This day in history.....

[Mare]

October 4th


1777: In Pennsylvania, the Battle of Germantown is fought.


1895: Horace Rawlins receives $150 as the winner of the inaugural U.S. Open golf championship.


1909: The first airship race in the United States begins in St. Louis, Missouri. Four hydrogen-filled dirigibles compete for a prize of $1,000.


1957: The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 1 into orbit.


1958: Transatlantic jet service begins.


1965: Pope Paul VI makes the first papal visit to the United States, attending a public mass in Yankee Stadium before departing.

 

[Mare]

October 5th


1434: The Florentine banker Cosimo de' Medici returns from exile to Florence, becoming its effective ruler. The oligarchy is overthrown, and his rival the political leader Palla Strozzi is banished.

1793: The revolutionary government in France abolishes Christianity.

1796: Spain declares war on Britain.


1877: Nez Perce Chief Joseph surrenders to the U.S. Army with the words “I will fight no more forever.”


1921: The WJZ radio station in Newark, New Jersey, broadcasts the first radio play-by-play coverage of the World Series, between the New York Giants and the New York Yankees.


1947: Harry S. Truman makes the first televised presidential address.


2001: A Florida man becomes the first American to die from inhalation anthrax since 1974. In the weeks that follow, several more cases of anthrax are traced to contaminated letters.


2001: Slugger Barry Bonds of the San Francisco Giants sets the single-season record for home runs with his 71st and 72nd. Bonds hits number 73 two days later in the season's final game.

 

[Mare]

October 6th


1683: The first German Mennonite settlers arrive in America. They will establish Germantown, outside Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

1876: A group of public and university librarians establish the American Library Association to promote the enjoyment of reading.

1927: The Jazz Singer, starring Al Jolson, debuts in New York. It is the first "talkie," or full-length film featuring audible dialogue.


1973: Full-scale war erupts in the Middle East, as Egypt and Syria attack Israel while Israelis are observing the Jewish holy day of Yom Kippur.

 

[Mare]

October 7th


1571: The Battle of Lepanto, the first major victory of the Christians against the Ottoman Empire, is fought.


1765: Delegates from nine American colonies meet in New York City to respond to the Stamp Act. In the Declaration of Rights and Grievances, the Stamp Act Congress resolves to boycott goods subject to the tax.


1950: Under General Douglas MacArthur, the first American tank crew crosses the 38th parallel and invades North Korea.


2001: American war planes begin bombing targets in Afghanistan after the country's leaders refuse to turn over suspected terrorist leader Osama Bin Laden.


2003: California voters remove Governor Gray Davis from office and replace him with film star Arnold Schwarzenegger.

 

[Mare]

October 10th


1845: The Naval School (later the U.S. Naval Academy) opens in Annapolis, Maryland.


1871: The great Chicago fire is put out; it has destroyed nearly a third of central Chicago.


1886: The first tuxedo is worn at a dinner club in New York.


1913: The Panama Canal, an American-built waterway connecting the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, is completed with the explosion of the Gamboa Dike.


1973: After pleading no contest to tax evasion, Spiro Agnew becomes the first U.S. vice president to resign in disgrace.


1995: The opposition leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi is reinstated as general secretary of the National League for Democracy in Myanmar.

 

[Mare]

October 11th

1811: American inventor John Stevens and his son Robert Livingston Stevens operate the first steam-propelled ferryboat between New York City and Hoboken, New Jersey.


1980: The Soviet cosmonauts Valery V. Ryumin and Leonid I. Popov return to Earth after a record 185 days in space aboard Salyut 6.

1988: Mathematicians use a network of computers in the United States, Europe, and Australia to factor a 100-digit number for the first time.


1992: ACT UP New York holds its first political funeral.

 

[Mare]

October 12th


1492: The expedition led by the explorer Christopher Columbus lands on Guanahani, an island in the Bahamas. Columbus claims the island for Spain and renames it San Salvador ("Holy Savior").


1915: British nurse Edith Cavell is executed by a German firing squad in Brussels for helping Allied soldiers escape from German-occupied Belgium during World War I.

1933: The Department of Justice acquires Alcatraz Island from the U.S. Army.


1964: The Soviet Union launches Voskhod 1, the first spacecraft to carry a multi-person crew.

 

[Mare]

October 13th


1775: The Continental Congress authorizes construction and administration of the first American naval force.


1792: In Washington, D.C., the cornerstone of the White House is laid.


1843: B'nai B'rith, the oldest secular Jewish organization in the United States, is founded in New York City.


1923: Ankara becomes the capital of modern Turkey, succeeding the Ottoman capital of Constantinople (modern Istanbul).


1943: Italy, switching allegiances, declares war on Germany.


1964: The Voskhod 1, the first spacecraft to carry a multi-person crew, returns to earth.

 

[Mare]

October 14th



1066: Harold II Godwinson, last Anglo-Saxon king of England, falls in the Battle of Hastings against William I's Norman forces at Hastings, Sussex, England.


1912: Theodore Roosevelt, the presidential candidate for the Progressive Party, is shot at close range by a would-be assassinator.


1947: American pilot Chuck Yeager flies faster than the speed of sound in the experimental X-1 aircraft built by the Bell Aircraft Company.


1964: American clergyman Martin Luther King, Jr., wins the Nobel Peace Prize.


1968: Apollo 7 astronauts give a tour of the inside of the spacecraft and show views through the windows in the first live telecast from space.


1979: Over 100,000 supporters march on Washington, D.C., in the first national gay rights march.


2003: On the brink of their first World Series since 1945, the Chicago Cubs blow a 3-0 eighth-inning lead after a fan interferes with a catchable fly ball.

 

[SouthernN'Proud]

1964: American clergyman Martin Luther King, Jr., wins the Nobel Peace Prize.
Learn more about Martin Luther King, Jr.

Mare gettin subliminal on us.

[SnP digging out the ol' Suicidal Tendencies tune]

 

[Gato_Solo]

Mare gettin subliminal on us.

[SnP digging out the ol' Suicidal Tendencies tune]

Naah. She repeats herself when under stress...

 

[Mare]

Naah. She repeats herself when under stress...

HeHeHe....Yup! Forgot to erase that, in the history thing in msn tells you to click on that to find out more-LOL...sorry peeps!



October 15th


1914: The U.S. House of Representatives approves the Clayton Antitrust Act.


1917: Dutch courtesan Mata Hari is executed by the French after being suspected of spying for Germany.


1928: The Graf Zeppelin makes the first commercial transatlantic flight.


1945: Pierre Laval, prime minister of Nazi-occupied Vichy France, is executed by a firing squad for treason against France.


1946: Hermann Wilhelm Göring, the second most powerful leader of Nazi Germany, poisons himself hours before his scheduled execution for war crimes during World War II.


1964: Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev is deposed.

 

[Mare]

October 17th

1604: King James I writes his Counterblast to Tobacco, condemning the increasingly popular habit of smoking, in Britain.

1777: The Battles of Saratoga end.


1931: Al Capone is jailed for tax evasion.


1933: German-born physicist Albert Einstein emigrates to the United States.


1973: The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) suspends oil exports to nations that supported Israel in the Arab-Israeli War of 1973. Oil prices rise dramatically.


1989: An earthquake measuring 7.1 on the Richter scale strikes San Francisco, California.

 

[Mare]

October 18th



1767: The Mason-Dixon Line is established.


1842: American inventor Samuel Morse lays the first telegraph cable.


1867: The United States officially takes ownership of the territory of Alaska.

1873: Representatives from Columbia, Princeton, Rutgers, and Yale universities formulate rules for the game of football.


1898: American troops raise the U.S. flag over Puerto Rico.


1981: General Wojciech Jaruzelski, prime minister of Poland, succeeds Stanislaw Kania as first secretary of the Polish Communist Party.

 

[SouthernN'Proud]

1767: The Mason-Dixon Line is established.

October 18, 2005: The Mason-Dixon Line is enforced with renewed vigor. You're welcome.

You want me on that line...you NEED me on that line...

 

[Gato_Solo]

October 18, 2005: The Mason-Dixon Line is enforced with renewed vigor. You're welcome.

Yep...Right before he got arrested for complicity in the involuntary manslaughter of a member of the unit he was in charge of...Not a pretty picture of the South defending the Mason-Dixon, if you ask me. I'd be more inclined to think of the Spartans at Thermopylae (SP?)

 

[SouthernN'Proud]

Just noticed sumthin.

The M-D Line was established in 1767.

The United States of America was established in 1776.

So even before we were united, we were separated in theory by an imaginary line.

Gonz? Thoughts?

 

[Gato_Solo]

Just noticed sumthin.

The M-D Line was established in 1767.

The United States of America was established in 1776.

So even before we were united, we were separated in theory by an imaginary line.

Gonz? Thoughts?

History tells us that the M-D was created to show the true boundries of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, as colonies as far north as Connecticut, and as far south as Carolina, were laying claim to parts of PA. If you notice, Delaware still lopped off a corner. It's purpose was to keep people from stealing land from the Quakers...who stole it fair and square from the Native Americans living there first.

 

[SouthernN'Proud]

Yeah, but it still blows holes wide enough to sail a boat through his argument(s), huh? Besides, I like rattling his cage. It's fun to watch the capillaries pop out like that.

 

[Mare]

October 19th


1453: The port of Bordeaux, France, finally surrenders to the forces of King Charles VII of France; the Hundred Years' War ends this same year.


1781: The Siege of Yorktown—the last major battle of the Revolutionary War—ends as General Charles Cornwallis surrenders to American and French forces at Yorktown, Virginia.

1935: The League of Nations imposes economic sanctions against fascist Italy for its invasion of Ethiopia.

1960: The U.S. Treasury Department declared a trade embargo, halting commerce with communist Cuba, in an attempt to oust revolutionary leader Fidel Castro.