October 5th
 

1713 ~ Birthday of Denis Diderot, philosopher.

1813 ~ Death of Tecumseh, American Indian leader.

1882 ~ Birthday of Robert Goddard, rocket scientist.

1902 ~ Birthday of Ray Kroc, founder of McDonald's Corporation.

1936 ~ Birthday of Václav Havel, playwright, president of the Czech Republic.

1947 ~ President Harry Truman gave the first televised White House address.

1994 ~ Forty eight members of a Swiss cult die in a mass suicide.

1969 ~ “Monty Python's Flying Circus” made its debut on BBC Television.

1972 ~ Montreal, Quebec: British Trade Commissioner James Cross was kidnapped by members of the FLQ terrorist group.

2000 ~ Mass demonstrations in Belgrade led to the resignation of Slobodan Milosevic.

October 6th
 

1600 ~ Jacopo Peri's "Euridice", the earliest surviving opera, premiered in Florence.

1846 ~ Birthday of George Westinghouse, Engineer & Inventor.

1887 ~ Birthday of Le Corbusier, Swiss architect.

1892 ~ Death of Alfred Tennyson, British poet laureate.

1914 ~ Birthday of Thor Heyerdahl, Norwegian explorer, leader of the “Kon-Tiki” expedition.

1927 ~ Opening of "The Jazz Singer", first talking movie.

1948 ~ Birthday of Gerry Adams, Irish politician.

1973 ~ Egyptian troops cross the Suez Canal, starting the Yom Kippur War.

1981 ~ Anwar al-Sadat was assassinated.

1995 ~ The first extrasolar planet was discovered orbiting 51 Pegasi, in the constellation of Pegasus.

Home!

October 7th
 

1571 ~ The Ottoman Empire was defeated at the battle of Lepanto.

1849 ~ Death of Edgar Allan Poe, American writer.

1885 ~ Birthday of Niels Bohr, Physicist, awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 1922.

1900 ~ Birthday of Heinrich Himmler, Nazi official and leader of the SS.

1908 ~ Crete revolts against the Ottoman Empire and aligns with Greece.

1931 ~ Birthday of Desmond Tutu, South African archbishop and anti-apartheid activist.

1955 ~ Birthday of Yo-Yo Ma, Cellist.

1985 ~ "Achille Lauro" hijacked by Palestinian terrorists.

2001 ~ The U.S. began its air offensive against al-Qaeda and the Taleban in Afghanistan.

2003 ~ California governor Gray Davis was recalled from office and replaced by Arnold Schwarzenegger.

October 8th
 

1871 ~ The Great Chicago Fire destroyed about 17,450 buildings, killed about 250 people and left another 90,000 homeless.

1895 ~ Birthday of Juan Perón, former president of Argentina.

1920 ~ Birthday of Frank Herbert, Science Fiction writer.

1949 ~ Birthday of Sigourney Weaver, Actress.

1961 ~ In London, the Post Office Tower opened.

1967 ~ Guerrilla leader Che Guevara was captured in Bolivia.

1982 ~ All labor organizations in Poland, including Solidarity, were banned.

1992 ~ Death of Willy Brandt, German politician.

2003 ~ Arnold Schwarzenegger was elected governor of California.

2004 ~ Martha Stewart went to jail.

Frank Herbert, a challenging author.

Oldfart,

Yessir, he certainly was.

October 9th
 

1776 ~ Fr Francisco Palou set up the Mission San Francisco de Asis, which became San Francisco, California.

1835 ~ Birthday of Camille Saint-Saëns, Composer.

1859 ~ Birthday of Alfred Dreyfus, French military officer.

1897 ~ Henry Sturmey became the 1st man to drive from Land's End, Cornwall to John O'Groats, Scotland.

1940 ~ Birthday of John Lennon, Musician & Songwriter.

1942 ~ Statute of Westminster Adoption Act formalized Australian autonomy.

1948 ~ Birthday of Jackson Browne (Doctor My Eyes, The Pretender, Running On Empty).

1961 ~ Ray Charles' Hit the Road Jack reached No. 1.

1970 ~ The Khmer Republic was proclaimed in Cambodia.

1974 ~ Death of Oskar Schindler, businessman.

October 10th
 

1813 ~ Birthday of Giuseppe Verdi, Italian composer.

1845 ~ In Annapolis, Maryland, the Naval School (later renamed the United States Naval Academy) opened with 50 midshipmen students and seven professors.

1875 ~ Death of Aleksey Tolstoy, Novelist & Poet.

1966 ~ Simon and Garfunkel released the album Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme.

1970 ~ A crisis hit Canada when Quebec Vice-Premier Pierre Laporte became the second statesman kidnapped by members of the FLQ terrorist group.

1973 ~ Vice President Spiro T. Agnew pleaded no contest to one count of federal income tax evasion and resigned.

1975 ~ Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor remarried.

1980 ~ UK PM Margaret Thatcher gave a defiant speech at the Tory party conference "…I have only one thing to say: You turn if you want to. The lady's not for turning!"

1985 ~ U.S. Navy F-14s intercepted the plane carrying the “Achille Lauro” cruise ship hijackers and forced it to land at a NATO base in Sicily where they were arrested.

1985 ~ Death of Yul Brynner, Actor and Orson Welles, Director & Actor.

jseal,

Yul Brynner was really Orson Welles?

Oldfart,

Not too many are in on the secret, but they were one and the same! If you look closely, you can see that both Yul Brynner and Orson Welles were white males, and if you have listened to them in The King and I and Citizen Kane, you’ll also know that neither could sing!

It doesn’t take too much imagination to see how the rough, tough Mr. Brenner could pander to his softer, artistic side by popping on a wig, and Presto, he gets two careers for the price of one! It should come as no surprise that “they” died on the same day.

It seems that I cannot slip anything past you, can I? :sad:

Sharp as a razor, this little black duck. LOL

he had me for a few seconds. :p

October 11th
 

1779 ~ Death of Casimir Pulaski, Polish fighter for American independence.

1809 ~ Death of Meriwether Lewis, explorer.

1844 ~ Birthday of Henry Heinz, food manufacturer.

1896 ~ Death of Anton Bruckner, Austrian composer.

1899 ~ Boer War: In South Africa, a war between the United Kingdom and the Boers of the Transvaal and Orange Free State began.

1961 ~ Death of Chico Marx, comedian.

1962 ~ Pope John XXIII convenes the Second Vatican Council.

1968 ~ Launch of Apollo 7, the first manned Apollo mission.

1975 ~ Saturday Night Live premiered with George Carlin as the guest host.

1987 ~ Operation Deepscan: An exploration of Loch Ness using sonar ended without finding Nessie.

Trust the southerners to pick the three weeks she's on holidays to go chasing her.

wyndhy, you're messing with my head again.