10-15-2004, 05:27 AM
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October 15th
70 BC ~ Birthday of Virgil, Roman poet.
1582 ~ Pope Gregory XIII implemented the Gregorian Calendar. In Italy, Poland, Portugal, and Spain October 4 of this year was followed directly by October 15, skipping over 10 days. Other countries follow at various later dates.
1764 ~ While visiting Rome, Edward Gibbon observed a group of barefoot friars singing vespers in the ruined Temple of Jupiter, a sight which inspired him to begin work on a history that will be published as “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”
1844 ~ Birthday of Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher.
1881 ~ Birthday of P. G. Wodehouse, British comic novelist.
1908 ~ Birthday of John Kenneth Galbraith, Economist.
1917 ~ World War I: At Vincennes outside of Paris, Dutch dancer Mata Hari was executed by firing squad for spying for Germany.
1951 ~ Television sitcom “I Love Lucy” premiered starring comedian Lucille Ball and her real-life husband, Desi Arnaz.
1964 ~ Death of Cole Porter, Composer.
1970 ~ 35 construction workers died when a section of the new West Gate Bridge in Melbourne collapsed.
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