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Old 09-30-2009, 12:20 AM
 
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Peace in our time

On September 29, 1938, The german dictator Adolf Hitler, along with the Italian dictator Benito Mussolini, met with Britain's Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain and France's Edouard Daladier. In a disgusting act of cowardice and appeasement Chamberlain and Daladier signed The Munich Agreement. This transferred to Germany the Sudetenland, a fortified frontier region of Czechoslovakia containing a sizeable German-speaking population.

When Eduard Benes, Czechoslovakia's head of state (who had not been invited to the Munich meeting) protested at this decision, Chamberlain told him that Britain would be unwilling to go to war over the issue of the Sudetenland.

It was seventy one years ago today on September 30th, 1938 that Chamberlain returned to England from Munich. Upon disembarking his plane, and with his pathetic little signed piece of paper flapping in the breeze, he proudly proclaimed to all who would listen that he had attained "Peace in our time!"

That "peace" would last for 11 months.
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Old 10-01-2009, 12:56 AM
 
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Default September 31

Hmmm, I can't seem to find anything in history at all that happened on September 31st. Dunno what that's all about! Oh well, we'll just move on...

October 1

~331 - The army of Alexander the Great defeated the Persian forces of Darius III at the Battle of Gaugamela. He was later crowned King of Asia in a ceremony that took place in Arbela.

~959 - Edgar the Peaceable became king of England.

~1189 - The grandmaster of the Knights Templar, Gerard de Ridefort was killed during the Seige of Acre.

~1568 - John III was proclaimed King of Sweden by army and nobility upon the deposition of Eric XIV the previous day.

~1787 - A Russian army commanded by Alexander Suvorov defeated the Turks at the Battle of Kinburn.

~1795 - After being conquered by the French, Belgium became part of the French Republic. (Sorry about that, guys.)

~1800 - The Territory of Louisiana, encompassing the entire region of the Mississippi-Missouri river valleys, was ceded by Spain to France in the secret Treaty of San Ildefonso. Napoleon of France envisioned a great French empire in the New World, he hoped to use the Mississippi Valley as a major food and trade center. In 1803, however, desperately needing cash to finance his wars and facing domestic political problems, he was forced to sell the territory to the US with The Louisiana Purchase. (Hey, too bad there Nappy, wanna crying towel?)

~1811 - The very first Mississippi steamboat to ply the river, the New Orleans, arrived in (appropriately enough) New Orleans.

~1827 -The Russian army under Ivan Paskevich took the city of Yerevan, ending a millennium of Muslim domination in Armenia.

~1880 - A new director of the United States Marine Corps Band was named. It was fitting for John Philip Sousa to have the position. He composed the Marine Corps hymn, Semper Fidelis.

~1880 - The Edison Lamp Works began operations in New Jersey to manufacture the first electric light bulbs.

~1885 - Special delivery mail service began in the United States. (And it's been late ever since!)

~1890 - At the urging of preservationist John Muir and writer Robert U Johnson, Congress established Yosemite National Park in California.

~1891 - Stanford University was founded by railroad magnate/California Governor Leland Stanford and his wife Jane on land donated by the couple. Beginning with just 559 students the university offered free tuition. (Free tuition? Ya' sure won't be finding that available these days!)

~1903 - Baseball's first annual World Series began on this date, in Boston. The Boston Pilgrims of the American League defeated the Pittsburgh Pirates of the National League five games to three to become the world champions.

~1908 - Beginning in 1903, Henry Ford and his engineers struggled for five difficult years to produce a reliable, inexpensive car for the mass market. It wasn't until their twentieth attempt, christened the Model T after the twentieth letter in the alphabet, that the fledgling Ford Motor Company hit pay dirt. On this day in 1908 the first Ford Model Ts were delivered to Ford dealers for sale to the public. The retail price of the Tin Lizzy was only $850.

~1914 - Turkey closed the Dardenelles to the allies in World War I.

~1918 - A combined Arab and British force captured Damascus (capital of today's Syria) from the Turks during World War I. In command of the British forces was T. E. Lawrence, the legendary Lawrence of Arabia.

~1924 Born this day: James Earl Carter, 39th President of the United States. (Happy 85th, Jimmy!)

~1928 - On the Okeh label, Duke Ellington recorded The Mooche.

~1928 - Meanwhile, over at Victor Records, Ben Pollack and his band recorded Forever. Performing in Pollack's band that day were two young musicians who would go on to become legends of the big band era: Benny Goodman and Jack Teagarden.

~1936 - General Francisco Franco was named head of the newly formed Nationalist government in Spain.

~1940 - The Pennsylvania Turnpike opened for traffic.

~1943 - After a fierce month-long battle in Italy, the allies finally captured Naples.

~1949 - The People's Republic of China was formed with Mao Zedong as its head.

~1955 - The half-hour sitcom The Honeymooners debuted on CBS, starring Jackie Gleason, Art Carney, Audrey Meadows and Joyce Randolph. While the show ran for only 39 weeks (Gleason pulled it off the air after the first season), it is considered by most to be the best comedy in television history.

~1958 - The novel, The Ugly American, by William Lederer and Eugene Burdick, was published in New York. The novel was later made into a movie classic starring Marlon Brando.

~1962 - Johnny Carson hosted his first Tonight Show, with Joan Crawford as his main guest.

~1964 - Japan's high speed Bullet Train, from Tokyo to Osaka, made its inaugural run.

~1965 - A coup against Indonesian President Sukarno failed. (See following post.)

~1968 - The cult horror movie Night of the Living Dead had its world premiere in Pittsburgh.

~1969 - The Concorde broke the sound barrier for the first time (and simultaneously several thousand windows on the ground, too) in a test flight over France. (Please excuse my smirk...)

~1970 - Jimi Hendrix was buried in The Greenwood Cemetery at the Dunlop Baptist Church, Seattle, among the mourners were Miles Davis, Eric Burdon, Johnny Winter and members of Derek and the Dominos.

~1971 - Walt Disney World opened in Orlando, Florida, USA. It would eventually become the world's largest, man-made, tourist attraction.

~1974 - The Watergate cover-up trial opened in Washington.

~1979 - The Panama Canal Zone was formally handed over to Panama after 70 years of U.S. control.

~1980 - Ladies’ Home Journal surprised its readers when actor Robert Redford became the first male to appear on the cover by himself. It only took the magazine 97 years to change its no-men-on-the-cover policy.

~1985 Died this day: - E. B. White, essayist and writer of children's books, including the classic Charlotte's Web. He was 86.

~1987 - In a classic case of How to Turn a Progressive Modern State into a Banana Republic in One Easy Lesson, Fijian coup leader Colonel Sitiveni Rabuka formally revoked his country's constitution. Further he stated that he had replaced Queen Elizabeth as supreme head of state, with the power to rule by decree. (Well, at least we know he had his country's best interest at heart and wasn't just an opportunistic military thug!)

~1989 - Pakistan rejoined the Commonwealth after a 17-year absence. (Oooh!!! Mebbe we cun gets sommub dem cool British fyghterz now, huh!)

~1991 - President Aristide of Haiti flew into exile in Venezuela after a coup by a three-man military junta led by General Raul Cedras. (Oh, and hasn't Haiti just flourished beyond belief ever since THAT happened!)

~1992 - The USS Saratoga accidentally fired missiles at a Turkish destroyer in the Aegean Sea. Five people were killed in the incident.

~1994 - The National Hockey League did not open its 1994-95 season as scheduled because owners and players could not agree on a new contract. (Does anybody still care that wealthy sports team owners and overpaid ice goons didn't get their annual haul?)

~1995 - A United States federal jury found Egyptian cleric Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman and nine others guilty of plotting to blow up the World Trade Center, bomb the United Nations, kill Egypt's president and destroy vital highway tunnels in New York.

~1997 - In the US the National Television Ratings system began.

~2004 - George Sisler's 84 year old record for most hits in a season fall when Seattle Mariners outfielder Ichiro Suzuki got his 258th hit of the year.

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Good Lord! Is there anything that DIDN'T happen on this day!
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Old 10-01-2009, 01:05 AM
 
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A coup against Indonesian President Sukarno was crushed by forces under the command of General Suharto, the Indonesian army leader. Suharto, a bloodthirsty subhumanoid from the very beginning, and his henchmen sought out Communist suspects across the country after the coup attempt. In one of the worst massacres of the 20th century more than one million people were murdered. Suharto used his brutal methods to take over the country's reigns and was elected, in what is now generally agreed to have been a rigged vote, to the Presidency in 1968.
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Old 10-02-2009, 11:30 AM
 
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Default October 2 nd

In 1983 Carl (Yaz) Yastremski's last day at bat (Sorry.. I'm a Red Sox fan)

In 1871 Brigham yound was arrested for bigamy
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Old 10-02-2009, 11:41 AM
 
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~1187 - 88 years of rule by the Crusaders ended when the army of Saladin captured Jerusalem following a siege.

~1263 - The Battle of Largs was fought between the Norwegians and Scots.

~1535 - Sailing up the St. Lawrence River, French explorer Jaques Cartier reached the Iriquois's fortified village of Hochelaga on the island now known as Montreal.

~1780 - After being captured by American forces, British Army officer John Andre was hanged as a spy.

~1814 - Spanish Royalist troops defeated the rebel Chilean forces at the Battle of Rancagua.

~1835 - The first armed engagement of the Texas Revolution occurred when Mexican dragoons, dispatched to disarm the settlers in Gonzales, Texas, encountered fierce resistance from a Texas militia at the Battle of Gonzales.

~1864 - American Civil War: Union forces attacked Saltville, Virginia but were soundly defeated by the defending Confederate troops at the First Battle of Saltville.

~1869 - Born this day: Mohandas Karamchand (Mahatma) Gandhi...'nuff said.

~1890 - Born this day: Groucho Marx, comedian extraordinaire, brother of Harpo, Chico, Zeppo and Gummo, creator of chaos and master of mayhem...also my hero!

~1919 - US President Woodrow Wilson suffered a massive stroke that left him patially paralyzed.

~1925 - John Logie Baird performed the first successful test of a working television system. (Unfortunately the test had to be aborted early due to excessive commercials.)

~1941 - The Wehrmacht unleashed Operation Typhoon, the all out offensive aimed at taking the Soviet capital of Moscow. The onset of the Russian winter, lack of cold weather gear and Soviet military resistance would halt the German advance at the outskirts of the city.

~1950 - The comic strip Peanuts, by Charles Schulz, was first published.

~1958 - Guinea declared its independence from France. (Good move, guys!)

~1959 - One of television's greatest institutions debuted when Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone was broadcast on CBS.

~1968 - A peaceful student demonstration in Mexico City ended with an unprovoked attack by government forces in what has become known as the Tlatelolco Massacre. Over 200 unarmed protesters were gunned down. (Don'cha just LOVE them Federales?)

~1990 - A Chinese airline Boeing 737 was hijacked. Upon landing at Guangzhou it crashed into two parked airliners on the ground, killing 132 people.

~1996 - The Electronic Freedom of Information Act Amendments were signed into law by US President Bill Clinton.

~2001 - Swissair liquidated and the airline was replaced by SWISS.

~2002 - The first of the Beltway Sniper Attacks took place. The random attacks would continue for the next 3 weeks.

~2006 - In Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania a deranged gunman murdered 5 schoolgirls before (belatedly) commiting suicide.

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Old 10-02-2009, 01:33 PM
 
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[quote=Da Grouch;11016606~1958 - Guinea declared its independence from France. (Good move, guys!)[/quote]

There are probably a large number of Guineans this past week who have been wondering if those weren't the "good ol' days."
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Old 10-02-2009, 02:36 PM
 
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On October 2, 1965, The McCoys finally reached #1 with Hang On Sloopy. One week later, the Ohio State University Marching Band played John Tatgenhorst's arrangement of the song, eventually providing the song with a popularity that was entirely unexpected. The song is now played at every Ohio State game and is the official rock song of the State of Ohio.
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Old 10-03-2009, 12:33 AM
 
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~52 BC - Vercingetorix, leader of the Gauls, surrendered to the Romans under Julius Caesar ending the month long Battle of Alesia.

~42 BC - At the First Battle of Philippi the forces of Mark Antony and Octavian fought an indecisive battle with troops commanded by Caesar's assassins Brutus and Cassius.

~1283 _ The last native ruler of Wales to resist the English, Dafydd ap Gruffydd, (Prince of Wales) became the first person to be executed by hanging, drawing and quartering.

~1656 - Died this day: Myles Standish, Plymouth Colony leader.

~1683 - The Qing Dynasty naval commander,Shi Lang, reached Taiwan (under the Kingdom of Tungning) to receive the formal surrender of Zheng Keshuang and Liu Guoxuan after the Battle of Penghu.

~1712 - The Duke of Montrose issued a warrant for the arrest of Rob Roy MacGregor.

~1739 - The Treaty of Nissa was signed by the Ottoman Empire and Russia, ending the Russian-Turkish War. (1736–1739)

~1778 - British Captain James Cook anchored in Alaska.

~1789 - US President George Washington proclaimed the first US national Thanksgiving Day on 26 November.

~1845 -The US Naval Academy was first opened.

~1849 - American author Edgar Allen Poe was found, delirious in a gutter, in Baltimore, Maryland under mysterious circumstances. It was the last time he was seen in public before his death.

~1863 - US President Abraham Lincoln issued a proclamation designating the last Thursday in November as Thanksgiving Day.

~1866 - Italy and Austria signed the Treaty of Vienna, ending the Seven Weeks' War.

~1872 - Born this day, Emily Post [Price], etiquette authority.

~1873 - Captain Jack and his companions were hanged for their part in the Modoc War.

1893 - The motor-driven vacuum cleaner was patented by J.S. Thurman of St. Louis, Missouri.

1901 - The Victor Talking Machine Company was incorporated. After a merger with Radio Corporation of America, RCA-Victor became the leader in phonographs and many of the records played on them. The famous Victrola phonograph logo, with Nipper the dog, and the words "His Master's Voice" appeared on all RCA-Victor phonographs and record labels.

~1906 - SOS was established as an international distress signal at the Berlin Radio Conference, the first conference on wireless telegraphy. Coming into effect in July 1908 it replaced CQD which was supposed to mean "all stations - urgent."

~1908 - In Vienna Leon Trotsky, Adolph Joffe, Matvey Skobelev and several other Russian exiles founded the newspaper Pravda.

~1913 - US Federal Income Tax was signed into law at a rate of 1%. (ah...the good old days!)

~1916 - Born this day, James Herriot, Yorkshire veterinarian and author of All Creatures Great and Small.

~ 1918 - King Boris III ascended to the throne of Bulgaria.

~1929 - The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes was renamed Kingdom of Yugoslavia.

~1931 - The comic strip Dick Tracy first appeared in the New York News.

~1932 - Iraq gained its independence from Great Britain. (Uh oh! This could be trouble down the road!)

~1935 - The Second Italo-Abbyssinian War began with the invasion of Ethiopia by Italy.

~1940 - The US Army adopted airborne, or parachute, soldiers. Airborne troops were later used in World War II for landing troops in combat and infiltrating agents into enemy territory.

~1941 - Born this day, Chubby Checker [Ernest Evans], 1960 US No.1 single The Twist, 1962 UK No.2 single Let's Twist Again.

~1942 - The first successful launch of a V-2/A4-rocket was made at Peenemunde, Germany It was the first man-made object to reach space.

~1952 - Great Britain successfully tested a nuclear weapon.

~1952 - The first Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet TV show (with Ricky Nelson) aired on ABC-TV.

~1954 - Born this day: Stevie Ray Vaughan, guitarist, killed in an helicopter crash 27 August 1990. His family successfully sued the operators of the company for allowing an unqualified pilot to fly in fog and were awarded $2 million.

~1955 - 'Good Morning, Captain!' It was Bob Keeshan's first day at work in what became a TV institution via CBS: Captain Kangaroo. The children's television milestone featured Mr. Green Jeans, Bunny Rabbit, Grandfather Clock, Mr. Moose and other characters.

~1955 - Meanwhile, across town; The Mickey Mouse Club debuted on ABC-TV. The daily filmed half-hour TV show was phenomenally successful. 260 hours and 130 half-hours were filmed, and the series enjoyed a healthy run which continued for many years in syndication.

~1960 - The Andy Griffith Show debuted on CBS. It was in the Top 10 for all eight seasons it was on the air, and Don Knotts won five Emmies for his role as Deputy Barney Fife.

~1961 - Mr. Ed premiered. (A horse is a horse of course of course...)

~1962 - Project Mercury: The spacecraft Sigma 7 was launched from Cape Canaveral with Astronaut Willy Schirra aboard. It's mission was a six-orbit, nine-hour flight.

~1964 - At the Anchor Bar in Buffalo, New York the very first Buffalo Wings were served. (Truly a GREAT day in culinary history!)

~1972 - President Nixon and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko signed strategic arms limitation agreements, putting the first restrictions on the two countries' nuclear weapons.

~1981 - The Hunger Strike by Provisional Irish Republican Army and Irish Liberation Army prisoners at the Maze Prison in Northern Ireland ended after seven months and ten deaths.

~1990 - After 40 years, East and West Germany were reunited as one nation at midnight, burying 45 years of Cold War division. It was just four days away from the 41st anniversary of the forming of the East German state. The reunification, originally scheduled to take place during the December parliamentary elections, occurred earlier because East Germany's economy was in serious shape.

~1992 - William [Bill] Gates III, the college-dropout founder of Microsoft Corporation, headed Forbes magazine list of the 400 richest Americans with a net worth of $6.3 billion.

~1995 - OJ Simpson was aquitted of the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman. (Yup, got himself a get out of jail free card that time...but look where he is now.)

~2008 - The $700 billion federal bailout bill for the US financial system was signed by President Bush. (The payouts of bonuses to the bank execs who caused the disaster resumed immediately.)
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~610 - Heraclius became the Byzantine Emperor when he overthrew Phocas.

~1209 - German king Otto IV was crowned emperor of the Holy Roman Empire by Pope Innocent III. (Who was far from innocent...)

~1227 - The Moroccan monarch, Caliph al-Adil, was assassinated.

~1363 -In one of the largest naval engagements in history, the Battle of Lake Poyang, rebel Chinese forces commanded by Zhu Yuanzhang defeated the fleet of Chen Youliang.

~1537 - The Matthew Bible, the first completely in English, was printed. The translations were made by Miles Coverdale and William Tyndale.

~1582 - Pope Gregory XIII implemented the Gregorian Calendar. In Italy, Poland, Portugal, and Spain, October 4th of that year was followed directly by October 15th.

~1636 - At the Battle of Wittstock a Swedish army defeated the combined forces of Saxony and the Holy Roman Empire.

~1693 - At the Battle of Marsaglia, during the Nine Years' War, Piedmontese troops were defeated by French forces.

~1777 - Troops under the command of George Washington were repelled by the British forces under Sir William Howe at the Battle of Germantown.

~1824 - Mexico adopted a new constitution and became a federal republic.

~1830 - The state of Belgium was created.

~1876 - Texas A&M University opened its doors as the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas, becoming the first public institution of higher education in Texas.

~1883 - The Orient Express made its inaugural run between Paris and Istanbul.

~1895 - The first U.S. Open Men's Golf Championship was played at The Newport Country Club in Newport, Rhode Island.

~1910 - With the overthrow of King Manuel II the Portuguese Republic was declared.

~1918 - In Sayreville, New Jersey a massive explosion killed more than 100 and totally destroyed the T.A. Gillespie Shell Loading Plant. The fires and explosions would continue for three days forcing massive evacuations and spreading ordnance over a wide area, pieces of which are still being found today.

~1927 - In South Dakota, Gutzon Borglum began sculpting the images of four US Presidents into the southeast face of Mount Rushmore.

~1943 - U.S. forces captured the Solomon Islands from the Japanese.

~1957 - The space age arrived when the Soviet spacecraft Sputnik 1, the first artificial satellite to orbit the Earth, was launched by an R-7 rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome near Tyuratam, Kazakh.

~1957 – The (then) most advanced fighter aircraft in the world, the CF-105 Avro Arrow, was rolled out of the Avro Canada plant in Malton, Ontario. In what would be regarded by many as nothing short of an act of treason, the Arrow program was scrapped by the federal Conservative goverment of John Diefenbaker in 1959 for purely political reasons. To this day the Canadian aerospace industry has not fully recovered from the affair. (Glad you're nothing but a bad memory, Johnny!)

~1965 - Pope Paul VI arrived in New York becoming the first Pope to ever visit the US and the Western Hemisphere.

~1965 - In Vancouver, BC, a stork crash landed into the cabbage patch. James was later found there by Greta and Gus. (Happy 44th Jim!)

~1967 - Brunei's Sultan Omar Ali Saifuddin III abdicated in favor of his son Hassanal Bolkiah.

~1970 - Janis Joplin died.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FMhnl0__Vo

~1976 - British Rail's high speed train, the Intercity 125 was officially launched.

~1983 - At Nevada's Black Rock Desert, Scotland's Richard Noble set a new land speed record of 633.468 mph, driving (aiming) the jet propelled Thrust 2.

~1985 - The Free Software Foundation was founded in Massachusetts.

~1988 - American televangelist was indicted for fraud over the PTL's Heritage USA scandal.

~1992 - The Rome General Peace Accords (supposedly) ended a 16 year civil war in Mozambique.

~1992 – An El al Boeing 747-F freighter (flight 1862) crashed into two apartment buildings in Amsterdam, killing 43 including 39 on the ground.

~1993 - In Moscow, tanks bombarded a building housing the Russian Parliament known as The White House while demonstrators against Russian President Boris Yeltsin rallied outside during the Russian Constitutional Crisis.

~1997 - In a heist of epic proportions, the second largest cash robbery in U.S. history took place at the Charlotte, North Carolina office of Loomis, Fargo and Company. No one was hurt and the haul was over $17.3 million. (In a way it's too bad they got caught, this is the stuff that romantic legends are made of.)

~2001 - Siberia Airlines Flt 1812 crashed into the Black sea after being struck by an errant Ukrainian S-200 missile. 78 people were killed.

~2003 - At the Maxim Restaurant in Haifa, Israel a suicide bomber killed 21 people and injured 51 others.
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~1450 - By the decree of King Ludwig IX all Jews were expelled from Lower Bavaria.

~1665 - The University of Kiel was founded.

~1789 - The March on Versailles, by the women of Paris took place.

~1813 - Near present day Chatham, Ontario at the Battle of Thames, American troops defeated British forces.

~1864 - Calcutta, India was virtually destroyed by a cyclone that left more than 60,000 dead.

~1892 - The Dalton Gang came to an untimely demise when a shoot-out with most of the townsfolk erupted following a bank holdup in Coffeville, Kansas.

~1905 - Orville and Wilbur Wright's Flyer III made a flight of just over 23 miles in an unbelievable 38 minutes and 20 seconds.

~1924 - The first Little Orphan Annie comic strip appeared in the New York City Daily News.

~1930 - 48 people died when a British (dirigible) airship crashed during a storm at Beauvais, France.

~1942 - At Dubno, Russia more than 5,000 Jews were massacred by the nazis.

~1943 - The US launched a massive air raid on the Japanese held Wake Island.

~1953 - Earl Warren was sworn in as the 14th chief justice of United States Supreme Court.

~1954 - Category 4 Hurricane Hazel smashed into the US eastern seaboard leaving a trail of death and total devastation in its wake.

~1960 - 61 people died when an Eastern Airlines Lockheed Electra turbo-prop crashed into Boston Harbor.

~1962 - The Beatles released their first record, Love Me Do.

~1965 - Dick McInnes stayed aloft for almost 12 hours in a kite of his own design. (What ever turns your crank, Dick!)

~1969 - A new era in comedy was born as Monty Python's Flying Circus debuted on the BBC.

~1970: In one of the darker moments of Canadian history, the October Crisis, Quebec separatists (the FLQ) kidnapped British trade commissioner James Cross.

~1983 - Solidarity(Solidarność) leader Lech Walesa won the Nobel Peace Prize.

~1986 - The London Sunday Times reported that Israel was stockpiling nuclear arms. ( You won't believe what the Israelis did to this guy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mordechai_Vanunu )

~1988 - The Chilean population agreed, at referendum, to throw out the Pinochet regime. (Well...they got that one right.)

~1990 - A Cincinnati jury acquitted an art gallery of obsentity charges relating to its exhibition of the Mappelthorpe Photos.

~1991 - An Indonesian military transport crashed shortly after takeoff from Jakarta killing 137.

~1993 - For the very last time the honor guard took its position at Lenin's mausoleum in Moscow.

~2000 - During the Bulldozer Revolution, mass demonstrations in Belgrade lead to the resignation of the Butcher of the Balkans, Serbia's Slobodan MiloÅ¡ević.

~2001 - The photo editor of the supermarket tabloid Sun, Robert Stevens, became the first victim of the Anthrax Attacks.
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