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Post by Mr Jinx on Oct 19, 2012 16:23:29 GMT
Oct 19.
1977 - Concorde made its first landing in New York City.
1987: Black Monday - the Dow Jones Industrial Average falls by 22%, 508 points.
1989: The convictions of the Guildford Four are quashed by the Court of Appeal of England and Wales, after they had spent 15 years in prison.
1998 - Former heavyweight champion Mike Tyson got his boxing license back after he had lost it for biting Evander Holyfield's ear during a fight.
2003 - In London, magician David Blaine emerged from a clear plastic box that had been suspended by a crane over the banks of the Thames River. He survived only on water for 44 days. Blaine had entered the box on September 5.
2004: A senior British aid worker, Margaret Hassan, was kidnapped on her way to work in Iraq.
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Post by Mr Jinx on Oct 20, 2012 20:48:41 GMT
Oct 20.
2012: Mr Jinx went to the pub and forgot all about updating this thread! Mrs Jinx says she will ensure it never happens again!!!
Luckily Jon is awesome and added below video - Admin
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Post by Mr Jinx on Oct 21, 2012 11:27:04 GMT
Oct 21.
1805 - The Battle of Trafalgar occurred off the coast of Spain. The British defeated the French and Spanish fleet.
1858 - The Can-Can was performed for the first time in Paris.
1966: More than 130 people, mainly children, were buried by a coal slag heap at Aberfan, near Merthyr Tydfil in Wales. (In total, 144 people were killed - 116 of them children. The last body was recovered nearly a week after the disaster happened. )
1975 - Elton John received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
1992 - The erotic photograph book, "Sex," was released by Madonna. The first run of 500,000 copies sold out.
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Post by Mr. Jon Donnis on Oct 21, 2012 14:37:30 GMT
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Post by Mr. Jon Donnis on Oct 22, 2012 14:58:54 GMT
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Post by Mr Jinx on Oct 23, 2012 18:17:44 GMT
Oct 23.
42 B.C. - Marcus Junius Brutus committed suicide after his defeat at the Battle of Philippi. He was a leading conspirator in the assassination of Julius Caesar.
1958 - Russian poet and novelist Boris Pasternak was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature. He was forced to refuse the honor due to negative Soviet reaction. Pasternak won the award for writing "Dr. Zhivago".
1962 - Steveland Morris Judkins, later known as Little Stevie Wonder, at the age of 12 recorded his first single. The song was "Thank you for Loving Me All the Way."
1978 - Sex Pistols bassist Sid Vicious attempted to commit suicide while awaiting trial for killing his girlfriend Nancy Spungen.
1987: Former champion jockey, Lester Piggott, was sentenced to three years imprsionment after being found guilty of an alleged tax fraud of over £3m.
1996 - The civil trial of O.J. Simpson opened in Santa Monica, CA. Simpson was later found liable in the deaths of his ex-wife, Nicole and her friend, Ronald Goldman.
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Post by Mr Jinx on Oct 24, 2012 16:36:03 GMT
Oct 24.
1537 - Jane Seymour, the third wife of England's King Henry VIII, died after giving birth to Prince Edward. Prince Edward became King Edward VI.
1788 - Poet Sarah Joseph Hale was born. She wrote the poem "Mary Had A Little Lamb."
1901 - Daredevil Anna Edson Taylor became the first person to go over Niagara Falls in a wooden barrel. She was 63 years old.
1945: United Nations Organisation is born. The United Nations Organisation was formally inaugurated during a short ceremony at the US State Department in Washington.
1962 - During the Cuban Missile Crisis, U.S. military forces went on the highest alert in the postwar era in preparation for a possible full-scale war with the Soviet Union. The U.S. blockade of Cuba officially began on this day.
1983: Civil servant Dennis Nilsen has went on trial at the Central Criminal Court accused of six murders and two attempted murders.
2003: The legendary supersonic aircraft, Concorde, landed at the end of its last commercial passenger flight, amid emotional scenes at Heathrow airport.
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Post by Mr Jinx on Oct 25, 2012 15:54:05 GMT
Oct 25.
1415 - In Northern France, England won the Battle of Agincourt over France during the Hundred Years' War. Almost 6000 Frenchmen were killed while fewer than 400 were lost by the English.
1854 - The Charge of the Light Brigade took place during the Crimean War. The British were winning the Battle of Balaclava when Lord James Cardigan received an order to attack the Russians. He took his troops into a valley and suffered 40 percent caualties. Later it was revealed that the order was the result of confusion and was not given intentionally.
1976: The Queen officially opened the National Theatre on the South Bank in London after years of delays.
1995 - Cliff Richard received a knighthood from the Queen.
2001 - It was announced that scientists had unearthed the remains of an ancient crocodile which lived 110 million years ago. The animal, found in Gadoufaoua, Niger, grew as long as 40 feet and weighed as much as eight metric tons.
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Post by Mr. Jon Donnis on Oct 26, 2012 10:20:58 GMT
Oct 26.
1978 - Jon Donnis legendary Skeptic, Webmaster, Philanthropist, Altruist and all round good guy was born 2 weeks premature in a small flat above a cafe!
1978 - WWE Champion C.M. Punk was born.
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Post by star on Oct 26, 2012 13:04:19 GMT
Oct 26. 1978 - Jon Donnis legendary Skeptic, Webmaster, Philanthropist, Altruist and all round good guy was born 2 weeks premature in a small flat above a cafe! 1978 - WWE Champion C.M. Punk was born. Happy Birthday Jon. It's also the day my mum passed away-21 years.
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Post by Mr Jinx on Oct 26, 2012 16:02:43 GMT
Oct 26.
1881 - The "Gunfight at the OK Corral" took place in Tombstone, AZ. The fight was between Wyatt Earp, his two brothers and Doc Holiday and the Ike Clanton Gang.
1951 - Winston Churchill became the prime minister.
1962 - The Soviet Union made an offer to end the Cuban Missile Crisis by taking their missile bases out of Cuba if the U.S. agreed to not invade Cuba and would remove Jupiter missiles in Turkey. 1984 - "Baby Fae" was given the heart of baboon after being born with a severe heart defect. She lived for 21 days with the animal heart.
1988 - Two whales were freed by Soviet and American icebreakers. The whales had been trapped for nearly 3 weeks in an Arctic ice pack.
2002 - Russian authorities pumped a gas into a theater where separatist rebels held over 800 hostages. The gas killed 116 hostages and all 50 hostage-takers were killed by the gas or gunshot wounds.
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Post by Mr Jinx on Oct 27, 2012 17:07:18 GMT
28 Oct.
1925 - Fred Waller received a patent for water skis.
1954 - Marilyn Monroe and Joe DiMaggio were divorced. They had been married on January 14, 1954.
1978: Four people were killed and four others seriously wounded after a gunman opened fire at two separate locations in the Midlands. The attacks happened on the Bustleholm estate, Wednesbury and later at a service station in Nuneaton.
2010 - Twenty-five global premieres of Michael Jackson's "THIS IS IT" took place around the world. Fifteen were simultaneous.
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Post by Mr Jinx on Oct 28, 2012 18:04:08 GMT
Oct 28.
1962: Cuban missile crisis ends. The world breathed a collective sigh of relief after the superpowers reached an agreement ending the immediate threat of nuclear war.
1965 - Pope Paul VI issued a decree absolving Jews of collective guilt for the crucifixion of Jesus Christ.
1986: Jeremy Bamber was jailed for life for killing five members of his family at their farmhouse in Essex.
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Post by Mr Jinx on Oct 29, 2012 19:29:39 GMT
Oct 29.
1618 - Sir Walter Raleigh was beheaded under a sentence that had been brought against him 15 years earlier for conspiracy against King James I.
1863 - The International Committee of the Red Cross was founded.
1945 - The first ballpoint pens to be made commercially went on sale at Gimbels Department Store in New York at the price of $12.50 each.
1960 - Muhammad Ali (Cassius Clay) won his first professional fight.
1982: Lindy Chamberlain was found guilty of the murder of her nine-week-old daughter after a jury dismissed her claim that a dingo took the baby.
1998 - The space shuttle Discovery blasted off with John Glenn on board. Glenn was 77 years old. In 1962 he became the first American to orbit the Earth.
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Post by Mr Jinx on Oct 30, 2012 19:23:47 GMT
Oct 30.
1925 - John Logie Baird creates Britain's first television transmitter.
1938 - Orson Welles' "The War of the Worlds" aired on CBS radio. The belief that the realistic radio dramatization was a live news event about a Martian invasion caused panic among listeners.
1974 - The Rumble in the Jungle boxing match between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman takes place in Kinshasa, Zaire.
1982 - Paul Weller announced the breakup of The Jam.
1993 - Martin Fettman, America's first veterinarian in space, performed the world's first animal dissections in space, while aboard the space shuttle Columbia.
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Post by Mr Jinx on Oct 31, 2012 18:07:03 GMT
Oct 31.
1926 - Magician Harry Houdini died of gangrene and peritonitis resulting from a ruptured appendix. His appendix had been damaged twelve days earlier when he had been punched in the stomach by a student unexpectedly. During a lecture Houdini had commented on the strength of his stomach muscles and their ability to withstand hard blows.
1940 - The British air victory in the Battle of Britain prevented Germany from invading Britain.
1955: Princess Margaret called off her plans to marry divorced Group Captain Peter Townsend.
1971: A bomb exploded in the Post Office tower causing extensive damage but no injuries.
1984: Indira Gandhi, the Prime Minister of India, was assassinated in New Delhi.
1997: British au pair guilty of murder. A Boston jury found Louise Woodward, 19, guilty of second degree murder for killing the baby in her care. She was later released when her conviction was changed to manslaughter.
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Post by Mr Jinx on Nov 1, 2012 18:26:35 GMT
Nov 01.
1512 - Michelangelo's paintings on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel were first exhibited to the public.
1604 - "Othello," the tragedy by William Shakespeare, was first presented at Whitehall Palace in London.
1952 - The United States exploded the first hydrogen bomb on Eniwetok Atoll in the Marshall Islands.
1963 - The USSR launched Polyot I. It was the first satellite capable of maneuvering in all directions and able to change its orbit.
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Post by Mr Jinx on Nov 2, 2012 18:56:09 GMT
Nov 02.
1947 - Howard Hughes flew his "Spruce Goose," a huge wooden airplane, for eight minutes in California. It was the plane's first and only flight. The "Spruce Goose," nicknamed because of the white-gray color of the spruce used to build it, never went into production.
1960 - In London, the novel "Lady Chatterly's Lover," was found not guilty of obscenity.
1963 - Dion stormed out of a taping of the English TV show "Ready Steady Go!" He complained that the go-go dancers were distracting him from his performance.
1984 - Velma Barfield became the first woman to be executed in the U.S. since 1962. She had been convicted of the poisoning death of her boyfriend.
2001 - The computer-animated movie "Monsters, Inc." opened. The film recorded the best debut ever for an animated film and the 6th best of all time.
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Post by Mr Jinx on Nov 3, 2012 16:30:05 GMT
Nov 03.
1507 - Leonardo DaVinci was commissioned by the husband of Lisa Gherardini to paint her. The work is known as the Mona Lisa.
1957: Russians launch dog into space. The Soviet Union launched the first ever living creature into the cosmos. The Soviet authorities said the dog, named Laika, died painlessly after a week in orbit but in 2002 new evidence revealed the dog died from over-heating and panic just a few hours after take-off.
1977 - During a concert in London, Elton John announced that he was retiring from live performances. He resumed touring on February 3, 1979 in Sweden.
1998 - Bob Kane, the creator of Batman, died at the age of 83.
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Post by Mr Jinx on Nov 4, 2012 12:36:34 GMT
Nov 04.
1922 - In Egypt, Howard Carter discovered the entry of the lost tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamen.
1990 - The musical "Buddy - The Buddy Holly Story" opened.
1995: Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated.
1999 - The United Nations imposed economic sanctions against the Taliban that controlled most of Afghanistan. The sanctions were imposed because the Taliban had refused to turn over Osama bin Laden, who had been charged with masterminding the 1998 bombings of the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.
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