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Post by Mr Jinx on Oct 1, 2012 17:23:04 GMT
Oct 01.
1569 - The Duke of Norfolk was imprisoned by Britain's Queen Elizabeth for trying to marry Mary the Queen of Scots.
1946 - The International War Crimes Tribunal in Nuremberg sentenced 12 Nazi officials to death. Seven others were sentenced to prison terms and 3 were acquitted.
1975: Muhammad Ali wins 'Thrilla in Manila'. US boxer Muhammad Ali retained the world heavyweight boxing championship after defeating his arch-rival, Joe Frazier, in their third and arguably greatest fight.
1999 - The 50th anniversary of the founding of the Peoples Republic of China was celebrated in Beijing.
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Post by Mr Jinx on Oct 2, 2012 16:10:27 GMT
Oct 2.
1836 - Charles Darwin returned to England after 5 years of acquiring knowledge around the world about fauna, flora, wildlife and geology. He used the information to develop his "theory of evolution" which he unveiled in his 1859 book entitled The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
1870 - Rome was made the capital of Italy.
1925 - Scottish inventor John Logie Baird completed the first transmission of moving images.
1968: A woman gave birth to six babies in what was hailed as the first recorded case of live sextuplets in Britain. Sheila Thorns from Birmingham underwent a Caesarean section early this morning during which six children - four boys and two girls - were delivered. Three of the Thorns sextuplets survived.
2001 - NATO, for the first time, invoked a treaty clause that stated that an attack on one member is an attack on all members. The act was in response to the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in the United States.
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Post by Mr Jinx on Oct 3, 2012 19:19:57 GMT
Oct 03.
1952 - Britain became the third nuclear power in the world when they successfully detonated their first atomic bomb. The U.S. and Russia were the only other nuclear powers.
1981 - Irish Nationalist in Maze Prison in Belfast, Northern Ireland called off their hunger strike. The strike had lasted 7 months and ten people had died.
1990 - The Berlin Wall was dismantled eleven months after the borders between East and West Germany were dissolved. The unification of Germany ended 45 years of division.
1995: OJ Simpson was found not guilty of the murders of his ex-wife Nicole and her friend Ronald Goldman.
2003 - Ray Horn, of the duo "Siegfried & Roy," was attacked by tiger during a performance. Roy survived the attack after being dragged offstage. The tiger, a 7-year-old male named Montecore, was debuting in his first show.
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Post by Mr Jinx on Oct 4, 2012 17:31:15 GMT
Oct 04.
1535 - The first complete English translation of the Bible was printed in Zurich, Switzerland.
1957: A Russian satellite was launched into space - the first man-made object ever to leave the Earth's atmosphere.
1958 - British Overseas Airways Corporation became the first jetliner to offer trans-Atlantic service to passengers with flights between London, England and New York.
1976: British Rail began its new 125mph High Speed Train (HST) service. The first London-Bristol service arrived three minutes early.
1992: An Israeli Boeing 747 cargo plane crashed in the outskirts of Amsterdam in the Netherlands, setting two blocks of flats on fire and killing dozens of people.
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Post by Mr Jinx on Oct 5, 2012 16:49:43 GMT
Oct 05.
1582 Because of the implementation of the Gregorian calendar this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.
1919 - Enzo Ferrari debuted in his first race. He later founded the Auto Avio Construzioni Ferrari, an independent manufacturing company.
1969 - A Cuban defector landed a Soviet-made MiG-17 at Homestead Air Force Base in Florida. The plane entered U.S. air space and landed without being detected.
1969 - "Monty Python's Flying Circus" debuted on BBC television.
1994: The bodies of 48 cult members were discovered by Swiss police following an apparent mass suicide. They were all members of the Order of the Solar Temple.
1997 - In London, the Express Newspapers printed an article claiming that Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman were homosexual and that their marriage was a sham to cover the truth. The paper paid damages in a settlement on October 29, 1998.
1999: 31 people died and 160 injured after two trains collided near Paddington Station in west London at the height of the morning rush hour.
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Post by Mr Jinx on Oct 6, 2012 15:29:47 GMT
Oct 06.
1847 - "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Bronte was first published in London.
1889 - In Paris, the Moulin Rouge opened its doors to the public for the first time.
1981: President Sadat of Egypt died after being shot by gunmen who opened fire as he watched an aerial display at a military parade.
1985: A police officer was stabbed to death during riots at the Broadwater Farm housing estate in Tottenham, North London. PC Keith Blakelock left a wife and three kids.
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Post by Mr Jinx on Oct 7, 2012 16:01:13 GMT
Oct 07.
1966 - Johnny Kid of the Pirates was killed in a car accident in Lancashire, England.
1989 - Jefferson Airplane charges a can of food for admission to a concert.
2001 - The U.S. and Great Britain began airstrikes in Afghanistan in response to that state's support of terrorism and Osama bin Laden. The act was the first military action taken in response to the terrorist attacks on the U.S. on September 11, 2001.
2003 - In California, Arnold Schwarzenegger was elected governor.
2004: Fears were growing for the British hostage, Kenneth Bigley, abducted three weeks earlier in Iraq. It was confirmed the next day that he had been murdered by his captors.
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Post by Mr Jinx on Oct 8, 2012 16:57:48 GMT
Oct 08.
1952- A total of 108 passengers and four rail crew were killed, and nearly 340 people injured, in the country's worst peacetime rail crash. The accident happened at 0820 GMT at Harrow, a north-west suburb of London.
1973: Britain's first independent radio station (LBC) began broadcasting today on VHF and medium wave.
1996 - Pope John Paul II underwent a successful operation to remove his inflamed appendix.
2003 - Siegfried Fischbacher and his manager announced that the "Siegfried and Roy" show at the Mirage was canceled permanently. It was also said that if Roy Horn survived, after a tiger attack on October 3, the duo would continue to work together.
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Post by Mr Jinx on Oct 9, 2012 15:48:32 GMT
Oct 09.
1967: Marxist revolutionary Ernesto 'Che' Guevara was killed during a battle between army troops and guerillas in the Bolivian jungle.
1974 - Oskar Schindler died in Frankfurt, Germany. Schindler is credited with saving the lives of about 1,200 Jews during the Holocaust.
1975 - Andrei Sakharov was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. The Soviet scientist is known as the "father of the hydrogen bomb."
1986 - The musical "Phantom of the Opera" by Andrew Lloyd Webber opened in London.
1989 - The official Soviet news agency Tass reported an unidentified flying object. The report included a trio of tall aliens that had visited the city of Voronzh.
2003 - The Queen knighted Roger Moore and made Sting a CBE (Commander of the British Empire).
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Post by Mr Jinx on Oct 10, 2012 17:15:07 GMT
Oct 10.
1970 - Pierre Laporte, the labor minister of Quebec, was kidnapped by the Quebec Liberation Front (FLQ) during the October Crisis in Canada. He was found eight days later strangled to death.
1975: Liz Taylor and Richard Burton secretly remarried in Africa only 16 months after getting divorced.
1985 - U.S. fighter jets forced an Egyptian plane to land in Italy so that the hijackers of the Italian cruise ship Achilles Lauro could be arrested.
1995 - Gary Kasparov won a chess championship against Viswanathan Anand that had lasted about a month.
1999: Millennium Wheel edges upwards. Thousands assembled to watch the giant Ferris wheel move into position as the new landmark on the London skyline. Despite its engineers' assurances, a last minute technical hitch stopped the wheel spinning at its planned VIP opening on New Year's Eve 2000.
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Post by Mr Jinx on Oct 11, 2012 20:15:24 GMT
Oct 11.
1727 - Coronation Anthem No. 4, by Handel, was first performed in Westminster Abbey.
1899 - The Boer War began in South Africa between the British and the Boers of the Transvaal and Orange Free State.
1982: The Mary Rose, flagship of King Henry VIII, was raised to the surface after 437 years at the bottom of the Solent.
1987: A major sonar exploration of Loch Ness in Scotland failed to find a monster.
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Post by Mr Jinx on Oct 12, 2012 16:59:24 GMT
Oct 12.
1810 - Bavarian Crown Prince Ludwig married Princess Therese of Saxony-Hildburghausen. The royalty invited the public to attend the event which became an annual celebration that later became known as Oktoberfest.
1978: Punk Rocker Sid Vicious was arrested on suspicion of murder after the body of his girlfriend Nancy Spungen was found in their New York hotel room.
1979- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, the first of five books in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy comedy science fiction series by Douglas Adams is published.
1984 - The Brighton bombing. An attempt on Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's life was unsuccessful, but did take the lives of five people. The bomb had been planted by the I.R.A.
2002: 202 people were killed by two explosions in Bali. The regional Islamic group Jemaah Islamiah (JI), was named as the key suspect.
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Post by Mr Jinx on Oct 13, 2012 17:38:24 GMT
Oct 13.
54 A.D. - The Roman emperor Claudius I died after being poisoned by his wife, Agrippina.
1963 - The Beatles appeared on the ITV's "Sunday Night at the Palladium." It was their first appearance on a major TV show.
1992 - A commercial flight record was set by an Air France supersonic jetliner for circling the Earth in 33 hours and one minute.
1995 - Walt Disney World Resort admitted its 500-millionth guest.
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Post by Mr Jinx on Oct 14, 2012 18:23:38 GMT
Oct 14.
1066 - The Battle of Hastings occurred in England. The Norman forces of William the Conqueror defeated King Harold II.
1926 - The book "Winnie-the-Pooh," by A.A. Milne, made its debut.
1944 - German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel committed suicide rather than face execution after being accused of conspiring against Adolf Hitler and the execution that would follow.
1955 - Buddy Holly, Larry Welborn, and Bob Montgomery open for Bill Haley & the Comets in Lubbock, TX. Eddie Crandell sees the show and arranges for Holly to record his first demo.
1977 - Bing Crosby died of a heart attack at the age of 76.
2012 - Austrian Felix Baumgartner broke the record for the highest ever skydive by jumping out of a balloon 128,000ft (39km) above New Mexico. The 43-year-old was hoping also to break the sound barrier during his descent - although that mark awaits confirmation.
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Post by Mr. Jon Donnis on Oct 14, 2012 19:09:03 GMT
He did break the sound barrier!
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Post by Mr Jinx on Oct 15, 2012 11:09:15 GMT
He did break the sound barrier! Correct but it had to verified by the FAI first. He reached a maximum velocity of 833.9mph
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Post by Mr Jinx on Oct 15, 2012 11:27:25 GMT
Oct 15.
1815 - Napoleon Bonaparte began his exile on the remote island of St. Helena in the Atlantic Ocean.
1860 - Grace Bedell, 11 years old, wrote a letter to presidential candidate Abraham Lincoln. The letter stated that Lincoln would look better if he would grow a beard.
1946 - Hermann Goering, a Nazi war criminal and founder of the Gestapo, poisoned himself just hours before his scheduled execution.
1962 - The Cuban Missile Crisis began. It was on this day that U.S. intelligence personnel analyzing data discovered Soviet medium-range missle sites in Cuba. On October 22 U.S. President John F. Kennedy announced that he had ordred the naval "quarantine" of Cuba.
1996 - Tommy Lee (Motley Crue) was charged with attacking a cameraman that was trying to take pictures of him and his wife Pamela Anderson.
1997 - British Royal Air Force pilot Andy Green broke the land-speed record by driving a jet-powered car faster than the speed of sound.
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Post by Mr Jinx on Oct 16, 2012 17:49:13 GMT
Oct 16.
1923 - Walt Disney contracted with M.J. Winkler to distribute the Alice Comedies. This event is recognized as the start of the Disney Company.
1965 - The Beatles were decorated with the Order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth.
1987: Southern Britain began a massive clear-up operation after the worst night of storms in living memory.
1992 - Sinead O'Connor was booed off stage at Madison Square Garden during a show to honor Bob Dylan.
2008 - The iTunes Music Store reached 200 billion television episodes sold.
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Post by Mr Jinx on Oct 17, 2012 18:46:50 GMT
Oct 17.
1931 - Al Capone was convicted on income tax evasion and was sentenced to 11 years in prison. He was released in 1939.
1997 - The remains of revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara were laid to rest in his adopted Cuba, 30 years after his execution in Bolivia.
2000: Four people were confirmed dead after a high speed passenger train derailed in Hatfield, just north of London.
2003 - In Taipei, Taiwan, construction crews finished 1,676-foot-tall-building called Taipei 101. The building was planned to open for business in 2004.
2003 - In northwest England, the Carnforth railway station reopened as a heritage center. In 1945 David Lean filmed his romantic classic “Brief Encounter” starring Celia Johnson and Trevor Howard at the station.
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Post by Mr Jinx on Oct 18, 2012 18:56:48 GMT
Oct 18.
1851: Herman Melville's Moby-Dick is first published as The Whale by Richard Bentley of London.
1957 - Paul McCartney made his debut appearance with the Quarrymen in Norris Green, Liverpool.
1968 - John Lennon and Yoko Ono were arrested and charged with possession of marijuana when Ringo Starr's apartment was raided by police.
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