, in Boston and plotted to arm the slaves of North Carolina to help put down any Patriot uprising.
Word of Martin’s intent to incite a slave rebellion mobilized a successful Patriot attack against Martin’s headquarters at Fort Johnston on Cape Fear on July 20, 1775. Following the attack, Martin moved the Cruiser off the coast of North Carolina, where he continued to arm the Loyalists with British supplies. On February 27, 1776, the Patriots managed to defeat the Loyalists at Moores Creek Bridge before the Loyalists reached the coast to await a scheduled rendezvous with Cornwallis. With the Loyalists routed, Cornwallis chose not to land his men, aborting his intended southern campaign. Instead, he traveled north to join the successful British Battle for Long Island in August 1776.
1776 Father Francisco Palou founds Mission San Francisco de Asis in what is now San Francisco, California.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco_Pal%C3%B3u
1780 The first U.S. astronomy expedition to record an eclipse of the sun left on this day from Harvard College, Cambridge, Mass., for Penobscot Bay, led by Samuel Williams. A boat was supplied by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts with four professors and six students. Although the country was at war with Britain, the British officer in charge of Penobscot Bay permitted the expedition to land and observe the eclipse of 27 Oct 1780. The eclipse began at 11:11 am and ended at 1:50 pm. They set up equipment to observe the predicted total eclipse of the sun. A solar eclipse occurred, but the expedition was shocked to find itself outside the path of totality. They saw a thin arc of the sun instead of its complete obscuration by the moon.
1812 War of 1812: In a naval engagement on Lake Erie, American forces capture two British ships: HMS Detroit and HMS Caledonia.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Detroit_(1812)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Caledonia_(1807)
1837 A meeting at the U.S. Naval Academy establishes the U.S. Naval Institute.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Naval_Institute
1842 Episcopal missionary James L. Breck was ordained a priest at Duck Creek, WI. In 1850, this "apostle of the wilderness" moved to Minnesota and in 1858 founded the Seabury Divinity School. It is said that "no priest did more for the Episcopal Church in the West than Breck."
anglicanhistory.org/usa/jlbreck/letters/04.html
1845 The eminent and controversial Anglican, John Henry Newman, is received into the Roman Catholic Church.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Henry_Newman
1855 The first U.S. patent was issued for a sewing machine motor to Isaac Merritt Singer of New York City. It covered a spring and cone pulley device. (No. 13,661) Singer was the most flamboyant of 19th-century sewing machine inventors, having sharpened his skills as an actor before becoming an inventor. Around 1850, he began concentrating on improving an existing sewing machine. Success followed quickly. This 1853 model is a commercial sewing machine. The patent claims were for the methods of feeding the cloth, regulating the tension on the needle thread, and lubricating the needle thread so that leather could be sewn.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Merritt_Singer
1855 Joshua C. Stoddard of Worcester, Massachusetts, received a patent for his calliope. The first instrument consisted of 15 whistles, of graduated sizes, attached in a row to the top of a small steam boiler. A long cylinder with pins of different shapes driven into it ran the length of the boiler. The pins were so arranged that when the cylinder revolved, they pressed the valves and blew the whistles in proper sequence. The different shapes enabled the operator to play notes of varying length. Later, Stoddard replaced the cylinder with a keyboard. Wires running from the keys to the valves enabled the operator to play the instrument like a piano. He patented a successful hay rake in 1879 and a fire escape in 1884. He died on April 4, 1902.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua_C._Stoddard
1861 American Civil War: Battle of Santa Rosa Island – Union troops repel a Confederate attempt to capture Fort Pickens.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Santa_Rosa_Island
1864 American Civil War: Battle of Tom's Brook – Union cavalrymen in the Shenandoah Valley defeat Confederate forces at Tom's Brook, Virginia.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Tom%27s_Brook
1865 The first underground oil pipeline was laid between Oil Creek and Pithole, Pa. Samuel Van Syckel, who came to the creek in 1864 with some money hoping to make more, had handled quantities of oil produced at Pithole, several miles from a shipping point, only to see his profits eaten up by the tyranny of teamsters. With determination, he built a mostly buried, two-inch pipeline with three relay pumps, 5.5 miles between the wells and the railroad. Carrying eighty barrels of oil an hour, the day that the Van Syckel pipe-line began to run oil, a revolution began in the business. The teamsters turned out in fury, digging up and cutting the pipe so that the oil would be lost. It was only by stationing an armed guard that they were held in check.
www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WMCN7Z_Samuel_Van_Syckel_Titusville_PA
1869 President Grant announces death of former President Pierce. On this day in 1869, President Ulysses S. Grant announces the death of former President Franklin Pierce. Pierce, whose presidency was remembered mostly for his failure to end the debate over slavery, had died the day before at his home in Concord, New Hamsphire.
Pierce was, and remains, the only president to hail from New Hampshire. He studied law in college and was elected to the New Hamsphire state legislature in 1828. In 1832, he won a seat in the U.S. Senate.
The Mexican War of 1848, in which Pierce served with distinction with the U.S. Army, briefly interrupted his political career. In 1852, he returned to politics and was chosen from relative obscurity as the Democratic nominee for the presidency. Upon winning the job in 1853, he promised to maintain the status quo of the Compromise of 1850—a bill that put off the decision on slavery in four new western territories and admitted California as a free state, but instituted the Fugitive Slave Act, requiring citizens to assist in the capture of slaves attempting to escape bondage. This was seen as appeasing southern pro-slavery elements and his willingness to do so gradually earned him the wrath of his former support base of northern abolitionists. The Democrats’ own campaign slogan in the next presidential race became "anyone but Pierce."
Pierce and his wife Jane had three boys. Their first child died in infancy; a second, Franky, died at age four from typhus; and their third son, Benny, was killed in a train wreck from which Pierce and his wife escaped alive. This string of tragedies drove Pierce to binge drink. He also suffered from chronic nervous exhaustion. By the end of his single term in the White House a Philadelphia Enquirer reporter described Pierce as "a wreck of his former self…his face wears a hue so ghastly and cadaverous that one could almost fancy he was gazing on a corpse."
Upon leaving office in 1857, Pierce was asked what he would do next; he allegedly replied "there’s nothing left [to do] but get drunk." Although the Democrats urged him to run for president again in 1856 and 1860, he refused. The effects of alcoholism led to his death in 1869 at the age of 65. Upon his death, Grant arranged for "suitable military and naval honors" for Pierce’s funeral and, in keeping with tradition, ordered flags flown at half-staff on all federal buildings.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_Pierce
1872 The first mail order catalog was delivered. Aaron Montgomery Ward sent out his first mail order catalog in 1872 - for his Montgomery Ward mail order business located at Clark and Kinzie Streets in Chicago. The first catalog consisted of a single sheet of paper with a price list, 8 by 12 inches, showing the merchandise for sale with ordering instructions.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Montgomery_Ward
1876 The first two-way telephone conversation occurred over outdoor wires. Alexander Graham Bell had a two-way conversation with Watson over the telegraph line linking Boston and East Cambridge. Three days earlier in Boston, 6 Oct 1876, Bell two-way telephone test of conversation with Watson had been the world's first two-way telephone conversation.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Graham_Bell
1877 American Humane Association organized in Cleveland, dedicated to the welfare of animals and children. The AHA's Film and Television Unit has monitored the welfare of animals during the production of films and television programs since 1940. They are the source of the familiar disclaimer "No animals were harmed...", which is a registered trademark of the AHA. The Unit's creation was prompted by a scene in the 1939 film Jesse James in which a blindfolded horse was ridden off a cliff to its death.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Humane_Association
1888 Public admitted to Washington Monument. When all of the work was concluded, the cost of the project came to a grand total of $1,187,710. Congress then shifted control of the monument and its staffing to the War Department, with the Washington National Monument Society acting as advisers. On October 9, 1888, the Washington Monument was officially opened to the general public.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Monument
1903 - New York City was deluged with 11.17 inches of rain 24 hours to establish a state record. Severe flooding occurred in the Passaic Valley of New Jersey where more than fifteen inches of rain was reported. (David Ludlum) (The Weather Channel)
1907 - Las Cruces, New Mexico is incorporated.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Las_Cruces,_New_Mexico
1910 Nap Lajoie challenges Ty Cobb for batting title. The battle for the AL batting title is decided on the final day, when Detroit's Ty Cobb edges Cleveland's Nap Lajoie .3850687 to .3840947. Neither man covers himself with glory. Lajoie goes 8-for-8 in a doubleheader with the Browns, accepting six "gift" hits on bunt singles on which Browns rookie 3B Red Corriden is apparently purposely stationed at the edge of the OF grass. The prejudiced St. Louis scorer also credits popular Nap with a "hit" on the Brownie SS Bobby Wallace's wild throw to 1B. In Lajoie's last at bat, he is safe at first on an error call, but is credited with a sac bunt since a man was on. Cobb, meanwhile, rather than risk his average, sits out the last two games, the Tigers beating the White Sox in the finale, 2-1. Ban Johnson investigates and clears everyone concerned, enabling Ty Cobb to win the 3rd of nine straight batting crowns.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nap_Lajoie
1914 - World War I: Siege of Antwerp – Antwerp, Belgium falls to German troops.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Antwerp
1915 Woodrow Wilson becomes first president to attend a World Series game. Playing game two in tiny Baker Bowl in Philadelphia, Boston's 19-game winner Rube Foster allows the Phils three hits and drives in the winning run to break a 1-1 tie in the 9th against Erskine Mayer. The Sox win, 2-1. President Wilson and his fiance watch the game, the first President to attend a World Series.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodrow_Wilson
1916 Babe Ruth pitches & wins longest WS game (14 innings) 2-1. After a Sunday off, Babe Ruth outpitches Sherry Smith to win Game Two of the World Series 2-1 in 14 innings. Both starters go the distance with Smith allowing seven hits, Ruth giving up 6. According to the Boston Traveler, each starter throws 148 pitches. Ruth allows one run in the first, a homer by CF Hy Myers that skips by Harry Hooper. It is only homer off Ruth this year. Only two Robins reach base after the 8th, one on a walk and another on an error. This is the start of 29 2/3 scoreless World Series innings pitched by Ruth.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babe_Ruth
1919 Black Sox scandal: The Cincinnati Reds win the World Series.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Sox_scandal
1930 First transcontinental flight by a woman completed, Laura Ingalls. On October 9, 1930, Laura Ingalls became the first woman to fly across the United States as she completed a nine-stop journey from Roosevelt Field in New York to Glendale, CA. Ingalls held more U.S. transcontinental air records during the 1930's than any other woman, including a transcontinental record of 30 hours east to west and 25 hours west to east (round trip New York and Los Angeles), both in 1930. In 1935, she became the first women to fly nonstop from the east coast to the west coast and then immediately broke Amelia Earhart's nonstop transcontinental west-to-east record with a flight from Los Angeles to New York in 13 hours, 34 minutes.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Ingalls_(aviator)
1934 The Gashouse Gang wins the World Series. On October 9, 1934, the St. Louis Cardinals defeat the Detroit Tigers in the seventh game of the World Series. No one seems to know exactly who was the first to call that year’s Cards the "Gashouse Gang," but everyone agrees that the nickname had to do with the team’s close resemblance to the rowdy, dirt-streaked assemblage of thugs who hung around the Gashouse District on Manhattan’s East Side. In any case, the matchup between St. Louis’ disheveled, brawl-prone Gang and the ace Tigers remains, as legendary sportswriter Grantland Rice predicted it would, "one of the most interesting post-season championships ever played."
In 1919, St. Louis’ general manager Branch Rickey (a teetotalling Methodist who refused to watch his own team play on the Sabbath) decided to build a team on the cheap. Instead of paying $100,000 or more for already-established players, he decided to train them himself, building an elaborate farm system that would send top-notch kids to the big leagues once he’d gotten them good and ready to play there.
By 1934, Rickey’s system had begun to pay off. His team had flashes of brilliance: Pitcher Dizzy Dean, a hillbilly from the Ozarks, won 30 games that year, the last time any pitcher won 30 in a season until Denny McLain won 31 in 1968. Dean’s brother Paul ("Daffy") won 19. (The rest of the team’s pitchers, combined, won 46. As a result, the brothers Dean went on an unsuccessful weeklong strike at the end of the summer to protest their inadequate paychecks.) Rickey’s scrappy, short-tempered bunch of country boys won 20 of their last 25 regular-season games, and they took the league pennant from the Giants--who’d squandered a seven-game lead going into September--at the last minute.
And so it was that Rickey’s Gashouse Gang faced the Tigers in a riveting seven-game Series. Thanks mostly to some remarkably inept play from Detroit’s usually stellar infield, the Cardinals won the first game 8-3. The Tigers took the second in 12 innings. In the third, Daffy Dean made everybody nervous by stranding 13 men on base, but his team triumphed 4-1. In Game 4, Dizzy Dean’s own shortstop beaned him in the head so hard that, according to the papers, the throw bounced 30 feet in the air and 100 feet down the right-field line. Detroit won the game. The Series was tied. The Tigers took the next game and St. Louis the one after that.
In the seventh, at Detroit, the Cards were winning handily. But all the Series’ pent-up tension came pouring out in the sixth inning when the pugnacious Ducky Medwick slid into the Tigers’ third baseman with his spikes up and then kicked him in the crotch, hard. When Medwick took his position in the outfield in the next inning, angry Detroiters pelted him with hot dogs, soda bottles, seat cushions and just about everything else they could find. He left the field three times; each time he returned, the barrage continued. Finally, to calm everyone down and bring the game to an end already, the baseball commissioner himself threw Medwick out of the stadium. The Cards protested, but it didn’t matter anyway: They won the game 11-0, and with it the World Series.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gashouse_Gang
Musical director Donald Voorhees (1935-41, 1949-53)
1935 The "Cavalcade of America" was first broadcast on he CBS Radio Network. In 1935 the Dupont Company began sponsoring a radio program by means of enhancing the company's image and bringing great events of American History to an audience of millions. This weekly program gained enough prestige to hire Hollywood and Broadway actors to play leading and supporting roles. Basil Rathbone, Claude Rains, Agnes Moorehead, Errol Flynn, Joan Fontaine, Orson Welles, Humphrey Bogart, John McIntire, Richard Widmark, John Lund and Bette Davis were just a few!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cavalcade_of_America
1936 The first generator at Boulder (later Hoover) Dam began transmitting electricity to Los Angeles. From 1939 to 1949, Hoover Powerplant was the world's largest hydroelectric installation; with an installed capacity of 2.08 million kilowatts, it is still one of the country's largest. There are 17 main turbines in Hoover Powerplant. The original turbines were all replaced through an uprating program between 1986 and 1993. With a rated capacity of 2,991,000 horsepower, and two station-service units rated at 3,500 horsepower each, for a plant total of 2,998,000 horsepower. The plant has a total nameplate capacity of 2,074,000 kilowatts, and generates more than 4 billion kilowatt-hours a year - enough to serve 1.3 million people.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoover_Dam
1938 The radio altimeter was first demonstrated in New York by Bell Labs, in the first public display of the device that gives pilots the height of an aircraft above the local terrain by bouncing radio signals off the ground to give a reliable altitude reading, thus changing aviation forever.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_altimeter
1938 Cleveland Browns & Chicago Bears play a penalty free NFL game
1940 World War II: Battle of Britain – During a night-time air raid by the German Luftwaffe, St. Paul's Cathedral in the City of London, England is hit by a bomb.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Paul%27s_Cathedral
Matanikau Offensive, 7-9 October 1942
1942 - The last day of the October Matanikau action on Guadalcanal as United States Marine Corps forces withdraw back across the Matanikau River after destroying most of the Imperial Japanese Army's 4th Infantry Regiment.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matanikau_Offensive
1943 "Land of the Lost" debuted on ABC radio. Land of the Lost was a 1940s radio fantasy adventure, written and narrated by Isabel Manning Hewson, about the adventures of two children who traveled underwater with the fatherly fish Red Lantern. Each week the show opened with the line, "In that wonderful kingdom at the bottom of the sea...", and then Red Lantern showed Billy and Isabel where different lost objects were stored beneath the waves.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_of_the_Lost_(radio)
1944 St Louis Cards beat St Louis Browns, 4 games to 2 in the World Series. Emil Verban drives in 3 runs as the Cardinals top the Browns 3-1 and win the Series in 6 games. Ted Wilks allows no one to reach base in 32?3 innings of relief, fanning 4 pinch hitters. George McQuinn hits .438 for the Series. The winners get $4,626 each; the Browns take $2,743, the lowest player shares since 1933.
1945 Parade in NYC for Fleet Admiral Nimitz and 13 USN/USMC Medal of Honor recipients
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chester_W._Nimitz
1946 The Simmons Company of Petersburg, Va., manufactured the first electric blanket. Its price was $39.50. The temperature was regulated by an "electronic" thermostatic control.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simmons_Bedding_Company#History
1947 First telephone conversation between a moving car & a plane
1947 "High Button Shoes" opened on Broadway. High Button Shoes was a musical theater production, first staged at the New Century Theatre on Broadway on October 9, 1947. It has music by Jule Styne, lyrics by Sammy Cahn and book by George Abbott and Phil Silvers. It was based on the novel The Sisters Liked Them Handsome by Stephen Longstreet. The show ran for 727 performances. The show starred Silvers and Nanette Fabray, who was soon replaced by Joan Roberts.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Button_Shoes
1953 "Topper" debuted on CBS-TV. Following the success of the Topper movies, the well-loved characters created by Thorne Smith were brought to life on the small screen from 1953-1956. When the ghosts of George and Marion Kirby return to their home after dying in a skiing accident, they discover the house is now occupied by uptight banker Cosmo Topper and his wife. Visible only to Cosmo, the Kirbys cause unending trouble in their attempts to teach him to enjoy life. Anne Jeffreys played Marion Kirby, Robert Sterling was George Kirby and the lead character of "Topper" was played by Leo G. Carroll on CBS-TV.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topper_(TV_series)
1954 "Hey There" by Rosemary Clooney topped the charts. Clooney joined the Columbia roster in 1950 and made several hits for them, among them "You're Just in Love," "Beautiful Brown Eyes," "Half As Much," "Hey There," the number one hit "Come on-A My House," and "If Teardrops Were Pennies." Clooney had 13 Top 40 hits in the early '50s, among them duets with Guy Mitchell and Marlene Dietrich.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hey_There
1956 A successful new silicone valve to drain "water on the brain" in cases of hydrocephalus, was reported by Dr. Eugene B. Spitz at the American Academy of Pediatrics meeting in New York City. John Holter, an engineer, invented the shunt using a silicone one-way, pressure-sealing valve which avoided the clogging problems experienced with the earlier metal valves previously tried by surgeons Spitz and Nulsen. The shunt drained fluid and controlled cranial pressure. In the 8 months since the first installation in Feb 1956, the Holter valve was implanted in 68 cases of which 57 were successful in decompressing the brain. Previous means had a success rate of only 16 out of 122 cases. The device has since saved many thousands of lives.
www.thecnr.com/spitz.htm
1960 Cowboy QB Eddie LeBaron throws shortest touchdown pass (2")
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_LeBaron
1961 Yank Whitey Ford breaks Ruth record of 29 2/3 consecutive scoreless inning
1961 "Hit the Road Jack" by Ray Charles topped the charts. Hit The Road Jack was written by Ray's good friend Percy Mayfield, an R&B singer who was badly disfigured in a car accident soon after he started performing. Mayfield cut back his touring and made his mark as a prolific songwriter, with many of his compositions performed by Charles. It was the second (and shortest, at an even two minutes) of Charles' 3 #1 hits.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hit_the_Road_Jack
1962 NASA civilian test pilot John B McKay takes X-15 to 128,615 feet. John B. McKay was one of the first pilots assigned to the X-15 flight research program at NASA's Flight Research Center, Edwards Air Force Base, California. As a civilian research pilot and aeronautical engineer, he made 30 flights in X-15s from October 28, 1960, until September 8, 1966. His peak altitude was 295,600 feet, and his highest speed was 3,863 mph (Mach 5.64).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_B._McKay
1965 Beatles' "Yesterday," single goes #1 & stays #1 for 4 weeks. McCartney is the only Beatle to play on "Yesterday." It was the first time a Beatle recorded without the others. A string quartet was brought in to play on this. In addition to the strings, this is notable as one of the first Pop songs to use elements of Classical Music. While touring in Paris, McCartney claims he tumbled out of bed and the tune was in his head. He thought he had heard it somewhere before.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yesterday
1967 A day after being captured, Marxist revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara, age 39 is executed by the Bolivian army for attempting to incite a revolution in Bolivia. The U.S.-military-backed Bolivian forces captured Guevara on October 8 while battling his band of guerillas in Bolivia and assassinated him the following day. His hands were cut off as proof of death and his body was buried in an unmarked grave. In 1997, Guevara's remains were found and sent back to Cuba, where they were reburied in a ceremony attended by President Fidel Castro and thousands of Cubans.
Ernesto Rafael Guevara de la Serna was born to a well-off family in Argentina in 1928. While studying medicine at the University of Buenos Aires, he took time off to travel around South America on a motorcycle; during this time, he witnessed the poverty and oppression of the lower classes. He received a medical degree in 1953 and continued his travels around Latin America, becoming involved with left-wing organizations. In the mid 1950s, Guevara met up with Fidel Castro and his group of exiled revolutionaries in Mexico. Guevara played a key role in Castro's seizure of power from Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista in 1959 and later served as Castro's right-hand man and minister of industry. Guevara strongly opposed U.S. domination in Latin America and advocated peasant-based revolutions to combat social injustice in Third World countries. Castro later described him as "an artist of revolutionary warfare."
Guevara resigned—some say he was dismissed—from his Cuban government post in April 1965, possibly over differences with Castro about the nation’s economic and foreign policies. Guevara then disappeared from Cuba, traveled to Africa and eventually resurfaced in Bolivia, where he was killed. Following his death, Guevara achieved hero status among people around the world as a symbol of anti-imperialism and revolution. A 1960 photo taken by Alberto Korda of Guevara in a beret became iconic and has since appeared on countless posters and T-shirts. However, not everyone considers Guevara a hero: He is accused, among other things, of ordering the deaths of hundreds of people in Cuban prisons during the revolution.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guevara,_Che
1969 Supremes release "Someday We'll Be Together." "Someday We'll Be Together" was a remake of a song originally recorded by Jackie and Johnny. Diana Ross is the only member of the group whose voice is on the recording. The backing vocals are by session artists and Johnny Bristol, who co-wrote the song. That's Johnny Bristol coaching Diana through the song, offering "Sing it pretty" and "You better" along the way.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Someday_We%27ll_Be_Together
1969 In Chicago, the United States National Guard is called in for crowd control as demonstrations continue in connection with the trial of the "Chicago Eight" that began on September 24.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Eight#Trial
1973 Paul Simon earns gold record "Loves Me like a Rock"
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loves_Me_Like_A_Rock
1976 "A Fifth of Beethoven" by Walter Murphy & the Big Apple Band topped the charts.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Fifth_of_Beethoven
1980 First consumer use of home banking by computer (Knoxville TN)
1986 Gilbert Perreault, Buffalo, became 12th NHLer to score 500 goals
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilbert_Perreault
1986 Senate convicted US District Judge Harry E Claiborne making him the 5th federal official to be removed from office through impeachment
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_E._Claiborne
1988 Dennis Eckersley, first to save all 4 games in a championship series. Oakland beats Boston 4-1 to complete a 4-game sweep of the ALCS. Dennis Eckersley saves all four games and is named series MVP.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Eckersley
1990 Radio stations around the world play "Imagine" honoring John Lennon
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imagine_(album)
1992 A great meteor, seen from Kentucky to New York, was observed at 7:50 pm EDT. It landed as a stone (chondrite, Olivine-Bronzite, H6, brecciated) meteorite. Its 12.37 kg mass crashed onto the Chevrolet Malibou car of Mrs. Michelle Knapp of Wells Street in Peekskill, NY. The fireball [mpeg video] was first seen over West Virginia and traveled about 700 km NE, before smashing into the parked car with a velocity of about 80 m/s. It is only the 4th recovered meteorite for which detailed data exist on its trajectory. Dark flight began about 30 km high, when the velocity dropped below 3 km/s and it continued an additional 50 km without ablation. Since getting hit by the meteorite, the car has toured Germany, Switzerland, Japan, France and the US.
www.todayinsci.com/10/10_09.htm
1981 - The temperature at San Juan, Puerto Rico, soared to 98 degrees to establish an all-time record for that location. (The Weather Channel)
1987 - Eighteen cities in the southeastern U.S. and the Middle Atlantic Coast Region reported record low temperatures for the date. Asheville NC dipped to 29 degrees, and the record low of 47 degrees at Jacksonville FL marked their fourth of the month. A second surge of cold air brought light snow to the Northern Plains, particularly the Black Hills of South Dakota. (The National Weather Summary)
1988 - Ten cities in the northeastern U.S. reported record low temperatures for the date, including Hartford CT with a reading of 28 degrees. Snow continued in northern New England through the morning hours. Mount Washington NH reported five inches of snow. Warm weather continued in the western U.S. Los Angeles CA reported a record high of 102 degrees. (The National Weather Summary)
1989 - Unseasonably cold weather continued in the Upper Midwest. Thirteen cities in Ohio, Michigan and Indiana reported record low temperatures for the date, including Marquette MI with a reading of 20 degrees. Unseasonably warm weather continued in the western U.S. as the San Francisco Giants won the National League pennant. San Jose CA reported a record high of 91 degrees. (The National Weather Summary)
1995 An Amtrak Sunset Limited train is derailed by saboteurs near Palo Verde, Arizona.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunset_Limited#Amtrak
1999 The last flight of the SR-71.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SR-71
2001 Second mailing of anthrax letters from Trenton, New Jersey in the 2001 anthrax attack.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001_anthrax_attacks
2006 North Korea allegedly tests its first nuclear device.
2009 First lunar impact of the Centaur and LCROSS spacecrafts as part of NASA's Lunar Precursor Robotic Program.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LCROSS
Births
1873 - Charles Walgreen, American entrepreneur (d. 1939)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Walgreen
1884 Martin Johnson (d 1937) and his wife Osa Johnson (née Leighty) were U.S. adventurers and documentary filmmakers. (I Married Adventure)
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1886 Rube Marquard, American baseball player, left-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball in the 1910s and early 1920s. He achieved his greatest success with the New York Giants, make baseball history by winning nineteen decisions in a row.(d. 1980)
1890 Aimee Semple McPherson, American Pentecostal evangelist at Angelus Temple, radio preacher, founded Foursquare Church, media personality (d. 1944)
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1899 Charles Bruce Catton (d 1978) American journalist and notable historian of the American Civil War, Pulitzer Prize for history in 1954 for A Stillness at Appomattox, his study of the final campaign of the war in Virginia.
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1900 Joseph Friedman, American inventor (d. 1982)
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1903 Walter O'Malley, American baseball executive, served as Brooklyn Dodgers chief legal counsel when Jackie Robinson broke the racial color barrier in 1947. In 1958, as owner of the Dodgers, he brought major league baseball to the West Coast, moving the Dodgers from Brooklyn to Los Angeles and coordinating the move of the New York Giants to San Francisco at a time when there were no teams west of Missouri (d. 1979)
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1908 Lee Wiley, American jazz singer (d. 1975)
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1911 Joseph John Rosenthal (d 2006) American photographer who received the Pulitzer Prize for his iconic World War II photograph Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima, taken during the Battle of Iwo Jima. This picture became one of the best-known photographs of the war.
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1915 Clifford M. Hardin, United States Secretary of Agriculture (d 2010)
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1918 E. Howard Hunt, American Watergate figure (d. 2007)
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1922 Fyvush Finkel, American actor
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1925 Johnny Stompanato, American organized crime figure (d. 1958)
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1940 John Lennon, British musician and songwriter (The Beatles) (d. 1980)
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1940 Joe Pepitone, American baseball player, former Major League Baseball first baseman and outfielder for the New York Yankees (1962–1969), Houston Astros (1970), Chicago Cubs (1970–1973) and Atlanta Braves (1973).
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1941 Trent Lott, American politician
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1941 Brian Lamb, Founder of C-SPAN
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1943 Mike Peters, American cartoonist, (Mother Goose & Grim)
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1948 Dave Samuels vibraphonist (Spyro Gyra-Morning Dance)
1950 Jody Williams, American teacher and aid worker, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
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1953 Tony Shalhoub, American actor
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1954 Scott Bakula, American actor
1958 Mike Singletary, former American football player
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Deaths
1747 David Brainerd (b 1718) was an American missionary to the Native Americans who had a particularly fruitful ministry among the Delaware Indians of New Jersey. During his short life he was beset by many difficulties. As a result, his biography has become a source of inspiration and encouragement to many Christians, including missionaries such as William Carey and Jim Elliot, and Brainerd's cousin, the Second Great Awakening evangelist James Brainerd Taylor (1801–1829).
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1806 Benjamin Banneker (b 1731) American self-educated inventor, astronomer, inventor, mathematician and compiler of almanacs who was son of a freed slave who became one of the first important black American intellectuals. He was the first to record the arrival of the "seventeen-year locusts", or periodical cicadas. In 1753, Banneker built a wooden clock, that kept accurate time even though he had only previously seen a sundial and a pocket watch. He calculated the clock's gear ratios and carved them with a pocket knife. In 1789, he successfully predicted an eclipse. He helped survey the site of Washington D.C. (1791-3). Banneker was also an early antislavery publicist who worked to improve the lot of black people in the U.S.
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1808 John Claiborne, U.S. politician, Representative from Virginia (b. 1777)
1906 Joseph Farwell Glidden (b 1813) American inventor, native of New Hampshire, who was an Illinois farmer when he developed the design of the first commercial barbed wire, patented 24 Nov 1874, a product that would transform the West. Before this innovation, settlers on the treeless plains had no easy way to fence livestock away from cropland, and ranchers had no way to prevent their herds from roaming far and wide. Glidden’s barbed wire opened the plains to large-scale farming, and closed the open range, bringing the era of the cowboy and the round-up to an end. With his partner, Isaac L. Ellwood, Glidden formed the Barb Fence Company of De Kalb, Illinois, and quickly became one of the wealthiest men in the nation. He died in De Kalb, Illinois.
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1940 Wilfred Grenfell, English medical missionary to Newfoundland and Labrador (b. 1865).
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1958 Pope Pius XII Eugenio Pacelli, (b. 1876)
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1967 Gordon Willard Allport (b 1897) American humanistic psychologist and educator who developed trait theory in an original theory of personality. Allport thought the uniqueness of each personality was one of the most important things to understand. Part of this uniqueness is due to the many, many parts of our personality. He and many other psychologists considered reflexes, habits, drives or needs, beliefs, our particular view of our environment, goals or intentions, values, attitudes, and traits as being the kind of factors that determine what we do. Thus, "personality" becomes very complex. Unlike Freud, he did not see us as slavishly controlled by innate or external factors because humans have the ability to make conscious choices about how to behave.
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1987 - Clare Boothe Luce, American diplomat (b. 1903)
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1987 William Parry Murphy, American physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1892)
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1989 Penny Lernoux, American journalist and author (b. 1940)
1996 Walter Kerr, American theater critic (b. 1913)
2001 Dagmar,Virginia Ruth Egnor American television personality, stage name as a satirical reference to the huge success on television of the TV series Mama (1949-57), in which the younger sister is Dagmar Hansen. In the TV show Broadway Open House, she was instructed to wear a low-cut gown, sit on a stool and play the role of a stereotypical dumb blonde. With tight sweaters displaying her curvy 5' 8" figure (measuring 42"-23"-39"), her dim-bulb character was an immediate success, (b. 1921)
2001 Herbert Ross (b 1927) American film director, producer, choreographer and actor. (Steel Magnolias)
2002 Charles Guggenheim, American film director/producer (b. 1924)
2002 Aileen Wournos, American serial killer sentenced to death (b. 1956)
2005 Louis Nye, American comedian and actor (b. 1913)
2006 Raymond Noorda (b 1924) American electrical engineer, known as "the father of computer networking" because he was primarily responsible for making widespread the business use of networked personal computers (PC's). He did not invent the local area network (LAN) by which computers share files and printers through interlinked nodes. However, as chief executive of Novell Inc (1983-94), his organization and marketing turned the company's NetWare brand software into the first major PC network operating system. It linked even previously incompatible computers, whether IBM-compatible, Apple or Unix. To establish standardization in the industry, he believed in working with competitors, for which he coined the term "co-opetition."«
2007 Enrico Banducci born Harry Banducci (b 1922) American impresario, operated the hungry i nightclub in San Francisco's North Beach neighborhood, where he launched the careers of Lenny Bruce, Mort Sahl, Bill Cosby, Jonathan Winters, and Barbra Streisand, and featured Woody Allen and Dick Cavett before they were well-known, as well as countless folk singers
Christian Feast Day:
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John Leonardi
Dionysius the Areopagite
John Henry Newman
October 9 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Saints
Holy Apostle James, son of Alphaeus (1st century)
Saint Andronicus and his wife St. Athanasia of Egypt (500)
Righteous Forefather Abraham and his nephew righteous Lot (2000 B.C.)
Martyrs Juventius and Maximus at Antioch (4th century)
Saint Publia the Confessor of Antioch (360)
Saint Peter of Galatia (9th century)
Saint Stephen the New of Serbia (1427)
Saint Demetrius, Patriarch of Alexandria (231)
Hieromartyr Denis, Bishop of Paris (258)
Saint Stephen the Blind, King of Serbia (1468)
New hieromartyr Peter, priest (1918)
New hieromartyr Constantine, priest (1937)
Other Commemorations
Icons of the Most Holy Theotokos "Korsun" (Cherson) and "Assuage My Sorrow"
Glorification (1889) of Tikhon of Moscow (1925)
Minnesota : Leif Ericsson Day (c 1000)
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1000 Leif Ericson discovers "Vinland" (possibly New England). When Leif and his crew left Markland and found land again, they landed and built some houses. They found the area pleasant: there were plenty of large salmon in the river and the climate was mild, with little frost in the winter and green grass year-round. They remained at this place over the winter. The sagas mention that one of Leif's men, Tyrkir, possibly a Hungarian, found wild grapes, and that Leif accordingly named the country Vinland after them.
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1558 Mérida is founded in Venezuela.
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1635 Religious dissident Roger Williams banished from Massachusetts Bay Colony. Puritan minister Roger Williams was found guilty of spreading "newe & dangerous opinions" and banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Before leaving England in 1630, Williams had seen heretics whipped, imprisoned, and burned at the stake. He called for religious freedom, a serious threat to the social order, and avoided arrest only by fleeing to Boston.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Williams_(theologian)
1701 Collegiate School of CT (Yale U), chartered in New Haven. Yale University is thethird oldest institution of higher learning in the United States, located in New Haven, CT. It was founded by Congregationalists in 1701 as the Collegiate School of Connecticut and at the time adhered to orthodox Puritanism. After being located in Branford and other sites in the area, the school settled in New Haven in 1716. The name was changed to Yale College in 1718.
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1775 Lord Dartmouth orders British officers to North Carolina On this day in 1775, just a few short months after commanding British soldiers during the Battle of Bunker Hill, General Sir William Howe writes to the British-appointed secretary of state for the American colonies, Lord Dartmouth, to inform him of his belief that the British army should be evacuated from Boston to Rhode Island. From there, British forces could move expeditiously to the southern colonies, without having to go around Cape Cod. As Lord Dartmouth had previously received reports that men were needed in the southern colonies from the likes of Josiah Martin, the royal governor of North Carolina, and John Murray, the royal governor of South Carolina, he ordered General Howe to send officers stationed in Boston to North Carolina to assist Martin in the southern campaign.
Martin had been directing Loyalist efforts in North Carolina from his ship Cruiser anchored in the Cape Fear River since a Patriot attack on his home in April 1775. When the residents of Mecklenburg County effectively declared their independence from the crown that May, Martin had sent a copy of their resolves to Britain, requested military supplies from Howe’s predecessor, General Thomas Gage, in Boston and plotted to arm the slaves of North Carolina to help put down any Patriot uprising.
Word of Martin’s intent to incite a slave rebellion mobilized a successful Patriot attack against Martin’s headquarters at Fort Johnston on Cape Fear on July 20, 1775. Following the attack, Martin moved the Cruiser off the coast of North Carolina, where he continued to arm the Loyalists with British supplies. On February 27, 1776, the Patriots managed to defeat the Loyalists at Moores Creek Bridge before the Loyalists reached the coast to await a scheduled rendezvous with Cornwallis. With the Loyalists routed, Cornwallis chose not to land his men, aborting his intended southern campaign. Instead, he traveled north to join the successful British Battle for Long Island in August 1776.
1776 Father Francisco Palou founds Mission San Francisco de Asis in what is now San Francisco, California.
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1780 The first U.S. astronomy expedition to record an eclipse of the sun left on this day from Harvard College, Cambridge, Mass., for Penobscot Bay, led by Samuel Williams. A boat was supplied by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts with four professors and six students. Although the country was at war with Britain, the British officer in charge of Penobscot Bay permitted the expedition to land and observe the eclipse of 27 Oct 1780. The eclipse began at 11:11 am and ended at 1:50 pm. They set up equipment to observe the predicted total eclipse of the sun. A solar eclipse occurred, but the expedition was shocked to find itself outside the path of totality. They saw a thin arc of the sun instead of its complete obscuration by the moon.
1812 War of 1812: In a naval engagement on Lake Erie, American forces capture two British ships: HMS Detroit and HMS Caledonia.
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1837 A meeting at the U.S. Naval Academy establishes the U.S. Naval Institute.
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1842 Episcopal missionary James L. Breck was ordained a priest at Duck Creek, WI. In 1850, this "apostle of the wilderness" moved to Minnesota and in 1858 founded the Seabury Divinity School. It is said that "no priest did more for the Episcopal Church in the West than Breck."
anglicanhistory.org/usa/jlbreck/letters/04.html
1845 The eminent and controversial Anglican, John Henry Newman, is received into the Roman Catholic Church.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Henry_Newman
1855 The first U.S. patent was issued for a sewing machine motor to Isaac Merritt Singer of New York City. It covered a spring and cone pulley device. (No. 13,661) Singer was the most flamboyant of 19th-century sewing machine inventors, having sharpened his skills as an actor before becoming an inventor. Around 1850, he began concentrating on improving an existing sewing machine. Success followed quickly. This 1853 model is a commercial sewing machine. The patent claims were for the methods of feeding the cloth, regulating the tension on the needle thread, and lubricating the needle thread so that leather could be sewn.
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1855 Joshua C. Stoddard of Worcester, Massachusetts, received a patent for his calliope. The first instrument consisted of 15 whistles, of graduated sizes, attached in a row to the top of a small steam boiler. A long cylinder with pins of different shapes driven into it ran the length of the boiler. The pins were so arranged that when the cylinder revolved, they pressed the valves and blew the whistles in proper sequence. The different shapes enabled the operator to play notes of varying length. Later, Stoddard replaced the cylinder with a keyboard. Wires running from the keys to the valves enabled the operator to play the instrument like a piano. He patented a successful hay rake in 1879 and a fire escape in 1884. He died on April 4, 1902.
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1861 American Civil War: Battle of Santa Rosa Island – Union troops repel a Confederate attempt to capture Fort Pickens.
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1864 American Civil War: Battle of Tom's Brook – Union cavalrymen in the Shenandoah Valley defeat Confederate forces at Tom's Brook, Virginia.
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1865 The first underground oil pipeline was laid between Oil Creek and Pithole, Pa. Samuel Van Syckel, who came to the creek in 1864 with some money hoping to make more, had handled quantities of oil produced at Pithole, several miles from a shipping point, only to see his profits eaten up by the tyranny of teamsters. With determination, he built a mostly buried, two-inch pipeline with three relay pumps, 5.5 miles between the wells and the railroad. Carrying eighty barrels of oil an hour, the day that the Van Syckel pipe-line began to run oil, a revolution began in the business. The teamsters turned out in fury, digging up and cutting the pipe so that the oil would be lost. It was only by stationing an armed guard that they were held in check.
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1869 President Grant announces death of former President Pierce. On this day in 1869, President Ulysses S. Grant announces the death of former President Franklin Pierce. Pierce, whose presidency was remembered mostly for his failure to end the debate over slavery, had died the day before at his home in Concord, New Hamsphire.
Pierce was, and remains, the only president to hail from New Hampshire. He studied law in college and was elected to the New Hamsphire state legislature in 1828. In 1832, he won a seat in the U.S. Senate.
The Mexican War of 1848, in which Pierce served with distinction with the U.S. Army, briefly interrupted his political career. In 1852, he returned to politics and was chosen from relative obscurity as the Democratic nominee for the presidency. Upon winning the job in 1853, he promised to maintain the status quo of the Compromise of 1850—a bill that put off the decision on slavery in four new western territories and admitted California as a free state, but instituted the Fugitive Slave Act, requiring citizens to assist in the capture of slaves attempting to escape bondage. This was seen as appeasing southern pro-slavery elements and his willingness to do so gradually earned him the wrath of his former support base of northern abolitionists. The Democrats’ own campaign slogan in the next presidential race became "anyone but Pierce."
Pierce and his wife Jane had three boys. Their first child died in infancy; a second, Franky, died at age four from typhus; and their third son, Benny, was killed in a train wreck from which Pierce and his wife escaped alive. This string of tragedies drove Pierce to binge drink. He also suffered from chronic nervous exhaustion. By the end of his single term in the White House a Philadelphia Enquirer reporter described Pierce as "a wreck of his former self…his face wears a hue so ghastly and cadaverous that one could almost fancy he was gazing on a corpse."
Upon leaving office in 1857, Pierce was asked what he would do next; he allegedly replied "there’s nothing left [to do] but get drunk." Although the Democrats urged him to run for president again in 1856 and 1860, he refused. The effects of alcoholism led to his death in 1869 at the age of 65. Upon his death, Grant arranged for "suitable military and naval honors" for Pierce’s funeral and, in keeping with tradition, ordered flags flown at half-staff on all federal buildings.
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1872 The first mail order catalog was delivered. Aaron Montgomery Ward sent out his first mail order catalog in 1872 - for his Montgomery Ward mail order business located at Clark and Kinzie Streets in Chicago. The first catalog consisted of a single sheet of paper with a price list, 8 by 12 inches, showing the merchandise for sale with ordering instructions.
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1876 The first two-way telephone conversation occurred over outdoor wires. Alexander Graham Bell had a two-way conversation with Watson over the telegraph line linking Boston and East Cambridge. Three days earlier in Boston, 6 Oct 1876, Bell two-way telephone test of conversation with Watson had been the world's first two-way telephone conversation.
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1877 American Humane Association organized in Cleveland, dedicated to the welfare of animals and children. The AHA's Film and Television Unit has monitored the welfare of animals during the production of films and television programs since 1940. They are the source of the familiar disclaimer "No animals were harmed...", which is a registered trademark of the AHA. The Unit's creation was prompted by a scene in the 1939 film Jesse James in which a blindfolded horse was ridden off a cliff to its death.
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1888 Public admitted to Washington Monument. When all of the work was concluded, the cost of the project came to a grand total of $1,187,710. Congress then shifted control of the monument and its staffing to the War Department, with the Washington National Monument Society acting as advisers. On October 9, 1888, the Washington Monument was officially opened to the general public.
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1903 - New York City was deluged with 11.17 inches of rain 24 hours to establish a state record. Severe flooding occurred in the Passaic Valley of New Jersey where more than fifteen inches of rain was reported. (David Ludlum) (The Weather Channel)
1907 - Las Cruces, New Mexico is incorporated.
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1910 Nap Lajoie challenges Ty Cobb for batting title. The battle for the AL batting title is decided on the final day, when Detroit's Ty Cobb edges Cleveland's Nap Lajoie .3850687 to .3840947. Neither man covers himself with glory. Lajoie goes 8-for-8 in a doubleheader with the Browns, accepting six "gift" hits on bunt singles on which Browns rookie 3B Red Corriden is apparently purposely stationed at the edge of the OF grass. The prejudiced St. Louis scorer also credits popular Nap with a "hit" on the Brownie SS Bobby Wallace's wild throw to 1B. In Lajoie's last at bat, he is safe at first on an error call, but is credited with a sac bunt since a man was on. Cobb, meanwhile, rather than risk his average, sits out the last two games, the Tigers beating the White Sox in the finale, 2-1. Ban Johnson investigates and clears everyone concerned, enabling Ty Cobb to win the 3rd of nine straight batting crowns.
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1914 - World War I: Siege of Antwerp – Antwerp, Belgium falls to German troops.
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1915 Woodrow Wilson becomes first president to attend a World Series game. Playing game two in tiny Baker Bowl in Philadelphia, Boston's 19-game winner Rube Foster allows the Phils three hits and drives in the winning run to break a 1-1 tie in the 9th against Erskine Mayer. The Sox win, 2-1. President Wilson and his fiance watch the game, the first President to attend a World Series.
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1916 Babe Ruth pitches & wins longest WS game (14 innings) 2-1. After a Sunday off, Babe Ruth outpitches Sherry Smith to win Game Two of the World Series 2-1 in 14 innings. Both starters go the distance with Smith allowing seven hits, Ruth giving up 6. According to the Boston Traveler, each starter throws 148 pitches. Ruth allows one run in the first, a homer by CF Hy Myers that skips by Harry Hooper. It is only homer off Ruth this year. Only two Robins reach base after the 8th, one on a walk and another on an error. This is the start of 29 2/3 scoreless World Series innings pitched by Ruth.
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1919 Black Sox scandal: The Cincinnati Reds win the World Series.
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1930 First transcontinental flight by a woman completed, Laura Ingalls. On October 9, 1930, Laura Ingalls became the first woman to fly across the United States as she completed a nine-stop journey from Roosevelt Field in New York to Glendale, CA. Ingalls held more U.S. transcontinental air records during the 1930's than any other woman, including a transcontinental record of 30 hours east to west and 25 hours west to east (round trip New York and Los Angeles), both in 1930. In 1935, she became the first women to fly nonstop from the east coast to the west coast and then immediately broke Amelia Earhart's nonstop transcontinental west-to-east record with a flight from Los Angeles to New York in 13 hours, 34 minutes.
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1934 The Gashouse Gang wins the World Series. On October 9, 1934, the St. Louis Cardinals defeat the Detroit Tigers in the seventh game of the World Series. No one seems to know exactly who was the first to call that year’s Cards the "Gashouse Gang," but everyone agrees that the nickname had to do with the team’s close resemblance to the rowdy, dirt-streaked assemblage of thugs who hung around the Gashouse District on Manhattan’s East Side. In any case, the matchup between St. Louis’ disheveled, brawl-prone Gang and the ace Tigers remains, as legendary sportswriter Grantland Rice predicted it would, "one of the most interesting post-season championships ever played."
In 1919, St. Louis’ general manager Branch Rickey (a teetotalling Methodist who refused to watch his own team play on the Sabbath) decided to build a team on the cheap. Instead of paying $100,000 or more for already-established players, he decided to train them himself, building an elaborate farm system that would send top-notch kids to the big leagues once he’d gotten them good and ready to play there.
By 1934, Rickey’s system had begun to pay off. His team had flashes of brilliance: Pitcher Dizzy Dean, a hillbilly from the Ozarks, won 30 games that year, the last time any pitcher won 30 in a season until Denny McLain won 31 in 1968. Dean’s brother Paul ("Daffy") won 19. (The rest of the team’s pitchers, combined, won 46. As a result, the brothers Dean went on an unsuccessful weeklong strike at the end of the summer to protest their inadequate paychecks.) Rickey’s scrappy, short-tempered bunch of country boys won 20 of their last 25 regular-season games, and they took the league pennant from the Giants--who’d squandered a seven-game lead going into September--at the last minute.
And so it was that Rickey’s Gashouse Gang faced the Tigers in a riveting seven-game Series. Thanks mostly to some remarkably inept play from Detroit’s usually stellar infield, the Cardinals won the first game 8-3. The Tigers took the second in 12 innings. In the third, Daffy Dean made everybody nervous by stranding 13 men on base, but his team triumphed 4-1. In Game 4, Dizzy Dean’s own shortstop beaned him in the head so hard that, according to the papers, the throw bounced 30 feet in the air and 100 feet down the right-field line. Detroit won the game. The Series was tied. The Tigers took the next game and St. Louis the one after that.
In the seventh, at Detroit, the Cards were winning handily. But all the Series’ pent-up tension came pouring out in the sixth inning when the pugnacious Ducky Medwick slid into the Tigers’ third baseman with his spikes up and then kicked him in the crotch, hard. When Medwick took his position in the outfield in the next inning, angry Detroiters pelted him with hot dogs, soda bottles, seat cushions and just about everything else they could find. He left the field three times; each time he returned, the barrage continued. Finally, to calm everyone down and bring the game to an end already, the baseball commissioner himself threw Medwick out of the stadium. The Cards protested, but it didn’t matter anyway: They won the game 11-0, and with it the World Series.
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Musical director Donald Voorhees (1935-41, 1949-53)
1935 The "Cavalcade of America" was first broadcast on he CBS Radio Network. In 1935 the Dupont Company began sponsoring a radio program by means of enhancing the company's image and bringing great events of American History to an audience of millions. This weekly program gained enough prestige to hire Hollywood and Broadway actors to play leading and supporting roles. Basil Rathbone, Claude Rains, Agnes Moorehead, Errol Flynn, Joan Fontaine, Orson Welles, Humphrey Bogart, John McIntire, Richard Widmark, John Lund and Bette Davis were just a few!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cavalcade_of_America
1936 The first generator at Boulder (later Hoover) Dam began transmitting electricity to Los Angeles. From 1939 to 1949, Hoover Powerplant was the world's largest hydroelectric installation; with an installed capacity of 2.08 million kilowatts, it is still one of the country's largest. There are 17 main turbines in Hoover Powerplant. The original turbines were all replaced through an uprating program between 1986 and 1993. With a rated capacity of 2,991,000 horsepower, and two station-service units rated at 3,500 horsepower each, for a plant total of 2,998,000 horsepower. The plant has a total nameplate capacity of 2,074,000 kilowatts, and generates more than 4 billion kilowatt-hours a year - enough to serve 1.3 million people.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoover_Dam
1938 The radio altimeter was first demonstrated in New York by Bell Labs, in the first public display of the device that gives pilots the height of an aircraft above the local terrain by bouncing radio signals off the ground to give a reliable altitude reading, thus changing aviation forever.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_altimeter
1938 Cleveland Browns & Chicago Bears play a penalty free NFL game
1940 World War II: Battle of Britain – During a night-time air raid by the German Luftwaffe, St. Paul's Cathedral in the City of London, England is hit by a bomb.
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Matanikau Offensive, 7-9 October 1942
1942 - The last day of the October Matanikau action on Guadalcanal as United States Marine Corps forces withdraw back across the Matanikau River after destroying most of the Imperial Japanese Army's 4th Infantry Regiment.
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1943 "Land of the Lost" debuted on ABC radio. Land of the Lost was a 1940s radio fantasy adventure, written and narrated by Isabel Manning Hewson, about the adventures of two children who traveled underwater with the fatherly fish Red Lantern. Each week the show opened with the line, "In that wonderful kingdom at the bottom of the sea...", and then Red Lantern showed Billy and Isabel where different lost objects were stored beneath the waves.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_of_the_Lost_(radio)
1944 St Louis Cards beat St Louis Browns, 4 games to 2 in the World Series. Emil Verban drives in 3 runs as the Cardinals top the Browns 3-1 and win the Series in 6 games. Ted Wilks allows no one to reach base in 32?3 innings of relief, fanning 4 pinch hitters. George McQuinn hits .438 for the Series. The winners get $4,626 each; the Browns take $2,743, the lowest player shares since 1933.
1945 Parade in NYC for Fleet Admiral Nimitz and 13 USN/USMC Medal of Honor recipients
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chester_W._Nimitz
1946 The Simmons Company of Petersburg, Va., manufactured the first electric blanket. Its price was $39.50. The temperature was regulated by an "electronic" thermostatic control.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simmons_Bedding_Company#History
1947 First telephone conversation between a moving car & a plane
1947 "High Button Shoes" opened on Broadway. High Button Shoes was a musical theater production, first staged at the New Century Theatre on Broadway on October 9, 1947. It has music by Jule Styne, lyrics by Sammy Cahn and book by George Abbott and Phil Silvers. It was based on the novel The Sisters Liked Them Handsome by Stephen Longstreet. The show ran for 727 performances. The show starred Silvers and Nanette Fabray, who was soon replaced by Joan Roberts.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Button_Shoes
1953 "Topper" debuted on CBS-TV. Following the success of the Topper movies, the well-loved characters created by Thorne Smith were brought to life on the small screen from 1953-1956. When the ghosts of George and Marion Kirby return to their home after dying in a skiing accident, they discover the house is now occupied by uptight banker Cosmo Topper and his wife. Visible only to Cosmo, the Kirbys cause unending trouble in their attempts to teach him to enjoy life. Anne Jeffreys played Marion Kirby, Robert Sterling was George Kirby and the lead character of "Topper" was played by Leo G. Carroll on CBS-TV.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topper_(TV_series)
1954 "Hey There" by Rosemary Clooney topped the charts. Clooney joined the Columbia roster in 1950 and made several hits for them, among them "You're Just in Love," "Beautiful Brown Eyes," "Half As Much," "Hey There," the number one hit "Come on-A My House," and "If Teardrops Were Pennies." Clooney had 13 Top 40 hits in the early '50s, among them duets with Guy Mitchell and Marlene Dietrich.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hey_There
1956 A successful new silicone valve to drain "water on the brain" in cases of hydrocephalus, was reported by Dr. Eugene B. Spitz at the American Academy of Pediatrics meeting in New York City. John Holter, an engineer, invented the shunt using a silicone one-way, pressure-sealing valve which avoided the clogging problems experienced with the earlier metal valves previously tried by surgeons Spitz and Nulsen. The shunt drained fluid and controlled cranial pressure. In the 8 months since the first installation in Feb 1956, the Holter valve was implanted in 68 cases of which 57 were successful in decompressing the brain. Previous means had a success rate of only 16 out of 122 cases. The device has since saved many thousands of lives.
www.thecnr.com/spitz.htm
1960 Cowboy QB Eddie LeBaron throws shortest touchdown pass (2")
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_LeBaron
1961 Yank Whitey Ford breaks Ruth record of 29 2/3 consecutive scoreless inning
1961 "Hit the Road Jack" by Ray Charles topped the charts. Hit The Road Jack was written by Ray's good friend Percy Mayfield, an R&B singer who was badly disfigured in a car accident soon after he started performing. Mayfield cut back his touring and made his mark as a prolific songwriter, with many of his compositions performed by Charles. It was the second (and shortest, at an even two minutes) of Charles' 3 #1 hits.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hit_the_Road_Jack
1962 NASA civilian test pilot John B McKay takes X-15 to 128,615 feet. John B. McKay was one of the first pilots assigned to the X-15 flight research program at NASA's Flight Research Center, Edwards Air Force Base, California. As a civilian research pilot and aeronautical engineer, he made 30 flights in X-15s from October 28, 1960, until September 8, 1966. His peak altitude was 295,600 feet, and his highest speed was 3,863 mph (Mach 5.64).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_B._McKay
1965 Beatles' "Yesterday," single goes #1 & stays #1 for 4 weeks. McCartney is the only Beatle to play on "Yesterday." It was the first time a Beatle recorded without the others. A string quartet was brought in to play on this. In addition to the strings, this is notable as one of the first Pop songs to use elements of Classical Music. While touring in Paris, McCartney claims he tumbled out of bed and the tune was in his head. He thought he had heard it somewhere before.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yesterday
1967 A day after being captured, Marxist revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara, age 39 is executed by the Bolivian army for attempting to incite a revolution in Bolivia. The U.S.-military-backed Bolivian forces captured Guevara on October 8 while battling his band of guerillas in Bolivia and assassinated him the following day. His hands were cut off as proof of death and his body was buried in an unmarked grave. In 1997, Guevara's remains were found and sent back to Cuba, where they were reburied in a ceremony attended by President Fidel Castro and thousands of Cubans.
Ernesto Rafael Guevara de la Serna was born to a well-off family in Argentina in 1928. While studying medicine at the University of Buenos Aires, he took time off to travel around South America on a motorcycle; during this time, he witnessed the poverty and oppression of the lower classes. He received a medical degree in 1953 and continued his travels around Latin America, becoming involved with left-wing organizations. In the mid 1950s, Guevara met up with Fidel Castro and his group of exiled revolutionaries in Mexico. Guevara played a key role in Castro's seizure of power from Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista in 1959 and later served as Castro's right-hand man and minister of industry. Guevara strongly opposed U.S. domination in Latin America and advocated peasant-based revolutions to combat social injustice in Third World countries. Castro later described him as "an artist of revolutionary warfare."
Guevara resigned—some say he was dismissed—from his Cuban government post in April 1965, possibly over differences with Castro about the nation’s economic and foreign policies. Guevara then disappeared from Cuba, traveled to Africa and eventually resurfaced in Bolivia, where he was killed. Following his death, Guevara achieved hero status among people around the world as a symbol of anti-imperialism and revolution. A 1960 photo taken by Alberto Korda of Guevara in a beret became iconic and has since appeared on countless posters and T-shirts. However, not everyone considers Guevara a hero: He is accused, among other things, of ordering the deaths of hundreds of people in Cuban prisons during the revolution.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guevara,_Che
1969 Supremes release "Someday We'll Be Together." "Someday We'll Be Together" was a remake of a song originally recorded by Jackie and Johnny. Diana Ross is the only member of the group whose voice is on the recording. The backing vocals are by session artists and Johnny Bristol, who co-wrote the song. That's Johnny Bristol coaching Diana through the song, offering "Sing it pretty" and "You better" along the way.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Someday_We%27ll_Be_Together
1969 In Chicago, the United States National Guard is called in for crowd control as demonstrations continue in connection with the trial of the "Chicago Eight" that began on September 24.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Eight#Trial
1973 Paul Simon earns gold record "Loves Me like a Rock"
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loves_Me_Like_A_Rock
1976 "A Fifth of Beethoven" by Walter Murphy & the Big Apple Band topped the charts.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Fifth_of_Beethoven
1980 First consumer use of home banking by computer (Knoxville TN)
1986 Gilbert Perreault, Buffalo, became 12th NHLer to score 500 goals
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilbert_Perreault
1986 Senate convicted US District Judge Harry E Claiborne making him the 5th federal official to be removed from office through impeachment
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_E._Claiborne
1988 Dennis Eckersley, first to save all 4 games in a championship series. Oakland beats Boston 4-1 to complete a 4-game sweep of the ALCS. Dennis Eckersley saves all four games and is named series MVP.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Eckersley
1990 Radio stations around the world play "Imagine" honoring John Lennon
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imagine_(album)
1992 A great meteor, seen from Kentucky to New York, was observed at 7:50 pm EDT. It landed as a stone (chondrite, Olivine-Bronzite, H6, brecciated) meteorite. Its 12.37 kg mass crashed onto the Chevrolet Malibou car of Mrs. Michelle Knapp of Wells Street in Peekskill, NY. The fireball [mpeg video] was first seen over West Virginia and traveled about 700 km NE, before smashing into the parked car with a velocity of about 80 m/s. It is only the 4th recovered meteorite for which detailed data exist on its trajectory. Dark flight began about 30 km high, when the velocity dropped below 3 km/s and it continued an additional 50 km without ablation. Since getting hit by the meteorite, the car has toured Germany, Switzerland, Japan, France and the US.
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1981 - The temperature at San Juan, Puerto Rico, soared to 98 degrees to establish an all-time record for that location. (The Weather Channel)
1987 - Eighteen cities in the southeastern U.S. and the Middle Atlantic Coast Region reported record low temperatures for the date. Asheville NC dipped to 29 degrees, and the record low of 47 degrees at Jacksonville FL marked their fourth of the month. A second surge of cold air brought light snow to the Northern Plains, particularly the Black Hills of South Dakota. (The National Weather Summary)
1988 - Ten cities in the northeastern U.S. reported record low temperatures for the date, including Hartford CT with a reading of 28 degrees. Snow continued in northern New England through the morning hours. Mount Washington NH reported five inches of snow. Warm weather continued in the western U.S. Los Angeles CA reported a record high of 102 degrees. (The National Weather Summary)
1989 - Unseasonably cold weather continued in the Upper Midwest. Thirteen cities in Ohio, Michigan and Indiana reported record low temperatures for the date, including Marquette MI with a reading of 20 degrees. Unseasonably warm weather continued in the western U.S. as the San Francisco Giants won the National League pennant. San Jose CA reported a record high of 91 degrees. (The National Weather Summary)
1995 An Amtrak Sunset Limited train is derailed by saboteurs near Palo Verde, Arizona.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunset_Limited#Amtrak
1999 The last flight of the SR-71.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SR-71
2001 Second mailing of anthrax letters from Trenton, New Jersey in the 2001 anthrax attack.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001_anthrax_attacks
2006 North Korea allegedly tests its first nuclear device.
2009 First lunar impact of the Centaur and LCROSS spacecrafts as part of NASA's Lunar Precursor Robotic Program.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LCROSS
Births
1873 - Charles Walgreen, American entrepreneur (d. 1939)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Walgreen
1884 Martin Johnson (d 1937) and his wife Osa Johnson (née Leighty) were U.S. adventurers and documentary filmmakers. (I Married Adventure)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_and_Osa_Johnson
1886 Rube Marquard, American baseball player, left-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball in the 1910s and early 1920s. He achieved his greatest success with the New York Giants, make baseball history by winning nineteen decisions in a row.(d. 1980)
1890 Aimee Semple McPherson, American Pentecostal evangelist at Angelus Temple, radio preacher, founded Foursquare Church, media personality (d. 1944)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aimee_Semple_McPherson
1899 Charles Bruce Catton (d 1978) American journalist and notable historian of the American Civil War, Pulitzer Prize for history in 1954 for A Stillness at Appomattox, his study of the final campaign of the war in Virginia.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Catton
1900 Joseph Friedman, American inventor (d. 1982)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Friedman
1903 Walter O'Malley, American baseball executive, served as Brooklyn Dodgers chief legal counsel when Jackie Robinson broke the racial color barrier in 1947. In 1958, as owner of the Dodgers, he brought major league baseball to the West Coast, moving the Dodgers from Brooklyn to Los Angeles and coordinating the move of the New York Giants to San Francisco at a time when there were no teams west of Missouri (d. 1979)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_O%27Malley
1908 Lee Wiley, American jazz singer (d. 1975)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Wiley
1911 Joseph John Rosenthal (d 2006) American photographer who received the Pulitzer Prize for his iconic World War II photograph Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima, taken during the Battle of Iwo Jima. This picture became one of the best-known photographs of the war.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_John_Rosenthal
1915 Clifford M. Hardin, United States Secretary of Agriculture (d 2010)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clifford_M._Hardin
1918 E. Howard Hunt, American Watergate figure (d. 2007)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._Howard_Hunt
1922 Fyvush Finkel, American actor
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fyvush_Finkel
1925 Johnny Stompanato, American organized crime figure (d. 1958)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Stompanato
1940 John Lennon, British musician and songwriter (The Beatles) (d. 1980)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lennon
1940 Joe Pepitone, American baseball player, former Major League Baseball first baseman and outfielder for the New York Yankees (1962–1969), Houston Astros (1970), Chicago Cubs (1970–1973) and Atlanta Braves (1973).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Pepitone
1941 Trent Lott, American politician
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trent_Lott
1941 Brian Lamb, Founder of C-SPAN
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Lamb
1943 Mike Peters, American cartoonist, (Mother Goose & Grim)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Peters_(cartoonist)
1948 Dave Samuels vibraphonist (Spyro Gyra-Morning Dance)
1950 Jody Williams, American teacher and aid worker, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jody_Williams
1953 Tony Shalhoub, American actor
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Shalhoub
1954 Scott Bakula, American actor
1958 Mike Singletary, former American football player
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Singletary
Deaths
1747 David Brainerd (b 1718) was an American missionary to the Native Americans who had a particularly fruitful ministry among the Delaware Indians of New Jersey. During his short life he was beset by many difficulties. As a result, his biography has become a source of inspiration and encouragement to many Christians, including missionaries such as William Carey and Jim Elliot, and Brainerd's cousin, the Second Great Awakening evangelist James Brainerd Taylor (1801–1829).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Brainerd
1806 Benjamin Banneker (b 1731) American self-educated inventor, astronomer, inventor, mathematician and compiler of almanacs who was son of a freed slave who became one of the first important black American intellectuals. He was the first to record the arrival of the "seventeen-year locusts", or periodical cicadas. In 1753, Banneker built a wooden clock, that kept accurate time even though he had only previously seen a sundial and a pocket watch. He calculated the clock's gear ratios and carved them with a pocket knife. In 1789, he successfully predicted an eclipse. He helped survey the site of Washington D.C. (1791-3). Banneker was also an early antislavery publicist who worked to improve the lot of black people in the U.S.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Banneker
1808 John Claiborne, U.S. politician, Representative from Virginia (b. 1777)
1906 Joseph Farwell Glidden (b 1813) American inventor, native of New Hampshire, who was an Illinois farmer when he developed the design of the first commercial barbed wire, patented 24 Nov 1874, a product that would transform the West. Before this innovation, settlers on the treeless plains had no easy way to fence livestock away from cropland, and ranchers had no way to prevent their herds from roaming far and wide. Glidden’s barbed wire opened the plains to large-scale farming, and closed the open range, bringing the era of the cowboy and the round-up to an end. With his partner, Isaac L. Ellwood, Glidden formed the Barb Fence Company of De Kalb, Illinois, and quickly became one of the wealthiest men in the nation. He died in De Kalb, Illinois.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Farwell_Glidden
1940 Wilfred Grenfell, English medical missionary to Newfoundland and Labrador (b. 1865).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilfred_Grenfell
1958 Pope Pius XII Eugenio Pacelli, (b. 1876)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Pius_XII
1967 Gordon Willard Allport (b 1897) American humanistic psychologist and educator who developed trait theory in an original theory of personality. Allport thought the uniqueness of each personality was one of the most important things to understand. Part of this uniqueness is due to the many, many parts of our personality. He and many other psychologists considered reflexes, habits, drives or needs, beliefs, our particular view of our environment, goals or intentions, values, attitudes, and traits as being the kind of factors that determine what we do. Thus, "personality" becomes very complex. Unlike Freud, he did not see us as slavishly controlled by innate or external factors because humans have the ability to make conscious choices about how to behave.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Willard_Allport
1987 - Clare Boothe Luce, American diplomat (b. 1903)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clare_Boothe_Luce
1987 William Parry Murphy, American physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1892)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Parry_Murphy
1989 Penny Lernoux, American journalist and author (b. 1940)
1996 Walter Kerr, American theater critic (b. 1913)
2001 Dagmar,Virginia Ruth Egnor American television personality, stage name as a satirical reference to the huge success on television of the TV series Mama (1949-57), in which the younger sister is Dagmar Hansen. In the TV show Broadway Open House, she was instructed to wear a low-cut gown, sit on a stool and play the role of a stereotypical dumb blonde. With tight sweaters displaying her curvy 5' 8" figure (measuring 42"-23"-39"), her dim-bulb character was an immediate success, (b. 1921)
2001 Herbert Ross (b 1927) American film director, producer, choreographer and actor. (Steel Magnolias)
2002 Charles Guggenheim, American film director/producer (b. 1924)
2002 Aileen Wournos, American serial killer sentenced to death (b. 1956)
2005 Louis Nye, American comedian and actor (b. 1913)
2006 Raymond Noorda (b 1924) American electrical engineer, known as "the father of computer networking" because he was primarily responsible for making widespread the business use of networked personal computers (PC's). He did not invent the local area network (LAN) by which computers share files and printers through interlinked nodes. However, as chief executive of Novell Inc (1983-94), his organization and marketing turned the company's NetWare brand software into the first major PC network operating system. It linked even previously incompatible computers, whether IBM-compatible, Apple or Unix. To establish standardization in the industry, he believed in working with competitors, for which he coined the term "co-opetition."«
2007 Enrico Banducci born Harry Banducci (b 1922) American impresario, operated the hungry i nightclub in San Francisco's North Beach neighborhood, where he launched the careers of Lenny Bruce, Mort Sahl, Bill Cosby, Jonathan Winters, and Barbra Streisand, and featured Woody Allen and Dick Cavett before they were well-known, as well as countless folk singers
Christian Feast Day:
Denis
Ghislain
John Leonardi
Dionysius the Areopagite
John Henry Newman
October 9 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Saints
Holy Apostle James, son of Alphaeus (1st century)
Saint Andronicus and his wife St. Athanasia of Egypt (500)
Righteous Forefather Abraham and his nephew righteous Lot (2000 B.C.)
Martyrs Juventius and Maximus at Antioch (4th century)
Saint Publia the Confessor of Antioch (360)
Saint Peter of Galatia (9th century)
Saint Stephen the New of Serbia (1427)
Saint Demetrius, Patriarch of Alexandria (231)
Hieromartyr Denis, Bishop of Paris (258)
Saint Stephen the Blind, King of Serbia (1468)
New hieromartyr Peter, priest (1918)
New hieromartyr Constantine, priest (1937)
Other Commemorations
Icons of the Most Holy Theotokos "Korsun" (Cherson) and "Assuage My Sorrow"
Glorification (1889) of Tikhon of Moscow (1925)
Minnesota : Leif Ericsson Day (c 1000)
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