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Post by Ashley Benlove on Oct 6, 2007 10:26:50 GMT -5
1582 - Due to the implementation of the Gregorian calendar, this day is skipped in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain. 1789 - French Revolution: Louis XVI returns to Paris from Versailles after being confronted by the Parisian women on 5 October 1854 - The Great fire of Newcastle and Gateshead started shortly after midnight, leading to 53 deaths and hundreds injured. 1884 - The Naval War College of the United States Navy was founded in Newport, Rhode Island. 1889 - Thomas Edison shows his first motion picture. 1927 - Opening of The Jazz Singer, the first prominent talking movie. 1966 - LSD is declared illegal in the United States. 1987 - Fiji becomes a republic.
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Post by Nutzkie on Oct 14, 2007 0:15:50 GMT -5
October 14th...
On this date in 1066:
William the Conqueror defeats Harold Godwin at the Battle of Hastings.
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Post by mrmatt on Oct 14, 2007 15:08:12 GMT -5
October 14th Continued:
1863 - The Battles of Auburn and Bristoe Station. Having been pushed back into Virginia after the Gettysburg Campaign the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia spies an oppurtunity to place its self between the Union army of the Potomac and the national capital. Reenforcements from the Army of the Potomac had recently been shipped west to help break out the Army of the Cumberland now besieged in Chattanooga. Lee believed that he could strike the weakened Union army at this point and ordered his 3rd Corp commander A.P. Hill to do so. Hill, after some initial succes over stretches himself and is soon interecepted by the Union 2nd corp, just returning from the Battle of Auburn. At Bristoe Station Hill is soundly defeated losing over 1400 men to the Unions 547.
Also on this day in 1962 an American U2 spy plan photographs Soviet missles being installed in Cuba, starting the Cuban Missle crisis, arguably the closest point ever to a full out nuclear war with Russia. The Missles being installed on Cuba were medium range ICBM that would have been capable of striking Washington D.C.
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Post by Ashley Benlove on Oct 15, 2007 6:53:13 GMT -5
1582 - Pope Gregory XIII implements the Gregorian calendar. In Italy, Poland, Portugal, and Spain, October 4 of this year is followed directly by October 15. 1863 - American Civil War: The CSS H. L. Hunley, the first submarine to have sink a ship, sinks during a test, killing its inventor, Horace L. Hunley. (Well, that totally sucked for Mr. Hunley!) 1940 - "The Great Dictator", a satiric social commentary film by and starring Charlie Chaplin, is released. (I love this movie, it makes fun of Hilter in a South Park kind of way) 1946 - Nuremberg Trials: Hermann Göring poisons himself the night before his execution. 1951 - Television sitcom I Love Lucy premieres. 1951 - Mexican chemist Luis E. Miramontes synthesized the first oral contraceptive (I'd so say something but it would sound racist) 1981 - Professional cheerleader Krazy George Henderson leads what is thought to be the first audience wave in Oakland, California. (Dude, totally badass!) 1987 - The Great Storm of 1987 hits France and England. 1989 - Wayne Gretzky becomes the all-time leading points scorer in the NHL. 1997 - The first supersonic land speed record is set by Andy Green in ThrustSSC (United Kingdom). 1997 - The Cassini probe launches from Cape Canaveral on its way to Saturn. 2001 - NASA's Galileo spacecraft passes within 112 miles of Jupiter's moon Io.
Births: 70 BC - Virgil, Roman poet (d. 19 BC) 1953 - Tito Jackson, American musician 1959 - Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of York 1959 - Emeril Lagasse, American chef
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Post by mrmatt on Oct 15, 2007 16:46:15 GMT -5
"1863 - American Civil War: The CSS H. L. Hunley, the first submarine to have sink a ship, sinks during a test, killing its inventor, Horace L. Hunley. (Well, that totally sucked for Mr. Hunley!)"
This would be the second time the CSS Hunley sunk killing its crew. It would eventually be raised and succesfully attack the USS Housatanic in Charleston Harbor. In the process however Hunley would sink yet again with the loss of all hands.
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Post by mrmatt on Oct 16, 2007 22:09:03 GMT -5
October 16th, 1859 - John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry
On this date in 1859 Abolistionist extremest John Brown and 22 men took over the US Arsenal at Harper's Ferry, Virginia. Brown hoped that slaves and freeman would flock to the arsenal and he would use the weapons stored their to insight servile inserection and destroy slavery.
Poorly executed Brown and his cohorts were besieged in the arsenal engine house by US Marines led by Col. R.E.Lee. Ten of Brown's men were killed when the marines stormed the building, among the dead and mortally wounded were two of Brown's sons. John Brown was convicted in Charlestown, Virginia of treason and murder on November 2 and hung a month later.
When he reached the gallows Brown handed a slip of paper to his guard. Thin note said, "I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood." A dark precursor to the Civil War that would tear this country apart in less than 2 years time.
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Post by Ashley Benlove on Oct 17, 2007 6:51:55 GMT -5
Ah, yes, John Brown. And yesterday, 20 years ago, my grandfather died after a long illness. 10 days before I came into the world. Probably part of the reason I don't trust men a lot.
October 17th:
539 BC - King Cyrus The Great of Persia marches into the city of Babylon, releasing the Jews from almost 70 years of exile and making the first Human Rights Declaration. (as a huamn rights' activist, that rocks!) 1346 - Battle of Neville's Cross: King David II of Scotland is captured by Edward III of England at Calais, and imprisoned in the Tower of London for eleven years. 1604 - Kepler's Star: Nacospeak astronomer Johannes Kepler observes that an exceptionally bright star had suddenly appeared in the constellation. Ophiuchus, which turned out to be the last supernova to have been observed in our own galaxy, the Milky Way. (Ah, Kepler!) 1610 - French king Louis XIII is crowned in Rheims. 1660 - Nine Regicides, the men who signed the death warrant of Charles I, are hanged, drawn and quartered, another is hanged. 1662 - Charles II of England sells Dunkerque to France for 40,000 pounds. 1777 - American troops defeat the British in the Battle of Saratoga. 1888 - Thomas Edison files a patent for the Optical Phonograph (the first movie). (I love Mr. Edison, if I lived then, he'd be mine) 1917 - First British bombing of Germany in World War I. 1931 - Al Capone convicted of income tax evasion. (he also died of syphillis I believe) 1933 - Albert Einstein, fleeing Nazi Germany, moves to the US. 1937 - Huey, Dewey and Louie, Donald Duck's three almost identical nephews, first appear in a newspaper comic strip. 1965 - The 1964-1965 New York World's Fair closes after a two year run. More than 51 million people had attended the two-year event. 1966 - A fire at a building in New York, New York kills 12 firefighters, the New York City Fire Department's deadliest day until the September 11, 2001 attacks. 1992 - The United Nations General Assembly declares October 17 as the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, to be observed beginning in 1993. Resolution 47/196 of 22 December 1992. (Hey, jerks, guess what? Poverty is still around)
Born today: 1918 - Rita Hayworth, American actress (d. 1987) 1915 - Arthur Miller, American playwright (d. 2005) 1971 - Chris Kirkpatrick, American singer ('N Sync) 1972 - Eminem, American rapper 2003 - The pinnacle was fitted on the roof of Taipei 101, a 101-floor skyscraper in Taipei, allowing it to surpass the Petronas Twin Towers in Kuala Lumpur by 50 meters (165 feet) and become the World's tallest highrise. 2003 - Eunuchs in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh float the political party Jiti Jitayi Politics. 2006 - The United States population reaches 300 million.
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Post by Nutzkie on Oct 17, 2007 11:23:58 GMT -5
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Post by Ashley Benlove on Oct 18, 2007 20:20:31 GMT -5
October 18
1009 - The Church of the Holy Sepulchre, a Christian church in Jerusalem, is completely destroyed by the Fatimid caliph Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah, who hacks the Church's foundations down to bedrock. 1356 - Basel earthquake, the most significant historic seismological event north of the Alps, destroyed the town of Basel, Switzerland. 1648 - Boston Shoemakers form first U.S. labor organization. 1685 - Louis XIV of France revokes the Edict of Nantes, which has protected French Protestants. 1775 - African-American poet Phillis Wheatley freed from slavery. 1851 - Herman Melville's Moby Dick is first published as The Whale by Richard Bentley of London. 1929 - Women are considered "Persons" under Canadian law. 1944 - Adolf Hitler orders the establishment of a Nacospeak national militia.
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Post by mrmatt on Oct 18, 2007 20:42:23 GMT -5
Also on this date October 18th:
1863 - General Daniel Sickles, the first man to successfully use the temporary insanity plea in the United States, visits his old command the 3rd Corp while recupperating from losing his leg at the Battle of Gettysburg earlier that summer.
1986 - My youngest brother is born.
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Post by Ashley Benlove on Oct 19, 2007 6:54:05 GMT -5
October 19
202 BC - The Battle of Zama results in the defeat of Carthage and Hannibal. 1216 - King John of England dies at Newark-on-Trent and is succeeded by his nine-year-old son Henry. 1469 - Ferdinand II of Aragon marries Isabella of Castile, a marriage that paves the way to the unification of Aragon and Castile into a single country, Spain. 1512 - Martin Luther becomes a doctor of theology (Doctor in Biblia). 1781 - At Yorktown, Virginia, British commander Lord Cornwallis surrendered to a Franco-American force led by George Washington and the comte de Rochambeau, paving the way for the end of the American Revolutionary War. 1789 - Chief Justice John Jay is sworn in as the first Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. 1933 - Germany withdraws from the League of Nations. 1935 - The League of Nations places economic sanctions on fascist Italy for its invasion of Ethiopia. 1943 - Streptomycin, the first antibiotic remedy for tuberculosis, is isolated by researchers at Rutgers University. 1973 - President Richard Nixon rejects an Appeals Court demand to turn over the Watergate tapes. 1987 - (Black Monday) Dow Jones Industrial Average falls by 22%. 1991 - 7.0 Richter Scale earthquake in Northern Italy - 2000 dead 1998 - The Earth Liberation Front sets fire to the Vail Mountain ski resort in Vail, Colorado, causing $12 million in damage. 2001 - SIEV-X, an Indonesian fishing boat en-route to Christmas Island, carrying over 400 asylum seekers, sank in international waters with the loss of 353 people. 2003 - Mother Teresa is beatified by Pope John Paul II. 2005 - Saddam Hussein goes on trial in Baghdad for crimes against humanity. 2005 - Hurricane Wilma becomes the most intense Atlantic hurricane on record with a minimum pressure of 882 mb. 2006 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above the 12,000 mark for the first time.
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Post by mrmatt on Oct 19, 2007 19:25:04 GMT -5
You beat me to the punch on Yorktown and Mother Teresa Ashley. Also on this day, October 19th: The Battle of Cedar Creek, 1864: Confederate General Jubal Early, having been repeatedly beaten back up the Shanendoah Valley all summer by Union General Philip Sheridan, launches a surprise attack on Union forces when Sheridan is away at Washington. Early drives Union troops for much of the morning but has begun to slow by midday. Hearing the battle raging from 12 miles away at Winchester Sheridan begins his now famous frenzied ride back to his army. Beginning at 4 pm Sheridan's army would strike back with a vengenace crushing Early. Though Union casualties were greater in number, 5500 compared with Early's nearly 3000, Union troops won a stunning victory, capturing nearly all of Early's artillery and eliminating his force from major offensive operations for the rest of the war. Also on this date in 1864 the infamous St. Albans raid occurs. Confederates enter St. Albans Vermont via Canada and attempt to burn the town before being driven back across the border. Once there they are arrested but released by a Canadian judge. This potentially sticky political situation is defused when the British Government pays for the damages done to St. Albans. This raid was one of the furthest north the Confederacy would manage.
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Post by mrmatt on Oct 21, 2007 0:51:45 GMT -5
Going to do October 20th even though its already the 21st here.
General Danial Sickles, yes of the kills his wifes lover across the street from the White House and uses the temporary insanity defence, and later loses a leg at Gettyburg fame, is born on this date in 1819.
Also on this day in 1947 the US Congress begins it witch hunt for Communists in the United States, begining the Red Scare and focusing primarily on Hollywood.
In 1960 the United States begins economic sanctions on Cuba in an attempt to oust revolutionary leader Fidel Castro.
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Post by ninjanaco on Oct 21, 2007 6:45:31 GMT -5
202 BC - The Battle of Zama results in the defeat of Carthage and Hannibal. Ah yes, the battle the ended the Second Punic War. Ironic how the war technically continued for two more years, even though there was no combat. Beata Teresa Calcuttae, ora pro nobis!Interestingly enough, my sister attended her beatification. And I don't know what happened historically today...
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Post by Ashley Benlove on Oct 21, 2007 7:49:20 GMT -5
1512 - Martin Luther joins the theological faculty of the University of Wittenberg 1520 - Ferdinand Magellan discovers a strait now known as Strait of Magellan (Ah, Ferdi!) 1774 - First display of the word "Liberty" on a flag, raised by colonists in Taunton, Massachusetts and which was in defiance of British rule in Colonial America. 1797 - In Boston Harbor, the 44-gun United States Navy frigate USS Constitution is launched. (And, that thing is still in commission!) 1805 - Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Trafalgar - a British fleet led by Admiral Lord Nelson defeats a combined French and Spanish fleet off the coast of Spain under Admiral Villeneuve. It signalled the virtual end of French maritime power and left Britain navally unchallenged until the twentieth century. 1854 - Florence Nightingale and a staff of 38 nurses were sent to the Crimean War. (Florence kind of bothers me but she's cool.) 1879 - Using a filament of carbonized thread, Thomas Edison tests the first practical electric incandescent light bulb (it lasted 13½ hours before burning out). 1902 - In the United States, a five month strike by United Mine Workers ends. 1921 - President Warren G. Harding delivers the first speech by a sitting President against lynching in the deep south. 1944 - The first kamikaze attack: HMAS Australia was hit by a Japanese plane carrying a 200 kg (441 pound) bomb off Leyte Island, as the Battle of Leyte Gulf began. 1945 - Women's suffrage: Women are allowed to vote in France for the first time. (Well, at least they didn't do it before us, then I'd feel REALLY bad. God I love the French. 1967 - Vietnam War: More than 100,000 war protesters gather in Washington, DC. A peaceful rally at the Lincoln Memorial is followed by a march to The Pentagon and clashes with soldiers and United States Marshals protecting the facility (event lasts until October 23; 683 people were arrested). Similar demonstrations occurred simultaneously in Japan and Western Europe. 1973 - John Paul Getty III's ear is cut off by his kidnappers and sent to a newspaper in Rome; it doesn't arrive until November 8. (didn't know who he was until I looked it up. He's still alive today, just f***ed up) 2001 - "United We Stand" benefit concert for September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks victims, held at RFK Stadium in Washington, DC. Event organized and headlined by Michael Jackson, also featuring pop stars Aerosmith, Mariah Carey, The Backstreet Boys, and others. (I do love the Backstreet Boys)
Births: 1833 - Alfred Nobel, Swedish inventor and founder of the Nobel Prize (d. 1896) 1917 - Dizzy Gillespie, American musician (d. 1993)
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Post by mrmatt on Oct 21, 2007 15:28:59 GMT -5
On this date in 1861: The Battle of Ball's Bluff
A small Union under General Charles Stone is sent to recon Leesburg, Virginia. This 1600 man force crossed the Potomac on the 20th and was under the direct command of Col. Edward Baker, a personal friend of Lincoln's and a Senator for the Oregon Territory. Being fooled by fence posts and shadows the previous night Baker and his inexperienced troops pressed further inland on the 21st stumbling into a Confederate force around 3pm. Baker's troops were in a clearing with their backs to the Potomac River at Ball's Bluff, a 100ft high cliff near the Potomac. When Baker was killed order broke down and soon Union troops were streaming back to the Potomac, some jumping off Ball's Bluff. Many were drowned trying to swim the powerful river and hundreds were captured by the Confederates.
This debacle set off a series of events, first George McClellan was called from western Virginia to take over and reorganize the Union army. Second Stone was indited on charges of treason and spent six months in jail. Finally the Committee on the Conduct of the War was formed which, though hated by many officers, was quite efficient at removing lack luster or down right poor officers from the Union officer corp.
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Post by ninjanaco on Oct 22, 2007 13:46:43 GMT -5
Luther seems to have been doing a lot 485 years ago...
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Post by Ashley Benlove on Oct 22, 2007 13:50:53 GMT -5
1836 - Sam Houston is inaugurated as the first President of the Republic of Texas. 1878 - The first rugby match under floodlights takes place in Salford, between Broughton and Swinton. 1957 - Vietnam War: First United States casualties in Vietnam. 1962 - Cuban Missile Crisis: US President John F. Kennedy announces that American spy planes have discovered Soviet nuclear weapons in Cuba, and that he has ordered a naval "quarantine" of the island nation.
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Post by mrmatt on Oct 22, 2007 22:24:24 GMT -5
Oct. 22...
1864: General Hood, in an attempt to invade Tennessee and take pressure off Georgia, moves his weakened Army of Tennessee to Guntersville, Alabama. Problem is there is no pontoon bridge for him to cross the powerful Tennessee River. Thus he is deverted over 50 miles, seriously putting his invasion plans at risk. Come November and December Hood would find Union forces ready and waiting at both Frankiln, Tennessee and Nashville, the battle that effectively destroyed his army.
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Post by Ashley Benlove on Oct 23, 2007 6:44:58 GMT -5
42 BCE - Roman Republican civil wars: Second Battle of Philippi - Brutus's army is decisively defeated by Mark Antony and Octavian. Brutus commits suicide. 425 - Valentinian III is elevated as Roman Emperor, at the age of 6. 1641 - Outbreak of the Irish Rebellion of 1641 - anniversary commemorated by Irish Protestants for over 200 years 1642 - Battle of Edgehill: first major battle of the First English Civil War. 1694 - American colonial forces, led by Sir William Phipps, fail to seize Quebec. 1855 - Kansas Free State forces set up a competing government under their Topeka, Kansas, constitution, which outlaws slavery in the United States territory. 1861 - President Abraham Lincoln suspends the writ of habeas corpus in Washington, D.C., for all military-related cases. 1915 - Woman's suffrage: In New York City, 25,000-33,000 women march on Fifth Avenue to advocate their right to vote. 1929 - Great Depression: After a steady decline in stock market prices since a peak in September, the New York Stock Exchange begins to show signs of panic. 1944 - World War II: The Battle of Leyte Gulf begins - The largest naval battle in history begins in the Philippines; and also, the Soviet Red Army enters Hungary. (I do believe it ends on October 26th, so that should give you an idea) 1973 - The Watergate Scandal: US President Richard M. Nixon agrees to turn over subpoenaed audio tapes of his Oval Office conversations about the scandal. 1973 - A United Nations sanctioned cease-fire officially ends the Yom Kippur War between Israel and Syria.
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