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09-29-2008, 06:28 AM
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September 29th
1547 ~ Birthday of Miguel de Cervantes, Author (Don Quixote).
1714 ~ George, Elector of Hanover, arrived in Greenwich to assume the British throne as King George I. (Thanks dm383!)
1758 ~ Birthday of Horatio Nelson, English icon.
1901 ~ Birthday of Enrico Fermi, Italian physicist. Awarded the 1938 Nobel Prize in Physics.
1957 ~ The New York Giants played their last game at the Polo Grounds.
1960 ~ Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev disrupted a meeting of the UN General Assembly.
1962 ~ Alouette 1, the first Canadian satellite was launched.
1978 ~ Death of Pope John Paul, who reigned just 33 days.
1982 ~ Birthday of Ariana Jollee, Gangbang Porn actress.
2004 ~ The asteroid 4179 Toutatis passed within 964,000 miles of Earth.
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09-30-2008, 06:32 AM
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September 30th
1791 ~ Mozart's opera “The Magic Flute” premiered in Vienna, Austria.
1882 ~ Birthday of Hans Geiger, German physicist & co-inventor of the Geiger counter.
1913 ~ Death of Rudolf Diesel, German inventor.
1924 ~ Birthday of Truman Capote, Author (In Cold Blood).
1938 ~ British, French, German and Italian leaders agreed that Nazi Germany would be allowed to annex Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland.
1954 ~ The submarine USS Nautilus was commissioned as the first nuclear reactor powered vessel.
1955 ~ Death of James Dean, American actor.
1982 ~ Birthday of Tory Lane, Porn Actress.
1991 ~ President Jean-Bertrand Aristide of Haiti was forced from office.
1999 ~ Japan's worst nuclear accident occurred at a uranium reprocessing facility in Tokai-mura, northeast of Tokyo.
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10-01-2008, 06:35 AM
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October 1st
1903 ~ The visiting Pittsburgh Pirates defeated the Boston Americans 7-3 in the first World Series game.
1905 ~ The Julliard School of Music was founded in New York City.
1939 ~ British Prime Minister Winston Churchill during a radio broadcast described the Soviet Union as ''a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma''.
1943 ~ The International War Crimes Tribunal in Nuremburg sentenced 12 Nazi leaders to death.
1949 ~ The People's Republic of China was formed with Mao Zedong as its head.
1961 ~ The New York Yankees' Roger Maris hit his 61st home run of the season.
1968 ~ The cult horror movie "Night of the Living Dead" had its world premiere in Pittsburgh.
1971 ~ Walt Disney World opened in Orlando, Florida. Eventually it would become the largest, man-made, tourist attraction in the world.
1976 ~ Birthday of Dora Venter, Hungarian Porn Actress.
1986 ~ Former President Jimmy Carter's presidential library and museum were dedicated in Atlanta.
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10-02-2008, 06:25 AM
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Saladin? This means trouble jseal.
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10-02-2008, 07:35 AM
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That may depend on one’s paradigm. Many Muslims saw him as a liberator.
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October 3rd
1873 ~ Birthday of Emily Post, etiquette advisor.
1900 ~ Birthday of Thomas Wolfe, American novelist.
1916 ~ Birthday of James Herriot, veterinarian, author.
1922 ~ Rebecca L. Felton, D-Ga., became the first woman to be seated in the U.S. Senate. She was appointed to serve out the remaining term of Sen. Thomas E. Watson.
1925 ~ Birthday of Gore Vidal, author.
1967 ~ Death of Woody Guthrie, folk musician.
1973 ~ Frank Robinson was named major league baseball's first black manager as he was put in charge of the Cleveland Indians.
1990 ~ The re-unification of Germany. East Germany ceased to exist.
1995 ~ A jury found O.J. Simpson not guilty of murder in the 1994 slayings of his former wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and Ronald Goldman.
1997 ~ Attorney General Janet Reno said she had found no evidence that President Bill Clinton broke the law with White House coffees and overnight stays for big contributors.
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10-04-2008, 05:36 AM
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October 4th
1903 ~ Birthday of John Vincent Atanasoff, inventor of the digital electronic computer.
1924 ~ Birthday of Charlton Heston, Actor.
1941 ~ Birthday of Anne Rice, Author.
1943 ~ Birthday of H. Rap Brown, civil rights activist & murderer.
1957 ~ Launch of Sputnik I, the first artificial satellite to orbit the Earth.
1982 ~ Death of Glenn Gould, Canadian pianist.
1983 ~ The first Hooters restaurant opened in Clearwater, Florida.
1993 ~ Russian President Boris Yeltsin ordered the army to begin storming the Russian parliament building.
2002 ~ John Walker Lindh, the “American Taliban”, received a 20-year sentence.
2004 ~ The SpaceShipOne rocket plane broke through Earth's atmosphere for the second time in five days to capture a $10 million prize.
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10-05-2008, 05:17 AM
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10-05-2008, 09:08 PM
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1983 ~ The first Hooters restaurant opened in Clearwater, Florida.
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Now that's a big 10-4...
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October 6th
1600 ~ Jacopo Peri's “Euridice”, the earliest surviving opera, premiered in Florence.
1846 ~ Birthday of George Westinghouse, Engineer & Inventor.
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”, the 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.
1887 ~ Death of Bette Davis, Actress.
1995 ~ The first extrasolar planet was discovered orbiting 51 Pegasi, in the constellation of Pegasus.
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10-06-2008, 07:00 AM
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She was marvellous, our Bette.
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10-06-2008, 01:46 PM
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... and, as I have been advised that she died before she was born, lived her life backwards through time like Merlin!
Oooops! 
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Damn these contratemporal sex goddesses.
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