10-18-2004, 05:23 AM
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October 18th
1900 ~ Death of John Taverner, Composer.
1851 ~ "Moby-Dick", a novel by Herman Melville, was first published as "The Whale".
1871 ~ Death of Charles Babbage, mathematician and inventor of computing machines.
1908 ~ Death of Charles Gounod, composer.
1919 ~ Birthday of Pierre Elliott Trudeau, fifteenth Prime Minister of Canada.
1922 ~ The British Broadcasting Company was founded by a consortium to establish a nationwide network of radio transmitters to provide a national broadcasting service.
1926 ~ Birthday of Chuck Berry, Musician.
1931 ~ Death of Thomas Edison, inventor.
1939 ~ Birthday of Lee Harvey Oswald, Assassin.
1977 ~ German Autumn: a set of events revolving around the kidnapping of Hanns-Martin Schleyer and the hijacking of the Lufthansa airplane by the Red Army Faction (RAF) came to an end when Schleyer was executed and various RAF members committed suicide. The German government stated that it would never again negotiate with terrorists.
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