| 97 | | To placate the Praetorians of Germany, Nerva of Rome adopts Trajan, the Spanish-born governor of lower Germany. | Ref: 2 |
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| 625 | * | Honorius I begins his reign as Catholic Pope. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1659 | * | William Robinson and Marmaduke Stevenson, two Quakers who came from England in 1656 to escape religious persecution, are executed in the Massachusetts Bay Colony for their religious beliefs. | Ref: 3 |
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| 1771 | * | Landing at Philadelphia, pioneer bishop Francis Asbury, 26, first arrived in America. He had been sent from England by John Wesley to oversee Methodism in the American colonies, and stayed all of his remaining 45 years, till his death in 1816. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1775 | * | US Navy established. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1776 | * | Benjamin Franklin, along with his grandson Temple and his daugher's son, Benny Bache, depart for France to secure an allinance. (Ref: Smithsonian Magazine, p 89, 8/2003) | |
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| 1795 | * | Treaty of San Lorenzo (also known as Pinckney's Treaty), between U.S. and Spain, settles boundary with Florida, provides free navigation of Mississippi. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1809 | * | President James Madison orders the annexation of the western part of West Florida. Settlers there had rebelled against Spanish authority. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1817 | * | Moses Collier, David Douglas and Elijah Ferguson are ordered to appear in court to address the petition to incorporate Xenia Ohio as a town. (No records exist as to the result, but it is presumed incorporated as a town in 1817 after this date. Further, there are no official Xenia records unitl 1834.) | Ref: 55 |
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| 1858 | * | Roland Macy opens Macy's Department Store on 6th Avenue in New York City. Gross receipts $1106. | Ref: 3 |
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| 1871 | * | Boss Tweed (William Macy Tweed), Democratic leader of Tammany Hall, arrested after NY Times exposed his corruption. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1878 | * | Three million dollars is stolen from the Manhattan Savings Bank in New York City in a celebrated robbery accredited to the gang leader George "Western" Leslie. The $3,000,000 is never found, but Leslie's prosperous crime career comes to an end in 1884 when he is murdered. | Ref: 3 |
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| 1880 | * | Theodore Roosevelt marries Alice Lee, on his 22nd birthday. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1889 | * | The first Lithuanian Church in America was organized in Plymouth (near Wilkes-Barre), PA. Rev. Alexander Burba was its first pastor. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1893 | * | Hurricane hits coast between Savannah Ga & Charleston SC. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1896 | * | First Pali Road completed in Hawaii (the Pali was a cliff where the winds are so strong streams flow UP) | Ref: 5 |
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| 1907 | | The first trial in the Eulenberg Affair ends in Germany. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1917 | * | 20,000 women march in a suffrage parade in New York. As the largest state and the first on the East Coast to do so, New York has an important effect on the movement to grant all women the vote in all elections. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1919 | * | Axeman of New Orleans claims last victim. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1920 | * | League of Nations moves headquarters in Geneva. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1922 | * | The first annual celebration of Navy Day took place. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1922 | * | In Italy, liberal Luigi Facta's cabinet resigns after threats from Mussolini that "either the government will be given to us or we will seize it by marching on Rome." Mussolini calls for a general mobilization of all Fascists. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1923 | * | The Yellow Springs News announces a KKK public rally in Xenia OH for this day. (Ref: Yellow Springs News, 9/28/1923) | |
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| 1924 | | The Uzbek SSR forms. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1939 | * | The Xenia (Ohio) City Building at 101 Detroit Street is dedicated. (XDG, 3/2/1984) | Ref: 83 |
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| 1944 | * | Oppenheimer approves plans for a bomb test in the Jornada del Muerto valley at the Alamagordo Bombing Range. Groves approves 5 days later, provided that the test be conducted in Jumbo. | Ref: 91 |
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| 1954 | * | B O Davis Jr becomes 1st black general in USAF. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1955 | * | FBI Director Hoover, with the concurrence of the Attorney General, authorized official cooperation with reporter Don Whitehead as he wrote a history of the FBI entitled The FBI Story. The book became a bestseller and was made into a 1959 movie starring Jimmy Stewart as an FBI Agent. | Ref: 14 |
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| 1961 | * | Outer Mongolia & Mauritania become the 102nd & 103rd members of UN. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1961 | | (Berlin Wall) U.S. and Soviet tanks face each other across Checkpoint Charlie, Berlin.Soviets back down. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1962 | * | Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev offers to remove Soviet missile bases in Cuba if the U.S. removes its missile bases in Turkey. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1967 | * | 4 people from Baltimore pour blood on selective service records. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1969 | * | Ralph Nader sets up a consumer organization known as Nader's Raiders. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1969 | * | St Vincent & the Grenadines gains associated status with Britain. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1971 | * | Republic of the Congo becomes Republic of Zaire. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1972 | * | Golden Gate National Recreation Area created | Ref: 5 |
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| 1978 | * | The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded jointly to Israel’s Menachem Begin and Egypt’s Anwar Sadat. They were honored for the Camp David Agreement, which brought about a negotiated peace between Egypt and Israel. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1978 | * | President Carter signs Hawkins-Humphrey full employment bill. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1979 | * | St Vincent & the Grenadines becomes independent of UK (Nat'l Day). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1979 | * | Voluntary Euthanasia Society publishes how-to-do-it suicide guide. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1981 | * | Andrew Young, former UN Ambassador, elected mayor of Atlanta, Georgia. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1982 | | China announces its population at 1 billion people plus. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1982 | * | IBM ROM is capable of EGA graphics. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1985 | * | Thieves steal 9 paintings, including 5 Monet's & 2 Renoir's. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1987 | * | South Korean voters overwhelmingly approved a new constitution. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1990 | | Voluntary Euthanasia Society publishes how-to-do-it suicide guide. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1992 | * | Microsoft announces the worldwide availability of Microsoft Windows for Workgroups 3.1. | |
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| 1994 | * | The U.S. Justice Department announces that the U.S. prison population has topped one million for the first time in American history. | Ref: 3 |
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| 1997 | * | The US introduces a new, more counterfeit-resistant $50 bill. (TWA, 2000) | Ref: 95 |
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| 1997 | * | The Dow Jones industrial average tumbled 554.26 points, forcing the stock market to shut down for the first time since the 1981 assassination attempt on President Reagan. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1873 | * | Farmer Joseph F. Glidden applies for a patent on barbed wire. Glidden eventually received five patents and is generally considered the inventor of barbed wire. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1891 | * | D. B. Downing, inventor, is awarded a patent for the street letter (mail) box.
D. B. Downing, inventor, is awarded a patent for the street letter (mail) box. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1904 | * | The first subway cars were placed in operation, forming the New York City subway system called the IRT (Interborough Rapid Transit). The cars operated between the Brooklyn Bridge and Broadway; from City Hall to W. 145th Street. This was the first underwater, underground rail system in the world. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1925 | * | Fred Waller receives a patent for water skis. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1938 | * | DuPont announces its new synthetic fiber will be called "nylon". | Ref: 5 |
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| 1961 | * | 1st Saturn launch vehicle makes an unmanned flight test. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1977 | * | NASA launches space vehicle S-200. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1992 | * | Windows for Workgroups 3.1 released, adding easier, integrated networking. | Ref: 80 |
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| 1998 | * | Microsoft announces that Windows NT 5.0 will be renamed "Windows 2000". | Ref: 80 |
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| 1612 | | A Polish army that invaded Russia capitulates to Prince Dimitri Pojarski and his Cossacks. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1798 | * | French attempt to invade Ireland fails. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1806 | * | Emperor Napoleon enters Berlin. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1862 | * | A Confederate force is routed at the Battle of Georgia Landing, near Bayou Lafourche in Louisiana. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1870 | | The French fortress of Metz surrenders to the Prussian Army. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1941 | * | The Winnipeg Grenadiers and Royal Rifles of Canada sail from Vancouver, British Columbia, heading to Hong Kong, on the Awatea and HMCS Prince Rupert. | |
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| 1941 | * | In a broadcast to the nation on Navy Day, President Franklin Roosevelt declares: "America has been attacked, the shooting has started." He does not ask for full-scale war yet, realizing that many Americans are not yet ready for such a step. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1944 | * | U.S. Navy defeats Japanese at Leyte, Phillipines Islands. WWII. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1948 | | Israel recaptures Nizzanim in the Negev. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1920 | * | (Black Sox) Rothstein is exonerated of any blame in the scandal. | Ref: 87 |
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| 1931 | * | Chuhei Numbu of Japan, sets then long jump record at 26' 2". | Ref: 5 |
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| 1961 | * | American Basketball League starts play. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1962 | * | The Tigers begin a seventeen-game tour of Japan. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1971 | * | Steve Garvey weds Cynthia Truhan. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1973 | * | Alabama sets an offensive record (828 yds), beats Virginia Tech 77-6. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1973 | * | Riva Ridge, the racehorse that won 17 of 30 starts and earned a total of $1,111,497, came in dead last in the Jockey Club Gold Cup at Belmont Park in New York -- and was immediately retired. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1973 | * | First time Islanders beat the Rangers-3-2. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1979 | * | Islanders score 2 goals within 6 seconds 3 goals within 44 seconds. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1980 | | Dave Gryllis sets world bicycle speed record of 94.37 kph. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1984 | * | Wash State's Rueben Mayes sets col football rec of 357 yards rushing. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1985 | * | The Kansas City Royals become the sixth team to overcome a 3-1 deficit to win the Fall Classic as series MVP Bret Saberhagen blanks the Cardinals on four hits,11-0; Joaquin Andujar is thrown out of the game for arguing ball and strikes calls. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1986 | * | In another comeback win, the Mets defeat the Red Sox, 8-5 to win game seven of the World Series; Ray Knight makes amends for an earlier error by hitting a HR which puts the Mets ahead for good in the seventh inning. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1989 | * | After a ten day delay due to the earthquake, the World Series resumes with the Oakland A's beating the Giants in Game 3, 13-7; Oakland used the long ball hitting five HRs in securing the victory. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1991 | * | Minnesota Twins’ pinch-hitter Gene Larkin’s tenth-inning bases-loaded single beat the Atlanta Braves 1-0 in the seventh game the World Series. The Twins captured their second World Championship in five years during a tight series that included three extra-inning games and five one-runners. And, for only the second time in history, the home team won all seven games (the first time it happened was 1987, a series that also featured the Twins.) | Ref: 4 |
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| 1992 | * | The Colorado Rockies name Don Baylor their first manager. | Ref: 86 |
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| 1998 | * | The Colorado Rockies promote Tom Probst to head trainer. Probst, an original club trainer, replaces Dave Cilladi. | Ref: 86 |
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| 1999 | * | The Yankees play Baseball's last game of the century and complete a four-game sweep of the Atlanta Braves to capture their 25th World Championship. The 4-1 win is also the club's 12th straight in World-Series play, tying the record of the 1927, 1928 and 1932 Yankees. | Ref: 86 |
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| 2000 | * | New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani thinks it is okay for children to take a day off from school to watch the Yankees' ticker-tape parade. His Honor, believing baseball can be an educational experience, has allowed his own kids, Andrew and Caroline, to miss classes in the past to watch the Bronx Bombers' post-season celebrations. | Ref: 1 |
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| 2000 | * | The Mets, this year's runner-ups in the Subway Series, turn down New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani's invitation to be part of the parade for the World Champion Yankees down the Canyon of Heroes in lower Manhattan. | Ref: 1 |
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| 2001 | * | Coach Joe Paterno of Penn State's Nittany Lions wins his 324th football game passing Alabama's Bear Bryant as the winningest college football coach by defeating Ohio State who blew a 27-9 halftime lead. PSU wins 29-27. (A HREF="http://www.pennlive.com/pennstatefootball/patriotnews/index.ssf?/pennstatefootball/joepa_special/joepa_frisco.html">Ref | |
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| 2002 | * | In the team's 42nd season, the Angels finally win a World Series title by beating the Giants, 4-1, in Game 7 at Edison Field . Garret Anderson's three-run double provides enough offense for John Lackey to become the first rookie to win a seventh game since 1909 when Babe Adams accomplished the feat for the Pirates. | Ref: 1 |
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| 2002 | * | Dallas Cowboy Emmitt Smith passes Chicago Bears Walter Payton's all-time mark for yardage of 16,726 with 109 yards gained in a 17-14 loss to the Seattle Seahawks. Smith's new record is currently 16,743 yards. (USA Today, p. 1C, 10/28/2002) | Ref: 13 |
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| 1787 | * | The first of the "Federalist Papers," a series of essays calling for ratification of the United States Constitution, is published in a New York newspaper. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1886 | * | Musical fantasy "Night on Bald Mountain," performed in Russia. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1916 | * | First published reference to "jazz" appears (Variety). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1917 | * | Jascha Heifetz made his debut at Carnegie Hall in NY City. Heifetz was a 16-year-old sensation who had played the violin since age 5. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1920 | | KDKA, Pittsburgh receives the first license to broadcast commercial radio from the U.S. Department of Commerce. The station did not start broadcasting for another week. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1927 | | Fox Movie-tone news, the first sound news film, is released.
Fox Movie-tone news, the first sound news film, is released. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1941 | * | Everything I Love, by Buddy Clark, was recorded this day -- on the Okeh label (number 6469). | Ref: 4 |
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| 1941 | * | Chicago Daily Tribune editorializes that there will not be war with Japan. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1947 | | This is Nora Drake premiered on NBC radio. Nora solved domestic, social and child-raising problems until January 2, 1959. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1947 | * | “The one, the only Groucho” Marx appeared as quizmaster on You Bet Your Life for the first time -- on ABC radio. George Fenneman was Groucho’s eternal straight man. Fenneman stayed with Marx during the program’s run on radio (1948 - 1959) and TV (1950 - 1961). | Ref: 4 |
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| 1954 | * | "Disneyland" premiers on ABC-TV. The first shows was "The Disneyland Story". The title changes over the years to include: "Walt Disney", "Walt Disney Presents", "Walt Disney’s Wonderful World of Color", "The Wonderful World of Disney", "Disney’s Wonderful World", "The Disney Sunday Movie" and "The Magical World of Disney". | Ref: 4 |
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| 1954 | * | Marilyn Monroe divorces Joe Dimaggio. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1963 | * | Peter, Paul and Mary were sitting pretty at #1 and #2 on the U.S. album chart with Peter, Paul and Mary and In the Wind. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1967 | * | Expo '67 closes in Montreal, Canada. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1974 | * | ABC hit pay dirt this day with the first televised showing of the box office hit, The Poseidon Adventure. The movie featured a cast of notables, including Gene Hackman, Ernest Borgnine, Shelley Winters, Jack Albertson, Carol Lynley, Red Buttons and Roddy McDowall, in an upside down ship. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1975 | * | Rocker Bruce Springsteen appeared on the cover of both TIME and Newsweek. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1980 | * | Opera star Beverly Sills gave her last performance | Ref: 62 |
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| 1986 | * | Paul McCartney release "Pretty Little Head". | Ref: 5 |
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| 1988 | | "ET" released to home video (14 million presold). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1990 | * | Janet Jackson’s Black Cat popped up to #1 for a week in the U.S. The single was one of the tracks on her number-one album of a year earlier, Janet Jackson’s Rhythm Nation 1814. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1401 | * | Catherine of Valois, French princess and wife of King Henry V, is born. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1466 | * | Desiderius Erasmus, Dutch scholar, is born. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1469 | * | (date uncertain) Desiderius Erasmus (Gerhard Gerhards) scholar, author: Encomium Moriae [In Praise of Folly]; is born. | Ref: 68 |
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| 1728 | * | British sea captain and explorer, James Cook is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1782 | * | Niccolo Paganini, Genoa It, composer/violin virtuoso (Princess Lucca), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1793 | * | Eliphalet Remington, riflemaker, is born. | Ref: 68 |
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| 1811 | * | Issac Merrit Singer, inventor (1st practical home sewing machine), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1827 | * | Marcellin Berthelot, French chemist, is born. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1844 | * | Klas Arnoldson Sweden, politician/pacifist (Nobel 1908), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1858 | * | Theodore Roosevelt 26th U.S. President [1901-1909]; married to A. Lee, E. Carow [four sons, two daughters]; nickname: TR, Trust Buster; first president to ride in a car, submerge in a submarine and fly in a plane; initiated the National Monument System; died Jan 6, 1919 | Ref: 4 |
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| 1872 | * | Emily Post (Price) etiquette authority: author: syndicated newspaper columnist; is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1889 | * | Enid Bagnold novelist (1956 Award of Merit), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1906 | * | Alfred Whitney Griswold, American educator; president of Yale University (1950-63), is born. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1910 | * | Producer of "The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson" Fred De Cordova is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1910 | * | Jack Carson Manitoba Canada, actor (Star is Born, Mildred Pierce), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1911 | * | Leif Erickson Calif, actor (Invaders from Mars, On the Waterfront), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1912 | * | Conlon Nancarrow Texarkana Arkansas, composer (Soundings 4), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1914 | * | Author-poet Dylan Thomas was born in Swansea, Wales. | Ref: 68 |
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| 1917 | * | Oliver Tambo, President of South Africa’s African National Congress; is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1918 | * | Paul Dixon Earling Iowa, Ohio talk show host (Paul Dixon Show), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1918 | * | Teresa Wright, NYC, actress (Pride of the Yankees), is born. | Ref: 68 |
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| 1920 | * | Actress Nanette Fabray (Fabares) is born in San Diego CA. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1922 | * | Baseball Hall of Famer and the National League’s first $100,000 player Ralph (Mc Pherran) Kiner is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1923 | * | Roy Lichtenstein US, Pop art painter; painted comic book panels, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1923 | * | Ruby Dee Cleve Ohio, actress (Raisin in the Sun, Cat People), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1924 | * | Ruby Dee (Ruth Wallace) Emmy Award-winning actress: Hallmark Hall of Fame: Decoration Day [1990-91]; Peyton Place, Zora is My Name, Do the Right Thing, A Raisin in the Sun, The Jackie Robinson Story, All God’s Children, Gore Vidal’s Lincoln, Roots: The Next Generation, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1925 | * | Jane Connell Oakland Calif, actress (Jane-Stanley, Bridget-Dumpling), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1925 | * | Mary Kay Steans Glendale Calif, actress (Mary Kay & Johnny), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1926 | * | HR Haldeman, former White House Chief of Staff and Watergate figure, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1927 | * | Dominick Argento York Penn, composer (Colonel Jonathan the Saint), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1927 | | Clio Laine is born. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1927 | * | Ruby Dee, actress and civil rights activist, is born. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1928 | * | Kyle Rote College Football Hall of Famer: Southern Methodist University; NY Giants running back; sportscaster, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1930 | * | Bill George Pro Football Hall of Famer: Chicago Bears middle linebacker: All-Pro [1955-62]; LA Rams; is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1932 | * | Kathy Cornelius (McKinnon) golf champion: U.S. Open [1956], is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1932 | * | Jean-Pierre Cassel Paris France, actor (The Trout), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1932 | * | Sylvia Plath, the American poet known for an intense, confessional quality of writing, is born. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1933 | * | Gerald M. Weinberg, computer scientist-author, born | Ref: 62 |
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| 1933 | * | Floyd Cramer, LA, country pianist (Last Date, On the Rebound), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1939 | * | John Cleese Emmy Award-winning actor: guest performer: Cheers [1986-87]; A Fish Called Wanda, Monty Python’s Flying Circus, Splitting Heirs, Life of Brian, Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book, Silverado, The Big Picture, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1940 | * | Lee Greenwood country singer (God Bless the USA), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1940 | | John Gotti is born. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1940 | * | Maxine Hong Kingston, writer (The Woman Warrior, China Men), is born. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1942 | * | Lara Parker actress: Foxfire Light, The Solitary Man, Race with the Devil, Night of Dark Shadows, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1943 | * | (Melvin) Lee Greenwood singer, musician: sax, piano: band leader: Trick, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1945 | * | John Williams football: Baltimore Colts guard: Super Bowl III, V, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1945 | * | Mike (Michael Ken-Wai) Lum baseball: Atlanta Braves, Cincinnati Reds, Chicago Cubs, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1945 | * | Carrie Snodgress Park Ridge Ill, actress (Diary of Mad Housewife), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1946 | * | Ivan Reitman director: Ghostbusters series, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1946 | * | Carrie Snodgress actress: Diary of a Mad Housewife, 8 Seconds, The Solitary Man, Woman with a Past, Pale Rider, Chill Factor, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1946 | * | Steven R Nagel Canton Ill, USAF/astr (STS 51-G, STS 61-A, STS 37), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1946 | * | Terry J Hart Pittsburgh Penn, astronaut (STS 41C), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1946 | * | Peter Martins, Danish dancer and choreographer, is born. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1947 | * | News correspondent Terry Anderson (kidnapped by Lebanese terrorists in Beirut in 1985, released in 1991) is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1950 | * | Fran Leibowitz, writer (Metropolitan Life, Social Studies), is born. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1951 | * | Jayne Kennedy Wash DC, actress (Penitentiary), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1952 | * | Pete Cusick football: Ohio State, NE Patriots DT, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1953 | * | -Actor Robert Picardo ( the holographic doctor on "Star Trek: Voyager") is born. | Ref: 6 |
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| 1953 | * | Michael A Baker Memphis Tenn, Lt Cmdr USN/astronaut (STS 43), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1953 | * | Peter Firth Bradford England, actor (Equus, Lifeforce, Tess), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1958 | * | Simon LeBon singer: group: Duran Duran, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1958 | * | Hazell Dean rocker (Always Doesn't Mean Forever), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1962 | * | Veronica Hart actress: X-rated films, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1963 | * | Deborah Moore London England, actress (Danielle=-Day of Our Lives), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1963 | * | Marla Maples Dalton Ga, model/Donald Trump's main squeeze, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1968 | * | Kata Karkkainen, Helsinki Finland, playmate (Dec, 1988) | Ref: 5 |
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| 940 | | Athelstan King of English dies. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1449 | * | Ulugh Beg a USSR astronomer, dies at 56. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1505 | * | Ivan "the Great" III, Russian Czar, dies. | Ref: 68 |
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| 1553 | * | Michael Servetus, 42, who discovered the pulmonary circulation of the blood, is convicted of promulgating anti-Trinitarianism, was condemned for heresy and blasphemy, and burned at the stake in Geneva, Switzerland. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1948 | * | Judah Leon Magnes, American founder of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, dies at age 71. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1955 | * | Clark Griffith baseball player/manager (NY Yankees), dies at 85. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1959 | * | Rare Pacific hurricane kills 2,000 in Western Mexico. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1962 | * | Fatso Marco comedian (Milton Berle Show), dies at 56. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1964 | * | Sammee Tong actor (Bachelor Father, Mickey), dies at 63. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1968 | * | Lise Meitner, Austrian physicist, dies at age 89. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1972 | * | Lew Parker actor (Lou Marie-That Girl), dies a day before turning 65. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1973 | * | -Allan ‘Rocky’ Lane (Harry Albershart), the voice of Mr. Ed, dies. | |
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| 1975 | * | Rex (Todhunter) Stout mystery writer: Nero Wolfe series; dies at age 88. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1977 | * | James M Cain, American novelist (Postman Always Rings Twice), dies at age 85. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1979 | * | Charles Coughlin, American Roman Catholic priest and radio commentator, dies at age 88. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1986 | * | Sherman Llewellyn Adams, Govenor of NH 1949-53, White House Chief of Staff 1953-8, dies. | Ref: 17 |
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| 1988 | * | S.B. Fuller, founder of Fuller products, dies at age 83. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1990 | * | Xavier Cugat (Francisco de Asís Javier Cugat Mingall de Brue y Deulofeo) violinist, composer, band leader: The Lady in Red, Perfidia, Brazil, Begin the Beguine; married to Abbe Lane, Charo; dies from heart failure at age 90. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1990 | * | Elliott Roosevelt, son of FDR, dies at age 80. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1990 | | Ugo Tognazzi dies. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1990 | * | Jacques Demy, director (Lola, Magic Donkey), playwright, dies. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1996 | * | Morey Amsterdam actor/comedian (Dick Van Dyke Show) dies at age 74. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1999 | * | Frank DeVol bandleader, songwriter: themes: The Brady Bunch, My Three Sons, The Love Boat; scores: The Dirty Dozen, Hush… Hush, Sweet Charlotte, Pillow Talk [more than 50 films]; dies. | Ref: 4 |
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| 2001 | * | A 5.7 earthquake kills 1 in Yunnan, China. | Ref: 85 |
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| 2003 | * | Walter Edward Washington, Washington DC's first elected mayor in more than 100 years, and the man credited with keeping things from getting worse than they did during the 1968 riots, dies at age 88. (WSJ, p A1, 10/28/2003) | Ref: 33 |
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